University of Kiel

University of Kiel
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Seal of the University of Kiel
Latin: Academia Holsatorum Chiloniensis sive Christiana Albertina
Motto	Pax optima rerum
Motto in English	Peace is the greatest good
Established	1665
Type	Public
President	Gerhard Fouquet
Admin. staff	2,175
Students	21,198
Location	Kiel, Germany
Campus	Urban
Colors	Purple and white
Website	www.uni-kiel.de

The University of Kiel (German Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, CAU) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in 1665 as the Academia Holsatorum Chiloniensis by Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and has approximately 23,000 students today. The University of Kiel is the largest, oldest, and most prestigious in the state of Schleswig-Holstein.

History

Duke Christian Albrecht

The University of Kiel was founded under the name Christiana Albertina on 5 October 1665 by Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp. The citizens of the city of Kiel were initially quite sceptical about the upcoming influx of students, thinking that these 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 who envisioned economic advantages of a university in the city won, and Kiel thus became the northernmost university in the Holy Roman Empire.

When Kiel became part of Prussia in the year 1866, the university grew rapidly in size. The university opened one of the first botanical gardens in Germany (now the Alter Botanischer Garten Kiel), and Martin Gropius designed many of the new buildings needed to teach the growing number of students.

The Christiana Albertina was one of the first universities to obey the Gleichschaltung in 1933 and agreed to remove many professors and students from the school, for instance Ferdinand Tönnies or Felix Jacoby. During World War II, the University of Kiel suffered heavy damage, therefore it was later rebuilt at a different location with only a very few of the older buildings housing the medical school.

Faculties

Aerial view of the central campus

• Faculty of Theology
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences
• Faculty of Medicine
• Faculty of Arts and Humanities
• Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
• Faculty of Agricultural Science and Nutrition
• Faculty of Engineering

Notable people

Alumni

See also Category:University of Kiel alumni

• Franz Boas (1858–1942), anthropologist
• Gerhard Domagk, bacteriologist, Nobel laureate
• Gerhard Stoltenberg, politician former former prime minister of Schleswig-Holstein, former finance minister of Germany
• Peer Steinbrück, politician, former prime minister of North Rhine Westphalia, former finance minister of Germany
• Erich Walter Sternberg, composer

Academics

See also Category:University of Kiel faculty

Walter Anderson Jochen Bleicken Hartmut Boockmann Friedrich Blume Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt Paul Deussen Wilhelm Dilthey Johann Gustav Droysen Karl-Dietrich Erdmann Friedrich von Esmarch

Hans Geiger Herbert Giersch Wilhelm Griesinger Bernhard Harms Heinrich Hertz Alfred Heuß Felix Jacoby Otto Jahn August Leskien

Daniel Georg Morhof Daniel Pauly Erwin Rohde Erich Schneider Walther Schücking Ferdinand Tönnies Heinrich von Treitschke Otto Werner Richard Sorge

Nobel Prize Winners

There are several Nobel Prize Winners affiliated with the University of Kiel:

• 1902 Theodor Mommsen (Literature)
• 1905 Philipp Lenard (Physics)
• 1918 Max Planck (Physics)
• 1922 Otto Meyerhof (Medicine)
• 1950 Kurt Alder and Otto Diels (Chemistry).

Points of interest

• Botanischer Garten der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, the university's botanical garden

See also

• List of colleges and universities
• List of early modern universities in Europe

External links

• University of Kiel Website (German) (English)
• University of Kiel International Affairs (English)
• Students' Association at Kiel University