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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 Univer- meister was the first female
350,000 herbarium specimens, i.e. sity of Dresden in 1900 "for his alumna of the TH Dresden? Women
dried and pressed plants? the immortal merits, which he earned were officially allowed to complete a
Herbarium Dresdense is registered through the inventions of the full degree at the THD from 1907.
in the Index Herbariorum, the regenerative furnace for generating Johanna Weinmeister studied to
international directory of the high temperatures, the tank become a teacher and successfully
world’s herbaria, and actively loans furnace for melting glass, the passed the state examination for
specimens frpm scientific institu- regenerative burner for producing the higher education authority
tions 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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