15 Notable alumni of
European University Viadrina
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European University Viadrina is 2149th in the world, 710th in Europe, and 77th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 15 notable alumni from European University Viadrina sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Johann Tetzel
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- preachertheologianCatholic priestreligious
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Johann Tetzel OP was a German Dominican friar and preacher. He was appointed Inquisitor for Poland and Saxony, later becoming the Grand Commissioner for indulgences in Germany. Tetzel was known for granting indulgences on behalf of the Catholic Church in exchange for tithes to the Church. Indulgences grant a degree of expiation of the punishments of purgatory due to sin. However, the misuse of indulgences within the Church largely contributed to Martin Luther writing his Ninety-five Theses. The main usage of the indulgences by Tetzel was to help fund and build the new St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
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George William, Elector of Brandenburg
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- aristocrat
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George William, of the Hohenzollern dynasty, was Margrave and Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia from 1619 until his death. His reign was marked by ineffective governance during the Thirty Years' War. He was the father of Frederick William, the "Great Elector".
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Albert of Mainz
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Albert of Brandenburg was a German cardinal, elector, Archbishop of Mainz from 1514 to 1545, and Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1513 to 1545.
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Martin Chemnitz
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- university teacherastrologertheologianwriterlibrarian
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Martin Chemnitz was an eminent second-generation German, Evangelical Lutheran, Christian theologian, and a Protestant reformer, churchman, and confessor. In the Evangelical Lutheran tradition he is known as Alter Martinus, the "Second Martin": Si Martinus non fuisset, Martinus vix stetisset ("If Martin had not come along, Martin would hardly have survived") goes a common saying concerning him. He is listed and remembered in the Calendar of Saints and Commemorations in the Liturgical Church Year as a pastor and confessor by both the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod.
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Atanazy Raczyński
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- art historianpoliticianart collectordiplomat
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Count Atanazy Raczyński was a Polish count (hrabia) and diplomat in Prussian service. He was a noted art critic and built a notable collection of paintings during his long stays in major European metropolises.
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Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe
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- historiancultural historian
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Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe is a German–Polish historian based in Berlin, associated with the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin. He specializes in the history of the Holocaust and East-Central Europe, fascism, nationalism, the history of antisemitism, the history of the Soviet Union, and the politics of memory.
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Johann Anton Güldenstädt
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- botanistornithologistgeographerbiologistexplorer
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Johann Anton Güldenstädt was a Baltic German naturalist and explorer in Russian service.
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Krystian Kamiński
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- businesspersonpolitician
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Krystian Kamiński is a Polish politician. From 2019 to 2023, he was a member of the Sejm. In the 2024 European Parliament election in Poland, he was the lead candidate of the Confederation Liberty and Independence in Warsaw.
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René Wilke
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- politicianmediator
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René Wilke is a German politician (Die Linke), Lord Mayor of Frankfurt (Oder), and a former member of Brandenburg's regional parliament. 2014 he became a directly elected Member of parliament for his native Frankfurt (Oder). On 18 March 2018 he was elected Oberbürgermeister (Lord Mayor) of Frankfurt (Oder). With his inauguration on 6 May 2018, Wilke became the youngest mayor in the history of Frankfurt (Oder) and the mayor of the biggest city from his party.
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Volodymyr Demchyshyn
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- managerbanker
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Volodymyr Vasylyovych Demchyshyn is a former Ukrainian banker and politician and a Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine (2014-2016) in the second Yatsenyuk Government.
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Linn Selle
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- political scientist
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Linn Selle is president of the European Movement Germany.
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Daniel Ernst Jablonski
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- pastor
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Daniel Ernst Jablonski was a German theologian and reformer of Czech origin, known for his efforts to bring about a union between Lutheran and Calvinist Protestants.
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Christian Garve
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- translatoruniversity teacherphilosopher
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Christian Garve was one of the best-known philosophers of the late Enlightenment along with Immanuel Kant and Moses Mendelssohn.
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Carl Gottfried Woide
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- orientalistlibrarian
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Carl Gottfried Woide, also known in England as Charles Godfrey Woide, was an Orientalist, a biblical scholar and a pastor.
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Simon Heinrich Sack
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- politicianAnwaltlawyer
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Simon Heinrich Sack was Hofrat (Privy Councilor), Justice Commissioner and adviser to King Frederick II of Prussia. He accumulated considerable wealth in this capacity with which he founded the Privy Councillor Simon Heinrich Sack Family Foundation in Prussia and which still exists to this day.
