University of Jena

The university was determining in 1558 as well as is counted among the ten oldest universities in Germany. it is affiliated with six Nobel Prize winners, near recently in 2000 when Jena graduate Herbert Kroemer won the Nobel Prize for physics. It was renamed after the poet Friedrich Schiller who was teaching as professor of philosophy when Jena attracted some of the almost influential minds at the undergo a change of the 19th century. With Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, G. W. F. Hegel, F. W. J. Schelling as well as Friedrich Schlegel on its teaching staff, the university was at the centre of the emergence of German idealism as well as early Romanticism.

As of 2014Walter Rosenthal, was elected in 2014 for a six-year term.