Science Fair Project Encyclopedia Friedrich Schiller University
of Jena As of 2004 has around 19,000 students and 340
professors. Its current rector Klaus Dicke is the 317th rector
in the history of the university. The university is organised
into the following ten faculties: - economics and business
administration - social and behavioural sciences - mathematics
and computer science - physics and astronomy - chemical and
earth sciences - biology and pharmacy In 1547 the elector John
Frederick the Magnanimous of Saxony , while a captive in the
hands of the emperor Charles V, conceived the plan of founding a
university at Jena, which was accordingly established by his
three sons. After having obtained a charter from the emperor
Ferdinand I, it was inaugurated on February 2, 1558. Prior to
the 20th century, University enrollment peaked in the 18th
century. The universities reputation peaked under the auspices
of duke Charles Augustus, Goethe's patron (1787–1806), when
Gottlieb Fichte, Georg Hegel, Friedrich Sche