University of Marburg
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University of Marburg |
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 Latin: SCHOLAE MARPVRGENSIS
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| Established | July 1, 1527 |
| Type | Public university |
| President | Prof. Dr. Volker Nienhaus |
| Staff | ca. 7,500 (incl. hospital staff) |
| Students | 19,339 |
| Location | Marburg, Germany |
| Website | http://www.uni-marburg.de |
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The University of Marburg, officially Philipps-Universität Marburg, was founded in 1527 by Landgrave Philipp I of Hesse (usually called the Magnanimous) as the world's first and oldest Protestant university.
It was the main university of the principality of Hesse and remains a public university of that German state. It now has about 20,000 students and 7,500 employees, making Marburg, a town of less than 80,000 inhabitants, the proverbial "university town" (Universitätsstadt). Though most subjects are grouped, the University of Marburg is no campus university.
Marburg is home to one of Germany's most traditional medical faculties. The German physicians' union is called "Marburger Bund".
In 1609, the University of Marburg established the world's first professorship for chemistry.
[edit] Famous alumni and professors
Famous natural scientists who studied or taught at the University of Marburg:
- Emil von Behring
- Ferdinand Braun
- Robert Bunsen
- Adolf Butenandt
- Georg Ludwig Carius
- Hans Fischer
- Edward Frankland
- Johann Peter Griess
- Otto Hahn
- Erich Hückel
- Hermann Kolbe
- Albrecht Kossel
- Ludwig Mond
- Denis Papin
- Otto Heinrich Schindewolf
- John Tyndall
- Alfred Wegener
- Georg Wittig
- Alexandre Yersin
- Karl Ziegler
Marburg was always known as a humanities university. It retained that strength, especially in Philosophy and Theology for a long time after World War II. Famous theologians include:
- Rudolf Bultmann
- Friedrich Heiler
- Wilhelm Herrmann
- Otto Kaiser
- Rudolf Otto
- Paul Tillich
- August Friedrich Christian Vilmar
Famous philosophers include:
- Wolfgang Abendroth, Political Science
- Ernst Cassirer
- Hermann Cohen
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Nicolai Hartmann
- Martin Heidegger
- Hans Jonas
- Paul Natorp
- Christian Wolff
- Eduard Zeller
Other famous students:
- Hannah Arendt
- Karl Barth
- Gottfried Benn
- José Ortega y Gasset
- Jacob Grimm
- Wilhelm Grimm
- Gustav Heinemann
- Helmut Koester
- Wilhelm Liebknecht
- Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov
- Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre
- Boris Pasternak
- Ernst Reuter
- Ferdinand Sauerbruch
- Annemarie Schimmel
- Heinrich Schütz
- Leo Strauss
- Wilhelm Röpke
- Konstantinos Simitis
- Monika Treut
- Wilhelm Viëtor - Philologist, Phonetician
[edit] List of subjects
The University of Marburg has a bright spectrum of subjects with research highlights in nano sciences, material sciences, near eastern studies, and medicine.
- Laws
- Economy
- Philosophy
- European Ethnology
- Politics
- Sociology
- Religious sciences
- Peace and conflict studies
- Psychology
- Protestant religious studies
- History
- Archeology
- Sinology
- German language and literature
- History of arts
- Graphic design
- English language and literature, American studies
- Language technology
- Latin and Old Greek
- Middle age Latin
- Oriental studies (to be significantly enlarged in the near future), Indology, Tibetology
- Comparative Linguistics
- Celtic Studies
- Romanic languages and literature (French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan)
- Slavic languages and literature (moved to the University of Giessen)
- Mathematics
- Computer sciences
- Physics
- Chemistry
- Pharmaceutics
- Biology
- Geo sciences (moved to the University of Frankfurt)
- Geography
- Medicine
- Dental medicine
- Educational sciences
