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The University of Kiel, in full the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (in short: CAU), is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in 1665 in order to train priests and government officials and was the most northern university in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Especially during the 19th century a number of important scholars worked and taught in Kiel. // History Because of the above definition, the oldest universities in the world were all European, as the awarding of academic degrees was not a custom of older institutions of learning in Asia and Africa. ... Statistics State: Schleswig-Holstein District: Independent city Area: 113. ... Events March 4 - Start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. ... The Holy Roman Empire should not be mistaken for the Roman Empire (31 B.C.–A.D. 476). ... It was one of the first universities to obey the Gleichschaltung in 1933 and removed many of the professors and students from the school, as e.g. Ferdinand Tönnies or Felix Jacoby. The university buildings sustained much damage during the Second World War. The school was rebuilt at a different location with only a very few of the older buildings housing the medical school. There were approximately 21,000 students enrolled in 2004. The German word Gleichschaltung listen ( ♫) (literally synchronising, synchronization) is used in a political sense to describe the process by which the Nazi regime successively established a system of totalitarian control over the individual, and tight coordination over all aspects of society and commerce. ... Ferdinand Tönnies (July 26, 1855, near Oldenswort (Eiderstedt) - April 9, 1936, Kiel, Germany) was a German sociologist. ... Some famous scholars Kurt Alder Walter Anderson Jochen Bleicken Hartmut Boockmann Hans-Gerhard Creutzfeldt Paul Deussen Otto Diels Wilhelm Dilthey Johann Gustav Droysen Karl-Dietrich Erdmann Hans Geiger Herbert Giersch Wilhelm Griesinger Bernhard Harms Heinrich Hertz Alfred Heuß Felix Jacoby Otto Jahn Philipp Lenard Otto Meyerhof Theodor Mommsen Daniel Georg Morhof Max Planck Erwin Rohde Erich Schneider Walther Schücking Ferdinand Tönnies Heinrich von Treitschke Otto Werner Kurt Alder (10 July 1902 - 20 June 1958) was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Otto Paul Hermann Diels in 1950. ... Walter Anderson (Minsk, (Belarus) October 10, 1885 – August 23, 1962 in Kiel (Germany) was a German ethnologist (folklorist). ... Paul Deussen Paul Deussen (1845-1919) was a German Orientalist and Sanskrit scholar. ... Otto Paul Hermann Diels (January 23, 1876 - March 7, 1954), a German chemist. ... Wilhelm Dilthey (November 19, 1833–October 1, 1911) was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist, student of Hermeneutics, the study of interpretations and meanings, and a philosopher. ... Johann Gustav Droysen (July 6, 1808 - June 10, 1884), was a German historian. ... Heinrich Hertz Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (February 22, 1857 - January 1, 1894), was the German physicist for whom the hertz, the SI unit of frequency, is named. ... Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard, in Hungarian Fülöp Lénárd (born in Bratislava on June 7, 1862 – died May 20, 1947 in Messelhausen) was a physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his research on cathode rays and the discovery of... Theodor Mommsen Theodor Mommsen Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (30 November 1817 - 1 November 1903) was a German classical scholar and historian, generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th century. ... Daniel Georg Morhof (February 6, 1639 - July 30, 1691), was a German writer and scholar. ... Max Planck This article is about Planck, the German physicist. ... Erwin Rohde (1845 - 1898) was one of the great German classical scholars of the 19th and early 20th centuries. ... Ferdinand Tönnies (July 26, 1855, near Oldenswort (Eiderstedt) - April 9, 1936, Kiel, Germany) was a German sociologist. ... Heinrich von Treitschke (September 15, 1834 - April 28, 1896), German historian and political writer, was born at Dresden. ... C. W. Otto Werner ( February 1, 1879 – 1936 ) was a German physician, after whom Werner syndrome (Werners syndrome), a form of premature aging (progeria adultoram) was named. ... External links University home page [1] http://www.asta.uni-kiel.de ("Allgemeiner Studierendenausschuss der CAU") http://www.asta.uni-kiel.de/modules.php?op=modload&name=fachschaften&file=index http://www.uni-kiel.de/ueberblick/geschichte.shtml Categories: Kiel | Schleswig-Holstein | Universities and colleges in Germany

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	Encyclopedia: University of Kiel (747 words) The University of Kiel, in full the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (in short: CAU), is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in 1665 in order to train priests and government officials and was the most northern university in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. The Holy Roman Empire should not be mistaken for the Roman Empire (31 B.C.–A.D. It was one of the first universities to obey the Gleichschaltung in 1933 and removed many of the professors and students from the school, as e.g. Kiel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (883 words) Kiel is a center for German shipbuilders and the eastern terminus of the Kiel Canal. Kiel was originally founded in 1233 as tom Kyle by Count Adolf IV of Schauenburg, and granted town rights (Lübisches Stadtrecht) in 1242 by Adolf's eldest son, Johann I. Kiel was a member of the Hanseatic League from 1284 until it was evicted in 1518 for harbouring pirates.
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