University of Freiburg
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The
University of Freiburg (colloquially ), officially the
Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (), is a
public research university located in
Freiburg im Breisgau,
Baden-Württemberg,
Germany. The university was founded in 1457 by the
Habsburg dynasty as the second university in Austrian-Habsburg territory after the
University of Vienna. Today, Freiburg is the
fifth-oldest university in Germany, with a long tradition of teaching the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences and technology and enjoys a high academic reputation both nationally and internationally. The university is made up of 11
faculties and attracts students from across Germany as well as from over 120 other countries. Foreign students constitute about 18.2% of total student numbers.
The University of Freiburg has been associated with figures such as
Hannah Arendt,
Rudolf Carnap,
David Daube,
Johann Eck,
Hans-Georg Gadamer,
Friedrich Hayek,
Martin Heidegger,
Edmund Husserl,
Herbert Marcuse,
Friedrich Meinecke,
Edith Stein,
Paul Uhlenhuth,
Max Weber and
Ernst Zermelo. As of October 2020, 22 Nobel laureates are affiliated with the University of Freiburg as alumni, faculty or researchers, and 15 academics have been honored with the highest German research prize, the
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, while working at the university.
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