List of Leipzig University people
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The following is a list of notable alumni and faculty of the University of Leipzig.
Notable alumni
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- Theodore Dyke Acland, English physician
- Georgius Agricola, Saxon mining engineer and natural philosopher
- Joseph L. Armstrong, American scholar
- Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay, Polish linguist and slavist
- Lothar Bisky, German politician
- Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
- Marc Bloch, French historian
- John Bohnius, German physician
- Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, American writer and scholar
- Tycho Brahe,[citation needed] Danish astronomer
- James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist
- Constantine I, Greek monarch
- William David Coolidge, American physicist
- Carl H. Dorner, American politician
- Émile Durkheim, French sociologist
- Friedrich Adolf Ebert, Saxon librarian
- Johann Arnold Ebert, Saxon writer and translator
- John O. Evjen, American theologian and church historian
- Gustav Fechner, German psychologist
- Arnold Gehlen, German philosopher and sociologist
- Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician
- Kurt Albert Gerlach, German sociologist
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe, German poet
- Woldemar Ludwig Grenser, German obstetrician
- Otto von Guericke, German scientist and politician
- Gotthard Günther, German-American philosopher
- Edith Hamilton, American essayist and educator; first female student at the university together with her sister Alice
- Albert Hauck, German theologian and church historian
- Johann Adam Hiller, Saxon composer
- Gu Hongming, Malaysian-Chinese scholar
- Milton W. Humphreys, American scholar
- Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician
- Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher and mathematician
- Ulrich von Hutten, Hessian humanist and political leader
- Nicolae Iorga, Romanian historian and politician
- Wolfgang Iser, German literary theorist
- Jan Jesenius, Slovak physician, politician and philosopher
- Uwe Johnson, German writer and translator
- Ernst Jünger, German novelist and nationalist activist
- Erich Kähler, German mathematician
- Erich Kästner, German satirist and children's writer
- Paul Kirchhoff, German anthropologist and ethnohistorian
- Johannes Knolleisen, German theologian
- Alexander Kohut, Hungarian-American rabbi and orientalist
- Victor Lange, German-American linguist
- Georg Christian Lehms, German poet and novelist
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher
- August Leskien, German linguist
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German philosopher and writer
- Rudolf Leuckart, German zoologist
- Karl Liebknecht, German communist activist
- Virgil Madgearu, Romanian economist and sociologist
- Bronisław Malinowski, Polish anthropologist
- Sándor Márai, Hungarian poet and novelist
- Angela Merkel, German politician
- Walter Miller, American philologist
- Thomas Müntzer, Thuringian theologian and rebellion leader
- Carl Friedrich Naumann, German mineralogist and geologist
- Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
- Novalis, German writer and philosopher
- Raila Odinga, former Kenyan Prime Minister
- George Pardee, American physician and politician
- Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu, Romanian Marxist sociologist and politician
- James Phelan, Jr., American politician
- Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist and historian
- Alexander Radishchev, Russian political thinker
- Constantin Rădulescu-Motru, Romanian psychologist and philosopher
- Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German botanist and physician
- Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist
- Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist
- Kurt Schumacher, German politician
- Robert Schumann, German composer
- Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer
- Edward Teller, Hungarian-American nuclear physicist
- Galsan Tschinag, Mongolian writer, poet and activist
- Kārlis Ulmanis, Latvian politician
- Dimitri Uznadze, Georgian psychologist
- Richard Wagner, German composer
- Ernst Heinrich Weber, German physician
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher
- Cai Yuanpei, Chinese linguist
- Lin Yutang, Chinese novelist and inventor
- Gustav Zeuner, German physicist and engineer
Notable faculty
- Ernst Bloch, philosopher
- Felix Bloch, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1952
- Ludwig Boltzmann, Professor of Physics[1]
- Karl Brugmann, comparative linguist
- Karl Bücher, economist
- Ernst Adolf Coccius, ophthalmologist
- Peter Debye, physicist, 1927-1936 Director of the Physics Institute, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1936
- Adolf Ebert, Romance philologist
- Gustav Fechner, psychologist
- Paul Flechsig, neurologist
- Hans Freyer, sociologist
- Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, theologian and poet
- Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert, publisher of the Annalen der Physik
- Rudolf Gottschall, critic, poet and dramatist
- Johann Christoph Gottsched, philologist
- Samuel Hahnemann, physician and lecturer at medical faculty 1812-21
- Werner Heisenberg, physicist, 1927–1942; Professor of Theoretical Physics; winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932
- Gustav Ludwig Hertz, physicist, 1954–1961; Head of the Physics Institute; winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1925, together with James Franck
- Felix Klein, mathematician
- Werner Krauss, Romanist
- Karl Lamprecht, historian
- August Leskien, linguist
- Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, inventor of the transistor
- Wilhelm Maurenbrecher, historian
- August Ferdinand Möbius, astronomer and mathematician
- Theodor Mommsen, historian, 1848-1851 Professor of Law; Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902 for The History of Rome
- Petrus Mosellanus, Greek scholar
- Wilhelm Ostwald, chemist; 1887-1906 Chair of Physical Chemistry; Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909
- Martin Petzoldt, systematic theology; president of the Neue Bachgesellschaft
- Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, botanist
- Wilhelm Roscher, economist
- Carl Victor Ryssel, theologian
- Heinrich Simroth, zoologist
- Nathan Söderblom, religious historian; Director of the Religious Studies Institute 1912-1914; Nobel Peace Prize in 1930
- Georg Steindorff, egyptologist
- Christian Thomasius, philosopher
- Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965
- Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, mathematician
- Ernst Heinrich Weber, physician
- Wilhelm Wundt, physician, psychologist
- Paul Zweifel, physician, physiologist
References
- ↑ Upon Boltzmann's resignation, Theodor des Coudres became his successor in the professorial chair at Leipzig.
