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23 unusual facts about University of Innsbruck


Antanas Baranauskas

Between 1863-1864, he studied at Munich's, Rome's, Innsbruck's and Louvain’s Catholic universities.

Arthur S. Reber

He spent 1977-78 as a Fulbright Professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria and 1995-96 as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Wales, Bangor.

Bernd Marin

Marin also served as visiting professor at several other universities (Zurich, Warsaw, Florence, University of Innsbruck, Institute of Health Sciences at H. A. Barceló Fundation and Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

Bruno Platter

In 1973 he received the degree Doctor of Theology from the University of Innsbruck; his dissertation was entitled Die Begründung des Mischehenverbotes: eine theologie- und rechtsgeschichtliche Untersuchung (The Justification for the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages: A Theological and Legal-Historical Study).

Dieter Fensel

He is University Professor at the University of Innsbruck, where he directs the Semantic Technologies Institute Innsbruck (STI Innsbruck), a research center associated with the university.

Subsequently he worked as an assistant professor at Amsterdam, and as a professor at NUI Galway (Ireland) (2003–2006) and at the University of Innsbruck.

Dominik Knoll

In addition, he holds a Master of Science degree in Management from the Business School at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Edward J. Flanagan

He continued his studies in Italy and at the University of Innsbruck in Austria where he was ordained a priest in 1912.

Franjo Komarica

After completing his compulsory military service he began theological studies in Ðakovo (1967-1968), and continued studying at the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the University of Innsbruck (1968-1972).

Hans Ertel

In 1943, he was given the position of professor for meteorology and geophysics at the University of Innsbruck, and he also attended lectures by Arnold Sommerfeld.

Harry Dahms

Previously, he taught at Florida State University in Tallahassee (starting in 1993), and as a visiting professor at University of Göttingen, Germany (1999/2000) and at University of Innsbruck, Austria (2011, 2012) .

Herbert Mayr

Mayr studied sport in Bologna during the mid-1960s, at the end of the 1970s was a professor at the University of Innsbruck and from 1987 until 1994 was the chairman of the sports club SSV Bozen.

Journal of Statistical Software

Its current Editors-in-Chief are de Leeuw and Achim Zeileis of the Department of Statistics at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Kjetil Trædal Thorsen

Since 2004, Kjetil Trædal Thorsen has been a professor at the Institute for Experimental Studies in Architecture of the University of Innsbruck.

Lengberg Castle

Professor Harald Stadler of the University of Innsbruck led an archaeological investigation of the material in the vault.

Lucien Hardy

In 1992, he became lecturer in mathematical physics at Maynooth College, The National University of Ireland, subsequently was Royal Society postdoctoral fellow at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, lecturer in Mathematical Sciences Department at the University of Durham, UK, and held a postdoctoral position at La Sapienza University in Rome, Italy.

Marco Keiner

From 2000 to 2007, Keiner was senior research assistant at the Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development at ETH Zurich and senior lecturer for Geography at the University of Innsbruck, where he obtained his habilitation in 2005.

Mário Vieira de Carvalho

As visiting professor, courses of Sociology of Music at the Humboldt-University Berlin (2000) and the University of Innsbruck (2001), São Paulo, Brasil (2002), and Minho, Portugal (2004).

Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga

From the Austrian University of Innsbruck Rodríguez received a diploma in clinical psychology and psychotherapy.

Oskar Peterlini

Recently he was awarded the Doctor in Social and economic science at the Faculty of Political science and Social sciences of the University of Innsbruck.

Ruth B. Bottigheimer

In addition to her current position at Stony Brook University, Bottigheimer has also taught at Hollins College, the University of Innsbruck, Göttingen University, Princeton University, the University of California, and others.

Viktor von Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen

His fortunes changed around his golden wedding anniversary in 1921, when he was granted a pension by the Austrian government and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Innsbruck.

Zdeněk Mlynář

Mlynář became qualified to teach at the university level and was granted tenure from the University of Innsbruck’s department of political science in 1989.


Andreas Benedict Feilmoser

He studied at Salzburg from 1789 to 1794, took a two years' course in philosophy at the University of Innsbruck (1794–96), and entered the Benedictine Order at Fiecht, Tyrol, in September, 1796.

Beda Weber

He received calls to professorships from the University of Innsbruck, from the Benedictine Lyceum at Augsburg, and from the crown-prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, but remained at Meran until he was called away by the political events of 1848.

Österreichischer Bibliothekenverbund

The Österreichischer Bibliothekenverbund (obv; English: "Austrian joint library system") is a catalogue and service collaboration for Austrian scientific and administrative libraries centered around the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library) and university libraries, among them the University of Vienna, the Technical University of Vienna, Graz University of Technology and the University of Innsbruck.

Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck

The theatre is surrounded by Imperial Hofburg, the Hofgarten, and SOWI Faculty of the University of Innsbruck.