ABOUT Universität Jena

Within a few years since the political changes in Eastern Germany, the small Thuringian town of Jena University has again grown into a scientific center of international standing. There is a spirit of optimism, with all this new beginning we look back fondly on the great traditions: Goethe, Schiller, Hegel and Fichte shaped the intellectual life, Abbe, Zeiss and Schott laid the foundation for economic prosperity. The more than 25,000 university and college students give the 100,000 residents-city that dream, surrounded by limestone rocks nestled into the valley of the Saale, a perpetually youthful flair. Some 100 years later, from the early modern university reform with its four faculties - developed a community of researchers with very diverse interests - philosophy, theology, law and medicine. The mathematician and astronomer Weigel, whose students also counted Leibniz is considered one of the founders of scientific thought. During this time, the roots of that universality which matured to flower, Jena should register the nickname "Stack City of Knowledge". Who busied themselves to such praise, had himself a "superintendent of the immediate preparations for Science and Art," no small part because: The Privy Councillor Johann Wolfgang Goethe undertook tactically important thinkers and researchers in the small province duchy and created systematically for their work ideal conditions . Libraries, botanical gardens, natural history archives and documents its laboratories - cameral - tidiness, institutions such as the observatory or the mineralogical collection go back to his initiative. At the same time Goethe benefited own scientific ambitions of this infrastructure. He worked closely with the chemist Doebereiner, the founder of the periodic table, or with the anatomist Justus Loder. His winning of success finding the premaxilla is considered one of the earliest examples of targeted medical research in the modern era, the prince of poets handwritten originator retains the Anatomical Collection of the University of Jena today.