List of University of Freiburg people
Encyclopedia
This is a list of notable alumni and academics of the University of Freiburg
. 18 Nobel laureates are associated with the university and 13 researchers have been honored with the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
since it was first awarded in 1986.
University of Freiburg
The University of Freiburg , sometimes referred to in English as the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.The university was founded in 1457 by the Habsburg dynasty as the...
. 18 Nobel laureates are associated with the university and 13 researchers have been honored with the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is a research prize awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft every year since 1985 to scientists working in Germany. This highest German research prize consists of a research grant of 2.5 million euro, to be used within seven years...
since it was first awarded in 1986.
Humanities, social sciences, arts
- Günther AndersGünther AndersGünther Anders was a Jewish philosopher and journalist who developed a philosophical anthropology for the age of technology, focusing on such themes as the effects of mass media on our emotional and ethical existence, the nuclear threat, the Shoah and the question of being a philosopher.- Biography...
- Hannah ArendtHannah ArendtHannah Arendt was a German American political theorist. She has often been described as a philosopher, although she refused that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular." She described herself instead as a political theorist because her work centers on the fact...
- Hildegard BehrensHildegard BehrensHildegard Behrens was a German soprano with a wide repertory including Wagner, Weber, Mozart, Richard Strauss, and Alban Berg roles.-Biography:...
- Walter BenjaminWalter BenjaminWalter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German-Jewish intellectual, who functioned variously as a literary critic, philosopher, sociologist, translator, radio broadcaster and essayist...
- Götz BriefsGötz BriefsGötz Briefs was a Catholic social theorist, social ethicist, social philosopher and political economist, who together with Jesuit Gundlach, influenced the social teachings of Pope Pius XI.-Biography:...
- Rudolf CarnapRudolf CarnapRudolf Carnap was an influential German-born philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter. He was a major member of the Vienna Circle and an advocate of logical positivism....
- Davor DzaltoDavor DžaltoDavor Džalto is an artist and art historian born in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina on May 17, 1980.He graduated from the High School of Art in Niš. His academic career started in Belgrade where he received an M.A. degree from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy in History of Art...
- Alfred DöblinAlfred DöblinAlfred Döblin was a German expressionist novelist, best known for the novel Berlin Alexanderplatz .- 1878–1918:...
- Erasmus of Rotterdam
- Eugen FinkEugen FinkEugen Fink was a German philosopher.-Biography:Fink was born in 1905 as the son of a government official in Germany. He spent his first school years with an uncle who was a catholic priest. Fink attended a gymnasium in Konstanz where he succeeded with his extraordinary memory...
- Hans F. K. Günther
- Albert Bushnell HartAlbert Bushnell HartAlbert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. , was an American historian, writer, and teacher. One of the first generation of professionally trained historians in the United States, a prolific author and editor of historical works, Albert Bushnell Hart became, as Samuel Eliot Morison described him, "The Grand Old...
- Hermann Eduard von HolstHermann Eduard von HolstHermann Eduard von Holst was a German-American historian.-Biography:Holst was a Baltic German born at Fellin in Russian Livonia. He was the seventh of ten children of a Lutheran minister...
- Martin HeideggerMartin HeideggerMartin Heidegger was a German philosopher known for his existential and phenomenological explorations of the "question of Being."...
- Andreas HillgruberAndreas HillgruberAndreas Fritz Hillgruber was a conservative German historian. Hillgruber was influential as a military and diplomatic historian.At his death in 1989, the American historian Francis L...
- Edmund HusserlEdmund HusserlEdmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl was a philosopher and mathematician and the founder of the 20th century philosophical school of phenomenology. He broke with the positivist orientation of the science and philosophy of his day, yet he elaborated critiques of historicism and of psychologism in logic...
- Karl JaspersKarl JaspersKarl Theodor Jaspers was a German psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry and philosophy. After being trained in and practicing psychiatry, Jaspers turned to philosophical inquiry and attempted to discover an innovative philosophical system...
- Eberhard JäckelEberhard JäckelEberhard Jäckel is a Social Democratic German historian, noted for his studies of Adolf Hitler's role in German history. Jäckel sees Hitler as being the historical equivalent to the Chernobyl disaster.-Career:...
- Hans JonasHans JonasHans Jonas was a German-born philosopher who was, from 1955 to 1976, Alvin Johnson Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City.Jonas's writings were very influential in different spheres...
- Paul KirchhoffPaul KirchhoffPaul Kirchhoff was a German-Mexican anthropologist, most noted for his seminal work in defining and elaborating the culture area of Mesoamerica, a term he coined....
- Emmanuel LévinasEmmanuel LévinasEmmanuel Levinas was a Lithuanian-born French Jewish philosopher and Talmudic commentator.-Life:Emanuelis Levinas received a traditional Jewish education in Lithuania...
- Karl LöwithKarl LöwithKarl Löwith , was a German philosopher, a student of Heidegger.Löwith was born in Munich. Though he was himself Protestant, his family was of Jewish descent and he therefore had to emigrate Germany in 1934 because of the National Socialist regime. He went to Italy and in 1936 he went to Japan...
- Niklas LuhmannNiklas LuhmannNiklas Luhmann was a German sociologist, and a prominent thinker in sociological systems theory.-Biography:...
- Claudio MagrisClaudio MagrisClaudio Magris is an Italian scholar, translator and writer.Magris graduated from the University of Turin, where he studied German studies, and has been a professor of modern German literature at the University of Trieste since 1978.He is an essayist and columnist for the Italian newspaper...
- Karl MannheimKarl MannheimKarl Mannheim , or Károly Mannheim in the original writing of his name, was a Jewish Hungarian-born sociologist, influential in the first half of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers of classical sociology and a founder of the sociology of knowledge.-Life:Mannheim studied in Budapest,...
- Herbert MarcuseHerbert MarcuseHerbert Marcuse was a German Jewish philosopher, sociologist and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory...
- Werner Marx
- Friedrich MeineckeFriedrich MeineckeFriedrich Meinecke was a liberal German historian, probably the most famous German historian of his generation. As a representative of an older tradition still writing after World War II, he was an important figure to the end of his life.-Life:Meinecke was born in Salzwedel in the Province of Saxony...
- Wilfred Harold MunroWilfred Harold MunroWilfred Harold Munro was an American historian, brother of Dana C. Munro. He was born at Bristol, R. I., and educated at Brown . He studied in Europe at Heidelberg and Freiburg. He served at various schools in the United States and in Central and South America, and at Brown . Professor Munro...
- Henry PachterHenry PachterHenry Maximillian Pachter , born Heinz Pächter, was a German-American twentieth century scholar of socialism and political history, employed as a professor of history at the New School for Social Research, City College of the City University of New York, and at Rutgers University.Pachter was the...
- Hermann PaulHermann PaulHermann Otto Theodor Paul was a German linguist and lexicographer. He was professor for German language and literature in Freiburg in the Breisgau as well as Munich, and he was a prominent Neogrammarian....
- Heinrich RickertHeinrich RickertHeinrich John Rickert was a German philosopher, one of the leading Neo-Kantians.-Life:He was born in Danzig, Prussia and died in Heidelberg, Germany.-Thought:...
- Gerhard RitterGerhard RitterGerhard Georg Bernhard Ritter was a conservative German historian.-Before the Third Reich:...
- James Harvey RobinsonJames Harvey RobinsonJames Harvey Robinson was an American historian.Robinson was born Bloomington, Illinois. He taught history at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University , becoming a full professor in 1895...
- Franz RosenzweigFranz RosenzweigFranz Rosenzweig was an influential Jewish theologian and philosopher.-Early life:Franz Rosenzweig was born in Kassel, Germany to a middle-class, minimally observant Jewish family...
- Kuki ShūzōKuki Shuzowas a prominent Japanese academic, philosopher and university professor.-Early life:Shūzō was the fourth child of Baron Kuki Ryūichi a high bureaucrat in the Meiji Ministry for Culture and Education...
- Villy SørensenVilly SørensenVilly Sørensen was a Danish short-story writer, philosopher and literary critic of the Modernist tradition. His fiction was heavily influenced by his philosophical ideas, and he has been compared to Franz Kafka in this regard...
- Humphrey SpenderHumphrey SpenderHumphrey Spender was an English photographer, painter, architect and designer.-Family:Humphrey Spender was the third son of Harold Spender, a Liberal journalist and writer who founded the Boys' Club movement with Arnold Toynbee. Humphrey's mother, Violet Schuster, came from a German family who had...
- Edith SteinEdith SteinSaint Teresia Benedicta of the Cross, sometimes also known as Saint Edith Stein , was a German Roman Catholic philosopher and nun, regarded as a martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic Church...
- Leo StraussLeo StraussLeo Strauss was a political philosopher and classicist who specialized in classical political philosophy. He was born in Germany to Jewish parents and later emigrated to the United States...
- Gerd TellenbachGerd TellenbachGerd Tellenbach was a German historian and scholar of medieval social and religious history, particularly of the Papacy and German church during the Investiture Controversy and reform movements of the eleventh and twelfth centuries...
- James Hayden TuftsJames Hayden TuftsJames Hayden Tufts , an influential American philosopher, was a professor of the then newly founded Chicago University. Tufts was also a member of the Board of Arbitration, and the chairman of a committee of the social agencies of Chicago. The work Ethics in 1908 was a collaboration of Tufts and...
- George VernadskyGeorge VernadskyGeorge Vernadsky , Russian: Гео́ргий Влади́мирович Верна́дский) was a Russian-American historian and an author of numerous books on Russian history.- European years :...
- Martin WaldseemüllerMartin WaldseemüllerMartin Waldseemüller was a German cartographer...
- Charles William WallaceCharles William WallaceCharles William Wallace was an American scholar and researcher, famed for his discoveries in the field of English Renaissance theatre.Wallace was born in Hopkins, Missouri to Thomas Dickay Wallace and Olive McEwen...
- Max WeberMax WeberKarl Emil Maximilian "Max" Weber was a German sociologist and political economist who profoundly influenced social theory, social research, and the discipline of sociology itself...
- Wim WendersWim WendersErnst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...
- Heinrich Joseph WetzerHeinrich Joseph WetzerHeinrich Joseph Wetzer was a German Orientalist...
- H.C. WolfartH.C. WolfartH. Christoph Wolfart is a German-born Canadian researcher, editor, translator and Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manitoba. He is a graduate of the University of Freiburg as well as Cornell University. He completed a Ph.D...
Politics and law
- Konrad AdenauerKonrad AdenauerKonrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer was a German statesman. He was the chancellor of the West Germany from 1949 to 1963. He is widely recognised as a person who led his country from the ruins of World War II to a powerful and prosperous nation that had forged close relations with old enemies France,...
- Richard V. AllenRichard V. AllenRichard Vincent Allen was the United States National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1982.Allen was born in 1936 in Collingswood, New Jersey. A graduate of Saint Francis Preparatory School in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania, Allen received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the...
- M. Cherif Bassiouni
- Hildegard BehrensHildegard BehrensHildegard Behrens was a German soprano with a wide repertory including Wagner, Weber, Mozart, Richard Strauss, and Alban Berg roles.-Biography:...
- Karl BindingKarl BindingKarl Ludwig Lorenz Binding was a German jurist known as a promoter of the theory of retributive justice. His influential book, Die Freigabe der Vernichtung Lebensunwertem Lebens , written together with the psychiatrist Alfred Hoche, was used by the Nazis to justify their T-4 Euthanasia Program.-...
- Alfred BiolekAlfred BiolekAlfred Biolek is a well-known German entertainer and television producer...
- Ben BradshawBen BradshawBenjamin Peter James Bradshaw is a British Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Exeter since 1997, and served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport....
- Jürgen ChrobogJürgen ChrobogJürgen Chrobog is a German jurist, diplomat, and German Ambassador to the United States from 1995 to 2001.-Life:...
- Archibald Cary CoolidgeArchibald Cary CoolidgeArchibald Cary Coolidge was an American educator. He was a Professor of History at Harvard College from 1908 and the first Director of the Harvard University Library from 1910 until his death...
- Horst EhmkeHorst EhmkeHorst Paul August Ehmke is a German lawyer, law professor and politician of the Social Democratic Party . He served as Federal Minister of Justice , Chief of Staff at the German Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Affairs and Federal Minister for Research, Technology, and Post...
- Konstantin FehrenbachKonstantin FehrenbachConstantin Fehrenbach was a German Catholic politician who was one of the major leaders of the Centre Party. He served as President of the Reichstag in 1918, and then as President of the Weimar National Assembly from 1919 to 1920...
- Hans FilbingerHans FilbingerHans Karl Filbinger was a conservative German politician and a leading member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union in the 1960s and 1970s, serving as the first chairman of the CDU Baden-Württemberg and vice chairman of the federal CDU...
- Joseph GoebbelsJoseph GoebbelsPaul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. As one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers, he was known for his zealous oratory and anti-Semitism...
- John GormleyJohn GormleyJohn Gormley is an Irish politician. He was the leader of the Irish Green Party from 2007 to 2011, and was a Teachta Dála for the Dublin South East constituency from 1997 to 2011. He served as Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government from 2007–11...
- Jürgen-Peter GrafJürgen-Peter GrafDr. Jürgen-Peter Graf is a German lawyer. He became judge of the German Federal Court of Justice on February 5, 2003....
- Volker KauderVolker KauderVolker Kauder is a German CDU politician. Since 21 November 2005 he has been Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag after a short term as Secretary General of the CDU. He has been a member of parliament since 1990.-External links:...
- Julius LeberJulius LeberJulius Leber was a German politician of the SPD and a member of the German Resistance against the Nazi régime.-Early life:...
- Otto LenelOtto LenelOtto Lenel was a German Jewish jurist and legal historian. His most important achievements are in the field of Roman law.-Life and career:...
- Jutta LimbachJutta LimbachJutta Limbach is a German jurist and politician. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany . She received her doctorate in law in 1966 by the Free University of Berlin and fulfilled the requirements to be appointed professor by the German educational system in 1971...
- Thomas de MaizièreThomas de MaizièreKarl Ernst Thomas de Maizière is a German politician , currently serving as the Minister of Defence in the Second Cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel....
- Charles Malik
- Cameron MunterCameron MunterCameron Phelps Munter is a United States diplomat and career foreign service officer. He is the Ambassador to Pakistan. Earlier, he was an advisor for political and military issues to Christopher R...
- Karl von RotteckKarl von RotteckKarl von Rotteck was a German historian, and a prominent advocate of freedom of the press.-Biography:...
- Panagiotis PipinelisPanagiotis PipinelisPanagiotis Pipinelis was a Greek politician and diplomat.He was born on March 21, 1899 in the port city of Piraeus. He studied Law and Political science at the University of Zurich and in 1920 at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg in Germany....
- Klaus SchariothKlaus SchariothDr. Klaus Scharioth is a German diplomat. From 2006 to 2011 he served as Germany's ambassador to the United States.Scharioth was born in Essen, located in the Ruhr Area in western Germany. He studied law in Bonn, Freiburg and Geneva and political science, sociology and psychology at The College of...
- Wolfgang SchäubleWolfgang SchäubleWolfgang Schäuble is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union , currently serving as the Federal Minister of Finance in the Second Cabinet Merkel....
- Peter SchlechtriemPeter SchlechtriemPeter Schlechtriem was a German jurisprudential scholar.-Biography:Peter H. Schlechtriem was born March 2, 1933 in Jena and studied law at the University of Hamburg and the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg...
- Bernhard SchlinkBernhard SchlinkBernhard Schlink is a German jurist and writer. He was born in Bethel, Germany, to a German father and a Swiss mother, the youngest of four children. Both his parents were theology students, although his father lost his job as a Professor of Theology due to the Nazis, and had to settle on being a...
- Elsbeth SchragmüllerElsbeth SchragmüllerElsbeth Schragmüller was a German spy during World War I...
- Gesine SchwanGesine SchwanGesine Schwan is a German political science professor and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. The party has nominated her twice as a candidate for the federal presidential elections. On 23 May 2004, she was defeated by the Christian Democrat and former president Horst Köhler...
- Zalman ShazarZalman ShazarZalman Shazar was an Israeli politician, author. and poet. Shazar served as the third President of Israel from 1963 to 1973.-Biography:...
- Andreas VoßkuhleAndreas VoßkuhleAndreas Voßkuhle is a German legal scholar and the president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.-Life:...
- Joseph WirthJoseph WirthKarl Joseph Wirth, known as Joseph Wirth, was a German politician of the Catholic Centre Party who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1921 to 1922.-Biography:...
- Ulrich Zasius
Economics
- Franz BöhmFranz BöhmFranz Böhm was a German politician, lawyer, and economist.-Early Life:Franz Böhm was born on 16 February 1895 in Konstanz...
- Walter EuckenWalter EuckenWalter Eucken was a German economist and father of ordoliberalism. His name is closely linked with the development of the "social market economy".-Life:...
- Friedrich August von Hayek, professor (Nobel Prize 1974, Economics)
- Adolph WagnerAdolph WagnerAdolph Wagner was a German economist and politician, a leading Kathedersozialist and public finance scholar and advocate of Agrarianism...
Theology
- Daniel Ciobotea
- Johann EckJohann EckDr. Johann Maier von Eck was a German Scholastic theologian and defender of Catholicism during the Protestant Reformation. It was Eck who argued that the beliefs of Martin Luther and Jan Hus were similar.-Life:...
- Josef Frings
- Georg GänsweinGeorg GänsweinGeorg Gänswein is a German Priest of the Roman Catholic Church, and the personal secretary of Pope Benedict XVI...
- Romano GuardiniRomano GuardiniRomano Guardini was a Catholic priest, author, and academic. He was one of the most important figures in Catholic intellectual life in 20th-century.- Life and work:...
- Balthasar HubmaierBalthasar HubmaierBalthasar Hubmaier was an influential German/Moravian Anabaptist leader. He was one of the most well-known and respected Anabaptist theologians of the Reformation.- Early life and education:...
- Karl Lehmann
- Karl RahnerKarl RahnerKarl Rahner, SJ was a German Jesuit and theologian who, alongside Bernard Lonergan and Hans Urs von Balthasar, is considered one of the most influential Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century...
- Gregor ReischGregor ReischGregor Reisch was a German Carthusian humanist writer. He is best known for his compilation Margarita philosophica.-Life:...
- Franz Anton StaudenmaierFranz Anton StaudenmaierFranz Anton Staudenmaier was a Catholic theologian.Born at Donzdorf, Württemberg, he was a pupil at the Latin school of Gmünd between 1815 and 1818 and at the Gymnasium at Ellwangen from 1818 to 1822...
- Robert ZollitschRobert ZollitschRobert Zollitsch is a German prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau and Chairman of the German Episcopal Conference.-Life and work:...
Medicine and sciences
- Ludwig AschoffLudwig AschoffKarl Albert Ludwig Aschoff was a German physician and pathologist. He is considered to be one of the most influential pathologists of the early 20th century and is regarded as the most important German pathologist after Rudolf Virchow.Aschoff was born in Berlin, Prussia...
- Robert BárányRobert BárányRobert Bárány was a Austro-Hungarian otologist. For his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus of the ear he received the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.- Biography :...
, student (Nobel Prize 1914, Physiology or Medicine) - Erwin BaurErwin BaurErwin Baur was a German geneticist and botanist. Baur worked primarily on plant genetics. He was director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Research . Baur is considered to be the father of plant virology...
- Theodor BilharzTheodor BilharzTheodor Maximilian Bilharz was a German physician and an important pioneer in the field of parasitology.-Education:...
- Korbinian BrodmannKorbinian BrodmannKorbinian Brodmann was a German neurologist who became famous for his definition of the cerebral cortex into 52 distinct regions from their cytoarchitectonic characteristics.-Life:...
- Vincenz CzernyVincenz CzernyVincenz Czerny was an Austrian-German surgeon whose main contributions were in the fields of oncological and gynecological surgery.Czerny was born in Trutnov, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire...
- Heinrich Anton de Bary
- Paul du Bois-Reymond
- Alexander EckerAlexander EckerJohann Alexander Ecker was a German anthropologist and anatomist who was born in Freiburg im Breisgau. He studied medicine in Freiburg, where in 1840 became a prosector...
- Herman EhrenbergHerman EhrenbergHerman Ehrenberg is the namesake of Ehrenberg, Arizona. A native of Germany, Ehrenberg joined the military volunteer unit the New Orleans Greys and fought against Mexico in the Texas Revolution. He was one of few survivors of the Goliad Massacre...
- Paul EhrlichPaul EhrlichPaul Ehrlich was a German scientist in the fields of hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy, and Nobel laureate. He is noted for curing syphilis and for his research in autoimmunity, calling it "horror autotoxicus"...
, student (Nobel Prize 1908, Physiology or Medicine) - Hermann EmminghausHermann EmminghausHermann Emminghaus was a German psychiatrist who was a native of Weimar. He was a pioneer of child and adolescent psychology, and a founder of developmental psychopathology....
- Sidney FarberSidney FarberSidney Farber was a pediatric pathologist. He was born in 1903 in Buffalo, New York, the third oldest of a family of 14 children. He was a graduate of the University of Buffalo in 1923. He took his first year of medical school at the Universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg in Germany. He entered...
- Eugen FischerEugen FischerEugen Fischer was a German professor of medicine, anthropology and eugenics. He was director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics between 1927 and 1942...
- Otfrid FoersterOtfrid FoersterOtfrid Foerster was a German neurologist and neurosurgeon, who made innovative contributions to neurology and neurosurgery, such as rhizotomy for the treatment of spasticity, anterolateral cordotomy for pain, the hyperventilation test for epilepsy, Foerster's syndrome, the first electrocorticogram...
- Salome Gluecksohn-WaelschSalome Gluecksohn-WaelschSalome Gluecksohn-Waelsch was a German-born U.S. geneticist and co-founder of developmental genetics.- Life and scientific career :...
- Felix HausdorffFelix HausdorffFelix Hausdorff was a Jewish German mathematician who is considered to be one of the founders of modern topology and who contributed significantly to set theory, descriptive set theory, measure theory, function theory, and functional analysis.-Life:Hausdorff studied at the University of Leipzig,...
- Harald zur HausenHarald zur HausenHarald zur Hausen is a German virologist and professor emeritus. He has done research on cancer of the cervix, where he discovered the role of papilloma viruses, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008.-Biography:Zur Hausen was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, went to...
, professor (Nobel Prize 2008, Physiology or Medicine) - Alfred Hegar
- Philip Hench, student (Nobel Prize 1950, Physiology or Medicine)
- Karl HerxheimerKarl HerxheimerKarl Herxheimer was a German-Jewish dermatologist who was a native of Wiesbaden.In 1885 he received his doctorate at Würzburg, and later worked with his brother, Salomon Herxheimer in Frankfurt-am-Main...
- George de HevesyGeorge de HevesyGeorge Charles de Hevesy, Georg Karl von Hevesy, was a Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel laureate, recognized in 1943 for his key role in the development of radioactive tracers to study chemical processes such as in the metabolism of animals.- Early years :Hevesy György was born in Budapest,...
, student and professor (Nobel Prize 1943, Chemistry) - Alfred HocheAlfred HocheAlfred Erich Hoche was a German psychiatrist well-known for his writings about eugenics and euthanasia.-Life:Hoche studied in Berlin and Heidelberg and became a psychiatrist in 1890. He moved to Strasbourg in 1891. From 1902 he was a professor at Freiburg im Breisgau and was a director of the...
- Karen HorneyKaren HorneyKaren Horney born Danielsen was a German-American psychoanalyst. Her theories questioned some traditional Freudian views, particularly his theory of sexuality, as well as the instinct orientation of psychoanalysis and its genetic psychology...
- J. Hans D. JensenJ. Hans D. JensenJohannes Hans Daniel Jensen was a German nuclear physicist. During World War II, he worked on the German nuclear energy project, known as the Uranium Club, in which he made contributions to the separation of uranium isotopes. After the war Jensen was a professor at the University of Heidelberg...
, student (Nobel Prize 1963, Physics) - Gustav KillianGustav KillianGustav Killian was a German laryngologist, born in Mainz, and educated at the University of Freiburg-im-Breisgau. He made revolutionary advances in the diagnosis and treatment of affections of the infralaryngeal passages, especially in the diagnosis and removal of foreign bodies in the bronchial...
- Martin KirschnerMartin KirschnerMartin Kirschner was a German surgeon, born 28 October 1879 in Breslau, died on 30 August 1942 in Heidelberg.Kirschner was the son of Margarethe Kalbeck, sister of Max Kalbeck, and Judge Martin Kirschner , who later served as city councillor of Breslau since 1873 and a member of the city...
- Georges J. F. KöhlerGeorges J. F. Köhler-External links:* http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1984/...
, student and professor (Nobel Prize 1984, Physiology or Medicine) - Otto Krayer
- Hans Adolf KrebsHans Adolf KrebsSir Hans Adolf Krebs was a German-born British physician and biochemist. Krebs is best known for his identification of two important metabolic cycles: the urea cycle and the citric acid cycle...
, student and scientist (Nobel Prize 1953, Physiology or Medicine) - Adolph KussmaulAdolph KussmaulAdolph Kussmaul was a German physician and a leading clinician of his time. He was born as the son and grandson of physicians at Graben near Karlsruhe and studied at Heidelberg. He entered the army after graduation and spent two years as an army surgeon...
- Cornelius LanczosCornelius LanczosCornelius Lanczos Löwy Kornél was a Hungarian-Jewish mathematician and physicist, who was born on February 2, 1893, and died on June 25, 1974....
- Paul LangerhansPaul LangerhansPaul Langerhans was a German pathologist, physiologist and biologist.-Eponymous terms:* Islets of Langerhans - Pancreatic cells which produce insulin...
- Friedrich Wilhelm LeviFriedrich Wilhelm LeviFriedrich Wilhelm Daniel Levi was a German mathematician known for his work in abstract algebra. He also worked in geometry, topology, set theory, and analysis...
- Kurt LewinKurt LewinKurt Zadek Lewin was a German-American psychologist, known as one of the modern pioneers of social, organizational, and applied psychology....
- Erich LexerErich LexerErich Lexer was a German surgeon who was born in Freiburg im Breisgau. He studied medicine at the University of Würzburg, and later was a professor of surgery at Albertina University in Königsberg , Friedrich Schiller University of Jena , Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the university...
- Ferdinand von LindemannFerdinand von LindemannCarl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann was a German mathematician, noted for his proof, published in 1882, that π is a transcendental number, i.e., it is not a root of any polynomial with rational coefficients....
- Hubert von LuschkaHubert von LuschkaHubert von Luschka, born Hubert Luschka , was a German anatomist. He lent his name to several structures, including the foramina of Luschka, Luschka's crypts, Luschka's law, Luschka's joints, and Ducts of Luschka....
- Rudolf Robert MaierRudolf Robert MaierRudolf Robert Maier was a German pathologist who was a native of Freiburg im Breisgau.He studied medicine at the University of Freiburg, where one of his instructors was orthopedist Louis Georg Friedrich Stromeyer...
- Frank Burr MalloryFrank Burr MalloryFrank Burr Mallory was an American pathologist at the Boston City Hospital and Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, after whom the Mallory body is named....
- Ernst Messerschmid
- Otto Meyerhof, student (Nobel Prize 1922, Physiology or Medicine)
- Gustav MieGustav MieGustav Adolf Feodor Wilhelm Ludwig Mie was a German physicist.-Biography:Mie was born in Rostock. From 1886 he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Rostock. In addition to his major subjects, he also attended lectures in chemistry, zoology, geology, mineralogy, astronomy as well as...
- Woldemar MobitzWoldemar MobitzWoldemar Mobitz was a Russian-German physician. The forms of second degree AV block are named after him for him.Mobitz was born on May 31, 1889 in St. Petersburg, Russia. He attended the local high school in Meiningen from which he graduated in 1908...
- Mario Molina, student (Nobel Prize 1995, Chemistry)
- Paul MorawitzPaul MorawitzPaul Oskar Morawitz was a German internist and physiologist whose most important work was in studying the coagulation of blood....
- Hugo MünsterbergHugo MünsterbergHugo Münsterberg was a German-American psychologist. He was one of the pioneers in applied psychology, extending his research and theories to Industrial/Organizational , legal, medical, clinical, educational and business settings. Münsterberg encountered immense turmoil with the outbreak of the...
- Karl Wilhelm von NägeliKarl Wilhelm von NägeliKarl Wilhelm von Nägeli was a Swiss botanist. He studied cell division and pollination, but became known as the man who discouraged Gregor Mendel from further work on genetics.-Birth and education:...
- Max NonneMax NonneMax Nonne was a German neurologist.Max Nonne was educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums. He studied in Heidelberg, Freiburg, and Berlin, receiving his doctorate at Hamburg University in 1884...
- Wilhelm NormannWilhelm NormannWilhelm Normann was a German chemist who introduced the hydrogenation of fats in 1901, creating what later became known as trans fats...
- Christiane Nüsslein-VolhardChristiane Nüsslein-VolhardChristiane Nüsslein-Volhard is a German biologist who won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995, together with Eric Wieschaus and Edward B...
, scientist (Nobel Prize 1995, Physiology or Medicine) - Lorenz OkenLorenz OkenLorenz Oken was a German naturalist.Oken was born Lorenz Okenfuss in Bohlsbach in Baden and studied natural history and medicine at the universities of Freiburg and Würzburg. He went on to the University of Göttingen, where he became a Privatdozent , and shortened his name to Oken...
- Georgios PapanikolaouGeorgios PapanikolaouGeorgios Nicholas Papanikolaou was a Greek pioneer in cytology and early cancer detection, and inventor of the "Pap smear".-Life:...
- John ParkinsonJohn Parkinson (physician)Sir John Parkinson was an English cardiologist remembered for describing Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.- Biography :...
- Georg PerthesGeorg PerthesGeorg Clemens Perthes was a German surgeon and X-ray diagnostic pioneer who was born in Moers, Germany.-Biography:...
- Julius von SachsJulius von SachsJulius von Sachs was a German botanist from Breslau, Prussian Silesia.At an early age he showed a taste for natural history, becoming acquainted with the Breslau physiologist Jan Evangelista Purkyně. In 1851 he began studying at Charles University in Prague...
- Bert SakmannBert Sakmann-External links:*...
, student (Nobel Prize 1991, Physiology or Medicine) - Christoph ScheinerChristoph ScheinerChristoph Scheiner SJ was a Jesuit priest, physicist and astronomer in Ingolstadt....
- Otto SchirmerOtto SchirmerOtto Schirmer was a German ophthalmologist from Greifswald. He studied medicine at several universities including the University of Greifswald. In 1896 he attained the chair of ophthalmology at Greifswald, a position earlier held by this father, Rudolf Schirmer...
- Rudolph SchoenheimerRudolph Schoenheimer-Bibliography:*[Anon.] "Schoenheimer, Rudolf", Encyclopaedia Britannica, Deluxe CDROM edition...
- Hans SpemannHans SpemannHans Spemann was a German embryologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935 for his discovery of the effect now known as embryonic induction, an influence, exercised by various parts of the embryo, that directs the development of groups of cells into particular tissues...
, professor (Nobel Prize 1935, Physiology or Medicine) - Otto SpiegelbergOtto SpiegelbergOtto Spiegelberg was a German gynecologist who was a native of Peine.He studied medicine at the University of Göttingen, and afterwards furthered his studies in Berlin, Prague and throughout the United Kingdom. In 1851 he earned his medical doctorate, and was habilitated at Göttingen in 1853...
- Hermann StaudingerHermann Staudinger- External links :* Staudinger's * Staudinger's Nobel Lecture *....
, professor (Nobel Prize 1953, Chemistry) - Mikhail Stepanovich VoroninMikhail Stepanovich VoroninMikhail Stepanovich Voronin was a prominent Russian biologist , with particular expertise in fungi....
- Louis StromeyerLouis StromeyerGeorg Friedrich Louis Stromeyer was a German surgeon who was born in Hanover. He was the son of surgeon Christian Friedrich Stromeyer .-Biography:...
- Wilhelm TrendelenburgWilhelm TrendelenburgErnst Wilhelm Theodor Trendelenburg was a German physiologist.- References :...
- Paul UhlenhuthPaul UhlenhuthPaul Theodor Uhlenhuth was a German bacteriologist and hygienist and an assistant professor at the Institute of Hygiene at the University of Greifswald...
- Herbert E. WalterHerbert E. WalterHerbert Eugene Walter, , was a prominent biologist, author, Professor at Brown University and researcher.Herbert Walter was born in Burke, Vermont in 1867. He attended the Lyndon Institute, and then graduated from Bates College in Maine in 1892. He next received a M.A. from Brown University in...
- Otto Heinrich WarburgOtto Heinrich WarburgOtto Heinrich Warburg , son of physicist Emil Warburg, was a German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate. He served as an officer in the elite Uhlan during the First World War and won the Iron Cross for bravery. Warburg was one of the twentieth century's leading biochemists...
, student (Nobel Prize 1931, Physiology or Medicine)". - August WeismannAugust WeismannFriedrich Leopold August Weismann was a German evolutionary biologist. Ernst Mayr ranked him the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin...
- Chaim WeizmannChaim WeizmannChaim Azriel Weizmann, , was a Zionist leader, President of the Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel. He was elected on 1 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952....
, chemist and Israel's first President - Robert WiedersheimRobert WiedersheimRobert Wiedersheim was a German anatomist who is famous for publishing a list of 86 “vestigial organs” in his book 'The Structure of Man: An Index to His Past History'....
, professor of Anatomy between 1887 and 1918. - Heinrich Otto WielandHeinrich Otto WielandHeinrich Otto Wieland was a German chemist. He won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the bile acids. In 1901 Wieland received his doctorate at the University of Munich while studying under Johannes Thiele...
, professor (Nobel Prize 1927, Chemistry) - Adolf Windaus, student and scientist (Nobel Prize 1928, Chemistry)
- Georg WittigGeorg WittigGeorg Wittig was a German chemist who reported a method for synthesis of alkenes from aldehydes and ketones using compounds called phosphonium ylides in the Wittig reaction. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Herbert C...
, professor (Nobel Prize 1979, Chemistry) - Ernst ZermeloErnst ZermeloErnst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo was a German mathematician, whose work has major implications for the foundations of mathematics and hence on philosophy. He is known for his role in developing Zermelo–Fraenkel axiomatic set theory and his proof of the well-ordering theorem.-Life:He graduated...