The University of Vienna (German: Universität Wien ) is a founded Université in 1365 by Rodolphe IV of Habsbourg. It is the second older university of the German-speaking world after the Université Charles of Prague which, in 1348, at the time when it is founded (teaching in Latin, like everywhere then) by Charles IV of the Holy roman Empire, is the principal university of the Saint Germanic Roman Empire.

The principal building is the work of the architect Heinrich von Ferstel.

Famous graduates

Its famous graduates include

• Ingeborg Bachmann,
• Bruno Bettelheim
• Rudolph Bing
• Josef Breuer
• Elias Canetti
• Kurt Gödel
• Franz Grillparzer
• Paul Feyerabend
• O.W. Fischer
• Ivan Franko
• Jörg Haider
• Ernst Gombrich
• Hugo von Hofmannsthal
• Karl Kautsky
• Arthur Koestler
• Karl Kraus
• Richard Kuhn
• Lise Meitner
• Gregor Mendel
• Sextil Puşcariu
• Josef Mengele
• Franz Mesmer
• Qualities Mock
• Julius Pokorny (Celtic Language), student then professor of 1913 to 1920
• Karl Popper
• Peter Porsch
• Wilhelm Reich
• Karl Renner
• Manfred Rumpl
• Peter Safar
• Arthur Schnitzler
• Adalbert Stifter
• Kurt Waldheim
• Friedrich Hasenöhrl

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