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8 different names for 1 institute

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In front of the office at the Sternwarte of G. Hensler -- who has been the driving
force behind the change from the long-term name "Institut für Astronomie" to
the new
"Institut für Astrophysik" -- you could (in October 2013) find the following
6 posters


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   Pflamm-Altenburg, J.; Hensler, G.         according to  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ASPC..440..403P

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  Hensler, G.; Recchi, S.               http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012nuco.confE.196H

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  Mitchell, Nigel L.; Vorobyov, Eduard I.; Hensler, Gerhard        http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013MNRAS.428.2674M
 
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The now more or less official English version is  : "Department of Astrophysics".
An additional look at adsabs.harvard.edu reveals for G. Hensler

A&A, Vol. 551, id.A41               Institute for Astrophysics

A&A, Vol. 547, id.A43               Department of Astrophysics

ASP Conf. Proc., Vol. 458, p. 367   Institute of Astrophysics

A&A, Vol. 543, id.A129              Institute of Astrophysics
This variety of names appears to be in line with those on the posters. Please note that
altogether 8 different names for our institute have been used by G. Hensler over the
last few years:
Confusion concerning the name of our institute however is neither restricted to articles
and posters nor to one single person. As of  Tue Nov  5 15:56:01 CET 2013, the link
http://astro.univie.ac.at/en/institute/ still leads
to an "Institute of Astronomy" whereas the
German version http://astro.univie.ac.at/institut/ lists an "
Institut für Astrophysik" at the
"Fakultät für Geowissenschaften, Geographie und Astronomie". On the homepage of the
latter you find -- in the English version -- a
link to the "Department of Astrophysics" which
in turn leads you to the German (!) version of the homepage
http://astro.univie.ac.at/institut/.

If even the ideator of the name change cannot agree on the new name of our
institute, was it really necessary or helpful to change from the all-encompassing
"Astronomy" to the restricted "Astrophysics" ?

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