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 of Germany's most traditional medicine faculty (the German physicians' union is called "Marburger Bund").

In 1609, the University of Marburg established the world's first professorship for chemistry.

Famous alumni and professors

Famous natural scientists who studied or taught at the University of Marburg:

• Emil von Behring
• Ferdinand Braun
• Robert Bunsen
• Hans Fischer
• Otto Hahn
• Erich Hückel
• Hermann Kolbe
• 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
• Otto Kaiser
• Rudolf Otto

Famous philosophers include:

• Ernst Cassirer
• Hermann Cohen
• Hans-Georg Gadamer
• Martin Heidegger
• Paul Natorp
• Christian Wolff

Other famous students:

• Hannah Arendt
• Gottfried Benn
• Otto Böckel
• Hans Eichel
• José Ortega y Gasset
• W.E.B. Griffin
• Brothers Grimm
• Gustav Heinemann
• Wilhelm Liebknecht
• Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov
• Ulrike Meinhof
• Boris Pasternak
• Leo Strauss
• Wilhelm Röpke
• Konstantinos Simitis

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, Indiology, Tibetology
• Comparative Linguistics
• Celtic Studies
• Romanic languages and literature (French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan)
• Slavic languages and literature (Polish, Russian)
• Mathematics
• Computer sciences
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Pharmaceutics
• Biology
• Geo sciences (moved to the University of Frankfurt)
• Geography
• Medicine
• Dental medicine
• Educational sciences

External link

• Philipps-Universität Marburg

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