The University of Hamburg was founded on the 1 April 1919 by Wilhelm Stern and others. The University grew out of the previous "Allgemeinen Vorlesungswesen" and the "Kolonialinstitut" as well as the "Akademischen Gymnasium". Today there are around 41,000 students (of the the start of 2004). The most well known professor is Harald Wohlrapp .

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• Uni-Geschichte

Faculties

FB 01: Evangelical Theology

FB 02: Law

FB 03: Economics

FB 04: Medicine, see also Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

FB 05: Social Sciences

FB 06: Erziehungswissenschaften

FB 07: Language, Literature and Communications

FB 08: Philosophy and History

FB 09: Ethnology

FB 10: Orientalism

FB 11: Mathematics

FB 12: Physics

FB 13: Chemistry

FB 14: Biology

FB 15: Geo-Sciences

FB 16: Psychology

FB 18: Information Technology

FB 19: Sport Sciences

• - Bio-Information Technology Centre

University Institutes

Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg [1] (bild. Kunst, Medien, Industriedesign, Architektur, Bühnenbild, Kunstpädagogik)

Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Carl von Ossietsky

Regionales Rechenzentrum der Universität Hamburg