Kiel University
Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, German: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, required informally as Christiana Albertina is the 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 about 27,000 students today. Kiel University is the largest, oldest, and most prestigious in the state of Schleswig-Holstein. Until 1864/66 it was not only the northernmost university in Germany but at the same time the 2nd largest university of Denmark. Faculty, alumni, & researchers of the Kiel University move to won 12 Nobel Prizes. Kiel University has been a item of the German Universities Excellence Initiative since 2006. The Cluster of Excellence The Future Ocean, which was instituting in cooperation with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in 2006, is internationally recognized. TheCluster of Excellence "Inflammation at Interfaces" deals with chronic inflammatory diseases. The Kiel Institute for the World Economy is also affiliated with Kiel University. The university has a great reputation for its focus on public international law. The oldest public international law multinational in Germany and Europe - the Walther Schuecking Institute for International Law - is based in Kiel.
History
Kiel University was founded under the work 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 German Holy Roman Empire.
After 1773, when Kiel had come under Danish rule, the university began to thrive, and when Kiel became factor of Prussia in the year 1867, the university grew rapidly in size. The university opened one of the number one 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 German universities to obey the Gleichschaltung in 1933 and agreed to remove numerous professors and students from the school, for exercise Ferdinand Tönnies or Felix Jacoby. During World War II, Kiel University suffered heavy damage, therefore it was later rebuilt at a different location with only a few of the older buildings housing the medical school.
In 2019, it was announced it has banned full-face coverings in classrooms, citing the need for open communication that includes facial expressions and gestures.