864

GERMAN EMPIRE

Of the students, 11,045 were fully qualified students ; 1,910 were women.

For instruction in agriculture there are Agricultural High Schools at Berlin (805 students in 1911-12), Hoheiiheim (216), Bonn-Poppelsdorf (511), and Weihenstephan near Miinchen (226) ; at 8 of the universities there are Agricultural Institutes ; at AVeihensteplian (Bavaria) an agricultural and brewing academy ; in Prussia 16 secondary agricultural schools, and in other German States 6 ; in Prussia 26 farming schools, in other States 19 ; in Prussia 118 lower agricultural winter schools, and in other States 77 ; besides many schools for special agricultural instruction (in Prussia alone, 1,320). Other technical schools are 5 Veterinary High Schools with 1,329 students ; 15 schools of mining ; 15 schools of architecture and building ; 5 academies of forestry ; 27 schools of art and art-industry [Kttnst and Kunstgeiverhc- Schulcn) ; 429 commercial schools (including 5 commercial universities) ; about 100 schools (including universities) for textile manufactures ; 12 for special metal industries ; 12 for \yood working ; 4 for ceramic industries ; 11 for naval architecture and engineering ; 8 for ships' engineers ; 19 for navigation ; and 11 public music-schools. There are also numerous smaller as well as private music and other schools, and a large number of artisans' or trade schools. There is a naval academy and school at Kiel, and military academies at Berlin and Munich ; besides 47 schools of navigation, 9 military schools, and 9 cadet institutions.

In 1911 the proportion of illiterates among the recruits was "01 per cent.

There are 21 u.niversities in the German Empire, besides the Lyceum Hosianum at Braunsberg (13 teachers), which has only faculties of theology (Raman Catholic) and philosophy, the academy at Posen, and the Colonial Institute at Hamljurg. Negotiations are in progress, and are nearly complete, for the establishment of a University at Frankfort.

The following table gives the number of teachers and students for the winter half-year, 1911-12.

Universities

Professors and

Students

Teachers

Theology

Jurisprudence, •fee.

Medicine

Philosophy

Total

Berlin

494

415

2,216

1,872

4,637

9,140

Bonn .

197

447

842

599

2,090

3,987

Breslau

192

384

582

594

1,081

2,641

Erlangen .

102

230

196

436

340

1,202

Freiburg .

157

232

508

882

844

2,466

Giessen

94

83

144

447

598

1,272

Gottingen .

157

123

364

301

1,611

2,399

Greifswald

109

102

137

270

588

1,097

Halle .

176

373

530

372

1,502

2,777

Heidelberg

173

124

389

687

1,031

2,281

Jena .

115

70

302

356

1,010

1,738

Kiel .

123

52

328

517

719

1,616

Konigsberg

149

92

280

432

701

1,505

Leijizig

244

391

872

1,091

2,816

5,170

Marburg .

122

151

316

395

1,065

1,927

Miinich

256

171

1,691

2,387

2,548

6,797

Miinster

80

365

418

ISO

1,109

2,072

Rostock

70

36

98

355

363

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Strassburg

177

234

428

468

1,008

2,138

Tiibingen .

113

462

454

362

574

1,852

Wiirzburg .

100

101

270

11,365

741 13,844

346 26,641

1,458

3,310

4,578

56,428