The University of Innsbruck is a state funded college in the capital of the Austrian government condition of Tyrol, established in 1669.
It is presently the biggest training office in the Austrian Bundesland of Tirol, the third biggest in Austria behind Vienna University and the University of Graz and as indicated by The Times Higher Education Supplement World Ranking 2010 Austria's driving college. Noteworthy commitments have been made in numerous limbs, above all in the physical science division. Further, with respect to the quantity of Web of Science-recorded distributions, it involves the third rank worldwide in the region of mountain research.
History
In 1562, a Jesuit punctuation school was created in Innsbruck, today "Akademisches Gymnasium Innsbruck". It was financed by the salt mines in Hall in Tirol and was established as a college in 1669 by Leopold I with four personnel. In 1782 this was lessened to an insignificant lyceum (just like all different Universities in the Austrian Empire, aside from Prague, Vienna and Lviv), however it was re-created as the University of Innsbruck in 1826 by Emperor Franz I. The college is along these lines named after both of its establishing fathers with the authority title of: "Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck" (Universitas Leopoldino-Franciscea).
In 1991, Lauda Air Flight 004 smashed in Thailand, slaughtering all on board, including 21 individuals from the University of Innsbruck. The travelers included teacher and economist Clemens August Andreae, an alternate educator, six partners, and 13 understudies. Andreae had regularly driven field visits to Hong Kong.
In 2005, duplicates of letters composed by the rulers Frederick II and Conrad IV were found in the college's library. They touched base in Innsbruck in the eighteenth century, having left the charterhouse Allerengelberg in Schnals because of its abolishment
The faculties
The new arrangement of association (having gotten to be compelling on October 1, 2004) introduced the accompanying 15 staffs to supplant the already existing six workforces:
- Employees of Architecture,
- Employees of Biology,
- Employees of Catholic Theology,
- Employees of Chemistry and Pharmacology,
- Employees of Economics and Statistics,
- Employees of Education,
- Employees of Technical Sciences (earlier Faculty of Engineering Science and before that Faculty of Civil Engineering),
- Employees of Geography and Atmospheric Sciences,
- Employees of Humanities 1 (Philosophy and History),
- Employees of Humanities 2 (Language and Literature),
- Employees of Law,
- Employees of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics,
- Employees of Psychology and Sports science,
- School of Political Sciences and Sociology,
- Innsbruck University School of Management.
Starting 1 January 2004, the Faculty of Medicine was separated off from the principle college to turn into a college in its own privilege. This is currently called the Innsbruck Medical University (Medizinische Universität Innsbruck).
On 1 October 2012 a sixteenth employees, the School of Education, has been included
