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6 unusual facts about University of Kiel


Abderrazak El Albani

Between 1996 and 1998, he spent a post-doctoral period at the University of Kiel, in Germany.

Friedrich Krichauff

Having passed through the State colleges of Schleswig and Husum, Krichauff served three years as an apprentice at the botanic gardens in connection with the University of Kiel.

FT Adler Kiel Rugby

Rugby returned to Kiel in the late 1980s through the efforts of foreign students at the University of Kiel.

Matthias Wolfes

In 2002 he received another PhD degree (Dr. phil.) under supervision of Prof. Michael Salewski (University of Kiel).

North Frisian Barrier Island

Numerical simulations by the University of Kiel have shown the likelihood of a merger between Japsand and Norderoogsand until 2050.

Wolfram Sperling

He then taught various sports-related subjects at the University of Kiel (1993–1994) and University of Leipzig (1993–1998).


Arnold Zellner

He holds honorary degrees from the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain, the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa in Portugal, the University of Kiel in Germany, and the Erasmus School of Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

Ernst Sprockhoff

From 1935 to 1945 he was the firs director of the Romano-Germanic Commission in Frankfurt and, from 1947, professor of European Pre- and Early History at the University of Kiel.

Josef Wiesehöfer

Josef Wiesehöfer (born April 5, 1951 in Wickede, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German classical scholar and current professor of Ancient history at the Department of Classics (Institut für Klassische Altertumskunde) of the University of Kiel.

Karl Meissner

On 9 April 1959, Meissner sailed from New York City for Europe to visit his sister and niece, visit the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (International Bureau of Weights and Measures), teach in the summer semester at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, and attend an interferometry conference in London.

Karl Müllenhoff

He was born at Marne, Holstein, and after studying at Kiel, Leipzig, and Berlin, was professor at Kiel (1846–58) and at Berlin (1858-84).

Pavel Kroupa

Afterwards Kroupa worked until 2000 in astronomical research groups at Heidelberg University and at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, before he went to the University of Kiel and earned his Habilitation there.

Rüdiger Schmidt-Grépály

Until 1997, Schmidt-Grépály lectured in philosophy at the Universities of Florence, Kiel, Oldenburg and Bremen, then from 1998 at Jena and the Bauhaus University, Weimar.


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Carl Otto Reventlow

There is, despite a personal acquaintance to some members to the Reventlow family of old Holstein-Mecklenburg nobility through his studies at university of Kiel, no family relation.

Mattias Kumm

Kumm holds a JSD from Harvard Law School and has pursued studies in law, philosophy and political sciences at the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and Harvard University.