Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Also known as Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Alma Mater Jenensis, Jena University, University of Jena, UJena
university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany
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Friedrich Schiller University Jena is a university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. It is one of Germany's oldest and most established institutions of higher education.
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Key facts
- Type
- Public
- Established
- February 2, 1558 ; 468 years ago ( 1558-02-02 )
- Affiliations
- Coimbra Group , EUA
- Budget
- €372 million
- President
- Andreas Marx
- Academic staff
- 3,415
- Administrative staff
- 5,151
- Students
- 18,219
- Campus
- University town
- Website
- www.uni-jena.de
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Sächsische Gesamtuniversität
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The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (German: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form Uni Jena), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany.
The university was established in 1558 and is counted among the ten oldest universities in Germany. It is affiliated with six Nobel Prize winners, most recently in 2000 when Jena graduate Herbert Kroemer won the Nobel Prize for physics. It was renamed after the poet Friedrich Schiller who was teaching as professor of philosophy when Jena attracted some of the most influential minds at the turn of the 19th century. With Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, G. W. F. Hegel, F. W. J. Schelling and Friedrich Schlegel on its teaching staff, the university was at the centre of the emergence of German idealism and early Romanticism.