Leibniz University Hannover

Leibniz University Hannover is a public research university in Hanover, the capital of the German state of Lower Saxony, and a member of TU9, the association of the nine leading technical universities in Germany.汉诺威莱布尼兹大学是位于德国下萨克森州首府汉诺威的一所公立研究型大学，也是德国九所领先理工大学联盟 TU9 的成员。

Its roots go back to the Higher Vocational School founded on 2 May 1831 by Karl Karmarsch, and on its 175th anniversary in 2006 the University of Hannover was renamed Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover.其渊源可追溯至 1831 年 5 月 2 日由卡尔·卡马施创办的高等职业学校，2006 年建校 175 周年之际，汉诺威大学更名为汉诺威戈特弗里德·威廉·莱布尼兹大学。

In the winter semester 2025/26 it enrolled 25,378 students and employed 5,083 members of staff, and it is placed 470th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, in the 351-375 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education ranking, 578th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities and in the 401-500 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.在 2025/26 年冬季学期，该校注册学生 25,378 人，在职员工 5,083 人；在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 470，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名中处于 351 至 375 区间，在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 578，在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 401 至 500 区间。

History

• On 2 May 1831 the Higher Vocational School was founded in Hanover on the initiative of Karl Karmarsch, and its first 64 students studied mathematics, architecture, mechanical engineering, natural history, physics, chemistry, drawing and accounting.1831 年 5 月 2 日，高等职业学校在卡尔·卡马施的推动下于汉诺威创办，首批 64 名学生学习数学、建筑、机械工程、自然史、物理、化学、制图与会计。

• In 1847 the school was renamed Polytechnic School and in 1853 the number of subjects was tripled, while in 1854 and 1855 the most advanced chemistry laboratory in Germany at the time was built.1847 年，学校更名为综合技术学院，1853 年专业数量增至原来的三倍，1854 至 1855 年建成了当时德国最先进的化学实验室。

• In 1875 enrolment reached a temporary peak of 868 students and auditors, and Karl Karmarsch retired after 44 years, his successor the civil engineer Wilhelm Launhardt driving the transformation into a technical university.1875 年，在校学生与旁听生一度达到 868 人的高峰，为学校操劳 44 年的卡尔·卡马施退休，其继任者土木工程师威廉·劳恩哈特推动了向理工大学的转变。

• On 1 April 1879 the institution became the Royal College of Technology and moved into the historic Welfenschloss palace, which had been specially converted for the purpose after the Kingdom of Hanover was absorbed by Prussia in 1866.1879 年 4 月 1 日，该校升格为皇家理工高校，并迁入历史悠久的维尔芬城堡，此建筑在 1866 年汉诺威王国并入普鲁士后为办学而专门改建。

• In 1880 the college was organised into five departments covering architecture, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, chemistry and electrical engineering, and the general sciences.1880 年，该校由五个部门组成，涵盖建筑、土木工程、机械工程、化学与电工学，以及通用科学。

• In 1896 a mechanical engineering laboratory was established so that teaching and research could be carried out under industrial conditions.1896 年，学校建立了机械工程实验室，使教学与研究得以在工业实践的条件下进行。

• In 1899 Kaiser Wilhelm II granted the college the right to confer doctorates, placing it on an equal footing with the universities.1899 年，威廉二世皇帝授予该校颁发博士学位的权力，使其与大学具有同等地位。

• On 14 April 1909 the Prussian college opened its doors to women, one of the earlier technical institutions in Germany to do so.1909 年 4 月 14 日，这所普鲁士理工高校向女性敞开大门，是德国较早接纳女性的技术院校之一。

• After the First World War student numbers reached a temporary peak of about 3,000, and within seven years the old departments were reshaped into three faculties of general sciences, engineering, and mechanical engineering.第一次世界大战后，学生人数一度达到约 3,000 人的高峰，并在七年内把旧有部门重划为通用科学、工程与机械三个学院。

• In 1921 the college was reconstructed with the financial support of the College Patrons' Association, a body that later became the university's development association.1921 年，该校在高校发展联合会（后成为学校的发展协会）的资助下完成重建。

• During the Second World War five of the 23 buildings were completely destroyed by bombs and others were damaged, and rebuilding was made possible with the active help of students.二战期间，23 幢建筑中有 5 幢被炸弹完全摧毁，其他建筑也受到不同程度损伤，重建在全体学生的积极协助下才得以实现。

• In 1947 the Villa Simon was built and later used by the Institute of Geography, in 1951 the site was extended to Schiffbau, and in 1952 a merger with the college of horticulture and land cultivation created a fourth faculty.1947 年建成的西蒙别墅后来供地理研究院使用，1951 年校址扩展至船坞区，1952 年与园艺与土地耕作高等学校合并，成立了第四个学院。

• In the 1960s student numbers rose from about 4,000 to 5,000 in 1964 to 18,000 by 1978 and 1979, as West Germany expanded its system of higher education.二十世纪六十年代，随着西德扩张高等教育体系，该校学生人数从 1964 年的四千至五千人增长到 1978 与 1979 年的 18000 人。

• In 1968 the Faculty of Humanities and Political Science was founded and the college was renamed Technical University of Hannover, at the same time merging with the college for vocational-school teachers.1968 年，文科与政治学学院成立，学校更名为汉诺威理工大学，同年还合并了商业师范高等学校。

• A Faculty of Law followed in 1973 and a Faculty of Economics in 1974, so that the technical university then comprised seven faculties.1973 年建立法学院，1974 年建立经济学院，当时这所理工大学共设七个学院。

• On 1 October 1978 the institution was renamed University of Hannover under the new Higher Education Act of Lower Saxony, and its first president was elected on 30 May 1979.依据 1978 年 10 月 1 日生效的下萨克森州高等学校法，该校更名为汉诺威大学，其首任校长于 1979 年 5 月 30 日选出。

• In the winter semester of 1987 and 1988 the university enrolled 26,503 students, 34.2 per cent of them women, and in the winter semester of 1990 and 1991 student numbers passed 30,000 for the first time.在 1987 与 1988 年冬季学期，该校注册学生 26,503 人，其中女性占 34.2%；1990 与 1991 年冬季学期，学生人数首次超过 30000 人。

• In 1995 the faculties of economics, law and languages moved to Königsworther Platz in the former Continental AG administration building, a site of about 20,000 square metres known as the Conti-Campus.1995 年，经济、法律与语言学院迁至国王大街原大陆轮胎公司行政大楼，这片约 20000 平方米的园区被称为康提校区。

• In 2005 the university merged seventeen subject areas into a new structure of faculties, creating the present-day organisation of nine faculties.2005 年，该校把 17 个专业领域整合为新的学院架构，形成了如今九个学院的建制。

• On the 175th anniversary of the institution and the 360th anniversary of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's birth in 2006, the University of Hannover was renamed Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover.2006 年，在建校 175 周年、戈特弗里德·威廉·莱布尼兹诞辰 360 周年之际，汉诺威大学更名为汉诺威戈特弗里德·威廉·莱布尼兹大学。

• In 2025 the university was not selected for funding as a University of Excellence, although it stated that it would continue to pursue its strategic development.2025 年，该校未能入选精英大学资助名单，但表示将继续推进其战略发展。

Academics

• Leibniz University Hannover is organized into nine faculties and three schools, which together cover engineering, the natural sciences, mathematics, law, economics, social sciences and the humanities.汉诺威莱布尼兹大学由九个学院与三个学院组成，整体涵盖工程、自然科学、数学、法律、经济、社会科学与人文学科。

• The nine faculties are Architecture and Landscape Sciences, Civil Engineering and Geodetic Science, Economics and Management, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Humanities, Law, Mathematics and Physics, Mechanical Engineering, and Natural Sciences.这九个学院分别是建筑与景观科学学院、土木工程与大地测量学院、经济与管理学院、电气工程与计算机科学学院、人文学院、法学院、数学与物理学院、机械工程学院以及自然科学学院。

• The three schools are the QUEST Leibniz Research School, the Leibniz School of Education and the Leibniz School of Optics and Photonics.三个学院分别是 QUEST 莱布尼兹研究学院、莱布尼兹教育学院与莱布尼兹光学与光子学学院。

• In the 2026 academic year the university offered 82 degree programmes, comprising 31 bachelor's and 51 master's programmes, of which 13 are taught entirely in English and 8 are bilingual.在 2026 学年，该校开设 82 个学位项目，包括 31 个学士与 51 个硕士项目，其中 13 个完全以英语授课，8 个为双语项目。

• In the winter semester 2025/26 it enrolled 25,378 students, of whom 11,029 (43 per cent) were women and 3,564 (14 per cent) were foreign nationals.2025/26 年冬季学期，该校注册学生 25,378 人，其中女性 11,029 人（占 43%），外国留学生 3,564 人（占 14%）。

• The Faculty of Humanities is the largest with 5,638 students, followed by Economics and Management with 3,327 and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with 3,045.人文学院规模最大，有 5,638 名学生；其后是经济与管理学院 3,327 人，以及电气工程与计算机科学学院 3,045 人。

• In December 2024 the university employed 5,083 members of staff, including 354 professors, 2,873 research staff and 1,856 technical and administrative staff.2024 年 12 月，该校在职员工 5,083 人，其中包括 354 名教授、2,873 名科研人员与 1,856 名技术与行政人员。

• In the 2025 academic year 4,964 degrees were completed, made up of 2,332 bachelor's degrees, 2,409 master's degrees and 223 law degrees, alongside 384 doctoral degrees.2025 学年，该校完成学位 4,964 个，包括 2,332 个学士学位、2,409 个硕士学位与 223 个法律学位，另有 384 个博士学位。

• Its research is concentrated in six key areas, namely Quantum Optics and Gravitational Physics, Optical Technologies, Biomedical Research and Technology, Production Engineering, Interdisciplinary Studies of Science, and Energy Research.该校研究集中在六个重点领域，即量子光学与引力物理、光学技术、生物医学研究与技术、生产工程、科学的跨学科研究，以及能源研究。

• It hosts three Clusters of Excellence, PhoenixD for interdisciplinary optics, Hearing4all for hearing research and QuantumFrontiers for quantum metrology, and participates in a fourth.该校拥有三个卓越集群，即跨学科光学的「PhoenixD」、听觉研究的「Hearing4all」与量子计量的「QuantumFrontiers」，并参与第四个。

• The university holds six collaborative research centres, four DFG research training groups, four DFG research groups, two DFG priority programmes and 25 ERC Grants.该校设有 6 个合作研究中心、4 个德国研究联合会研究生院、4 个德国研究联合会研究组、2 个德国研究联合会重点研究计划以及 25 项欧洲研究理事会基金。

• It maintains TIB, the German National Library of Science and Technology, the largest science and technology library in the world, whose origins lie in the library founded with the institution in 1831 and which was established in its modern form in 1959.该校承办 TIB——德国科学技术国家图书馆，世界上规模最大的科学技术图书馆，其渊源是 1831 年随学校一同创办的图书馆，并于 1959 年以现代形式建立。

• The university's overall income amounted to 630.7 million euros in 2023, of which 296.9 million euros, or 47 per cent, came from state subsidies.2023 年，该校总收入为 6.307 亿欧元，其中 2.969 亿欧元（占 47%）来自州政府拨款。

• Its campus buildings provide some 350,726 square metres of floor space across about 160 buildings.其校园建筑在约 160 幢楼中提供约 350,726 平方米的建筑面积。

• The university operates the Einstein-Elevator, a zero-gravity research facility of the Hannover Institute of Technology used for experiments in physics and materials science.该校运营爱因斯坦升降机——汉诺威技术学院的一套零重力研究设施，用于物理学与材料科学实验。

• The GISMA Business School was launched in 1999 as a joint initiative of the state of Lower Saxony and private companies, and was affiliated with the university between 1999 and 2013.GISMA 商学院于 1999 年由下萨克森州与私营企业联合创办，并在 1999 至 2013 年间与该校保持隶属关系。

Campus

• The campus is spread over about 160 buildings providing 350,726 square metres of floor space, most of it in the northern part of Hanover.校园分布在约 160 幢建筑中，提供 350,726 平方米的建筑面积，其中大部分位于汉诺威北部。

• The Welfenschloss, a palace begun for the Kingdom of Hanover and designed by Christian Heinrich Tramm, has served as the university's main building since 1879 and now houses lecture halls, seminar rooms, the Student Advisory Services and part of the administration.为汉诺威王国兴建、由克里斯蒂安·海因里希·特拉姆设计的维尔芬城堡，自 1879 年起成为该校主楼，如今设有讲堂、研讨室、学生咨询处与部分行政机构。

• The Conti-Campus on Königsworther Platz occupies about 20,000 square metres in the former Continental AG administration building in the city centre and houses faculties, a library, a canteen and student-run cafés.位于国王大街的康提校区在原大陆轮胎公司行政大楼内占地约 20000 平方米，设有学院、图书馆、食堂与多家学生经营的咖啡馆。

• The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Production Technology Centre are based in the Garbsen district on the north-western edge of Hanover.机械工程学院与生产技术中心位于汉诺威西北边缘的加布森区。

• The main site lies a short tram ride from Hanover's city centre and close to the Herrenhäuser Gardens, making the campus easy to reach by public transport.主校区距汉诺威市中心仅几站有轨电车，邻近海伦豪森花园，乘坐公共交通即可轻松抵达。

• The TIB library building on the main campus is open to students and the public and holds one of the world's largest collections of scientific and technical literature.主校区内的 TIB 图书馆大楼向学生与公众开放，藏有世界上规模最大的科学技术文献之一。

• A drop tower known as the Einstein-Elevator at the Hannover Institute of Technology allows experiments under conditions of weightlessness for research in physics and materials science.汉诺威技术学院内名为爱因斯坦升降机的落塔，可在失重条件下进行物理与材料科学研究实验。

• The Welfenschloss Lichthof and its surrounding lawns form the historic core of the campus, used for receptions, exhibitions and student events.维尔芬城堡的采光中庭及周边草坪构成校园的历史核心，用于招待会、展览与学生活动。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings the university is placed 470th, the 2027 Times Higher Education ranking places it in the 351-375 band, the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranks it 578th and the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities puts it in the 401-500 band.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校位列第 470；2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名把它列入 351 至 375 区间；2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名第 578；2026 年世界大学学术排名处于 401 至 500 区间，以各榜单官方发布为准。^[1]

• In the 2024 QS World University Rankings it was placed 481st globally and inside the top 30 in Germany, while the 2024 Times Higher Education ranking put it in the 351-400 band.在 2024 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校位列全球第 481，居德国前 30；2024 年泰晤士高等教育排名则把它列入 351 至 400 区间。

• In the 2022 Academic Ranking of World Universities it stood in the 501-600 band, corresponding to a position between 32nd and 36th among German universities.2022 年世界大学学术排名把该校列入 501 至 600 区间，对应德国高校中的第 32 至 36 名。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 79,705 research works attracting 6,545,273 citations, a level consistent with its size as a mid-sized German technical university.据 OpenAlex 统计，该校已产出 79,705 项研究成果，累计被引 6,545,273 次，与其作为德国中等规模理工大学的体量相符。

• It is a member of TU9, the association of the nine leading technical universities in Germany, and of the Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research.该校是德国九所领先理工大学联盟 TU9 的成员，也是欧洲高等工程教育与研究学院会议的成员。

• Three Nobel laureates worked at the university: Friedrich Bergius, who won the 1931 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, J. Hans D. Jensen, who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics, and Gerhard Ertl, who won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.三位诺贝尔奖得主曾在该校工作，分别是 1931 年诺贝尔化学奖得主弗里德里希·贝吉乌斯、1963 年诺贝尔物理学奖得主之一约翰内斯·延森，以及 2007 年诺贝尔化学奖得主格哈德·埃特尔。

• The university holds 25 ERC Grants and hosts six collaborative research centres funded by the German Research Foundation, underlining its research strength in engineering and the natural sciences.该校持有 25 项欧洲研究理事会基金，并设有 6 个由德国研究联合会资助的合作研究中心，彰显其在工程与自然科学领域的研究实力。

• In the 2023 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings it ranked 34th worldwide for Clean Water and Sanitation and between 101st and 200th for Affordable and Clean Energy.在 2023 年泰晤士高等教育影响力排名中，该校在「清洁饮水与卫生设施」上位列全球第 34，在「经济适用的清洁能源」上处于 101 至 200 区间。

• Measured by the number of top managers in the German economy, the university ranked seventh among German institutions in 2019.以德国经济界高层管理者的数量衡量，该校 2019 年在德国高校中排名第七。

Student life

• Leibniz University Hannover has no formal motto, but it presents itself as true to the name of its namesake, the polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who spent much of his working life in Hanover.汉诺威莱布尼兹大学没有正式校训，但它以名同其实自居，其命名源自曾在汉诺威度过大半职业生涯的博学家戈特弗里德·威廉·莱布尼兹。

• Its logo, adopted in 2008, is a stylised excerpt from a letter to Duke Rudolf August of Wolfenbüttel in which Leibniz presented binary numbers for the first time.该校 2008 年采用的标志，取自莱布尼兹致沃尔芬比特尔公爵鲁道夫·奥古斯特的一封信的变形片段，他在信里首次提出了二进制数。

• Students are represented by the Studierendenrat, the student council, the AStA and departmental student councils known as Fachschaftsräte.学生由学生委员会、学生自治执行委员会 AStA 以及各系学生委员会代表。

• The Erstival festival welcomes new students at the start of the winter semester, and on 15 October 2026 a Startup Day brought students, researchers and alumni together in the atrium of the Welfenschloss.Erstival 节在冬季学期开学时迎接新生；2026 年 10 月 15 日举办的创业日活动则把学生、研究者与校友汇聚在维尔芬城堡的中庭。

• The Welfenschloss Lichthof serves as a central meeting place, and in 2026 the university displayed 14 key provisions of Germany's Basic Law there in a campaign on democracy.维尔芬城堡的采光中庭是全校的中心聚会场所；2026 年，该校在此以维护民主为主题展出了德国基本法的 14 项核心条款。

• A permanent exhibition in the main building is dedicated to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and its Leibniz Talks podcast and film series explore his legacy.主楼内设有纪念戈特弗里德·威廉·莱布尼兹的常设展览，该校的莱布尼兹对谈播客与系列影片则探讨其思想遗产。

• The TIB library is open to students, staff and the wider public, and its reading rooms are used by researchers from across the region.TIB 图书馆向学生、教职员与更广泛的公众开放，其阅览室供整个地区的研究者使用。

• The university's sports programme offers a wide range of activities, and Hanover's Maschsee lake and the Leine river provide recreation within easy reach of the campus.该校的体育项目提供丰富多样的活动，汉诺威的马施湖与莱纳河则在校园附近提供休闲去处。

Notable people

• Karl Karmarsch was the founding director of the Higher Vocational School in 1831 and led the institution for 44 years, shaping its early development as an educationalist and engineer.卡尔·卡马施是 1831 年高等职业学校的创校校长，主持该校 44 年，以工程师与教育家的身份塑造了其早期发展。

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the polymath and philosopher after whom the university is named, served the House of Hanover as librarian and historian and is buried in Hanover.该校以其命名的博学家与哲学家戈特弗里德·威廉·莱布尼兹曾为汉诺威王室担任图书管理员与史官，并安葬于汉诺威。

• Ludwig Prandtl, the physicist and engineer regarded as a founder of modern fluid dynamics, held a professorship at the institution in the early twentieth century.被视为现代流体力学奠基人的物理学家与工程师路德维希·普朗特，二十世纪初曾在该校任教授。

• Friedrich Bergius, who taught at the college, won the 1931 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on high-pressure chemistry.曾在该校任教的高压化学研究者弗里德里希·贝吉乌斯，于 1931 年获得诺贝尔化学奖。

• J. Hans D. Jensen, a professor of the institution, shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics for the shell model of the atomic nucleus.该校教授约翰内斯·汉斯·丹尼尔·延森因原子核壳层模型而分享了 1963 年诺贝尔物理学奖。

• Gerhard Ertl, who studied and later taught at Hannover, won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces.曾在汉诺威求学、后在该校任教的格哈德·埃特尔，因固体表面化学过程的研究获得 2007 年诺贝尔化学奖。

• Constantin Carathéodory, the Greek mathematician known for work in the calculus of variations and thermodynamics, was a professor at the institution.以变分法与热力学研究闻名的希腊数学家康斯坦丁·卡拉西奥多里，曾在该校任教授。

• Carl Adam Petri, who studied at Hannover, developed Petri nets, a mathematical model widely used in computer science and systems engineering.曾在汉诺威求学的卡尔·亚当·佩特里提出了佩特里网，这一数学模型广泛应用于计算机科学与系统工程。

• David McAllister, a graduate of the university, served as Minister-President of Lower Saxony and is a member of the European Parliament.该校毕业生戴维·麦卡利斯特曾任下萨克森州州长，现为欧洲议会议员。

• Fritz Sennheiser, the electronics engineer who founded the audio company Sennheiser, held an honorary professorship at the university.创办音频公司森海塞尔的电子工程师弗里茨·森海塞尔，曾在该校担任名誉教授。

• Klaus Töpfer, a professor of the institution, served as Germany's Federal Minister for the Environment and later as executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme.该校教授克劳斯·托普弗曾任德国联邦环境部长，后担任联合国环境规划署执行主任。