History
A brief overview of the history of Giessen University, its namesake Justus Liebig and its coat of arms
1607 to the present day
The University of Giessen ("Ludoviciana" -- "Ludwigs-Universität", since the second post-war period "Justus-Liebig-Universität") is one of the old high schools of the German-speaking world. It originates from the second great Central European founding era, the post-Reformation confessional era, which was initiated by the University of Marburg, founded in 1527.
Justus Liebig (our Eponym)
Born on May 12, 1803 in Darmstadt, Justus Liebig studied chemistry in Bonn, Erlangen and Paris after an aborted apprenticeship as a pharmacist and, on the recommendation of Alexander von Humboldt, became Professor of Chemistry at the University of Giessen in 1824.
Crest
The crest of Justus Liebig University Giessen: Antonite cross. In 1736, the Ludoviciana - as the University of Giessen was called after its founder Landgrave Ludwig V of Hesse-Darmstadt until 1945 - adopted the blue, silver-edged, three-armed Antonite cross as its university crest and still bears it today.