Doctoral Studies at the Faculty of Humanities

Brief information on the doctoral procedure at the Faculty of Humanities

The basis for doctoral procedures at the Faculty of Humanities is its  Doctoral Degree Regulations of 22.02.2011 as amended (currently 11.04.2018). For your convenience, this website also provides a legally not binding English translation of the Doctoral Degree Regulations.

The Doctoral Committee of the Faculty of Humanities is responsible for all decisions for which no special regulations have been made in the Doctoral Degree Regulations. The chairman of the doctoral committee is the dean.

More detailed information on the following procedural steps can be found in the information sheet on the doctoral procedure (as of 08/2023) for doctoral candidates of the Faculty of Humanities. You can find more inforation on the individual steps on the page "Doctoral Studies" and the forms and samples in the Download section, on the upper left side.