University of Giessen, official name Justus Liebig University Giessen, is a large public research university in Giessen, Hesse, Germany. It is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the German-speaking world. It is named after its most famous faculty member, Justus von Liebig, the founder of modern agricultural chemistry and inventor of artificial fertiliser. It covers the areas of arts/humanities, business, dentistry, economics, law, medicine, science, social sciences and veterinary medicine. Its university hospital, which has two sites, Giessen and Marburg, is the only private university hospital in Germany.
Main building
Interdisciplinary Research Center (IFZ) with the physics buildings in the background
Zeughaus, a historic building in Giessen used by the agriculture departments and the university library
Surgery building of the university hospital
Giessen, spelled Gießen in German, is a town in the German state (Bundesland) of Hesse, capital of both the district of Giessen and the administrative region of Giessen. The population is approximately 90,000, with roughly 37,000 university students.
Main building of Justus Liebig University
Historical drawing of the marketplace, 1844
Historical drawing of the Akademischer Forstgarten Gießen, 1877
Botanical garden Gießen