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18 unusual facts about Heidelberg University


Aeneas James George Mackay

He went on to University College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1862, proceeding M.A. in 1865, and then at Heidelberg University, completing his legal curriculum at Edinburgh University, where he was one of the first to obtain the degree of LL.B.

Anna Krylov

In addition to her permanent appointment at USC, Prof. Krylov has served as a visiting professor at Caltech, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis), University of Colorado (JILA), and Heidelberg University.

Edwin Chesley Estes Lord

He was educated in the public schools of New York City and in Brunswick and Heidelberg, Germany, and in Harvard University, Cambridge.

Frank Dawson Adams

He received a Masters degree from McGill in 1884, and his Ph.D. from Heidelberg University in 1892.

Georgina Fleur

Studying art history at Heidelberg University, she first appeared on German television on the tabloid news magazine miniseries Teenie Törn (Teen Cruise) in 2011 and Arme reiche Mädchen (Poor Little Rich Girl) on the ProSieben tabloid news magazine Taff.

Hans Robert Schöler

In 1994, he obtained his habilitation at the Biological Faculty of the Heidelberg University.

Hayk Gyulikekhvyan

He studied at Leipzig and Zurich universities, then finished the department of philosophy of Heidelberg University.

Johannes Crucius

Crucius studied in Geneva and on 28 September, 1586 he matriculated at the Heidelberg University a year after Franciscus Gomarus, along with the students Abrahamus Vandermylen of Dordrecht, Meinardus ab Idzaerda of Friesland, and Andreas ab Hiddema of Friesland.

Joseph B. Reynolds

After the close of the war, he went to Europe for further study, taking a post-graduate course at Heidelberg University.

Jyotindra Jain

Later, as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Heidelberg University (1972–1979), he taught for one year at the South Asia Institute at the university.

Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey

She was educated at Roedean (where she was head girl), Heidelberg University, Queen Mary, University of London and the Polytechnic of Central London, and worked as a statistician and market research manager, including a spell with Shell-Mex and BP, before entering Parliament as MP for Wallasey, Merseyside, succeeding the former Cabinet minister Ernest Marples.

Pavel Kroupa

Afterwards Kroupa worked until 2000 in astronomical research groups at Heidelberg University and at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, before he went to the University of Kiel and earned his Habilitation there.

Richard G. Stern

From 1950-51 he was an assistant professor and taught at Heidelberg University.

Robert Kaleski

Political pressures in Poland led John Kaleski to move to Germany, where he held academic appointments at Bonn and Heidelberg Universities, and from there to Australia where he re-built a career as a mining engineer and assayer.

Rudin

He was brought up by his mother who spent all the money she had on him, and was educated at Moscow University and abroad in Germany, at Heidelberg and Berlin (Turgenev himself studied in Berlin).

Thanos Plevris

Plevris practices law in Athens, having completed post-graduate study in Heidelberg University, and earned a doctorate from the University of Athens.

UDC Finance Limited

(Heidelberg), a German banker who came to New Zealand at the age of 50 after fleeing Nazi Germany.

Vertico SMI

The Vertico-SMI microscope was developed by Christoph Cremer, Professor of Applied Optics and Information Processing at Heidelberg University and is based on the combination of light optical techniques of localization microscopy (SPDM, Spectral Precision Distance Microscopy) and structured illumination (SMI, Spatially Modulated Illumination).


Alice Ricciardi-von Platen

After the war, she worked as a volunteer at the psychosomatic clinic of the Heidelberg University, with Viktor von Weizsäcker, where she continued her training in psychotherapy.

Buddhist studies

Prominent European programs include Oxford University and Cambridge University, School of Oriental and African Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Hamburg, University of Munich, University of Heidelberg, University of Bonn, University of Vienna, Ghent University, and the Sorbonne.

Clive Sherlock

Having studied medicine in London at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, Imperial College, London, UK, and worked for three years in teaching hospitals he went to Heidelberg University to study philosophy under Professor Ernst Tugendhat.

Deal.II

The primary maintainers, coordinating the worldwide development of the library, are today located at Texas A&M University, Clemson University and Heidelberg University.

Tanzanite

Correct identification was also made by mineralogists at Harvard University, the British Museum, and Heidelberg University, but the very first person to get the identification right was Ian McCloud, a Tanzanian government geologist based in Dodoma.

Wilhelm Ebel

He did his Abitur in Reszel in 1927, and studied law, history, and philology at the University of Königsberg and Heidelberg University.