University of Erfurt

University of Erfurt
Universität Erfurt
Type Public
Established 1379/1994 (closed 1815—1993)
President Walter Bauer-Wabnegg
Administrative staff
 538
Students 5,596
Location Erfurt, Germany
Campus Urban
Affiliations EUniCult
Website www.uni-erfurt.de
Data as of May 2013
Entrance University of Erfurt

The University of Erfurt (German: Universität Erfurt) is a public university located in Erfurt, Germany. Originally founded in 1379,[1] the university was closed in 1816 for the next 177 years. In 1994, three years after the reunification of Germany, the university was re-established.

History

1379-1816

The University of Erfurt was founded in 1379[1] in the Holy Roman Empire, in terrority which is now modern day Germany. When the town of Erfurt became part of Prussia in 1816, the government closed the university after more than 400 years of operation.

Collegium Maius

1994-today

Erfurt, in the state of Thuringia, was part of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1949 to 1990. In December 1993, the State Government of Thuringia, Landtag of Thuringia, voted to re-establish the university. The university was officially re-founded on January 1, 1994. Lectures began in the winter term of 1999/2000. 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 Thuringia's Minister-president Bernhard Vogel. In 2001, the Erfurt Teachers' Training College (Pädagogische Hochschule Erfurt), founded in 1953, 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 the same year, 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 administration and committees were reformed and the situation was stabilized.

The University of Erfurt is a liberal arts university with reform and socio-cultural profile. The close networking of the Philosophical, Educational Research, Governmental Studies and Catholic Theological Faculty, as well as the Max Weber Center, continue to be innovative in their approach to teaching (a special mentor program) and research.

University of Erfurt’s library

As one of the oldest and at the same time youngest public universities in Germany, the University of Erfurt still has no tuition fees and is the first institution of higher education to receive the family-friendly certificate for employers. The suburban campus makes it a living part of Thuringia's state capital, with its low cost of living and its extensive cultural and leisure offer. Also, Erfurt being in the middle of Germany gives great opportunities to travel around Germany and Europe.

Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences

Faculties and institutions

The University of Erfurt has five faculties and three academic institutes:

The Academic Institutes are:

The Erfurt University Library houses the famous Bibliotheca Amploniana, a collection of nearly 1000 medieval manuscripts collected by the scholar Amplonius Rating de Berka (c.1364 - 1435).

University maxim

The University of Erfurt is sometimes thought of as a reformist university. Martin Luther attended it from 1501 to 1505, studying liberal arts and theology. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University. 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.

Faculty of Catholic Theology

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.

Registrar’s Office (“Studium und Lehre” department)

Program, courses and research

Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt

B.A., Masters and PhD[2]

Bachelor programs Magister degree
  • Catholic Theology

Master programs

  • Children’s and Youth Media Studies
  • Communication Studies
  • Economics, law, and social Sciences
  • Education for Primary Schools
  • Education for Secondary Schools
  • Education for Special Schools
  • Education for Vocational Schools
  • History: History of the World Regions
  • History and Sociology / Anthropology of the Middle East
  • Literary Studies
  • Philosophy
  • Psychology
  • Religious Studies (taught in English)
  • Special Needs and Integrational Education
  • Theology and Econimics

Continuing education master programs

  • Public Policy (taught in English)
  • Special Education (Education for Special Needs)

Doctoral program
All the university faculties as well as the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies offer degree programs leading to a doctorate (PhD).

Max Weber Center

Founded in 1998, the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies is a semiautonomous, faculty-like research institute at the University of Erfurt. Combining an Institute for Advanced Study and a Graduate School or "Research Training Group" (Graduiertenkolleg), the Center hosts prominent scholars as visiting fellows alongside doctoral and postdoctoral researches in the fields of sociology, history, philosophy, theology, religious studies, law, and economics. In doing so, it merges research, teaching, and mentoring. With its strong emphasis on theoretical reflexivity, historical depth, and normative questions, the Max Weber Center constitutes "a high-ranking research centre which forms an avant-garde institution."[3]

Diplom courses

Promotion/PhD courses

Erfurt University has opened PhD application for various disciplines as well as has invited many researcher from all over the world. Such fields that are possible to be conducted as a PhD topic like economics, law, communication and Islamic studies.

Sommerkurse/Summer course

Research groups

Currently following colleges and research teams are part of the Erfurt doctoral and postdoctoral program (EPPP):

Academic priorities

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

See also

References

  1. 1 2 https://www.uni-erfurt.de/en/university-of-erfurt/portrait/
  2. ↑ University of Erfurt (Homepage)- Course Offerings
  3. ↑ "Overview by the Community Research and Development Information Service". European Commission. Retrieved July 24, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Book of Nature". World Digital Library. 2013-08-07. Retrieved 2013-08-30.

External links

Coordinates: 50°59′26″N 11°00′39″E / 50.99056°N 11.01083°E / 50.99056; 11.01083

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