Heidelberg University is the oldest institution of higher learning in Germany. In Central Europe, only the University of Prague and the University of Vienna were established before it.
At present, Heidelberg University has 18 departments.
The theology department includes scientific theology and practical theology. The former includes the New Testament, the history of the church, Christian archaeology, teaching knowledge, systematic theology and other courses. In addition, there are Christian teaching and research room and Christian pastor research room.
The law department has majors such as law, foreign and international private law and economic law, legal history, social economic law, criminal law, finance and taxation, and German and European management law.
The comprehensive medical department has various specialties and departments. They are the Department of Natural Science and the Department of Medicine, and their specialties are anatomy and cell biology, physiology, laboratory animal science, biochemistry, medical history and so on. Department of theoretical medicine, with specialties such as medical law, human genetics and anthropology, pathology, hygiene, immunology and serology, medical biostatistics and informatics, and work social medicine; A branch of clinical medicine, with specialties such as internal medicine clinic, general pathological anatomy, surgical clinic, anesthesiology, neurosurgery, gynecology, pediatrics and orthopedics; Clinical medicine, with neurology, psychology, psychosomatic medicine, ophthalmology, dermatology, radiology, stomatology and other majors. The later departments of clinical medicine included general internal medicine, ophthalmology, surgery, gynecology, otolaryngology, dermatology, anesthesiology and surgical medicine, medical microbiology and hygiene, clinical radiology, pharmacological toxicology, pediatric clinic, clinical chemistry, internal medicine clinic and medicine.
The department of philosophy history has majors such as philosophy, history, eastern European history, political science and art history.
The Department of Orientalism and Ancient Studies has majors in Oriental Language, Egyptology, Sinology, Japanese Studies, China Classical Literature, Early History, Ancient History, Archaeology, etc.
The new philosophy department includes Germanic studies, English language and literature, Romanology, Latin philosophy in the Middle Ages and New Ages, Slavic language, linguistics, interpretation and translation, German as a foreign language and so on.
The Department of Economics has majors such as comparative study of international economic and social statistics, history of sociology, and economic history.
The Department of Social Behavior has majors in psychology, sociology, kinematics and gerontology.
The main departments under the Natural Science-Mathematics Comprehensive Department are Mathematics Department (mathematics and applied mathematics) and Chemistry Department (organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, etc. ), pharmaceutical department (pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmaceutical biology, pharmaceutical technology and biopharmaceutics, etc. ), Department of Physics and Astronomy (applied physics, physics, environmental physics, high-energy physics, theoretical physics and theoretical astrophysics, etc. ) and biology department. The majors are systematic botany and phytogeography, botany, zoology, microbiology, molecular genetics, neurobiology, cytology and biomedicine. ), Department of Crustal Science (majors are geological paleontology, mineral petrology, sediment research, laboratory geochronology and geology).
The University of Heidelberg awards honorary judges and honorary citizens to scholars who have made outstanding contributions, and awards honorary medals. In the history of the school, the most noteworthy are seven Nobel Prize winners:
Philip Nalder won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physics for his theory of electron and cathode radiation.
Albrecht Kossel, who has made great achievements in protein and nucleic acid research, won the 19 10 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.
Atto Fritz Meyerhof, who made great achievements in studying biological reaction chain, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine from 65438 to 0922.
Richard Kuhn, who has made great achievements in vitamin research, won the 1938 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Walther bothe, who developed the coincidence method in physics, discovered the method of obtaining the electron impulse when photon is emitted, and the data of particle motion in cosmic rays and nuclear motion during nuclear reaction, thus won the 1954 Nobel Prize in physics.
Hans daniel jensen won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics for his research on the structure of the nuclear layer.
Georg Georg Witting won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his achievements in the research of natural material recycling.