Heinrich-Heine-University

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The Heinrich-Heine-University is the university of Düsseldorf, Germany, named after the most famous son of Düsseldorf, the poet Heinrich Heine.

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[edit] History

In the era of Napoleon Bonaparte there was the first university in Düsseldorf, which endet after Napoleon surrendered. So in the further 19th century there was only a Medinic Academy and the famous Arts School of Düsseldorf and a Teacher Academy (Special University only for studying to became a teacher) until the 1970s, but no regular university, in Düsseldorf. In the 1960s the state government of North Rhine-Westfalia decided to have a regular university in the states capitol. The university started about 1970. It got its name first in the 1980's, because the medicine faculty wanted to have a physicans name, because of the tradition as Medicinic Academy.

[edit] Actual situation

Actually the Heinrich-Heine-University is a university with about 20,000 students, which is middle-class in Germany. It has a lot of subjects in sciences, arts, economics, and so on. The deep points are on biological-medicinical research in sciences and some deep points in arts, economics, political sciences, and philosophy.

[edit] Subjects

Like most German universities it has a bright spectra of subjects:

  • Mathematics
  • Physics
  • Computer Sciences
  • Chemistry
  • Biology
  • Medicine
  • Dental Medicine
  • Philosophy
  • Psychology
  • Social sciences and Politics
  • English Language and literature
  • Romantic Languages (French, Spanish, Italian) and literature
  • Latin and Old Greek
  • German Language and Literature
  • Linguistics and Computer Linguistics
  • Eastern Asian Sciences (deep point Japan)
  • Media Sciences
  • History
  • History of Arts
  • Economics
  • Laws
  • Geography
  • Sports
  • Educational Sciences

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