The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (german: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a
public
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research university located in
Jena
Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a p ...
,
Thuringia,
Germany
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.
The university was established in 1558 and is counted among
the ten oldest universities in Germany. It is affiliated with six Nobel Prize winners, most recently in 2000 when Jena graduate
Herbert Kroemer
Herbert Kroemer (; born August 25, 1928) is a German-American physicist who, along with Zhores Alferov, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 for "developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics". Kroemer ...
won the Nobel Prize for physics. In the 2023 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the university was awarded 189th place in the world. It was renamed after the poet
Friedrich Schiller who was teaching as professor of philosophy when Jena attracted some of the most influential minds at the turn of the 19th century. With
Karl Leonhard Reinhold,
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (; ; 19 May 1762 – 29 January 1814) was a German philosopher who became a founding figure of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, which developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel ...
,
G. W. F. Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (; ; 27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher. He is one of the most important figures in German idealism and one of the founding figures of modern Western philosophy. His influence extends a ...
,
F. W. J. Schelling and
Friedrich Schlegel on its teaching staff, the university was at the centre of the emergence of
German idealism
German idealism was a philosophical movement that emerged in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and 1790s, and was closely linked both with Romanticism and the revolutionary ...
and
early Romanticism.
, the university has around 19,000 students enrolled and 375 professors. Its current president,
Walter Rosenthal, has held the role since 2014.
History
Early history
Elector
John Frederick of Saxony
John Frederick I (30 June 1503 in Torgau – 3 March 1554 in Weimar), called the Magnanimous, was the Elector of Saxony (1532–1547) and head of the Schmalkaldic League.
Early years
John Frederick was the eldest son of Elector John by his fi ...
first thought of a plan to establish a university at
Jena
Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a p ...
upon Saale in 1547 while he was being held captive by emperor
Charles V Charles V may refer to:
* Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558)
* Charles V of Naples (1661–1700), better known as Charles II of Spain
* Charles V of France (1338–1380), called the Wise
* Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (1643–1690)
* In ...
. The plan was put into motion by his three sons and, after having obtained a charter from the Emperor
Ferdinand I, the university was established on 2 February 1558. The university, jointly maintained by the
Saxon Duchies who derived from partitioning of John Frederick's duchy, was thus named Ducal Pan-Saxon University (german: Herzoglich Sächsische Gesamtuniversität) or Salana (after the
river Saale).
Prior to the 20th century, university enrollment peaked in the 18th century. The university's reputation peaked under the auspices of Duke
Charles Augustus,
Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as treati ...
's patron (1787–1806), when
Gottlieb Fichte,
G. W. F. Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (; ; 27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher. He is one of the most important figures in German idealism and one of the founding figures of modern Western philosophy. His influence extends a ...
,
Friedrich Schelling,
Friedrich von Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (after 1814: von) Schlegel (; ; 10 March 1772 – 12 January 1829) was a German poet, literary critic, philosopher, philologist, and Indologist. With his older brother, August Wilhelm Schlegel, he was one of the main figure ...
and
Friedrich Schiller were on its teaching staff.

Founded as a home for the new religious opinions of the sixteenth century, it has since been one of the most politically radical universities in Germany. Jena was noted among other German universities at the time for allowing students to
duel and to have a passion for ''Freiheit'', which were popularly regarded as the necessary characteristics of German student life. The University of Jena has preserved a historical detention room or
Karzer with famous caricatures by Swiss painter
Martin Disteli.
In the latter 19th century, the department of
zoology taught
evolutionary theory, with
Carl Gegenbaur,
Ernst Haeckel and others publishing detailed theories at the time of
Darwin's ''"
Origin of Species
''On the Origin of Species'' (or, more completely, ''On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life''),The book's full original title was ''On the Origin of Species by Me ...
"'' (1858). The later fame of
Ernst Haeckel eclipsed Darwin in some
Europe
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an countries, as the term "Haeckelism" was more common than
Darwinism
Darwinism is a theory of biological evolution developed by the English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations tha ...
.
In 1905, Jena had 1,100 students enrolled and its teaching staff (including ''
Privatdozent
''Privatdozent'' (for men) or ''Privatdozentin'' (for women), abbreviated PD, P.D. or Priv.-Doz., is an academic title conferred at some European universities, especially in German-speaking countries, to someone who holds certain formal qualific ...
en'') numbered 112. Amongst its numerous auxiliaries then were the library, with 200,000 volumes; the observatory; the meteorological institute; the botanical garden; the seminaries of theology, philology, and education; and the well-equipped clinical, anatomical, and physical institutes.
After the end of the Saxon duchies in 1918, and their merger with further principalities into the
Free State of Thuringia
Thuringia (; german: Thüringen ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of central Germany, covering , the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million.
Erfurt is the capital and la ...
in 1920, the university was renamed as the Thuringian State University (Thüringische Landesuniversität) in 1921. In 1934 the university was renamed again, receiving its present name of Friedrich Schiller University. During the 20th century, the cooperation between
Zeiss corporation and the university brought new prosperity and attention to Jena, resulting in a dramatic increase in funding and enrollment.
Nazi period
During the Third Reich, staunch
Nazis
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moved into leading positions at the university. The racial researcher and
SS-Hauptscharführer Karl Astel was appointed professor in 1933, bypassing traditional qualifications and process; he later became rector of the university in 1939. Also in 1933, many professors had to leave the university as a consequence of the
Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
The Law for the Restoration of the Professional Hitler Service (german: Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums, shortened to ''Berufsbeamtengesetz''), also known as Civil Service Law, Civil Service Restoration Act, and Law to Re-es ...
. Student fraternities – in particular the
Burschenschaften – were dissolved and incorporated into the Nazi student federation. The Nazi student federation enjoyed before the transfer of power and won great support among the student body elections in January 1933, achieving 49.3% of the vote, which represents the second best result. Between the Jena connections and the NS students wide-ranging human and ideological connections were recorded.
When the Allied
air raids to Jena in February and March struck in 1945, the University Library, the university main building and several clinics in the Bachstraße received total or significant physical damage. Completely destroyed were the Botanical Garden, the psychological and the physiological institute and three chemical Institutes. An important event for the National Socialist period was the investigation of the pediatrician
Yusuf Ibrahim. A Senate Commission noted the participation of the physician to the "euthanasia" murders of physically or mentally disabled children.
Present
In the 20th century the university was promoted through cooperation with
Carl Zeiss (company) and thereby enabling it to increase the student population as a mass university. In 1905 the university had 1,100 students and 112 university teachers, so this figure has since been almost twenty-fold. The Friedrich-Schiller University is the only comprehensive university in Thuringia.
Since 1995, there is a university association with the
Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg and the
University of Leipzig
Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 Decem ...
. The aim is firstly to give the students the opportunity to visit with relatively few problems at the partner universities and events in order to broaden the range of subjects and topics. Currently e. g. has joined a cooperation in teaching in the field of bioinformatics. In addition, the cooperation provides the university management the opportunity to share experiences with their regular meetings and initiate common projects. So z. B. went from the successful bid to the
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) from the university network. The co-operation continues at other levels: for example in a joint mentoring program for female postdocs or in the central German archives network. And last but not least, there are common sports activities.
Since October 2014, the pharmacologist
Walter Rosenthal is the president of the university;
Chancellor
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is since 2007 the mathematician Klaus Bartholmé.
Klaus Bartholmé (FSU)
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Organization
The university is organized in 10 schools:
* theology
* jurisprudence
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* economics
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Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analy ...
and business administration
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* humanities
* social and behavioural sciences
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* mathematics
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and computer science
* physics and astronomy
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* chemical
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and earth sciences
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* biology
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and pharmacy
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* medicine
Research
Research at Friedrich Schiller University traditionally focusses on both humanities and sciences. In addition to the faculties the following "Collaborative Research Centers" ( German "Sonderforschungsbereich", short: "SFB") operate at the university:
* CRC 1076 AquaDiva : Understanding the Links Between Surface and Subsurface Biogeosphere
* CRC/TR 124 FungiNet: Pathogenic fungi and their human host: Networks of interaction
* CRC 1127 ChemBioSys: Chemical Mediators in Complex Biosystems
* CRC/TR 166 ReceptorLight: High-end light microscopy elucidates membrane receptor function
* CRC 1278 Polymer-based nanoparticle libraries for targeted anti-inflammatory strategiesde
* CRC / TR 234 CataLIGHT: Light-driven Molecular Catalysts in Hierarchically Structured Materials – Synthesis and Mechanistic Studiesde
* CRC 1375 NOA: Nonlinear Optics down to Atomic Scales
Participations in DFG-Collaborative Research Centres:
* CRC 950 Manuskriptkulturen in Asien, Afrika und Europa
* CRC/TRR 212 A Novel Synthesis of Individualisation across Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution: Niche Choice, Niche Conformance, Niche Construction
In 2006 the research center, Jena Center – History of the 20th century, was founded. In 2007 the graduate school "Jena School for Microbial Communication" (JSMC) was established within the German Universities Excellence Initiative
The Excellence Initiative of the German Council of Science and Humanities and the German Research Foundation (DFG) aims to promote cutting-edge research and to create outstanding conditions for young scholars at universities, to deepen cooperation ...
. In 2008 the Center for Molecular Biomedicine (CMB) and the interdisciplinary research center Laboratory of the Enlightenment were developed as research institutions. 2014 the "Center of Advanced Research" (ZAF) was established.
Jena University is one of the founder of The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, that was founded in 2013. It is a research centre of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Friedrich Schiller University is the only German university with chairs for either gravitational theory or Caucasus Studies.
Notable faculty and alumni
* Manuk Abeghian
Manuk Abeghian ( hy, Մանուկ Աբեղյան, , alternatively Manouk Abeghian, or Manuk Abeghyan, March 15, 1865 – September 26, 1944) was a scholar of Armenian literature and folklore. He is best remembered as the main designer of the re ...
Armenian philologist and linguist
* Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs
Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (11 August 1912 – 9 March 1954) was a German astronomer. She made key observations of variable stars.
Eva Ahner-Rohlfs was born in Coburg ( Duchy Saxe-Coburg-Gotha). She studied in Würzburg, Munich and Kiel from 1931 to 19 ...
(doctorate
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in astronomy
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1951)
* Wilibald Artus (1811–1880), Professor of Philosophy
* Johann Bachstrom, writer, scientist, physician and Lutheran theologian
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* Ernst Gottfried Baldinger
Ernst Gottfried Baldinger (13 May 1738 – 21 January 1804), German physician, was born in Großvargula near Erfurt.
He studied medicine at Erfurt, Halle and Jena, earning his MD in 1760 under the guidance of Ernst Anton Nicolai and in 1761 wa ...
, German physician
* Hans Berger
* Otto Binswanger
* Albrecht von Blumenthal
Albrecht von Blumenthal (10 August 1889 – 28 March 1945) was a Prussian landowner, Classicist and Nazi supporter.
Early life
Albrecht von Blumenthal was born in Staffelde in Vorpommern, the son of Rittmeister Vally von Blumenthal and Corn ...
taught Classical Philology as Privatdozent
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1922-8
* Rudolf Brandt (1909–1948), Nazi SS officer, executed for war crimes
* Werner Braune (1909–1951), Nazi SS officer, executed for war crimes
* Alfred Brehm
Alfred Edmund Brehm (; 2 February 1829 – 11 November 1884) was a German zoologist, writer, director of zoological gardens and the son of Christian Ludwig Brehm, a famous pastor and ornithologist.
Through the book title '' Brehms Tierle ...
* Clemens Brentano
* Rudolf Carnap
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* Heinrich Cotta, pioneer of scientific forestry
* Georg Friedrich Creuzer
* Claus Dierksmeier, German philosopher
* Carl H. Dorner
* Ernst Christoph Dressler (1734–1779), German composer, operatic tenor, violinist and music theorist
* Rudolf Christoph Eucken
* Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (; ; 19 May 1762 – 29 January 1814) was a German philosopher who became a founding figure of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, which developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel ...
* Gottlob Frege
Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (; ; 8 November 1848 – 26 July 1925) was a German philosopher, logician, and mathematician. He was a mathematics professor at the University of Jena, and is understood by many to be the father of analytic phi ...
* Roland Freisler
Roland Freisler (30 October 1893 – 3 February 1945), a German Nazi jurist, judge, and politician, served as the State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Justice from 1934 to 1942 and as President of the People's Court from 1942 to 1945.
...
* Michael Fritsch
* Johann Matthias Gesner
* Nelson Glueck
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* Peter Griess
Johann Peter Griess (6 September 1829 – 30 August 1888) was an industrial chemist and an early pioneer of organic chemistry. Griess was influential in the formation of modern dyes, first formulating the diazotization reaction of arylamines.
L ...
* Friedrich von Hagedorn
Friedrich von Hagedorn (23 April 1708 – 28 October 1754), German poet, was born at Hamburg, where his father, a man of scientific and literary taste, was Danish ambassador. His younger brother, Christian Ludwig, was a well known art historian ...
* Arvid Harnack
* Karl Hase
* Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (; 15 November 1862 – 6 June 1946) was a German dramatist and novelist. He is counted among the most important promoters of literary naturalism, though he integrated other styles into his work as well. He recei ...
Nobel Prize–winning writer
* Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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* Cuno Hoffmeister
* Thede Kahl
* George Kessler
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Over the course of his forty-one year career, George E. Kessler completed over 200 projects and prepared plans for 26 com ...
* Georg Klaus
* Christian Knaut, 17th Century botanist after whom '' Knautia arvensis'' was named by Linnaeus
* Karl Korsch (graduated from the University of Jena's law school summa cum laude superato, 1911)
* Jan Kollár, Panslavist and poet
* Li Linsi, Chinese educator and diplomat
* István Kováts
* Karl Christian Friedrich Krause
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* Herbert Kroemer
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, Nobel Prize–winning physicist
* August Leskien
August Leskien (; 8 July 1840 – 20 September 1916) was a German linguist active in the field of comparative linguistics, particularly relating to the Baltic and Slavic languages.
Biography
Leskien was born in Kiel. He studied philology at t ...
* Robert Ley
* Francis Lieber
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, emigrant to USA, author of "Lieber Code"
* Lucas Maius
Lucas Maius (also Mai, May, Majus) (October 14, 1522 in Römhild – 4 or 5 March 1598 in Kassel) was a German Protestant pastor who converted from Lutheranism to Calvinism, and playwright during the Protestant Reformation.
Life
Lucas Maius was bo ...
* Karl Marx (doctorate ''in absentia'', 1841)
* Ernest Nash
* Novalis
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* Ernst Ottwalt
* Axel Oxenstierna
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* Henri Pittier
* Samuel von Pufendorf
* Gerhard von Rad
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Early life, education, career
Gerhard von Rad was born in ...
* Werner Rolfinck
* Erich Roth (1910–1947), Nazi Gestapo member executed for war crimes
* Solomon Marcus Schiller-Szinessy, doctorate ( philosophy) (mathematics
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)
* Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
* Friedrich Schiller
* August Wilhelm Schlegel
* August Schleicher
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, German Linguist, Stammbaumtheorie (family-tree theory)
* Arthur Schopenhauer
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(philosophy doctorate ''in absentia'', 1813)
* Otto Schott, inventor of borosilicate glass
* Hugo Schuchardt, linguist
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* David Spence (rubber chemistry), early pioneer in rubber chemistry
* Johann Gustav Stickel, orientalist
* Michael Stifel
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, monk and mathematician
* Cajetan Tschink, writer and philosopher
* Kurt Tucholsky
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Tucholsky was o ...
, journalist and satirist
* Erhard Weigel
Erhard Weigel (16 December 1625 – 20 March 1699) was a German mathematician, astronomer and philosopher.
Biography
Weigel earned his M.A. (1650) and his habilitation (1652) from the University of Leipzig. From 1653 until his death he was profess ...
, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher
* Christa Wolf, novelist and essayisy
* Christian Wolff, philosopher
* Carl Zeiss
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, optician
Museums and collections at the University
Among the collections which are open to the public are the Jena Phyletisches Museum, an institution which is unique in Europe for illustrating the history of evolution, the Ernst-Haeckel-Memorialmuseum, the Mineralogical Collection which traces its roots back to Goethe and the second oldest Botanical Garden
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of Middle Europe. The (''Schillers Gartenhaus'') and the Goethe Memorial at the Botanical Garden are reminders of the two towering geniuses of Jena. Both buildings are also open to the public.
Oriental Collections / Papyrus Collection
* The Alphons-Stübel-Collection of Early Photographs from the Orient (1857–1890)
* Hilprecht Collection
* Orientalisches Münzkabinett (OMJ)
* Papyrus Collection
Archaeological Collections
* Collection of Ancient Art
* Collection of Plaster Casts of Ancient Sculpture
* The Photo- and Slide Collection of the Institute of Classical Archaeology
* The Collection of Prehistory and Early History
* The Bilzingsleben collection
* Departement of Art History and Custodia
Natural Sciences and Natural History
* The Ernst-Haeckel-Haus
* Zygomycetes (Mould Fungi)
* Didactics of Biology
* Herbarium Haussknecht (JE)
* Botanical garden
* Phyletic Museum
Mineralogy & Geology
* Mineralogical Collection
* Teaching Collection of Models for Mineralogy
History of Sciences
* Collection of scientific and technical devices for physics
* Astronomical collection
Medicine
* The Meyer Steineg Collection of Medical History in Jena
* Anatomical Collection
* Medical History
* Goethe Memorial
See also
* List of early modern universities in Europe
Notes
References
*
Literature
* Mayhew, Henry (1864): German Life and Manners as Seen in Saxony at the Present Day: With an Account of Village Life – Town Life – Fashionable Life – Domestic Life – Married Life – School and University Life, &c., of Germany at the Present Time: Illustrated with Songs and Pictures of the Student Customs at the University of Jena. In Two Volumes. London ol. II, Section VII, Chapter VI-XI: Student Life at Jena
External links
University of Jena
*Norbert Nail: Der schottische Dichter Charles Hamilton Sorley als Student im Sommer 1914 an Saale, Lahn und Mose
(in German)
*Norbert Nail: John Baillie (theologian), John Baillie – Schotte, Pastor, Student 1909/11 in Jena und Marburg. In: Studenten-Kurier 3/2017, pp. 16–18
(in German)
*Norbert Nail: Ein tödliches Pistolenduell 1848 auf der Trießnitz in (Jena-)Winzerla. In: Studenten-Kurier 1-2/2019, pp. 12–1
(in German – a deadly student duel at Jena)
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