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Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (German: Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen) is a state-supported university located on the Neckar river, in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Tübingen is one of four major university towns in Germany; the other three are Marburg, Göttingen, and Heidelberg. The Neckar is a river in Germany, a major tributary of the River Rhine, which it joins at Mannheim. ...
Tübingen, Neckar front Tübingen, an old university city of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, is situated 20 miles southwest of Stuttgart, on a ridge between the River Neckar and the Ammer. ...
With an area of 35,742 km² and 10. ...
Marburg is a city in Hesse, Germany, on the Lahn river. ...
Map of Germany showing Göttingen 1 External links Coat of Arms University of Göttingen Top: The old Auditorium Maximum (1862-65) Bottom: New library building Göttingen is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany. ...
Map of Germany showing Heidelberg Castle of Heidelberg pictured from the Old Bridge Heidelberg (halfway between Stuttgart and Frankfurt) is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ...
The University of Tübingen was founded in 1477 by Count Eberhard VI (Eberhard in the Beard, 1445 - 1496), later the first duke of Württemberg, a civic and ecclesiastic reformer who established the school after becoming absorbed in the Renaissance revival of learning during his travels to Italy. Its present name was conferred on it in 1769 by Duke Karl Eugen who appended his first name to that of the founder (Karls = genitive of Karl). Events January 5 - Battle of Nancy - Charles the Bold of Burgundy is again defeated, and this time is killed. ...
Eberhard is an old Germanic name meaning the strength or courage of a wild boar. ...
Events Discovery of Senegal and Cape Verde by Dinas Diaz Births March 1 - Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (d. ...
Events January 3 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine. ...
Württemberg (often spelled Wurttemberg in English) refers to an area and a former state in Swabia, a region in south-western Germany. ...
By Region: Italian Renaissance Northern Renaissance -French Renaissance -German Renaissance -English Renaissance The Renaissance was an influential cultural movement which brought about a period of scientific revolution and artistic transformation, at the dawn of modern European history. ...
The genitive case is a grammatical case that indicates a relationship, primarily one of possession, between the noun in the genitive case and another noun. ...
The University of Tübingen has a history of innovative thought, particularly in theology, in which the university and the Tübinger Stift are famous till today. Philipp Melanchthon (1497 - 1560), the prime mover in building the German school system and a chief figure in the Protestant Reformation, helped establish its direction. Among Tübingen's eminent students (and/or teachers) have been the astronomer Johannes Kepler, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI (the Present Pope), poet Friedrich Hölderlin, and the philosophers Friedrich Schelling and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. "The Tübingen Three" refers to Hölderlin, Hegel and Schelling. Theology is literally reasonable discourse concerning God (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογος, logos, word or reason). By extension, it also refers to the study of other religious topics. ...
Tübinger Stift is a hall of residence and teaching of the Protestant Church in Württemberg. ...
Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon, by Lucas Cranach the Elder. ...
Events May 10 - Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World. ...
Events February 27 - The Treaty of Berhick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland The first tulip bulb was brought from Turkey to the Netherlands. ...
The Protestant Reformation was a movement which emerged in the 16th century (although out of earlier roots) as a series of attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church in Western Europe. ...
Johannes Kepler Johannes Kepler (December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630), a key figure in the scientific revolution, was a German astronomer, mathematician and astrologer. ...
His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: ) was born Joseph Alois Ratzinger on April 16, 1927 in Bavaria, Germany. ...
The Pope is the Catholic Bishop and patriarch of Rome, and head of the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches. ...
Friedrich Hölderlin Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (March 20, 1770 – June 6, 1843) was a major German lyric poet. ...
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (January 27, 1775 - August 20, 1854) was a German philosopher. ...
G.W.F. Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (August 27, 1770 - November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher born in Stuttgart, Württemberg, in present-day southwest Germany. ...
The university rose to the height of its prominence in the middle of the 19th century with the teachings of poet and civic leader Ludwig Uhland and the Protestant theologian Ferdinand Christian Baur, whose beliefs and disciples became known as the "Tübingen School" which initiated historical analysis of Biblical texts, an approach also generally referred to as the Higher criticism. The University of Tübingen also was the first German university to establish a faculty of natural sciences, in 1863. DNA was discovered in 1868 at the University of Tübingen by Friedrich Miescher. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, the first female Nobel Prize winner in medicine in Germany, also works in Tübingen. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Johann Ludwig Uhland (April 26, 1787 - November 13, 1862), was a German poet. ...
Ferdinand Christian Baur (June 21, 1792 - 1860), was a German theologian and leader of the Tübingen school of theology. ...
Higher criticism is a branch of literary analysis that attempts to investigate the origins of a text, especially the text of the Bible. ...
The term natural science as the way in which different fields of study are defined is determined as much by historical convention as by the present day meaning of the words. ...
1863 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...
Space-filling model of a section of DNA molecule Deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions specifying the biological development of all cellular forms of life (and many viruses). ...
Categories: Biology stubs | 1844 births | 1895 deaths ...
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (born October 20, 1942 in Magdeburg) is a German biologist who won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995 together with Eric Wieschaus and Edward B. Lewis for their research on the genetic...
In the 20th century, at Tübingen as in most other German universities the faculty, and the student body's activities, became dominated first by nationalist / right wing politics and then by Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime until the beginning of the Allied occupation in 1945. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the...
Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889–April 30, 1945) was the Führer und Reichskanzler (leader and chancellor) of Germany from 1933 to his death. ...
The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ...
1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
In 1970 the university was restructured into a series of independent departments of study and research after the manner of French universities. 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ...
Currently, about 22,000 students are enrolled, roughly one quarter of the total population of the city. The 17 hospitals in Tübingen affiliated with the university's faculty of medicine have 1,500 patient beds, and yearly cater to 66,000 in-patients and 200,000 out-patients.
Famous Alumni
Nobel laureates - Günter Blobel, (1999, Physiology or Medicine)
- Karl Ferdinand Braun, (1909, Physics)
- Eduard Buchner, (1907, Chemistry)
- Adolf Butenandt, (1939, Chemistry)
- Hartmut Michel, (1988, Chemistry)
- Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, (1995, Physiology or Medicine)
- William Ramsay, (1904, Chemistry)
- Bert Sakmann, (1991, Physiology or Medicine)
- Georg Wittig, (1979, Chemistry)
Günter Blobel (born May 21, 1936) is a German biologist. ...
Karl Ferdinand Braun (June 6, 1850 - April 20, 1918) was a German physicist, born in Fulda. ...
Eduard Buchner (May 20, 1860 -- August 12, 1917) was a German chemist and zymologist, the winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on fermentation. ...
Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt (March 24, 1903 - January 18, 1995) was a German biochemist. ...
Hartmut Michel is a German biochemist and Nobel Laureate. ...
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (born October 20, 1942 in Magdeburg) is a German biologist who won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995 together with Eric Wieschaus and Edward B. Lewis for their research on the genetic...
William Ramsay. ...
Bert Sakmann (born June 12, 1942) is a German cell physiologist. ...
Georg Wittig (June 16, 1897 in Berlin (Germany) - August 26, 1987) was a german chemist who reported a method for synthesis of alkenes from aldehydes and ketones using compounds called phosphonium ylides. ...
Theology Karl Barth (May 10, 1886 - December 10, 1968) was a Swiss Christian theologian. ...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ( February 4, 1906 – April 9, 1945) was a German religious leader and participant in the resistance movement against Nazism. ...
His Eminence Walter Cardinal Kasper (born March 5, 1933) is a Cardinal Deacon and President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity in the Roman Catholic Church. ...
His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: ) was born Joseph Alois Ratzinger on April 16, 1927 in Bavaria, Germany. ...
Philip Schaff (January 1, 1819-1893), was a Swiss-born, German-educated theologian and a historian of the Christian church, who, after his education, lived and taught in the United States. ...
This article outlines the history of Christianity and provides links to relevant topics. ...
Law - Martin Bangemann, German minister of economy (1984-1988) and EU commissioner (1989-1999)
- Herta Däubler-Gmelin, German minister of justice (1998-2002)
- Philipp Jenninger, President of the German federal parliament (1984-1988)
- Klaus Kinkel, foreign minister of Germany (1993-1998)
- Gebhard Müller, President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (1959-1971)
- Carlo Schmid, German politician and one of the "fathers of the constitution"
Herta Däubler-Gmelin (born August 12, 1943) is a former German Minister of Justice. ...
Dr. Klaus Kinkel (born December 17, 1936) is a German politician (FDP). ...
Economics - Helmut Haussmann, German minister of economy (1988-1991)
- Friedrich List
- Horst Köhler, director of the IMF (2000-2004) and president of Germany (since 2004)
- Wilhelm Rall, McKinsey senior partner
- Jürgen Stark, vice president of Deutsche Bundesbank
- Klaus Töpfer, former german secretary
Friedrich List (August 6, 1789 - November 30, 1846), German economist, was born at Reutlingen, Württemberg. ...
Horst Köhler ( listen, born 22 February 1943) is the President of Germany. ...
McKinsey & Company is a privately owned management consulting firm. ...
The Deutsche Bundesbank is the central bank of Germany and a part of the European System of Central Banks. ...
German Martin Walser (born March 24, 1927 in Wasserburg) is a German writer. ...
Christoph Martin Wieland (September 5, 1733 _ January 20, 1813), was a German poet and writer. ...
History - Kurt Georg Kiesinger, chancellor of Germany (1966-1969)
- Rita Süssmuth, President of the German federal parliament (1988-1998)
Kurt Georg Kiesinger (April 6, 1904–March 9, 1988) was a conservative German politician and Chancellor of Germany from December 1, 1966 until October 21, 1969. ...
Egyptology Boyo Ockinga is an Egyptologist who holds the position of Senior Lecturer in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. ...
Philosophy Friedrich Hölderlin Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (March 20, 1770 – June 6, 1843) was a major German lyric poet. ...
G.W.F. Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (August 27, 1770 - November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher born in Stuttgart, Württemberg, in present-day southwest Germany. ...
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (January 27, 1775 - August 20, 1854) was a German philosopher. ...
Medicine Alois Alzheimer Alois Alzheimer (June 14, 1864 - December 19, 1915), a German neurologist, was a colleague of Emil Kraepelin who first identified the symptoms of what is now known as Alzheimers Disease. ...
Natural Sciences/Mathematics Gustav Heinrich Theodor Eimer (1843-1898) was a German zoologist. ...
Johannes (Hans) Wilhelm Geiger (September 30, 1882 – September 24, 1945) was a German physicist. ...
Johann Georg Gmelin (August 8, 1709 - May 20, 1755) was a German naturalist, botanist and geographer. ...
Johannes Kepler Johannes Kepler (December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630), a key figure in the scientific revolution, was a German astronomer, mathematician and astrologer. ...
External links - Ebergard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/index.html) - offical web site, available in German and English
- Institute of Egyptology (http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/aegyptologie/) - German language information portal
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