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50 unusual facts about university of Vienna


Abraham Weiss

In 1916 he was given ordination from David Horowitz, the Rabbi of Stanislaw, and the following year Weiss entered the University of Vienna.

Actimel

Alexa Meyer, from the Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria, comparing probiotic drinks and normal yogurt, found no significant difference in the effect of Actimel and normal yogurt with living bacteria.

Alvin Radkowsky

M.J. Higatsberger, Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Vienna.

Anton von Störck

He rose through the academic ranks at the University of Vienna, and would later become deacon of the medical faculty and rector at the University.

Carbidopa/levodopa

In 1960 the Austrian biochemist Oleh Hornykiewicz, while at the University of Vienna, examined results of autopsies of patients who had died with Parkinson's disease.

Charlotte Garrigue

In 1877, visiting a friend studying at a conservatory in Leipzig, Germany, she first met her future husband, Tomáš Masaryk, who was staying there after having earned his doctorate at the University of Vienna.

Dawid Engela

He registered at the University of Vienna, and began his research under Prof. Erich Schenk.

De Virga world map

The map was analyzed by Doctor Professor Franz von Wieser, of the University of Vienna.

Denise Koegl

Further, Koegl received a coaching dimploma from the University of Vienna and the Bundessport Akademie Vienna in 2010.

Diplomatic Academy of Vienna

The MAIS program is run in conjunction with the University of Vienna, while the MSc ETIA courses are offered in partnership with the Technical University of Vienna.

Duško Novaković

He was a participant and guest at some of the world famous festival of poetry, and lectured on contemporary poetry in the former Yugoslavia at the University of Tagore in India, in 1984, and lectured the poetry of Vasko Popa at Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Vienna in 2008.

European Academy of Music Theatre

On 26 May 1992 the European Academy of Music Theatre was founded in Prague's Ständetheater by the Research Institute for Music Theatre Thurnau (Germany), Vanemuine Theatre, Tartu (Estonia), Academy of Sciences, Prague (Czech Republic) and the Department for Theatre, Film and Media Studies, University of Vienna (Austria).

Fahrettin Kerim Gökay

He then carried out studies between 1922 and 1924 at universities of Munich and Hamburg in Germany as well as at University of Vienna, Austria, specializing in neuropathy.

Felix von Kraus

Born in Vienna, he received a doctorate in musicology from the University of Vienna in 1894; as a singer, however, he was mainly self-taught.

Friedrich Waismann

Born in Vienna, Waismann was educated in mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna.

Georg Karl Mayer

He studied philosophy and theology in Bamberg, then continued his education at the Universities of Munich and Vienna.

Georg Nöbeling

Born and raised in Lüdenscheid, Nöbeling studied mathematics and physics in Göttingen and Vienna where he was a student of Karl Menger and received his PhD in 1931 on a generalization of the embedding theorem, which for one special case can be visualized by the Menger sponge.

George Mandler

In 2009 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna.

Government Science College, Matale

Dr. Rosabelle Samuel, Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Vienna, Austria

Heinrich Strecker

He returned to Vienna in 1910, at the age of 17, to study law at the University of Vienna.

Henry Mann

Born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, to a Jewish family, Mann earned his Ph.D. degree in mathematics in 1935 from the University of Vienna under the supervision of Philipp Furtwängler.

History of science in the Renaissance

Sometime around 1450, mathematician Georg Purbach (1423–1461) began a series of lectures on astronomy at the University of Vienna.

Ignatz Anton Pilát

After studying botany at the University of Vienna, he obtained a position at the Imperial Botanical Gardens of the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, where he acquired technical skills and participated in a botanical survey of the site.

Jan Tyssowski

After the failed 1831 November Uprising, he was forced to study at the University of Vienna because Russian authorities prohibited his entry to the school.

Johann Alexander Brassicanus

At this juncture he found friends ready to assist him, in Johann Faber and Johann Camers, who worked zealously for his appointment to the University of Vienna, and whose influence helped to give a more orthodox tone to his opinions on religious questions.

Kurt Rudolf Fischer

From 1967 to 1980 he was Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Millersville, Pennsylvania), since 1979 he has been honorary professor at the University of Vienna.

Langite

Langite was discovered in 1864 and named after the physicist and crystallographer Viktor von Lang (1838–1921), who was Professor of Physics at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Lorenz Leopold Haschka

Haschka was given a position as assistant in the library of the University of Vienna and was made instructor in aesthetics in the newly founded Theresianum.

Ludwigite

It was first described in 1874 for an occurrence in Ocna de Fier, Banat Mountains, Caras-Severin, Romania and named for Ernst Ludwig (1842–1915), an Austrian chemist at the University of Vienna.

Maximilian Stoll

Stoll originally trained as a theologian, with his interests later turning to medicine, and in 1776 attained a professorship at the University of Vienna.

Megerle von Mühlfeld

Eugen Alexander Megerle von Mühlfeld (1810-1868) was the dean of the faculty of law at the University of Vienna since 1848

Monisha Kaltenborn

From 1990 to 1995 she studied for a Law degree at the University of Vienna, and then completed a masters' degree in International Business Law at the London School of Economics in 1996.

Nebo-Sarsekim Tablet

The museum acquired it in 1920, but it had remained in storage unpublished until Michael Jursa (associate professor at the University of Vienna) made the discovery in 2007.

Nikolaus Lenau

In 1819 Nikolaus went to the University of Vienna; he subsequently studied Hungarian law at Pozsony (Bratislava) and then spent the next four years qualifying himself in medicine.

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.

Österreichisches Wörterbuch

The authors of this edition were the linguists Otto Back, Erich Benedikt, Karl Blüml, Jakob Ebner and Hermann Möcker from the institute of Austrian studies (Institut für Österreichkunde), as well as the dialectogists Maria Hornung, Professor Heinz Dieter Pohl from the University of Klagenfurt and Emeritus professor Herbert Tatzreiter from the University of Vienna.

Paul Fillunger

In 1908 he passed a PhD and then went to teach mathematics, machine industry and then mechanics at the University of Vienna.

Raised in a family of engineers, he studied at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna and took a position in the state-owned railway company in 1906.

Paul Hofmann

He studied law at the University of Vienna after which he became a member of the Christian Socialist Party.

Political economy

The world's first professorship in political economy was established in 1754 at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy (then capital city of the Kingdom of Naples); the Neapolitan philosopher Antonio Genovesi was the first tenured professor; in 1763, Joseph von Sonnenfels was appointed a Political Economy chair at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Robert de Beaugrande

He served as professor of English in the University of Florida from 1978 to 1991, of English Linguistics at the University of Vienna from 1991 to 1997, Professor of English Language at the University of Botswana in Gaborone, Professor of English and English Linguistics at the University of Florida at Gainesville, and later as visiting professor in several universities in Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.

Roboexotica

The festival is co-produced by Shifz and monochrom, two Vienna-based art collectives, and supported by the 'Bureau for Philosophy' (of the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna).

Saint Procopius Church of Tirana

Kristofor Kisi, then primate of the Orthodox Church of Albania entrusted with the project of the new building Skënder Luarasi, a young architect who had graduated from the University of Vienna, and was son of patriot Kristo Luarasi.

Seligmann Heller

After completing his course at the University of Vienna, where he studied philology and law, he engaged in business with his father.

Telmatosaurus

Ilona had an elder brother, Ferenc or Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás who was inspired by the find to become a paleontology student at the University of Vienna.

Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University

The university is fully accredited to National Assessment and Accreditation Council and has tied with major international universities such as University of Vienna, the University of Bristol, the University of Kent, University of Lyon, University of Notre Dame, etc.

Tourmaline

The name dravite was used for the first time by Gustav Tschermak (1836–1927), Professor of Mineralogy and Petrography at the University of Vienna, in his book Lehrbuch der Mineralogie (published in 1884) for magnesium-rich (and sodium-rich) tourmaline from the village Unterdrauburg, Drava river area, Carinthia, Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Victor Adler

He attended the renown Catholic Schottenstift gymnasium, together with Heinrich Friedjung one of the few Jewish students, whereafter he studied chemistry and medicine at the University of Vienna.

William Forsyth Sharpe

He is also the recipient of a Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa from DePaul University, a Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Alicante (Spain), a Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Vienna and the UCLA Medal, UCLA's highest honor.

William R. Perl

Perl attended the University of Vienna, where he earned a Ph.D. in law and a master's degree in international business.


Austrian Institute of Economic Research

The Supervisory Board of WIFO is made up of Christoph Leitl (president of the Supervisory Board and of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber), Professor Erich Streissler (vice president; professor of economics at the University of Vienna), Herbert Tumpel (vice president; president of the Federal Chamber of Labour) and other representatives of its main carrier organisations and the Austrian political, economic and academic community.

Bernhard Pez

Having studied the classical languages, he was made professor in the Melk monastery school in 1704, and in the same year went to the University of Vienna, where he studied theology.

Branislav Petronijević

Petronijević joined the Philosophical Society of the University of Vienna and studied under Ludwig Boltzmann.

Celâl Şengör

November 1993 ('Eduard Suess "The Tethys" 100 years ago and today': Celebration lecture on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the "Tethys" concept, University of Vienna).

Corneille Heymans

After graduation Heymans worked at the Collège de France (under Prof. E. Gley), the University of Lausanne (under Prof. M. Arthus), the University of Vienna (under Prof. H. H. Meyer), University College London (under Prof. E. H. Starling) and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (under Prof. C. F. Wiggers).

Cvetka Lipuš

She attended the lyceum for Slovenes in Klagenfurt, continuing her studies in literary sciences, Slavic studies and librarian sciences at the University of Vienna, University of Klagenfurt and in Pittsburgh, where she currently lives.

Demographic estimates of the flight and expulsion of Germans

Ingo Haar who is currently on the faculty of the University of Vienna said on 14 November 2006 in Deutschlandfunk that about 500,000 to 600,000 victims are realistic, based on a German governmental studies initiated in the 1960s.

Eric van Damme

In between he was Visiting Professor at European Universities in Bielefeld, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, Vienna, Lisbon; and in the USA at the Kellogg School of Management.

Friedrich Paneth

He studied chemistry at the University of Vienna and after working with Adolf von Baeyer at the University of Munich he received his PhD with Zdenko Hans Skraup at the organic chemistry department of the University of Vienna in 1910.

Gligorije Trlajić

Gligorije Trlajić was educated in Segedin, Buda, and Pesth, and studied law at the University of Vienna before he entered the bureaucracy in the department of justice in which he rose rapidly to be assistant to the solicitor-general in Vienna.

Heinrich Ritter von Zeissberg

In 1871 he removed to Innsbruck; in 1873 he was appointed professor at the university of Vienna, and here he was historical tutor to the crown prince Rudolph.

Jakob Schipper

He studied modern languages in Bonn, Paris, Rome, and Oxford, collaborated on the revision of Bosworth's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, and was professor of English philology at Königsberg from 1872 until 1877, when he received a like position in Vienna.

Jakob Yngvason

He is professor of mathematical physics at the University of Vienna and Deputy Director of the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics (ESI) in Vienna.

Justo Gonzalo

Awarded a scholarship by the Council for the Extension of Studies and Scientific Research he studied in the nervenklinik (mental hospital) of the University of Vienna (1933–34) on clinic neurology and animal testing with H. Hoff, on brain cytoarchitecture with Otto Pötzl in the laboratory of Constantin von Economo, and on brain pathology in the mental hospital of the Goethe University Frankfurt (1934–35) with Karl Kleist.

Otto von Fürth

He worked at the University of Vienna, the University of Prague and the University of Straßburg where received his habilitation in medical chemistry in 1899.

Reinhold Bertlmann

Bertlmann studied Technical Physics at the Technical University Vienna and Theoretical Physics at the University of Vienna, where he received his Ph.D. degree.

Roman Sebastian Zängerle

From 1794–95 he studied Oriental languages at the monastery of Zwiefalten, and then taught scripture at Wiblingen 1796–99, at Mehrerau 1799-1801, again at Wiblingen 1801–03, at the Benedictine University of Salzburg 1803–07, at the University of Cracow 1807–09, at the University of Prague 1811–13, and at the University of Vienna 1813–24.

Romana Carén

After she had graduated from Camillo Sitte Höhere Technische Lehranstalt in structural engineering she studied law at the University of Vienna and astronomy at the University of Central Lancashire.

Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber

Danspeckgruber was educated at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz and the University of Vienna, Austria, (D.Laws); and at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland (Ph.D) where he studied under the supervision of Curt Gasteyger, and worked closely with Dusan Sidjanski at the University of Geneva.