X-Nico

15 unusual facts about University of Würzburg


Anton Schlembach

After graduating in 1950, from the Humanist Gymnasium in Miltenberg, he studied Catholic theology at the University of Würzburg and at the Papal University in Rome.

Cat's-whisker detector

The "unilateral conduction" of crystals, as it was then called, was discovered by Ferdinand Braun, a German physicist, in 1874 at the University of Würzburg, before radio had been invented.

Colin Riordan

Professor Riordan taught English as a foreign language at Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg in Germany (1982–84).

Franz Kiwisch von Rotterau

Franz Kiwisch von Rotterau (April 30, 1814 in Klatovy – October 24, 1852 in Prague) was Professor of Obstetrics at the University of Würzburg and later at the University of Prague.

Gerald Muench

Gerald Muench (born on March 24, 1961) is an Australian-German medical scientist; who started his career in 1995 from the University of Würzburg, Germany.

Hans Spemann

In 1893–1894 he moved to the University of Munich for clinical training but decided, rather than becoming a clinician, to move to the Zoological Institute at the University of Würzburg, where he remained as a lecturer until 1908.

Kalman Kahana

He studied Philosophy, Semitic Languages, History and Pedagogy at Berlin University and Würzburg University, eventually gaining a PhD in Philosophy.

Kathrin Bringmann

She passed the State Examinations in Mathematics and Theology at the University of Würzburg, Germany, in 2002, and obtained a Diploma in Mathematics at Würzburg in 2003.

Leighton Barracks

It was active as a military base between 1936–2008, from 2012-onwards part of the barracks has converted to new rôle as additional academic buildings and student accommodation for the University of Würzburg

Nicole Resch

She ended her sports life early and studied law at the Julius Maximilians university of Würzburg.

Peter K. Vogt

Vogt received his undergraduate education in biology at the University of Würzburg and in 1959 was awarded his Ph.D. at the University of Tübingen for work done at the Max Planck Institute for Virology in Tübingen.

Semiconductor Science and Technology

Prior to this, the editor-in-chief was Laurens Molenkamp (University of Würzburg).

Sieglinde Hartmann

In 2003, Sieglinde Hartmann was appointed to a professorship for Medieval German literature at the University of Würzburg.

Solomon Birnbaum

He served in World War I in the Austro-Hungarian Army, and then studied and attained a doctorate from the University of Würzburg.

Thomas Bonacum

He studied at St. Vincent's College, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and at the University of Würzburg, Bavaria, after which he was ordained priest at St. Louis, 18 June 1870.


Ferdinand Janner

For a time, Janner worked as a parish priest, but he eventually returned to the University of Würzburg, where he received his Doctor of Theology.

Georg Klebs

After his military service, Klebs became an assistant to Julius Sachs at the University of Würzburg and Wilhelm Pfeffer at the University of Tübingen.

George Blewett

He studied at the University of Würzburg in 1899 and received a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1900 from Harvard University.

Karl Heinrich von Boetticher

Born in Stettin in Pomerania, the son of a judge, Boetticher studied law in the University of Würzburg and the University of Berlin.

Konrad Mannert

In 1796 he became professor of history at the University of Altdorf, in 1805 at the University of Würzburg, in 1807 at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (then in Landshut), and from 1826 at the same university in its new location in Munich.

Ludwig Julius Budge

He studied medicine at the Universities of Marburg, Berlin and Würzburg, and following graduation worked as a general practitioner in Wetzlar and Altenkirchen.

Moses Buttenweiser

Moses Buttenweiser (1862–1939) was an American Bible scholar, born at Beerfelden, Germany and educated at the universities of University of Würzburg, Leipzig, and Heidelberg.