Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
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Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (also referred to as LMU or the University of Munich) is a
public research university located in
Munich ,
Germany . The University of Munich is
Germany’s sixth-oldest university in continuous operation . Originally established in
Ingolstadt in 1472 by
Duke Ludwig IX of Bavaria-Landshut , the university was moved in 1800 to
Landshut by
King Maximilian I of Bavaria when Ingolstadt was threatened by the French, before being relocated to its present-day location in Munich in 1826 by
King Ludwig I of Bavaria . In 1802, the university was officially named Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität by King Maximilian I of Bavaria in his as well as the university’s original founder’s honour.
The University of Munich is associated with 42 Nobel laureates (as of October 2019). Among these were Wilhelm Röntgen , Max Planck , Werner Heisenberg , Otto Hahn and Thomas Mann . Pope Benedict XVI was also a student and professor at the university. Among its notable alumni, faculty and researchers are inter alia Rudolf Peierls , Josef Mengele , Richard Strauss , Walter Benjamin , Joseph Campbell , Muhammad Iqbal , Marie Stopes , Wolfgang Pauli , Bertolt Brecht , Max Horkheimer , Karl Loewenstein , Carl Schmitt , Gustav Radbruch , Ernst Cassirer , Ernst Bloch , Konrad Adenauer . The LMU has recently been conferred the title of “University of Excellence” under the German Universities Excellence Initiative .
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LMU is currently the second-largest university in
Germany in terms of student population; in the winter semester of 2015/2016, the university had a total of 51,025 matriculated students. Of these, 8,671 were freshmen while international students totalled 7,812 or almost 15% of the student population. As for operating budget, the university records in 2017 a total of 682.0 million euros in funding without the university hospital; with the university hospital, the university has a total funding amounting to approximately 1.8 billion euros.
During the
Third Reich , academic freedom was severely curtailed. In 1943 the
White Rose group of anti-Nazi students conducted their campaign of opposition to the National Socialists at this university.
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