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| University of Bonn | |
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| Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn | |
| Established | 1818 |
| Type | Public |
| President | Jürgen Fohrmann |
| Admin. staff | 6,500 |
| Students | 27,800 |
| Location | Bonn,  Germany |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | Europaeum |
| Website | http://www.uni-bonn.de |
| Data as of June 2009[update] | |
The University of Bonn (German: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university in Bonn, Germany. Started in 1818, the University of Bonn is today one of the leading universities in Germany. The University of Bonn offers a large number of programs in a range of subjects. Its library holds more than two million volumes. The University of Bonn has 525 professors and 27,800 students. Among its famous students and teachers are seven Nobel prize winners, two Fields Medalists, eleven Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners, Pope Benedict XVI, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Joseph Schumpeter and Joseph Goebbels.
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Building of the University Library
A nurse attending to an infant in the University Hospital of Bonn in November 1953
The university founder Frederick William III of Prussia.
Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz was a professor of chemistry at the University of Bonn from 1867 to 1896.
The Center of Advanced European Studies and Research.
The Electron Stretcher Accelerator ELSA at the Department of Physics.
Minke Whale skeleton, Museum Koenig.
