University of Trier

Short description: Public university in Germany

Trier University

Universität Trier

Latin: S. Almi Studii Treverensis
Type| Public
Established| 1970, historical: 1473–1798
Budget| € 140.2 million[1]
Rector| Michael Jäckel

Academic staff

Short description: Latin loanword meaning "approximately, around"

CA|other uses of "Cca"|CCA (disambiguation)|CCA|other uses of "Circa"|Circa (disambiguation)}}Template:TWCleanup2Circa (from la 'around, about, roughly, approximately') - frequently abbreviated ca. or c. and less frequently circ., cca. or cc. - signifies "approximately" in several European languages and is used as a loanword in English, usually in reference to a date.[2] Circa is widely used in historical writing when the dates of events are not accurately known.

When used in date ranges, circa is applied before each approximate date, while dates without circa immediately preceding them are generally assumed to be known with certainty.

## Contents

* 1 Examples
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 External links
* 5 History
* 5.1 Historical university
* 5.2 Modern university
* 5.3 University seal
* 6 Faculties
* 7 Student demographics
* 8 Notable alumni
* 9 Karl-Marx-University of Trier
* 10 See also
* 11 References
* 12 External links

## Examples

* 1732–1799: Both years are known precisely.
* c. 1732 – 1799: The beginning year is approximate; the end year is known precisely.
* 1732 – c. 1799: The beginning year is known precisely; the end year is approximate.
* c. 1732 – c. 1799: Both years are approximate.

## See also

* Floruit

## References

1. ↑ "Universität Trier in Zahlen 2015" (in de). University of Trier. p. 63. https://www.uni-trier.de/fileadmin/profil/Universitaet_in_Zahlen/UIZ_2015.pdf.
2. ↑ "circa". Dictionary.com. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/circa.

## External links

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Chronology

Key topics|

* Archaeology
* Astronomy
* Geology
* History
* Big History
* Paleontology
* Time

* Periods
* Eras
* Epochs

| Calendar eras|

* Human Era
* Ab urbe condita
* Anno Domini / Common Era
* Anno Mundi
* Byzantine era
* Seleucid era
* Spanish era
* Before Present
* Hijri
* Egyptian
* Sothic cycle
* Hindu units of time (Yuga)
* Mesoamerican
* Long Count
* Short Count
* Tzolk'in
* Haab'

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Regnal year|

* Canon of Kings
* Lists of kings
* Limmu

Era names|

* Chinese
* Japanese
* Korean
* Vietnamese

Calendars|

| Pre-Julian / Julian|

* Pre-Julian Roman
* Original Julian
* Proleptic Julian
* Revised Julian

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Gregorian|

* Gregorian
* Proleptic Gregorian
* Old Style and New Style dates
* Adoption of the Gregorian calendar
* Dual dating

Astronomical|

* Lunisolar
* Solar
* Lunar
* Astronomical year numbering

Others|

* Chinese sexagenary cycle
* Geologic Calendar
* Hebrew
* Iranian
* Islamic
* ISO week date
* Mesoamerican
* Maya
* Aztec
* Winter count (Plains Indians)

Astronomic time|

* Cosmic Calendar
* Ephemeris
* Galactic year
* Metonic cycle
* Milankovitch cycles

Geologic time|

| Concepts|

* Deep time
* Geological history of Earth
* Geological time units

|

Standards|

* Global Standard Stratigraphic Age (GSSA)
* Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP)

Methods|

* Chronostratigraphy
* Geochronology
* Isotope geochemistry
* Law of superposition
* Luminescence dating
* Samarium–neodymium dating

Chronological
dating|

| Absolute dating|

* Amino acid racemisation
* Archaeomagnetic dating
* Dendrochronology
* Ice core
* Incremental dating
* Lichenometry
* Paleomagnetism
* Radiometric dating
* Radiocarbon
* Uranium–lead
* Potassium–argon
* Tephrochronology
* Luminescence dating
* Thermoluminescence dating

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Relative dating|

* Fluorine absorption
* Nitrogen dating
* Obsidian hydration
* Seriation
* Stratigraphy

Genetic methods|

* Molecular clock

Linguistic methods|

* Glottochronology

Related topics|

* Chronicle
* New Chronology
* Synchronoptic view
* Timeline
* Year zero
* Circa
* Floruit
* Terminus post quem
* ASPRO chronology

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Administrative staff

| c. 580[1]
Students| 13,751[1]
Location|

Trier

Rhineland-Palatinate

Germany

[ ⚑ ] : 49°44′51″N 6°41′16″E﻿ / ﻿49.7475°N 6.68778°E﻿ / 49.7475; 6.68778
Website| www.uni-trier.de
Faculty building Library

The Trier University (German: Universität Trier), in the German city of Trier, was founded in 1473. Closed in 1798 by order of the then French administration in Trier, the university was re-established in 1970 after a hiatus of some 172 years. The new university campus is located on top of the Tarforst heights, an urban district on the outskirts of the city. The university has six faculties with around 470 faculty members. In 2006 around 14,000 students were matriculated, with 43.5% of the student body male and 56.5% female; the percentage of foreign students was approximately 15.5%.

## History

### Historical university

In 1455 Pope Nicholas V granted the Archbishop of Trier, Jakob I. von Sierck [de; de], the right to establish a university. The University of Trier was founded 16 March 1473. Battling financial problems for decades, the university was acquired by the Jesuits in 1560. They emphasized the philosophical and theological faculties at the expense of medicine and law. In the 1580s Peter Binsfeld was president of the university. In the 1730s Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim was also a faculty member. After the French occupation of the Rhineland, the French administration ordered the universities of Cologne, Mainz, Bonn and Trier closed, the last closing on 6 April 1798.

### Modern university

After a hiatus of some 172 years the University of Trier was re-established in 1970 by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate as a constituent member of the twin University of Trier-Kaiserslautern, with 360 students matriculating in Trier on 15 October 1970. In 1975 the twin university was split into two independent universities. In 1977 the current university campus in Tarforst was opened and during the 1990s a nearby former French military hospital complex (dating from the French military presence in Germany following the Second World War) was acquired by the university and now forms a second campus, dubbed Campus II.

### University seal

The modern university still uses the seal of the historical university in its corporate design.[2] It contains the Latin motto "Treveris ex urbe deus complet dona sophiae" (God completes the favors of wisdom from the city of Trier). In 2000 an alternative logo[3] incorporating that seal was introduced, but this met with resistance.

## Faculties

The university is divided into six faculties ("Fachbereiche").

* FB I – Pedagogy, Philosophy, Psychology (c. 2300 students)
* FB II – Linguistics, Literature, Media (c. 2700 students)
* FB III – Egyptology, Papyrology, History, Archeology, Art history, Politics (c. 1700 students)
* FB IV – Economics, Business, Sociology, Mathematics, Computer Science (c. 3300 students)
* FB V – Law (c. 1800 students)
* FB VI – Geography, Geosciences (c. 1600 students)

There is also a Faculty of (Roman Catholic) Theology, affiliated to the university but administratively independent. It has about 300 students.

## Student demographics

Foreign Students at the university (WS 2004/05)

Country  | Students  | Percentage
Luxembourg  | 424  | 22.2%
China  | 290  | 15.2%
Bulgaria  | 133  | 7.0%
Poland  | 86  | 4.5%
Romania  | 70  | 3.7%
Turkey  | 56  | 2.9%
France  | 52  | 2.7%
Italy  | 50  | 2.6%
Russia  | 48  | 2.5%
Ukraine  | 43  | 2.3%

* WS 2001/02: 11,867 students
* WS 2002/03: 12,660 students
* WS 2003/04: 13,082 students
* WS 2004/05: 13,327 students
* WS 2005/06: 13,755 students
* WS 2006/07: 13,932 students
* WS 2007/08: 13,982 students
* WS 2008/09: 14,639 students
* WS 2009/10: 14,612 students
* WS 2010/11: 14,931 students
* WS 2011/12: 15,260 students
* WS 2012/13: 15,165 students[4]

While there is a considerable number of foreign students in Trier, a large majority of students hail from Rhineland-Palatinate and the adjacent German states of Saarland and Northrhine-Westphalia. This situation has been exacerbated by the introduction of tuition fees in all German states except Rhineland-Palatine, with the University of Trier having experienced an increase in the number of students from other German states—especially the neighbouring states—matriculating or transferring there. The SPD, the governing party in Rhineland-Palatinate, does not plan to introduce tuition fees.

## Notable alumni

* Mervat Seif el-Din – classical archaeologist and former director of the Graeco-Roman Museum.

## Karl-Marx-University of Trier

The General Students Committee (German: Allgemeiner Studierendenausschuss, or AStA for short) [when?] put forward a proposal to change the university's official name to the Karl Marx University of Trier (German: Karl-Marx-Universität Trier), in honour of perhaps the city's most famous son. Although the proposal was rejected by university authorities, the General Students Committee still referred to the university as "Karl-Marx-Universität Trier", until a new coalition was formed in the students parliament in 2015.[5][6]

Campus

## See also

* List of medieval universities

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Facts and Figures". https://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=16186&L=2.
2. ↑ "Universität Trier: Unvorhergesehener Fehler". Uni-trier.de. 22 April 2014. http://www.uni-trier.de/uni/siegel.htm.
3. ↑ "Universität Trier: Unvorhergesehener Fehler". Uni-trier.de. 22 April 2014. http://www.uni-trier.de/Home/home_unisignet_450_214a.gif.
4. ↑ http://www.uni-trier.de/fileadmin/profil/Universitaet_in_Zahlen/UIZ_2013.pdf [bare URL PDF]
5. ↑ "AStA Uni Trier | Wir sind der AStA". Asta-trier.de. http://asta-trier.de/.
6. ↑ "AStA ohne Karl Marx" (in de-DE). Campusnews. 17 February 2016. http://campusnews.uni-trier.de/?p=16931.

## External links

* Places of interest near University of Trier and overnight accommodation

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