What is Heinrich-Heine-University?
'''Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf''' ('''HHU''') ({{lang-de|Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf}}) is the university of [[Düsseldorf]], Germany, named after the most famous son of Düsseldorf, the [[poet]] [[Heinrich Heine]]. [[Image:Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf.jpg|thumb|275 px|right]] ==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 (city)|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: {{columns-list| * Mathematics * Physics * Computer Sciences * Chemistry * Biology * Medicine * Dental Medicine * Philosophy * Psychology * Social sciences and Politics * English Language and literature * Romance Languages (French, Spanish, Italian) and literature * Latin and Old Greek * German Language and Literature * Linguistics and Computer Linguistics * Eastern Asian Sciences (deep point Japan) * Media Sciences * History * History of Arts * Economics * Laws * Geography * Sports * Educational Sciences }} == Other websites == * http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de {{authority control}}