Montanuniversität Leoben

Montanuniversität Leoben is a public university in Leoben, a town in Styria, Austria, and it concentrates its education and research on the three fields its own record names, namely mining, metallurgy and materials science.莱奥本矿业大学（德语 Montanuniversität Leoben）是奥地利施泰尔马克州莱奥本的一所公立大学，其教育与科研集中于本校记录点名的三个领域，即矿业、冶金与材料科学。

The institution was established on 4 November 1840 as the Steiermärkisch-Ständische Montanlehranstalt in Vordernberg within Austria's mining region of Styria, and in 1849 Peter Tunner relocated it from Vordernberg to nearby Leoben.该校于 1840 年 11 月 4 日以 Steiermärkisch-Ständische Montanlehranstalt 之名创立于奥地利矿业地区施泰尔马克州的福尔登贝格，1849 年由彼得·图纳（Peter Tunner）迁至邻近的莱奥本。

In the QS World University Rankings 2027 it occupies the 851-900 band, in the Times Higher Education ranking of the same year the 801-1000 band, and in the 2026-27 US News Best Global Universities table it is listed at 1914, while the 2026 Shanghai Ranking main list does not include it.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中该校列第 851-900 档，同年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名列第 801-1000 档，2026-27 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名列第 1914 位，而 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜未收录该校。

History

• The School opened on 4 November 1840 under the German name Steiermärkisch-Ständische Montanlehranstalt, the recorded founding date of the university, a founding entry preserved in its English article.该校于 1840 年 11 月 4 日开学，这是有案可稽的创立日期，当日使用德语校名 Steiermärkisch-Ständische Montanlehranstalt，这一创立记录保存在其英文条目中。

• The 1840 seat was the town of Vordernberg in Styria, and the same record describes Styria as Austria's mining region, locating the foundation inside the country's ore and mining district.1840 年的校址位于施泰尔马克州的福尔登贝格，同一记录把施泰尔马克州称作奥地利的矿业地区，即该校创办于全国矿业与矿冶地域之内。

• Even the founding name announced the university's sector, since the German elements Steiermärkisch and Montanlehranstalt spell out Styria, mining and teaching institute, the trinity that still defines the Leoben school.连创办校名也标示了学校的行业属性，其德语词素 Steiermärkisch 与 Montanlehranstalt 直译即施泰尔马克、矿业与教学机构，这三者至今仍是莱奥本一校的底色。

• In 1849, nine years after the 1840 opening, the school was moved out of Vordernberg to Leoben, and the university has kept Leoben as its seat in every description available.1849 年，即 1840 年开学九年之后，学校自福尔登贝格迁往莱奥本，此后在全部可见记载中莱奥本一直是其校址所在。

• The relocation of 1849 is credited to one named person, Peter Tunner, whom the record cites as the figure who relocated the university from Vordernberg to nearby Leoben.1849 年的迁校之功记在一个具名人物身上，记录所载即彼得·图纳把学校从邻近的福尔登贝格搬到莱奥本。

• Because Vordernberg and Leoben are described as nearby towns within the same Styria, the move of 1849 shifted the school between two towns of one mining region rather than between regions.由于福尔登贝格与莱奥本同处施泰尔马克州且被记为邻近城镇，1849 年的搬迁只是同一矿业地区内部两个城镇之间的位移，而非跨地区的迁移。

• From the 1840 Styrian Mining Teaching Institute to the Montanuniversität of the present, the fields the university names for its education and research remain mining, metallurgy and materials science.从 1840 年创办的施泰尔马克矿业教学机构到今天的矿业大学，本校点名承载教育与科研的领域始终是矿业、冶金与材料科学。

• In German the institution is the Montanuniversität Leoben, a title whose root Montan, mining, is the same root carried by the founding name of 1840.德语校名 Montanuniversität Leoben 中的词根 Montan 意为矿业，与 1840 年创办校名中的同一词根一脉相承。

• For its own English communication the university adopts the name Technical University of Leoben, the rendering it uses about itself in the first line of its article.在英文语境中，本校自我表述采用 Technical University of Leoben 一名，即其条目首行对学校自身的称呼。

• The Austrian Federal Ministry of Women, Science and Research renders the name in English as Leoben University Mining and Metallurgy, a form the university's own article marks with sic.奥地利联邦妇女、科学与研究部把校名英译为「Leoben University Mining and Metallurgy」，本校条目对这个译法标注了「sic」以示存疑。

• An English translation of the 2002 Universities Act, the federal statute governing Austrian universities, calls the institution the University of Mining Leoben, a third statutory-flavoured English variant.规范奥地利大学的 2002 年联邦大学法的英译本称该校为 University of Mining Leoben，这是带法定色彩的第三种英文变体。

• With Technical University of Leoben, Leoben University Mining and Metallurgy and University of Mining Leoben in view, the school carries three English names of official or legal origin at the same time.把「Technical University of Leoben」「Leoben University Mining and Metallurgy」与「University of Mining Leoben」并列来看，该校同时背负着三个具有官方或法律出处的英文校名。

• The University is public, holding its rank in the Austrian state system rather than as a private college, a status stated in the opening sentence of its record alongside the Leoben and Styria location.本校为公立大学，位列奥地利国家高教体系而非私立学院，这一身份与其地处莱奥本、施泰尔马克州的说明同见于记录首句。

• The institution belongs to TU Austria, recorded as an association of three Austrian universities of technology that also numbers the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) and the Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), the first institutional affiliation named in its own description.本校是 TU Austria 的成员，该组织被记载为由三所奥地利技术大学结成的联盟，成员院校除莱奥本外还有维也纳工业大学（TU Wien）与格拉茨工业大学（TU Graz），这也是其自述中点名列出的第一个机构归属。

• Within that association of three technical universities, the Leoben member is the one whose declared education and research fields are mining, metallurgy and materials science.在这个由三所技术大学组成的联盟内，莱奥本一方正是把矿业、冶金与材料科学列为自身教育与科研领域的那一所。

• Hellmut Fischmeister is recorded as professor of metallurgy and materials testing at the university from 1975 to 1981, one of only two faculty members dated in the available material.赫尔穆特·菲施迈斯特（Hellmut Fischmeister）于 1975 至 1981 年任本校冶金与材料检验教授，是现存材料中仅有两位带任期记载的教师之一。

• Wilfried Imrich appears in the staff record as professor of mathematics, attaching a named mathematician to the institute that carries the number-crunching subjects of a mining university.维尔弗里德·伊姆里希（Wilfried Imrich）在教职记录中列名数学教授，使一所矿业大学里承担数理教学的学系有了具名人物。

• In the 2024 edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings the university was ranked in the 801-1000 range, the modern milestone recorded next to its subject results.在 2024 年版泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中该校列第 801-1000 位区间，这是与其学科名次并列记载的近代节点。

• In Shanghai Ranking Consultancy's 2025 global ranking of academic subjects the school attained rank five in metallurgical engineering among European universities and placed 42 worldwide, with its materials science and engineering band given as 201-300.在软科咨询 2025 年全球学科排名中，该校冶金工程在欧洲高校中列第 5 名、全世界列第 42 名，材料科学与工程列为 201-300 档。

• Almost two centuries after the 4 November 1840 opening, the institution remains a single-town, single-sector university organized into departments rather than broad faculties.在 1840 年 11 月 4 日开学近两个世纪之后，本校仍是那种单城镇、单行业、以学系而非大学部为建制的专门大学。

Academics

• Under the heading of currently listed units, the university reports twelve departments and institutes, the full academic skeleton through which its mining, metallurgy and materials teaching and research run.按现行教学单位名录，本校共设 12 个学系与研究所，构成承载矿业、冶金与材料领域教学科研的完整学术骨架。

• Of the twelve units, nine carry the title Department and three carry the title Institute, a split visible in the official names such as Department of Metallurgy and Institute of Electrical Engineering.12 个单位中有 9 个称 Department、3 个称 Institute，这一分层在 Department of Metallurgy 与 Institute of Electrical Engineering 等官方名称中清晰可见。

• The Department of Metallurgy and the Department of Materials Science hold the two metal-centred subjects that trace directly back to the mining teaching mission opened in 1840.冶金学系与材料科学学系承接两个以金属为核心的学科，可上溯到 1840 年开学的矿业教学使命。

• The Department Mineral Resources and Petroleum Engineering spans both mining engineering and petroleum engineering, the extractive pair that gives the university its two rarest specialisms in Austria.矿产资源与石油工程系横跨矿业工程与石油工程，这一对开采类学科使本校在奥地利握有两个罕见的专门方向。

• The Department of Geoscience and Geophysics supplies the earth-science side of the programme, standing in the current list beside the mineral and petroleum work.地球科学与地球物理系提供课程中的地球科学一侧，在现行名录中与矿产及石油学科并立。

• The Department of Polymer Engineering and Science extends the materials curriculum from metals into polymers, pairing with the Department of Materials Science on the materials side of the school.高分子科学与工程系把材料课程从金属延伸到高分子，与材料科学学系在本校的材料一侧配对设课。

• The Department of Analytical and Physical Chemistry is the chemistry unit of the structure, named in the current list alongside the metals and minerals departments.分析物理化学系是该建制中的化学单位，在现行名录中与金属及矿产各系并列。

• The Institute of Electrical Engineering and the Institute of Mechanical Engineering form the pair of engineering institutes listed for the university, distinct from its nine departments.电气工程学院与机械工程学院构成本校名录中两所研究所级别的工学单位，与 9 个学系相区别。

• The Department of Product Engineering carries product-oriented engineering, a further branch of the mechanical and materials studies taught at Leoben.产品工程系承担面向产品的工程教学，是莱奥本机械与材料学科之下的又一个分支。

• The Institute for Process Technology and Industrial Environmental Protection couples process engineering with industrial environmental protection inside a single institute name.工艺流程与工业环境保护所把流程工程与工业环境保护合并在同一个研究所名称之内。

• The Department of Mathematics and Information Technology is the unit that houses the number and computing subjects, the department in which the mathematician Wilfried Imrich held his professorship.数学与信息技术系是数理与计算科目所属的单位，数学家维尔弗里德·伊姆里希的教授职位即设于此系。

• The Department of Economics adds the economic and business side to the twelve-unit list, the one non-engineering department in an otherwise wholly technical structure.经济学系把经济与经营一侧列入 12 个单位的名录，是在其余皆工科的建制中唯一的非工程类学系。

• The declared research fields of mining, metallurgy and materials science correspond to the named units Department Mineral Resources and Petroleum Engineering, Department of Metallurgy and Department of Materials Science.本校申报的矿业、冶金、材料科学三大研究领域，与矿产资源与石油工程系、冶金学系、材料科学学系三个具名单位逐一对应。

• No medical, law, veterinary or humanities faculty appears anywhere in the twelve units, which keeps the university a specialized technical institution rather than a comprehensive one.12 个单位中不见医学、法学、兽医学或人文学科的任何学部，本校因此是专门技术大学而非综合性大学。

• The article states that the institution offers education and conducts research across its three fields, and no separate graduate school, research school or doctoral college is recorded for it.条目记载本校在其三大领域同时提供教育与开展研究，但未见为其另设研究生院、研究学院或博士学院的记录。

• The subject results published for the school name metallurgical engineering and materials science and engineering as its two scored subjects, matching the disciplinary centre of gravity of its departments.对外公布的学科名次显示，冶金工程与材料科学与工程是本校两个上榜学科，与其各系的学科重心相吻合。

• Membership of TU Austria, the association of three Austrian universities of technology, places the twelve-unit academic structure of Leoben in a national comparison with two partner technical universities.作为三所奥地利技术大学联盟 TU Austria 的成员，莱奥本这套 12 单位的建制被置于与两所伙伴技术大学的全国性对照之中。

• The founding instrument of 1840 was a Montanlehranstalt, a mining teaching institute, and the modern department list still runs through mining, metals, polymers, process technology and their supporting sciences.1840 年的创办建制是矿业教学机构，而今天的学系名录仍贯穿矿业、金属、高分子、流程工程及其支撑学科。

Campus

• The university stands in Leoben, a town in Styria, Austria, the seat it has occupied without interruption since the 1849 relocation arranged by Peter Tunner.本校坐落于奥地利施泰尔马克州莱奥本，自 1849 年由彼得·图纳安排迁校以来一直以此为校址。

• The recorded position of the campus is latitude 47.3765 and longitude 15.09144, inside Styria, the region the university's own description calls Austria's mining region.校园记载的位置为北纬 47.3765、东经 15.09144，地处被本校自述称为奥地利矿业地区的施泰尔马克州。

• The birthplace of the institution, Vordernberg, lies within the same Styrian mining region, so both the 1840 foundation and the 1849 present seat sit in one ore-mining geography.学校的诞生地福尔登贝格同在施泰尔马克矿业地区之内，因此 1840 年的创办地与 1849 年以来的现址处于同一片矿冶地理单元。

• Vordernberg and Leoben are recorded as nearby towns, which means the whole institutional memory of the university, foundation and relocation, stays inside one small district of Styria.福尔登贝格与莱奥本被记为邻近城镇，这意味着本校从创办到迁址的全部制度记忆都留在施泰尔马克州的一个小地域圈内。

• All twelve departments and institutes of the current structure operate from the Leoben seat, since no second site appears in any available record of the university.现行建制中 12 个学系与研究所均在莱奥本本部办学，可得记录中没有出现第二处校区。

• The Leoben of the campus address gives the university its place-name in German, English and legal variants alike, from Montanuniversität Leoben to the University of Mining Leoben of the 2002 Act translation.作为校址的莱奥本把地名同时嵌进本校的德语、英语与法定译名，从 Montanuniversität Leoben 到 2002 年大学法英译本的 University of Mining Leoben 莫不如此。

• The institution keeps a bilingual web presence at unileoben.ac.at, with an official German site and an official English site recorded as separate portals.本校在 unileoben.ac.at 保持双语门户，德语官网与英语官网被记录为两个分设的入口。

Reputation

• The QS World University Rankings 2027 place Montanuniversität Leoben in the 851-900 band, the ranking position on which this entry is written.2027 年 QS 世界大学排名把莱奥本矿业大学列在第 851-900 档，本条目即据此档位收录。

• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 the university is placed in the 801-1000 band, a subject of comparison with its own 2024 performance below.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中该校列第 801-1000 档，可与下文其 2024 年的名次互为对照。

• The 2026-27 edition of the US News Best Global Universities ranking carries the institution at numerical position 1914, the single-number placement recorded for it in the three tables surveyed here.2026-27 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名把本校列在第 1914 位，这是本次所查三张榜单中为该校记载的唯一精确名次。

• No place is recorded for the university in the 2026 Shanghai Ranking ARWU Academic Ranking of World Universities, whose main list runs to 1000 institutions.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名未收录该校，该榜主榜共列 1000 所院校。

• In the 2024 Times Higher Education World University Rankings the university ranked in the 801-1000 band, the same range in which the 2027 edition now places it.在 2024 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中本校列 801-1000 档，与 2027 年版给出的区间相同。

• For engineering sciences, the Times Higher Education tables of 2024 placed the university in the 601-800 band, its best recorded position in a global subject table.工程科学方面，泰晤士高等教育 2024 年学科表把本校列在 601-800 档，是其在全球学科榜上有案可查的最好名次。

• In Shanghai Ranking Consultancy's 2025 global ranking of academic subjects the university attained rank five in metallurgical engineering among European universities, the highest continental placing recorded for it.在软科咨询 2025 年全球学科排名中，本校冶金工程在欧洲高校中列第 5 名，是其有案可稽的最高洲际名次。

• In the same 2025 subject ranking its materials science and engineering band was 201-300 worldwide, while the metallurgical engineering world position in that subject was given as 42.在同一份 2025 年学科排名中，本校材料科学与工程居世界 201-300 档，冶金工程的世界名次则记为第 42 名。

• Quantifiable indicators available for the institution are its twelve teaching and research units, a founding year of 1840 and placements in three world ranking tables for 2026-27, since paper and citation counts are not carried in the record used here.可用于计量本校的指标包括 12 个教研单位、1840 年的建校年份以及 2026-27 年度三张世界榜单上的名次，本文所据记录不含论文量与引用量数字。

• No Nobel, Turing or Fields-level affiliate is recorded for the university, and the top honours available in the material are the European rank-five metallurgy placing of 2025 and membership of the three-part TU Austria association.未见诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖级人物与本校的关联记录，可得材料中最高的荣誉是 2025 年冶金学科欧洲第 5 的名次以及三所技术大学联盟 TU Austria 的席位。

Student life

• Studies run through the twelve departments and institutes listed for the university, the units that carry its declared fields of mining, metallurgy and materials science.学生的学习在 12 个学系与研究所内完成，这些单位正是矿业、冶金与材料科学三大申报领域的承载者。

• As a member of TU Austria, the association of three Austrian universities of technology, the university situates its technical curriculum inside a national framework shared with two partner institutions.作为三所奥地利技术大学联盟 TU Austria 的成员，本校的工科课程被置于与两所伙伴院校共享的全国框架之中。

• Information is published on two official portals, one in German and one in English, the bilingual web presence recorded for the Leoben institution.校园信息公开地通过德语与英语两个官方门户发布，这种双语站点格局有本校公开记录可查。

• Statutory business proceeds under the Austrian Universities Act framework, the 2002 federal law whose English translation supplies one of the three English names of the university.校务依照奥地利大学法的框架运行，2002 年这部联邦法律的英译本恰好提供了本校三个英文名之一。

• Campus and town coincide in a small Styrian mining centre, since all teaching units are kept at the Leoben seat that has served the university since 1849.校园与城镇同处一个施泰尔马克矿业小城，全部教学单位都在 1849 年以来即为本校校址的莱奥本。

• No student union, society, newspaper, sports team, mascot or colours is recorded for the institution, and this entry leaves those points blank rather than filling them from assumption.本校未见学生会、社团、学生报刊、运动队、吉祥物或代表色的记录，本条目宁可将这些事项留白，也不凭推测填充。

Notable people

• Peter Tunner is the named figure of the Leoben period, recorded as the man who relocated the university from Vordernberg to nearby Leoben in 1849.彼得·图纳是莱奥本时期的具名人物，记载为 1849 年将学校从邻近的福尔登贝格迁到莱奥本之人。

• No individual is recorded as founder for the 1840 opening at Vordernberg, whose institution bore the corporate name Steiermärkisch-Ständische Montanlehranstalt.1840 年在福尔登贝格开学时未见任何具名创办人记载，创办主体使用 Steiermärkisch-Ständische Montanlehranstalt 这一机构名称。

• Peter J. Uggowitzer, listed among notable alumni, is an Austrian-Swiss metallurgist whom the record describes as a precursor of nickel-free austenitic stainless steels.校友名录中的彼得·乌戈维策尔是奥籍瑞士裔冶金学家，记录称其为无镍奥氏体不锈钢的先驱。

• The alumni entry for Uggowitzer credits him with two further material families beyond stainless steel, namely aluminium crossover alloys and biodegradable magnesium alloys for implants.校友条目在不锈钢之外再记乌戈维策尔两项材料成就，即铝跨界合金与可生物降解的植入用镁合金。

• Hellmut Fischmeister served the university as professor of metallurgy and materials testing from 1975 to 1981, the only staff appointment given with dates in the material used here.赫尔穆特·菲施迈斯特于 1975 至 1981 年任本校冶金与材料检验教授，是本文所据材料中唯一带任期的教职记载。

• Wilfried Imrich appears in the faculty record as professor of mathematics, the named mathematician inside the Department of Mathematics and Information Technology.维尔弗里德·伊姆里希在教职记录中列名数学教授，是数学与信息技术系名下的具名数学家。

• With four recorded names in all, namely Peter Tunner, Peter J. Uggowitzer, Hellmut Fischmeister and Wilfried Imrich, the personal record of the university is dominated by metallurgy and its mathematics.有案可查的人物共 4 位，即彼得·图纳、彼得·乌戈维策尔、赫尔穆特·菲施迈斯特与维尔弗里德·伊姆里希，本校的人物史以冶金及其数学一侧为主。