University of Giessen

The University of Giessen is officially called the Justus Liebig University Giessen (German: Justus Liebig-Universität Gießen) after its most famous faculty member, Justus von Liebig, the founder of modern agricultural chemistry and inventor of artificial fertiliser.

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