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universitas ludovico maximilianea monacensis 1 other name university of munich former name university of ingolstadt 1472 1800 type public established 26 june 1472 554 years ago 26 june 1472 affiliations german excellence universities europaeum leru u15 budget eur 879 million 2024 2 president matthias h tschöp academic staff 840 professors 6 241 5 other 2024 2 administrative staff 10 626 2 2024 2 students 52 658 ws 2025 26 2 location munich bavaria germany 48 09 03 n 11 34 49 e 48 15083 n 11 58028 e 48 15083 11 58028 campus urban nobel laureates 50 january 2026 colours green and white website lmu de location within germany show map of germany location within bavaria show map of bavaria the ludwig maximilians universität münchen lmu munich also referred to as the university of munich is a public research university in munich bavaria germany originally established as the university of ingolstadt in 1472 by duke ludwig ix of bavaria landshut it is germany s sixth oldest university in continuous operation a in 1800 the university was moved from ingolstadt to landshut by king maximilian i joseph of bavaria when the city was threatened by the french before being transferred 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 honor of himself and ludwig ix 3 lmu is currently the second largest and largest on site university in germany in terms of student population in the 2025 26 winter semester the university had a total of 52 658 matriculated students of these 7 451 were freshmen while international students totaled 11 658 or approximately 22 of the student population the university is organised in 18 faculties with faculties in theology law business administration economics medicine history and the arts philosophy psychology languages and literatures social sciences mathematics informatics statistics physics chemistry biology geosciences as for the operating budget the university recorded in 2024 a total of 879 0 million euros in funding without the university hospital with the university hospital the total university funding for that year amounted to approximately 2 25 billion euros 4 as of 2023 update lmu munich is associated with 50 nobel laureates 5 notable alumni faculty and researchers include pope benedict xvi 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 hermann göring and konrad adenauer lmu has recently been conferred the title of university of excellence under the german universities excellence initiative and is a member of u15 as well as the leru history edit 1472 1800 edit main article university of ingolstadt university buildings in ingolstadt the university was founded with papal blessing in 1472 as the university of ingolstadt foundation right of louis ix the rich with faculties of philosophy medicine jurisprudence and theology its first rector was christopher mendel of steinfels who later became bishop of chiemsee 6 7 in the period of german humanism the university s academics included names such as conrad celtes and petrus apianus 8 the theologian johann eck also taught at the university 9 from 1549 to 1773 the university was influenced by the jesuits and became one of the centres of the counter reformation the jesuit petrus canisius served as rector of the university 10 at the end of the 18th century the university was influenced by the enlightenment which led to a stronger emphasis on natural science 11 1800 1933 edit portrait of maximilian i joseph of bavaria after whom the university of munich was renamed in 1802 adolf von baeyer emil fischer jacob volhard and other chemists at lmu in 1877 in 1800 the prince elector maximilian iv joseph the later maximilian i king of bavaria moved the university to landshut due to french aggression that threatened ingolstadt during the napoleonic wars in 1802 the university was renamed the ludwig maximilians universität münchen in honour of its two founders louis ix duke of bavaria and maximilian i elector of bavaria the minister of education maximilian von montgelas initiated a number of reforms that sought to modernize the rather conservative and jesuit influenced university in 1826 it was moved to munich the capital of the kingdom of bavaria the university was situated in the old academy until a new building in the ludwigstraße was completed the locals were somewhat critical of the number of protestant professors maximilian and later ludwig i invited to munich they were dubbed the nordlichter northern lights and especially physician johann nepomuk von ringseis was quite angry about them 12 view of lmu munich from amalienstrasse around 1900 in the second half of the 19th century the university rose to great prominence in the european scientific community attracting many of the global leading scientists it was also a period of great expansion from 1903 women were allowed to study at bavarian universities and by 1918 the female proportion of students at lmu had reached 18 in 1918 adele hartmann became with her habilitation higher doctorate at this university the first woman in germany to earn a habilitation 13 during the weimar republic the university continued to be one of the world s leading universities with professors such as wilhelm röntgen wilhelm wien richard willstätter arnold sommerfeld and ferdinand sauerbruch 14 1933 1945 edit see also university education in nazi germany during the third reich academic freedom was severely curtailed in 1943 the white rose group consisting of anti nazi students carried out a campaign opposing the national socialists at this institution the university subsequently removed kurt huber a nazi opposition fighter from his position and revoked his doctorate upon his arrest 15 16 between 1933 and 1936 karl escherich served as rector at ludwig maximilians universität münchen followed by leopold kölbl from 1936 to 1938 philipp broemser from 1938 to 1941 and finally walther wüst from 1941 to 1945 17 18 1945 present edit view of the main building of lmu from professor huber platz in 2017 the lichthof atrium colonnade in the first floor the university has continued to be one of the leading universities of west germany during the cold war and in the post reunification era in the late 1960s the university was the scene of protests by radical students 19 today lmu munich is part of 24 collaborative research centers funded by the german research foundation dfg and is host university of 13 of them it also hosts 12 dfg research training groups and three international doctorate programs as part of the elite network of bavaria an educational policy concept of bavaria for the promotion of gifted pupils and students in the higher education sector it attracts an additional 120 million euros per year in outside funding and is intensively involved in national and international funding initiatives citation needed lmu munich has a wide range of degree programs with 150 subjects available in numerous combinations 15 of the 45 000 students who attend the university come from abroad citation needed in 2005 germany s state and federal governments launched the german universities excellence initiative a contest among its universities with a total of 1 9 billion euros 75 percent of which comes from the federal state its architects aim to strategically promote top level research and scholarship the money is given to more than 30 research universities in germany citation needed the initiative will fund three project oriented areas graduate schools to promote the next generation of scholars clusters of excellence to promote cutting edge research and future concepts for the project based expansion of academic excellence at universities as a whole in order to qualify for this third area a university had to have at least one internationally recognized academic center of excellence and a new graduate school after the first round of selections lmu munich was invited to submit applications for all three funding lines it entered the competition with proposals for two graduate schools and four clusters of excellence citation needed on friday 13 october 2006 a blue ribbon panel announced the results of the germany wide excellence initiative for promoting top university research and education the panel composed of the german research foundation and the german science council has decided that lmu munich will receive funding for all three areas covered by the initiative one graduate school three excellence clusters and general funding for the university s future concept citation needed in january 2012 scientists at the ludwig maximilians universität münchen published details of the most sensitive listening device known so far this has led to the college being inducted into the guinness book of world records 20 in september 2018 the munich public prosecutor s office investigated a university vice president on suspicion of embezzlement the vice president should have claimed excessive travel expenses 21 the following year veterinary students reported that the lmu violated animal welfare standards according to them the lmu keeps pigs in tight grid boxes so that some animals showed scratches bumps and respiratory diseases from lying down students who reported these circumstances said that they were threatened with deregistration from the university 22 in the beginning of 2020 the lmu locked around 80 students in a room who wanted to discuss the topic climate burns university burns about why universities are doing research for companies that are harmful to the climate 23 campus edit lmu s institutes and research centers are spread throughout munich entrance to lmu s main building underground station universität serves lmu s main campus via lines u3 u6 lmu klinikum campus großhadern the hospital lmu s institutes and research centers are spread throughout munich with several buildings located in the suburbs of oberschleissheim and garching as well as maisach and bad tölz the university s main buildings are grouped around geschwister scholl platz and professor huber platz on ludwigstrasse extending into side streets such as akademiestraße schellingstraße and veterinärstraße other large campuses and institutes are located in großhadern klinikum großhadern martinsried chemistry and biotechnology campus the ludwigsvorstadt klinikum innenstadt and in the lehel institut am englischen garten across from the main buildings through the englischer garten citation needed the university s main building is situated in geschwister scholl platz and the university s main campus is served by the munich subway s universität station citation needed great assembly hall große aula edit große aula the große aula is located in the university main building at ludwigstraße in munich the aula was constructed as part of the main building by friedrich von gärtner and completed in 1840 the hall is situated in the first floor and extends to the second floor citation needed the aula was not destroyed during world war ii and thus is one of few usable pre war venues in munich the aula was used for the first performances of concerts after the war furthermore it was venue for the constituent assembly of the state of bavaria where the current bavarian constitution was enacted 24 today the aula hosts mainly concerts talks and lectures citation needed academics edit fields of study edit despite the bologna process which saw the demise of most traditional academic degree courses such as the diplom and magister artium in favour of the more internationally known bachelors and masters system lmu munich continues to offer more than 100 areas of study with numerous combinations of majors and minors 25 in line with the university s internationalisation as a popular destination for tertiary studies an increasing number of courses mainly at the graduate and post graduate levels are also available in english to cater to international students who may have little or no background in the german language 26 some notable subject areas which currently offer programmes in english include various fields of psychology physics as well as business and management 27 faculties edit lmu s institute of systematic botany is located at botanischer garten münchen nymphenburg faculty of chemistry buildings at the martinsried campus of lmu munich the university consists of 18 faculties which oversee various departments and institutes 28 the official numbering of the faculties and the missing numbers 06 and 14 are the result of breakups and mergers of faculties in the past the faculty of forestry operations with number 06 has been integrated into the technical university of munich in 1999 and faculty number 14 has been merged with faculty number 13 29 30 31 unreliable source 01 faculty of catholic theology 02 faculty of protestant theology 03 faculty of law 04 faculty of business administration 05 faculty of economics 07 faculty of medicine 08 faculty of veterinary medicine 09 faculty for history and the arts 10 faculty of philosophy philosophy of science and study of religion 11 faculty of psychology and educational sciences 12 faculty for the study of culture 13 faculty for languages and literatures 15 faculty of social sciences 16 faculty of mathematics computer science and statistics 17 faculty of physics 18 faculty of chemistry and pharmacy 19 faculty of biology 20 faculty of geosciences and environmental sciences research centres edit audimax in addition to its 18 faculties lmu munich also maintains numerous research centres involved in numerous cross faculty and transdisciplinary projects to complement its various academic programmes 32 some of these research centres were a result of cooperation between the university and renowned external partners from academia and industry the rachel carson center for environment and society for example was established through a joint initiative between lmu munich and the deutsches museum while the parmenides center for the study of thinking resulted from the collaboration between the parmenides foundation and lmu munich s human science center 33 some of the research centres which have been established include 34 center for advanced studies cas munich arts research centre marc munich center for mathematical philosophy mcmp munich center on governance communication public policy and law mcg munich international stone center for inequality research isi the munich school of ancient philosophy musaφ center for integrated protein science munich cipsm graduate school of systemic neurosciences gsn helmholtz zentrum münchen german research center for environmental health nanosystems initiative munich nim parmenides center for the study of thinking rachel 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