University of Jena

The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and shortened to Uni Jena, is a public research university in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. Elector John Frederick of Saxony first thought of the plan in 1547 while held captive by the emperor, and after a charter from Emperor Ferdinand I the university was established on 2 February 1558 as the Ducal Pan-Saxon University, also called Salana after the river Saale. It is counted among the ten oldest universities in Germany. Around the turn of the 19th century its teaching staff, including Fichte, Hegel, Schelling and Schlegel, placed it at the centre of German idealism and early Romanticism, and it is later named for the poet Friedrich Schiller.