Philipps University of Marburg

The University of Marburg, officially called Philipps-Universität Marburg after its founder, the Landgrave Philipp I of Hesse (usually called the Magnanimous), was founded in 1527 and is the world's first and oldest Protestant university. It was the main university of the principality of Hesse and remains a public university of that German state. It now has almost 20,000 students and 8,000 employees, making Marburg the proverbial "university town" (Universitätsstadt).

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Landgrave - Philipp I of Hesse - Protestant - Hesse - Marburg

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In spite of many famous natural scientists teaching and studying at Marburg, such as Robert Bunsen, Emil von Behring, Otto Heinrich Schindewolf and Otto Hahn, Marburg was always known as a Humanities university; it retained that strength, especially in Philosophy and Theology, for a long time after World War II. Famous theologians include Rudolf Otto, Rudolf Bultmann, and today - if emeritus - Otto Kaiser; philosophers include Christian Wolff, Martin Heidegger, and Hans-Georg Gadamer. Other famous students were Hannah Arendt, Boris Pasternak, the Brothers Grimm, Gottfried Benn, Gustav Heinemann and W.E.B. Griffin.

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Robert Bunsen - Emil von Behring - Otto Heinrich Schindewolf - Otto Hahn - World War II - Rudolf Otto - Rudolf Bultmann - Otto Kaiser - Christian Wolff - Martin Heidegger - Hans-Georg Gadamer - Hannah Arendt - Boris Pasternak - Brothers Grimm - Gottfried Benn - Gustav Heinemann - W.E.B. Griffin

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