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51-575: Born in Berlin, Dürr studied from 1951 musicology and German and Romance studies in Berlin and Tübingen . He gained a PhD in 1956. Further studies and teaching led him to Bologna and back to Tübingen. He also taught at the universities of Stuttgart , Freiburg , and Bern . Besides his musicology work, he worked as a music critic , editor of numerous magazines, and translator of opera librettos . Dürr died in Tübingen, at age 85. This article about

102-687: A Chancellor of Germany , two Presidents of Germany , and several European Commissioners . As Tübingen has traditionally been home to one of the most prestigious law schools in Germany, alumni in the legal profession include at least 19 judges of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany , the first female German judge at the European Court of Justice , an Advocate General at the European Court of Justice, as well as several judges at

153-496: A German academic is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . University of T%C3%BCbingen The University of Tübingen , officially the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen ( German : Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen ; Latin : Universitas Eberhardina Carolina ), is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen , Baden-Württemberg , Germany . The University of Tübingen

204-557: A liberal rather than a Marxist politics. Bloch's concept of concrete utopias found in The Principle of Hope was used by José Esteban Muñoz to shift the field of performance studies . This shift allowed for the emergence of utopian performativity and a new wave of performance theorizing as Bloch's formulation of utopia shifted how scholars conceptualize the ontology and the staging of performances as imbued with an enduring indeterminacy, as opposed to dominant performance theories found in

255-515: A long list of notable alumni and staff. As of 2023, eleven Nobel Laureates , 18 Leibniz Laureates and five Alexander von Humboldt Professorships are affiliated with the university. Besides several Federal Ministers of Germany and Minister Presidents of German States , politicians associated with the University of Tübingen include six founding fathers of the Federal Republic of Germany ,

306-583: A number of clubs , most of which dedicate themselves to non-mainstream music. During the semester, the Studentenwerk -owned Clubhaus at the centre of the Wilhelmstraße university area hosts the weekly Clubhausfest on Thursday nights. This popular, free-entry club night is organized and promoted by student societies and Fachschaft student representative bodies and all proceeds go towards their activities in support of students. The University of Tübingen has

357-586: Is another prominent figure associated with Tübingen's postwar revival. The university rose to the height of its prominence in the middle of the 19th century with the teachings of poet and civic leader Ludwig Uhland and the Protestant theologian Ferdinand Christian Baur , whose circle, colleagues and students became known as the "Tübingen School", which pioneered the historical-critical analysis of biblical and early Christian texts, an approach generally referred to as " higher criticism ". The University of Tübingen also

408-429: Is based on a selection of best research projects nationwide and thus regarded as an indicator of the quality of research. US News Best Global Universities and also ranked Tübingen amongst the top ten universities in Germany overall in 2021. Traditionally, Tübingen has been particularly strong in the fields of humanities , especially in theology and religious studies , medicine , and law . The Tübingen Law School

459-476: Is located close to the Wilhelmstraße area of university buildings and is served by a number of frequent bus routes. Unlike in some major cities, student discounts are not widely available in Tübingen. Cinemas and the town council 's public library in particular do not offer discounts for students, and there are only a handful of restaurants which have reduced lunch deals. However, students may benefit from

510-478: Is made up of seven faculties, some of which are subdivided into further departments. The university is governed by three separate bodies sharing different functions and duties. However, some persons serve in more than one body. The Rectorate is the executive component of the university's governing body. The current rector , Professor Karla Pollmann , is supported by four deputies consisting of three prorectors and one provost . All are also permanent members of

561-472: Is not a campus university , but is spread throughout the town: Tübingen is one of five classical "university towns" in Germany. The other four are Marburg , Göttingen , Freiburg and Heidelberg . In Tübingen there are four areas with a major concentration of university institutions. Accommodation provided by the Tübingen Studentenwerk is in several locations throughout the town. The largest of

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612-505: Is not just available to those affiliated with the university, but also to the general public. The library provides more than three million individual volumes and more than 7,600 journals. Apart from the main library, more than 80 departmental libraries containing an additional three million volumes are also associated with the university. The main lending library is located on Wilhelmstraße and consists of several different parts which are connected through corridors and walkways: The university

663-428: Is one of eleven German Excellence Universities . The University of Tübingen is especially known as a centre for the study of plant biology, medicine , law , archeology, ancient cultures, philosophy, theology , religious studies , humanities, and more recently as a center of excellence for artificial intelligence . The university's noted alumni and faculty include presidents, a pope , EU Commissioners , and judges of

714-625: Is the university's radio station , airing seven hours of programmes a week produced by students under the supervision of staff employed by the university. The university also offers gym and sports classes called Hochschulsport . Since Tübingen has a department of sports science with a broad range of facilities, students of other subjects have the possibility to participate in various kinds of sports courses in teams or as individuals. Furthermore, even exotic sports, such as parachuting or martial arts , are offered. Students may attend courses either for free or at reduced rates. The sports department

765-605: Is the only university institution in the world to house artefacts with world heritage status, such as the oldest surviving figurative works of art and musical instruments of humanity, mammoth ivory figures and fragments of bone flutes. These come from the Vogelherdhöhle (Swabian Alb), which has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage "Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura" since 2017. The University Library of Tübingen

816-739: Is undergoing a transition from its primordial cause ( Urgrund ) toward its final goal ( Endziel ). He believed this transition is effected through a subject-object dialectic, and he saw evidence for this process in all aspects of human history and culture. Bloch's work became influential in the course of the student protest movements in 1968 and in liberation theology . It is cited as a key influence by Jürgen Moltmann in his Theology of Hope (1967, Harper and Row, New York), by Dorothee Sölle , and by Ernesto Balducci . Psychoanalyst Joel Kovel has praised Bloch as, "the greatest of modern utopian thinkers". Robert S. Corrington has been influenced by Bloch, though he has tried to adapt Bloch's ideas to serve

867-514: The Federal Constitutional Court . The university is associated with eleven Nobel laureates , especially in the fields of medicine and chemistry. The University of Tübingen was founded in 1477 by Count Eberhard V (Eberhard im Bart, 1445–1496), later the first Duke of Württemberg , a civic and ecclesiastic reformer who established the school after becoming absorbed in the Renaissance revival of learning during his travels to Italy. Its first rector

918-712: The Federal Court of Justice , the Federal Fiscal Court , and the Federal Labour Court . Notable legal scholars associated with Tübingen include Dieter Medicus , Klaus Hopt and Wolfgang Ernst . Affiliates in the field of religious studies include many of the most influential theologians of the last centuries such as Pope Benedict XVI , Karl Barth , Dietrich Bonhoeffer , Eduard Mörike , Miroslav Volv , Paul Tillich , David Strauss and Philip Melanchthon . The field of religious studies in Tübingen has also been

969-460: The Semesterticket , a heavily discounted public transport season pass offering six months of unlimited travel on trains and buses in the naldo Verkehrsverbund transport association for approximately €62.50. The Landestheater Tübingen theatre and all public swimming pools also have discounts for students. Nightlife in Tübingen is centered on the numerous pubs in the old town along with

1020-522: The "non-Aryan" origin of their wives. At least 1,158 people were sterilized at the University Hospital. In 1966, Joseph Ratzinger, who would later become Pope Benedict XVI , was appointed to a chair in dogmatic theology in the Faculty of Catholic Theology at Tübingen, where he was a colleague of Hans Küng . In 1967, Jürgen Moltmann (b. 1926), one of the most influential Protestant theologians of

1071-474: The 2024 edition of the QS World University Rankings , the University of Tübingen ranks 213th globally, which places it at 11th position nationally within Germany. The university's rank appears significantly higher in the 2024 Times Higher Education World University Rankings , standing at an 95th position globally and 8th nationally. The Academic Ranking of World Universities , also known as

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1122-502: The 20th century, was appointed Professor of Systematic Theology in the Faculty of Protestant Theology. Drafted in 1944 by Nazi Germany, he was an Allied prisoner of war 1945–1948. He was influenced by his Tübingen colleague and friend Ernst Bloch , the Marxist philosopher. In 1970, the university was restructured into a series of faculties as independent departments of study and research after

1173-717: The Central Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences (ADC) in Berlin and who became a critic of Bloch. However, the Hungarian uprising in 1956 led Bloch to revise his view of the SED ( Socialist Unity Party ) regime, whilst retaining his Marxist orientation. Because he advocated humanistic ideas of freedom, he was obliged to retire in 1957 for political reasons – not because of his age, 72 years. A number of scientists and students spoke publicly against this forced retirement, among them

1224-717: The German Universities Excellence Initiative in 2018, Tübingen is one of the three universities with the highest research output in Germany and leading among universities in South Germany. According to the funding report of the German Research Foundation (DFG) 2018, which breaks down the grants awarded to German universities from 2014 to 2016, the University of Tübingen was ranked 8th overall, 4th in humanities and social sciences , and 6th in life sciences including medicine . This ranking

1275-577: The German type of fraternities , are associated with the university. While famous for their parties, public academic lectures and the yearly "Stocherkahn-Rennen" punting-boat race on the Neckar river, some of them are the subject of ongoing controversy surrounding alleged rightwing policial views, leading to strong criticism from leftist groups. The university itself takes a neutral stance on this issue. However, all of Tübingen's fraternities distance themselves from

1326-642: The Shanghai Ranking, for the year 2023 places the University of Tübingen in the 151–200 bracket globally, and within the 6–9 bracket in the national ranking. Since 2012, the University of Tübingen has been regarded as one of eleven German Excellence Universities that have been successful in the competition of the German Universities Excellence Initiative . The award brings additional research funds for five years. With three successful research Clusters of Excellence approved by

1377-670: The United States. He lived briefly in New Hampshire before settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts . It was there, in the reading room of Harvard's Widener Library , that Bloch wrote the lengthy three-volume work The Principle of Hope . He originally planned to publish it there under the title Dreams of a Better Life . In 1948, Bloch was offered the chair of philosophy at the University of Leipzig , and he returned to East Germany to take up

1428-562: The broader public should be provided with insights into the history of science as well as researched in the field of science itself. In addition, the master's degree program "Museum & Collections" of the MUT, with the participation of six humanities and cultural studies subjects, offers the training of students in the field of exhibitions. Eight scientific teaching collections – Origins of Art, Pile Dwellings + Celts, Cuneiform, Gods + Tombs, Ancient Art, Ancient Coins, Ancient Sculptures – are open to

1479-417: The city. The investing organisations and corporations include Google , Amazon , BMW , IAV , Daimler , Porsche , and Bosch . The Cyber Valley initiative has attracted criticism from student groups and activist groups alike, with many protest actions, including building occupations and demonstrations , having taken place decrying both the commercialisation of university research and the involvement of

1530-614: The educational center for the philosophers Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling , Friedrich Hölderlin  und  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel . Tübingen is therefore sometimes considered as the home of German idealism , a philosophical movement which had a severe impact on modern western thinking. Faculty members and alumni who have been awarded with the Nobel Prize : Ernst Bloch Ernst Simon Bloch ( / b l ɒ k / ; German: [ɛʁnst ˈblɔx] ; July 8, 1885 – August 4, 1977; pseudonyms: Karl Jahraus , Jakob Knerz )

1581-562: The eleven halls of residence are in the city's northern neighbourhood of Waldhäuser Ost (1,700 rooms) and in the city's southeasternmost neighbourhood, Französisches Viertel (500 rooms). Since 2006, the Museum of the University of Tübingen (MUT) has made it its task to professionalize the 65 sometimes very old and singular teaching, show and research collections of the university from all faculties in terms of collection, curatorial and organizational aspects. In interdisciplinary exhibitions, both

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1632-686: The first time, a woman was elected Rector in the person of Karla Pollmann . The University of Tübingen undertakes a broad range of research projects in various fields. Among the more prominent ones in the natural sciences are the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research , which focuses on general, cognitive and cellular neurology as well as neurodegeneration , and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Clinical Research , which deals primarily with cell biology in diagnostics and therapy of organ system diseases. In

1683-506: The fraternities of the Deutsche Burschenschaft , which have been widely criticized as adhering to far-right principles. Also closely linked to the university are a number of student societies representing mainly the arts and political parties . Most notable are a number of choirs as well as student theatre groups affiliated with the faculty of Modern Languages, some of which perform in foreign languages. Radio Uniwelle Tübingen

1734-471: The home of world-class research in prehistoric studies and the study of antiquity, including the study of the ancient Near East ; a particular focus of the research in these areas at the University of Tübingen has been Anatolia , e.g., through the continued excavations of the university at Troy . The University of Tübingen is also host to a number of Collaborative Research Centres , producing fundamental interdisciplinary research. The University of Tübingen

1785-499: The late 1990s at Tübingen, fundamental research on mRNA-based substances (e.g. for cancer treatment and vaccines ) was conducted by groups led by H. G. Rammensee and G. Jung. This work contributed to the Ph.D. and later research of Ingmar Hoerr and by extension to the COVID-19 vaccine programs by BioNTech , Moderna and Curevac . The university played a leading role in efforts to legitimize

1836-413: The liberal arts, the University of Tübingen is noteworthy for having the only faculty of rhetoric in Germany – the department was founded by Walter Jens , an important intellectual and literary critic. The university also boasts continued pre-eminence in its centuries-old traditions of research in the fields of philosophy , theology and philology . Since at least the nineteenth century, Tübingen has been

1887-779: The manner of French universities. The university made the headlines in November 2009 when a group of left-leaning students occupied one of the main lecture halls, the Kupferbau, for several days. The students' goal was to protest tuition fees and maintain that education should be free for everyone. In May 2010, Tübingen joined the Matariki Network of Universities (MNU) together with Dartmouth College (US), Durham University (UK), Queen's University (Canada), University of Otago (New Zealand), University of Western Australia (Australia) and Uppsala University (Sweden). On 27 April 2022, for

1938-567: The philosophers Friedrich Schelling and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel . "The Tübingen Three" refers to Hölderlin, Hegel and Schelling, who were roommates at the Tübinger Stift. Theologian Helmut Thielicke revived postwar Tübingen when he took over a professorship at the reopened theological faculty in 1947, being made administrative head of the university and President of the Chancellor's Conference in 1951. Philosopher and theologian Ernst Bloch

1989-637: The policies of the Third Reich as "scientific". Even before the victory of the Nazi Party in the general election in March 1933, there were hardly any Jewish faculty and a few Jewish students. Physicist Hans Bethe was dismissed on 20 April 1933 because of "non-Aryan" origin. Religion professor Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich and the mathematician Erich Kamke were forced to take early retirement, probably in both cases

2040-662: The position. In 1955 he was awarded the National Prize of the GDR . In addition, he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin (AdW). He had more or less become the political philosopher of the GDR. Among his many academic students from this period was his assistant Manfred Buhr , who earned his doctorate with him in 1957, and was later a professor in Greifswald , then director of

2091-619: The public in the Museum Alte Kulturen and in the permanent exhibition WeltKulturen in Hohentübingen Castle. In addition, there are other, partially accessible scientific teaching collections on Hohentübingen: Cradle of Biochemistry (Schlosslabor), BildBestand, Everyday Culture, AntikenBilder, Professor Gallery (partial), Castle Church and TonSteineScherben. The MUT – and thus the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen –

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2142-608: The renowned professor and colleague Emil Fuchs and his students as well as Fuchs's grandson Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski . When the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, he did not return to the GDR, but went to Tübingen in West Germany , where he received an honorary chair in Philosophy. He engaged with a Christian-Marxist intellectual dialogue group organized by Milan Machovec and others in 1960s Czechoslovakia. He died in Tübingen. Bloch

2193-578: The university and the Tübinger Stift are famous to this day. Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560), the prime mover in building the German school system and a chief figure in the Protestant Reformation , helped establish its direction. Among Tübingen's eminent students (and/or professors) have been the astronomer Johannes Kepler ; the economist Horst Köhler (President of Germany); Joseph Ratzinger ( Pope Benedict XVI ), poet Friedrich Hölderlin , and

2244-538: The university senate. The Senate forms the legislative section of governance. Apart from the members of the rectorate, it includes the equal opportunities commissioner, the deans and 20 elected members representing the professors, lecturers, students and non-academic staff. Two advisors represent the university's teaching hospitals . The University Council ( Hochschulrat or Universitätsrat ) has 13 members, including its president and vice-president as well as five further internal and six external members. As of

2295-432: The university with organisations that are engaged in military research . The university's students make up roughly a third of the total population of Tübingen and the town's culture can seem to be largely dominated by them. As a result there is a slump of activity during university holidays, particularly over the summer when a large number of otherwise regular events are not happening. Around 30 Studentenverbindungen ,

2346-433: Was Johannes Nauclerus . Its present name was conferred on it in 1769 by Duke Karl Eugen who appended his first name to that of the founder. The university later became the principal university of the kingdom of Württemberg. Today, it is one of nine state universities funded by the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg. The University of Tübingen has a history of innovative thought, particularly in theology, in which

2397-425: Was a German Marxist philosopher. Bloch was influenced by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx , as well as by apocalyptic and religious thinkers such as Thomas Müntzer , Paracelsus , and Jacob Böhme . He established friendships with György Lukács , Bertolt Brecht , Kurt Weill , Walter Benjamin , and Theodor W. Adorno . Bloch's work focuses on an optimistic teleology of the history of mankind. Bloch

2448-409: Was a highly original and eccentric thinker. Much of his writing—in particular, his magnum opus The Principle of Hope —is written in a poetic, aphoristic style. The Principle of Hope tries to provide an encyclopedic account of mankind's and nature's orientation towards a socially and technologically improved future. This orientation is part of Bloch's overarching philosophy. Bloch believed the universe

2499-627: Was born in Ludwigshafen , the son of a Jewish railway employee. After studying philosophy, he married Else von Stritzky, daughter of a Baltic brewer in 1913, who died in 1921. His second marriage with Linda Oppenheimer lasted only a few years. His third wife was Karola Piotrowska , a Polish architect , whom he married in 1934 in Vienna . When the Nazis came to power, the couple had to flee, first into Switzerland, then to Austria, France, Czechoslovakia, and finally

2550-528: Was ranked second nationwide by the Wirtschaftswoche University Ranking. Also according to international rankings, Tübingen regularly ranks among the top ten law schools in Germany. Since 2018, the university has been part of a wider artificial intelligence research initiative named Cyber Valley. Cyber Valley has seen investments from multinational companies poured into establishing research centers, research groups, and professorships in

2601-442: Was the first German university to establish a faculty of natural sciences , in 1863. DNA was discovered in 1868 at the University of Tübingen by Friedrich Miescher . Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard , the first female Nobel Prize winner in medicine in Germany, also works at Tübingen. The faculty for economics and business was founded in 1817 as the "Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät" and was the first of its kind in Germany. Starting in

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