Universität Hamburg was founded in 1919 by local citizens. Important founding figures include Senator Werner von Melle and the merchant Edmund Siemers. Nobel Prize winners such as the physicists Otto Stern, Wolfgang Pauli, and Isidor Rabi taught and researched at the University. Many other distinguished scholars, such as Ernst Cassirer, Erwin Panofsky, Aby Warburg, William Stern, Agathe Lasch, Magdalene Schoch, Emil Artin, Ralf Dahrendorf, and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, also worked here.
Today Universität Hamburg is the largest institution for research and education in northern Germany. As one of the country’s largest universities, we offer a diverse range of degree programs and excellent research opportunities. The University boasts numerous interdisciplinary projects in a broad range of fields and an extensive partner network of leading regional, national, and international higher education and research institutions. The University has developed a number of successful key research areas that shape its overall research profile:
Faculty of Law Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences Faculty of Medicine Faculty of Education Faculty of Humanities Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences Faculty of Psychology and Human Movement Science Faculty of Business Administration (Hamburg Business School)
Universität Hamburg is also home to several museums and collections, such as the Zoological Museum, the Herbarium Hamburgense, the Geological-Paleontological Museum, the Loki Schmidt Garden, and the Hamburg Observatory.
Universität Hamburg is committed to sustainability. All our faculties have taken great strides towards sustainability in both research and teaching.
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