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Ever since it was founded, the University has been through many ups and downs. Numerous famous names have passed through its doors over the centuries: Johann Franz Buddäus, Erhard Weigel, Schiller, Goethe, Hegel and Fichte.
The University was founded as an academic grammar school ('Hohe Schule') in 1548 by John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony. The sovereign, also affectionately called "Hanfried" by the people of Jena, was thus the "first" friend and patron of the University.
History. University of Jena around 1600. Jena was the center of Gnesio-Lutheran activity during the controversies leading up to the Formula of Concord. Early history. Elector John Frederick of Saxony first thought of a plan to establish a university at Jena upon Saale in 1547 while he was being held captive by emperor Charles V.
Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena) History On 2 February 1558, the Hohe Schule, founded ten years earlier, was ceremonially opened as a university with imperial privilege. Today, the Friedrich Schiller University can look back on more than 460 years of history.
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, founded in 1558, is a public university seated in Jena, Thuringia. With more than 18,000 students and an offer of 205 study opportunities, it is Thuringia’s largest university. Friedrich Schiller University Jena is comprised of ten faculties: the Faculty of Theology, the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, the Faculty of ...
In Jena The city’s Friedrich-Schiller University was founded by the elector John Frederick the Magnanimous in 1548 as an academy and was raised to university status in 1577. It flourished under the duke Charles Augustus, patron of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from 1787 to 1806, when the philosophers Johann…
Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (frē´drĬkh shĬl´ər, yā´nə), at Jena, Germany; founded 1548 as an academy; became the Univ. of Jena 10 years later. The school gained an international reputation in the 18th cent. when G. W. F. Hegel , Johann Fichte , and Friedrich von Schiller taught there.
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