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5 unusual facts about University of Erlangen


Fred Donner

He then studied oriental philology for a year (1970-1971) at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität in Erlangen, Germany, before returning to Princeton for doctoral work.

Leif Kobbelt

After receiving his diploma in 1992 and his PhD in 1994 in Computer Science from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology he worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Max Planck Institute of Computer Science before he switched to the RWTH Aachen in 2001.

Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel

It was during the 45-year-long ministry of Thomas Sadler (1822-1891), who arrived at the Chapel in 1846 aged 24, just two years after being awarded his doctorate from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Bavaria, that the current Chapel building was constructed.

Thomas Mor Timotheos

In 1986 he left for Germany for higher studies and joined the Erlangen-Nuremberg University.

Tsotne Bakuria

He received an MA in international relations from University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1998, and was a 2005 visiting scholar at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.


Johann Georg Rosenmüller

He was appointed Professor of Theology at Erlangen in 1773, Primarius Professor of Theology at Erlangen in 1773, Primarius Professor of Divinity at Giessen in 1783, and was called in 1785 to Leipzig, where he remained until his death in 1815.

Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh

Kalantar-Zadeh received his undergraduate degree in medicine from the University of Bonn (Germany) and his M.D. degree from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany).

Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider

Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider (born 11 July 1940, in Hütten bei Gellin, Province of Pomerania, Germany (now Sitno, Szczecinek County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland) is a Professor Emeritus in public-, and civil law at University of Erlangen" in Nuremberg, Germany.

Karl Julius Weber

He received his education at Erlangen and Göttingen, and after some time passed in Switzerland, became, in 1792, private secretary to the Count of Erbach-Schönberg, whom he left in 1799 to accept the post of Government councilor at König in Odenwald.

Kharshedji Rustomji Cama

Going into business with Dadabhai Naoroji, he went again to Europe in 1855, and studied with orientalists there: Julius Mohl and Julius Oppert in Paris, and Friedrich von Spiegel at the University of Erlangen.

Michael Stürmer

From 1973 to 2003 he held a professorship at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and at various times has been a guest lecturer at the Sorbonne, Harvard University, and the Institute for Advanced Study.

MPEG-1

--at ???--> Optimum Coding in the Frequency domain (OCF) the doctoral thesis by Karlheinz Brandenburg at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Perceptual Transform Coding (PXFM) by J. D. Johnston at AT&T Bell Labs, and Transform coding of audio signals by Y. Mahieux and J. Petit at Institut für Rundfunktechnik (IRT/CNET).

Rudolf Kohlrausch

He was successively teacher of mathematics and physics at Lüneburg, Rinteln, Kassel and Marburg, and a professor at the Universities of Marburg and Erlangen.


see also

Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

Christian Ernst took bold decisions in centralizing the regional authorities in Bayreuth, settling Huguenots in Erlangen, and creating a Knight's Academy (German: Ritterakademie), the basis for the Regional University of Erlangen (German: Landesuniversität Erlangen).

Rainer Liedtke

These include biomedical information systems and a number of new transdermal therapies, e.g. transdermal hormonal contraception (1988), including its first time clinical proof (together with L. Wildt, University of Erlangen).