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The University of Kiel (German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
 Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, CAU) is a university
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 in the city of Kiel
Kiel

Kiel is the Capital and most populous city of the northern Germany state Schleswig-Holstein.Kiel is approximately 90 km to the north of Hamburg....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
. It was founded in 1665 as the Academia Holsatorum Chiloniensis by Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp

Duke Christian Albrecht of Holstein-Gottorp was a duke of Holstein-Gottorp and bishop of L?beck.He was a son of Duke Friedrich III of Holstein-Gottorp and his wife Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony....
 and has approximately 23,000 students today. The University of Kiel is the largest, oldest, and most prestigious in the state of Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein is the Northern Germany of the sixteen States of Germany of Germany. Its capital city is Kiel, other notable cities are L?beck and Flensburg....
.

University of Kiel was founded under the name Christiana Albertina on 5 October 1665 by Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp

Duke Christian Albrecht of Holstein-Gottorp was a duke of Holstein-Gottorp and bishop of L?beck.He was a son of Duke Friedrich III of Holstein-Gottorp and his wife Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony....
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The University of Kiel (German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
 Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, CAU) is a university
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 in the city of Kiel
Kiel

Kiel is the Capital and most populous city of the northern Germany state Schleswig-Holstein.Kiel is approximately 90 km to the north of Hamburg....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
. It was founded in 1665 as the Academia Holsatorum Chiloniensis by Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp

Duke Christian Albrecht of Holstein-Gottorp was a duke of Holstein-Gottorp and bishop of L?beck.He was a son of Duke Friedrich III of Holstein-Gottorp and his wife Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony....
 and has approximately 23,000 students today. The University of Kiel is the largest, oldest, and most prestigious in the state of Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein is the Northern Germany of the sixteen States of Germany of Germany. Its capital city is Kiel, other notable cities are L?beck and Flensburg....
.

History

The University of Kiel was founded under the name Christiana Albertina on 5 October 1665 by Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp

Duke Christian Albrecht of Holstein-Gottorp was a duke of Holstein-Gottorp and bishop of L?beck.He was a son of Duke Friedrich III of Holstein-Gottorp and his wife Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony....
. The citizens of the city of Kiel
Kiel

Kiel is the Capital and most populous city of the northern Germany state Schleswig-Holstein.Kiel is approximately 90 km to the north of Hamburg....
 were initially quite sceptical about the upcoming influx of students and the phrase that students could be quite a pest with their "gluttony, heavy drinking and their questionable character (German: mit Fressen, Sauffen und allerley leichtfertigem Wesen sehr ärgerlich seyn"). But those in the city, which envisioned economic advantages of a university in the city, won, and Kiel thus became the northernmost university in the Holy Roman Empire
Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire was a union of territories in Central Europe during the Middle Ages and the Early modern Europe under a Holy Roman Emperor....
.

When Kiel became part of Prussia
Prussia

Prussia was, most recently, a historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. This state had for centuries substantial influence on Germany and European history....
 in the year 1866, the university grew rapidly in size. The university opened the first botanical garden
Botanical garden

Botanical gardens grow a wide variety of plants primarily to categorize and document for scientific purposes. Botanists and horticulturalists tend the flora and maintain the garden's library and herbarium of dried and documented plant material....
 in Germany, and Martin Gropius
Martin Gropius

Martin Carl Philipp Gropius was a German architect....
 designed many of the new buildings needed to teach the growing number of students.

It was one of the first universities to obey the Gleichschaltung
Gleichschaltung

Gleichschaltung , meaning " Coordination ", "making the same", "bringing into line", is a Nazi term for the process by which the Nazi Germany successively established a system of totalitarian control over the individual, and tight coordination over all aspects of society and commerce....
 in 1933 and agreed to remove many professors and students from the school, for instance Ferdinand Tönnies
Ferdinand Tönnies

Ferdinand T?nnies was a Germany Sociology. He was a major contributor to sociological theory and field studies, as well as bringing Thomas Hobbes back on the agenda, by publishing his manuscripts....
 or Felix Jacoby
Felix Jacoby

Felix Jacoby was a Germany Classics and philology. He is well-known among classicists for his work Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, a collection of text fragments of ancient Greek historians....
. During World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, the University of Kiel suffered much damage, but it was later rebuilt at a different location with only a very few of the older buildings housing the medical school.

Faculties


  • Faculty of Theology
    Theology

    Theology is the study of the existence or attributes of a deity or gods, or more generally the study of religion or spirituality. It is sometimes contrasted with religious studies: theology is understood as the study of religion from an internal perspective , and religious studies as the study of religion from an external perspective....
  • Faculty of Law
    LAW

    LAW may refer to:* Anti-tank warfare, e.g. the US Army M72 LAW or the British Army LAW 80*Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights ...
  • Faculty of Business
    Business

    A business is a legally recognized organization designed to provide good s and/or Service to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalism economies, most being privately owned and formed to earn profit that will increase the wealth of its owners....
    , Economics
    Economics

    File:Ballard Farmers' Market - vegetables.jpgEconomics is the Social sciences that studies the Production theory basics, Distribution , and Consumption of Good and Service ....
     and Social Sciences
    Social sciences

    The social sciences comprise academic disciplines concerned with the study of the social life of human groups and individuals including anthropology, communication studies, economics, human geography, history, political science, psychology and sociology....
  • Faculty of Medicine
    Medicine

    Medicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
  • Faculty of Arts
    ARts

    aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is most famous for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer....
     and Humanities
    Humanities

    The humanities are academic disciplines which study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural science and social sciences....
  • Faculty of Mathematics
    Mathematics

    Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, change, and related topics of pattern and form. Mathematicians seek out patterns whether found in numbers, space, natural science, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere....
     and Natural Sciences
  • Faculty of Agricultural Science
    Agricultural science

    Agricultural 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....
     and Nutrition
    Nutrition

    Nutrition is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary to support life. Many common health problems can be prevented or alleviated with good nutrition....
  • Faculty of Engineering
    Engineering

    Engineering is the discipline and profession of applying Technology and science knowledge and utilizing natural laws and physical resources in order to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems, and process that safely realize a desired objective and meet specified criteria....


Notable people

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Alumni

See also :Category:University of Kiel alumni
  • Otto Jahn
    Otto Jahn

    Otto Jahn , was a Germany archaeologist, philologist, and writer on art and music.He was born at Kiel. After the completion of his university studies at Christian-Albrechts-Universit?t in Kiel, the University of Leipzig and Humboldt University, Berlin, he travelled for three years in France and Italy; in 1839 he became Privatdozent at...
     (1813-1869), archaeologist, philologist, and writer on art and music.
  • Peer Steinbrück
    Peer Steinbrück

    Peer Steinbr?ck is a Germany SPD politician. He currently serves as Federal Minister of Finance in the cabinet of Angela Merkel.From 1968 to 1969 he was trained as an officer of the Reservist of the Bundeswehr....
    , finance minister of Germany
    Germany

    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
  • Gerhard Stoltenberg
    Gerhard Stoltenberg

    Gerhard Stoltenberg was a Germany politician and Political minister in the cabinets of Ludwig Erhard, Kurt Georg Kiesinger and Helmut Kohl. Moreover, He served as minister-president of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein from 1971 to 1982....
    , politician


Academics

See also :Category:University of Kiel faculty


  • Kurt Alder
    Kurt Alder

    Kurt Alder was a German chemistry and Nobel laureate....
  • Walter Anderson
    Walter Anderson (folklorist)

    Walter Anderson was a German ethnologist ....
  • Jochen Bleicken
    Jochen Bleicken

    Jochen Bleicken was a Germany Ancient history....
  • Hartmut Boockmann
    Hartmut Boockmann

    Hartmut Boockmann was a German historian, whose research in medieval history made him internationally respected.Hartmut Boockmann made his Ph.D....
  • Friedrich Blume
    Friedrich Blume

    Friedrich Blume was professor of Musicology in University of Kiel from 1938-1958. He was a student in Munich, Berlin and Leipzig, and taught in the last two of these for some years before being called to the chair in Kiel....
  • Hans-Gerhard Creutzfeldt
  • Paul Deussen
    Paul Deussen

    Paul Jakob Deussen was a Germany Orientalist and Sanskrit scholar. He was influenced by Arthur Schopenhauer. He was also a friend of Friedrich Nietzsche and Swami Vivekananda....
  • Otto Diels
    Otto Diels

    Otto Paul Hermann Diels was a Germany Chemistry. He was the son of a professor of philology at the University of Berlin, where he himself earned his doctorate in chemistry, in the group of Emil Fischer....
  • Wilhelm Dilthey
    Wilhelm Dilthey

    Wilhelm Dilthey was a Germany historian, psychologist, sociologist, student of hermeneutics, and philosopher. He could be considered an empiricist, in contrast to the idealism prevalent in Germany at the time, but his account of what constitutes the empirical and experiential differs from British empiricism and positivism in its central epi...
  • Johann Gustav Droysen
    Johann Gustav Droysen

    Johann Gustav Droysen , was a Germany historian. His history of Alexander the Great was the first work representing a new school of German historical thought....
  • Karl-Dietrich Erdmann
  • Friedrich von Esmarch
  • Hans Geiger
    Hans Geiger

    Johannes Wilhelm Geiger was a Germany physicist. He is perhaps best known as the co-inventor of the Geiger counter and for the Geiger-Marsden experiment which discovered the atomic nucleus....
  • Herbert Giersch
  • Wilhelm Griesinger
    Wilhelm Griesinger

    Wilhelm Griesinger was a German neurologist and psychiatrist. He studied under Johann Lukas Sch?nlein at the University of Zurich and physiologist Fran?ois Magendie in Paris....
  • Bernhard Harms
  • Heinrich Hertz
  • Alfred Heuß
  • Felix Jacoby
    Felix Jacoby

    Felix Jacoby was a Germany Classics and philology. He is well-known among classicists for his work Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, a collection of text fragments of ancient Greek historians....
  • Otto Jahn
    Otto Jahn

    Otto Jahn , was a Germany archaeologist, philologist, and writer on art and music.He was born at Kiel. After the completion of his university studies at Christian-Albrechts-Universit?t in Kiel, the University of Leipzig and Humboldt University, Berlin, he travelled for three years in France and Italy; in 1839 he became Privatdozent at...
  • Philipp Lenard
    Philipp Lenard

    Philipp Eduard Anton von L?n?rd or F?l?p L?n?rd was a Hungarian people-German people Physics and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his research on cathode rays and the discovery of many of their properties....
  • August Leskien
  • Otto Meyerhof
  • Theodor Mommsen
    Theodor Mommsen

    Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen was a Germany classics, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist, and writer generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th century....
  • Daniel Georg Morhof
    Daniel Georg Morhof

    Daniel Georg Morhof , was a Germany writer and scholar.He was born at Wismar. He first studied jurisprudence and then literae humaniores at the University of Rostock, where his elegant Latin versification procured for him in 1660 the chair of poetry....
  • Max Planck
    Max Planck

    Karl Ernst Ludwig Marx Planck, better known as Max Planck was a Germany physicist. He is considered to be the founder of the Quantum mechanics, and one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century....
  • Erwin Rohde
    Erwin Rohde

    Erwin Rohde was one of the great Germany classical scholars of the 19th and early 20th centuries.Rohde was born in Hamburg and was the son of a doctor....
  • Erich Schneider
  • Walther Schücking
  • Ferdinand Tönnies
    Ferdinand Tönnies

    Ferdinand T?nnies was a Germany Sociology. He was a major contributor to sociological theory and field studies, as well as bringing Thomas Hobbes back on the agenda, by publishing his manuscripts....
  • Heinrich von Treitschke
    Heinrich von Treitschke

    Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke was a nationalism Germany historian and political writer during the time of the German Empire....
  • Otto Werner
    Otto Werner

    C. W. Otto Werner was a Germany physician, after whom Werner syndrome -- a form of progeria -- was named. As a Medical school in 1903, Werner observed the syndrome in four siblings near the age of 30....
  • Richard Sorge
    Richard Sorge

    Richard Sorge is considered to have been the best Soviet spy in Japan before and during World War II, which has gained him fame among spies and espionage enthusiasts....


    • See also


    • List of colleges and universities
    • Kiel
      Kiel

      Kiel is the Capital and most populous city of the northern Germany state Schleswig-Holstein.Kiel is approximately 90 km to the north of Hamburg....


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