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Der Ehrenring der Republik, Promotion sub auspiciis im Rahmen des Dies Academicus der Universität Wien 2014

Dies Academicus on 12 March 2024

The " Dies Academicus“ or "Rector's Day", which the University of Vienna celebrates annually on March 12, the day the university was founded, developed into the central holiday of the University of Vienna at the end of the 20th century. The introduction and establishment of this memorial event had…

Charlotte Bühler (1893–1974), Psychologie

50th anniversary of the death of Charlotte Bühler

The psychologist Charlotte Bühler died on 3 February 1974. She completed her doctorate at the University of Munich in 1918 and qualified as a professor at the Technical University of Dresden in 1920. After her husband Karl Bühler was appointed professor at the University of Vienna, Charlotte Bühler…

Paul de Sorbait (1624–1691), Medizin, Seuchenhygiene; Rektor 1668/69

400th birthday of Paul de Sorbait / Commemoration of the plague epidemic in Vienna 345 years ago

Paul de Sorbait was born on 25 January 1624. As an epidemiologist, Sorbait faced one of the greatest challenges of his time: the containment of the plague. Born in Hainaut Province (today in Belgium), Sorbait studied in Paderborn, Vienna and finally in Padua. He returned to Vienna with a doctorate…

Josef Weinheber bei der Verleihung des Ehrendoktorats

Critical reflection on previous honors awarded by the university

Since 2022, on behalf of the Senate and the Rectorate, a team of archivists and contemporary historians from the University Archives and the Forum Zeitgeschichte der Universität Wien (Contemporary History of the University of Vienna), with the participation of all 20 faculties and centres, has…

Ausstellung „Code Name Mary. Das außergewöhnliche Leben von Muriel Gardiner-Buttinger“, 20. Juni 2023 bis 31. Jänner 2024

Eröffnung der Ausstellung „Code Name Mary“

Rund um die Zeit der Machtübernahme des Nationalsozialismus in Österreich 1938 spielte eine Medizinstudentin der Universität Wien eine zentrale Rolle im Widerstand gegen Austrofaschismus und Nationalsozialismus. Die Amerikanerin Muriel Gardiner versteckte den Vorsitzenden der Revolutionären…

Tag der Archive – Das Archiv der Universität Wien stellt sich vor

Anlässlich des Internationalen Tages der Archive bietet das Archiv der Universität Wien am Dienstag, 6. Juni 2023, ab 10 Uhr kostenlose Sonderführungen durch Mitarbeiter*innen des Archivs an: 658 Jahre Universitätsgeschichte anhand ausgewählter Objekte (10 bzw. 14 Uhr) Von der Gründungsurkunde 1365…

Oberpedell testet „Siegfriedskopf“ (restauriert nach Beschädigung durch Demonstrant*innen, 1969)

100 years monument “Siegfriedskopf”

On 9 November 1923, the so-called “ Siegfriedskopf” – the monument to the students and teachers of the University of Vienna who died in the First World War – was unveiled in the assembly hall of the main building. The memorial, designed by Josef Müllner, was erected on the initiative of the anti…

550th birthday of Johannes Cuspinianus

The humanist, natural scientist, historiographer and diplomat Johannes Cuspinianus was born in Schweinfurt in December 1473. After studying in Leipzig and Würzburg, Cuspinian came to Vienna in 1492, where he was crowned a poet by Maximilian I. He was one of the most important scholars of the time…

Titelblatt der „Pragmatica sanctio“ von 1623

400 years “Sanctio pragmatica”

The “ Sanctio pragmatica” enacted by Emperor Ferdinand II on 13 October 1623 marked the victory of the Counter-Reformation and the recatholicisation of the university under the leadership of the Society of Jesus. The incorporation of the Jesuit College into the university meant the end of the “…

Titelbild „Büchlein von den ausgebrannten Wässern“, Erfurt 1498.

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…

650 years Johannes Schallermann

Johannes Schallermann, who later became a lawyer, was born around 1373. FSchallermann studied in Heidelberg and Padua and finally enrolled at the University of Vienna, where he also taught canon law. He was dean of the faculty of law three times and in the summer semester of 1416 he was elected…

150th anniversary of the start of construction of the university’s main building

In July 1873, construction of the monumental main building of the University of Vienna on the Ringstrasse began. In the course of the suppression of the revolution in 1848, the university had lost its former main building, the New Aula in the Stubenviertel, and its institutes had been spread out…

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