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12 unusual facts about University of Bern


Adam Gurowski

Here he gave himself to study, and for two years lectured on political economy in the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Alexander Tschirch

From 1890 to 1932 he was a professor of pharmacy and pharmacognosy at the University of Bern, serving as rector in 1908-09.

Aloys Sprenger

Sprenger took a position as professor of oriental languages at the University of Bern in 1857, moving in 1881 to Heidelberg.

Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland

Since 1874, the University of Bern has had its own Christian Catholic theological faculty, which is now one part (as the Christian Catholic section) of the Faculty of Theology.

CSTX

The first thirteen were isolated and identified in 1994 by Lucia Kuhn-Nentwig, Johann Schaller, and Wolfgang Nentwig of the Zoological Institute at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Global Footprint Network

Wackernagel received an honorary doctorate in December 2007 from the University of Bern in Switzerland.

Gustav Emil Mueller

Gustav Emil Mueller (May 12, 1898–July 10, 1987) was a Hegelian scholar and philosopher, who received a doctorate in philosophy in 1923 from the University of Bern.

Irving Bluestone

He spent a year at the University of Bern in Switzerland, where he bought a bicycle for $2 and toured Europe.

Periodontology

The graduate programs that have been approved are the following: Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam, University of Bern, Sahlgrenska University Göteborg, Institute for Postgraduate Dental Education Jönköping, UCL Eastman Dental Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, University Complutense in Madrid, University of Dublin, Trinity College, University of Strasbourg, Paris Diderot University at Rothschild hospital.

Smartvote

smartvote was a joint project of the University of Bern and the Gewerblich-Industriellen Berufsschule Bern at the beginning with the aim to advocate more transparent and independent Information in election campaigns in favour of the citizens.

Solar Wind Composition Experiment

The SWC was proposed and designed by a Swiss team headed by Johannes Geiss of the University of Bern and Peter Eberhardt of the Swiss Institute of Technology.

Virtopsy

The name is a portmanteau of 'virtual' and 'autopsy' and is a trademark registered to Prof. Richard Dirnhofer, the former head of the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the University of Bern, Switzerland.


August Siegrist

He was habilitated in ophthalmology at Basel in 1900, and became professor of ophthalmology and director of the eye clinic of the University of Bern from 1903 to 1935.

Esther de Pommery

h.c. International Medical Association.She studied Obstetrics at the University of Bern and Archaeology in the University of Paris.

Mathis Wackernagel

He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern in 2007, a 2006 World Wide Fund for Nature Award for Conservation Merit, and the 2005 Herman Daly Award of the US Society for Ecological Economics.