Departments

The Faculty of Humanities is divided into the following 5 main departments:

• Dept 1: Department of Ancient Studies and Art History

  Spokesman: Thomas Schipperges

  • Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies (IANES)
  • Institute of Classical Archaeology
  • Institute of Philology
  • Institute of Prehistory and Medieval Archaeology
  • Institute of Art History
  • Institute of Musicology
  • Institute of Religous Studies

• Dept 2: Department of Asian and Oriental Studies

  Spokesman: Gabriele Alex

  • Ethnology
  • Indian Studies and Comparative Religion
  • Japanese Studies
  • Oriental and Islamic Studies
  • Chinese Sudies
  • Korean Studies

• Dept 3: Department of History

  Spokesman: Klaus Gestwa

  • Institute of Ancient History
  • Institute of Medival History
  • Institute of Modern History
  • Institute of Contemporary History
  • Institute of Eastern European History and Area Studies
  • Institute of Regional History and the Auxiliary Historical Disciplines
  • Institute of Didactics of History and Public History

• Dept 4: Department of Modern Languages

  Spokesman: Sarah Dessì Schmid

  • Institute of German Language and Literatures
  • Institute of English Language and Literatures
  • Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures
  • Institute of Slavic Languages and Literatures
  • Department of Linguistics

• Dept 5: Department of Philosophy and Media

  Spokesman: Guido Zurstiege

  • Institute of Philosophy
  • Institute of Rethoric
  • Institute of Media Studies