The
University of Giessen, officially called the
Justus Liebig University Giessen (German:
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), is a large public research university in
Giessen,
Hesse,
Germany. It is named after its most famous faculty member,
Justus von Liebig, the founder of modern agricultural chemistry and inventor of artificial fertiliser. It covers the areas of arts/humanities, business, dentistry, economics, law, medicine, science, social sciences, and veterinary medicine. Its
university hospital, which has two sites, Gießen and
Marburg (the latter of which is the teaching hospital of the
University of Marburg), is the only private university hospital in Germany.