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Titelseite des Yearbooks der Sommerhochschule aus dem Jahr 1959

70 years Summer School

On 17 July 1949 the first Summer School of the University of Vienna was opened in Thumersbach near Zell am See. It was founded to reactivate the international scientific ties on the student level. In particular, it was intended to help improving Austrian-American relations. In this sense, primarily…

Ernst Wilhelm Ritter von Brücke (1819–1892), Physiologie, Anatomie, 1867

200th birthday of Ernst Brücke

On 6 June 1819 the later physiologist and histologist Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke was born. From 1849 to 1890, Brücke taught as a professor at the University of Vienna and expanded the Physiological Institute into an international research center. In 1868/69 he was the first Protestant elected to the…

75th anniversary of the death of Hans Leo Przibram

On 20 May 1944 zoologist Hans Leo Przibram died in the concentration camp Theresienstadt. Przibram taught from 1904 experimental zoology at the University of Vienna. At the same time he was co-founder of the “Biologische Versuchsanstalt” – a biological research institute, which in 1914 became part…

120th birthday of Percy L. Julian

On 11 April 1899, the future chemist Percy L. Julian was born in Montgomery, Alabama. Despite discrimination as an African American, he studied chemistry at DePauw University and Harvard University. From 1929 he continued his studies – probably as the first African American student – at the…

Karikatur auf die Einführung des Frauenstudiums

100 years of female enrolment at the Faculty of Law

Only a few months after women received the right to vote in the newly proclaimed Austrian Republic, the ban on women’s enrolment fell at the Faculty of Law with summer semester 1919. The study at this faculty was the entry requirement for the legal professions as well as for almost all higher public…

150th birthday of Julius Tandler

The future anatomist and social democratic healthcare politician Julius Tandler was born on 16 February 1869. In the inter-war period, Tandler was head of the First Anatomical Institute of the University of Vienna. Beginning in 1920, anti-Semitic attacks regularly occurred there, and became more…

500th anniversary of the death of Emperor Maximilian I

Emperor Maximilian I died on January 12, 1519. He was regarded as a significant supporter of humanism and employed famous intellectuals at his court that spread the ideology, such as Johannes Cuspinianus and Georg Tannstetter. For the leading humanistic disciplines of poetics and rhetoric, he…

Charlotte Bühler (1893–1974), Psychologie

125th birthday of Charlotte Bühler

The later developmental psychologist Charlotte Bühler was born on December 20, 1893 in Berlin. She habilitated in 1920 at the Technical University of Dresden and from 1923 worked as a lecturer in psychology at the University of Vienna. She was the third habilitated woman at the university after…

Denkmal für Emil Zuckerkandl (1849–1910) im Arkadenhof der Universität Wien, gestaltet von Anton Hanak, enthüllt 1924

80th anniversary of the “Reichspogromnacht”: The “Aryanization” of the Arkadenhof

The newly appointed National Socialist functionaries had not yet completed the “ cleansing” of the teaching staff and the expulsion of Jewish students in November 1938, when the Nazi Students' Union arbitrarily began the “Aryanization” of the university culture of remembrance against the will of the…

„Verkündigung der Republik“, Schlagzeile der Illustrierten Kronen Zeitung vom 13. November 1918

100 years of the founding of the Republic

The end of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy in 1918 effected a fundamental political reorganization for the whole of Europe. Like the Republic of "German Austria" (Deutschösterreich) proclaimed on November 12, 1918, the University of Vienna was also faced with many difficult…

„Ferien!“, Titelblatt „Treibt Leibesübungen! Mitteilungsblatt des Amtes für Leibesübungen der Deutschen Studentenschaft der…

The university is on vacation

Since the medieval beginnings of the European universities, a large number of lecture-free days have served to relax and recuperate. And even then, leisure time provoked jealousy and malice: so it was mocked in medieval Bologna that the number of days off would exceed that of working days at the…

Denkmal Josephs II. im Hof 2 des Campus der Universität Wien (Altes Allgemeines Krankenhaus AAKH)

20 years of University of Vienna Campus

The transformation of the Old General Hospital into the Campus of the University of Vienna was the largest university construction project in the 20th century. In 1988 the city of Vienna donated the inner-city hospital area of the university to establish a campus for the humanities and cultural…

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