With approximately 48,000 students, the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (German: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München or LMU) is the second largest university in Germany (surpassed only by the University of Cologne). It is a member of the League of European Research Universities.
Munich's other major university is the Technical University of Munich.
Faculties
The University has currently 18 faculties:
- 01 - Faculty of Catholic Divinity
- 02 - Faculty of Protestant Divinity
- 03 - Faculty of Law
- 04 - Faculty of Business Administration
- 05 - Faculty of Economics
- 07 - Faculty of Medicine (incl. Dentistry)
- 08 - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
- 09 - Faculty of History and Arts
- 10 - Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Science
- 11 - Faculty of Psychology and Education
- 12 - Faculty of Cultural Studies
- 13/14 - Faculty of Languages and Literatures
- 15 - Faculty of Social Sciences
- 16 - Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics
- 17 - Faculty of Science
- 18 - Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy
- 19 - Faculty of Biology
- 20 - Faculty of Earth Sciences
History
The university originally existed as the University of Ingolstadt from 1472 (foundation right of Louis IX, called the Rich) to 1802 in Ingolstadt and was then moved to Landshut by Maximilian IV Joseph (the later Maximilian king of Bavaria). After a short time it was moved to the capital of Bavaria, Munich, in the year 1826, by Louis I.
Notable alumni
Nobel laureates
- Adolf von Baeyer, (Chemistry 1909)
- Hans Bethe, (Physics 1967)
- Gerd Binnig, (Physics 1986)
- Günter Blobel, (Physiology or Medicine 1999)
- Konrad Emil Bloch, (Physiology or Medicine 1964)
- Eduard Buchner, (Chemistry 1907)
- Peter Debye, (Chemistry 1936)
- Ernst Otto Fischer, (Chemistry 1973)
- Hans Fischer, (Chemistry 1930)
- Karl von Frisch, (Physiology or Medicine 1973)
- Werner Heisenberg, (Physics 1932)
- Gustav Hertz, (Physics 1926)
- Wolfgang Ketterle, (Physics 2001)
- Hans Adolf Krebs, (Physiology or Medicine 1953)
- Richard Kuhn, (Chemistry 1938)
- Max von Laue, (Physics 1914)
- Otto Loewi, (Physiology or Medicine 1936)
- Feodor Lynen, (Physiology or Medicine 1964)
- Wolfgang Pauli, (Physics 1945)
- Max Planck, (Physics 1918)
- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, (Physics 1901)
- Bert Sakmann, (Physiology or Medicine 1991)
- Johannes Stark, (Physics 1919)
- Heinrich Wieland, (Chemistry 1927)
- Wilhelm Wien, (Physics 1911)
- Richard Willstätter, (Chemistry 1915)
Politicians
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Contact
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
- 80539 München
- tel: (089) 2180-11
- Homepage: http://www.uni-muenchen.de/
Last updated: 07-29-2005 23:12:27
