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The University of Bonn is a public research university located in Bonn

Bonn

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
. Founded in 1818 the University of Bonn is today one of the leading universities in Germany. The University of Bonn offers a large number of undergraduate and graduate programs in a range of subjects. Its library holds more than two million volumes. The University of Bonn has more than 500 professors and 27,000 students. Among its notable alumni and faculty are seven Nobel Laureates, two Fields Medal

Fields Medal

The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of Mathematicians of the International Mathematical Union, a meeting that takes place every four years....
ists, Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI is the List of popes and reigning Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church and, as such, monarch of the Vatican City....
, Karl Marx

Karl Marx

Karl Heinrich Marx was a Germanphilosophy, political economy, historian, sociologist, humanism, political theorist and revolutionary credited as the founder of communism....
, Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th century philosophy Germans philosophy and classical philology. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive German language style and displaying a fondness for metaphor and aphorism....
and Joseph Schumpeter

Joseph Schumpeter

Joseph Alois Schumpeter was an economist and political scientist born in Moravia, then Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic. He popularized the term "creative destruction" in economics....
.

university's forerunner was the Kurkölnische Akademie Bonn (English: Academy of the Prince-elector

Prince-elector

The Prince-Electors of the Holy Roman Empire were the members of the electoral college of the Holy Roman Empire, having the function of Imperial election the Holy Roman Emperors....
of Cologne

Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants....
) which was founded in 1777 by Maximilian Frederick of Königsegg-Rothenfels

Maximilian Frederick of Königsegg-Rothenfels

Maximilian Frederick of K?nigsegg-Rothenfels was the Archbishop of Cologne-Prince-elector of Cologne and the Bishop of M?nster from 1761 to 1784. He was born in Cologne....
, the prince-elector of Cologne.

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The University of Bonn is a public research university located in Bonn

Bonn

Germany

Fields Medal

Pope Benedict XVI

Karl Marx

Karl Heinrich Marx was a Germanphilosophy, political economy, historian, sociologist, humanism, political theorist and revolutionary credited as the founder of communism....
, Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

Joseph Schumpeter

Joseph Alois Schumpeter was an economist and political scientist born in Moravia, then Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic. He popularized the term "creative destruction" in economics....
.

History

The university's forerunner was the Kurkölnische Akademie Bonn (English: Academy of the Prince-elector

Prince-elector

The Prince-Electors of the Holy Roman Empire were the members of the electoral college of the Holy Roman Empire, having the function of Imperial election the Holy Roman Emperors....
of Cologne

Cologne

Maximilian Frederick of Königsegg-Rothenfels

Age of Enlightenment

The Age of Enlightenment or The Enlightenment is a term used to describe a time in Western philosophy and cultural life centered upon the eighteenth century, in which rationalism was advocated as the primary source and legitimacy for authority....
the new academy was nonsectarian. The academy had schools for theology, law, pharmacy and general studies. In 1784 Emperor Joseph II

Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

Joseph II was Holy Roman Emperor from 1765 to 1790 and ruler of the Habsburg Monarchy from 1780 to 1790. He was the eldest son of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and her husband, Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor....
granted the academy the right to award academic degrees (Licentiat and Ph.D.), turning the academy into a university. The academy was closed in 1798 after the left bank of the Rhine

Rhine

File:Swiss Grand Canyon.jpgThe Rhine is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe, at , with an average discharge of more than ....
was occupied by France during the French Revolutionary Wars

French Revolutionary Wars

The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of major conflicts, from 1792 until 1802, fought between the French Revolutionary government and several European states....
.

The Rhineland

Rhineland

The Rhineland is the general name for the land on both sides of the river Rhine in the west of Germany. After the collapse of the First French Empire in the early 19th century, the German-speaking regions at the middle and lower course of the Rhine were annexed to the kingdom of Prussia....
became a part of Prussia

Prussia

Congress of Vienna

The Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by the Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna from September, 1814 to June, 1815....
. Shortly after the seizure of the Rhineland, on April 5, 1815, the Prussia

Prussia

Prussia was, most recently, a historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. This state had for centuries substantial influence on Germany and European history....
n king Friedrich Wilhelm III promised the establishment of a new university in the new Rhine province (German: den aus Landesväterlicher Fürsorge für ihr Bestes gefaßten Entschluß, in Unsern Rheinlanden eine Universität zu errichten). At this time there was no university in the Rhineland, as all three universities that existed until the end of the 18th century were closed as a result of the French occupation. The Kurkölnische Akademie Bonn was one of these three universities. The other two were the Roman-catholic University of Cologne

University of Cologne

The University of Cologne is one of the oldest University in Europe and, with over 44,000 students, one of the largest universities in Germany....
and the Protestant University of Duisburg

University of Duisburg

The old University of Duisburg was a university in Duisburg....
.

The new Rhein University (German: Rhein-Universität) was then founded on October 18, 1818, by the Prussia

Prussia

Frederick William III of Prussia

Frederick William III was king of Kingdom of Prussia from 1797 to 1840....
. It was the sixth Prussian University, founded after the universities in Greifswald, Berlin

Humboldt University of Berlin

The Humboldt University of Berlin is Berlin's oldest university, founded in 1810 as the University of Berlin by the liberal Prussian educational reformer and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt, whose university model has strongly influenced other European and Western universities....
, Königsberg

University of Königsberg

The University of K?nigsberg was the university of K?nigsberg, East Prussia. It was founded in 1544 by Albert, Duke of Prussia, and was commonly known as the Albertina....
, Halle

Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg

The Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg , also referred to as MLU, is a public, research-orientated university in the cities of Halle, Saxony-Anhalt and Wittenberg within Saxony-Anhalt, Germany....
and Breslau. The new university was equally shared between the two Christian denominations. This was one of the reasons why Bonn, with its tradition of a nonsectarian university, was chosen over Cologne and Duisburg. Apart from a school of Roman-catholic theology and a school of Protestant theology, the university had schools for medicine, law and philosophy. Inititally 35 professors and eight adjunct professors were teaching in Bonn.

The university constitution was adopted in 1827. In the spirit of Wilhelm von Humboldt

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Humboldt , government functionary, diplomat, philosopher, founder of Humboldt Universit?t in Berlin, friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and in particular of Friedrich Schiller, is especially remembered as a Linguistics who made important contributions to the philosophy of lang...
the constitution emphasized the autonomy of the university and the unity of teaching and research. Similar to the University of Berlin

Humboldt University of Berlin

History of European research universities

European research University have a long history that arguably dates back to the founding of the University of Bologna in 1088, although the University of Paris and the University of Magnaura are other contenders for this position....
.

Only one year after the inception of the Rhein University the dramatist August von Kotzebue was murdered by Karl Ludwig Sand

Karl Ludwig Sand

Karl Ludwig Sand was a Germany university student and member of a liberal Burschenschaft . He was executed in 1820 for the murder of the Conservatism dramatist August von Kotzebue the previous year in Mannheim....
, a student at the University of Jena

Friedrich Schiller University of Jena

Friedrich Schiller University of Jena is located in Jena, Thuringia in Germany and was renamed for the German writer Friedrich Schiller in 1934....
. The Carlsbad Decrees

Carlsbad Decrees

The Carlsbad Decrees were a set of restrictions introduced in the German Confederation by Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich on 20 September 1819 after a conference in Karlovy Vary, Bohemia, then part of the Austrian Empire....
, introduced on September 20, 1819 led to a general crackdown on universities, the dissolution of the Burschenschaft

Burschenschaft

Germany Burschenschaften are a special type of Studentenverbindungen . Burschenschaften were founded in the 19th century as associations of university students inspired by liberalism and nationalistic ideas....
en and the introduction of censorship laws. One victim was the author and poet Ernst Moritz Arndt

Ernst Moritz Arndt

File:Ernst Moritz Arndt.gifErnst Moritz Arndt was a Germany patriotic author and poet. Early in his life, he fought for the abolition of serfdom, later against Napoleonic dominance over Germany, and had to flee to Sweden for some time due to his anti-French positions....
, who, freshly appointed university professor in Bonn, was banned from teaching. Only after the death of Frederick William III

Frederick William III of Prussia

Frederick William III was king of Kingdom of Prussia from 1797 to 1840....
in 1840 was he reinstated in his professorship. Another consequence of the Carlsbad Decrees

Carlsbad Decrees

Frederick William III of Prussia

Frederick William III was king of Kingdom of Prussia from 1797 to 1840....
to confer the chain of office, the official seal and an official name to the new university. The Rhein University was thus nameless until 1840, when the new King of Prussia, Frederick William IV

Frederick William IV of Prussia

King Frederick William IV of Prussia , the eldest son and successor of Frederick William III of Prussia, reigned as King of Prussia from 1840 to 1861....
gave it the official name Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität.

Despite this problems the university grew and attracted famous scholars and students. At the end of the 19th century the university was also known as the Prinzenuniversität (English:Princes' university), as many of the sons of the king of Prussia studied here. In 1900 the university had 68 chairs, 23 adjunct chairs, two honorary professors, 57 Privatdozent

Privatdozent

Private docent is a title conferred in some European university systems, especially in German language-speaking countries, for someone who pursues an academic career and holds all formal qualifications to become a tenured university professor....
en and six lecturers. Since 1896 women were allowed to attend classes as guest auditors at universities in Prussia. In 1908 the University of Bonn became fully coeducational.

The growth of the university came to a halt with World War I

World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
. Financial and economic problems in Germany in the aftermath of the war resulted in reduced government funding for the university. The University of Bonn responded by trying to find private and industrial sponsors. In 1930 the university adopted a new constitution. For the first students were allowed to participate in the self-governing university administration. To that effect the student council

Students' union

A students' union, student government, student senate, students' association, guild of students or government of student body is a student organization present in many colleges, universities and has started to appear in some high schools....
Astag (German: Allgemeine Studentische Arbeitsgemeinschaft) was founded in the same year. Members of the student council were elected in a secret ballot.

After the Nazi takeover of power in 1933 the Gleichschaltung

Gleichschaltung

Gleichschaltung , meaning " Coordination ", "making the same", "bringing into line", is a Nazi term for the process by which the Nazi Germany successively established a system of totalitarian control over the individual, and tight coordination over all aspects of society and commerce....
transformed the university into a Nazi educational institution. According to the Führerprinzip

Führerprinzip

The , German language for "leader principle" prescribes a system with a Organization#Pyramids or Hierarchies of leaderships that resembles a military structure....
the autonomous and self-governening administration of the university was replaced by a hierarchy of leaders resembling the military, with the university president being subordinate to the ministry of education. Jewish professors and students and political opponents were ostracized and expelled from the university. The theologian Karl Barth

Karl Barth

Karl Barth was a Switzerland Reformed theologian whom some critics held to be among the most important Christian thinkers of the 20th century; Pope Pius XII described him as the most important theologian since Thomas Aquinas....
was forced to resign and to emigrate to Switzerland for refusing to swear an oath to Hitler. The Jewish mathematician Felix Hausdorff

Felix Hausdorff

Felix Hausdorff was a German mathematician who is considered to be one of the founders of modern topology and who contributed significantly to set theory, descriptive set theory, measure theory, function theory, and functional analysis....
was expelled from the university in 1935 and committed suicide after learning about his impending deportation to a concentration camp in 1942. The philosophers Paul Ludwig Landsberg and Johannes Maria Verweyen were deported and died in concentration camps

Nazi concentration camps

Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler maintained concentration camps throughout the territories it controlled. The first Nazism concentration camps were greatly expanded in Germany after the Reichstag fire in 1933, and were intended to hold political prisoners and opponents of the regime....
. In 1937 Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann

Paul Thomas Mann was a German literature, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature, known for his series of highly symbolic and irony epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual....
was deprived of his honorary doctorate. His honorary degree was restored in 1946.

During the second World War

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
the university suffered heavy damage. An air raid

Strategic bombing during World War II

Strategic bombing during World War II was greater in scale than any wartime attack the world had previously witnessed. The strategic bombing campaigns conducted by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Empire of Japan used conventional weapons, Incendiary bomb, and nuclear weapons....
on October 18, 1944 destroyed the main building. The university was re-opened on November 17, 1945 as one of the first in the British occupation zone

Allied Occupation Zones in Germany

The Allies of World War II powers who defeated Nazi Germany in World War II divided the country west of the Oder-Neisse line into four occupation zones for administrative purposes during the period 1945?1949....
. The first university president was Heinrich Matthias Konen

Heinrich Konen

Heinrich Matthias Konen was a Germany physicist who specialized in spectroscopy. He was a founder and organizer of the Emergency Association of German Science, and he was on the boards of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, the Reich Physical and Technical Institute, and the Reich Chemical and Technical Institute....
, who was expelled from the university in 1934 because of his opposition to Nazism

Nazism

Nazism, officially National Socialism , refers to the ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Workers? Party under Adolf Hitler, and the policies adopted by the dictatorial government of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945....
. At the start of the first semester on November 17, 1945 the university had more than 10,000 applicants for only 2500 places.

The university greatly expanded in the postwar period, in particular in the 1960s and 1970s. Significant events of the postwar era were the relocation of the university hospital from the city center to the Venusberg

Bonn

Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the Capital of Germany West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
in 1949, the opening of the new university library in 1960 and the opening of a new building, the Juridicum, for the School of Law and Economics in 1967.

In 1980 the Pedagogigal University Bonn was merged into the University of Bonn, although eventually all the teachers education programs were closed in 2007. In 1983 the new science library was opened. In 1989 Wolfgang Paul

Wolfgang Paul

Wolfgang Paul was a Germany physicist, who co-developed the ion trap. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989 for this work.Wolfgang Paul was born on 10 August 1913 in Lorenzkirch, Germany....
was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Prize in literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine....
. Three years later Reinhard Selten

Reinhard Selten

Reinhard Selten is a German economics.Selten was born in Wroclaw in Province of Lower Silesia, now in Poland, to a Jewish father and protestant mother....
was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics

Nobel Prize in Economics

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially named The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel , is an award for outstanding contributions in the field of economics and is generally considered one of the most prestigious awards in that field....
. The decision of the German government to move the capital from Bonn to Berlin after the reunification

German reunification

German reunification took place twice after 1945: first in 1957, the Saarland was permitted to join the Federal Republic of Germany, and again on 3 October 1990, when the five re-established states of the German Democratic Republic joined the Germany , and Berlin was united into a single city-state....
in 1991 resulted in generous compensation for the city of Bonn. The compensation package included three new research institutes affiliated or closely collaborating with the university, thus significantly enhancing the research profile of the University of Bonn.

In the 2000s the university implemented the Bologna process

Bologna process

The purpose of the Bologna process is to create the European higher education area by making academic degree standards and quality assurance standards more comparable and compatible throughout Europe, in particular under the Lisbon Recognition Convention....
and replaced the traditional Diplom

Diplom

Diplom is an academic degree in some European countries including Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Estonia, Croatia, Serbia, Education in Ukraine, Belarus, Greece and Hungary....
and Magister

Magister (degree)

Magister is an academic degree used in various systems of higher education....
programs with Bachelor and Master programs. This process will be completed by 2007.

Academics

The University of Bonn has 27,000 students, and 4,100 of these are international students. Each year about 3,000 undergraduate students graduate. The university also confers about 800 Ph.D.s and about 60 habilitation

Habilitation

Habilitation is the highest academic qualification a person can achieve by their own pursuit in certain European and Asian countries. Earned after obtaining a research doctorate , the habilitation requires the candidate to write a postdoctoral thesis based on independent scholarly accomplishments, reviewed by and defended before an academic c...
s. More than 90 programs in all fields are offered. Strong fields as identified by the university are mathematics

Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, change, and related topics of pattern and form. Mathematicians seek out patterns whether found in numbers, space, natural science, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere....
, physics

Physics

Physics is the natural science which examines basic concepts such as energy, force, and spacetime and all that derives from these, such as mass, charge, matter and its Motion ....
, economics

Economics

File:Ballard Farmers' Market - vegetables.jpgEconomics is the Social sciences that studies the Production theory basics, Distribution , and Consumption of Good and Service ....
, neuroscience

Neuroscience

Neuroscience is a field devoted to the scientific study of the nervous system. The Society for Neuroscience was founded in 1969, but the study of the brain started a long time ago....
, medical genetics

Medical genetics

Medical genetics is the specialty of medicine that involves the diagnosis and management of hereditary disorders. Medical genetics differs from Human genetics in that human genetics is a field of scientific research that may or may not apply to medicine, but medical genetics refers to the application of genetics to medical care....
, chemical biology

Chemical biology

Chemical biology is a scientific discipline spanning the fields of chemistry and biology that involves the application of chemical techniques and tools, often compounds produced through chemical synthesis, to the study and manipulation of biological systems....
, Asian

Asian studies

Asian studies, a term that has largely replaced the older Oriental studies, is concerned with the Asian peoples, their cultures, languages, history and politics....
and Oriental studies

Orientalism

Orientalism refers to the imitation or depiction of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West by writers, designers and artists, and can also refer to a sympathetic stance towards the region by a writer or other person....
and Philosophy and Ethics

Ethics

Ethics is a word for a philosophy that encompasses proper conduct and good living. It is significantly broader than the common conception of ethics as the analyzing of right and wrong....
. The university has a standing faculty of more than 500 professors, an academic staff of 2,100 and a support staff of 1,500. The annual budget was more than 300 million Euros in 2006.

Schools

From the foundation in 1818 to 1928 the University of Bonn had five schools, that is, the School of Catholic Theology, the School of Protestant Theology, the School of Law and the School of Arts and Science. In 1928 the School of Law and the Department of Economics, that until then was part of the School of Arts and Science, merged into the new School of Law and Economics. In 1934 the until then independent Agricultural University Bonn-Poppelsdorf (German: Landwirtschaftliche Hochschule Bonn-Poppelsdorf) was merged into the University of Bonn as the School of Agricultural Science. In 1936 the science departments were separated from the School of Arts and Science. Today the university is divided into seven schools:

School of Catholic Theology (German: Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät )
School of Protestant Theology (German: Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät )
School of Law and Economics (German: Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät )
School of Medicine (German: Medizinische Fakultät)
School of Humanities (German: Philosophische Fakultät )
School of Mathematics and Science (German: Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät )
School of Agricultural Science (Landwirtschaftliche Fakultät)

Research institutes

The Franz Joseph Dölger-Institute studies the late antiquity

Late Antiquity

Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's Crisis of the Third Century to the Islamic conquests and the re-organization of the Byzantine Empire under...
and in particular the confrontation and interaction of Christians, Jews and Pagans in the late antiquity. The institute edits the Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum, a German language

German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
encyclopedia

Encyclopedia

An encyclopedia is a comprehensive written compendium that holds information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge....
treating the history of early Christians in the late antiquity. The institute is named after the church historian Franz Joseph Dölger

Franz Joseph Dölger

Franz Joseph D?lger was a German Catholic theologian and church historian who was a native of Sulzbach am Main.He studied theology at the University of W?rzburg, and in 1902 was ordained into the priesthood....
who was a professor of theology at the university from 1929 to 1940.

The Research Institute for Discrete Mathematics focuses on discrete mathematics

Discrete mathematics

Discrete mathematics, also called finite mathematics, is the study of mathematical structures that are fundamentally discrete in the sense that its objects can assume only distinct, separate values, rather than a values on a continuum ....
and its applications, in particular combinatorial optimization

Combinatorial optimization

Combinatorial optimization is a branch of Optimization . Its domain is optimization problems where the set of feasible solutions is Discrete set or can be reduced to a discrete one, and the goal is to find the best possible solution....
and the design of computer chips

Integrated circuit

In electronics, an integrated circuit is a miniaturized electronic circuit that has been manufactured in the surface of a thin Wafer of semiconductor material....
. The institute cooperates with IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue" , is a multinational corporation computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, New York, United States....
and Magma Design Automation

Magma Design Automation

Magma Design Automation is a software company in the electronic design automation industry. The company was founded in 1997 and maintains headquarters in San Jose, California, California....
. Researchers of the institute optimized the chess computer IBM Deep Blue.

The German Reference Center for Ethics in the Life Sciences (German: Deutsches Referenzzentrum für Ethik in den Biowissenschaften) was founded in 1999 and is modeled after the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature at Georgetown University

Georgetown University

Georgetown University is a Society of Jesus private university located in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Father John Carroll founded the school in 1789, though its roots extend back to 1634....
. The center provides access to scientific information to academics and professionals in the fields of life science and is the only of its kind in Germany.

After the German Government's decision in 1991 to move the capital of Germany from Bonn to Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
, the city of Bonn received generous compensation from the Federal Government. This led to the foundation of three research institutes in 1995, of which two are affiliated with the university:

The Center for European Integration Studies
Center for European Integration Studies

Founded in 1995, the Center for European Integration Studies is a research institute at the University of Bonn. ZEI has more than 200 researchers and its work contributes to the solution of the problems of European integration and Europe's role in a global context through....
(German: Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung) studies the legal, economic and social implications of the European integration
European integration

European integration is the process of political, legal, economic integration of European states, including some states that are partly in Europe....
process. The institute offers several graduate programs and organizes summer schools for students.

The Center for Development Research (German: Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung) studies global development from an interdisciplinary perspective and offers a doctoral program in international development.

The Center of Advanced European Studies and Research
Center of Advanced European Studies and Research

Research center caesar was founded in 1995 as part of the compensatory actions under the Berlin/Bonn law, which were intended to support structural change in the region of the former capital....
(CAESAR) is an interdisciplinary applied research institute. Research is conducted in the fields nanotechnology, biotechnology and medical technology. The institute is a private foundation, but collaborates closely with the university.

The Institute for the Study of Labor
Institute for the Study of Labor

The Institute for the Study of Labor is a private, independent economic research institute. It was founded under the legal form of a limited liability company....
(German: Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit) is a private research institute that is funded by Deutsche Post

Deutsche Post

Deutsche Post Aktiengesellschaft , operating under the trade name Deutsche Post World Net, is the world's largest logistics group. With its headquarters in Bonn, the corporation has 470,000 employees in more than 220 countries and territories worldwide and generated revenue of ? 63.5 billion in 2007....
. The institute concentrates on research on labor economics, but is also offering policy advise on labor market issues. The institute also awards the annual IZA Prize in Labor Economics. The department of economics of the University of Bonn and the institute closely cooperate.

The Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik

The Max-Planck-Institut f?r Mathematik is a mathematics research institute located in Bonn, Germany. It is named in honour of the Germany physicist Max Planck....
(German: Max Planck-Institut für Mathematik) is part of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, a network of scientific research institutes in Germany. The institute was founded in 1980 by Friedrich Hirzebruch

Friedrich Hirzebruch

Friedrich E.P. Hirzebruch is a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry, and a leading figure in his generation....
.

The Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy

The Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy is located in Bonn, Germany. It is one of 80 institute in the Max Planck Society .* Atacama Pathfinder Experiment ...
(German: Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie) was founded in 1966 as an institute of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. It operates the radio telescope in Effelsberg

Effelsberg

Since its inauguration in 1972, the Effelsberg 100-m radio telescope is one of the world's largest fully steerable telescopes. It operates at wavelengths from about 7 mm to 90 cm....
.

The Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

The Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods is located in Bonn, Germany. It was founded 1997 as temporary project and transformed into a permanent institute 2003....
(German: Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von Gemeinschaftsgütern) started as a research group in 1997 and was founded as an institute of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in 2003. The institute studies collective goods from a legal and economic perspective.

Research

University of Bonn researchers made fundamental contributions in the sciences and the humanities. In physics researchers developed the quadrupole ion trap

Quadrupole ion trap

A quadrupole ion trap exists in both linear and 3D varieties and refers to an ion trap that uses constant direct current and radio frequency oscillating alternating current electric fields to trap ions....
and the Geissler tube

Geissler tube

The Geissler tube is a glass tube for demonstrating the principles of electrical glow discharge. The tube was invented by the Germany physicist and glassblower Heinrich Geissler in 1857....
, discovered radio waves

Radio waves

Radio waves are Electromagnetic radiation occurring on the radio frequency portion of the electromagnetic spectrum....
, were instrumental in describing cathode rays and developed the variable star designation

Variable star designation

Variable stars are named using a variation on the Bayer designation format of an identifying label combined with the Latin language genitive case of the name of the constellation in which the star lies....
. In chemistry researchers made significant contributions to the understanding of alicyclic compound

Alicyclic compound

An alicyclic compound is an organic compound that is both aliphatic and cyclic compound. They contain one or more all-carbon rings which may be either saturation or unsaturated, but do not have aromaticity character....
s and Benzene

Benzene

Benzene, or benzol, is an organic compound chemical compound and a known carcinogen with the molecular formula Carbon6Hydrogen6....
. In material science researchers have been instrumental in describing the lotus effect

Lotus effect

The Lotus effect refers to the very high water repellency exhibited by the leaves of the lotus flower .Dirt particles are picked up by water droplets due to a complex micro- and nanoscopic architecture of the surface which enables minimization of adhesion....
. In mathematics University of Bonn faculty made fundamental contributions to modern topology

Topology

Topology is a major area of mathematics that has emerged through the development of concepts from geometry and set theory, such as those of space, dimension, shape, transformation and others....
and algebraic geometry

Algebraic geometry

Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which, as the name suggests, combines techniques of abstract algebra, especially commutative algebra, with the language and the problems of geometry....
. The Hirzebruch-Riemann-Roch theorem

Hirzebruch-Riemann-Roch theorem

In mathematics, the Hirzebruch?Riemann?Roch theorem, named after Friedrich Hirzebruch, Bernhard Riemann, and Gustav Roch, is Hirzebruch's 1954 result contributing to the Riemann?Roch theorem for complex algebraic varieties of all dimensions....
, Lipschitz continuity

Lipschitz continuity

In mathematics, more specifically in real analysis, Lipschitz continuity, named after Rudolf Lipschitz, is a smoothness condition for function s which is stronger than regular continuous function....
, the Petri net

Petri net

A Petri net is one of several mathematical modeling languages for the description of discrete distributed systems. A Petri net is a directed bipartite graph, in which the nodes represent transitions , places , and directed arcs ....
, the Schönhage-Strassen algorithm

Schönhage-Strassen algorithm

The Sch?nhage?Strassen algorithm is an asymptotically fast multiplication algorithm for large integers. It was developed by Arnold Sch?nhage and Volker Strassen in 1971....
, Faltings' theorem

Faltings' theorem

In number theory, the Mordell conjecture stated a basic result regarding the rational number solutions to Diophantine equations. It was eventually proved by Gerd Faltings in 1983, about six decades after the conjecture was made; it is now known as Faltings' theorem....
and the Toeplitz matrix

Toeplitz matrix

In the mathematics discipline of linear algebra, a Toeplitz matrix or diagonal-constant matrix, named after Otto Toeplitz, is a matrix in which each descending diagonal from left to right is constant....
are all named after University of Bonn mathematicians. University of Bonn economists made fundamental contributions to game theory

Game theory

Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics that is used in the social sciences , biology, engineering, political science, international relations, computer science , and philosophy....
and experimental economics

Experimental economics

Experimental economics is the application of experimental methods to study economic questions. Experiments are used to test the validity of economic theories and test-bed new market mechanisms....
. Famous thinkers that were faculty at the University of Bonn include the poet August Wilhelm Schlegel, the historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr

Barthold Georg Niebuhr

Barthold Georg Niebuhr was a Germany statesman and historian....
, the theologians Karl Barth

Karl Barth

Pope Benedict XVI

Ernst Moritz Arndt

File:Ernst Moritz Arndt.gifErnst Moritz Arndt was a Germany patriotic author and poet. Early in his life, he fought for the abolition of serfdom, later against Napoleonic dominance over Germany, and had to flee to Sweden for some time due to his anti-French positions....
.

The university has nine collaborative research centres and five research units funded by the German Science Foundation

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft is an important Germany research funding organization and the largest in Europe. The DFG supports research in science and the humanities through a large variety of grant programmes, prizes and by funding infrastructure....
and attracts more than 75 million Euros in external research funding annually.

The of the German government in 2006 resulted in the foundation of the as one of the seventeen national Clusters of Excellence that were part of the initiative and the expansion of the already existing Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE). The Excellence Initiative also resulted in the founding of the in physics (a honors Masters and PhD program, jointly with the University of Cologne

University of Cologne

The University of Cologne is one of the oldest University in Europe and, with over 44,000 students, one of the largest universities in Germany....
). was founded in the November of 2008, to foster closer interaction between mathematicians and theoretical physicists at Bonn. The center also arranges for regular visitors and seminars (on topics including String theory, Nuclear physics, Condensed matter etc).

Ranking

According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities

Academic Ranking of World Universities

The Academic Ranking of World Universities is compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University?s Institute of Higher Education and includes major institutes of higher education ranked according to a formula that took into account alumni winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals , staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals , ?highly-cited researchers...
compiled by researchers of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Shanghai Jiao Tong University , located in Shanghai, is one of the oldest and most influential universities in People's Republic of China. The university is under the jurisdiction of both the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and Shanghai Government....
the University Bonn is ranked 97th internationally and 6th nationally. The Times Higher Education Supplement

The Times Higher Education Supplement

The Times Higher Education , formerly The Times Higher Education Supplement , is a magazine based in London reporting specifically on news and other issues related to British higher education, largely the University, including former and current polytechnics....
ranks the University of Bonn 53rd worldwide in the science category and 84th worldwide in the social science category. Webometrics ranks the University of Bonn 126th worldwide, 32nd in Europe and 9th nationally.

In national rankings the University of Bonn is ranked in the top ten by the newsmagazine Focus

Focus (magazine)

Magazines with the name Focus include:* Focus , a German weekly news magazine* Focus , a Christian religion magazine published in the United States...
and the German Research Foundation

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is a foundation of the German government for the promotion of international cooperation in the field of scientific research....
ranks the University of Bonn fifth in the humanities and social sciences, sixth in the life sciences and seventh in science.

Campus

The University of Bonn does not have a centralized campus. The main building is the former residential palace of the prince-elector of Cologne (German: Kurfürstliches Schloss) in the city center. The main building was built by Enrico Zuccalli

Enrico Zuccalli

Enrico Zuccalli, was a Swiss architect who worked for the Wittelsbach regents of Bavaria and Archbishop of Cologne.Since 1669 Zuccalli lived in Munich and became a major representant of the introduction of Italian baroque architecture in Germany....
for the prince-elector of Cologne, Joseph Clemens of Bavaria

Joseph Clemens of Bavaria

Joseph Clemens von Wittelsbach was an archbishop of Cologne, Germany, from 1688 to 1723.The third son of Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria of Bavaria and his wife, Henriette Adelaide of Savoy of Savoy, Joseph Clemens was designated by his parents for a life in the church....
from 1697–1705. Today it houses the faculty of humanities and theology and the university administration. The Hofgarten, a large park in front of the main building is a popular place for students to meet, study and relax. The Hofgarten was repeatedly the place for political demonstrations as for example the demonstration against the NATO Double-Track Decision

NATO Double-Track Decision

The NATO Double-Track Decision is the decision of NATO from December 12, 1979 to offer the Warsaw Pact a mutual limitation of Medium-range ballistic missiles and Intermediate-range ballistic missiles combined with the threat that in case of disagreement NATO would deploy more middle range nuclear weapons in Western Europe....
on October 22, 1981 with about 250,000 participants.

The school of law and economics, the main university library and several smaller departments are housed in modern buildings a short distance south of the main building. The department of psychology and the department of computer science are located in a northern suburb of Bonn.

The science departments and the main science library are located in Poppelsdorf and Endenich, west of the city center, and housed in a mix of historical and modern buildings. Notable is the Poppelsdorf Palace (German: Poppelsdorfer Schloss), which was build from 1715 to 1753 by Robert de Cotte

Robert de Cotte

Robert de Cotte was a French architect-administrator, under whose design control of the royal buildings of France from 1699, the earliest notes presaging the Rococo were introduced....
for Joseph Clemens of Bavaria

Joseph Clemens of Bavaria

Joseph Clemens von Wittelsbach was an archbishop of Cologne, Germany, from 1688 to 1723.The third son of Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria of Bavaria and his wife, Henriette Adelaide of Savoy of Savoy, Joseph Clemens was designated by his parents for a life in the church....
and his successor Clemens August of Bavaria. Today the Poppelsdorf Palace houses the university's mineral collection and several science departments.

The school of medicine is located on the Venusberg, a hill on the western edge of Bonn. Several residence halls are scattered across the city. In total the University of Bonn owns 371 buildings.

University Library

The university library was founded in 1818 and started with 6,000 volumes inherited from the library of the closed University of Duisburg. In 1824 the library became legal deposit

Legal deposit

Legal deposit is a legal requirement that a person or group submit copies of their publications to a repository, usually a Library. The requirement was originally limited to books and journals, but with the advance of technology many countries amended the law to include voice recordings, movies, maps and even internet sites....
for all books published in the Prussian Rhine province. The library contained about 200,000 volumes at the end of the 19th century, and about 600,000 volumes at the outbreak of World War II

World War II

Strategic bombing during World War II

Strategic bombing during World War II was greater in scale than any wartime attack the world had previously witnessed. The strategic bombing campaigns conducted by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Empire of Japan used conventional weapons, Incendiary bomb, and nuclear weapons....
on October 10 in 1944 destroyed about 200,000 volumes and a large part of the library catalog

Library catalog

A library catalog is a register of all bibliography items found in a library or group of libraries, such as a network of libraries at several locations....
. After the war the library was housed in several makeshift locations until the completion of the new central library in 1960. The new building was designed by Pierre Vago

Pierre Vago

Pierre Vago was a notable France architect who worked on the Hansaviertel in Berlin. Known Internationally as the publisher of L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui and General Secretary of the International Union of Architects....
and Fritz Bornemann and is located close to the main building. In 1983 a new library building was opened in Poppelsdorf, west of the main building. The new library building houses the science, agriculture and medicine collections. Today the university library system the central library, the library for science, agriculture and medicine and about 160 smaller libraries. The university library holds 2.2 million volumes and subscribes to about 14,000 journals.

University Hospital

The university hospital (German:Universitätsklinikum Bonn) was founded at the same time as the university and officially openend on May 5, 1819 in the Poppelsdorf Palace (German:Poppelsdorffer Schloß) west of the main building. In its first year, the hospital had thirty beds, performed 93 surgeries and treated about 600 outpatients. In 1883 the hospital moved to a new building in the city center of Bonn, and after World War II

World War II

Bonn

Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the Capital of Germany West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
on the western edge of Bonn. On January 1, 2001 the university hospital became a public corporation. Although the university hospital is since then independent from the university, the School of Medicine of the University of Bonn and the university hospital closely collaborate. Today the university hospital comprises about thirty individual hospitals, employs more than 670 physicians and more than 1,100 nursing and clinical support staff and treated about 39,000 inpatients.

University Museums

The Akademisches Kunstmuseum (English: Academic Museum of Antiquities ) was founded in 1818 and has one of the largest collections of plaster casts of ancient Greek and Roman sculptures in the world. At this time collections of plaster casts were mainly used in the instruction of students at art academies. They were first used in the instruction of university students in 1763 by Christian Gottlob Heyne

Christian Gottlob Heyne

Christian Gottlob Heyne was a Germany classical scholar and archaeologist as well as long-time director of the G?ttingen State and University Library....
at University of Göttingen. The Akademisches Kunstmuseum in Bonn was the first of its kind, as at this time collections at other universities were scattered around universities libraries. The first director was Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker

Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker

Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker , Germany philologist and archaeologist, was born at Gr?nberg, Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt.Having studied classical philology at the university of Giessen, he was appointed master in the high school, an office which he combined with that of lecturer at the university....
, who also held a professorship of archaeology. His tenure was from 1819 until his retirement in 1854. He was succeeded by Otto Jahn

Otto Jahn

Otto Jahn , was a Germany archaeologist, philologist, and writer on art and music.He was born at Kiel. After the completion of his university studies at Christian-Albrechts-Universit?t in Kiel, the University of Leipzig and Humboldt University, Berlin, he travelled for three years in France and Italy; in 1839 he became Privatdozent at...
and Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl

Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl

Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl was a Germany scholar best known as a student of Plautus....
, who shared the directorship. From 1870 to 1889 Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz

Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz

Reinhard Kekul? von Stradonitz, He served as director of the collection of antique sculpture and vases at the Berlin Museum and also as the director of the antiquarium of the Berlin Museum ....
, nephew of the famous organic chemist Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, was the director. In 1872 the museum moved to a new building that was formerly used by the department of anatomy. The building was constructed from 1823 to 1830 and designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Karl Friedrich Schinkel was a Germany architect and painter. Schinkel was the most prominent architect of neoclassicism in Prussia.Schinkel was born in Neuruppin in the Margraviate of Brandenburg....
and Hermann Friedrich Waesemann

Hermann Friedrich Waesemann

Hermann Friedrich Waesemann was a Germany architect. He was born in Danzig as the son of an architect. He studied mathematics and science in University of Bonn from 1830 to 1832, before going to Berlin to study architecture at the Bauakademie....
. Other directors of the museum were Georg Loeschcke

Georg Loeschcke

Georg Loeschcke was a German archaeologist who was born in Penig, Saxony.He studied archaeology under Johannes Overbeck in Leipzig, and afterwards at the University of Bonn, where he was a student of Reinhard Kekul? von Stradonitz....
(from 1889 to 1912), Franz Winter (from 1912 to 1929), Richard Delbrueck (from 1929 to 1940), Ernst Langlotz (from 1944 to 1966), Nikolaus Himmelmann (from 1969 to 1994) and Harald Mielsch (since 1994). All directors, with the exception of Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl

Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl

Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl was a Germany scholar best known as a student of Plautus....
held a professorship of archaeology at the university.

The Egyptian Museum (German: Ägyptisches Museum) was founded in 2001. The collection is dating back to the 19th century and was formerly part of the Akademisches Kunstmuseum. Large parts of the collection were destroyed in World War II. Today the collection comprises about 3,000 objects.

The Arithmeum was openend in 1999. With over 1,200 objects it has the world's largest collection of historical mechanical calculating machines

History of computing hardware

The history of computing hardware encompasses computer hardware, its Computer architecture, and its impact on Computer software.The elements of computing hardware have undergone significant improvement over their history....
. The museum is affiliated with the Research Institute for Discrete Mathematics.

The Teaching Collection of Archaeology and Anthropology (German: Archäologisch-ethnographische Lehr- und Studiensammlung) will be opened in 2008. The collection comprises more than 7,500 objects of mostly pre-Columbian art.

The Botanical Garden was officially founded in 1818 and is located around the Poppelsdorf Palace. A garden existed at the same place at least since 1578, and around 1720 a Baroque garden was built for Clemens August of Bavaria. The first director of the Botanical Garden was Nees von Esenbeck

Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck

Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific Germany botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Carolus Linnaeus....
from 1818 to 1830. In May 2003 the world largest Titan arum

Titan arum

The titan arum or Amorphophallus titanum is a flowering plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world. The largest single flower is borne by the Rafflesia arnoldii; the largest branched inflorescence in the plant kingdom belongs to the Talipot palm ....
, some 2.74 m high, flowered in the Botanical Garden for three days.

The natural history museum was opened in 1820 by Georg August Goldfuss. It was the first public museum in the Rhineland. In 1882 it was split into the Mineralogical Museum a museum of palaeontology, now named Goldfuß Museum of Palaeontology.

The Horst Stoeckel-Museum of the History of Anesthesiology (German: Horst Stoeckel-Museum für die Geschichte der Anästhesiologie) was opened in 2000 and is the largest of its kind in Europe.

The Museum Alexander Koenig is one of the largest natural history museums in Germany and is affiliated with the university. The museum was founded in 1912 by Alexander Koenig, who donated his collection of mounted specimen to the public. See also the separate article Museum Koenig

Museum Koenig

The Alexander Koenig Research Museum is a natural history museum and Zoology research institution in Bonn, Germany. The museum is named after Alexander Koenig, who donated his collection of specimens to the institution....
.

Notable people

To date, seven Nobel prize

Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize , established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1901....
s and two Fields Medal

Fields Medal

Harald zur Hausen
Harald zur Hausen

Harald zur Hausen is a Germany virology and professor emeritus. He has done research on cancer of the cervix, where he discovered the role of papilloma viruses, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008....
, alumni: physiology or medicine 2008
Reinhard Selten
Reinhard Selten

Reinhard Selten is a German economics.Selten was born in Wroclaw in Province of Lower Silesia, now in Poland, to a Jewish father and protestant mother....
, faculty member: economics 1994
Wolfgang Paul
Wolfgang Paul

Wolfgang Paul was a Germany physicist, who co-developed the ion trap. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989 for this work.Wolfgang Paul was born on 10 August 1913 in Lorenzkirch, Germany....
, faculty member: physics 1989
Friedrich Hirzebruch
Friedrich Hirzebruch

Friedrich E.P. Hirzebruch is a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry, and a leading figure in his generation....
, faculty member: Mathematics 1957
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello was an Italy dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934....
, alumni: literature 1934
Otto Wallach
Otto Wallach

Otto Wallach was a Germany chemist and Nobel laureate for work on alicyclic compounds....
, faculty member: chemistry 1910
Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse
Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse

Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse was a distinguished German author. Paul von Heyse was born in Berlin, Germany, the son of Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Heyse, a notable philologist, and Julie Saaling....
, alumni: literature 1910
Philipp Lenard
Philipp Lenard

Philipp Eduard Anton von L?n?rd or F?l?p L?n?rd was a Hungarian people-German people Physics and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his research on cathode rays and the discovery of many of their properties....
, faculty member: physics 1905

Gerd Faltings
Gerd Faltings

Gerd Faltings is a Germany mathematician known for his work in arithmetic algebraic geometry.From 1972 to 1978, he studied mathematics and physics at the University of M?nster....
: Fields Medal 1986
Maxim Kontsevich
Maxim Kontsevich

Maxim Lvovich Kontsevich is a Russians mathematician. He received a Fields Medal in 1998, at the 23rd International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin....
: Fields Medal 1998

Among its notable alumni and faculty are Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI

Heinrich Heine

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was a journalist, essayist, and one of the most significant German literature German Romanticism poets. He is remembered chiefly for selections of his lyric poetry, many of which were set to music in the form of lieder by German composers....
, Heinrich Hertz, Karl Marx

Karl Marx

Karl Heinrich Marx was a Germanphilosophy, political economy, historian, sociologist, humanism, political theorist and revolutionary credited as the founder of communism....
, Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

Joseph Schumpeter

Konrad Adenauer

Konrad Hermann Josef Adenauer , 5 January 1876 ? 19 April 1967) was a Germany statesman.Although his political career spanned sixty years, beginning as early as 1906, he is most noted for his role as the Chancellor of Germany of West Germany from 1949?1963 and chairman of the Christian Democratic Union from 1950 to 1966....
, Max Ernst

Max Ernst

Max Ernst was a German Painting, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst is considered to be one of the primary pioneers of Dada movement and Surrealism....
, Constantin Carathéodory

Constantin Carathéodory

Constantin Carath?odory was a Greek mathematician. He made significant contributions to the real analysis, the calculus of variations, and measure theory....
, Karl Weierstrass

Karl Weierstrass

Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass was a Germany mathematics who is often cited as the "father of modern mathematical analysis"....
, Karl Barth

Karl Barth

Samson Raphael Hirsch

Samson Raphael Hirsch was a Germany rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism....
.

See also List of University of Bonn people
List of University of Bonn people

Among the people who have taught or studied at the University of Bonn are the following:...

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