Heidelberg University Faculty of Philosophy and History

The Faculty of Philosophy and History is one of twelve faculties at the University of Heidelberg. The present Faculty of Philosophy is the result of the amalgamation in 2002 of sectors of the former Faculties of History and Philosophy and of Oriental and Classical Studies. It is made up of three groups of subjects with common cultural, historical and geographical roots. It comprises 23 institutes and departments.^[1]

Department of Philosophy

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Centre for European Historical and Cultural Studies (ZEGK)

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Department of History

History was taught at Heidelberg for the first time by professor ordinarius historiarum Janus Gruterus († 1627). The first chair was established in 1807.^[4]

Institute of the History of Franconia and the Palatinate (FPI)

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Institute of Religious Studies

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Institute of European Art History (IEK)

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Department of Musicology

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Department of Eastern European History

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Centre for East Asian Studies (ZO)

Institute of Japanese Studies

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Institute of East Asian Art History

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Institute of Chinese Studies

The Institute for Chinese Studies as part of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Heidelberg was established in 1962.^[12]

Department of Classical Studies

The Department of Classical Studies was founded in 1807 by Georg Friedrich Creuzer^[13]

Centre for Ancient Studies

Altertumswissenschaftliches Kolleg

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Department of Egyptology

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Department of Ancient History and Epigraphics

The Department of Ancient History was established at the University of Heidelberg in 1887.^[16]

Department of Byzantine Archaeology and Art History

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Department of Classical Archaeology

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Department of Papyrology

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Department of Prehistory and Protohistory and Middle Eastern Archaeology

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Department of Languages and Cultures of the Near East

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Assyrian Studies

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Iranian Studies

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Islamic Studies

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Semitic Studies

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South Asia Institute (SAI)

The SAI was founded in 1962.^[25]

Chair of the Curt Engelhorn Foundation and Schurman Library for American History

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