The Technische Universität Dresden (abbreviated as TUD and often mistakenly translated from German as Dresden University of Technology) is a public research university , the largest institute of higher education in the city of Dresden, the largest university in Saxony and one of the 10 largest universities in Germany. The name Technische Universität Dresden has only been used since 1961; the history of the university, however, goes back nearly 200 years to 1828 when it was founded as the "Saxon Technical School".
