Heinz Werner Engl, the Austrian mathematician is rector of which public university founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and one of the oldest universities in the German-speaking world?
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Heinz Engl Heinz Werner Engl (born 28 March 1953) is an Austrian mathematician, the rector of the University of Vienna.
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University of Vienna The University of Vienna (German: "Universität Wien" ) is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is one of the oldest universities in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich history, the University of Vienna has developed into one of the biggest universities in Europe, and also one of the most renowned, especially in the Humanities. It is associated with 15 Nobel prize winners and has been the academic home of a large number of figures both of historical and academic importance.
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University of Applied Sciences Bingen The University of Applied Sciences Bingen (German: "Fachhochschule Bingen") is a university located in Bingen am Rhein, Germany. It was founded in 1897. The University of Applied Sciences Bingen consists of two faculties: the faculty of life sciences and engineering and the faculty of technology, informatics and business.
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Princeton University Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. The institution moved to Newark in 1747, then to the current site nine years later, where it was renamed Princeton University in 1896.
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Edinburgh Napier University Edinburgh Napier University is a public university in Edinburgh, Scotland. Napier Technical College, the predecessor of the university was founded in 1964, taking its name from Scottish mathematician John Napier. It gained university status in 1992 and was renamed Napier University.
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Göttingen University Faculty of Law Faculty of Law, Göttingen University (Juridicum in Latin) is the Faculty of Law of University of Göttingen in Göttingen, Niedersachsen, Germany. Established in 1737, the law faculty belongs to one of the four founding faculties of the university. It offers the Dipl. iur., Mag. iur., Dr. iur., and Magister Legum Europae (MLE) degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars and several legal research centers.
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Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences The Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (previously known as the Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main) is a public University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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University of Hohenheim The University of Hohenheim (German: "Universität Hohenheim" ) is a campus university located in the south of Stuttgart, Germany. Founded in 1818, it is Stuttgart's oldest university. Its primary areas of specialisation had traditionally been agricultural and natural sciences. Today, however, the majority of its students are enrolled in one of the many study programs offered by the faculty of business, economics and social sciences. The faculty has regularly been ranked among the best in the country, making the University of Hohenheim one of Germany's top-tier universities in these fields. The university maintains academic alliances with a number of partner universities and is involved in numerous joint research projects.
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Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University Nijmegen (abbreviated as "RU", Dutch: "Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen" , formerly "Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen") is a public university with a strong focus on research located in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. It was established on 17 October 1923 and is situated in the oldest city of the Netherlands. The RU has seven faculties and enrolls over 19,900 students.
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Studium generale Studium generale is the old customary name for a Medieval university.
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University of Salamanca The University of Salamanca (Spanish: "Universidad de Salamanca" ) is a Spanish higher education institution, located in the city of Salamanca, west of Madrid, in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It was founded in 1134 and given the Royal charter of foundation by King Alfonso IX in 1218. It is the oldest founded university in Spain and the third oldest university in the world in continuous operations. The formal title of "University" was granted by King Alfonso X in 1254 and recognized by Pope Alexander IV in 1255.
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University of Erfurt The University of Erfurt (German: Universität Erfurt ) is a public university located in Erfurt, the capital city of the German state of Thuringia. It was founded in 1379, and closed in 1816. It was re-establishment in 1994, three years after German reunification. Therefore it claims to be both the oldest and youngest university in Germany. The institution identifies itself as a reform university, due to its most famous alumnus Martin Luther, the instigator of the Reformation, who studied there from 1501 to 1505. Today, the main foci centre on multidisciplinarity, internationality, and mentoring.
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Oldest public university in the United States The title of oldest public university in the United States is claimed by three universities: the University of Georgia, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and The College of William and Mary. Each has a distinct basis for the claim: North Carolina being the first to hold classes and graduate students, Georgia being the first created by state charter, and William & Mary having the oldest founding date of any currently public university, though it was private for over 250 years.
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Holbein-Gymnasium Augsburg The Holbein-Gymnasium is a natural scientific technological and lingual Gymnasium in Augsburg. It is located in Downtown Augsburg, and partly in the Old Town of Augsburg. Around 1,460 students are currently enrolled, being taught by approximately 130 teachers, which makes it the biggest of ten "gymnasiums" available in Augsburg. It was founded in 1833, and used as a secondary modern school in 1877.
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Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava The Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava (Romanian: "Universitatea „Ștefan cel Mare” din Suceava" ), also known as University of Suceava, is a public university in Suceava, Romania, founded in 1990. It was named in honor of the Moldavian Prince Stephen the Great.
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University of Neuchâtel The University of Neuchâtel (UniNE) is a French-speaking university based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The university has four faculties (schools) and more than a dozen institutes, including arts and human sciences, natural sciences, law and economics. The Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences, with 2,000 students, is the largest school of those that comprise the University of Neuchâtel.
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Deutsche Akademie The German Academy ("die Deutsche Akademie") is the short name of the Academy for the Scholarly Research and Fostering of Germanhood ("die Akademie zur Wissenschaftlichen Erforschung und Pflege des Deutschtums"), a German cultural institute founded in 1925 at Munich, under the Weimar Republic. The controversial geopolitician Karl Haushofer was among the academics associated with it in its initial phases.
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Mannheim School of Social Sciences The Mannheim School of Social Sciences (MSSS) is the among the oldest of the five schools comprising the University of Mannheim, located in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The School of Social Sciences, established in 1963, comprises the fields of political science, sociology and psychology with an academic staff of 36 professors and 150 additional scientists. The social sciences at the University of Mannheim have an excellent international reputation, reflected by rankings, awards and third-party funds.
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Lund University Lund University (Swedish: "Lunds universitet" ) is one of Europe's oldest, largest and most prestigious universities, consistently ranking among the world's top 100 universities. The university, located in the city of Lund in the province of Scania, Sweden, traces its roots back to 1425, when a Franciscan studium generale was founded in Lund next to the Lund Cathedral, making it the oldest institution of higher education in Scandinavia. After Sweden won Scania from Denmark in the 1658 Treaty of Roskilde, the university was founded in 1666 on the location of the old studium generale next to Lund Cathedral.
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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (German: "Karlsruher Institut für Technologie" ) is a public research university and one of the largest research and education institutions in Germany. KIT was created in 2009 when the University of Karlsruhe ("Universität Karlsruhe"), founded in 1825 as public research university and also known as "Fridericiana", merged with the Karlsruhe Research Center Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, which was originally established as a national nuclear research center (Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe, or KfK) in 1956.
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Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg The Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (German: "Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg", short "OvGU") was founded in 1993 and is one of the youngest universities in Germany. The university in Magdeburg has about 14,000 students in nine faculties. There are 11,700 papers published in international journals from this institute.
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Ankara University Ankara University (Turkish: "Ankara Üniversitesi" ) is a public university in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. It was the first higher education institution founded in the Turkish Republic.