University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

The University of Erlangen Nuremberg ( _de. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg or FAU) a university in the cities of Erlangen and Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany. It is the second largest state university in Bavaria, having eleven faculties, 265 chairs, and 10,000 employees. Of the faculties, nine are located in Erlangen and two in Nuremberg. There are 25,814 students enrolled (winter semester 2005/2006) at the university, of which about 2/3 are in Erlangen and 1/3 in Nuremberg. There are about 2,500 foreign students.

History

The university was founded in 1742 in Bayreuth by Frederick, Margrave of Bayreuth, and moved to Erlangen in 1743. From the beginning, the university was a Protestant institution, but it slowly secularized. During the Nazi era, the university was one of the first that had a majority of Nazi supporters in the student council. In 1961 the business college in Nuremberg was merged with the university in Erlangen, which led to the present state of a university divided between two towns. A technical faculty was inaugurated in 1966 and the pedagogical college in Nuremberg became part of the university in 1972.

Faculties

The following faculties were part of the university:(sorted in the order in which they were founded)

* Theological faculty
* Law faculty
* Medical faculty
* Philosophical faculty I (philosophy, history, and social sciences)
* Philosophical Faculty II (languages and literature)
* Science faculty I (mathematics and physics)
* Science faculty II (biology, chemistry, and pharmaceutics)
* Science faculty III (geography, geology / mineralogy /paleontology)
* [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirtschafts-_und_Sozialwissenschaftliche_Fakult%C3%A4t_der_Friedrich-Alexander-Universit%C3%A4t_Erlangen-N%C3%BCrnberg Business- and social sciences faculty (1961) in Nuremberg]
* [http://www.techfak.uni-erlangen.de Technical Faculty (1966)]
* Pedagogical faculty (1972) in Nuremberg

In February 2007 the senate of the university decided upon a restructuring into five faculties [http://www.uni-erlangen.de/infocenter/presse/pressemitteilungen/2007/nachrichten_2007/02_07/25grundordnung.shtml] . Since October 2007 the FAU consists of:

* Philosophical faculty and department of theology
* Law and business science faculty
* Medical faculty
* Science faculty
* Technical faculty

Famous students and graduates

* Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739–1810), naturalist, studied mammals.
* Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) founder of homeopathy
* Georg Simon Ohm (1789–1854), physicist, Ohm's law, named after him.
* Justus von Liebig (1803–1873), chemist, "father of the fertilizer industry".
* Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804–1872), philosopher, associated with the Young Hegelians, an atheist.
* Eduard Buchner (1860-1917), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1907
* Ludwig Erhard (1897-1977), Chancellor of Germany 1963-1966
* Emmy Noether (1882–1935), mathematician, Noether's theorem, named after her.
* Hans Geiger (1882-1945), physicist, Geiger counter
* Karlheinz Brandenburg (1954–), audio engineer, developer of the MP3 audio codec.

External links

* [http://www.uni-erlangen.de Official Site of Friedrich Alexander University]
* [http://www.univis.uni-erlangen.de Complete Lecture Guide]
* [http://www.ub.uni-erlangen.de The university library]
* [http://www.afwn.de Alumni Network and Faculty Association of the WiSo Nuremberg]
* [http://www.collegium-alexandrinum.de Collegium Alexandrinum] public lecture courses
* Top Industrial Managers for Europe