University of Hohenheim
Encyclopedia
The University of Hohenheim is a university
in Stuttgart
, Germany
. Founded in 1818 it is Stuttgart's oldest university and one of Germany's leading universities both in agricultural sciences and economics.
(founded in 1829), apart from some cooperations.
On November 20, 1818, Hohenheim became the site of an important agricultural institution, founded by King William I of Württemberg
for teaching, experimentation and demonstration. The first director was Johann Nepomuk Schwerz, and it was located in Hohenheim Castle built by Duke Karl Eugen.
In 1847 the institution was designated as holding the rank of an "Academy of Agriculture and Forestry". In 1904 the name was changed to "Agricultural College". Hohenheim College was awarded the right to confer doctorate
s in 1918 and habilitation
s in 1919. By appointing Margarete von Wrangell
on the chair for plant nutrition
in 1923, she became the first female full professor
at a German university. The school was given its present name (Universität Hohenheim) in 1967.
and the Botanischer Garten der Universität Hohenheim
, a modern botanical garden
. The campus is close to Stuttgart Stadtbahn
station Plieningen Garbe of line U3.
Main fields of co-operation in ELLS are:
University
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...
in Stuttgart
Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. Founded in 1818 it is Stuttgart's oldest university and one of Germany's leading universities both in agricultural sciences and economics.
History
From 1770 to 1794, the Karlsschule was the only university in Stuttgart. Since 1818, Stuttgart's oldest university is the University of Hohenheim. It is not related to the University of StuttgartUniversity of Stuttgart
The University of Stuttgart is a university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized in 10 faculties....
(founded in 1829), apart from some cooperations.
On November 20, 1818, Hohenheim became the site of an important agricultural institution, founded by King William I of Württemberg
William I of Württemberg
William I was the second King of Württemberg from October 30, 1816 until his death.He was born in Lüben, the son of King Frederick I of Württemberg and his wife Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel .-First marriage:...
for teaching, experimentation and demonstration. The first director was Johann Nepomuk Schwerz, and it was located in Hohenheim Castle built by Duke Karl Eugen.
In 1847 the institution was designated as holding the rank of an "Academy of Agriculture and Forestry". In 1904 the name was changed to "Agricultural College". Hohenheim College was awarded the right to confer doctorate
Doctorate
A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to teach in a specific field, A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder...
s in 1918 and habilitation
Habilitation
Habilitation is the highest academic qualification a scholar can achieve by his or her own pursuit in several European and Asian countries. Earned after obtaining a research doctorate, such as a PhD, habilitation requires the candidate to write a professorial thesis based on independent...
s in 1919. By appointing Margarete von Wrangell
Margarete von Wrangell
Margarethe Mathilde von Wrangell, after 1928 Princess Andronikow, neé Baroness von Wrangell was a Baltic German agricultural chemist and the first female full professor at a German university.- Studies and early professional years :Margarete von Wrangell originated from the old Baltic German...
on the chair for plant nutrition
Plant nutrition
'Plant Nutrition is the study of the chemical elements that are necessary for growth. In 1972, E. Epstein defined 2 criteria for an element to be essential for plant growth:# in its absence the plant is unable to complete a normal life cycle or...
in 1923, she became the first female full professor
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
at a German university. The school was given its present name (Universität Hohenheim) in 1967.
Location
The university is located in the south of Stuttgart, in the district of Plieningen. The campus with its main building, the Castle Hohenheim, is surrounded by vast park areas , including the historic Landesarboretum Baden-WürttembergLandesarboretum Baden-Württemberg
The Landesarboretum Baden-Württemberg is a historic arboretum now maintained by the University of Hohenheim. It is located next to the Botanischer Garten der Universität Hohenheim, the university's botanical garden, on Garbenstrasse in the Hohenheim district of Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg,...
and the Botanischer Garten der Universität Hohenheim
Botanischer Garten der Universität Hohenheim
The Botanischer Garten der Universität Hohenheim is a botanical garden maintained by the University of Hohenheim. It is located next to the historic Landesarboretum Baden-Württemberg on Garbenstrasse in the Hohenheim district of Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and is sometimes called the...
, a modern botanical garden
Botanical garden
A botanical garden The terms botanic and botanical, and garden or gardens are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word botanic is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens. is a well-tended area displaying a wide range of plants labelled with their botanical names...
. The campus is close to Stuttgart Stadtbahn
Stuttgart Stadtbahn
The Stuttgart Stadtbahn is a light rail system in Stuttgart, Germany. It is operated by the Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG , which also operates the bus systems in that city...
station Plieningen Garbe of line U3.
ELLS
The University Hohenheim was co-founder of the Euroleague for Life Sciences (ELLS) which was established in 2001. This university life sciences network presently includes the following members:- University of Hohenheim (UHOH), Stuttgart, Germany
- The University of Copenhagen Faculty of Life SciencesUniversity of Copenhagen Faculty of Life SciencesThe faculty previously known as the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University is located in Frederiksberg, Denmark and was established in 1856. As of 1 January 2007, the University merged with the University of Copenhagen...
(KU), Copenhagen, Denmark - Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesThe Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences or Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet is a university in Sweden. Although its head office is located in Ultuna, Uppsala, the university has several campuses in different parts of Sweden, the other main facilities being Alnarp in Lomma Municipality, Skara,...
(SLU), Uppsala, Sweden - University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences ViennaUniversity of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences ViennaThe University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, or simply BOKU , founded in 1872, is a Vienna university. There are currently around 10500 students enrolled at BOKU.- Campus :The original campus was built in 1896 in the Türkenschanzpark in Vienna's 18th and 19th districts...
(BOKU), Austria - Wageningen UniversityWageningen UniversityWageningen University and Research Centre is a Dutch public university in Wageningen, The Netherlands. It consists of Wageningen University, the Van Hall-Larenstein School of Higher Professional Education, and the former agricultural research institutes of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture...
and Research Centre (WUR), the Netherlands - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CULS), Czech Republic and
- Warsaw University of Life Science (SGGW), Poland.
- University of KasselUniversity of KasselThe University of Kassel, founded in 1970, is one of the newer universities in the state of Hesse. The university is in Kassel, and as of September 2010 has about 18,113 students...
, Kassel, Germany. - Szent István University, Gödöllö, Hungary
Main fields of co-operation in ELLS are:
- joint curriculum development
- student and staff mobility
- pooling of expertise
- quality assurance
- development of university policy and strategy
- internationalisation
Bachelor's degree
- Agricultural biology (B.Sc.)
- Agricultural scienceAgricultural scienceAgricultural science is a broad multidisciplinary field that encompasses the parts of exact, natural, economic and social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding of agriculture. -Agriculture and agricultural science:The two terms are often confused...
(B.Sc.) - BiologyBiologyBiology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
(B.Sc.) - Nutrition science (B.Sc.)
- Communication science (B.Sc.)
- Nutrition science and biotechnologyBiotechnologyBiotechnology is a field of applied biology that involves the use of living organisms and bioprocesses in engineering, technology, medicine and other fields requiring bioproducts. Biotechnology also utilizes these products for manufacturing purpose...
(B.Sc.) - Renewable ressources and bioenergy (B.Sc.)
- Business informaticsBusiness informaticsBusiness informatics or organizational informatics is a discipline combining information technology , informatics and management concepts. The BI discipline was created in Germany, from the concept of "Wirtschaftsinformatik"...
(B.Sc.) in co-operation with the University of StuttgartUniversity of StuttgartThe University of Stuttgart is a university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized in 10 faculties.... - EconomicsEconomicsEconomics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
with business profile (B.Sc.) - EconomicsEconomicsEconomics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
with agricultural profile (B.Sc.) - EconomicsEconomicsEconomics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
with socio-economic profile (B.Sc.) - EconomicsEconomicsEconomics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
with educational profile (B.Sc.)
Master's degree
- Agricultural economics (M.Sc.Master of ScienceA Master of Science is a postgraduate academic master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is typically studied for in the sciences including the social sciences.-Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay:...
) - AgribusinessAgribusinessIn agriculture, agribusiness is a generic term for the various businesses involved in food production, including farming and contract farming, seed supply, agrichemicals, farm machinery, wholesale and distribution, processing, marketing, and retail sales....
(M.Sc.) - Agricultural Economics (M.Sc.)
- Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics and Subtropics (M.Sc.)
- Amestrian AlchemyAlchemyAlchemy is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners’ claims to profound powers were known from antiquity. The defining objectives of alchemy are varied; these include the creation of the fabled philosopher's stone possessing powers including the capability of turning base...
- Crop Sciences (M.Sc.)
- EconomicsEconomicsEconomics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
(M.Sc.) - Environmental Protection and Agricultural Food Production (M.Sc.)
- Environmental Science - Soil, Water and Biodiversity (M.Sc.)
- Erdsystemwissenschaften (M.Sc.)
- International Business and Economics (M.Sc.)
- Organic Food Chain Management (M.Sc.)
- Sustainable Agriculture and Integrated Watershed Management (M.Sc.)
- Management (M.Sc.)
- Business informatics (M.Sc.)
- Business economics (M.Sc.)
- Economics for lecturship (mit diversen Zweitfächern) (M.Sc.)
- Communications managementCommunications managementCommunications management is the systematic planning, implementing, monitoring, and revision of all the channels of communication within an organization, and between organizations; it also includes the organization and dissemination of new communication directives connected with an organization,...
(M.Sc.)
Statistics
| University of Hohenheim 2010 | |
|---|---|
| Number of study possibilities | 41 |
| Professors | 114 |
| Number of employees (scientific) | 821 |
| Number of employees (not scientific) | 1,142 |
| Number of students | 8,157 |
| Number of foreign students | 821 |
| Semester | Number of students |
|---|---|
| Ws 2005/2006 | 5.919 |
| Ws 2006/2007 | 6.315 |
| Ws 2007/2008 | 6.681 |
| Ws 2008/2009 | 7.158 |
| Ws 2009/2010 | 8.157 |
Special characteristics
- The university possesses its own cemetery, where professors were buried a long time ago. Today it is used very rarely.
- According to a survey conducted to elect the most beautiful campus in Germany, the university could reach the 7th place in the overall placings in 2009. Therefore it is seen as one of the most beautiful campuses in Baden-WürttembergBaden-WürttembergBaden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...
. - The university hosts the Josef G. Knoll Visiting Professorship for Development Studies, a chair endowed by Senator Herman Eiselen. The first holder, Prof. Dr. Patrick WebbPatrick WebbPatrick Webb is Dean for Academic Affairs of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. -Biography:...
, established a programme of teaching and research from 1996 through 1998. He was succeeded by Prof. Dr. Dieter Neubert (1999/2000), Prof. Dr. Heinz-Rüdiger Korff (2000-2004), and PD Dr. Thomas Berger (2004-2007).
External links
- Universität Hohenheim Official site