The University of Gießen (Giessen), officially called Justus Liebig-Universität Gießen after its most famous member, the founder of modern agricultural chemistry and inventor of artificial fertilizer.
The University of Gießen was founded in 1607 as a Lutheran university in the city of Gießen in Hesse-Darmstadt because the all-Hessian Landesuniversität, the neighboring University of Marburg (Philipps-Universität Marburg) in Marburg, Hesse-Kassel, founded in 1527, had become Reformed (i.e., Calvinist). It was then called "Ludoviciana" and only renamed after World War II. Belonging to a very small and poor German state, Gießen was always a minor and poor German university, a "stepping-stone university" where professors had their very first chair but moved on as soon as they could (with the exception of the strong agricultural and veterinary fields). Its academic heyday was the mid-19th century.
After the different Hessian states were (re-)united in 1929, both universities became public universities of that German state. The University of Gießen now has almost 22,000 students and 8,500 employees. With its Fachhochschule, it makes Gießen the most student-dominated German city, although it feels much less like an "academical village" than the classical German universities of Göttingen, Tübingen, Heidelberg or Marburg.
Michele Borrelli was born in 1947 in Acquappesa, Calabria.
One of his key mentors was Kurt Gerhard Fischer, professor of the theory of political education at GiessenUniversity and extremely learned and erudite social sciences scholar as well as expert of political teaching.
He cooperates with Wuppertal University (where Professor Jörg Ruhloff is chair of historical-systematic pedagogics) as part of the Erasmus-Socrates programme (research into education and formation, and the education and formation of teachers).
The University of Giessen was founded in 1607 as a Lutheran university in the city of Giessen in Hesse-Darmstadt because the all-Hessian Landesuniversität, the nearby University of Marburg (Philipps-Universität Marburg) in Marburg, Hesse-Kassel, founded in 1527, had become Reformed (that is, Calvinist).
Belonging to a very small and poor German state, Giessen was always a minor and poor German university, a "stepping-stone university" where professors had their very first chair but moved on as soon as they could (with the exception of the strong agricultural and veterinary fields).
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