University of Marburg

University of Marburg
	Philipps-Universität Marburg
	Latin: Schola Marpurgensis
Type	Public
Established	July 1, 1527
Budget	€ 335.6 million
Chancellor	Friedhelm Nonne
President	Katharina Krause [de]
Academic staff	2,657
Administrative staff	1,794
Students	26,726
Location	Marburg, Hesse, Germany
Campus	University town
Affiliations	Compostela Group of Universities
Website	www.uni-marburg.de

The Philipps University of Marburg (German: Philipps-Universität Marburg) was founded in 1527 by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, which makes it one of Germany's oldest universities and the oldest Protestant university in the world. It is now a public university of the state of Hesse, without religious affiliation. The University of Marburg has about 25,000 students and 7,500 employees and is located in Marburg, a town of 72,000 inhabitants, with university buildings dotted in or around the town centre. About 12% of the students are international, the highest percentage in Hesse.^[4] It offers an International summer university programme and offers student exchanges through the Erasmus programme.

Marburg is home to one of Germany's most traditional medical faculties. The German physicians' union is called Marburger Bund.

History

In 1609, the University of Marburg established the world's first professorship in chemistry. In 2012 it opened the first German interactive chemistry museum, called Chemicum. Its experimental course programme is aimed at encouraging young people to pursue careers in science.^[5]

Nazi period

20 professors were expelled in 1933, among them Wilhelm Röpke who emigrated and Hermann Jacobsohn who committed suicide.

Academics

Research

The university is most famous for its life sciences research, but is also home to one of the few centers that conduct research on the middle east, the CNMS (center for near and middle eastern studies). The departments of psychology and geography enjoy an outstanding reputation and reached Excellence Group status in the Europe-wide CHE Excellence Ranking 2009.

The strong research is also illustrated by its participation in several SFBs (Sonderforschungsbereiche). These collaborative research centres are financed by the German Science Foundation DFG. They encourage researchers to cross the boundaries of disciplines, institutes, departments and faculties within the participating university. The current SFB at Philipps-University Marburg are:^[6]

SFB/TR17 – Ras-dependent Pathways in Human Cancer (started 2004; with Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)
SFB/TR22 – Allergic response of the lung (started 2005, with Research Center Borstel and LMU Munich)
SFB/TR81 - Chromatin Changes in Differentiation and Malignancies (started 2010, with Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen)
SFB-TRR 84 - Innate Immunity of the Lung (started 2010, with Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, FU Berlin, Robert-Koch-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Genetik, Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen)
SFB 593 – Mechanisms of cellular compartmentalisation and the relevance for disease (started 2003)
SFB 987 - Microbial Diversity in Environmental Signal Response (started 2012, with Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg)
SFB 1083 - Structure and Dynamics of Internal Interfaces (started 2013, with Donostia International Physics Center San Sebastián, Spain)
SFB 1021 - RNA viruses: RNA metabolism, host response and pathogenesis (started 2013, with Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen)

Collections of the university

Alter Botanischer Garten Marburg, the university's old botanical garden
Botanischer Garten Marburg, the university's current botanical garden
Forschungsinstitut Lichtbildarchiv älterer Originalurkunden bis 1250 (Collection of photographs taken from medieval charters)
Bildarchiv Foto Marburg (German national picture archive of arts)
Religionskundliche Sammlung (Collection of religious objects)
Deutscher Sprachatlas (Linguistic Atlas of Germany)
Mineralogisches Museum (Museum of Mineralogy)
Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte (Museum of Arts)

Rankings

Template:Infobox world university ranking

Gallery

Department for Economical Studies
Department of Psychology
The Lahnberge Campus is dedicated to the natural sciences. The image shows the Multiple Purpose Building, home of the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science, as well as laboratories for research into material sciences and physical chemistry
The building of the nearby Biology Department is of the same architectural style
The University Hospital along with the Department for Medical Studies is also located at the Lahnberge Campus
The Old University, housing the university church, the department for religious studies and a representative lecture hall
The administrative headquarters of the university
The Central Lecture Hall Building, which has been built to cater for the increased number of students
University of Marburg - Department of Social Sciences and University library
One of the two large university cafeterias and canteens is located on the bank of the Lahn river

Notable alumni and faculty

Natural scientists who studied or taught at the University of Marburg:

Ludwig Aschoff
Emil von Behring
Karl Ferdinand Braun
Klaus Bringmann
Robert Bunsen
Adolf Butenandt
Georg Ludwig Carius
Franz Ludwig Fick
Hans Fischer
Edward Frankland
Frederick Augustus Genth
Johann Peter Griess
Karl Eugen Guthe
Otto Hahn
Johannes Hartmann
Thomas Archer Hirst
Erich Hückel
Hermann Knoblauch
Hermann Kolbe
Albrecht Kossel
Otto Loewi
Carl Ludwig
Hans Meerwein
Ludwig Mond
Denis Papin
Heinrich Petraeus (1589–1620)
Otto Schindewolf
Sunao Tawara
John Tyndall
Wilhelm Walcher
Alfred Wegener
Georg Wittig
Alexandre Yersin
Karl Ziegler
Theodor Zincke
Gerhard Wilhelm Goetze

Marburg was always known as a humanities-focused university. It retained that strength, especially in Philosophy and Theology for a long time after World War II. Theologians include:

Rudolf Bultmann
Friedrich Heiler
Wilhelm Herrmann
Aegidius Hunnius
Andreas Hyperius
Otto Kaiser
Jacob Lorhard
Rudolf Otto
Kurt Rudolph
Paul Tillich
August Friedrich Christian Vilmar

Philosophers include:

Other notable students and faculty include:

Hannah Arendt
Karl Barth
Hermann Behrends (1907–1948), German Nazi SS officer executed for war crimes
Gottfried Benn
Gerold Bepler
Georg Friedrich Creuzer
T. S. Eliot (who had to quit a summer school in August 1914, at the start of World War I)
José Ortega y Gasset
Jacob Grimm
Wilhelm Grimm
Caspar Friedrich Hachenberg
Gustav Heinemann
Beatrice Heuser
Kim Hwang-sik
Helmut Koester
Wilhelm Liebknecht
Mikhail Lomonosov
Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre
Ulrike Meinhof
Friedrich Paulus
Boris Pasternak
Ernst Reuter
Isaac Rülf
Ferdinand Sauerbruch
Friedrich Carl von Savigny
Annemarie Schimmel
Heinrich Schütz
Manfred Siebald
Leo Strauss
Wilhelm Röpke
Costas Simitis
Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov * Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann

Notes

↑ "Aktuelle Zahlen auf einen Blick" (in de). https://www.uni-marburg.de/profil/statistik/zahlen. Retrieved 2017-06-21.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 "Employees". https://www.uni-marburg.de/profile-en/statistik-en/employees. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
↑ "Anzahl der Studierenden ab 1986 jeweils im Wintersemester" (in de). https://www.uni-marburg.de/profil/statistik/studizahlen/anzahlstudies.pdf. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
↑ "Uni International - Philipps-Universität Marburg". https://www.uni-marburg.de/international-en-old. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
↑ ""Chemikum Marburg" hat ein dauerhaftes Domizil". Informationsdienst Wissenschaft e.V. online. 12 February 2011. https://idw-online.de/pages/en/news454460. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
↑ "Sonderforungsbereiche - Philipps-Universität Marburg - Referat für Forschung und Transfer - Sandra Basenau". https://www.uni-marburg.de/forschung/forschungsprofil/kopdfg/sfbs. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

External links

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[1] "Aktuelle Zahlen auf einen Blick" (in de). https://www.uni-marburg.de/profil/statistik/zahlen. Retrieved 2017-06-21.

[Employees-2] 2.0 ^2.1 "Employees". https://www.uni-marburg.de/profile-en/statistik-en/employees. Retrieved 2017-04-20.

[3] "Anzahl der Studierenden ab 1986 jeweils im Wintersemester" (in de). https://www.uni-marburg.de/profil/statistik/studizahlen/anzahlstudies.pdf. Retrieved 2017-04-20.

[4] "Uni International - Philipps-Universität Marburg". https://www.uni-marburg.de/international-en-old. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

[chemicum-news-5] ""Chemikum Marburg" hat ein dauerhaftes Domizil". Informationsdienst Wissenschaft e.V. online. 12 February 2011. https://idw-online.de/pages/en/news454460. Retrieved January 23, 2012.

[6] "Sonderforungsbereiche - Philipps-Universität Marburg - Referat für Forschung und Transfer - Sandra Basenau". https://www.uni-marburg.de/forschung/forschungsprofil/kopdfg/sfbs. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

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