University of Hohenheim

The University of Hohenheim is a public campus university in the south of Stuttgart, Germany, founded in 1818 as Stuttgart's oldest university, and it is placed in the 771-780 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings.霍恩海姆大学是位于德国斯图加特南部的公立校园型大学，1818 年创办，是斯图加特最古老的大学，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 771-780 区间。

Born from King William I of Württemberg's response to the famine that followed the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, it remains rooted in agricultural and natural sciences while its faculty of business, economics and social sciences is regularly ranked among the best in Germany.该校诞生于符腾堡国王威廉一世对 1815 年坦博拉火山爆发后大饥荒的回应，至今以农业与自然科学为根基，其商学、经济与社会科学学院则常年位居德国前列。

It enrolled 8,768 students in 2024 with a budget of 197.9 million euros, and its OpenAlex record lists 31,724 research works and 2,343,294 citations.2024 年该校注册学生 8,768 名、预算 1.979 亿欧元，其 OpenAlex 记录列有研究成果 31,724 项、被引 2,343,294 次。

History

• A settlement named Hohenheim was first mentioned in a document of 1100, and the estate passed through Swabian noble families before reaching the Württemberg ducal house.名为「霍恩海姆」的聚落最早见于 1100 年的文献，庄园历经士瓦本贵族之家数度易手，最终归于符腾堡公爵家族。

• In 1770 Duke Carl Eugen of Württemberg founded the Karlsschule in Stuttgart, which remained the city's only university until its closure in 1794.1770 年，符腾堡公爵卡尔·欧根在斯图加特创办卡尔学校，直至 1794 年关闭，它一直是该市唯一的大学。

• In 1785 Duke Carl Eugen laid the foundation stone of today's Hohenheim Palace, a country residence that later became the university's core.1785 年，卡尔·欧根公爵为今日的霍恩海姆宫奠基，这座乡间宫殿后来成为大学的核心。

• In the first half of April 1815 the Indonesian volcano Tambora erupted with an explosive power estimated at 170,000 Hiroshima bombs, casting an ash veil over the globe and triggering the year without a summer of 1816.1815 年 4 月上半月，印度尼西亚坦博拉火山爆发，爆炸力估计相当于 17 万颗广岛原子弹，火山灰笼罩全球，酿成 1816 年的无夏之年。

• The climatic shock produced the worst famine of the nineteenth century across Europe and hit the Kingdom of Württemberg hard, confronting King William I with chronic hunger in his realm.这一气候冲击酿成十九世纪欧洲最严重的大饥荒，重创符腾堡王国，让威廉一世直面王国长期的饥饿问题。

• In 1818 King William I of Württemberg therefore founded an agricultural teaching, experimental and model institute at Hohenheim, aiming to modernise agriculture through teaching, experimentation and demonstration.1818 年，威廉一世在霍恩海姆设立农业教学、实验与示范学院，意图以教学、实验与示范推动农业的长期现代化。

• The new institute opened with 18 students and a staff of three professors, and Johann Nepomuk Hubert von Schwerz served as its founding director.新学院开办时只有 18 名学生与 3 名教授，约翰·内波穆克·胡贝特·冯·施韦尔茨出任首任院长。

• In the spring of 1821 the young agronomist Heinrich Wilhelm von Pabst walked from Thuringia to Hohenheim, studied under von Schwerz, and stayed to shape four decades of scientific agriculture in Central Europe.1821 年春，年轻农学家海因里希·威廉·冯·帕布斯特从图林根徒步走到霍恩海姆，师从施韦尔茨，此后影响了中欧科学农业四十年。

• Through the nineteenth century the institute was elevated through intermediate academy grades toward full university standing, keeping its agricultural mission at the core.整个十九世纪，学院经由中间等级的科学院建制逐步升格，农业使命始终居于核心。

• In 1923 Margarete von Wrangell became full professor and founded the Institute for Plant Nutrition at the Landwirtschaftliche Hochschule Hohenheim, becoming Germany's first female full professor in the process.1923 年，玛格丽特·冯·弗朗格尔在霍恩海姆农业高等学院成为正教授并创建植物营养研究所，就此成为德国第一位女性正教授。

• Von Wrangell's research on phosphate fertilisation caused a worldwide sensation and anchored soil chemistry among the institution's sciences.弗朗格尔的磷肥研究轰动世界，把土壤化学奠定为该校的科学支柱之一。

• Huberta Bronsart von Schellendorf, a pioneer of organic farming, joined the Botanical Institute as an assistant in the autumn of 1919, taught at the horticultural school, and returned to Hohenheim in 1927 after a contract break.有机农业先驱胡贝尔塔·布龙萨特·冯·施伦多夫 1919 年秋入植物研究所任助理，并在园艺学校任教，1927 年合同中断后重返霍恩海姆。

• In the mid-twentieth century the agricultural college expanded beyond farming into natural sciences and economics, reflecting the modernisation of German rural society after 1945.二十世纪中叶，农业学院把版图扩展到自然科学与经济学，回应 1945 年后德国乡村社会的现代化。

• In 1967 the institution was granted full university status as the University of Hohenheim, adding the economics and social sciences faculty that now enrols most students.1967 年，该校取得完整的大学地位，定名霍恩海姆大学，并设立如今吸纳最多学生的经济与社会科学学院。

• Günther Franz, the agricultural historian, taught at the agricultural college from 1957, and Theodor Bergmann held the chair of comparative agrarian policy until 1981.农业史学家京特·弗兰茨自 1957 年起在学院任教，特奥多尔·贝格曼则主持农业政策比较讲席直至 1981 年。

• In 2018 the university celebrated its bicentennial, retracing the famine-response mission that gave it birth.2018 年，学校举行两百周年校庆，重申其因应饥荒而生的使命。

• Stephan Dabbert, an agricultural economist and alumnus, led the university as rector from 2012 until his death in 2024, and Christoph Schneider succeeded him as rector.农业经济学家、校友斯特凡·达贝特自 2012 年起任校长，直至 2024 年去世；克里斯托夫·施奈德接任校长。

• In 2009 a national survey named Hohenheim the most beautiful campus university in Baden-Württemberg and seventh among German campuses overall.2009 年，一项全国评选把霍恩海姆评为巴登-符腾堡最美的校园型大学，全德总排名第七。

• The university is a member of the European League for Life Sciences, the ELLS network whose partners include Wageningen University, Copenhagen University and Helsinki University.该校是欧洲生命科学联盟（ELLS）的成员，网络伙伴包括瓦赫宁恩大学、哥本哈根大学与赫尔辛基大学。

• Third-party research funding has made the Nutrition Institute and related food-science groups among the best-supported agricultural research units in Germany.第三方科研经费使植物营养研究院（Nutrition Institute）及相关食品科学团队成为德国经费最充裕的农业研究单位之一。

• Alumni networks across German agribusiness and the European food industry trace back to the Hohenheim College tradition of 1818.德国农业企业与欧洲食品产业的校友网络，皆可追溯到 1818 年 Hohenheim College 的传统。

• International degree students from Asia, Africa and Latin America form a substantial share of enrolment, continuing the global mission of Josef G. Knoll's development research.来自亚洲、非洲与拉丁美洲的国际学位生占注册人数的显著份额，延续了约瑟夫·克诺尔发展研究的全球使命。

• Cooperation with Stuttgart University, a separate institution founded in 1829, covers joint research projects without institutional merger.与 1829 年创办的另一所高校 Stuttgart University 的合作覆盖联合科研项目，但两者机构上互不隶属。

• Chinese cooperation has produced a distinguished alumni cohort in agricultural science, including Fusuo Zhang, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, who earned his doctorate at Hohenheim in the late 1980s.对华合作培育出农业科学领域的杰出校友群体，包括中国工程院院士张福锁，他于 1980 年代末在霍恩海姆取得博士学位。

Academics

• Teaching is organised in three faculties, the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, the Faculty of Natural Sciences, and the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences.教学分为三个学院：农业科学学院、自然科学院与经济与社会科学学院。

• Agricultural sciences have ranked first in Germany across major rankings, with the 2020 QS subject list placing agriculture and forestry first in Germany and sixteenth in the world.农业科学在各主要排名中长期位居德国第一，2020 年 QS 学科榜把「农业与林业」列德国第一、世界第十六。

• The business, economics and social sciences faculty is regularly ranked among Germany's best, drawing the majority of the university's students into economics, business administration and social science programmes.经济与社会科学学院常列德国前列，吸引全校多数学生就读经济学、企业管理与社会科学课程。

• The university offers 35 master's programmes and 16 doctoral programmes per its official structure, in a deliberately compact discipline portfolio.按官方口径，学校开设 35 个硕士项目与 16 个博士项目，学科组合刻意精干。

• Food science, environmental science and ecology are rated among Germany's leading programmes, extending the agricultural core into nutrition and sustainability research.食品科学、环境科学与生态学位居德国一流，把农业核心延伸到营养与可持续研究。

• The Institute for Plant Nutrition founded by Margarete von Wrangell in 1923 remains a research anchor for soil chemistry and fertiliser science.1923 年由玛格丽特·冯·弗朗格尔创建的植物营养研究所，至今仍是土壤化学与肥料科学的科研支柱。

• Academic staff numbered 126 professors in the 2024 statistics, supported by about 2,083 administrative employees.2024 年统计口径下，教授为 126 名，行政雇员约 2,083 人。

• Student enrolment stood at 8,768 in 2024, small by German standards and typical of the specialised campus-university model.2024 年注册学生 8,768 名，按德国标准属于小型，是典型的专科型校园大学。

• The university budget reached 197.9 million euros in 2024, funded through the state of Baden-Württemberg and third-party research grants.2024 年学校预算达 1.979 亿欧元，由巴登-符腾堡州拨款与第三方科研经费共同支撑。

• Research output recorded in OpenAlex stands at 31,724 works with 2,343,294 citations, concentrated in agronomy, nutrition and economics.OpenAlex 记录的研究产出为 31,724 项成果、被引 2,343,294 次，集中于农学、营养学与经济学。

• The European League for Life Sciences membership links Hohenheim with peer life-science universities across Europe for joint programmes and exchange.欧洲生命科学联盟的成员身份把霍恩海姆与欧洲各生命科学大学连接起来，开展联合项目与交换。

• Doctoral training in agricultural economics has produced generations of international scholars, including Chinese academics who now lead agricultural universities in China.农业经济学博士培养产出了数代国际学者，包括如今执掌中国农业高校的中国学者。

• The Josef G. Knoll European Science Award, administered through the fiat panis foundation, honours the Hohenheim professor who pioneered agricultural research for developing countries.由「fiat panis」基金会管理的约瑟夫·G·克诺尔欧洲科学奖，纪念这位霍恩海姆教授对发展中国家农业研究的开拓。

• International students and exchange programmes link the campus to partner universities across Europe, Asia and Africa each year.国际学生与交换项目每年把校园与欧亚非的伙伴大学连接起来。

• Alumni Stephan Dabbert returned as rector in 2012 after professorships in agricultural policy, exemplifying the institution's internal academic lineage.校友斯特凡·达贝特在农业政策讲席任教后于 2012 年回校出任校长，是校内学术血脉的典型。

Campus

• The campus stands in the Plieningen district on Stuttgart's southern edge, with coordinates at 48.7114 degrees north and 9.2095 degrees east, about ten kilometres from the city centre.校园位于斯图加特南缘的普利宁根区，坐标为北纬 48.7114、东经 9.2095，距市中心约十公里。

• Hohenheim Palace, whose foundation stone was laid in 1785 by Duke Carl Eugen, forms the historic core with its palace gardens.霍恩海姆宫（1785 年卡尔·欧根公爵奠基）及其宫殿花园构成校园的历史核心。

• The palace's exotic garden, planted as a ducal collection, survives as one of Germany's oldest botanical grounds and serves teaching today.宫殿的「异国花园」源出公爵时代的植物收藏，是德国最古老的植物园地之一，至今用于教学。

• Campus buildings cluster around the palace and its courtyard, keeping lectures, laboratories and student services within a single walkable site.校园建筑环绕宫殿与庭院分布，授课、实验与学生服务均在步行可及的同一园区。

• In 2009 the campus was voted the most beautiful campus university in Baden-Württemberg and seventh nationally, a recognition tied to the palace-and-park setting.2009 年该校园被评为巴登-符腾堡最美校园大学、全德第七，这一声誉与宫殿园林环境密不可分。

• The university's colour is blue, displayed in campus signage and university publications.校色为蓝色，体现在校园标识与学校出版物中。

• Student housing and dining, including the central cafeteria, sit within the Plieningen campus so that daily life proceeds on one site.学生住宿与餐饮（含中心食堂）均在普利宁根园区内，日常生活一处完成。

• Stuttgart's S-Bahn and bus network connect the campus to the main station in about half an hour.斯图加特的城铁与公交网络把校园与火车总站连接在约半小时之内。

• Experimental fields adjacent to the campus serve crop science teaching, a working remnant of the 1818 model-farm mission.校园旁的试验田服务作物科学教学，是 1818 年「示范农场」使命的活的延续。

• Proximity to Stuttgart's industries and the Stuttgart Airport supports applied research partnerships and international travel.毗邻斯图加特的产业与机场，为应用研究合作与国际出行提供便利。

Reputation

• The University of Hohenheim is placed in the 771-780 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings.霍恩海姆大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 771-780 区间。

• THE World University Rankings 2027 place it in the 376-400 band, the strongest of the four main rankings for this institution.2027 年度 THE 世界大学排名将其列于 376-400 区间，是四项主榜中该校的最高座次。

• The 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities survey ranks it 891st worldwide, and the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 places it in the 701-800 band.2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名将其列于世界第 891，2026 年软科世界大学学术排名（ARWU）将其列于 701-800 区间。

• Agricultural sciences rank first in Germany across major subject rankings, with agriculture and forestry sixteenth worldwide in the 2020 QS subject evaluation.农业科学在各大学科排名中长期居德国第一，「农业与林业」在 2020 年 QS 学科评估中列世界第十六。

• The business and economics faculty is regularly ranked among the best in Germany, an unusual distinction for a university of fewer than 9,000 students.商学与经济学院常列德国前列，对一所不足 9,000 名学生的大学而言殊为难得。

• Its OpenAlex record lists 31,724 research works and 2,343,294 citations, weighted toward agronomy, plant nutrition and applied economics.其 OpenAlex 记录列有研究成果 31,724 项、被引 2,343,294 次，成果以农学、植物营养与应用经济学为主。

• Food science, environmental science and ecology are rated among Germany's leading programmes, extending the founding agricultural mission into sustainability research.食品科学、环境科学与生态学位居德国一流，把建校的农业使命延伸到可持续研究。

• The historical prestige of the institution rests on its famine-response founding of 1818 and its roll of agricultural scholars such as Margarete von Wrangell, Germany's first female full professor.该校的历史声望奠基于 1818 年的因应饥荒创校，以及玛格丽特·冯·弗朗格尔等农业学者的阵容——后者是德国第一位女性正教授。

• Within Germany it is regarded as the reference institution for agricultural and nutritional sciences, a standing reinforced by ELLS membership and international doctoral recruitment.在德国国内，它被视为农业与营养科学的标杆，ELLS 成员身份与国际博士招生进一步强化了这一地位。

Student life

• The university has no formal Latin motto, and its public identity rests instead on the founding mission of fighting hunger set by King William I in 1818.该校没有正式的拉丁文校训，公共身份奠基于威廉一世 1818 年设定的「对抗饥饿」建校使命。

• Campus life is singular rather than city-spread, with lectures, housing, the cafeteria and gardens concentrated around Hohenheim Palace in Plieningen.校园生活集中于普利宁根的霍恩海姆宫周边，授课、住宿、食堂与园林一体，而非散落全城。

• In 2018 the bicentennial celebrations structured the social calendar, with retrospectives on the Tambora famine origins of the institution.2018 年的两百周年庆典构成社交日历的节点，并回顾了坦博拉饥荒的创校缘起。

• Student societies cover agricultural practice, economics debating, international friendship and campus gardening around the exotic garden.学生社团涵盖农业实践、经济学辩论、国际联谊与围绕异国花园的校园园艺。

• The palace gardens serve as the campus's open-air living room, hosting summer festivals and graduation photography.宫殿花园是校园的露天客厅，举办夏日节庆与毕业合影。

• Sports programmes use Stuttgart's municipal facilities, and the campus's flat parkland supports running and cycling circuits.体育项目使用斯图加特市政设施，校园平坦的园地则适合跑步与骑行。

• Student media and the student parliament govern campus affairs, following the conventions of German universities with strong student self-administration.学生媒体与学生议会管理校园事务，遵循德国大学学生自治的传统。

• International students from the life-science networks and exchange programmes form a visible community on the compact campus.来自生命科学网络与交换项目的国际学生在精干的校园里构成显眼的社群。

• Stuttgart's S-Bahn link keeps the city's cultural life within reach, while the campus's suburban setting preserves a quiet study atmosphere.城铁连接让市区的文化生活近在咫尺，城郊的校园环境则保留了安静的学习氛围。

Notable people

• King William I of Württemberg founded the institute in 1818 as a famine-response measure, and his agrarian modernisation policy shaped the institution's first century.符腾堡国王威廉一世于 1818 年以应对饥荒之策创校，其农业现代化政策塑造了学校的第一个世纪。

• Duke Carl Eugen of Württemberg built Hohenheim Palace, laying its foundation stone in 1785, and his Karlsschule held a university monopoly in Stuttgart from 1770 to 1794.符腾堡公爵卡尔·欧根修建了霍恩海姆宫（1785 年奠基），其创办的卡尔学校在 1770 至 1794 年间垄断斯图加特的大学教育。

• Johann Nepomuk Hubert von Schwerz, the founding director, organised the agricultural teaching programme of 1818 and recruited the first professors.首任院长约翰·内波穆克·胡贝特·冯·施韦尔茨组建了 1818 年的农业教学体系，并聘任首批教授。

• Heinrich Wilhelm von Pabst, who walked from Thuringia to Hohenheim in 1821, became one of Central Europe's most versatile agronomists after studying under von Schwerz.1821 年从图林根徒步到霍恩海姆的海因里希·威廉·冯·帕布斯特，师从施韦尔茨后成为中欧最多面的农学家之一。

• Margarete von Wrangell founded the Institute for Plant Nutrition in 1923 and became Germany's first female full professor, with phosphate research that caused a worldwide sensation.玛格丽特·冯·弗朗格尔 1923 年创建植物营养研究所，成为德国第一位女性正教授，其磷肥研究轰动世界。

• Huberta Bronsart von Schellendorf, pioneer of organic farming, researched and taught at Hohenheim from 1919, returning in 1927 after an interrupted contract.有机农业先驱胡贝尔塔·布龙萨特·冯·施伦多夫自 1919 年起在霍恩海姆研究与执教，合同中断后于 1927 年重返。

• Oskar von Kirchner, botanist and long-serving professor, linked microscopy, plant health and plant ecology in decades of Hohenheim teaching.植物学家奥斯卡·冯·基尔希纳长期任教授，数十年的霍恩海姆教学生涯把显微学、植物健康与植物生态连为一体。

• Günther Franz, agricultural historian and author of the standard work on the German Peasants' War, taught at the agricultural college from 1957.农业史学家京特·弗兰茨，《德国农民战争》权威著作的作者，自 1957 年起在学院任教。

• Theodor Bergmann, professor of comparative agrarian policy until 1981, built Hohenheim's standing in rural development and land policy studies.特奥多尔·贝格曼，农业政策比较教授（至 1981 年），奠定了霍恩海姆在乡村发展与土地政策研究中的地位。

• Josef G. Knoll, pioneer of agricultural research for developing countries, is honoured by the European science award that bears his name.约瑟夫·G·克诺尔，发展中国家农业研究的开拓者，以他命名的欧洲科学奖延续着他的影响。

• Stephan Dabbert, alumnus and agricultural economist, served as rector from 2012 until his death in 2024, and was succeeded by Christoph Schneider.斯特凡·达贝特，校友、农业经济学家，2012 年起任校长直至 2024 年去世，由克里斯托夫·施奈德接任。

• Stefan Mappus, who studied economics at Hohenheim, served as Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg from 2008 to 2011.斯特凡·马普斯，曾就读霍恩海姆经济学，2008 至 2011 年出任巴登-符腾堡州州长。

• Bingsheng Ke, Chinese agricultural economist who earned his doctorate at Hohenheim, later served as president of China Agricultural University in Beijing.柯炳生，曾在霍恩海姆取得博士学位的中国农业经济学家，后出任北京中国农业大学校长。

• Fusuo Zhang, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, completed his doctoral training at Hohenheim in the late 1980s before leading plant nutrition science in China.张福锁，中国工程院院士，1980 年代末在霍恩海姆完成博士训练，后执掌中国的植物营养科学。