Youngest German Professor is 16 Years Old.

By all accounts, Carina Lämmle is the youngest college lecturer in Germany. She also happens to teach a discipline so advanced, few have ever heard of it, and most can barely pronounce it. Still, she may study something else when it's time to return to campus -- as a student.

Carina Lämmle calls it “a little bit unfair...” Teaching at the University of Applied Sciences in Biberach, she is not able to drive herself to school, like most of her own students do.

At 16, she is thought to be the youngest lecturer in Germany. And no, she can’t even get into the local disco in this southern German college town.

On campus, she’s taken for a student. But that, she believes, may be due to the fact that she looks a littleolder than she is. Lämmle, in fact, is still in high school. She's an 11th grader at Biberach’s Pestalozzi Gymnasium. It will be another year-and-a-half before she graduates.

On the day Lämmle gave her first lecture, the auditorium was full. There were the soon-to-graduate bachelor of science students– in their seventh semester of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology -- who all had to be there. But fellow teachers were also out in force, there to see for themselves if it was true what Professor Chrystelle Mavoungou had said about Lämmle: this teenager was a “natural-born scientist,” who not only knew her subject but also possessed a gift for teaching.

Mavoungou says it's not just just Lämmle's academic gifts that make her such a good teacher. “Ms Lämmle is also somebody who can keep unruly students under control.”