Baltic Federal Immanuel Kant University

Baltic Federal Immanuel Kant University ; Russian Балтийский федеральный университет имени Иммануила Канта
founding	1966
Sponsorship	state
place	Kaliningrad (before 1945: Königsberg )
country	Russia
Acting Rector	Alexander Fedorov
Students	16,000
Website	www.kantiana.ru

The Baltic Federal Immanuel Kant University ( Russian Балтийский федеральный университет имени Иммануила Канта , English Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University ) is a university in Kaliningrad , Russia . Since perestroika , it has increasingly seen itself as the successor institution of the Albertus University in Königsberg , whose operations had ceased during the Second World War during the Battle of Königsberg . Until 2005 it was called Kaliningrad State University , then until 2012 Immanuel Kant Russian State University (Russian Российский государственный университет имени Иммануила Канта ). Since then it has been called the Baltic Federal Immanuel Kant University. It is one of eight federal universities in Russia. Thecountry's two national state universities are locatedin Moscow and Saint Petersburg .

history

The main building of the Immanuel Kant University stands on the foundations of the Albertus University

The former Kraus and Hippel School now houses part of the university.

The University Botanical Garden

Founding time

After the Second World War , the northern part of East Prussia with Königsberg was placed under Soviet administration in 1945 and the city was renamed Kaliningrad in 1946 during the expulsion of the entire population and their resettlement by Soviet citizens .

From 1948, the Russian State Pedagogical Institute in Kaliningrad used parts of the campus of the former Albertina. In 1966, the institute received the status of a university named Kaliningrad State University . In the 1960s, a new building was erected on the foundations of the main building of the Albertina , which had been destroyed in the war, on Paradeplatz , the main portal of which is the former left side entrance in the surviving Liebenthal wing. A Kant Museum was established at the university in 1974, in which not only the philosopher but also other traditions of the German Albertina are remembered. With the opening of Russia in the 1990s, the Albertina's traditions found increased local interest. For example, the name Albertina has been used since perestroika , for example at the temporary official Internet address www.albertina.ru .

present

On the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the university in August 1994, a German-Russian church service took place in the restored Königsberg Cathedral and a multilingual ceremony in the university.

During the celebrations for the 750th anniversary of Kaliningrad in July 2005, the university was renamed Immanuel Kant University in the presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder .

International Relations

Since the independence of Lithuania in September 1991 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union shortly afterwards, the Kaliningrad region , which belongs to the Russian Federation, no longer has any spatial connection with the rest of the Russian state. In political, economic and social terms, EU membership of the immediate neighbors Poland and Lithuania creates new conditions for the Russian exclave and the university in international traffic. The Immanuel Kant University has numerous international partnerships with foreign universities, including a. Long-term intensive relationships with the law faculty of the University of Göttingen, cooperation with the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and the Technical University of Vienna , as well as Erasmus agreements and DAAD Euler projects, in particular with the faculty of mathematics and computer science at the University of Leipzig .