Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Uni Jena) 1.37

Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (FSU) (German: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, colloquially Uni Jena), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany.

The university was established in 1558 and counts among the ten oldest universities in Germany. In 1934, the university was renamed after the writer Friedrich Schiller who has been teaching as professor of history when Jena attracted some of the most influential minds at the turn from the 18th to the 19th century. With Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, G. W. F. Hegel, F. W. J. Schelling and Friedrich von Schlegel on its teaching staff, the university has been at the centre of the emergence of German idealism and early Romanticism.

As of 2009, the university has around 21,000 students enrolled and 340 professors. Its current rector, Klaus Dicke, is the 317th rector in the history of the university.