Everything about The University Of Erfurt totally explained
The
University of Erfurt is a
German University.
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| University of Erfurt |
| President: |
Dr. Wolfgang Bergsdorf |
| Year founded: |
1392 (refounded 1994) |
| Town, State: |
Erfurt, (Thuringia) |
| No. of courses: |
30 |
| No. of faculties: |
4 |
| Matriculated students: |
4,500 (winter term 2007/2008) |
| Proportion of women: |
over 70% |
| Staff: |
528 |
Of whom
scientific staff
: |
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| Address: |
Nordhäuser Str. 63
99089 Erfurt |
| Website: |
www.uni-erfurt.de |
History
The University of Erfurt was founded in
1392 as the third university in the territory which is now
Germany; for some time, it was the largest university in the country. When the town of Erfurt became part of
Prussia in
1816, the university was closed.
In December
1993, the
Thuringian state parliament voted to reestablish the university. The university was officially refounded on
January 1 1994. Lectures began in the winter term from
1999 to
2000. Shortly afterwards, the
rector who had overseen the founding,
Peter Glotz, a politician in the
SPD party, left the university. The position was taken over by Wolfgang Bergsdorf, a friend of
Bernhard Vogel, Thuringia's
Minister-president.
In
2001, the Erfurt University of Pedagogy (
Pädagogische Hochschule Erfurt), founded in
1969, became part of the university.
On
January 1 2003, a fourth faculty was added to the university in the form of the Roman Catholic Theological Faculty, previously the Erfurt Philosophical and Theological Centre,
Philosophisch-Theologisches Studium Erfurt.
In
2003, a chronic lack of financing meant that there were many redundancies and that vacancies were left unfilled: this led to student protests all over Thuringia. The university management and committees were reformed and the situation was stabilized.
Institutions of particular note are the Max Weber College for Cultural and Social Sciences and the Erfurt School of Public Policy (ESPP), which is partly financed by tuition fees. The Erfurt-Gotha Research Library houses the famous
Amploniana collection of scripts from the
Middle Ages.
University maxim
The University of Erfurt is sometimes thought of as a reformist university.
Martin Luther once attended it in 1502, receiving his bachelor's degree. Its main focuses are multidisciplinarity, internationality and a strong
mentoring system, although in fact the student body is largely regional. All new courses lead to the new
Bachelor of Arts or
Master's degree rather than the traditional German
Diplom, which makes Erfurt one of the first German universities to completely implement the
Bologna process.
An especially important faculty is that of
Staatswissenschaften (Government Studies), the only one in Germany to offer integrated courses in
economics,
social sciences and
law.
Courses
B.A. and Masters courses
Diplom courses
Roman Catholic Theology
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.
Well-known alumni
Martin Luther
Ulrich von Hutten
Johannes Gutenberg (debated)
Christoph Martin WielandFurther Information
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