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The university's forerunner was the Academy of the last Cologne Kurfürst ( elector), which he had founded in 1777, and which had been turned into a university in 1786. A mere decade later, the first university became a victim of the radical change brought about by the French Revolution.
The new Rhenish Friedrich-Wilhelm-University was founded in the spirit of Wilhelm von Humboldt. Idealism and the Enlightenment dominated the age. Because of the open zeitgeist of the time, the alma materAlma mater is a term of academia derived from the Latin term for "nourishing mother. It is frequently used in the English language in reference to the university or college a person has attended. In American English, it is also in reference to a high scho on the Rhine attracted famous men like August Wilhelm von SchlegelAugust Wilhelm von Schlegel ( September 8, 1767 May 12, 1845), German poet, translator and critic, was born at Hanover, where his father, Johann Adolf Schlegel (1721-1793), was a Lutheran pastor. He was educated at the Hanover gymnasium and at the univers, Ernst Moritz ArndtErnst Moritz Arndt ( December 26, 1769 January 29, 1860), German poet and patriot, was born at Schoritz in the island of Rugen, which at that time belonged to Sweden. He was the son of a prosperous farmer, and emancipated serf of the lord of the district, and Heinrich Hertz, to name a few.
Today, the university has about 30,000 students, making it one of the largest GermanThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east universities. Each year, it has about 5,500 international students from 130 nations.
The University of Bonn does not have a centralised campus. The main building only accommodates the Theological and Philosophical faculties as well as the administration; the other faculties are situated in various parts of the city of BonnBonn is a city in Germany (Population (2002 est): 310 930), in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, located ca. 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine. It was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990. The history of the city dates bac.
The university is divided into seven faculties, which consist of various seminars, institutes and hospitals. The faculties are:
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