University of Aarhus

Aarhus University (in Danish, Aarhus Universitet), located in the city of Århus, Denmark, is Denmark's second oldest and second largest university (after the University of Copenhagen). The university was founded in 1928 and has an annual enrollment of more than 37,000 students. Aarhus University housed Denmark's first professor of sociology (Theodor Geiger, from 1938–1952) and in 1997 professor Jens Christian Skou received the Nobel Prize for Che... more

Aarhus University (in Danish, Aarhus Universitet), located in the city of Århus, Denmark, is Denmark's second oldest and second largest university (after the University of Copenhagen). The university was founded in 1928 and has an annual enrollment of more than 37,000 students. Aarhus University housed Denmark's first professor of sociology (Theodor Geiger, from 1938–1952) and in 1997 professor Jens Christian Skou received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of the sodium-potassium pump. Aarhus University was founded on 11 September 1928 as Universitetsundervisningen i Jylland ("University Teaching in Jutland") with an enrollment of 64 students. Classrooms were rented from the Technical College and the teaching corps consisted of one professor of philosophy and four associate professors of Danish, English, German and French. Until then the University of Copenhagen was the only university in Denmark. In 1934 the faculty of humanities got state accreditation, state funding... less