| University of Giessen | |
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| Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen | |
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| Established | 1607 |
| Type | Public university |
| Rector | Dr. Micheal Breitbach |
| Students | 22,900 |
| Location | Giessen, Hessen, Germany |
| Colors | Blue and White |
| Affiliations | German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD),German Research Council (DFG) |
| Website | www.uni-giessen.de |
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The University of Giessen is officially called the Justus Liebig University Giessen[1] (German: Justus Liebig-Universität Gießen) after its most famous faculty member, Justus von Liebig, the founder of modern agricultural chemistry and inventor of artificial fertiliser.
The University of Giessen was founded in 1607 as a Lutheran university in the city of Giessen (German spelling: Gießen) in Hesse-Darmstadt because the all-Hessian Landesuniversität (the nearby University of Marburg (Philipps-Universität Marburg) in Marburg, Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)) had become Reformed (that is, Calvinist). The new university was called "Ludoviciana" after its founder Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt and only renamed after World War II.
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 23,000 students and 8,500 employees, which together with the University of Applied Sciences Giessen-Friedberg, makes Giessen the most student-dominated German city.
Next to Liebig, famous professors at the university included the theologian Adolf von Harnack, the lawyer Rudolf von Jhering, the economist and statistician Etienne Laspeyres, the physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, the mathematicians Moritz Pasch and Alfred Clebsch, the gestalt psychologist Kurt Koffka, the philologist and archaeologist Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker, and the orientalist Eberhard Schrader. All of the most famous alumni of the university were born in Hesse-Darmstadt. They include the German romantic dramatist and revolutionary Georg Büchner, the literary and political historian Georg Gottfried Gervinus and the botanist Johann Jacob Dillenius.
The Holocaust Literature Research Unit of the university plans to publish My Opposition, Friedrich Kellner's World War II diary. Friedrich Kellner was chief justice inspector in Laubach from 1933 to 1950 and also district auditor for the region of Gießen.
Although the university has no defined campus, buildings and facilities are grouped together according to their subject areas and situated in various locations around Gießen. Philosophikum II, for example is an area on the outskirts of the city bordering the city forest. A number of faculty buildings and lecture theaters are located there, including Audimax, a building containing several lecture halls whose atrium is often the venue for concerts and disco-nights, locally known as "Uni-Partys."
 Interdisiplinary Research Center (IFZ) with the physics buildings in the background. |
.jpg) Zeughaus, a historic building in Gießen used by the geography and law departments. |
 Surgery building of the university hospital. |
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Points of interest
- Akademischer Forstgarten Gießen
- Botanischer Garten Gießen, the university's historic botanical garden
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