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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 40 topics with more than 90 articles...
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 140 topics and articles.
Temporal and spatial references can be found on the interactive timeline and map.
Current topic
550th anniversary of the death of Michael Puff
In 1473, the physician and chemist Michael Puff, one of the most important professors at the University of Vienna in the 15th century, died.
Puff was born around 1400 in the Lower Austrian town of Schrick. He matriculated at the University of Vienna in 1417 and held his own lectures as magister artium from 1423. After studying medicine, he was awarded a doctorate in 1433. Between 1435 and 1470 he was dean of the medical faculty eleven times.
Michael Puff became famous for his “Büchlein von den ausgebrannten Wässern” (Little Book of Burnt-out Waters), which existed in handwritten versions as early as 1455 and was published in 1477 as the first printed distilling book in the world. The work contains information on 82 different herbal remedies. Among Puff's numerous writings, his collections of recipes for home remedies for the poor are of particular importance. The very expensive components often prescribed by doctors, such as gold, did not appear in his recipes.
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Seven main topics
Persons
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.
