University of Bamberg

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The Otto -Friedrich- University of Bamberg is intermittently one of the oldest universities in Bavaria and one of the leading universities of Psychology, Economic and Social Sciences. Their facilities are located in the city of Bamberg.

History

It was founded in 1647 under the name " Academia Bambergensis " from Prince Bishop Melchior Otto Voit of Salzburg with the faculties of theology and philosophy, until 1770 named after its founder as Academia Ottoniana. In the 18th century the reign of Prince -Bishop Friedrich Karl von Schönborn and Prince-Bishop Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim the founding of the faculties of Law and Medicine. Thus, they included the four classical faculties and 1773 collected by Prince-Bishop Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim into a full university named Universitas Ottoniano Fridericiana after its two founders.

1803, the university was canceled because of the secularization of the Bishopric. However, Catholic theology continued to be studied in a secondary school, so that the tradition as a university was never really interrupted. Successor institution was the Philosophical- Theological College Bamberg, founded in 1923. With this extended period in the meantime as a lyceum or governmental Philosophical- Theological College, she was officially not a university. In 1972, the Philosophical- Theological College, but which continued the tradition of the former University was with the College of Education ( established in 1958 ) to the total high school Bamberg summarized. Through this re- creation, it is also the third youngest Bavarian university. In 1979 it was renamed the single state comprehensive university in Bavaria in a university. On 1 January 1988, the University of Bamberg reverted to its old name and is called since Otto -Friedrich- University of Bamberg.

On 1 October 2001, the Faculty was established economic computer science and applied computer science.

University Management

The University is headed by the Chairman with the title of president, three vice-presidents with different department areas and the Chancellor. The Executive Committee members are:

  • Godehard Ruppert (President)
  • Sebastian Kempgen ( Vice- President Teaching and Students )
  • Astrid Schütz ( Vice President Research and Young )
  • Guido Wirtz (Vice President of Technology and Innovation )
  • Dagmar control Flieser ( Chancellor )

Together with the deans of the faculties, the Extended Executive Board is formed.

The Board of Trustees has elected the next ten senators ten external members:

  • Herbert Brown, auditors and tax consultants, Bamberg
  • Jürgen Ederleh, former managing director of HIS GmbH, Hannover
  • Marianne Heimbach - Steins (Chair), Director of the Institute for Christian Social Sciences, University of Münster
  • Heather Hofmeister, Professor Johann Wolfgang Goethe -Universität Frankfurt am Main
  • Wolf -Rüdiger Knocke, Chairman Nürnberger Versicherung Group
  • Thomas Lörner
  • Roberta Maierhofer, Professor, University of Graz
  • Joachim Möller, director of the Institute for Labour Market and Employment Research Nuremberg
  • Claudine Moulin, Professor, University of Trier
  • Ulrich Wilhelm, director of the Bavarian Radio

Past Rectors and Presidents since the re- establishment:

  • Othmar Heggelbacher and Elisabeth Roth: 1972-1973 (Double Principal)
  • Elisabeth Roth: 1973-1976
  • Siegfried Oppolzer: 1976-1992
  • Alfred E. Hierold: 1992-2000

Faculties

The University now has four faculties at various locations in Bamberg:

Inner City Locations:

  • Humanities and Cultural Studies ( GuK; former faculties of language and literature, history and earth science, theology and philosophy of the Faculty of Psychology, Education and Philosophy )
  • Human Sciences ( Huwi; former faculty psychology, pedagogy, and philosophy without the Department of Philosophy )

ERBA site:

  • Economic computer science and applied computer science ( WIAI )
  • Communication Studies at the Faculty GuK

Feldkirchenstraße with cherry fields and Carinthia street:

  • Social and Economic Sciences ( SoWi )

The findings made in an Additional Protocol to the concordat agreement between the Free State of Bavaria and the Vatican, the Catholic Theology Faculty was restructured into an institute of teacher education. Since the beginning of the winter semester 2009/2010, this institute is integrated into the Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies.

The student numbers are according to the official statistics faculty in the winter semester 2013/14:

  • Humanities and Cultural Studies: 4505
  • Social and Economic: 5,456
  • Human sciences: 2,502
  • Economic computer science and applied computer science: 999
  • Not attributable faculties: 8

Total: 13,470

The proportion of female students is 62% ( 8,337 to 5,133 ), the proportion of foreign students 6.7% (904 ). The University of Bamberg is a member of the Media Campus Bavaria, the governing body for media education and further training in Bavaria.

Research Profile

  • Education and life plans
  • Individual and society
  • Languages ​​and Cultures
  • Economy and Markets

DFG-funded programs

  • DFG-funded graduate school in the framework of the Excellence Initiative Bamberg Graduate School for Social Scientists ( BAGSS ) (since 2012)
  • DFG-funded Research Training Generation Awareness and Generational Conflicts in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (2004-2013)
  • Markets and Social Systems in Europe (2002-2011)
  • DFG-funded research group Educational processes, competence development and selection decisions in preschool and school age ( BiKS ) (since 2004)

Location

The properties of the university are largely historical buildings that have been converted for the University and are predominantly located in the heart of Bamberg's Old Town. These include the former Jesuit College ( theology ), the former wedding house ( history), the former slaughterhouse (geography), the former builder's yard ( Communication Studies ) and the former fire station ( Oriental ) of the city. The language and literature are partly accommodated in buildings that previously belonged to the Kaiser- Heinrich -Gymnasium. The Faculty of Human Sciences is located in the former Women's Hospital at St. Mark's (Mark House ). There, in the winter term 2011/12 a new auditorium and another institute building was opened. The Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics with a large part of the student is in a building in the Feldkirchenstraße ( " Feki ") and the neighboring Carinthia Street and Cherry Street to find fields in the east of Bamberg. In the Feldkirchenstraße are also the central library and the computer center. In addition, a new cafeteria, which began regular operations of the winter semester 2009/10 and is operated by the students Würzburg arose. 2012 was another major building added to the so-called ERBA Island ( Regnitz Island, the former site of ERBA ) for the Faculty of Economics and Applied computer science and computer science and communication scholars of GuK faculty. In an existing from the time of the industrial use of brick originated about 300 student apartments.

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