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12 unusual facts about Free University of Berlin


Berlin Society of Friends of Natural Science

The society exists still, and has its seat at the Institute for Zoology of the Free University of Berlin.

Kateřina Jacques

After finishing secondary school in 1990, she worked as an au pair in Germany while studying at the Free University of Berlin.

Kendall Foss

Kendall Blackstone Foss (1904-1964) was a journalist and author who helped found the Free University of Berlin in Berlin, Germany in 1948.

María Sólrún Sigurðardóttir

She studied Film, Art History and Political Science at the Free University of Berlin and her 2004 film Jargo premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, winning two awards at the Sarajevo Film Festival.

Robert Inman

After his discharge, he completed a year of graduate studies at the Free University of Berlin.

Statistical Lab

The program is developed and constantly advanced by the Center for Digital Systems of the Free University of Berlin.

Tell Chuera

Excavations were begun in 1958 by a team from the Free University of Berlin led by Anton Moortgat.

Tell el Fakhariya

After a survey in 2005, a team from the Free University of Berlin and SAHI - Slovak archeological and historical institute and the Syrian Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums resumed work at Tell Fakhariyah for a month in 2006.

The Gossamer Project

In early 1996, an FTP mirror site ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/misc/sf/x-files/creative/ was set up at the Free University of Berlin, maintained by Vera.

Theo Seiler

In 1975 Seiler he his doctorate in physics with the dissertation "Modulated dynamic nuclear polarization of the nuclei of smaller gyromagnetic ratios" at the Free University of Berlin and started his teaching profession for higher education (mathematics and physics) in the following year.

Ümit Ergirdi

Ergirdi made 5 appearances in the 3. Fußball-Liga for SV Babelsberg 03 before deciding to end his professional career and to finish his law studies at the Free University of Berlin.

Wolfgang Scheffler

Wolfgang Scheffler (historian) (1929–2008), Professor of Political Science and History, Free University of Berlin


Ancient Thera

Excavation work was again taken up between 1990 and 1994 under the leadership of Wolfram Hoepfner of the Free University of Berlin and resulted in a more precise understanding of the history of the southern Aegean.

Bonnie Marranca

She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of the Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship in the UK, and Fulbright Senior Scholar who has taught at Columbia University, Princeton University, NYU, Duke University, the University of California-San Diego, Free University of Berlin, and the Autonomous University of Barcelona Institute for Theatre .

Eric Heinze

After receiving his Licence and Maîtrise from the Université de Paris, Heinze enrolled as a DAAD scholar at the Freie Universität Berlin.

EXCITING

In 2009 the code has split into two branches – “exciting”, primarily developed at the University of Leoben, and “elk”, primarily developed at the Free University of Berlin and at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics.

Gökçe Yurdakul

After teaching at Brock University in Canada and at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, Yurdakul came to Berlin as a post-doctoral fellow of the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Free University of Berlin.

Otto Suhr

Suhr lectured as an honorary professor at the Free University of Berlin (FU) and re-established the private Deutsche Hochschule für Politik academy, the biggest and one of the most important institute for political science in Germany, which he led from 1948 to 1955.

Reinhard Bendix

He held guest professorships at numerous universities, including at Columbia University, St. Catherine's and Nuffield Colleges at the University of Oxford, the Free University of Berlin, the University of Constance, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the University of Heidelberg.

Sciences Po

At the undergraduate level, Sciences Po also offers a dual degree program with the School of General Studies at Columbia University, University College London, Keio University, the Free University of Berlin, and the University of British Columbia.

Shadrach Woods

Among the firm's major built projects were the extension of the village of Bagnols-sur-Cèze and the development of the quarter of Le Mirail in Toulouse in France and, with Manfred Schieldhelm, the Free University in Berlin.

Tessa Hofmann

Tessa Hofmann (Savvidis) (born 15 December 1949, Bassum, Lower Saxony) is a scholar of Armenian studies and sociology, PhD, research scholar at the Free University of Berlin.

Wolfram Saenger

In his research career spanning over 30 years he has worked at the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Harvard University (Harvard Medical School) and the Free University of Berlin, where he led the Institute for Crystallography research until his retirement in 2011.