University of Basel

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The University of Basel was founded in 1460 and is the oldest university in Switzerland.

The university facilities are spread over the city. The Kollegienhaus from 1939 with several lecture halls and an auditorium for 500 people, as well as labor and administrative offices located on the south side of St. Peter's Square. The University Library of Basel is one of the most important libraries in Switzerland.

  • 6.1 Old University of Basel

History

The University of Basel was founded in connection with the Council of Basel. The deed of foundation in the form of a Papal Bull of Pope Pius II comes from the November 12, 1459, the inauguration ceremony was held on April 4, 1460. The operation took the University on the following day. The first rector was Georg von Andlau. Originally the University of Basel had four faculties - and those of the artists, medical, theological and legal. The Faculty of Arts ( liberal arts ) served here until 1818 as the basis for the other three subjects. Originally were all lecture halls of the University buildings on the Rhine jump.

Over the centuries, great scholars came to the city, what Basel made ​​it a center of early book printing and humanism. The first mention of the Basel University Library dates from 1471. The library, with over three million books and writings has one of the largest libraries of Switzerland today, was quite insignificant in their early days. Only through the integration of books stocks from the dissolved monasteries by the Reformation and the rise of humanistic printing in Basel, she won in scope and in importance.

With the growing importance of science several new subjects have been created in the second half of the 19th century. The first female student at the university was the medical examiner Emilie Frey, who matriculated in 1890. In 1937, the natural sciences were officially combined in the Faculty of Natural Sciences. The world-famous Biozentrum, University of Basel in 1971 came to. The combination of the economic sciences in 1988 to the formation of Economics Centre ( VVC ). 2003 saw the establishment of the Faculty of Psychology.

Administration and structure

The University is the responsibility of the cantons of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft. Since 1 January 1996 was contractually determined a much greater involvement of the canton of Basel- Country. This was necessary because a shift of origin of the students was recorded from the city to the country Canton in the 1980s and 1990s. On 11 March 2007, the Basel area voters have agreed with almost 85 percent of a joint ownership with retroactive effect from 1 January 2007. The Basel University is the first university that is funded and run by two half-cantons jointly and equally.

With the entry into force of the new Universities Act 1996, the University has received the right to self-government. The ultimate decision-making and governing body of the University of Basel, the University Council, whose voting members are elected by two half-cantons of Basel ( " Basel ").

The University is a member of the European Confederation of Upper Rhine Universities ( EUCOR ).

The University in Numbers

At the beginning of the autumn semester 2007 9'196 2'164 students and doctoral students were enrolled at the University of Basel. The proportion of women in the Annual Report 2008 at 55.3 percent. Excluding the students in university training, students in exchange programs and listeners with a so counted after a nearly 550 - year history, the University of Basel in the autumn semester of 2007 for the first time more than 11,000 students. 317 professors ( 15.8 percent women ) taught in 2008 at the University of Basel. The supported public university has an annual budget of 538.9 million Swiss francs. Since 1 October 2006, the Egyptologist Antonio Loprieno is Rector of the University of Basel, prompting the church historian Ulrich from Ophir, who held the post since 1998.

Faculties and research priorities

Today the University of Basel is home to seven faculties:

  • Faculty of Theology
  • Faculty of Law ( List of legal scholars )
  • Medical school
  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Faculty of Natural Sciences
  • Faculty of Economics
  • Faculty of Psychology

According to one of the end of 2012, "Strategy 2014", which from 2014 to 2017 and from 2018 to 2021 is valid for the performance periods, the University of Basel in research and teaching focuses on six thematic priorities, namely life sciences, image science, nanoscience, sustainability and energy research, European and Global Studies and narrativity. Medical research is done in collaboration with the University Hospital Basel. At the University of Basel two National research priorities are established: Nanoscience and image critique. The NCCR sesame was discontinued in 2009.

The Institute operates a fully functional physics research reactor with the reactor AGN -211 -P. The Department of Pharmacy at the Medical School is the recipient of Pharmazie-Historisches Museum (since 1925). The Faculty of Medicine is the recipient of the Anatomical Museum (since 1824). In 2005, created specialist Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities 2013 was deleted.

Rankings

In the past ten years, the University of Basel was mostly attributed to the world's top two hundred universities in the current international university rankings, the single rank from year to year was subject to greater fluctuations. In the Academic Ranking of World Universities of the year 2013, it is ranked 85th The QS World University Rankings 2012 list them on rank 110 and the THE World University Ranking 2013-2014 leads them to 74th position.

Famous people

One of the most famous people who taught at the university, the German philosopher and poet Friedrich Nietzsche ( taught in Basel Greek language and literature).

At the University of Basel have taught, among other things:

  • Boniface Amerbach
  • Johann Jakob Bachofen
  • Karl Barth
  • Arthur Baumgarten
  • Bechius Philipp (1521-1560)
  • Carl Albrecht Bernoulli
  • Daniel Bernoulli
  • Jakob Bernoulli
  • Karl Binding
  • Sebastian Brant
  • Jacob Burckhardt
  • Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich
  • Thomas Erastus
  • Adolf Gasser
  • Karl Jaspers
  • Joachim Latacz
  • Peter Luder ( 1468 )
  • Rudolf Massini the Elder
  • Rudolf Massini the Younger
  • Jacob Achilles Mähly (1864 )
  • Karl Meuli
  • Sebastian Münster
  • Walter Muschg
  • John Oecolampadius
  • Franz Overbeck
  • Alexander Markovich Ostrowski
  • Heinrich Ott
  • Paracelsus
  • Amandus Polanus of Polansdorf
  • Adolf Portmann
  • Edgar Salin
  • Christian Friedrich Schönbein
  • August Socin
  • Johann Jacob Spreng
  • Andreas von tuhr, lawyer (* 1864, † 1925)
  • Hans -Peter Tschudi
  • Wilhelm Vischer - Bilfinger
  • Hermann von der Goltz
  • Wilhelm Wackernagel
  • Lucius Wildhaber

The University of Basel was among others attended by:

  • Leonhard Euler
  • Alfons Karl Zwicker
  • Ulrich Zwingli

The University of Basel may have two Nobel Prize winners in medicine: Tadeusz Reichstein (1950) and Werner Arber (1978).

Building of the University

Old University of Basel

The Old University of Basel is a medieval yellow building on the Rhine jump in the Greater Basel's Old Town, with a Hofarkade on the Rhine. 1859/60, the house was rebuilt and increased the Younger, under the direction of Johann Jakob Stehlin. Until 1939 there was the headquarters of the University.

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