University of Breslau

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historic university university

The University of Breslau was a historic German university in the city of Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland), renowned as a major center of academic research and teaching in Central Europe until 1945.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historic university → university →
alsoKnownAs	Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau → Silesian Frederick William University → Universität Breslau →
buildingNowUsedBy	University of Wrocław →
campusTransferredTo	University of Wrocław →
cityFormerName	Breslau →
cityNowKnownAs	Wrocław NERFINISHED →
country	German Empire → Kingdom of Prussia → Nazi Germany → Weimar Republic →
foundedBy	Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor →
foundingAct	imperial charter →
foundingYear	1702 →
hadFaculty	Faculty of Law → Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences → Faculty of Medicine → Faculty of Philosophy → Faculty of Theology →
hadNotableAlumni	Edith Stein → Fritz Haber → Gerhart Hauptmann → Max Born →
hadNotableFaculty	Ferdinand Cohn → Hermann Mark → Jakob Rosanes → Rudolf Lipschitz →
hadReputation	leading research university in Central Europe → major center of academic teaching in Central Europe →
languageOfInstruction	German →
libraryTransferredTo	University of Wrocław →
locatedIn	Breslau → Central Europe → Silesia → Wrocław NERFINISHED →
locatedInCountry	Germany → Poland →
mainLanguage	German →
mergedFrom	Brandenburg University of Frankfurt (Viadrina) NERFINISHED → Leopoldina →
mergedYear	1811 →
namedAfter	Frederick William III of Prussia →
notableFor	being a major academic center in Central Europe → research in humanities → research in mathematics → research in medicine → research in physics →
nowInCity	Wrocław NERFINISHED →
nowInCountry	Poland →
operatedUntil	1945 →
originalName	Leopoldina →
partOf	German university system → Prussian higher education system →
predecessor	Leopoldina → Viadrina University NERFINISHED →
regionHistoricalName	Silesia →
religiousDiversity	Catholic → Jewish → Protestant →
reorganizationYear	1811 →
reorganizedBy	Kingdom of Prussia →
statusAfter1945	dissolved →
successor	University of Wrocław → Uniwersytet Wrocławski →

Referenced by (27)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Charles Proteus Steinmetz → Charles Proteus Steinmetz → Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger → Gerhard Klopfer → Hans Heinrich Lammers → Julius Bernstein → Kurt Goldstein → Leo Baeck → Leopold Kronecker → Max Born → Paul Ehrlich → Paul Gordan → Theodor Kaluza →	educatedAt
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben → Constantin Carathéodory ("Technical University of Breslau") → Eduard Meyer → Gustav Kirchhoff → Hermann Ebbinghaus → Robert Bunsen → Theodor Kaluza → Theodor Mommsen → Wilhelm Dilthey →	employer
University of Breslau ("Universität Breslau") → University of Breslau ("Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau") →	alsoKnownAs
University of Wrocław →	hasPredecessor
University of Frankfurt (Oder) →	mergedInto
University of Frankfurt (Oder) →	successor