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Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Motto	Ut omnes unum sint German: Dass alle eins seien
Motto in English	That they all may be one
Type	Public
Established	1477 (University of Mainz) Re-opened 1946 (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
Budget	€ 474 million[1]
President	Georg Krausch [de]
Academic staff	4,353[2]
Administrative staff	7,825[2]
Students	32,630
Location	Mainz , Rhineland Palatinate , Germany 49°59′32″N 8°14′17″E / 49.99222°N 8.23806°E / 49.99222; 8.23806Coordinates: 49°59′32″N 8°14′17″E / 49.99222°N 8.23806°E / 49.99222; 8.23806
Colors	Red
Website	www.uni-mainz.de

The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (German: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg. With approximately 36,500 students (2014) in about 150 schools and clinics, it is among the ten largest universities in Germany. Starting on 1 January 2005 the university was reorganized into 11 faculties of study.

The university is a member of the German U15, a coalition of fifteen major research-intensive and leading medical universities in Germany.

In 1977, the Deutsche Bundespost (German Federal Post Office) has published 36 special stamps, including a stamp dedicated to the 500th years anniversary of the University of Mainz

Forum of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz covered with snow

History

The first University of Mainz goes back to the Archbishop of Mainz, Prince-elector and Reichserzkanzler Adolf II von Nassau. At the time, establishing a university required papal approval and Adolf II initiated the approval process during his time in office. The university, however, was first opened in 1477 by Adolf's successor to the bishopric, Diether von Isenburg. In 1784 the University was opened up for Protestants and Jews (curator Anselm Franz von Betzel). It fast became one of the largest Catholic universities in Europe with ten chairs in theology alone. In the confusion after the establishment of the Mainz Republic of 1792 and its subsequent recapture by the Prussians, academic activity came to a gradual standstill. In 1798 the university became active again under French governance, and lectures in the department of medicine took place until 1823. Only the faculty of theology continued teaching during the 19th century, albeit as a theological Seminary (since 1877 "College of Philosophy and Theology").

Statue of Johannes Gutenberg at the University of Mainz

The current Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz was founded in 1946 by the French occupying power. In a decree on 1 March the French military government implied that the University of Mainz would continue to exist: the University shall be "enabled to resume its function". The remains of anti-aircraft warfare barracks erected in 1938 after the remilitarization of the Rhineland during the Third Reich served as the university's first buildings and are still in use today.

The continuation of academic activity between the old university and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, in spite of an interruption spanning over 100 years, is contested. During the time up to its reopening only a seminary and midwifery college survived.

In 1972, the effect of the 1968 student protests began to take a toll on the University's structure. The departments (Fakultäten) were dismantled and the University was organized into broad fields of study (Fachbereiche). Finally in 1974 Peter Schneider was elected as the first president of what was now a "constituted group-university" institute of higher education. In 1990 Jürgen Zöllner became University President yet spent only a year in the position after he was appointed Minister for "Science and Advanced Education" for the State of Rhineland-Palatinate. As the coordinator for the SPD's higher education policy, this furloughed professor from the Institute for Physiological Chemistry played a decisive role in the SPD's higher education policy and in the development of Study Accounts.

Faculties

The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is divided in ten faculties since 1 September 2010.

• Faculty of Catholic Theology


• Faculty of Protestant Theology


• Faculty of Social Sciences, Media, and Sports


• Faculty of Law, Management, and Economics


• University Medicine


• Faculty of Philosophy and Philology


• Faculty of Translation Studies, Linguistics, and Cultural Studies


• Faculty of History and Cultural Studies


• Faculty of Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science


• Faculty of Chemistry, Pharmacy and Geosciences


• Faculty of Biology

The academies for music and art are independent art colleges of the Johannes Gutenberg University, the Hochschule für Musik Mainz and the Kunsthochschule Mainz [de].^[3]

Campus

The University of Mainz is one of few campus universities in Germany. Nearly all its institutions and facilities are located on the site of a former barracks in the south west part of the city. The university medical centre is located off campus, as is the Department of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Sciences, which was integrated with the university in 1949 and is located in Germersheim. On campus next to the University is the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, the Institute of Molecular Biology, the electron accelerator MAMI, the research reactor TRIGA, the botanical garden, a sports stadium and an indoor swimming pool. Mainz Academy of Arts (Kunsthochschule Mainz) is located off campus.

Academic profile

The range of studies is comprehensive; the university lacks some technical studies, veterinary medicine and nutrition science. One can nonetheless study History of books, athletics, music, visual arts, theatre, and film.

Today the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz has approximately 36,000 students (as of 2010^[update]) and consists of over 150 institutions and clinics. The university offers international programs, such as the award-winning choir EuropaChorAkademie, founded by Joshard Daus in 1997, in collaboration with the University of the Arts Bremen.^[4]

One of the instruments carried by the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, a miniature Mössbauer spectrometer, was developed at the university.

The University of Mainz does not currently levy fees or tuition (Studiengebühren) for a regular course of study. Senior citizen students, auditing students, and certain postgraduate students may be subject to fees. The Ministry for Science and Advanced Education introduced "study accounts" (Studienkonten) that were developed jointly with Prof. Zoellner. During the transition period, overdrafts on the account would incur a flat-rate charge of 650 Euro for every overdrawn semester. The Study Accounts allow for a free-of-charge initial course of study as long as it does not exceed 1.75 times the standard period of study. In a second step the accounts will soon be charged according to time actually used. It is still contested as to whether the enormous administrative burden will lead to an actual improvement of academic conditions. **Measurable success is similar by the introduction of long-term tuition in other federal states and its effect on the decline of nominally enrolled students.

Rankings

It is ranked in the top 300 universities worldwide by the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2017 and Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2017.

Notable people

Professors

• 
  Karl-Otto Apel (philosophy)


• 
  Kai Arzheimer (political science)


• 
  Herbert Braun (theology)


• 
  Hauke Brunkhorst (education)


• 
  Micha Brumlik (education)


• 
  Paul J. Crutzen (chemistry, Nobel Prize 1995)


• 
  Thorsten Faas (political science)


• 
  Hans Galinsky (American studies)


• 
  Alfred Kröner (geology)


• 
  Karl Cardinal Lehmann (theology)


• 
  Thomas Metzinger (philosophy)


• 
  Gottfried Münzenberg (physics)


• 
  W. Pannenberg (theology)


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  Rolf Peffekoven (economics)


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  Klaus Rose (economics)


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  Dorothee Sölle (theology)


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  Beatrice Weder di Mauro (economics)


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  Isabel Schnabel (economics)


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  Werner Weidenfeld (political science, former adviser of German chancellor Helmut Kohl)


• 
  Jürgen Gauß (theoretical chemistry)

Alumni

Among notable alumni from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz are German politicians Rainer Brüderle (FDP, Federal Minister for Economics and Technology); Horst Teltschik (former security advisor to Chancellor Helmut Kohl and president of the Munich Conference on Security Policy); Kristina Schröder, Federal Minister of Family and Social Affairs; Franz Josef Jung (CDU, Former Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs and former Federal Minister of Defence); particle physicist Vera Lüth; sculptor Karlheinz Oswald; sports journalist Béla Réthy; political journalist Peter Scholl-Latour; Dieter Stolte, former director-general of ZDF; soprano Elisabeth Scholl; a founder of American avant-garde cinema Jonas Mekas; his brother Adolfas Mekas, film director, writer and educator; mural artist Rainer Maria Latzke; the German climatologist Wolfgang Seiler; Abbas Zaryab, notable Iranian scholar and historian; Srinivas Kishanrao Saidapur Indian reproductive biologist; and Stanisław Potrzebowski, one of leaders of the ridnovir movement in Poland,
Ruth Katharina Martha Pfau, nun, physician, writer; she devoted more than 50 years of her life to fighting leprosy in Pakistan.

See also

• List of medieval universities


• List of universities in Germany


• Professor Madjid Samii

References

External links

• www.uni-mainz.de official website