The Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn is one of the major universities in Germany. Named after the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III and founded in 1818, the university is located in Bonn on the Rhine. In December 2022, 33,000 students were enrolled.
Among its alumni, honorary doctors and professors are seven Nobel laureates - including Harald zur Hausen, Wolfgang Paul, Reinhard Selten, Thomas Mann and Otto Wallach - fourteen laureates of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, three laureates of the Fields Medal, as well as Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI. ), Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx, Konrad Adenauer, Robert Schuman, Joseph Schumpeter, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jürgen Habermas, Max Ernst, Karl Barth, August Kekulé, Justus von Liebig, Rudolph Clausius and Heinrich Hertz, but also leading National Socialists like Joseph Goebbels.
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