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Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg
Facts
Established	1742 (first) 1743 (moved)
Location	Erlangen and Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany
Students	25,800
Faculties	11
Institutes	91
Chairs	ca. 265
Type	Public
Rector	Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Karl-Dieter Grüske
Address	Schlossplatz 4 91054 Erlangen (Germany)
Homepage	http://www.uni-erlangen.de

The castle in the center of Erlangen, known to many simply as the Schloss, is home to a large part of the university's administration

The Kollegienhaus, the historical central building and lecture hall of the University at the borders of the Schlossgarten

Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen Nuremberg (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (German), FAU (abbr.)), founded in 1742, is Bavaria's second largest state university with eleven faculties and 265 chairs. Of the faculties, nine are located in Erlangen and two in Nuremberg. There are 25,814 students enrolled (winter semester 2005/2006) at the university, of which about 2/3 are in Erlangen and 1/3 in Nuremberg. There are about 2,500 foreign students. With more than 10,000 employees, the university is the second largest in Bavaria.

The university was founded in 1742 in Bayreuth by Margrave Friedrich von Brandenburg-Bayreuth and moved to Erlangen in 1743. From the beginning, the university was a Protestant institution, but it slowly secularized. During the Nazi era, the university was it of the first that had a majority of NSDAP in the student council. In 1961 the business college in Nuremberg was merged with the university in Erlangen, which led to the present state of a university divided between two towns. A technical faculty was inaugurated in 1966 and the pedagogical college in Nuremberg became part of the university in 1972.

The following faculties were part of the university: (sorted in the order in which they were founded)

• Theological faculty
• Law faculty
• Medical faculty
• Philosophical faculty I (philosophy, history, and social sciences)
• Philosophical Faculty II (languages and literature)
• Science faculty I (mathematics and physics)
• Science faculty II (biology, chemistry, and pharmaceutics)
• Science faculty III (geography, geology / mineralogy /paleontology)
• Business- and social sciences faculty (1961) in Nuremberg
• Technical Faculty (1966)
• Pedagogical faculty (1972) in Nuremberg

In February 2007 the senate of the university decided upon a restructuring into five faculties [1]. Since October 2007 the FAU consists of:

• Philosophical faculty and department of theology
• Law and business science faculty
• Medical faculty
• Science faculty
• Technical faculty

• Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739–1810), naturalist, studied mammals.
• Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) founder of homeopathy
• Georg Simon Ohm (1789–1854), physicist, Ohm's law, named after him.
• Justus von Liebig (1803–1873), chemist, "father of the fertilizer industry".
• Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804–1872), philosopher, associated with the Young Hegelians, an atheist.
• Eduard Buchner (1860-1917), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1907
• Ludwig Erhard (1897-1977), Chancellor of Germany 1963-1966
• Emmy Noether (1882–1935), mathematician, Noether's theorem, named after her.
• Hans Geiger (1882-1945) physicist, Geiger counter
• Karlheinz Brandenburg (1954–), audio engineer, developer of the MP3 audio codec.

• Official Site of Friedrich Alexander University
• Complete Lecture Guide
• The university library
• Alumni Network and Faculty Association of the WiSo Nuremberg
• Collegium Alexandrinum public lecture courses