Universität Rostock - About us - History - “Light of the North” - History of single departments and institutes

Here, a compilation of websites issued by faculties, institutes, hospitals and other institutions of the University of Rostock on their own history shall be established.

If you have not found a related link to a website presenting your own institution's history, we would be pleased to get a short feedback!! 

History of the faculty

Professor of Applied Plant Nutrition
History of „Plant Nutrition“ / Agricultural chemistry in Rostock

Agricultural Test and Research Institute
History of the LUFA Rostock

Institute of land use - Phytomedicine
History of Phytomedicine at the University of Rostock

Institute of Applied Microelectronics and Data processing technology
History of the institute

Institute of Electrical Engineering
History of the institute

Institute of Telecommunication Engineering
History

Chair of Business Informatics
Historical computer lab

Chair of Structural dynamics
History of the chair

Chair of Engineering Mechanics Machine dynamics
History of the chair

History of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Elaborated and compiled by private lecturer Dr. Reinhard Mahnke from: "Mögen viele Lehrmeinungen um die eine Wahrheit ringen" - 575 Jahre Universität Rostock. Konrad Reich Verlag, Rostock 1994.

Institute of Biomedical Sciences
Biomedical sciences at the University of Rostock – From the beginnings to the reunification

Department Animal Physiology
About the History of Zoology, Cytology in Rostock, Nobel prize laureates a. o.

Institute of Chemistry
Highlights of the History of Chemistry in Rostock

Institute of Physics
History of Physics in Rostock (Homepage of the private lecturer Dr. Reinhard Mahnke, Category History: 100 years Institute of Physics 1910-2010, List of Professors of Physics a. o.  )

Field of work History of Medicine

Institute of Anatomy
History

Institute of Immunology
History

Institute of Medical Psychology
History

Pharmacological and Toxicological Centre
History of the Institute

Institute of Physiology
Chronicle
Oscar Langendorff

Institute of Preventive Medicine – Occupational medicine, Sports medicine, Social medicine
Chronicle

Institute of Forensic Medicine
History of the Institute , U.Krüger and R. Wegener

Clinic of Surgery and Polyclinic, Department of Neurosurgery
History

Clinic and Polyclinic of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck surgery "Otto Körner"
History of the Clinic of Otolaryngology Rostock to the present

Clinic for Dermatology and und Venereology  
100 years Clinic and Policlinic for Dermatology at the University of Rostock , edited by Gerd E. Gross, Rostock 2002

Clinik and Polyclinic of Cardiosurgery
The history of cardiosurgery

Clinic and Polyclinic of Internal Medicine, Department of Hematology and Onkology  
History of the department

Chair of Naturopathy
Historical overview

Paediatric clinic
History

Clinic and Polyclinic of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
The history of Gehlsheims and of the KPP

Orthopaedic Clinic and Polyclinic
Chronicle

Institute of Educational Psychology "Rosa und David Katz"
History of the Institute
About David Katz

Institute of Sport science
History

Heinrich Schliemann Institute of Archaeology
History of the Institute

Institute of Philosophy
Moritz Schlick Research Centre
About the history of Philosophy at the University of Rostock from 1898 to 1948

Institute of German language and literature
150 years of German studies in Rostock

Institute of Romance Study and Literature
Past and Present

Institute of Ethnographic studies & Wossidlo Archive
History of the Institution

Field of work Multimedia and Data processing
History of the field of work

Research and Documentation Centre of the State on the History of Dictatorships in Germany
History and tasks of the Documentation centre

The Faculty of Theology of the University of Rostock – a small historical tour

Chair of Management Accounting and Controlling
History of the Chair 

Chair of Management Accounting and Taxation
History of the Chair

Institute of Political and Administrative Sciences
About the institute

University library
History

University archive
History

Botanical Garden
History