!!!Geisteswissenschaften

Arts (liberal arts, humanities), those branches of learning (esp. 
languages, literature, history etc.) which are associated with 
creative skill and distinguish themselves from the sciences in terms 
of both subject matter and methods. The German term 
Geisteswissenschaften (literally, "sciences of the mind") has been 
used in that sense since the mid-19th century. The liberal arts are an 
essential constituent of those branches of learning which were 
formerly parts of what was called the Faculty of Philosophy and which, 
under the University Organisation Act of 1975, was divided into the 
Faculty of Liberal Arts (Geisteswissenschaftliche Fakultaet) and the 
Faculty of Sciences (Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultaet) and at the 
University of Vienna into the Faculty of Formal and Natural Sciences, 
the Faculty of Fundamental and Interdisciplinary Studies and the 
Faculty of Liberal Arts.


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