university of Mainz
{{short description|Public university in Mainz, Germany}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}}
{{Infobox university
| name = Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
| native_name = Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
| native_name_lang = de
| image_size = 150px
| image_alt =
| caption = Historic Seal of the University of Mainz
| latin_name =
| motto = Ut omnes unum sint
German: Dass alle eins seien
| mottoeng = That they all may be one
| established = 1477 (University of Mainz)
Re-opened
1946 (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
| closed =
| type = Public
| president = {{Interlanguage link multi|Georg Krausch|de|vertical-align=sup}}
| administrative_staff = 7,825
| students = 32,000
| undergrad =
| postgrad =
| doctoral =
| city = Mainz
| state = Rhineland Palatinate
| country = Germany
| campus =
| website = {{URL|1=https://www.uni-mainz.de/en/|2=uni-mainz.de}}
| logo = 200px
| image_name = Rector's Seal of the University of Mainz.svg
| coor = {{coord|49|59|32|N|8|14|17|E|region:DE-RP_type:edu|display=inline,title}}
| affiliations = U15
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| colors = {{color box|#C1002A}} Red
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The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz ({{langx|de|link=no|Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz}}) is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany. It has been named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. {{As of|2018|post=,}} it had approximately 32,000 students enrolled in around 100 academic programs. The university is organized into 11 faculties.
The university is a member of the German U15, a group of fifteen major research and medical universities in Germany. It also participates in the IT-Cluster Rhine-Main-Neckar and forms part of the Rhine-Main-Universities (RMU) along with Goethe University Frankfurt and Technische Universität Darmstadt.
Founded in 1477, it is one of the oldest universities in Europe and one of the most prestigious in Germany.{{Cite book |last=Rüegg |first=Walter |title=Geschichte der Universität in Europa |date=1993 |publisher=C. H. Beck |isbn=978-3-406-36952-0 |location=München}}
Faculties
The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is divided in ten faculties since 07 April 2024.
- Faculty of Catholic and Protestant Theology
- Faculty of Social Sciences, Media, and Sports
- Faculty of Law, Management, and Economics
- University Medicine
- Faculty of Philosophy and Philology
- Faculty of Translation Studies, Linguistics, and Cultural Studies
- Faculty of History and Cultural Studies
- Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science
- Faculty of Chemistry, Pharmacy and Geosciences
- Faculty of Biology
The academies for music and art are independent art colleges of the Johannes Gutenberg University, the Hochschule für Musik Mainz and the {{ill|Kunsthochschule Mainz|de}}.{{cite web |url=http://www.afbk-mainz.de/content/akademie/historie.html |title=Kunsthochschule Mainz: Historie |access-date=29 March 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100123194331/http://www.afbk-mainz.de/content/akademie/historie.html |archive-date=23 January 2010 }} With the amendment to the Higher Education Act in the fall of 2010 the Academy from the Department of the University structure removed and renamed to art school in Mainz at the Johannes Gutenberg University., Call Date 29 March 2011
Campus
The University of Mainz is one of few campus universities in Germany. Nearly all its institutions and facilities are located on the site of a former barracks in the south west part of the city. The university medical centre is located off campus, as is the Department of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Sciences, which was integrated with the university in 1949 and is located in Germersheim. On campus next to the university is the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, the Institute of Molecular Biology, the electron accelerator MAMI, the research reactor TRIGA, the botanical garden, a sports stadium and an indoor swimming pool. Mainz Academy of Arts (Kunsthochschule Mainz) is located off campus.
Academic profile
The range of studies is comprehensive; the university lacks some technical studies, veterinary medicine and nutrition science. One can nonetheless study the theology, history of books, athletics, music, visual arts, theatre, and film.
Today the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz has approximately 36,000 students ({{As of|2010|lc=on}}) and consists of over 150 institutions and clinics. The university offers international programs, such as the award-winning choir EuropaChorAkademie, founded by Joshard Daus in 1997, in collaboration with the University of the Arts Bremen.{{cite web|url=https://www.international-office.uni-mainz.de/programs/|title=International Study Programs|publisher=University of Mainz|access-date=11 May 2017|archive-date=1 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201040850/https://www.international-office.uni-mainz.de/programs/|url-status=dead}}
One of the instruments carried by the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, a miniature Mössbauer spectrometer, was developed at the university.
The University of Mainz does currently levy fees or tuition (Studiengebühren) for a regular course of study. Senior citizen students, auditing students, and certain postgraduate students may be subject to higher fees.{{Cite web|url=https://www.studium.uni-mainz.de/mein-studium/studienorganisation/rueckmeldung/|title= Rückemeldebeitrag|date=April 7, 2025}}
Rankings
{{Infobox Germany university rankings
| QS = 464
| QS_N = 27
| QS_year = 2024
| QS_ref = {{cite web|url=https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2024|title=QS World University Rankings 2024|access-date=16 July 2023|website=QS World University Rankings}}
| THE = 251–300
| THE_N = 25–31
| THE_year = 2024
| THE_ref = {{cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2024/world-ranking|title=World University Rankings 2024|access-date=27 September 2023|website=Times Higher Education World University Rankings|date=27 September 2023 }}
| ARWU = 201–300
| ARWU_N = 10–19
| ARWU_year = 2023
| ARWU_ref = {{cite web|url=https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2023|title=2023 Academic Ranking of World Universities|website=Academic Ranking of World Universities|access-date=15 August 2023}}
}}
As per the QS World University Rankings for 2024, the university holds the 464th position worldwide and is placed 27th nationally. On the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, it finds itself within the 251–300 range globally, and falls within the 25–31 range on a national scale in the 2024 edition. In terms of the ARWU World Rankings for 2022, the university is positioned in the 201–300 band internationally, and ranks between 10th and 19th in the country.
According to the report of the German Research Foundation (DFG) from 2018, the University of Mainz is one of the best universities in natural sciences in Germany. In the period under review from 2014 to 2016, the University of Mainz received the highest number of competitive grants in the natural sciences. The university also achieved the first place in physics.{{citation|title=Förderatlas 2018|date=18 July 2018|editor-surname1=Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft|periodical=Forschungsberichte|at=pp. 127 ff.|edition=1|location=Weinheim|publisher=Wiley-VCH|language=de|isbn=978-3-527-34520-5}} In a competitive selection process, the DFG selects the best research projects from researchers at universities and research institutes and finances them. The ranking is thus regarded as an indicator of the quality of research.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dfg.de/dfg_profil/aufgaben/index.html|title=Aufgaben der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)|website=dfg.de|language=de|access-date=14 October 2019|archive-date=10 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410124650/https://www.dfg.de/dfg_profil/aufgaben/index.html|url-status=live}}
= By subject =
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| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 100%; font-size: 90%"
|+ QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023{{cite web|url=https://www.topuniversities.com/subject-rankings/2022|title=QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022|date=23 March 2023|website=QS World University Rankings}} ! Subject !! Global !! National |
| {{Left|Arts & Humanities}}
! data-sort-value="283" | {{New entry|size=16}} 283 ! data-sort-value="15" | {{New entry|size=16}} 15 |
|---|
| Linguistics
| data-sort-value="151–200" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 151–200}} | data-sort-value="11–14" | {{Center|{{Fall|size=9}} 11–14}} |
| Archaeology
| data-sort-value="101–150" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 101–150}} | data-sort-value="9–12" | {{Center|{{Fall|size=9}} 9–12}} |
| English Language and Literature
| data-sort-value="201–250" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 201–250}} | data-sort-value="8–9" | {{Center|{{Fall|size=9}} 8–9}} |
| Modern Languages
| data-sort-value="201–250" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 201–250}} | data-sort-value="10–13" | {{Center|{{Rise|size=9}} 10–13}} |
| {{Left|Engineering and Technology}}
! N/A ! N/A |
| Engineering – Chemical
| data-sort-value="201–250" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 201–250}} | data-sort-value="9–10" | {{Center|{{Fall|size=9}} 9–10}} |
| {{Left|Life Sciences & Medicine}}
! N/A ! N/A |
| Pharmacy and Pharmacology
| data-sort-value="74" | {{Center|{{Rise|size=9}} 74}} | data-sort-value="4" | {{Center|{{Rise|size=9}} 4}} |
| {{Left|Natural Sciences}}
! data-sort-value="175" | {{Rise|size=9}} 175 ! data-sort-value="13" | {{Same position|size=9}} 13 |
| Chemistry
| data-sort-value="151–200" | {{Center|{{Rise|size=9}} 151–200}} | data-sort-value="13–14" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 13–14}} |
| Physics and Astronomy
| data-sort-value="112" | {{Center|{{Rise|size=9}} 112}} | data-sort-value="9" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 9}} |
| {{Left|Social Sciences & Management}}
! N/A ! N/A |
| Communication and Media Studies
| data-sort-value="101–150" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 101–150}} | data-sort-value="3–7" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 3–7}} |
| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 100%; font-size: 90%"
|+ THE World University Rankings by Subject 2023{{cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/by-subject|title=World University Rankings by subject|website=Times Higher Education World University Rankings}} ! Subject !! Global !! National |
| Arts & humanities
| data-sort-value="251–300" | {{Center|{{Fall|size=9}} 251–300}} | data-sort-value="21–27" | {{Center|{{Fall|size=9}} 21–27}} |
| Education
| data-sort-value="501–600" | {{Center|{{Fall|size=9}} 501–600}} | data-sort-value="27" | {{Center|{{Fall|size=9}} 27}} |
| Social sciences
| data-sort-value="201–250" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 201–250}} | data-sort-value="14–17" | {{Center|{{Fall|size=9}} 14–17}} |
| Clinical & health
| data-sort-value="301–400" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 301–400}} | data-sort-value="21–25" | {{Center|{{Fall|size=9}} 21–25}} |
| Life sciences
| data-sort-value="201–250" | {{Center|{{Rise|size=9}} 201–250}} | data-sort-value="20–25" | {{Center|{{Rise|size=9}} 20–25}} |
| Physical sciences
| data-sort-value="151–175" | {{Center|{{Rise|size=9}} 151–175}} | data-sort-value="12–15" | {{Center|{{Rise|size=9}} 12–15}} |
| Psychology
| data-sort-value="201–250" | {{Center|{{Rise|size=9}} 201–250}} | data-sort-value="20–23" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 20–23}} |
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| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 100%; font-size: 90%"
|+ ARWU Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2022{{cite web|url=https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/gras/2022|title=ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2022|website=Academic Ranking of World Universities}} ! Subject !! Global !! National |
| colspan="3" | Natural Sciences |
|---|
| Mathematics
| data-sort-value="301–400" | {{Center|{{New entry|size=16}} 301–400}} | data-sort-value="19–29" | {{Center|{{New entry|size=16}} 19–29}} |
| Physics
| data-sort-value="51–75" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 51–75}} | data-sort-value="3–5" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 3–5}} |
| Chemistry
| data-sort-value="201–300" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 201–300}} | data-sort-value="16–25" | {{Center|{{Rise|size=9}} 16–25}} |
| Earth Sciences
| data-sort-value="151–200" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 151–200}} | data-sort-value="13–16" | {{Center|{{Fall|size=9}} 13–16}} |
| Atmospheric Science
| data-sort-value="76–100" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 76–100}} | data-sort-value="2–6" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 2–6}} |
| colspan="3" | Engineering |
| Biomedical Engineering
| data-sort-value="101–150" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 101–150}} | data-sort-value="6–10" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 6–10}} |
| Materials Science & Engineering
| data-sort-value="301–400" | {{Center|{{Fall|size=9}} 301–400}} | data-sort-value="16–21" | {{Center|{{Rise|size=9}} 16–21}} |
| Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
| data-sort-value="201–300" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 201–300}} | data-sort-value="8–17" | {{Center|{{Fall|size=9}} 8–17}} |
| Environmental Science & Engineering
| data-sort-value="401–500" | {{Center|{{Fall|size=9}} 401–500}} | data-sort-value="22–28" | {{Center|{{Fall|size=9}} 22–28}} |
| colspan="3" | Life Sciences |
| Biological Sciences
| data-sort-value="201–300" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 201–300}} | data-sort-value="20–30" | {{Center|{{Fall|size=9}} 20–30}} |
| Human Biological Sciences
| data-sort-value="76–100" | {{Center|{{Fall|size=9}} 76–100}} | data-sort-value="9–12" | {{Center|{{Fall|size=9}} 9–12}} |
| colspan="3" | Medical Sciences |
| Clinical Medicine
| data-sort-value="301–400" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 301–400}} | data-sort-value="23–30" | {{Center|{{Rise|size=9}} 23–30}} |
| Dentistry & Oral Sciences
| data-sort-value="201–300" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 201–300}} | data-sort-value="22–28" | {{Center|{{Rise|size=9}} 22–28}} |
| Medical Technology
| data-sort-value="201–300" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 201–300}} | data-sort-value="24–30" | {{Center|{{Rise|size=9}} 24–30}} |
| Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
| data-sort-value="76–100" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 76–100}} | data-sort-value="7–9" | {{Center|{{Fall|size=9}} 7–9}} |
| colspan="3" | Social Sciences |
| Political Sciences
| data-sort-value="201–300" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 201–300}} | data-sort-value="13–16" | {{Center|{{Fall|size=9}} 13–16}} |
| Communication
| data-sort-value="34" | {{Center|{{Rise|size=9}} 34}} | data-sort-value="2" | {{Center|{{Same position|size=9}} 2}} |
| Psychology
| data-sort-value="151–200" | {{Center|{{Rise|size=9}} 151–200}} | data-sort-value="12–17" | {{Center|{{Rise|size=9}} 12–17}} |
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Notable people
= Old University =
- Johann Joachim Becher, physician, professor of medicine 1663–1664
- Johann Friedrich von Pfeiffer, economist, professor of cameral science 1784–1787
- Andreas Joseph Hofmann, professor of law 1784–1793, president of the first democratically elected parliament in Germany
- Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, professor of anatomy and physiology 1784–1797
- Georg Forster, naturalist and world traveller, university librarian 1788–1793
= Professors (post 1946) =
- Karl-Otto Apel (philosophy)
- Kai Arzheimer (political science)
- Thomas Bierschenk (ethnology and sociology)
- Herbert Braun (theology)
- Hauke Brunkhorst (education)
- Micha Brumlik (education)
- Paul J. Crutzen (chemistry, Nobel Prize 1995)
- Fritz Strassmann (physics)
- Jürgen Falter (political science)
- Hans Galinsky (American studies)
- Gerhard Grohs (African studies) (Sociology) (1975–1994)
- Leopold Horner (chemistry)
- Alfred Kröner (geology)
- Karl Cardinal Lehmann (theology)
- Carola Lentz (social anthropologist)
- Thomas Metzinger (philosophy)
- Gottfried Münzenberg (physics)
- Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (communication studies)
- W. Pannenberg (theology)
- Rolf Peffekoven (economics)
- Klaus Rose (economics)
- Dorothee Sölle (theology)
- Beatrice Weder di Mauro (economics)
- Isabel Schnabel (economics)
- Fritz Straßmann (nuclear chemistry, discovered nuclear fission with Otto Hahn)
- Werner Weidenfeld (political science, former adviser of German chancellor Helmut Kohl)
- Jürgen Gauß (theoretical chemistry)
- Uğur Şahin (medicine)
- Özlem Türeci (medicine)
- Klaus Wälde (economics){{cite web|title=Chair of Macroeconomics, Johannes Gutenberg-University|url=http://www.macro.economics.uni-mainz.de/ |publisher=Macro.economics.uni-mainz.de|accessdate=23 September 2015}}
= Alumni =
Alumni of the old University include theologian Friedrich Spee as well as Austrian diplomat Klemens von Metternich, who studied law from 1790 to 1792, and revolutionary Adam Lux.
Among notable alumni from the post-1946 University of Mainz are German politicians Malu Dreyer (SPD, Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate); Rainer Brüderle (FDP, Federal Minister for Economics and Technology); {{ill|Horst Teltschik|de}} (former security advisor to Chancellor Helmut Kohl and president of the Munich Conference on Security Policy); Kristina Schröder, Federal Minister of Family and Social Affairs; Franz Josef Jung (CDU, Former Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs and former Federal Minister of Defence); Jens Beutel, Oberbürgermeister (mayor) of Mainz; particle physicist Vera Lüth; nuclear and particle physicist Johanna Stachel; sculptor Karlheinz Oswald; sports journalist Béla Réthy; political journalist Peter Scholl-Latour; Dieter Stolte, former director-general of ZDF; soprano Elisabeth Scholl; a founder of American avant-garde cinema Jonas Mekas; his brother Adolfas Mekas, film director, writer and educator; mural artist Rainer Maria Latzke; the German climatologist Wolfgang Seiler; Abbas Zaryab, notable Iranian scholar and historian; Indonesian Toraja Church pastor and politician, Ishak Pamumbu Lambe;{{cite news |first=|last=|title=Mantan Ketua BPS Gereja Toraja, Pdt I.P Lambe Wafat, Berikut Biografi Singkatnya |url=https://kareba-toraja.com/mantan-ketua-bps-gereja-toraja-pdt-i-p-lambe-wafat-berikut-biografi-singkatnya/ |work=Kareba Toraja |date=1 January 2021 |access-date=28 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128134318/https://kareba-toraja.com/mantan-ketua-bps-gereja-toraja-pdt-i-p-lambe-wafat-berikut-biografi-singkatnya/ |archive-date=28 January 2021 |url-status=live}} Srinivas Kishanrao Saidapur, an Indian reproductive biologist; American educator Biddy Martin; Stanisław Potrzebowski, one of leaders of the ridnovir movement in Poland; German opera singer Christine Esterházy; and Ruth Katharina Martha Pfau, nun, physician and writer who devoted more than 50 years of her life to fighting leprosy in Pakistan.
See also
References
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External links
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