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79-538: The Deutsche Volksliedarchiv , a research institute for Volkslied (folk song) in German, was founded in 1914 and was integrated into the University of Freiburg in 2014, now called Zentrum für Populäre Kultur und Musik (Centre of popular culture and music). It has extensive collections of traditional and popular songs, maintained and expanded in the new centre, and accessible to the public without restriction. Before 2014, it

158-408: A 3D printing group, an arts collective, and a Model United Nations team. They represented by an elected board of twelve student office holders. Alumni are a part of a subgroup within the greater University of Freiburg alumni association. The University of Freiburg has a variety of graduate education and research opportunities. In an evaluation of European graduate programs, Freiburg was ranked among

237-624: A framework and didactic guidance for interdisciplinary higher education, the University of Freiburg has established two chairs at UCF: Epistemology and Theory of Science (Prof. Dr. Frieder Vogelmann, who is also the Dean of Studies) and Science and Technology Studies (Prof. Dr. Veronika Lipphardt). The College and the program are directed by Managing Director Paul Sterzel and the Academic Coordinator Thorsten Leiendecker. UCF

316-575: A gothic throne holding the gospel in his right hand with the temple curtain in the background. Christ offers the teachings of the gospel to the Jewish scholars who are crouched at his feet. To the left and right of Christ are structures resembling towers, most likely symbolic of the Temple of Jerusalem . Located to the right of Christ is the coat of arms of the Austrian duchies, a banner with five eagles. The shield on

395-688: A high academic reputation both nationally and internationally. The university is made up of 11 faculties and attracts students from across Germany as well as from over 120 other countries. Foreign students constitute about 18.2% of total student numbers. The University of Freiburg has been associated with figures such as Hannah Arendt , Rudolf Carnap , David Daube , Johann Eck , Hans-Georg Gadamer , Friedrich Hayek , Martin Heidegger , Edmund Husserl , Herbert Marcuse , Friedrich Meinecke , Edith Stein , Paul Uhlenhuth , Max Weber and Ernst Zermelo . As of October 2020, 22 Nobel laureates are affiliated with

474-475: A memorial dedicated to the victims of National Socialism among the students, staff, and faculty in 2003. In 2006, the University of Freiburg joined the League of European Research Universities (LERU) . One year later, the university was chosen as one of nine German Universities of Excellence. However, it did not receive the third line of funding in 2012. The seal of the University of Freiburg depicts Christ seated on

553-509: A new cluster called BrainLinks-Brain Tools, an interdisciplinary neurotechnology project. Citing insufficient evidence of integration of the FRIAS concept into the university's framework, the committee did not extend funding for the FRIAS and the institutional strategy line of funding, despite acknowledging the impressive research and advances achieved at FRIAS in the past years. The University of Freiburg

632-637: Is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau , Baden-Württemberg , Germany . The university was founded in 1457 by the Habsburg dynasty as the second university in Austrian-Habsburg territory after the University of Vienna . Today, Freiburg is the fifth-oldest university in Germany , with a long tradition of teaching the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences and technology and enjoys

711-534: Is a member of the European Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences and of EPICUR, a group of eight universities in six countries that explore a modern and internationally connected university experience Students are able to participate in a double degree program with the University College Maastricht . Students at UCF organize a number of interest groups, for instance a magazine publishing group,

790-596: Is also associated with this theory. He directed the Walter Eucken Institut , an economic think tank in Freiburg cooperating with the university. Arnold Bergstraesser, considered a founding father or German political science after World War II, was also a professor at the University of Freiburg. His research group later formed what is now the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute for sociocultural research at

869-473: Is an extensive sound carrier collection, about 20,000 singles with popular music as well as a unique music library of the 19th century with about 10,000 units. The collections were listed Cultural heritage in 2013. Research institute In the early medieval period, several astronomical observatories were built in the Islamic world. The first of these was the 9th-century Baghdad observatory built during

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948-440: Is one of Germany's largest medical centers. It boasts 1,600 beds and handles 55,000 in-patients a year, with another 357,000 being treated as out-patients. It consists of 13 specialized clinics, five clinical institutes, and five centers (e.g. Center for Transplantation Medicine). The University Medical Center achieved many technical advances, such as the first implantation of an artificial heart Jarvik 2000 in 2002. Most recently,

1027-606: Is recognized in several university ranking systems. In the QS World University Rankings 2024, it holds the 192nd position globally and the 9th position nationally. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 placed it 128th in the world and 11th in Germany. The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2023 ranks it between 101st and 150th globally, and 5th nationally. In university rankings published in 2007 and 2008 by German magazines and periodicals ( Der Spiegel , Die Zeit , Focus , etc. )

1106-514: Is strictly merit based, with the average score of final secondary-school examinations (German Abitur ) or A-levels playing an important role. Overall, in the fall of 2010, roughly 4,000 of around 26,000 applicants were admitted: this means that the university's acceptance rate that year was equal to 15.38%. The University of Freiburg offers a large variety of undergraduate, graduate , and postdoctoral degree programs at its 11 faculties in 150 fields of study. As common among German universities,

1185-409: Is the university's central facility for promoting and administering international, interdisciplinary teaching activities. It was established in 2012 and is situated in the historical buildings of the old university, the historical site of the artes liberales . UCF serves as a lab for innovative teaching approaches and instructional design at the University of Freiburg and works in close co-operation with

1264-590: The Higgs boson in 2012. Today, about 430 professors, 3,695 academic employees, and 8,644 non-academic employees at the university are working for the Albert Ludwigs University, making it Freiburg's and the region's biggest employer. The university attracts many academics from abroad and was awarded excellent positions in the 2005 and 2009 Humboldt Ranking . The university is headed by a rector and divided into 11 faculties: University College Freiburg (UCF)

1343-539: The Institutsviertel ("institute quarter"). In the postwar years, the ideas of ordoliberalism, developed earlier by economists of the Freiburg School, such as Walter Eucken , Franz Böhm , Hans Grossmann-Doerth, and Leonhard Miksch, drove the creation of the German social market economy and its attendant Wirtschaftswunder . Nobel Prize winner and former professor at the University of Freiburg, Friedrich Hayek ,

1422-630: The Jugendstil Kollegiengebäude I , built in 1911 by Hermann Billing, and the gothic revival old university library. The current University Library is also located in the historical center; it is a monumental building erected in the 1970s, and was to be renovated and redesigned beginning in September 2008. It is one of the largest in Germany and placed fourth in an October 2007, German national ranking of university libraries. The University Church , located across from Kollegiengebäude II ,

1501-629: The Nature Publishing Index – 2012 Global Top 100 , the University of Freiburg was the highest-ranked German university and ranked 66th worldwide and 18th in Europe. A recent study, "Benchmarking China and Germany: An Analysis of Patent Portfolios of Universities and Research Organizations", was published in May 2013 and sought to evaluate leading universities and research institutions in Germany and China in regards to their patent applications. The study placed

1580-685: The Rockefeller Institute , Carnegie Institution of Washington and the Institute for Advanced Study . Research was advanced in both theory and application. This was aided by substantial private donation. As of 2006, there were over 14,000 research centres in the United States. The expansion of universities into the faculty of research fed into these developments as mass education produced mass scientific communities . A growing public consciousness of scientific research brought public perception to

1659-632: The Stifterverband der deutschen Wissenschaft . The University of Freiburg, with its plans for future innovative teaching concepts, was selected as one of 10 winners from a field of over 100 higher education institutions. In 2012, in the third round of the Excellence Initiative, the university was able to successfully extend funding for the Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine, as well as bioss , while also gaining funding for

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1738-589: The Studentenwerk . Additionally, further dormitories in Freiburg are operated by other institutions, such as the Catholic Archdiocese . Due to the affordable rent and limited spots, rooms in the various dormitories are very popular. Many students find private living arrangements, such as Wohngemeinschaften (shared apartments). However, the popularity of Freiburg for prospective students can make finding an apartment or room quite time-consuming, especially before

1817-560: The "county university" (German Landesuniversität ) for his territory until it was handed over to the Austrian House of Habsburg in 1490. The university soon attracted many students, such as the humanists Geiler von Kaysersberg , Johann Reuchlin , and Jakob Wimpfeling . When Ulrich Zasius was teaching law (until 1536), Freiburg became a centre of humanist jurisprudence. From 1529 to 1535, Erasmus of Rotterdam after having left Basel, lived and taught in Freiburg , however, never at

1896-481: The "uniONLINE" team which is responsible for the magazine. Because of the nearby French and Swiss borders and the adjacent Black Forest , where the university owns a retreat on Schauinsland Mountain, fine opportunities exist for leisure and outdoor activities. Students come from Central and Eastern Europe for language studies, the majority demographic category is females in age range 18–25 (58%). The university provides student housing in its various dormitories, run by

1975-458: The 1960s, the scientific spectrum was expanded, in terms of both focus and research. In particular, the political songs and the singer-songwriter scene ( Liedermacher ) were included. A renewed and comprehensive modernization was undertaken in the 2000s, especially by including contemporary musical culture and by paying attention to media issues. At the same time, the Archive released new publications:

2054-501: The Church's protests. The Church finally lost its predominant influence on the university when the Jesuits were suppressed following a decree signed by Pope Clement XIV in 1773. Consequently, Johann Georg Jacobi (brother of the more famous philosopher Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi ) in 1784 was the first Protestant professor teaching at the university in Freiburg. When Freiburg became a part of

2133-446: The EU or non-EU citizenship of students. Additionally, since autumn 2017, non-EU students are charged 1500 EUR tuition fee per semester. Numerous student clubs and organizations are active, among them a campus news station, uniCROSS which is a cross-media platform run by students. It consists of the "uniFM" team, which brings the news as a radio format, the "uniTV" team, producing videos and

2212-687: The Faculty of Engineering regularly competes with distinction in international tournaments. The University of Freiburg team has also repeatedly scored highly at the International Genetically Engineered Machine undergraduate synthetic biology competition held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . The team was supported by numerous university institutions, among them the recently established bioss cluster of excellence. The University of Freiburg also participates in

2291-589: The German-speaking world in the late Middle Ages , like the University of Tübingen and the University of Basel ( Switzerland ). Established by papal privilege ( papal bull ), the university in Freiburg actually was – like all or most universities in the Middle Ages – a corporation of the church body and therefore belonged to the Roman Catholic Church and its hierarchy. The bishop of Basel consequently

2370-489: The International Centre for Theoretical Physics and the research complex Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, the biology project EMBL, and the fusion project ITER which in addition to technical developments has a strong research focus. Research institutes came to emerge at the beginning of the twentieth century. In 1900, at least in Europe and the United States, the scientific profession had only evolved so far as to include

2449-485: The Jesuit church (nowadays the "University Church" or Universitätskirche ). In 1679, Freiburg temporarily became French territory, along with the southern parts of the upper Rhine . French King Louis XIV disliked the Austrian system and gave the Jesuits a free hand to operate the university. On 6 November 1684, a bilingual educational program was initiated. From 1686 to 1698, the faculty fled to Konstanz . After Freiburg

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2528-648: The National Model United Nations held annually in New York City. The genetically engineered golden rice was developed by the University of Freiburg ( Peter Beyer ) and the ETH Zurich ( Ingo Potrykus ) from 1992 to 2000. It was considered a breakthrough in biotechnology at the time of publication and now can help to provide vitamin A to people lacking access to it in their diets. When previous rector Jäger retired in 2008, law professor Andreas Voßkuhle

2607-594: The Professional Civil Service . He also informed the Gestapo of the pacifist leanings of a distinguished Faculty member, Hermann Staudinger . The Nazi geneticist Eugen Fischer promoted racist views while a member of the university, ideas which were used to support the notorious Nuremberg laws passed by the Nazis. After World War II , the university was reopened. New buildings for natural sciences were erected in

2686-474: The University of Freiburg as alumni, faculty or researchers, and 15 academics have been honored with the highest German research prize, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize , while working at the university. Originally Albrechts University, the university started with four faculties (theology, philosophy, medicine, and law). Its establishment belongs to the second wave of university foundings in

2765-434: The University of Freiburg as the third-most innovative university in Germany in terms of total patent applications. Teams of the University of Freiburg frequently participate in academic competitions with considerable success. The moot court team of the Faculty of Law has been the most successful team in the history of the competition Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot . The humanoid robot team of

2844-470: The University of Freiburg has established itself as one of Germany's top universities. The faculties for law, medicine, economics, history, English studies, German studies, biology, dentistry, and pharmacology achieve especially high scores. In regards to the natural sciences, the University of Freiburg ranked sixth in Europe and second in Germany in a ranking from 2003 of the European Commission of

2923-467: The University of Freiburg purchased a large historic villa in the district of Herdern, which will house part of the literature and linguistics, as well as history departments of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies . In 2015, the University of Freiburg opened its new library , housed in a modern building with a large glass and chrome facade. The library features a section for quiet work and

3002-495: The academic year consists of summer and winter terms (semesters). The winter term runs from 1 October to 31 March, while the summer term runs from 1 April to 30 September. However, lectures and classes usually do not run for the full duration of these periods and allow for breaks in spring and fall. As a German university, tuition is mostly free. The University of Freiburg currently has a semester fee of 180 EUR for all undergraduate and most graduate and doctoral programs, regardless of

3081-420: The beginning of the 20th century, several new university buildings were built in the centre of Freiburg, such as the new main building in 1911. The university counted 3,000 students just before World War I . After World War I, the philosophers Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger (since 1928) taught at Albert Ludwigs University, as well as Edith Stein . In the field of social sciences, Walter Eucken developed

3160-476: The core of which was collected in a collection campaign carried out in all German-speaking countries from 1912 to 1930. 3,000 documents alone date from the First World War period. The centre also houses a number of special collections, for example on Soldatenlied  [ de ] , on industrial folk music and on individual song media (song pamphlets , handwritten and printed songbooks . Meanwhile, there

3239-488: The country subordinate to the Ministry of Science, Research and Art". In March 2014, the Ministry of Science decided to integrate the Archive into the University of Freiburg , named Zentrum für Populäre Kultur und Musik, as a research centre for popular culture and music in past and presence. The archive has extensive historical and current collections on popular song and popular music, in particular about 250,000 song documents,

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3318-470: The establishment of the pop music archive. In 2012, the research institute moved into new premises with an area of 1,000 square metres (previously only 400 square metres were available in the former Meiers residential building) and new equipment in Rosastraße in Freiburg. Recently, these rooms have been supplemented by a separate external storage building. Until 2014, the Archive was formally an "authority of

3397-607: The faculties and the Rectorate's departments for Instructional Development and International Relations. It is accredited by the University of Freiburg, which draws its authority from the Central Evaluation and Accreditation Agency. The four-year, English-taught Bachelor program in Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) is UCF's major offering, the first of its kind in Germany. It emphasizes a broad interdisciplinary education, while at

3476-528: The fore in driving specific research developments. After the Second World War and the atom bomb specific research threads were followed: environmental pollution and national defence . University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially German: Uni Freiburg ), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (German: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg ),

3555-556: The idea of ordoliberalism , which subsequently is known as the " Freiburg School ". During the time of the Nazi dictatorship , the university went through the process of "political alignment" ( Gleichschaltung ) like the rest of the German universities. Under the rector Martin Heidegger , all Jewish faculty members were forced to leave the university in accordance with the Law for the Restoration of

3634-504: The newly established Grand Duchy of Baden (in German " Großherzogtum Baden ") in 1805 (after Napoleon occupied the area of the formerly Further Austria ), a crisis began for the university in Freiburg. Indeed, there were considerations by Karl Friedrich, Grand Duke of Baden and Karl, Grand Duke of Baden to close down the university in Freiburg while both of them thought that the Grand Duchy could not afford to run two universities at

3713-634: The northwest of the city center, close to the University Medical Center. The campus is home to the Institut für Mikrosystemtechnik ( Department of Microsystems Engineering) and the Department of Computer Science. With the addition of the Faculty of Engineering, the University of Freiburg became the first classical university to combine traditional disciplines with microsystems technologies. The University Medical Center ( Universitätsklinikum Freiburg )

3792-456: The opposite side symbolizes the coat of arms used by the Habsburgs in conjunction with their territories. The coat of arms of the city of Freiburg is located at the bottom of the seal, displaying St George's Cross . The Latin inscription on the seal reads Sigillum universitatis studii friburgensis brisgaudie . The seal was slightly modified in 1913, but has otherwise been in continuous use since it

3871-407: The period of National Socialism and World War II, the Archive continued its activities of collecting, documentation and editing. Ideologically, the national and folk-pedagogical accents already established in 1914 were reinforced, but Meyer avoided racist and antisemitic tones. During the war, there were efforts to integrate the archive into the University of Freiburg , but this step was not taken at

3950-418: The permanent collection as well as space for group work, where collaboration is encouraged. The building also includes a student cafe and an outdoor plaza with modern sculpture. The university has a combined undergraduate and graduate student population of around 21,600. About 16% of these students are foreigners, from about 120 countries. Admission largely depends on the faculty and program applied for and

4029-513: The position of rector with the start of the winter term 2008/2009. The University of Freiburg offers educational audio and video contents on the iTunes U software platform since January 2008. The University of Freiburg Institute of Physics is actively involved with research at the Large Hadron Collider and has contributed significantly to the ATLAS experiment , resulting in the discovery of

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4108-733: The principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention in the late 1800s, and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. From the throes of the Scientific Revolution came the 17th century scientific academy. In London, the Royal Society was founded in 1660, and in France Louis XIV founded the Académie royale des sciences in 1666 which came after private academic assemblies had been created earlier in

4187-520: The reconstruction of the institutes began. Today, the quarter houses the physics buildings, the tall main chemistry building, visible from afar, the famous Institute for Macromolecular Chemistry at the Hermann-Staudinger-Haus, various other science buildings, and the renowned preclinical institutes of the Faculty of Medicine . The engineering campus is located next to the small Freiburg airfield to

4266-522: The same time (the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg had existed since 1386). The university had enough endowments and earnings to survive until the beginning of the regency of Ludwig I, Grand Duke of Baden in 1818. Finally in 1820, he saved the university with an annual contribution. Since then, the university has been named Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg ( Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg ) as an acknowledgement of gratitude by

4345-447: The same time providing for individualized academic concentrations on a high academic level. Students have to complete 240 ECTS credits and are able to major in life sciences , environmental and sustainability sciences , culture and history and governance . Electives can be taken at UCF, in the greater University of Freiburg, during studies abroad or in the form of internships and self-directed practical projects. In order to provide

4424-451: The school seems to have ended with Narayana Bhattathiri (1559–1632). In attempting to solve astronomical problems, the Kerala school independently discovered a number of important mathematical concepts. The earliest research institute in Europe was Tycho Brahe 's Uraniborg complex on the island of Hven , a 16th-century astronomical laboratory set up to make highly accurate measurements of

4503-512: The seventeenth century to foster research. In the early 18th century, Peter the Great established an educational-research institute to be built in his newly created imperial capital, St Petersburg . His plan combined provisions for linguistic, philosophical and scientific instruction with a separate academy in which graduates could pursue further scientific research. It was the first institution of its kind in Europe to conduct scientific research within

4582-458: The stars. In the United States there are numerous notable research institutes including Bell Labs , Xerox Parc , The Scripps Research Institute , Beckman Institute , RTI International , and SRI International . Hughes Aircraft used a research institute structure for its organizational model. Thomas Edison , dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park", was one of the first inventors to apply

4661-529: The start of the academic terms. The university has its own career center , singled out as one of the best in Germany by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft . The university scored well with its submissions to the German Universities Excellence Initiative . The university received funding in all three categories. In the first category, funding for a new graduate school, the Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine,

4740-789: The structure of a university. The St Petersburg Academy was established by decree on 28 January 1724. At the European level, there are now several government-funded institutions such as the European Space Agency (ESA), the nuclear research centre CERN , the European Southern Observatory (ESO) (Grenoble), the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) (Grenoble), EUMETSAT , the Italian-European Sistema Trieste with, among others,

4819-421: The theoretical implications of science and not its application. Research scientists had yet to establish a leadership in expertise. Outside scientific circles it was generally assumed that a person in an occupation related to the sciences carried out work which was necessarily "scientific" and that the skill of the scientist did not hold any more merit than the skill of a labourer. A philosophical position on science

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4898-500: The time of the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun , though the most famous were the 13th-century Maragheh observatory , and the 15th-century Ulugh Beg Observatory . The Kerala School of Astronomy and Mathematics was a school of mathematics and astronomy founded by Madhava of Sangamagrama in Kerala , India . The school flourished between the 14th and 16th centuries and the original discoveries of

4977-425: The time, especially the recourse to the then still novel empirical methods (active collection activity). It was based on national and folk-pedagogical efforts, to pass cultural heritage to people uprooted by modernity. Meier rejected the contemporary Unterhaltungsmusik  [ de ] (entertainment music) ( operetta , Schlager ), but also collected "Kunstlied im Volksmund" (art song in people's mouth). During

5056-425: The time. After its founders death, the institute was taken over in 1953 by the state of Baden-Württemberg as a research institution, with a library dedicated to the collections. The legal basis was a donation contract : Meier had left his scientific library and collections to the state, while the institute's building – Meier's former residence – was purchased by the state and left to the archive until 2011. During

5135-513: The two online encyclopaedias Historisch-kritisches Liederlexikon  [ de ] from 2005, and Songlexikon  [ de ] from 2011. At the same time, the series Populäre Kultur und Musik ( Popular Culture and Music ), edited by Michael Fischer and Nils Grosch, was founded to complement and extend the older series Volksliedstudien ( Folk Song Studies ). In 2010, the Deutsches Musicalarchiv (German Musical Archive)

5214-468: The universities according to their overall impact on scientific research. The Centre for Higher Education Development, a German higher education think tank , periodically publishes comprehensive rankings of European Master's and PhD programs. In 2016, Freiburg garnered five spots in the top Excellence Group among seven subject fields examined. In a recent survey by the Nature Publishing Group ,

5293-498: The university and the citizens of Freiburg. In the 1880s, the population of the student body and faculty started to grow quickly. The scientific reputation of Albert Ludwigs University attracted several researchers such as economist Adolph Wagner , historians Georg von Below and Friedrich Meinecke , and jurists Karl von Amira and Paul Lenel . In 1900, Freiburg became the first German university to accept female students. Before there had been no women at German universities . In

5372-412: The university. In the late 20th century, the university was part of a mass education campaign and expanded rapidly. The student body grew to 10,000 by the 1960s, and doubled to 20,000 students by 1980. In the 1970s, the faculty structure was changed to 14 departments, with the Faculty of Engineering becoming the 15th faculty in 1994. In 2002, the number of faculties was reduced to 11. The university opened

5451-427: The university. From around 1559 on, the university was housed at the Altes Collegium ("Old College"), today called the "new town-hall". The importance of the university decreased during the time of the Counter-Reformation . To counter reformatory tendencies, the administration of two faculties was handed over to the Roman Catholic order of the Jesuits in 1620. From 1682 on, the Jesuits built their college, as well as

5530-452: The world. To that end, the university founded the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS). Being selected for the third category ranks Freiburg as one of nine "excellence universities" in Germany. The university is to receive over EUR 130 million in additional funds over five years (from 2007) from this third category of funding. In 2009, the university was also successful in a nationwide competition for excellence in teaching, held by

5609-443: Was adopted in 1462. Having grown with the city since the 15th century, the university's buildings are deeply intertwined with the city. The three large campuses are the university center next to the historical city center, the institutes quarter, and the engineering campus, but other buildings can be found scattered throughout Freiburg. The university complex in the historical center of Freiburg contains such picturesque buildings as

5688-493: Was built in 1683 by the Jesuit order . The church and the Jesuit college were handed over to the university after the Jesuit order was suppressed in 1773. The church was destroyed in the 27 November 1944, bombing raid on Freiburg, and reconstructed in 1956. The "institute quarter" ( Institutsviertel ) is home to the science faculties. This campus was destroyed almost completely in the Freiburg bombing raid in 1944. After World War II,

5767-541: Was chosen as his successor. However, shortly after the start of his term, the Social Democratic Party of Germany nominated Voßkuhle as vice-president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany . Voßkuhle accepted the nomination, was confirmed, and took his seat on the court in May 2008. In July 2008, then vice-rector Hans-Jochen Schiewer was elected as successor to Voßkuhle. Schiewer has assumed

5846-522: Was founded, focused on the musical genre, as a legally dependent unit of the Archive, to provide a research basis, and supported by a circle of friends and sponsors. An additional Internationales Popmusikarchiv ( International Pop Music Archive ) is planned. In 2011, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft awarded the institute the title of a "herausragende Forschungsbibliothek" (outstanding research library), and provided financial support for

5925-458: Was granted; in the second, funding was granted for the excellence cluster Centre for Biological Signalling Studies ( bioss ); and in the third category, Institutional Strategy Line of Funding, open only to institutions with submissions qualified in the first two categories, the university is receiving funding for "Windows for Research", which aims to promote a high level of interdisciplinarity between research fields and attract scientists from all over

6004-477: Was independent scientific research institute of the state Baden-Württemberg , based in Freiburg im Breisgau . The institution was founded in 1914 by the Germanist and folklorist John Meier , aiming to collect and document Volkslieder (folk songs) and to publish them in a scholarly complete edition. The publishing was successful for ballades between 1935 and 1996. Meier's enterprise was scientifically advanced at

6083-592: Was its provost or chancellor ( Kanzler ), the bishop of Constance was its patron, and the real founder of the university was the sovereign, Archduke Albert VI of Austria , being the brother of Frederick III , Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation . At its founding, the university was named after Albert VI of Austria . He provided the university with land and endowments , as well as its own jurisdiction . Also he declared Albrechts University as

6162-597: Was not thought by all researchers to be intellectually superior to applied methods. However any research on scientific application was limited by comparison. A loose definition attributed all naturally occurring phenomena to "science". The growth of scientific study stimulated a desire to reinvigorate the scientific discipline by robust research in order to extract "pure" science from such broad categorisation. This began with research conducted autonomously away from public utility and governmental supervision. Enclaves for industrial investigations became established. These included

6241-428: Was re-conquered and appointed as capital of Further Austria , a new time began for the university by the reforms of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria . The requirements for admission were changed for all faculties in 1767 (before that time only Roman Catholics were allowed to study) and Natural Sciences were added as well as Public Administration . Also in 1767, the university became a governmental institution despite

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