University of Kiel
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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 duke Christian Albrecht of Holstein-Gottorp in order to train priests and government officials and was the most northern university in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Especially during the 19th century a number of important scholars worked and taught in Kiel.
It was one of the first universities to obey the Gleichschaltung in 1933 and removed many of the professors and students from the school, as e.g. Ferdinand Tönnies or Felix Jacoby. The university buildings sustained much damage during the Second World War. The school was rebuilt at a different location with only a very few of the older buildings housing the medical school. There were approximately 21,000 students enrolled in 2005.
Faculties
- 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 and Nutritional Science
- Faculty of Engineering
Some famous scholars
- Kurt Alder
- Walter Anderson
- Jochen Bleicken
- Hartmut Boockmann
- Hans-Gerhard Creutzfeldt
- Paul Deussen
- Otto Diels
- Wilhelm Dilthey
- Johann Gustav Droysen
- Karl-Dietrich Erdmann
- Hans Geiger
- Herbert Giersch
- Wilhelm Griesinger
- Bernhard Harms
- Heinrich Hertz
- Alfred Heuß
- Felix Jacoby
- Otto Jahn
- Philipp Lenard
- Otto Meyerhof
- Theodor Mommsen
- Daniel Georg Morhof
- Max Planck
- Erwin Rohde
- Erich Schneider
- Walther Schücking
- Ferdinand Tönnies
- Heinrich von Treitschke
- Otto Werner
See also
External links
- [University of Kiel Website] () ()
- [University of Kiel International Affairs] ()
- http://www.asta.uni-kiel.de ("Allgemeiner Studierendenausschuss der CAU")
- http://www.asta.uni-kiel.de/modules.php?op=modload&name=fachschaften&file=index
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