University of Marburg Philipps-Universität Marburg
Latin: SCHOLAE MARPVRGENSIS
Motto	Alma Mater Philippina
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
Data as of 2005

University of Marburg - Department of Social Sciences and University library

The old university

The University of Marburg (German: Philipps-Universität Marburg 'Philip's University, Marburg'), was founded in 1527 by Landgrave Philipp I of Hesse (usually called the Magnanimous, although the updated meaning 'haughty' is sometimes given) as the world's first and oldest Protestant university. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... A motto (from Italian) is a phrase or a short list of words meant formally to describe the general motivation or intention of an entity, social group, or organization. ... The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... January 5 - Felix Manz, co-founder of the Swiss Anabaptists, was drowned in the Limmat in Zürich by the Zürich Reformed state church. ... University President is the title of the highest ranking officer within a university, within university systems that prefer that appellation over other variations such as Chancellor or rector. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... Alternate uses: Student (disambiguation) Etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb stŭdērĕ, which means to study, a student is one who studies. ... Marburg is a city in Hesse, Germany, on the Lahn river. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2592x1944, 1350 KB) de Uni Marburg - Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute und Universitätsbibliothek direkt an der Bundesstraße 3a. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2592x1944, 1350 KB) de Uni Marburg - Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute und Universitätsbibliothek direkt an der Bundesstraße 3a. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1944x2592, 1717 KB) Alte Universität - heute Fachbereich Theologie File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Philipps University of Marburg Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1944x2592, 1717 KB) Alte Universität - heute Fachbereich Theologie File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Philipps University of Marburg Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added... January 5 - Felix Manz, co-founder of the Swiss Anabaptists, was drowned in the Limmat in Zürich by the Zürich Reformed state church. ... Graf is a German noble title equal in rank to a count or an earl. ... Philipp I of Hesse Philipp I, Landgraf von Hessen, the Magnanimous (13 November 1504 - 31 March 1567), was a leading champion of the Reformation and one of the most important German rulers of the Renaissance. ... Magnanimous is: an adjective referring to Magnanimity hence an epithet, used for various rulers the music label Magnanimous Records Category: ... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... Representation of a university class, 1350s. ...

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 not a campus university. Location Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Administration Country NUTS Region DE7 Capital Wiesbaden Largest city Frankfurt Minister-President Roland Koch (CDU) Governing party CDU Votes in Bundesrat 5 (from 69) Basic statistics Area  21,100 km² (8,147 sq mi) Population 6,077,000 (08/2006)[1]  - Density... Germany is a federal republic made up of 16 states, known in German as Länder (transliterated as laender in English, singular Land). ... Marburg is a city in Hesse, Germany, on the Lahn river. ... The Universitätscampus Wien, Austria ( details) Campus (plural: campuses) is derived from the (identical) Latin word for field or open space. English gets the words camp and campus from this origin. ...

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. // Events April 4 – King of Spain signs an edit of expulsion of all moriscos from Spain April 9 – Spain recognizes Dutch independence May 23 - Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia. ...

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: Emil Adolf von Behring (March 15, 1854 - March 31, 1917) was born at Hansdorf, Germany. ... Karl Ferdinand Braun (June 6, 1850 - April 20, 1918) was a German physicist, born in Fulda. ... Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (31 March 1811 – 16 August 1899) was a German chemist. ... Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt (March 24, 1903 - January 18, 1995) was a German biochemist. ... Georg Ludwig Carius (1829 - 1875) was a German chemist born in Heidelberg. ... Hans Fischer (July 27, 1881 – March 31, 1945) was a German organic chemist and the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. ... Sir Edward Frankland (January 18, 1825 – August 9, 1899) was an English chemist. ... Johann Peter Griess (1829–1888), industrial chemist [1] and an early pioneer of organic chemistry. ... Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner, 1913, at the KWI for Chemistry in Berlin Otto Hahn (March 8, 1879 – July 28, 1968) was a German chemist and received the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. ... Erich Armand Arthur Joseph Hückel (August 9, 1896 - February 16, 1980) was a German physicist and physical chemist. ... Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe (September 27, 1818 – November 25, 1884) was a chemist. ... Ludwig Karl Martin Leonhard Albrecht Kossel (September 16, 1853 - July 5, German medical doctor. ... Dr Ludwig Mond (born March 7, 1839, Kassel; died December 11, 1909, London) was an important German-born British chemist and industrialist. ... Denis Papin Denis Papin (22 August 1647 - c. ... Otto Heinrich Schindewolf was a German paleontologist, known for his research on corals and cephalopods. ... John Tyndall. ... Alfred Wegeners theory of continental drift was widely ridiculed in his day Alfred Lothar Wegener (Berlin, November 1, 1880 – Greenland, November 2 or 3, 1930) was a German interdisciplinary scientist and meteorologist, who became famous for his theory of continental drift (die Verschiebung der Kontinenten in his words). ... Georg Wittig (June 16, 1897 in Berlin (Germany) - August 26, 1987) was a german chemist who reported a method for synthesis of alkenes from aldehydes and ketones using compounds called phosphonium ylides. ... Alexandre Emile John Yersin (September 22, 1863 - March 1, 1943) was a Swiss physician and bacteriologist. ... Karl Waldemar Ziegler (November 26, 1898 – August 12, 1973) was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963, with Giulio Natta, for work on high polymers. ... The humanities are those academic disciplines which study the human condition using methods that are largely analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural and social sciences. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

• Rudolf Bultmann
• Friedrich Heiler
• Wilhelm Herrmann
• Otto Kaiser
• Rudolf Otto
• Paul Tillich
• August Friedrich Christian Vilmar

Famous philosophers include: Rudolf Karl Bultmann (August 20, 1884 - July 30, 1976) was a German theologian of Lutheran background, who was for three decades professor of New Testament studies at the University of Marburg. ... Friedrich Heiler (January 30, 1892 - April 18, 1967), German theologian and historian of religion. ... Johann Wilhelm Herrmann (1846-1922) was a Reformed German theologian. ... Rudolf Otto (September 25, 1869 - 6 March 1937) was an eminent German protestant theologian and scholar of comparative religion. ... Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher. ... German Neo-Lutheran theologian; born at Solz (near Rotenburg, 78 m. ...

• 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: Wolfgang Abendroth (May 2nd, 1906 - September 15th, 1985) German politician, intellectual and social scientist Wolfgang Abendroth was a German social scientist closely connected with the German labour/working class movements since the early 1920ies. ... Ernst Cassirer (July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German-Jewish philosopher. ... Hermann Cohen by Karl Doerbecker Hermann Cohen (4 July 1842 - 4 April 1918) was a German-Jewish philosopher, one of the founders of the Marburg School of Neo-Kantianism, and he is often held to be probably the most important Jewish philosopher of the nineteenth century (Jewish Virtual Library). ... Hans-Georg Gadamer Hans-Georg Gadamer (February 11, 1900 – March 13, 2002) was a German philosopher best known for his 1960 magnum opus, Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode). ... Nicolai Hartmann (February 20, 1882 – October 9, 1950) was a German philosopher. ... Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 – May 26, 1976) (pronounced ) was a highly influential German philosopher. ... German-born philosopher Hans Jonas (May 10, 1903 - February 5, 1993) studied under Martin Heidegger and Rudolf Bultmann in the 1920s. ... Paul Gerhard Natorp (24 January 1854-17 August 1924) was a German neo-Kantian philosopher, and educationalist, and one of the Marburg school. ... Christian Wolff (less correctly Wolf; also known as Wolfius) (January 24, 1679 - April 9, 1754) was a German philosopher. ... Eduard Zeller (January 22, 1814 - March 19, 1908), was a German philosopher. ...

• Hannah Arendt
• Karl Barth
• Gottfried Benn
• José Ortega y Gasset
• Jacob Grimm
• Wilhelm Grimm
• Gustav Heinemann
• W. Jaeger
• 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

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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.

• Jurisprudence
• Economics
• Philosophy
• European Ethnology
• Political science
• Sociology
• Religious studies
• Peace and conflict studies
• Psychology
• Christian theology (Protestant)
• Christian theology (Catholic)
• History
• Archeology
• Sinology
• German language and literature
• History of art
• Graphic design
• English studies, 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, Portuguese)
• Slavic languages and literature (moved to the University of Giessen)
• Mathematics
• Computer sciences
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Pharmaceutics
• Biology
• Geology (moved to the University of Frankfurt)
• Geography
• Medicine
• Dentistry
• Pedagogy

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