About us
History
A small garden of plants was established on the Duisburg campus in 1790s by Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost (1715-1794), Professor of medicine. The Botanical Garden of the University of Essen was formally established in the early 1980s by Prof. Dr. Guido Benno Feige, founding Professor of General Botany.
Today the Botanical Garden of the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), created in 2003 by the merger of the universities of Duisburg and Essen, cultivates approximately 3.500 species in an outdoor area and greenhouse complex.