The Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen and Nuremberg is a public research university in Bavaria, Germany. It was established in Bayreuth in 1742 and moved to Erlangen in 1743, taking the names of its founder Margrave Friedrich of Brandenburg-Bayreuth and its benefactor Margrave Alexander of Brandenburg-Ansbach. It expanded to Nuremberg in 1961 and to Fürth in 2004. Today it has about 40,000 students in five faculties and more than 270 degree programmes, which makes it one of the fifteen largest universities in Germany and the third largest in Bavaria.
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is a public research university in the cities of Erlangen and Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany
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is a public research university in the cities of Erlangen and Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany
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he was professor of zoology at Erlangen university
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In 1817, he was appointed professor of botany at the University of Erlangen.
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