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27-1143: Kober is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adolf Kober (1879–1958), German rabbi and medievalist Alice Kober (1906–1950), American classical scholar and archaeologist Amelie Kober (born 1987), German snowboarder Andrew Kober (born 1984), American actor Annegret Kober (born 1957), German backstroke swimmer Arthur Kober (1900–1975), American humorist, author, press agent, and screenwriter Avi Kober (born 1950), Israeli professor and political studies researcher Axel Kober (born 1970), German conductor Birgit Kober (born 1971), German Paralympic athlete Carsten Kober (born 1967), German footballer Claire Kober (born 1978), English politician Farra Kober , American television producer and digital content strategist Franz Kober (born 1956), German engineer (cinema) Franz Quirin von Kober (1821–1897), German Roman Catholic priest Georgia Kober (1873–1942), American pianist and music educator Herman Kober (1888–1973), German mathematician Ingo Kober (born 1942), former president of

54-622: A School of Philosophy and Catholic Theology with the designated name Leopoldina . On 15 November 1702, the university opened. Johannes Adrian von Plencken also became chancellor of the university. As a Catholic institute in Protestant Breslau, the new university was an important instrument of the Counter-Reformation in Silesia. After Silesia passed to Prussia , the university lost its ideological character, but remained

81-466: A gallery (mostly from churches, monasteries, etc.) full of old German works; the museum of Silesian antiquities; and the state archives of Silesia. In the late 19th century, numerous internationally renowned and historically notable scholars lectured at the University of Breslau, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet , Ferdinand Cohn , and Gustav Kirchhoff among them. In 1817, Poles made up around 16% of

108-416: A mathematical-physical one, a legal state seminar, and a scientific seminar. From 1842, the university also had a chair of Slavic Studies . The university had twelve different scientific institutes, six clinical centers, and three collections. An agricultural institute with ten teachers and forty-four students, comprising a chemical veterinary institute, a veterinary institute, and a technological institute,

135-808: A religious institution for the education of Catholic clergy in Prussia. After the defeat of Prussia by Napoleon and the subsequent reorganisation of the Prussian state, the academy was merged on 3 August 1811 with the Protestant Viadrina University , previously located in Frankfurt (Oder) , and re-established in Breslau as the Königliche Universität zu Breslau – Universitas litterarum Vratislaviensis (in 1911 named

162-571: Is a public research university in Wrocław , Poland . It is the largest institution of higher learning in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship , with over 100,000 graduates since 1945, including some 1,900 researchers, among whom many have received the highest awards for their contributions to the development of scientific scholarship. The university was founded in 1945, replacing the previous German University of Breslau . Following

189-715: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Adolf Kober Kober studied History, Philosophy and Oriental Languages at the University of Breslau (Wrocław) and received a PhD there in 1903 with a thesis on the medieval history of the Jews in Cologne . He attended the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau, receiving his rabbinical diploma from Israel Lewi in 1907. From 1906 to 1908 he acted as substitute rabbi and religious instructor in

216-540: The Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau , to honour the founder Frederick William III of Prussia ). At first, the conjoint academy had five faculties: philosophy, medicine, law, Protestant theology, and Catholic theology. Connected with the university were three theological seminars, a philological seminar, a seminar for German Philology, another seminar for Romanic and English philology, an historical seminar,

243-699: The Sokol association. Many of the students came from other areas of partitioned Poland. The Jewish students unions were the Viadrina (founded 1886) and the Student Union (1899). Teutonia , a German Burschenschaft founded in 1817, was actually one of the oldest student fraternities in Germany, founded only two years after the Urburschenschaft . The Polish fraternities were all eventually disbanded by

270-470: The surname Kober . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kober&oldid=1215361900 " Categories : Surnames German-language surnames Surnames from given names Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

297-625: The territorial changes of Poland's borders , academics primarily from the Jan Kazimierz University of Lwów restored the university building, which had been heavily damaged in the 1945 Battle of Breslau . The oldest mention of a university in Wrocław comes from the foundation deed signed on 20 July 1505 for the Generale litterarum Gymnasium in Wrocław by King Vladislaus II of Hungary ( Polish : Władysław II Jagiellończyk ) of

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324-514: The Cologne community. From 1908 to 1918 he was rabbi of the City and district of Wiesbaden . In 1918 he took in Cologne, the then-largest Jewish community in Germany, the office of community rabbi. In 1922, at the time of the inflation, he founded an organization for the relief of distress among people ashamed to ask for aid ( Notstand für veschaemte Armte ). In 1925 he took the responsibility of

351-838: The European Patent Office Jeff Kober (born 1953), American actor Lars Kober (born 1976), German flatwater canoer Leopold Kober (1883–1970), Austrian geologist Margot Kober (born 1965), Austrian cross-country skier Martin Kober (c. 1550–1598), Polish court painter Noémie Kober (born 1979), French rower Ofer Kober (born 1975), Israeli translator Pascal Kober (born 1971), German politician Sebastian Köber (born 1993), German boxer Shahar Kober (born 1979), Israeli illustrator Theodor Kober (1865–1930), German aviation engineer Umberto Kober (born 1974), Brazilian chemist [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

378-654: The German professor Felix Dahn , and in 1913 Prussian authorities established a numerus clausus law that limited the number of Jews from non-German Eastern Europe (so called Ostjuden ) that could study in Germany to at most 900. The University of Breslau was allowed to take 100. As Germany turned to Nazism , the university became influenced by Nazi ideology . Polish students were beaten by NSDAP members just for speaking Polish. In 1939, all Polish students were expelled and an official university declaration stated, "We are deeply convinced that [another] Polish foot will never cross

405-598: The Lwów Library, the Jan Kazimierz University and Ossoliński National Institute moved to the city. In mid-1948, over 60% of professors at the Wrocław University and Polytechnic were from Kresy , with academics from prewar Lwów playing a particularly important role in the newly established Polish institutions of higher learning. Stanisław Kulczyński from the University of Lwów was nominated

432-571: The Polish Jagiellonian dynasty . However, the new academic institution requested by the town council was not built, because the King's deed was rejected by Pope Julius II for political reasons. Also, the numerous wars and opposition from the University of Kraków might have played a role. The first successful founding deed known as the Aurea bulla fundationis Universitatis Wratislaviensis

459-732: The United States, where, until his death in 1958 in New York, he remained active as a rabbi and a scholar. Also in the USA he was absorbed by the history of the Rhenish Jewish. He still visited Cologne in 1953 and 1957. In 1963 the town of Cologne gave his name to a street in Stammheim. University of Wroc%C5%82aw The University of Wrocław ( Polish : Uniwersytet Wrocławski , UWr; Latin : Universitas Wratislaviensis )

486-499: The collection of the university library perished during the Soviet offensive in 1945, burned by soldiers on 10 May 1945, four days after the German garrison surrendered the city . Very quickly, some buildings were repaired, and a cadre of professors was built up, many coming from prewar Polish Jan Kazimierz University of Lwów and Stefan Batory University of Wilno. Following postwar border shifts , thousands of former employees of

513-678: The first president of the two Polish universities in Wrocław, while Edward Sucharda from the Lwów Polytechnic became the vice-president. The University of Wrocław was refounded as a Polish state university by the decree of the State National Council issued on 24 August 1945. The first lecture was given on 15 November 1945, by Ludwik Hirszfeld . Between 1952 and 1989 the university was named Bolesław Bierut University of Wrocław (Polish: Uniwersytet Wrocławski im. Bolesława Bieruta ) after Bolesław Bierut , President of

540-648: The history of Jews of Rhineland. He was a member of the editorial staff of the Germania Judaica . He lectured at the University of Cologne on Jewish history and Literature. In the years 1930 he was one of the publishers of the prestigious Zeitschrift für die Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland (magazine for the history of Jews in Germany) . In 1939 Kober, following the Nazi persecution, emigrated into

567-615: The interregional department for Jewish history at the “Millennium Exhibition of Rhineland“, that took place in the Cologne Fair grounds. In Cologne Kober started in 1929 the "Jüdische Lehrhaus (Jewish training house)" as a site for Jewish adults education and took the responsibility in the same year of the planning of the contents of the Jewish press pavilion in the large Cologne culture exhibition "Pressa". Beside his rabbi activity Kober devoted himself to several scientific publications on

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594-537: The oriental collections of the Bibliotheca Habichtiana and the academic Leseinstitut . In addition, the university owned an observatory; a five-hectare botanical garden ; a botanical museum and a zoological garden founded in 1862 by a joint-stock company; a natural history museum ; zoological, chemical, and physical collections; the chemical laboratory; the physiological plant; a mineralogical institute; an anatomical institute; clinical laboratories;

621-401: The student body. At the end of the 19th century around 10% of the students were Polish and 16% were Jewish . This situation reflected the multi ethnic and international character of the university. Both minorities, as well as the German students, established their own student organisations, called Burschenschaften . Polish student organisations included Concordia, Polonia, and a branch of

648-536: The threshold of this German university". In that same year, German scholars from the university worked on a scholarly thesis of historical justification for a "plan of mass deportation in Eastern territories"; among the people involved was Walter Kuhn , a specialist of Ostforschung . Other projects during World War II involved creating evidence to justify German annexation of Polish territories, and presenting Kraków and Lublin as German cities. In January 2015,

675-743: The university restored 262 PhD degrees stripped during the Nazi period from Jews and other scholars seen as hostile to the Nazis. After the Siege of Breslau , the Red Army took the city in May 1945. Breslau, now known as Wrocław, became part of the Republic of Poland . The first Polish team of academics arrived in Wrocław in late May 1945 and took custody of the university buildings, which were 70% destroyed. Parts of

702-418: Was added to the university in 1881. In 1884, the university had 1,481 students in attendance, with a faculty numbering 131. The library in 1885 consisted of approximately 400,000 works, including about 2,400 incunabula, approximately 250 Aldines, and 2,840 manuscripts. These volumes came from the libraries of the former universities of Frankfurt and Breslau and from disestablished monasteries, and also included

729-694: Was signed two centuries later, on 1 October 1702, by the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I of the House of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia. The predecessor facilities, which existed since 1638, were converted into Jesuit school, and finally, upon instigation of the Jesuits and with the support of the Silesian Oberamtsrat (Second Secretary) Johannes Adrian von Plencken, donated as a university in 1702 by Emperor Leopold I as

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