Marburg is a town in Hesse, Germany.

Marburg may also refer to:

Places

  • Marburger Schloss, a castle in Marburg, Germany
  • University of Marburg, the principal university in the city of Marburg, Germany
  • Maribor, Slovenia (also known as Marburg an der Drau before the dissolution of Austria-Hungary)
  • University of Maribor, a university in the city of Maribor, Slovenia
  • Marburg, South Africa, a settlement in KwaZulu–Natal
  • Marburg, Queensland, Australia, a rural town
  • Marburg (Virginia), a historic home in Richmond, Virginia

People

  • Konrad von Marburg (1180-1233), Inquisitor
  • Otto Marburg (1874-1948), Austrian neurologist
  • Theodore Marburg (1862-1946), American jurist, diplomat, and internationalist
  • Theodore Marburg Jr. (1893-1922), American who flew with the Royal Flying Corps in WWI
  • William August Marburg (born 1931), American bluegrass musician known as Bill Clifton
  • James Marburg (b. 1982), Australian rower

Medicine

  • Marburgvirus, a virologic taxon (genus)
  • Marburg virus, a virus causing viral hemorrhagic fever in humans
  • Marburg virus disease, the disease caused by Marburg virus
  • Marburg multiple sclerosis, malignant form of multiple sclerosis

Other

  • Marburg Colloquy, a 1529 meeting at Marburg Castle between leaders of the Reformation
  • Marburg Files, a series of top-secret foreign minister archives discovered in Germany

See also

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg (1718-1795), German critic, theorist and composer