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Did you know that ...

… the logo of TU Dresden
dates back to a stele that artist Jürgen Schieferdecker
created in 1989 and which still stands at the intersec-
tion of Zellescher Weg and Teplitzer Straße?

… TU Dresden's art … Friedrich Siemens … Johanna Wein-
was awarded the first honorary
collection also includes doctorate of the Technical meister was the first female
350,000 herbarium specimens, i.e. University of Dresden in 1900 alumna of the TH Dresden? Women
dried and pressed plants? The "for his immortal merits, which he were officially allowed to complete a
Herbarium Dresdense is registered earned through the inventions of full degree at the THD from 1907.
in the Index Herbariorum, the the regenerative furnace for Johanna Weinmeister studied to
international directory of the generating high temperatures, the become a teacher and successfully
world’s herbaria, and actively loans tank furnace for melting glass, the passed the state examination for
specimens frpm scientific regenerative burner for producing the higher education authority
institutions all over the world. in 1913.
highly luminous flames and the
chemical regeneration of the heat
of the flame gases of highly heated
furnaces"?

… six professors

were rectors at the
university several times? Cornelius
Gurlitt (pictured left), Adolph Nägel,
Walther Hempel, Martin Krause,
Ernst von Meyer and Richard Mollier
were rectors of TU Dresden twice –
at a time when rectors were still
elected annually.
… the Technische
Bildungsanstalt,

was the predecessor institution of
TU Dresden, had its first domicile in
a garden pavilion on Brühl's
Terrace in 1828?
It was not until 1833 that it moved
to the former armory at Jüdenhof,
due to lack of space.

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