List of Humboldt University of Berlin people
Otto von Bismarck Albert Einstein Karl Marx Georg Hegel Werner Heisenberg Yeshayahu Leibowitz Max Planck Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm Angela Davis The following is a list of individuals associated with Humboldt University of Berlin through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff. As of October 2020, the university has been associated with 57 Nobel Prize winners (including former students, faculty and researchers).
Bozorg Alavi (1904–1997), novelist and writerAlexander Altmann (1906–1987), rabbi and scholar of Jewish philosophy and mysticismGerhard Anschütz (1867–1948), leading jurisprudent and "father of the constitution" of the state of Hesse Arthur Arndt (1893–1974), physician who hid with his family during the Holocaust , the largest known surviving group of people to hide in GermanyJörg Baberowski (born 1961), professor of eastern European historyMichelle Bachelet (born 1951), pediatrician and epidemiologist, president of the Republic of Chile Shepard Barclay (1847–1925), justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri [ 1] Bruno Bauer (1809–1882), theologian, Bible critic and philosopherJurek Becker (1937–1997), writer (Jacob the Liar Max Bergmann (1886–1944), biochemistAzmi Bishara (born 1956), Arab-Israeli politicianInke Siewert (1980), professor of inorganic chemistry at University of Göttingen Eliezer Berkovits (1908–1992), rabbi, philosopher and theologianWillibald Beyschlag (1823-1900), theologian, publisherAlgernon Sydney Biddle (1847-1891), American lawyer and law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), first German chancellor Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), theologian and resistance fighterBeatrix Borchard , (born 1950), musicologistLouis Borchardt , (1816/17-1883), paediatricianMax Born (1882–1970), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1954Siegfried Borris (1906–1987), composer, musicologist and music educatorAron Brand (1910–1977), pediatric cardiologistRudolf Brandt (1909–1948), Nazi SS officer, executed for war crimesGottlieb Burckhardt (1836–1907), psychiatrist, first physician to perform modern psychosurgery (1888)Stephanie Buhmann (born 1977), art critic , art historian , and curator .Michael C. Burda , macroeconomistEzriel Carlebach (1909–1956), Israeli journalist and editorial writerErnst Cassirer (1874–1945), philosopherAdelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838), natural scientist and writerRamesh Chennamaneni (born 1956), Indian politicianPaul Anton Cibis (1911-1965), ophthalmologist and recruit under Operation Paperclip Georg von Dadelsen (1918–2007), musicologist, Neue Bach-Ausgabe Angela Davis (born 1944), political activist, educator, author, philosopherGustav Adolf Deissmann (1866-1937), theologian, New Testament Greek philologist, author, Nobel nomineeSuat Derviş (1904/1905–1972), Turkish novelist, journalist, and political activistHarilal Dhruv (1856–1896), Indian lawyer, poet, indologist Hermann Alexander Diels , (1848-1922), classical scholarWilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911), philosopherGeorg Dohrn , conductorW. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), African-American activist and scholarWilliam Duane (1872-1935), physicistE. A. Dupont (1891–1956), film director , pioneer of the German film industry [ 2] Benedykt Dybowski (1833-1930), zoologist , pioneer of Limnology Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915), physician, Nobel Prize for medicine in 1908Albert Einstein (1879–1955), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1921Gotthold Eisenstein (1823–1852), mathematician, specialized in number theory and analysis Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), journalist and philosopherAnnemarie Esche , scholar of Burmese literatureLudwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804–1872), philosopherJohann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814), philosopher, rector of the university (1810–1812)Horst Fischer (1912–1966), SS concentration camp doctor executed for war crimesEmil Fischer (1852–1919), founder of modern biochemistry , Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1902Bruno Flierl (b. 1927), architect and city planner[ 3] Werner Forßmann (1904–1979), physician, Nobel Prize for medicine in 1956James Franck (1882–1964), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1925Wilhelm Frick (1877-1946), Nazi official, executed for war crimesKarl Gebhardt (1897–1948), Nazi SS physician who conducted criminal medical experiments; executed for war crimesErnst Gehrcke (1878–1960), experimental physicistJacob Grimm (1785–1863), linguist and literary criticWilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), linguist and literary criticGregor Gysi (1948–), German politician and lawyerFritz Haber (1868–1934), chemist, Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1918Otto Hahn (1879–1968), chemist, Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1944Sir William Reginald Halliday (1886–1966), principal of King's College London (1928–1952)\Adolf von Harnack (1851-1930), theologian, educator, academic administratorRoger Härtl , neurological surgeonRobert Havemann (1910–1982), chemist, co-founder of European Union , and leading GDR dissidentGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), philosopher, rector of the university (1830–1831)Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), writer and poetReinhart Heinrich (1946–2006), pioneer in systems biologyWerner Heisenberg (1901–1976), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1932Dieter Helm (1941–2022), farmer and politicianHermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894), physician and physicistGustav Hertz (1887–1975), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1925Paula Hertwig (1889–1983), biologist, politicianHeinrich Hertz (1857–1894), physicistAbraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) rabbi, philosopher, and theologianJacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852–1911), chemist, Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1901Johanna Hellman (1889–1982), surgeonWassily Hoeffding (1914–1991), statistician who introduced U-statistic and known for Hoeffding's inequality Julius Hoffory (1855-1897), phonetician, associate professorMax Huber (1874–1960), international lawyer and diplomatChristoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1762–1836), founder of macrobiotics Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), politician, linguist, and founder of the universityAlexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), natural scientistZakir Husain (1897–1969), third president of India Yitzchok Hutner American Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva (dean)Sadi Irmak (1904–1990), Prime minister of Turkey Elisabeth Jastrow (1890–1981), German-born American classical archaeologistHermann Kasack (1896–1966), writerGeorge F. Kennan (1904–2005), American diplomat, political scientist and historianGustav Kirchhoff (1824–1887), physicistPhilip Klein (1849–1926), rabbiPaul Alfred Kleinert , German writer, editor and translatorWilhelm Knabe (1923–2021), German ecologist, pacifist, civil servant and politicianRobert Koch (1843–1910), physician, Nobel Prize for medicine in 1905Komitas Vardapet (1869–1935) Armenian priest, composer, ethnomusicologist, music pedagogue, singer, choirmaster and the founder of the Armenian classical music.Albrecht Kossel (1853–1927), physician, Nobel Prize for medicine in 1910Arnold Kutzinski (died 1956), psychiatristEdmund Landau (1877–1938), mathematician Arnold von Lasaulx (1839–1886) mineralogist and petrographer Max von Laue (1879–1960), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1914Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903–1994), Israeli public intellectual and polymathNechama Leibowitz Israeli Bible scholarWassily Leontief (1905–1999), economist, Nobel Prize for economics in 1973James Lewin (1887-1937), physician and psychiatristKarl Liebknecht (1871–1919), socialist politician and revolutionaryFriedrich Loeffler (1852–1915), bacteriologist Ram Manohar Lohia (1910–1967), Indian activist and politicianKarl Adolf Lorenz (1837–1923), composerIvan Lysiak Rudnytsky (1919–1984), Ukrainian-Canadian historian, political scientist , publicistAndreas Maercker , (born 1960), clinical psychologistJudah Leon Magnes , rabbi, Chancellor/President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , 1925-1948Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), philosopherKarl Marx (1818–1883), philosopher and sociologistLippman Mayer (1841–1904), rabbiErnst Mayr (1904–2005), biologistBenjamin Mazar (1906–1995), President of Hebrew University of Jerusalem Joachim Mrugowsky (1905–1948), Nazi doctor executed for war crimesLise Meitner (1878–1968), physicist, Enrico Fermi Award in 1966Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847), composerEilhard Mitscherlich (1794–1863), German chemistTheodor Mommsen (1817–1903), historian, Nobel Prize for literature in 1902Edmund Montgomery (1835–1911), philosopher, scientist, physicianJohn von Neumann (1903–1957), mathematician and physicistAdalbert Parmet (1830–1898), priest and professorMax Planck (1858–1947), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1918Gordon Prange (1910–1980), American historianLeopold von Ranke (1795–1886), historianOtto Friedrich Ranke (1899–1959), physiologistIngeborg Rapoport (1912-2017), paediatricianSamuel Mitja Rapoport (1912–2004), biochemist, leading scientist in the German Democratic RepublicTom Rapoport (born 1947), biochemistAdolph Moses Radin (1848–1909), rabbiErich Regener (1881–1955), physicistRobert Remak (1815–1865), cell biologistLudwig Scheeffer (1859–1885), mathematicianFriedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854), philosopherFriedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768–1834), philosopherMoritz Schlick (1882-1936), philosopherBernhard Schlink (born 1944), writer, Der Vorleser (The Reader Max Schloessinger (1877–1944), scholarAnnette Schmiedchen (born 1966), Indologist and Padma Shri award winnerCarl Schmitt (1888–1985), German jurist, political theorist, and professor of lawMenachem Mendel Schneerson (1902–1994), rabbi, philosopher, theologian, engineer, educator and writerEdith Schönert-Geiß (1933-2012), numismatistArthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), philosopherErwin Schrödinger (1887–1961), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1933Peter Schubert (1938–2003), diplomat and albanologist Stepan Shahumyan (1878–1918), Armenian communist politician and head of the Baku Commune Georg Simmel (1858–1918), philosopher and sociologistJoseph B. Soloveitchik (1903–1993), rabbi, philosopher, and theologianHerman Smith-Johannsen (1875–1987), sportsman who introduced cross-country skiing to North AmericaWerner Sombart (1863–1941), philosopher, sociologist and economistHans Spemann (1869–1941), biologist, Nobel Prize for biology in 1935Margot Sponer (1898–1945), philologist and resistance fighterHermann Stieve (1886–1952), anatomist who did research on bodies of Nazi execution victimsMax Stirner (1806–1856), philosopherYemima Tchernovitz-Avidar (1909–98), Israeli authorGustav Tornier (1859–1938), paleontologist and zoologistKurt Tucholsky (1890–1935), writer and journalistLuis Villar Borda (1929–2008), Colombian politician and diplomatRudolf Virchow (1821–1902), physician and politicianFilip Neriusz Walter (1810–1847), Polish organic chemistMax Weber (1864–1920), sociologist, philosopher, and political economistAlfred Wegener (1880–1930), scientist, geologist, and meteorologist, early theorist of continental drift Karl Weierstraß (1815–1897), mathematicianMax Westenhöfer (1871–1957), pathologist, proposed the Aquatic ape hypothesis , reformer of field of pathology in Chile Stephan Westmann (1893–1964), Professor of Obstetrics and GynaecologyWilhelm Heinrich Westphal (1882–1978), physicistWilhelm Wien (1864–1928), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1911Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848–1931), philologistErnest Julius Wilczynski (1876–1932), mathematicianRichard Willstätter (1872–1942), chemist, Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1915Shlomo Wolbe Orthodox Rabbi and author of the Alei Shur Leonidas Zervas (1902–1980), Greek organic chemist
Nobel Prize laureates
There are 57 Nobel Prize winners affiliated with the Humboldt University:
Werner Forssmann Albert Abraham Michelson Otto Hahn Theodor Mommsen Emmanuelle Charpentier
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