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Die Rektorentafel („Rektorenfasten“) im Hauptgebäude der Universität Wien

„Rektorenfasten – ins licht gerückt“

Since 1892, the Latinized names of all rectors of the University of Vienna were chiseled into a rectors’ plaque in the aula of the main building. In the National Socialist era, this ritual was not continued, and after 1945 two empty lines were left for rectors under National Socialism, Fritz Knoll…

Josef von Sonnenfels (1733–1817), Rektor 1792/93, 1795/96

200th anniversary of Josef von Sonnenfelsʼ death

On April 25, 1817, Josef von Sonnenfels, a prominent representative of the Enlightenment in Austria, died. The Freemason and Illuminatus was appointed to the newly created Professorship for "Polizei- und Kameralwissenschaft" (political science) at the University of Vienna in 1763 and was elected as…

Kurt Schubert (1923–2007), bei der Gedenktafelenthüllung Frankgasse 1

10th anniversary of Kurt Schubertʼs death

On 4 February 2007 the renowned "founder of Viennese Judaism" Kurt Schubert died. Schubert studied with the National Socialist professor Viktor Christian in 1941-1945. While his doctoral teacher was engaged in anti-Semitic "Jewish research", the study of Hebrew for Schubert represented an act of…

1962 NIG | Neues Institutsgebäude, Stiegenaufgang mit der Bestimmung des Staatsgrundgesetztes von 1867 „Wissenschaft und ihr…

150 years “Science and its teaching are free”

The principle of academic freedom was, along with civil liberties, one of the main catchphrases of the liberal demands for reform in Vienna of the revolutionary year 1848. Since Joseph II and Maria Theresia’s reforms, teaching at the university was strictly bound by state rules. A student petition…

80 years AudiMax

The Auditorium Maximum, opened on December 14, 1936, is the largest lecture hall in the main building of the University of Vienna. During the inter-war period, the increasing number of students and the lectures to a large audience in the massively attended subjects of psychology, German and Romance…

Franz Joseph I., Kaiser von Österreich (Porträt)

100th anniversary of Emperor Franz Josephʼs death

100 years ago, on 21 November 2016, Franz Joseph I. died. During his 68-year reign the monarch also had a great influence on the 'Habsburg Home University' in Vienna. The resignation of his uncle as Emperor as well as Franz Joseph's accession to the throne can already be considered as a result of…

Das Siegel des Rektors der Universität Wien (Rektorssignet), 16. Jh.

Rectors of the University of Vienna

St. Coloman’s Day (October 13) was in the early days of the University of Vienna (1385-1629), the traditional date on which the rector of the University of Vienna has been elected for the upcoming winter semester. The rector, who was since the foundation at the top of the University, was first…

80th anniversary of Julius Tandlerʼs death

80 years ago, on 25 August 1936, the renowned Viennese anatomist and Socialist health politician Julius Tandler died in exile in Moscow. During the inter-war period, Tandler headed the 1st Anatomic Institute of the University of Vienna, where severe anti-Semitic riots regularly took place since 1920…

Arkadenhof im Hauptgebäude der Universität Wien mit Kastalia-Brunnen, 2013

Seven new monuments to female academics in the arcaded courtyard

On 30 June 2016 the first seven monuments for female academics were unveiled in the arcaded courtyard in the main building of the University of Vienna: to psychologist Charlotte Bühler, social scientist Marie Jahoda, physicists Berta Karlik and Lise Meitner, archaeologist Grete Mostny, linguist…

Eingang zum Mathematischen Seminar, Boltzmanngasse. – Hier fanden die Sitzungen des Wiener Kreises statt.

The Murder of Moritz Schlick

90 years ago, on June 22nd, 1936, professor of philosophy Moritz Schlick was shot on the Philosophenstiege (philosophers’ staircase) in the main building of the University of Vienna by a former student. The assassination was a symbol for the ruling cultural climate during the 1930s and for the…

Allegorie der profanen Wissenschaften, Ausschnitt aus dem Deckenfresko des Bibliothekssaales des Akademischen Kolleg (1734),…

Science at the University of Vienna

Until April 23 rd, 2016, a touring exhibition dedicated to the topic " Innovation through Basic Research" will be presented in the entrance hall (aula) of the university's main building.This historical and biographical exhibition shows significant results of basic research which originated at the…