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unusual facts about University of Halle



Adolph Gottfried Kinau

Born in Aschersleben into a family of ministers and teachers, he studied theology in Halle and Magdeburg from 1833 to 1840.

Benjamin Kurtz

His grandfather, Dr. John Nicholas Kurtz, a clergyman from Lutzelinden, Nassau-Weilburg, Germany and a graduate from the University of Halle, arrived in Pennsylvania in January 15, 1745 and served as a minister in Tulpehocken, Pennsylvania and York, Pennsylvania.

Carl Peter Wilhelm Gramberg

Gramberg attended university at Halle, where he studied Hebrew Bible and Theology under Wilhelm Gesenius and Julius Wegscheider.

Hermann Knoblauch

Knoblauch moved to the University of Halle in 1853, and remained there for the rest of his career.

Jakob Salomon Bartholdy

Jakob Ludwig Salomon Bartholdy (May 13, 1779 – July 27, 1825) was a Prussian diplomat, born Jakob Salomon in Berlin of Jewish parentage, and educated at the University of Halle.

Johann Julius Hecker

After completing the gymnasium in Essen, he studied theology, ancient languages, medicine, and natural sciences at the University of Halle.

Julius Wegscheider

In 1805 he was repentant at the University of Göttingen with a dissertation titled Graecorum mysteriis religioni non obtrudendis, he then served as a professor of theology at the University of Rinteln (1806–1810), and at the University of Halle from 1810 onwards.

Saul Isaac Kaempf

Four years later he entered the University of Halle, took up philosophy and philology, and became one of the favorite pupils of Gesenius.

Vinnytsia massacre

The first examinations of the exhumed bodies were made by German, Ukrainian and Russian doctors such as professor Gerhard Schrader of the University of Halle-Wittenberg, docent Doroshenko of Vinnytsia, and professor Malinin of Krasnodar.


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Andrej Sládkovič

He studied at his home town (1826–30), in Peretvönyi (1830–31), later attended gymnasium in Krupina and Evangelical lyceums in Banská Štiavnica (Selmecbánya) (1839–40) and Pressburg (Pozsony, present Bratislava) (1840–1842) and finally studied theology at the University of Halle (1843–44).

Frankean Synod

The Synod was named in memory of the Pietist leader of the Foundation at the University of Halle, August Hermann Francke.

Friedrich Asinger

Well-known students of Asinger are in example Heribert Offermanns, a longtime board member of the Degussa AG, Egon Fanghänel, professor of organic chemistry at the Technical University Merseburg and then at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, and Karl Gewald, who is best known for the development of the Gewald reaction and his work in the field of thiophenes and heterocycles.

Turčianske Teplice

The recuperative abilities of the spa were first studied by the University of Halle medical student Jan Lisschoviny.