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Berlin (UNIVERSITY OF a celebrated)

UNIVERSITY OF, a celebrated institution of learning in Berlin, Germany. It is, with the exception of Bonn, the youngest of the German universities. It was founded in 1810, when the Napoleonic victories had left Prussia apparently crushed and had even transferred her great University of Halle to the newly formed kingdom of Westphalia. The first rector of the university was Schmalz; the first deans of its faculties were Schleiermacher, Biener, Hufeland, and Fichte; and before it was 10 years old it had for professors such men as Niebuhr, Wolff, and Hegel. In more recent years, Ranke, Mommsen, Helmholtz, Virchow, and other famous scholars have added fame to the University. There are four faculties, theology, medicine, jurisprudence, and philosophy, with a total of 502 professors and teachers in 1914-1915.

At the satisfactory completion of the course, the doctor's degree is conferred.

The number of students in 1914-1915 was 8,035, besides a large number of nonmatriculated ones.