Talk:University of Jena/Archive 1

Archive 1

Misleading sentence?

I found the following sentence confusing:

"At the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries, the German government militated against the university, which remained unpopular until recent times."

What was unpopular--the German government's actions or the university itself?

Critic9328 01:52, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

I deleted the whole paragraph, which was virtually unintelligible; for one thing, there was no "German government" at the time. Languagehat (talk) 15:12, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Use of Britannica

I do not like including the facts and figures from Britannica 1911 here. The 1905 numbers are neither of relevance to the standing the FSU has today nor does it represent an important part of history. That the anatomical institute was well equipped then does not mean it still is. The library includes more than 200,000 volumes now, the current number is about 3,500,000. --Gunnar Hendrich (talk) 17:18, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Renaming

It seems quite surprising that the German government should have celebrated Schiller, a liberal and a writer, in 1934; is this a corruption of 1954? In any case, the date, whatever it is, should be sourced. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 15:29, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Nazi period, GDR

This article doesn't cover the important period 1933-1989.Xx236 (talk) 14:20, 22 November 2012 (UTC)