24 Notable alumni of
Freiberg University of Technology
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The Freiberg University of Technology is 1909th in the world, 648th in Europe, and 71st in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 24 notable alumni from the Freiberg University of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Alexander von Humboldt
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- oceanographervolcanologistnaturalisteconomistworld traveler
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Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835). Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography, while his advocacy of long-term systematic geophysical measurement pioneered modern geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring. Humboldt and Carl Ritter are both regarded as the founders of modern geography as they established it as an independent scientific discipline.
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Mikhail Lomonosov
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- linguistchemisthistorianpoliticianwriter
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science. Among his discoveries were the atmosphere of Venus and the law of conservation of mass in chemical reactions. His spheres of science were natural science, chemistry, physics, mineralogy, history, art, philology, optical devices and others. One of the founders of modern geology, Lomonosov was also a poet and influenced the formation of the modern Russian literary language.
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Novalis
- Enrolled in the Freiberg University of Technology
- In 1797 studied mining engineering
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- poetwriterliterary theoristphilosopherlyricist
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Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, pen name Novalis, was a German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and mystic. He is regarded as an influential figure of Jena Romanticism.
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Prince Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia
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- business manager
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Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia is a German heir who is the current head of the Prussian branch of the House of Hohenzollern, a dynasty that ruled over the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia until near the end of World War I. He is the great-great-grandson of Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor and last King of Prussia, who abdicated and went into exile upon Germany's defeat in World War I in 1918.
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Theodor Körner
- Enrolled in the Freiberg University of Technology
- Studied in 1808
- Occupations
- poetwriter
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Carl Theodor Körner was a German poet and soldier. After having lived for some time in Vienna, where he wrote some light comedies and other works for the Burgtheater, he became a soldier and joined the Lützow Free Corps in the German uprising against Napoleon. During this time, he displayed personal courage in many fights, and inspired his comrades by fiery patriotic lyrics he composed. One of these was the "Schwertlied" ('Sword Song'), composed during a lull in fighting, only a few hours before his death, and "Lützow's wilde Jagd", each set to music by both Carl Maria von Weber and Franz Schubert. He was often called the "German Tyrtaeus".
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Friedrich Mohs
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- university teacherphysicistcrystallographermineralogistmining engineer
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Carl Friedrich Christian Mohs was a German chemist and mineralogist. He was the creator of the Mohs scale of mineral hardness. Mohs also introduced a classification of the crystal forms in crystal systems independently of Christian Samuel Weiss.
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Mauricio Hochschild
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- entrepreneur
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Moritz Hochschild (February 17, 1881 – June 12, 1965) was a leading mining industry businessman in the first half of the twentieth century. Along with Simón Iturri Patiño and Carlos Víctor Aramayo, he was one of the three so-called Bolivian tin barons. Additionally, he saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust by facilitating their legal admission to Bolivia.
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Abraham Gottlob Werner
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- university teachergeologistmineralogist
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Abraham Gottlob Werner was a German geologist who set out an early theory about the stratification of the Earth's crust and propounded a history of the Earth that came to be known as Neptunism. While most tenets of Neptunism were eventually set aside, Werner is remembered for his demonstration of chronological succession in rocks; for the zeal with which he infused his pupils; and for the impulse he thereby gave to the study of geology. He has been called the "father of German geology".
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Ernst Engel
- Enrolled in the Freiberg University of Technology
- Studied in 1842-1846
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- economiststatisticianpolitician
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Ernst Engel was a German statistician and economist, famous for the Engel curve and Engel's law.
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Clemens Winkler
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- university teacherchemist
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Clemens Alexander Winkler was a German chemist who discovered the element germanium in 1886, solidifying Dmitri Mendeleev's theory of periodicity.
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Rudolf Samoylovich
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- geographerexplorer
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Rudolf Lazarevich Samoylovich (Russian: Рудольф Лазаревич Самойлович; 13 September (O.S. 1 September), 1881 – 4 March 1939) was a Soviet polar explorer, professor, and doctor of geographic sciences.
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Behbud Khan Javanshir
- Enrolled in the Freiberg University of Technology
- Studied in 1906
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- politician
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Behbud Khan Javanshir was an Azerbaijani politician, diplomat, Minister of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry.
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Julius Weisbach
- Enrolled in the Freiberg University of Technology
- Studied in 1822-1827
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- university teachersurveyorgeodesistmathematicianmechanical engineer
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Julius Ludwig Weisbach was a German mathematician and engineer. He taught at the mining academy (Bergakademie) at Freiberg. He taught surveying, descriptive geometry, and mineral crystal measurement.
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Hans Albrecht
- Enrolled in the Freiberg University of Technology
- 1963-1965 graduated with Diplom
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- party officialpoliticianaircraft pilotheating system contractorfitter
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Hans Albrecht was an East German politician and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).
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Hieronymous Theodor Richter
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- university teacherchemistmetallurgist
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Hieronymus Theodor Richter was a German chemist. In 1863, while working at the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, he co-discovered indium with Ferdinand Reich.
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Kwasi Boachi
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- mining engineerbotanical collector
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Kwasi Boakye or Kwasi Boachi was a Prince of the Ashanti Empire who was sent to the Netherlands together with his cousin, Kwame Poku, in 1837, by his father, King Kwaku Dua Panin, to receive education as part of larger negotiations between the Ashanti and the Dutch about the recruitment of Ashanti soldiers for the Dutch East Indies Army.
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Paul Heinrich von Groth
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- university teachercrystallographermineralogist
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Paul Heinrich Ritter von Groth was a German mineralogist. His most important contribution to science was his systematic classification of minerals based on their chemical compositions and crystal structures.
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Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt
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- university teachercrystallographermineralogistgeologistphilosopher
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Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt was a German mineralogist, natural philosopher and art collector. He produced a nine-volume atlas of crystal forms (Atlas der Krystallformen) from 1913 to 1923 which was influential in establishing the field of crystallography. He introduced what are now called Goldschmidt symbols Φ and ρ (borrowed from astronomy) for the gnomonic angles of crystals. In 1933, he was dismissed from his position at the University of Heidelberg due to his Jewish origins and he died shortly afterwards while in exile in Salzburg. His wife Leontine committed suicide when faced with deportation to a concentration camp.
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Wilhelm Fiedler
- Enrolled in the Freiberg University of Technology
- Studied in 1849-1852
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- translatorpedagogueuniversity teachermathematician
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Otto Wilhelm Fiedler was a German-Swiss mathematician, known for his textbooks of geometry and his contributions to descriptive geometry.
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August Breithaupt
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- university teachermineralogist
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Johann Friedrich August Breithaupt was a German mineralogist and professor at Freiberg Mining Academy in Freiberg, Saxony.
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Waldemar Lindgren
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- mineralogistgeologisteconomic geologistuniversity teacher
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Waldemar Lindgren was a Swedish-American geologist and a founder of modern economic geology.
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Ernst Friedrich von Schlotheim
- Enrolled in the Freiberg University of Technology
- Studied in 1791-1792
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- politiciangeologistbotanistpaleontologist
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Ernst Friedrich, Freiherr von Schlotheim, German palaeontologist and politician, was born in Allmenshausen, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.
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John Bigelow, Jr
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- university teachermilitary personnelwriter
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John Bigelow Jr. was a United States Army lieutenant colonel. He was the subject of many articles on military frontier life in Outing Magazine published by his brother Poultney Bigelow and with sketches drawn in the field by the then young and obscure Frederic Remington. The book Frontier Cavalryman is based on his journals and service with the Buffalo Soldiers. He received a Silver Star and a Purple Heart for his actions in Cuba. He was assigned as a superintendent of Yosemite National Park in early 1904 and retired from the Army the following September. He became a teacher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later an author of several books. He was recalled to active duty in World War I and served in Washington, District of Columbia until 1919. He retired again and died in 1936 at age 81.
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Georg Gottlieb Pusch
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- paleontologistgeologistuniversity teacher
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Georg Gottlieb Pusch or in Polish Jerzy Bogumił Pusz was a German geologist. He wrote Geognostischer Katechismus oder Anweisung zum praktischen Geognosiren für angehende Bergleute und Geognosten Craz und Gerlach., Freiburg 1819., 212 S
