Editing Leipzig (section)

===University===
[[Leipzig University]], founded 1409, is one of Europe's oldest universities. [[Karl Bücher]], a German economist, founded the ''Institut für Zeitungswissenschaften'' (Institute for Newspaper Science) at the University of Leipzig in 1916. It was the first institute of its kind to be established in Europe, and it marks the commencement of academic study of media communication in Germany.<ref>Tillack-Graf, Anne-Kathleen (2019). ''"Institute of Communication and Media Studies (University of Leipzig)"''. The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society. SAGE Publications.</ref> 

[[Gottfried Leibniz|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]], a philosopher and mathematician, was born in Leipzig in 1646, and attended the university from 1661 to 1666. Nobel Prize laureate [[Werner Heisenberg]] worked at the university as a physics professor (from 1927 to 1942), as did Nobel Prize laureates [[Gustav Ludwig Hertz]] (physics), [[Wilhelm Ostwald]] (chemistry) and [[Theodor Mommsen]] ([[Nobel Prize in Literature]]). The 2022 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine]] went to [[Svante Pääbo]], an honorary professor at the university. Other former university staff include mineralogist [[Georg Agricola]], writer [[Gotthold Ephraim Lessing]], philosopher [[Ernst Bloch]], founder of [[psychophysics]] [[Gustav Theodor Fechner]], and founder of modern psychology, [[Wilhelm Wundt]]. The university's notable former students include writers [[Johann Wolfgang Goethe]] and [[Erich Kästner]], philosopher [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], political activist [[Karl Liebknecht]], and composer [[Richard Wagner]]. [[Angela Merkel]], former German chancellor, studied physics at Leipzig University.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.uni-leipzig.de/english/index.html |title=Leipzig University homepage |access-date=22 August 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080912050259/http://www.uni-leipzig.de/english/index.html |archive-date=12 September 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The university has about 30,000 students.

A part of Leipzig University is the [[German Institute for Literature]] which was founded in 1955 under the name "Johannes R. Becher-Institut". Many noted writers have graduated from this school, including [[Heinz Czechowski]], Kurt Drawert, [[Adolf Endler]], [[Ralph Giordano (writer)|Ralph Giordano]], Kerstin Hensel, [[Sarah Kirsch (poet)|Sarah]] and Rainer Kirsch, Angela Krauß, [[Erich Loest]], and [[Fred Wander]]. After its closure in 1990 the institute was refounded in 1995 with new teachers.