Heinrich-Heine-University facts for kids

The Heinrich-Heine-University is the university of Düsseldorf, Germany, named after the most famous son of Düsseldorf, the poet Heinrich Heine.

History

In the era of Napoleon Bonaparte there was the first university in Düsseldorf, which ended after Napoleon surrendered. So in the further 19th century there was only a Medical Academy and the famous Arts School of Düsseldorf and a Teacher Academy (Special University only for studying to became a teacher) until the 1970s, but no regular university, in Düsseldorf. In the 1960s the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia decided to have a regular university in the state's capital. The university started about 1970. It got its name only in the 1980s, because the medicine faculty wanted to have a physician's name, because of the tradition as Medical Academy.

Current situation

Currently the Heinrich-Heine-University is a university with about 20,000 students, which is middle-class in Germany. It has a lot of subjects in sciences, arts, economics, and so on. The deep points are on biological-medicinal research in sciences and some deep points in arts, economics, political sciences, and philosophy.

Subjects

Like most German universities it has many subjects:

Images for kids

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  Main pedestrian route

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  University and State Library Düsseldorf

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  The O.A.S.E (German pronunciation: [oˈaː.zə] – "Ort des Austauschs, des Studiums und der Entwicklung" – platform of exchange, study and development – also the acronym Oase translates to oasis) encompasses the library for medical literature and constitutes the centre for studying and learning of the Faculty of Medicine.

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  The Oeconomicum is home to the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics.

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  Building of the Faculty of Law: the Juridicum.

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  Student housing on campus (established in 1992).

See also

In Spanish: Universidad de Düsseldorf para niños