University of Jena

Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Latin: Universitas Litterarum Jenensis
Type	Public
Established	February 2, 1558; 466 years ago (1558-02-02)
Budget	€ 372 million[1]
President	Walter Rosenthal
Academic staff	3,415[2]
Administrative staff	5,151[2]
Students	18,219[3]
Location	Jena , Thuringia , Germany 50°55′42″N 11°34′56″E / 50.92833°N 11.58222°E / 50.92833; 11.58222
Campus	University town
Affiliations	Coimbra Group EUA
Website	www.uni-jena.de

The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (German: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form Uni Jena), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany.

The university was established in 1558 and is counted among the ten oldest universities in Germany. It is affiliated with six Nobel Prize winners, most recently in 2000 when Jena graduate Herbert Kroemer won the Nobel Prize for physics. It was renamed after the poet Friedrich Schiller who was teaching as professor of philosophy when Jena attracted some of the most influential minds at the turn of the 19th century. With Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, G. W. F. Hegel, F. W. J. Schelling and Friedrich Schlegel on its teaching staff, the university was at the centre of the emergence of German idealism and early Romanticism.

As of 2014^[update], the university has around 19,000 students enrolled and 375 professors. Its current president, Walter Rosenthal, has held the role since 2014.