Faculty of Humanities

The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Tübingen contains the whole spectrum of humanities and encompasses more than two and a half thousand years of cultural history. The subjects at our Faculty range from the early advanced civilizations in East Asia, the Middle East, India and Egypt to current developments in the fields of history, media, literature and languages. We combine innovative teaching with excellent research and have a strong network in Germany and worldwide. Since many years, the University of Tübingen is known as an institution for high quality research in the field of humanities. National and international rankings consistently prove the outstanding position of our Faculty.

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The Faculty of Humanities was formed on October 1st, 2010 by the merger of the previous faculties for history and philosophy, new philology and cultural studies. It contains almost all of the university's humanities institutes and chairs, which are grouped into five departments. As before, the institutes remain the main contact in all subject-related matters.

Today's faculty largely corresponds to the Faculty of Philosophy that was established in 1477 when the university was founded and existed until 1970.