Place
Marburg
Overview
Marburg (; German: [ˈmaːɐ̯bʊʁk] or [ˈmaʁbʊʁk] ) is a university town in the German state (Land) of Hesse and the capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district (Landkreis). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approximately 76,000.
Having been awarded town privileges in 1222, Marburg served as capital of the landgraviate of Hessen-Marburg during periods of the 15th to 17th centuries. The University of Marburg was founded in 1527 and dominates the public life in the town to this day.
Marburg is a historic centre of the pharmaceutical industry in Germany, and there is a plant in the town (by BioNTech) to produce vaccines to tackle COVID-19.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Philosophers who discussed Marburg
- Giordano Bruno
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Mircea Eliade
- Eduard Zeller
- Christian Wolff (philosopher)
- Leo Strauss
- Paul Natorp
- Peter Singer
- Rudolf Otto
- José Ortega y Gasset
- Hannah Arendt
- Johannes Althusius
- Georg Misch
- Kiyoshi Miki
- Johannes Rehmke
Place in the tradition
Part of Existentialism.