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Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
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Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (frē`drĭkh shĭl`ər, yā`nə), at Jena, Germany; founded 1548 as an academy; became the Univ. of Jena 10 years later. The school gained an international reputation in the 18th cent. when G. W. F. Hegel Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich , 1770–1831, German philosopher, b. Stuttgart; son of a government clerk. Life and Works


Educated in theology at Tübingen, Hegel was a private tutor at Bern and Frankfurt.
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, Johann Fichte Fichte, Johann Gottlieb , 1762–1814, German philosopher. After studying theology at Jena and working as a tutor in Zürich and Leipzig, he became interested in Kantian philosophy.
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, and Friedrich von Schiller Schiller, Friedrich von, 1759–1805, German dramatist, poet, and historian, one of the greatest of German literary figures, b. Marbach, Württemberg.
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 taught there. In 1934 the university's name was changed to reflect its connection with Schiller. It includes faculties of theology, law, medicine, philosophy, economics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, physics and astronomy, psychology, education, physical education, and technology. It has institutes of languages, classical studies, and the history of medicine and natural science, as well as a botanical garden and an herbarium.


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