!!!Universität Salzburg\\
 
University of Salzburg, 1622 opened by Prince Archbishop Paris Lodron 
(chartered in 1623), staffed and financially supported by a 
confederation of Salzburg, Swiss, South German, and Austrian 
Benedictine monasteries. Apart from studies in philosophy and 
theology, legal (complete programme from 1753) and at times medical 
studies (no medical faculty until 1804/07) were offered by secular 
teachers. In 1810, after Salzburg's annexation to Bavaria, the 
university was closed; it was replaced by a  Lyceum with philosophical 
and theological departments and a School of Medical Surgery. Under 
Austrian rule (from 1816) theology became a university faculty again 
(1850), but the lyceum and the medico-surgical school were closed 
(1850 and 1871 respectively). Efforts to re-establish the University 
of Salzburg at first concentrated on founding a Catholic university ( 
Salzburg University Weeks), which was about to be realised at the 
beginning of 1938. It was not until 1962 that the University of 
Salzburg was re-established as a federal institution (Faculty of 
Catholic Theology joined with a newly founded philosophical faculty); 
started teaching in 1964. In 1965 a faculty of legal and political 
sciences was added, and, when it was restructured in 1975 
(philosophical faculty divided into a faculty of Arts and a faculty of 
natural sciences), also a medical faculty was envisaged but has not 
been realised up to now. The University of Salzburg is located in the 
former Benedictine university and in other buildings in the old town 
centre, a prestigious building erected by W.  Holzbauer on the 
outskirts of Salzburg has accommodated the faculty of natural sciences 
since 1986.

!Literature
M. Kaindl-Hoenig and K. H. Ritschel, Die Salzburger 
Universitaet 1622-1964, 1964; Universitaet Salzburg 1622 - 1962 - 
1972. Festschrift, 1972; F. Ortner, Die Universitaet in Salzburg, 
1987.



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