Main building of the University of Vienna

Main building of the University of Vienna, 1., Universitätsring

The central building of the University of Vienna is its main building in the 1st district . The front is located on the university ring, which has been known as the university ring since 2012 . The building designed by Heinrich Ferstel was built between 1873 and 1884.

history

prehistory

Old University, Aula, 1st, Dr.-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz

The medieval university was housed in various buildings in the parlor district of the historic old town of Vienna . Her first house was the Herzogskolleg , which opened in 1385, at today's Postgasse 7–9. After the Jesuit College was incorporated into the university in 1623, the early Baroque Jesuit College was built on the same site. With the university church and some additions, it is still preserved today as the old university and houses, among other things, the archive of the University of Vienna .

From 1753 to 1755 Maria Theresa had a new main building, the "New Aula", built right next to the Jesuit college. The auditorium was the central meeting place during the revolution of 1848 . After the violent suppression of the revolution, the university was occupied by the military. The students were driven from the old town; the building was given to the Academy of Sciences in 1857 .

Studies now took place in temporary alternative quarters: the medical faculty was housed in a former rifle factory at Währinger Strasse  13 in the 9th district (today the "Anatomical Institute"). The juridical, philosophical and theological lectures were held in the former Piarist town convict in the old town. The chemical laboratory was housed in the Theresianum in the 4th district , and numerous institutes were located in Erdberg , a part of the 3rd district further away from the city center.

Planning on the Alsergrund

In 1854, Minister of Education Leo von Thun und Hohenstein planned the construction of a new university building on Rossauer Glacis , at the beginning of Währinger Strasse or today's Günthergasse in what is now the 9th district. Thun commissioned the architects Sicardsburg and van der Nüll to design the new building, which was then decided in 1855.

The medical faculty found the location attractive because it was conveniently close to what was then the General Hospital . In the meantime, however, the building site for the Votive Church , a project by the Emperor's brother Ferdinand Maximilian , had been marked out, and this building project, which began in 1856, was now in the way of the university. Sicardsburg and van der Nüll redesigned and planned a university building behind the choir of the Votive Church. The style was based on the Gothic to fit the Votive Church.

At the end of 1857, Franz Joseph I decided to leave the city ​​wall around the old town and to build the Vienna Ringstrasse around the old town ; a project that took many years to complete. Independently of this, the plan for the new university building near the Votive Church and its immediate implementation were decided in 1858. In 1859 construction could not be started because of the war in northern Italy , and in 1860 Thun left the government, which brought the project to a standstill.

The project was increasingly criticized. Heinrich Ferstel in particular protested violently against the fact that a second monumental building should compete with his votive church. In contrast, the Alsergrund district council fought for the prestigious project in their district. Years of discussion were the result. During these years the plans changed often. The university was at times planned as a single building, then again as a campus of several buildings based on the English model. The Chemical Institute at Währinger Strasse 10 was the only building on this campus to be built by Heinrich Ferstel from 1869–1872.

The construction of the University on the Ring

Heinrich Ferstel, vestibule in front of the ballroom

The university and part of the Rathauspark around 1900, behind it the Votive Church

The situation changed fundamentally after the emperor approved the abandonment of the large parade and parade ground near the old town, which the city administration had long demanded. In the winter of 1868/69, Mayor Cajetan Felder gave birth to the idea of ​​having three monumental buildings erected on the parade ground, the parliament, the town hall and the university. The plan was immediately appreciated. It was immediately decided that Theophil Hansen would build the parliament and Heinrich Ferstel the university.

However, there was also resistance. Although there was now a lot of space available at the parade site, several faculties wanted to hold onto the location on Alsergrund - the medical professionals in particular felt at home in the former rifle factory. Architect Ferstel had always opposed a monumental building next to his votive church; now that he was allowed to build the university himself, his protests became even more violent.

Finally, Franz von Matzinger , the head of the Vienna City Expansion Fund , finally succeeded in enforcing the new location on Ringstrasse, namely where the Franzensring (after several name changes, this section has been called the Universitätsring since 2012 ) in front of the Schottentor (today a traffic junction next to the university ) shows a marked change of direction, in sight, but without a direct connection with the Votive Church. The building site was delimited by the Ring, Rathausplatz , Reichsratsstrasse and Universitätsstrasse .

After Ferstel's construction plans were published, the university management was pleasantly surprised by the size of the building; above all, the entire university library could now be accommodated in the main building.

On July 25, 1870, during the term of office of kk Prime Minister Alfred Józef Potocki, the final decision was taken to build the university on the Ring. In the spring of 1871 Heinrich Ferstel went on a study trip to Italy, during which he mainly visited the universities of Bologna , Padua , Genoa and Rome . Up to the summer of 1872 countless negotiations and meetings took place in which the individual faculties announced their space requirements, which then had to be coordinated by Ferstel.

The project was finally assessed by the architect Gottfried Semper . Semper's expertise was basically positive, although he made some suggestions for improvement. Taking these suggestions into account, Emperor Franz Joseph I granted his approval on July 29, 1872. At the same time, the emperor approved 7 million guilders from state assets for university building. At that time, the kk Hofopertheater on Ringstrasse had already opened, but the construction of the kk Hofburgtheater had not yet started. The Art History Museum and the Natural History Museum , the two large court museums on the Ringstrasse, had been under construction for a year. Construction of the nearby Votive Church began in 1856, but lasted until 1879.

Construction work began a year later, on July 14, 1873. The laying of the foundations turned out to be very difficult. The Mölker Bastei once extended directly in front of the university ; the area was criss-crossed by old mine tunnels from the time of the Turkish wars.

Exactly ten years to the day after construction began, on July 14, 1883, Heinrich Freiherr von Ferstel died in his summer apartment in what was then the Viennese suburb of Grinzing . His long-time employee and brother-in-law Karl Köchlin (1828–1894) and his son Max von Ferstel took over the construction. A year later, the building was largely completed, on October 10, 1884 the university was ceremoniously opened in the presence of the emperor. The decorative design took years to complete. The total costs up to 1890 amounted to 7,633,186 guilders (approx. 67 million euros).

The building

Northeast view of the university building

As a homage to the first heyday of science in Europe, Ferstel had chosen the Italian High Renaissance style for the building , with the universities of Padua and Genoa as the inspiration. The building complex has a large arcade courtyard (50 × 40 meters) and eight smaller courtyards, the main facade with its access ramp is structured by protruding corner projections and the elevated central section. The eye-catcher on the Ringstraße is the prominently protruding columned hall. In the gable, a relief depicts the birth of Minerva , the goddess of wisdom.

The area of ​​the main building covers 21,412 m², of which 14,530 m² are built up. The university library with the large reading room is located at the rear of the building on Reichsratsstrasse . Since the library has no windows, the wall along Reichsratsstrasse was decorated with sgraffiti . The Auditorium Maximum was not built until the 1930s; With 751 seats it is the largest lecture hall in Austria.

The main building of the University of Vienna has repeatedly been the focus of political disputes. In the interwar period, the local National Socialists, who had tightly organized and well-equipped party formations , also made themselves felt at the university. Student riots took place in front of the university in 1928 and 1932. Taras Borodajkewycz, who was right-wing radical in the 1960s, worked here in the 1930s. In 1936 the German philosopher Moritz Schlick was murdered by one of his former students on a staircase in the main building. The Siegfriedskopf, which was erected in the auditorium in 1923 by anti-Semites and anti-democrats and only moved to a less prominent location in 2006, was the subject of discussions about its ideological background.

Reading room of the university library

Today the main building houses the following facilities:

• 2nd mezzanine floor : Institute for German Studies
• 2nd floor : seminar and practice rooms, German studies departmental library, Institute of History, historical sciences department, Catholic-Theological Faculty, Evangelical-Theological Faculty
• 1st mezzanine floor : international relations, public relations, personnel administration, institute for economic and social history
• 1st floor : University library, directorate, Institute for Austrian Historical Research, Institute for History, Faculty of History and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, small ballroom, large ballroom, Senate hall
• Raised ground floor : auditorium, arcade courtyard, textbook collection, internal auditing, finance and controlling, personnel administration, Institute for Classical Philology, Institute for Ancient History and Classical Studies
• Lower ground floor : Audimax, admission to study, Institute for Scandinavian Studies, Institute for Dutch Studies

The main building is very easy to reach via the directly adjacent Schottentor underground station and ten tram lines stopping there. A large underground car park is available under the square for private transport.

The immediate building neighbors include the Hotel de France , the former main building of the Creditanstalt-Bankverein , the Palais Ephrussi , the former OPEC building (Universitätsring 10) and the Pasqualati house on the Mölker Bastei with a Beethoven memorial.

The arcaded courtyard

The arcaded courtyard

Arcades south side

Memorial plaque from 1998 in memory of the members of the medical faculty who were expelled during the National Socialist era from 1938 to 1945

Heinrich von Ferstel wanted the large, central arcaded courtyard to be understood as the heart of the complex. From here you can reach all the important stairs. In 1885 the Academic Senate stipulated that deserving professors could posthumously be honored with a memorial in the arcade courtyard, at the earliest five years after their death (this period has now been increased to 15 years). Only in the case of the anatomist Josef Hyrtl was a monument erected during his lifetime.

The university was not allowed to cost anything to put up the busts or monuments. The rectorate examined and approved the drafts, but they were financed by relatives, students or associations. The first bust in the arcade courtyard was that of the lawyer Julius Glaser in 1888 ; she had been paid by his family. By 1918, 78 monuments were erected, between 1918 and 1945 28 monuments, and since 1945 48 monuments, a total of 154. In addition, there are some older monuments in the arcade courtyard that originate from other buildings.

The most prominent representatives of the Ringstrasse era can be found with regard to the sculptors who carried out the work: Caspar von Zumbusch created nine monuments in the Arkadenhof, Carl Kundmann seven, and Hans Bitterlich six. Almost all monuments are busts, only the statue of Education Minister Leo von Thun and Hohenstein is full-length.

In 1938, National Socialist students began to knock over or smear some of the busts. The rector then had the monuments of 18 Jewish scholars moved to a depot in the cellar. They survived the war undamaged and could be put up again in 1947.

The writer Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach is honored with a text plaque. Although she was neither a scientist nor taught at the university, she was the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna. Two of the busts, namely those of Wilhelm Emil Wahlberg and Heinrich Siegel , were designed by a woman, namely Melanie Horsetzky von Hornthal (1852–1931).

In 1998, a memorial plaque was unveiled in memory of the members of the medical faculty who were displaced between 1938 and 1945. The bronze wall memorial was designed by Günter Wolfsberger (* 1944).

In June 2016, seven researchers were honored with monuments in the Arkadenhof of the University of Vienna: Charlotte Bühler , Marie Jahoda , Berta Karlik , Lise Meitner , Grete Mostny , Elise Richter and Olga Taussky-Todd .

List of monuments in the arcaded courtyard

The order of the monuments corresponds to a clockwise tour through the arcaded courtyard.

image	monument	activity	Artist	revelation	Maisel No.
	Monument to Karl von Czyhlarz	jurist	Alfred Hofmann	1927	1
	Monument to Andreas Joseph von Stifft	Mediciners	Franz Klein	1889	2
	Monument to Carl Menger	Political economist	Alfred Hofmann	1929	3
	Monument to Joseph von Sonnenfels	jurist	Alois Düll	1891	4th
	Memorial to Gustav Demelius	jurist	Wilhelm Seib	1897	5
	Monument to Franz von Zeiller	jurist	Emanuel Pendl	1891	6th
	Monument to Josef von Kudler	Political economist	Wilhelm Seib	1891	7th
	Monument to Eugen Böhm von Bawerk	Political economist	E. Delug	1950	8th
	Monument to Wilhelm Emil Wahlberg	jurist	Melanie Horsetzky from Hornthal	1908	9
	Monument to Franz Brentano	philosopher	Theodor Georgii	1952	10
	Monument to Theodor Inama von Sternegg	historian	Edmund Klotz	1917	11
	Memorial to Friedrich von Wieser	Political economist	Rudolf Schmidt	1957	12
	Monument to Max Hussarek von Heinlein	jurist	Michael Drobil	1954	13
	Monument to Anton Menger	jurist	Richard Kauffungen	1919	14th
	Monument to Lorenz von Stein	jurist	Friedrich Steger	1891	15th
	Monument to Heinrich Siegel	jurist	Melanie Horsetzky from Hornthal	1902	16
	Monument to Hans Kelsen	jurist	Ferdinand Welz	1984	17th
	Monument to Franz Hofmann	Legal scholar	Theodor Khuen	1903	18th
	Monument to Heinrich Lammasch	jurist	Josef Humplik	1953	19th
	Monument to Carl Ludwig Arndts von Arnesberg	jurist	Theodor Charlemont	1899	20th
	Monument to Albrecht Schrauf	mineralogist	Franz Seifert	1907	21st
	Memorial to Robert von Zimmermann	philosopher	Edmund Klotz	1916	22nd
	Monument to Adolf Julius Merkl	jurist	Ferdinand Welz	1990	23
	Memorial to Richard Wettstein	biologist	Hans Bitterlich	1963	24
	Monument to Hans Molisch	biologist	Franz Seifert	1950	25th
	Monument to Anton Bruckner	Musicologist	Josef Tautenhayn	1912	26th
	Monument to Wilhelm Dantine	theologian	Josef Zenzmaier	2001	27
	Memorial to Gustav Tschermak	mineralogist	Rudolf Marshal	1936	28
	Memorial to Friedrich Becke	mineralogist	André Roder	1956	29
	Monument to Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher	biologist	Johann Kalmsteiner	1897	30th
	Monument to Anton Kerner von Marilaun	biologist	Edmund Hofmann of Aspernburg	1908	31
	Monument to Franz Unger	biologist	Jakob Gruber	1901	32
	Monument to Franz Serafin Exner	physicist	Michael Powolny	1937	33
	Monument to Josef Maria Pernter	mathematician	Michael Drobil	1935	34
	Monument to Nicholas Joseph by Jacquin	biologist	Leopold Schrödl	1905	35
	Monument to Gerard van Swieten	Mediciners	Franz Xaver Messerschmidt	1905	36
	Monument to Jan Ingenhousz	biologist	Franz Seifert	1905	37
	Monument to Rudolf Wegscheider	Chemist	Heinrich Zita	1949	38
	Monument to Ferdinand Lotheissen	philologist	Hans Bitterlich	1902	39
	Monument to Hans von Arnim	philologist	Franz Barwig?	1948	40
	Monument to Ernst Späth	Chemist	Heinrich Zita	1961	41
	Monument to Carl Claus	biologist	Richard Kauffungen	1907	42
	Monument to Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk	philosopher	Vincenc Makovský	1996	43
	Monument to Adolf Mussafia	philologist	Caspar Clemens Eduard Zumbusch	1912	44
	Monument to Anton Hye von Glunek	jurist	Caspar Clemens Eduard Zumbusch	1899	45
	Monument to Eduard Hanslick	Musicologist	Viktor Tilgner	1913	46
	Monument to Ludwig Barth zu Barthenau	Chemist	Heinrich Natter	1892	47
	Monument to Melchior Neumayr	paleontologist	Carl Kundmann	1892	48
	Monument to Adolf Exner	jurist	Hans Bitterlich	1896	49
	Monument to Karl Anton von Martini	jurist	Hans Mauer	1917	50
	Monument to Ignaz Seipel	Politician	Josef Engelhart	1950	51
	Monument to Julius Glaser	jurist	Caspar Clemens Eduard Zumbusch	1888	52
	Memorial to Richard Heinzel	philologist	Carl Kundmann	1914	53
	Monument to Carl von Rokitansky	Mediciners	Alexius von Swoboda	1898	54
	Monument to Franz von Miklosich	philologist	Johann Scherpe	1897	55
	Monument to Leopold Hasner von Artha	jurist	Caspar Clemens Eduard Zumbusch	1899	56
	Monument to Franz Serafin Exner	philosopher	Carl Kundmann	1893	57
	Monument to Leo von Thun and Hohenstein	Politician	Carl Kundmann	1893	58
	Monument to Hermann Bonitz	philologist	Carl Kundmann	1893	59
	Monument to Viktor von Lang	physicist	Hans Bitterlich	1929	60
	Monument to Adolf Lieben	Chemist	Carl Kundmann	1922	61
	Monument to Guido Goldschmiedt	Chemist	Franz Seifert	1923	62
	Monument to Rudolf Much	philologist	Franz Pixner	1952	63
	Monument to Zdenko Hans Skraup	Chemist	Ilse Twardowski-Conrat	1920	64
	Monument to Joseph Unger	jurist	Caspar Clemens Eduard Zumbusch	1928	65
	Memorial to Friedrich Jodl	philosopher	Hans Mauer	1924	66
	Monument to Otto Benndorf	archaeologist	Hella Unger	1929	67
	Monument to Franz Klein	jurist	Hermann Haller	1937	68
	Monument to Robert Ultzmann	Mediciners	K. Selinger	1929	69
	Monument to Heinrich von Bamberger	Mediciners	Richard Kauffungen	1899	70
	Monument to Julius Wiesner	biologist	Franz Seifert	1927	71
	Monument to Josef Seegen	Mediciners	Richard Kauffungen	1910	72
	Monument to Karl Landsteiner	Mediciners	Arnold Hartig	1961	73
	Monument to Edmund von Neusser	Mediciners	Heinrich Karl Scholz	1928	74
	Monument to Karl Schenkl	philologist	Stefan Schwartz	1919	75
	Monument to Julius Tandler	Mediciners	Josef Riedl	1956	76
	Memorial to Friedrich Hasenöhrl	physicist	Franz Seifert	1923?	77
	Monument to Hans Horst Meyer	Mediciners	Grete Hartmann	1953	78
	Monument to Leopold Ritter von Dittel	Mediciners	Rudolf Bachmann	1908	79
	Monument to Ferdinand von Arlt	Mediciners	Hans Bitterlich	1896	80
	Monument to Nikolai Sergeyevich Trubetzkoy	philologist	Vanja Radauš	1974	81
	Monument to Adalbert Duchek	Mediciners	Josef Grünhut	1901	82
	Monument to Vatroslav Jagic	philologist	Ivan Meštrović	1954	83
	Monument to Ernst Fleischl von Marxow	Mediciners	Emil Fuchs	1898	84
	Monument to Emil Zuckerkandl	Mediciners	Anton Hanak	1924	85
	Monument to Wilhelm von Hartel	philologist	Heinrich Karl Scholz	1912	86
	Monument to Julius Wagner-Jauregg	psychiatrist	Josef Muellner	1951	87
	Monument to Johann von Dumreicher	Mediciners	Adalbert Eduard Saff	1901	88
	Monument to Johann von Oppolzer	Mediciners	Viktor Tilgner	1890	89
	Monument to Theodor von Oppolzer	physicist	Viktor Tilgner	1890	90
	Monument to Eduard Albert	Mediciners	Arthur Kaan	1909	91
	Memorial to Gustav Riehl	Mediciners	Arnold Hartig	1954	92
	Monument to Josef Stefan	physicist	Anton Schmidgruber	1896	93
	Monument to Julius von Schlosser	Art historian	Josef Thorak	1955	94
	Monument to Joseph Johann von Littrow	physicist	Hans Bitterlich	1892	95
	Monument to Karl Ludwig von Littrow	astronomer	Hans Bitterlich	1892	96
	Monument to Sigmund Freud	Mediciners	Paul Koenigsberger	1955	97
	Monument to Rudolf Chrobak	Mediciners	Edmund Hellmer	1927	98
	Monument to Ernst Ludwig	Chemist	Caspar Clemens Eduard Zumbusch	1932	99
	Monument to Jakob Schipper	philologist	Josef Muellner	1928	100
	Monument to Leopold Schrötter by Kristelli	Mediciners	Caspar Clemens Eduard Zumbusch	1937	101
	Monument to Josef von Škoda	Mediciners	Carl Kundmann	1898	102
	Monument to Theodor von Sickel	historian	Josef Kassin	1930	103
	Monument to Karl Popper	philosopher	Christine Pillhofer	2002	104
	Monument to Karl Luick	philologist	Heinz Satzinger	1956	105
	Monument to Ferdinand of Hebra	Mediciners	Viktor Tilgner	1891	106
	Memorial to Johann Radon	mathematician	Ferdinand Welz	1987	107
	Monument to Karl Langer von Edenberg	Mediciners	Alfonso Canciani	1903	108
	Monument to Rudolf Pöch	Mediciners	Gustav Schütz	1933	109
	Monument to Theodor Meynert	psychiatrist	Theodor Khuen	1901	110
	Monument to Christian Doppler	physicist	Georg Leisek	1901	111
	Monument to Erwin Schrödinger	physicist	Ferdinand Welz	1984	112
	Monument to Josef Hyrtl	Mediciners	Johann Kalmsteiner	1889	113
	Monument to Carl Braun von Fernwald	Mediciners	Theodor Charlemont	1894	114
	Monument to Franz Schuh	Mediciners	Josef Beyer	1889	115
	Memorial to Robert Reininger	philosopher	Günther Baszel	1967	116
	Monument to Alfons Dopsch	historian	Arnold Hartig	1964	117
	Monument to Moriz Kaposi	Mediciners	Johannes Benk	1908	118
	Monument to Hermann Nothnagel	Mediciners	Richard Kauffungen	1910	119
	Monument to Heinrich Obersteiner	Mediciners	Richard Kauffungen	1997	120
	Monument to Karol Kuzmány	theologian	Ľudmila Cvengrošová	1998	121
	Monument to Ján Kollár	archaeologist	Ľudmila Cvengrošová	1998	122
	Memorial plaque in memory of members of the medical faculty displaced between 1938 and 1945	Mediciners	Günter Wolfsberger	1998	123
	Monument to Joseph von Quarin	Mediciners	Johann Martin Fischer	1889	124
	Monument to Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke	Mediciners	Otto König	1894	125
	Monument to Ludwig Mauthner	Mediciners	Rudolf Weyr	1899	126
	Monument to Eduard von Hofmann	Mediciners	Michael Drobil	1947	127
	Monument to Ernst Fuchs	Mediciners	Josef Muellner	1951	128
	Monument to Karl Stoerk	Mediciners	Johannes Benk	1907	129
	Monument to Theodor Billroth	Mediciners	Caspar Clemens Eduard Zumbusch	1897	130
	Monument to Hermann von Widerhofer	Mediciners	Richard Kauffungen	1907	131
	Monument to Anton von Eiselsberg	Mediciners	Use Pompe	1950	132
	Memorial to Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach	Writer	-	1925	133
	Monument to Clemens von Pirquet	Mediciners	Josef Riedl	1962	134
	Monument to Adam Politzer	Mediciners	József Kampfl	1983	135
	Memorial to Richard von Krafft-Ebing	psychiatrist	Richard Kauffungen	1908	136
	Monument to Johann Sölch	geographer	Viktor Hammer	1965	137
	Monument to Eduard Jäger von Jaxtthal	Mediciners	Gertrude Dengg	1910	138
	Monument to Constantine by Economo	psychiatrist	Max Kremser	1966	139
Image wanted	Monument to Rudolf von Eitelberger	Art historian	Caspar Clemens Eduard Zumbusch	1889	140
Image wanted	Memorial to Paul Kretschmer	linguist	-	1968	141
	Monument to Rudolf von Scherer	theologian	Arnold Hartig	1951	142
	Monument to Franz Martin Schindler	theologian	Arnold Hartig	1951	143
Image wanted	Monument to Otto Kahler	Mediciners	Richard Kauffungen	1904	144
	Monument to Josef Maximilian Petzval	mathematician	Anton Brenek	1901	145
	Monument to Leopold Oser	Mediciners	Carl Wollek	1917?	146
Image wanted	Monument to Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis	Mediciners	Alfred Hrdlicka	1967	147
Image wanted	Monument to Hugo Weidel	Chemist	Alfonso Canciani	1906	148
Image wanted	Monument to Heinrich Swoboda	theologian	Franz Strahammer	1956	149
Image wanted	Memorial to Gustav Bickell	philologist	Karl Nickmann	1921	150
Image wanted	Monument to Josef Böhm	biologist	Johannes Benk	1895	151
Image wanted	Monument to Karl Werner	theologian	Franz Koch	1897	152
	Monument to Ludwig Boltzmann	physicist	Leopold Brandeisky	1912	153
Image wanted	Monument to Josef Loschmidt	physicist	Anton Schmidgruber	1899	154
	Siegfried's head	-	Josef Muellner	2006	SK
	Kastalia fountain	-	Edmund Hellmer	1910	K
	Monument Enough of the muse	-	Iris Andraschek	2009?
	Monument to anonymized female scientists 1700–2005 (Elise Richter)	Philologist	Elisabeth Penker	2005
Image wanted	Memorial to Charlotte Bühler	psychologist	Thomas Baumann	2016
Image wanted	Memorial to Marie Jahoda	Social scientist	Catrin Bolt	2016
Image wanted	Monument to Berta Karlik	physicist	Thomas Baumann	2016
Image wanted	Monument to Lise Meitner	physicist	Thomas Baumann	2016
Image wanted	Monument to Grete Mostny	Archaeologist	Karin Frank	2016
Image wanted	Monument to Elise Richter	Linguist	Catrin Bolt	2016
Image wanted	Monument to Olga Taussky-Todd	Mathematician	Karin Frank	2016

literature

• Norbert Wibiral, Renata Mikula: "Heinrich von Ferstel". Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1974. ISBN 3-515-01928-6 . Volume VIII, 3 by Renate Wagner-Rieger (Ed.): “The Vienna Ringstrasse. Picture of an Era (Volume I – XI). “Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1972–1981. ISBN 978-3-515-02482-2 .
• Kurt Mühlberger (Ed.): “The University of Vienna. Brief glimpses of a long history. ”Holzhausen, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-900518-45-9 .
• Kurt Mühlberger, University of Vienna (Ed.): “Palace of Science. A historical walk through the main building of the Alma Mater Rudolphina Vindobonensis [University of Vienna]. ”Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77619-2 , parallel edition in English:“ Palace of Knowledge. A historical stroll through the main building of the Alma Mater Rudolphina Vindobonensis. "Translated by Camilla R. Nielsen and J. Roderick O'Donovan, ISBN 978-3-205-77807-3 .
• Thomas Maisel, University of Vienna (ed.): “Scholars in stone and bronze. The monuments in the arcade courtyard of the University of Vienna “Böhlau, 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77616-1 .
• Julia Rüdiger, Dieter Schweizer (Ed.): “Places of Knowledge. The University of Vienna along its buildings 1365–2015 “Böhlau, 2015, ISBN 978-3-205-79655-8 .

Web links

Commons : Main building of the University of Vienna  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: University history Vienna  - sources and full texts

• www.univie.ac.at Official website
• u: monuments The monuments in the arcade courtyard of the University of Vienna
• www.studentpoint.at Advisory center at the University of Vienna
• www.dieuniversitaet-online.at Online newspaper of the University of Vienna
• Project Phaidra digital long-term archiving of the University of Vienna

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kurt Mollik, Hermann Reining, Rudolf Wurzer: “Planning and Realization of the Vienna Ringstrasse Zone”. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1980. ISBN 3-515-02481-6 . Volume III by Renate Wagner-Rieger (Ed.): “The Vienna Ringstrasse. Picture of an Era (Volume I – XI). “Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1972–1981. ISBN 978-3-515-02482-2 .
2. ↑ Barbara Dmytrasz: The Ringstrasse - A European Building Idea , Amalthea Signum Verlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85002-588-1 . P. 96 ff.
3. ↑ Bundespolizeidirektion Wien (Ed.): 80 Years of the Vienna Security Guard , Verlag für Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1949, p. 52.
4. ↑ Bundespolizeidirektion Wien (Ed.): 80 Years Wiener Sicherheitswache , Verlag für Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1949, p. 63.
5. ↑ orf.at - Seven women's monuments for the University of Vienna . Article dated October 28, 2015, accessed October 28, 2015.
6. ↑ derStandard.at - Arkadenhof of the University of Vienna now also houses women's monuments . Article dated June 30, 2016, accessed July 1, 2016.
7. ↑ orf.at - women in the arcade courtyard of the University of Vienna . Article dated June 30, 2016, accessed July 1, 2016.
8. ↑ This bust was only temporarily erected, see description on monuments.univie.ac.at

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 47 "  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 35"  E