Administrative staff 538 Phone +49 361 7370 | President Walter Bauer-Wabnegg Students 5,596 Total enrollment 5,710 (2014) Founded 1379 | |
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Established 1379/1994 (closed 1815—1993) Notable alumni Martin Luther, Johannes Gutenberg, Andreas Karlstadt, Justus Jonas, George Spalatin Similar University of Jena, Erfurt University of Applie, Martin Luther University, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Bauhaus University - Weimar | ||
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The University of Erfurt (German: Universität Erfurt) is a public university located in Erfurt, Germany, the capital city of the state of Thuringia. Founded in 1379, the university was closed in 1816 for the next 177 years, until its re-establishment in 1994, three years after the reunification of Germany. It therefore constitutes both the oldest and youngest universities in Germany. The institution identifies itself as a reform university, occasioned by the attendance of Lutheran theologian Martin Luther's from 1501 to 1505. Today, the main foci center on multidisciplinarity, internationality, and mentoring. In contrast to the research profile, most of the students come from the region itself.
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- Grillen im campus the university of erfurt
- University of erfurt
- 13791816
- 1994present
- Faculties and institutions
- Academic priorities
- Regular summer schools
- Current research groups
- University projects
- Original foundation 13921816
- Re establishment since 1996
- References
The University of Erfurt is home to such institutes as the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, the Gotha Research Center for Cultural and Social Scientific Studies, and the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy.
Holding one of Germany's largest collections of early modern documents, the Gotha Research Library belongs to the University of Erfurt. The Erfurt–Gotha library system also houses the famous Bibliotheca Amploniana—a collection of nearly 1000 medieval manuscripts collected by the scholar Amplonius Rating de Berka—and encompasses the Perthes Collection, preserved in the Perthes Forum.
University of erfurt
1379–1816
The University of Erfurt was founded in 1379 in the Holy Roman Empire, in terrority which is now modern day Germany. When the town of Erfurt became part of Prussia in 1816, the government closed the university after more than 400 years of operation.
1994–present
Lying in the state of Thuringia, Erfurt was part of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1949 to 1990. In December 1993, the State Government of Thuringia, Landtag of Thuringia, voted to re-establish the university. The university was re-founded on January 1, 1994. Lectures began in the winter term of 1999/2000. Shortly afterwards, the rector who had overseen the founding, Peter Glotz, a politician in the Social Democratic Party, left the university. The position was taken over by Wolfgang Bergsdorf, a friend of Thuringia's Minister-president Bernhard Vogel. In 2001, the Erfurt Teachers' Training College (Pädagogische Hochschule Erfurt), founded in 1953, became part of the university. On January 1, 2003, a fourth faculty was added to the university: the Roman Catholic Theological Faculty, which had belonged to Erfurt's Philosophical and Theological Centre (Philosophisch-Theologisches Studium Erfurt). In the same year, a chronic lack of financing meant that there were many redundancies and that vacancies were left unfilled. Once this situation led to student protests all over Thuringia, the university administration and committees were reformed to stabilise it.
The University of Erfurt is a liberal arts university with reform and socio-cultural profile. The close integration of the Philosophical, Educational Research, Governmental Studies, the Catholic Theological Faculty, and the Max Weber Center, promotes interdisciplinary alongside innovative approaches to research and teaching through a mentoring program.
The University of Erfurt has no tuition fees and represents the first institution of higher education to receive the family-friendly certificate for employers.
Faculties and institutions
The University of Erfurt has five faculties and three academic institutes:
The academic institutes are:
Academic priorities
Regular summer schools
Current research groups
Currently following colleges and research teams are part of the Erfurt doctoral and postdoctoral program (EPPP):
University projects
In the summer semester of 2003, a project group was formed at the university to take part in the National Model United Nations (NMUN) in New York City in April 2004. The pilot project has become a regular, student-organized seminar at the university. The various groups received several awards for their participation at the conference in 2006, 2007, and 2008.