Medizinische Universität Innsbruck | |
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 2004 |
| Endowment | €260 million |
| President | Gert Mayer |
| Students | ca. 3,800 |
| Location | , |
| Website | www.i-med.ac.at |
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TheMedical University of Innsbruck (German:Medizinische Universität Innsbruck) is auniversity inInnsbruck,Austria. It used to be one of the four historicalfaculties of theLeopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck and became an independent university in 2004.
The medical tradition dates back long before the foundation of the university, with the foundation of the first hospital in the nearby silver-mining citySchwaz in 1307. A medical faculty was included in the initial university, established in 1669 byemperor Leopold I.
In the 1850s the Habsburgs gradually closed theUniversity of Olomouc as a consequence of theOlomouc students' and professors' participation on the1848 revolutions and theCzech National Revival. The ceremonial equipment of the University of Olomouc was then transferred to theUniversity of Innsbruck. The original Olomoucceremonial maces from the 1580s are now used as maces of theUniversity of Innsbruck, its faculties and of the Medical University of Innsbruck. The Medical University uses the ceremonial mace ofOlomouc Faculty of Philosophy from 1588 and Olomouc Rector's Chain made sometime between 1566 and 1573.[1]
The ceremonial mace currently used by the Medical University of Innsbruck was given byOlomouc bishopStanislav Pavlovský to theUniversity of Olomouc in ca. 1588. It is 163 centimeters high, it is made of silver and has gold plating. It bears inscription S. P. E. O. (Stanislaus Pawlowski Episcopus Olomucii) and other ornaments.[2]
Within the framework of theUniversity Act of 2002, the medical faculty was separated from the Leopold-Franzens University, and the Medical University of Innsbruck was established as a university in its own right. Today, the Med-Uni has some 3,000 students and 1,800 employees. It is the most important medical research and training facility in western Austria and the home university of many Tyroleans, South Tyroleans and students from the Province of Vorarlberg.
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