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29 unusual facts about University of Bonn


Arthur Byron Coble

He traveled to Germany where he studied at Greifswald University and the University of Bonn.

Bryology

Centers of research in bryology include University of Bonn, Germany, the University of Helsinki, Finland and the New York Botanical Garden.

Charles M. Olmsted

After Harvard, Olmsted attended Göttingen University and Wilhelm Institute in Bonn from 1902 to 1906, obtaining his PhD from the Kaiser.

Fluorobenzene

PhF was first reported in 1886 by O. Wallach at the University of Bonn, who prepared the compound in two steps, starting also with a phenyldiazonium salt.

Frances H. Flaherty

Frances Johnson Hubbard was born in Bonn, Germany into "a household of erudition, gentility, and privilege," the daughter of Lucius L. Hubbard (1849-1933), who was studying mineralogy at the University of Bonn, and his wife Frances (1852-1927).

Frederick William University

University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)

Friedrich Ernst Krukenberg

He was a brother to orthopedic surgeon Hermann Krukenberg (1863-1935) and Georg Heinrich Peter Krukenberg (1856-1899), who was a professor of gynecology at the University of Bonn.

Godavaya

From 1994 onwards, a team of German archaeologists from the University of Bonn directed by late Prof. Dr. Helmut Roth, Dr. Udo Recker (1994-1996) and Oliver Kessler M.A. (1997 onwards) conducted joint excavations at Godavaya with the Archaeological Department of Sri Lanka, under Director General Dr. W.H. Wijeyapala and the German Archaeological Institute (DAI).

Heinrich Schrörs

During the following year, with encouragement from Friedrich Althoff (1839–1908), he attained the chair of church history at the University of Bonn.

Henryk Cioch

In the years 1984-1985 due to H. Herzt Stiftung Foundation visited the annual scholarship at the University of Bonn.

Hermann Krukenberg

Krukenberg studied medicine at the Universities of Bonn, Strassburg and Heidelberg.

Horst Knörrer

University of Bonn under the supervision of Egbert Brieskorn (Isolierte Singularitäten von Durchschnitten zweier Quadriken).

Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh

Kalantar-Zadeh received his undergraduate degree in medicine from the University of Bonn (Germany) and his M.D. degree from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany).

Lajos Návay

After that he studied law in the capital city then listened to half a year in the Universities of Berlin and Bonn.

Leonhard Schmitz

He studied at the University of Bonn, where he earned a Ph.D., and was in particular influenced by Barthold Georg Niebuhr; Schmitz later published in England a collection of notes taken from Niebuhr's lectures as Lectures on Roman History (1844).

Live Oak Plantation, Florida

Though he did not practice medicine, Tennent attended the University of Edinburgh and University of Bonn.

LPAR6

In February 2008 researchers at the University of Bonn announced they have found the genetic basis of two distinct forms of inherited hair loss, opening a broad path to treatments for baldness.

Ludwig Immanuel Magnus

His reputation as a mathematician was established by 1834 and an honorary doctorate conferred on him by the University of Bonn.

Max Fesca

In 1897, he accepted a post as lecturer in tropical agriculture at the Agricultural University of Berlin and during the 1899/1900 winter semester, he lectured at the Agricultural University of Bonn-Poppelsdorf.

Monika Piazzesi

Piazzesi received an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Bonn in 1994 and her Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University in 2000 .

Norbert Lossau

Lossau studied the Finnish language and Scandinavian studies at the Universities of Bonn and Göttingen, where he graduated in 1988 with a Master's degree.

Old Mine Park Archeological Site

It was scientifically studied in 1887 by Adolph Gurlt of the University of Bonn.

Otto von Camphausen

Having studied jurisprudence and political economy at the universities of Bonn, Heidelberg, Münich and Berlin, he entered the legal career at Cologne, and immediately devoted his attention to financial and commercial questions.

Philip Le Couteur

Le Couteur then studied experimental psychology at the University of Bonn, Germany until early 1913 when he was appointed lecturer in mental and moral philosophy in the newly established University of Western Australia.

Stefan Lehmann

Stefan Lehmann studied classical archaeology, ancient history, art history and cultural history in Berlin and at the University of Bonn.

Udo Recker

In 1999 Recker finished his doctoral thesis at the University of Bonn.

Udo Recker is a German archaeologist (M.A. University of Bonn 1995, Ph.D. University of Bonn 1999).

Ulrike Schaede

Schaede received her Ph.D. in Japanese Studies/Economics from University of Marburg, Germany, in 1989, and an M.A. in Japanese Studies/Economics (1987) and a Translator's Diploma in Japanese (1985) from University of Bonn, Germany.

Wolf Tegethoff

Tegethoff studied art history, urban design, economic history and social history at the University of Bonn and Columbia University, New York.


August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben

The son of a merchant and Mayor of his native city, he was educated at the classical schools of Helmstedt and Braunschweig, and afterwards at the universities of Göttingen and Bonn.

Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve

He graduated from Princeton in 1849 at the age of eighteen, and went on to study under Johannes Franz in Berlin, under Friedrich Ritschl at Bonn and under Schneidewin at Göttingen, where he received his doctor's degree in 1853.

Buddhist studies

Prominent European programs include Oxford University and Cambridge University, School of Oriental and African Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Hamburg, University of Munich, University of Heidelberg, University of Bonn, University of Vienna, Ghent University, and the Sorbonne.

Ekkehart Schlicht

He has also held guest professorships at University of Bonn (1975–76), Brown University (1987/88), the University of Minnesota (1991), University of Melbourne (1995), and University of California at Berkeley (2000/2001), as well as many further research positions.

Felix Otto

He studied mathematics at the University of Bonn, finishing his Ph.D. thesis in 1993 under the supervision of Stephan Luckhaus.

Franz Bücheler

In 1856 he graduated from the University of Bonn with a dissertation on linguistic studies of the Emperor Claudius.

Franz Jakob Clemens

After spending some time in an educational institutional at Metz, he entered, at the age of sixteen, the Jesuit College of Fribourg, Switzerland, attended the Gymnasium at Koblenz, and thence passed to the University of Bonn.

Hendrik Elias

Elias was a noted academic, holding doctorates in both Law and Philosophy from studies at the Catholic University of Leuven, the University of Paris and the University of Bonn before serving in a number of leading roles in both academia and the law.

Jacob Burckhardt

He spent part of 1841 at the University of Bonn, studying under the art historian Franz Kugler, to whom he dedicated his first book, Die Kunstwerke der belgischen Städte (1842).

Jakob Schipper

He studied modern languages in Bonn, Paris, Rome, and Oxford, collaborated on the revision of Bosworth's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, and was professor of English philology at Königsberg from 1872 until 1877, when he received a like position in Vienna.

Manfred Niekisch

Manfred Niekisch studied biology at the University of Cologne/DE and obtained his PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Bonn/DE with a study on the dispersal strategies of the yellow-bellied toad.

Maria Leptin

After completing her studies in mathematics and biology at the University of Bonn and the University of Heidelberg, Maria Leptin worked for her PhD at Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland, (1979-1983) studying the B-lymphocytes activation under the supervision of Fritz Melchers.

Mary Agria

She spent 1962-1963 studying theater arts at the University of Bonn, Germany thanks to a Marshall Plan scholarship.

Michael Griebel

Griebel is currently director of the Institute for Numerical Simulation at the University of Bonn, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing in Sankt Augustin.

Pavel Kroupa

Pavel Kroupa (born 24 September 1963 in Jindřichův Hradec, Czechoslovakia) is an Australian astrophysicist and professor at the University of Bonn.

Robert Kaleski

Political pressures in Poland led John Kaleski to move to Germany, where he held academic appointments at Bonn and Heidelberg Universities, and from there to Australia where he re-built a career as a mining engineer and assayer.

Ronald Jensen

University of Bonn, the University of Oslo, the University of Freiburg, the University of Oxford, and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, from which he retired in 2001.

Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff

Sigrid Doris Peyerimhoff (born January 12, 1937, in Rottweil) is a theoretical chemist and Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Bonn, Germany.

Uxul

Archaeological operations have been conducted on Uxul since 2009 and this is primarily being managed by the University of Bonn in Germany and other independent Mexican researchers.