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University of Innsbruck

The University of Innsbruck (German: Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck; Latin: Universitas Leopoldino Franciscea) is a public research university in Innsbruck, the capital of the Austrian federal state of Tyrol, founded on October 15, 1669.[2]

Type

Public

October 15, 1669 (1669-10-15) (as a university)

Veronika Sexl

3.966 (300 professors)[1]

1,607

28.106[1](May 2022)

Innsbruck
,
Austria

47°15′46″N 11°23′4″E / 47.26278°N 11.38444°E / 47.26278; 11.38444

Urban

www.uibk.ac.at

It is the largest education facility in the Austrian Bundesland of Tirol, and the third largest in Austria behind the University of Vienna and the University of Graz. Significant contributions have been made in many branches, most of all in the physics department. Further, regarding the number of Web of Science-listed publications, it occupies the third rank worldwide in the area of mountain research.[3]

University rankings

301–400 (2023)

=362 (2024)

301–350 (2024)

=429 (2023)

Faculty of ,

Architecture

Faculty of ,

Biology

Faculty of ,

Catholic Theology

Faculty of and Pharmacy,

Chemistry

Faculty of and Statistics,

Economics

Faculty of ,

Education

Faculty of Technical Sciences (formerly Faculty of Engineering Science and before that Faculty of Civil Engineering),

Faculty of and Atmospheric Sciences,

Geography

Faculty of Humanities 1 ( and History),

Philosophy

Faculty of Humanities 2 ( and Literature),

Language

Faculty of ,

Law

Faculty of , Computer Science and Physics,

Mathematics

Faculty of and Sports science,

Psychology

School of and Sociology,

Political Sciences

School of ,

Management

School of (teacher training).

Education

The new plan of organisation (having become effective on October 1, 2004) installed the following 16 faculties to replace the previously existing six faculties:


As of 1 January 2004, the Faculty of Medicine was sectioned off from the main university to become a university in its own right. This is now called the Innsbruck Medical University (Medizinische Universität Innsbruck).


The inter-disciplinary unit called the Digital Science Center (DiSC) was founded in 2019 to integrate and promote digitalisation of scientific research as well as to support high-quality science.[20]

Theology faculty was opened 1562 as a in 1766 and the university used buildings from the Jesuit church in the Leopoldsaal (the original university).

Jesuit School

In 1924, main building and the university library opened.

1969 the scientific faculty and the construction faculty in Hotting west was opened.

1976 construction began on "Geiwi tower" for the former Philosophy faculty, an addition to the main building.

1997 The Social Science faculty (built in the former Fenner barracks) was opened.

2012 Center of Chemistry and Biomedicine was opened.

2023 Ágnes-Heller-House was opened.

Several university clinics of the medical university in the area became Tyrolian national hospitals.

The university buildings are spread across the city and there is no university campus as such. The most important locations are:

the university's alpine garden atop Patscherkofel

Alpengarten Patscherkofel

the university's botanical garden

Botanischer Garten der Universität Innsbruck

(Physics 2022)

Anton Zeilinger

(Physics 1936)

Victor Franz Hess

(Chemistry 1930)

Hans Fischer

(Chemistry 1928)

Adolf Windaus

(Chemistry 1923)

Fritz Pregl

professor and economist[6]

Clemens August Andreae

economist

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

musicologist

Wilhelm Ehmann

theologian

Karl Rahner

professor of political science

Anton Pelinka

mathematician and oldest verified Austrian man.

Leopold Vietoris

physicist

Anton Zeilinger

physicist

Peter Zoller

S.J., president of Canisius College (1966–1993)[21]

James Demske

theologian

Andreas Benedict Feilmoser

Austrian civil servant and politician

Walter Guggenberger

hymnwriter

Maria Luise Thurmair

President of Austria

Alexander van der Bellen

Prime Minister of Liechtenstein (1928-1945)

Josef Hoop

(born 1956) composer

Herbert Willi

journalist

Armin Wolf

founder and first chairman of the political party NEO

Matthias Strolz

ex-prime Minister of Croatia

Ivo Sanader

head of the Institute of Materials Chemistry,[22] Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien)

Günther Rupprechter

was professor of Canon Law in 1908 who was ousted from his post following critical remarks about the Catholic Church's interference in academic freedom.[23]

Ludwig Wahrmund

(born 6 November 1919 in Murnau am Staffelsee : executed 22 February 1943 in Munich) was a student of medicine and a member of the White Rose (Weiße Rose) resistance group.

Christoph Probst

S.J. (Portugalete, Biscay, Spain, 9 November 1930 – San Salvador, 16 November 1989) was a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, philosopher, and theologian. Ignacio Ellacuría was a close friend and colleague of the scholars Ignacio Martín-Baró and Segundo Montes, all of whom were assassinated with Ellacuría by the Salvadoran army, along with three colleagues and two employees. He earned his master's degree at Innsbruck University.

Ignacio Ellacuría

S.J. (Valladolid, Spain, 15 May 1933 – San Salvador, El Salvador, 16 November 1989) was a scholar, philosopher, educator, sociologist and Jesuit priest. Segundo Montes was a close friend and colleague of the scholars Ignacio Martín-Baró and Ignacio Ellacuría, all of whom were murdered with Montes by the Salvadoran army, along with three other colleagues and two other employees. He earned his master's degree at Innsbruck.

Segundo Montes

(1897–1977) was Austria chancellor and was imprisoned until 1945 after the anschluss (1938).

Kurt von Schuschnigg

List of early modern universities in Europe

University of Innsbruck

Innsbruck Medical University

Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol

@ The Catholic Encyclopedia

Innsbruck University