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Map
The city of Vienna and the UniversityMap
The interactive map offers an orientation in space. It shows the different buildings of the university through time. Besides the current city map, a historical map of the City of Vienna can be faded in (Franziszeischer Kataster 1829).
Contents change according to the position of the time slider on the bottom of the map. Buildings, events and people of university history are located in today’s geographical surroundings, but you can also historical geographical changes in the City of Vienna. -
Main Topics
Split into seven main topics encompassing the 650 years of university history, you can find topics that include such subjects as the university’s deed of foundation, the 1848 revolution, denazification and open access to the university. A total of ...
Welcome
650 plus – History of the
University of Vienna
Welcome to the website dedicated to the 650 years of University of Vienna history.
This history is presented through varied approaches via hypertextually connected content.
Topical access allows comprehensive insights with over 70 topics and articles in English.
Temporal and spatial references can be found on the interactive timeline and map.
Current topic
525 Years Since the Founding of the “Collegium Poetarum”
On October 31, 1501, Emperor Maximilian I signed the charter establishing the “Collegium Poetarum et Mathematicorum.”
The establishment of this college, which operated outside the traditional faculty structures, was initiated by Konrad Celtis to ensure the establishment of humanistic disciplines despite reservations on the part of the university. Graduates of the College of Poets did not receive the usual magister’s or doctor’s degrees, but were instead crowned with the poet’s laurel. This highest humanist honor entitled them, among other things, to teach at the imperial faculties of arts. Four teaching chairs, funded by the sovereign, were established for the members of the college (poetics, rhetoric, mathematics, and astronomy). The institutionalization of humanistic curricula sought by Celtis did not occur until the university reforms of Ferdinand I.
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Seven main topics
Persons
Currently more than 3,400 individuals with particular importance to the university history of Vienna are gathered in this profile database. This database includes basic data about the individuals, their functions (e.g. rector) and honors, as well as a growing number of short biographies.
See also main topic Actors
Images
The display depot offers an image-oriented approach to the website’s contents.
You can research in it with the help of filter and search functions.
Buildings
This category includes important historical and current university buildings with brief information on each building’s history.
These can be located on historic and current maps of Vienna and can be contextualized with the help of additional texts via links within the website.
