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35-702: The Carolinum (sometimes Prophezei or Prophezey ) is the predecessor educational institution of the theological faculty of the University of Zürich , established in 1525. As building, it is part of the former cloister of the Grossmünster Chorherrenstift in Zurich , Switzerland. Grossmünster and Carolinum ( Ehemalige Mädchenschule am Grossmünster ) are listed in the Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance as

70-640: A Class A object. An institutionalized academic education in Zürich dates back to the medieval collegiate and city schools. In the late European Middle Ages, a Carolinum associated to the Grossmünster priory and its canons was mentioned. On occasion of the Reformation in Zürich , it even became an important rule for the training of prospective Protestant theologians. As other educational institutions, it

105-521: A wide range of sports facilities to students of the university. The student body is represented through the Verband der Studierenden der Universität Zürich VSUZH which organizes events and is involved in the university administration. Associated with the university are 12 Nobel Prize recipients, primarily in Physics and Chemistry . Old Botanical Garden, Z%C3%BCrich The Garden is located on

140-578: Is a public research university located in the city of Zurich , Switzerland . It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 from the existing colleges of theology , law , medicine which go back to 1525, and a new faculty of philosophy . Currently, the university has seven faculties: Philosophy , Human Medicine , Economic Sciences , Law , Mathematics and Natural Sciences , Theology and Veterinary Medicine . The university offers

175-710: Is increasing in many faculties. The only bachelors program taught entirely in English is the " English Language and Literature " program. All Master courses at the Faculty of Science are held in English. Master courses in Economics and Finance are mainly held in English, while the Master of Science in Quantitative Finance is held completely in English. The university's Academic Sports Association (ASVZ) offers

210-536: Is inspired by the natural scientist and polymath Conrad Gessner who found his final resting place in the cloister. Gessner dealt inter alia with the elements of teaching, therefore the renewed courtyard garden is dedicated to the thema earth, fire, water and air , cultural-historical ornamental plants in the four beds, analogous to the Gessner-Garten in the Old Botananical Garden . After

245-557: Is located at Zollikerstrasse in the Weinegg quarter of the city. The present facilities also house the ethnological museum ( Völkerkundemuseum ) of the University of Zürich. The origins of the first botanical garden are based on Conrad Gessner 's (1516–1565) private herbarium . A Gessner descendant, Johannes Gessner (1709–1790) who was a physician and naturalist, founded Zürich's first botanical garden in 1746, in co-operation with

280-414: Is named after Charlemagne ( Carol or Swiss-German Karl ). The reformer Huldrich Zwingli initiated the transformation of the former Latin school Prophezey or Prophezei into a training center for reformed theologians, by a Zürich city's council mandate on 29 September 1523 AD; lessons started on 19 June 1525. The weekday lectures ( Lezgen or Lectiones , literally: lessons) were free of charge for

315-537: Is now known, has been used as a recreation area, as the location of the Völkerkundemuseum (ethnological museum) of the University of Zürich, as the site of an arboretum and of the so-called Gessner-Garten . The arboretum is still remarkable, as is the idyllic location on the Schanzengraben moat in the midst of Zürich, and therefore the garden is a popular recreation area. Gessner-Garten on

350-649: Is owned by the Canton of Zürich , and the annex building being the former cloister, however, is in the property of the city of Zürich. It is leased to the Theological faculty of the University of Zürich since 1976. Grossmünster and Carolinum ( Ehemalige Mädchenschule am Grossmünster ) are listed in the Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance as a Class A object of national importance. University of Z%C3%BCrich The University of Zurich ( UZH , German : Universität Zürich )

385-542: Is reminiscent of the roman name for the precursor settlement of the city of Zurich, Turicum . In the university's early years, the 1839 appointment of the German theologian David Friedrich Strauss to its Chair of Theology caused a major controversy, since Strauss argued that the miracles in the Christian New Testament were mythical retellings of normal events as supernatural happenings. Eventually,

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420-462: The Münsterhof squares in Zürich. The cloister of the former Chorherrenstift Grossmünster , the chapter of Augustinian canons , dates from the late 12th century and was part of the canons ( Chorherrenstift ) which was dissolved in 1832, making way for the girls' school. The cloister was dismantled and integrated into the new building those reconstruction was based on the original elements of

455-692: The Carolinum and uses its former logo, the silhouette of the Grossmünster church. The university claims to be established in the tradition of the canons of the Carolinum's institutions. The building is located at Kirchgasse 9 at the Grossmünsterplatz square – attached to the Grossmünster church on its eastern side – in the southeast of the Neumarkt respectively northwestern of

490-611: The Naturforschende Gesellschaft Zürich (Zürich Botanical Society). In 1833, the Canton of Zürich changed this first location to the so-called Schimmelgut, which was where the University of Zürich was founded. On dissolution of the ramparts zur Katz in 1837, the still existing plant at the Schanzengraben moat was built. The garden was designed by the university's gardener Leopold Karl Theodor Fröbel (1810–1907). In 1851 its Palmhaus (a greenhouse)

525-502: The 17th-century city fortifications. The first structures of this bastion were built between 1648 and 1664, the final expansion took place from 1673 to 1675. The final construction stage of this centrally positioned military factory on Schanzengraben had also two casemates , two underground vaults for purposes of defense, and a cavalier on hilltop that was overlooking the area outside of the Schanzengraben moat. The cavalier

560-957: The Museum of Veterinary History, the Zurich Herbaria, the Museum of Anthropology , the Botanical Garden , the Ethnographic Museum, the Paleontological Museum, the Veterinary Anatomy Collection and the Zoological Museum. In the fields of bioscience and finance, there is a close-knit collaboration between the University of Zurich and the ETH (Federal Institute for Technology). Examples for common initiatives between

595-585: The abolition of the Chorherrenstift congregation in 1832, and to 1849 the structures were widely demolished and replaced by Wegmann's building in the Romanesque Revival style. The as of today faculty building was built according to the drafts Gustav Albert Wegmann from 1843 to 1849. The cloister was dismantled during the demolition, supplemented with many new parts and integrated into the new building in 1851. The Grossmünster church building

630-536: The architecture, but includes numerous interpretations by the architect. The cloister is also home to a permanent exhibition on Zwingli and other important people in the Reformation era. The cloister was renewed in 2009, its sandstone elements were cleaned, and the interior garden redesigned in corporation with the ProSpecieRara foundation. The compilation of the cultural and historical ornamental plants

665-490: The authorities offered Strauss a pension before he had a chance to start his duties. The university allowed women to attend philosophy lectures from 1847. The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine was added in 1901, the second-oldest such faculty in the world. In 1914, the university moved to new premises designed by the architect Karl Moser on Rämistrasse 71. The university admitted a Russian woman student, Maria Kniazhnina, to audit medicine classes in 1864, but she did not complete

700-472: The building was sold to the Canton of Zürich. In 1849 the structures were widely demolished and replaced by Gustav Albert Wegmann's building. The Grossmünsterplatz schoolhouse of the girls' gymnasium ( Töchterschule , as of today Kantonsschule Hohe Promenade ), an urban high school for girls, was established in 1875 and located in the building until 1976, when the Theological faculty of the University of Zürich moved in. The present University of Zürich bases on

735-629: The city centre, Irchelpark and Oerlikon. Members of the university can use several libraries, including the ETH -library, and the Zurich Central Library , with over 5 million volumes. In 1962, the faculty of science proposed to establish the Irchelpark campus on the Strickhofareal . The first stage the construction of the university buildings was begun in 1973, and the campus was inaugurated in 1979. The construction of

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770-473: The course. Another Russian student, Nadezhda Suslova , audited medicine classes from 1865 and was allowed to become a registered student and graduate as a doctor of medicine in 1867. The first seven women who were awarded medical degrees at the university were known as the Zurich Seven. Including Suslova, they were: The university is scattered all over the city of Zurich. The main campuses are located in

805-549: The former zur Katz bastion in the city centre near the Sihlporte area. Opening times are daily from April to September 7:00–19.00 (7 pm), October to March 8:00–18:00 (6 pm). Trams 2 and 9 stop at the nearby Sihlstrasse stop. Although the Old Botanical Garden is owned by the University of Zurich , it should not be mistaken for the Botanical Garden of the University of Zurich , which opened in 1977 and

840-473: The hilltop, a medieval herb garden, is a memorial to Conrad Gessner . The southern gun bastion of the fortifications of Zürich was at the highest point of the former ramparts zur Katz . The guns at the fortification were called Katz . Opened on 27 May 1997, the garden was built by private horticultural companies and financed by the Pro Katz foundation, with the object of maintaining the botanical garden. At

875-424: The interested people in urban and rural areas of the city republic of Zürich, by well-learned men . Heinrich Bullinger 's Schola Tigurina may have influenced the education in many other institutions beginning in 1559. Bullinger's Schola Tigurina merged in the 18th century to the theological faculty and the upper secondary school in the then Carolinum been. The financing of the chairs respectively professorships

910-626: The northern end of the herb garden, we find the Conrad Gessner memorial. The Gessner garden shows 50 medicinal plants ( herbs and shrubs ), used by 16th century's healers, each with a citation of a healer from that period, such as Cynara cardunculus , Potentilla erecta , Linum usitatissimum , Paeonia officinalis , Silybum marianum , Juniperus communis , Fragaria vesca , Artemisia absinthium and more. The garden features herbs, which for centuries have been healing illness or having beneficial effects in infirmity. The signs by

945-457: The only access for larger carriages into the town, the so-called Sihlporte which is the name of the area west of the botanical garden at the present Schanzengraben moat. After discontinuation of defense purposes, from 1834 the upstream curtain walls were demolished, and in 1935 the hilltop bulwark was rebuilt to house the Gessner-Garten . The garden is listed in the Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance as

980-475: The plants give us an insight into the medicinal knowledge of Conrad Gessner and his contemporaries, such as Hieronymus Bock (1498–1554) and Leon Hart Fuchs (1501–1566). Another herb garden dedicated to Conrad Gessner is situated in the former cloister of the Grossmünster respectively Carolinum . The Bollwerk zur Katz (German name) is besides the Bauschänzli river island the last remaining bulwark of

1015-765: The second stage lasted from 1978 to 1983. The campus also houses the anthropological museum Anthropologisches Museum , and the cantonal Staatsarchiv Zürich . The Institute and Museum for the History of Medicine is part of the university. The university includes 13 museums: the Anatomical Collection, the Archaeological Collection, the Botanical Museum, the Museum of Wax Moulages, the Science Exploratorium,

1050-739: The two institutions include University Medicine Zurich, the Wyss Translational Center Zurich and Life Science Zurich. The university's Department of Economics is especially strong and was ranked first in the German-speaking area by the Handelsblatt in 2017. In 2009, the faculty of Business Administration was ranked third in the German-speaking area. Bachelor courses are taught in Swiss Standard German ("Hochdeutsch"), but use of English

1085-525: The widest range of subjects and courses of any Swiss higher education institution. The University of Zurich was founded on April 29, 1833, when the existing colleges of theology, the Carolinum founded by Huldrych Zwingli in 1525, law and medicine were merged with a new faculty of Philosophy. It was the first university in Europe to be founded by the state rather than a monarch or church. Its latin name

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1120-422: Was depending on the benefices of the secularized canons of the former Grossmünster priory. In addition to theological subjects and Classical languages, in 1541, the natural history department ( Conrad Gessner ) and in 1731 a political science chair ( Johann Jakob Bodmer ) was created, and in 1782 the surgical institute to train medical doctors. After the abolition of the Chorherrenstift congregation in 1832,

1155-522: Was impossible, and as the botanical buildings were in poor condition, the administration decided to move the gardens from the city center to a more peripheral location within the city, where there was room to expand. In 1971 the old park of the Bodmer-Abegg family in the Weinegg quarter was selected, and in 1976 the new botanical garden was opened there. Since 1976 the Old Botanical Garden, as it

1190-402: Was opened – constructed of glass and wood, in 1877 the octagonal glass pavilion got an iron frame . Today, the pavilion is primarily used for concerts, theater and exhibitions. The terrain of the garden was limited by surrounding buildings, whilst the shadows of these buildings hindered growth conditions for the plants. Thus, in the second half of the 20th century, an urgently needed expansion

1225-546: Was particularly a strong increased gun emplacement, which towered over the adjacent defense walls and thus enabled additional covering fire. Thanks to the altitude, a strong and large-scale defense was maintained by its powerful and therefore more far-reaching guns up to the present General-Guisan-Quai on lakeshore respectively the Sihlfeld area towards the Limmat Valley . As of 1661 originated there also, incidentally,

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