Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

The university of Erlangen-Nuremberg , Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (German) is created in 1743 under the Latin name of Academiae Friderico Alexandrinae with Erlangen. It is currently the larger second Université in Bavaria, with 11 faculties gathering 265 pulpits.

It was founded in 1742 with Bayreuth by the Margrave Friedrich of Brandebourg - Bayreuth under the name of Friedrichs-Universität. As of the following year, in 1743, the university is transferred to Erlangen. It counts 4 faculties then: Protestant theology, jurisprudence, medicine and philosophy. In 1769, the Principality of Bayreuth to which Erlangen belongs master key under the control of Karl Alexander, Margrave of Brandebourg - Ansbach. It strongly takes part in the development of the university which re-elects the same year in Friedrich-Alexander-Universität.

The matters are distributed in two buildings: faculties of social sciences, economic and educational are located at Nuremberg. All other faculties are located at Erlangen.

The university accommodates in 2007 26.554 students in its 11 faculties:

Faculty of Protestant Theology
Faculty of Right
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of the Letters and Social sciences I (Philosophy, History, Social sciences)
Faculty of Arts and social sciences II (languages and Literature)
Faculty of the Sciences I (Mathematical, Physical)
Faculty of Science II (Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy)
Faculty of Science III (Geography, Geology/Mineralogy/Paleontology
Faculty of the social Economic scenes and (in Nuremberg)
Faculty of Technology (since 1966)
Faculty of the Sciences of education (in Nuremberg)

See too

External bonds

the university of Erlangen-Nuremberg (French)
the university of Erlangen-Nuremberg (German)

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