100 Notable alumni of
University of Marburg
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The University of Marburg is 252nd in the world, 86th in Europe, and 15th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Marburg sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 1 individual affiliated with the University of Marburg won Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine.
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Hannah Arendt
- Enrolled in the University of Marburg
- Studied philosophy
- Occupations
- political theoristwriterauthorhistorianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Hannah Arendt was a German-American historian and philosopher. She was one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century.
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Mikhail Lomonosov
- Enrolled in the University of Marburg
- Studied in 1736-1739
- Occupations
- geologisthistorianphysicistastronomertranslator
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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. The founder of modern geology, Lomonosov was also a poet and influenced the formation of the modern Russian literary language.
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Boris Pasternak
- Enrolled in the University of Marburg
- Studied in 1912-1912
- Occupations
- novelistplaywrightwriterprose writertranslator
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian poet, novelist, composer, and literary translator.
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Friedrich Paulus
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- military officerresistance fighter
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Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) during World War II who is best known for his surrender of the German 6th Army during the Battle of Stalingrad (August 1942 to February 1943). The battle ended in disaster for the Wehrmacht when Soviet forces encircled the Germans within the city, leading to the ultimate death or capture of most of the 265,000-strong 6th Army, their Axis allies, and collaborators.
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Jürgen Habermas
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- university teachersociologistphilosopher
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Jürgen Habermas is a German philosopher and social theorist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. His work addresses communicative rationality and the public sphere.
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Alexander Gauland
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- juristpoliticianopinion journalistnon-fiction writer
- Biography
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Eberhardt Alexander Gauland is a German politician, journalist and lawyer who has served as leader of the right-wing political party Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the Bundestag since September 2017 and co-leader of the party from December 2017 to November 2019. He has been a Member of the Bundestag (MdB) since September 2017. Gauland was the party's co-founder and was its federal spokesman from 2017 to 2019 and the party leader for the state of Brandenburg from 2013 to 2017.
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Emil von Behring
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- university teachernon-fiction writerimmunologistphysicianphysiologist
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Emil von Behring, born Emil Adolf Behring (15 March 1854 – 31 March 1917), was a German physiologist who received the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the first one awarded in that field, for his discovery of a diphtheria antitoxin. He was widely known as a "saviour of children", as diphtheria used to be a major cause of child death. His work with the disease, as well as tetanus, has come to bring him most of his fame and acknowledgment. He was honoured with Prussian nobility in 1901, henceforth being known by the surname "von Behring."
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Otto Hahn
- Enrolled in the University of Marburg
- 1897-1901 studied chemistry
- Occupations
- autobiographeruniversity teacherchemistnuclear physicistnon-fiction writer
- Biography
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Otto Hahn was a German chemist who was a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry and father of nuclear fission. Hahn and Lise Meitner discovered radioactive isotopes of radium, thorium, protactinium and uranium. He also discovered the phenomena of atomic recoil and nuclear isomerism, and pioneered rubidium–strontium dating. In 1938, Hahn, Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassmann discovered nuclear fission, for which Hahn received the 1944 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Nuclear fission was the basis for nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.
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Ferdinand Sauerbruch
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- university teachersurgeon
- Biography
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Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch was a German surgeon. His major work was on the use of negative-pressure chambers for surgery.
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Felix Lobrecht
- Enrolled in the University of Marburg
- 2012-2016 studied political science
- Occupations
- writerpodcasterscreenwritersingercomedian
- Biography
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Felix Manuel Lobrecht is a German stand-up comedian, podcast host, and author.
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Katarina Barley
- Occupations
- juristpoliticianjudgeJusticiar
- Biography
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Katarina Barley is a German politician and lawyer who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019, serving as one of its Vice-Presidents. She served as Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection in the fourth Cabinet of Angela Merkel. Prior to that, she had served as Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and, from 28 September 2017, as the acting Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, both until 14 March 2018.
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Leo Strauss
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- politicianuniversity teacherpolitical scientistphilosopher
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Leo Strauss was a 20th century German-American scholar of political philosophy who specialized in classical political philosophy. Born in Germany to Jewish parents, Strauss later emigrated from Germany to the United States. He spent much of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of students and published fifteen books.
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Jacob Grimm
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- collector of fairy talesphilologisttranslatorlibrarianmythologist
- Biography
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Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, also known as Ludwig Karl, was a German author, linguist, philologist, jurist, and folklorist. He formulated Grimm's law of linguistics, and was the co-author of the Deutsches Wörterbuch, the author of Deutsche Mythologie, and the editor of Grimms' Fairy Tales. He was the older brother of Wilhelm Grimm; together, they were the literary duo known as the Brothers Grimm.
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Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Enrolled in the University of Marburg
- 1919-1922 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- philosopheruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Hans-Georg Gadamer was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus, Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode), on hermeneutics.
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Friedrich Wöhler
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- biochemistuniversity teacherchemist
- Biography
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Friedrich Wöhler FRS(For) HonFRSE (31 July 1800 – 23 September 1882) was a German chemist known for his work in both organic and inorganic chemistry, being the first to isolate the chemical elements beryllium and yttrium in pure metallic form. He was the first to prepare several inorganic compounds, including silane and silicon nitride.
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Wilhelm Grimm
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- collector of fairy taleslaw librarianpedagoguechildren's writermythographer
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Wilhelm Carl Grimm was a German author and anthropologist. He was the younger brother of Jacob Grimm, of the literary duo the Brothers Grimm.
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Ernst Cassirer
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- university teacherart historianphilosopher
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Ernst Alfred Cassirer was a German philosopher. Trained within the Neo-Kantian Marburg School, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of science.
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Gustav Heinemann
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- theologianpoliticianlawyer
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Gustav Walter Heinemann was a German politician who was President of West Germany from 1969 to 1974. He served as mayor of Essen from 1946 to 1949, West German Minister of the Interior from 1949 to 1950, and Minister of Justice from 1966 to 1969.
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Hans Jonas
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- university teacherenvironmentalistphilosopher
- Biography
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Hans Jonas was a German-born American Jewish philosopher, from 1955 to 1976 the Alvin Johnson Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City.
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Gottfried Benn
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- poetauthorphysicianphysician writeressayist
- Biography
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Gottfried Benn was a German poet, essayist, and physician. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1951.
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Hans-Jochen Vogel
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- politicianjudge
- Biography
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Hans-Jochen Vogel was a German lawyer and a politician for the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He served as Mayor of Munich from 1960 to 1972, winning the 1972 Summer Olympics for the city and Governing Mayor of West Berlin in 1981, the only German ever to lead two cities with a million+ inhabitants. He was Federal Minister of Regional Planning, Construction and Urban Development from 1972 to 1974, and Federal Minister of Justice from 1974 to 1981. He served as leader of the SPD in the Bundestag from 1983 to 1991, and as Leader of the Social Democratic Party from 1987 to 1991. In 1993, he co-founded the organisation Gegen Vergessen – Für Demokratie (Against Oblivion – For Democracy). He was a member of the National Ethics Council of Germany from its beginning in 2001.
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Friedrich Carl von Savigny
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- university teacherlegal historianwriterjuristpolitician
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Friedrich Carl von Savigny was a German jurist and historian.
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Margot Käßmann
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- parsonpastortheologianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Margot Käßmann is a Lutheran theologian, who was Landesbischöfin (bishop) of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover in Germany. On 28 October 2009, she was also elected to lead the Protestant Church in Germany, a federation of Protestant church bodies in Germany. She stepped down from both offices on 24 February 2010 following a drink-driving incident. After serving as a "Reformation Ambassador" for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, she retired in 2018.
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Rudolf Bultmann
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- theologianuniversity teacherphilosopher
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Rudolf Karl Bultmann was a German Lutheran theologian and professor of the New Testament at the University of Marburg. He was one of the major figures of early 20th-century biblical studies. A prominent critic of liberal theology, Bultmann instead argued for an existentialist interpretation of the New Testament. His hermeneutical approach to the New Testament led him to be a proponent of dialectical theology.
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Ferdinand Braun
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- university teacherphysicistinventor
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Karl Ferdinand Braun was a German electrical engineer, inventor, physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. Braun contributed significantly to the development of radio and television technology and built the first semiconductor. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Guglielmo Marconi "for their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy", was a founder of Telefunken, one of the pioneering communications and television companies, and has been both called the "father of television" (shared with inventors like Paul Gottlieb Nipkow), "great grandfather of every semiconductor ever manufactured" and the co-father of the radio telegraphy, together with Marconi.
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Peter Feldmann
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Peter Manuel Feldmann is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). On 25 March 2012, he was elected Mayor of Frankfurt as successor of Petra Roth (CDU). On 6 November 2022, he was recalled, with 95% of the vote against him, and he left office on 11 November 2022.
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John Tyndall
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- university teacherphysicistmountaineerwriterphilosopher
- Biography
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John Tyndall FRS was a prominent 19th-century Irish physicist. His scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. Later he made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air, proving the connection between atmospheric CO2 and what is now known as the greenhouse effect in 1859.
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Alexander Kluge
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- television producerfilm editorpoet lawyerlawyerdirector
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Alexander Kluge is a German author, philosopher, academic and film director.
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Ernst Reuter
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- politicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Ernst Rudolf Johannes Reuter was the mayor of West Berlin from 1948 to 1953, during the time of the Cold War. He played a significant role in unifying the divided sectors of Berlin and publicly and politically took a stand against the totalitarianism of the Soviet Union.
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Wolfgang Clement
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- politicianinternational forum participantjuristmanagerjournalist
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Wolfgang Clement was a German politician and a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was the 7th Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 27 May 1998 to 22 October 2002 and Federal Minister of Economics and Labour from 2002 to 2005. He was an Honorary Member of the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation.
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Wilhelm Liebknecht
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- peace activistwriterrevolutionarypoliticianjournalist
- Biography
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Wilhelm Martin Philipp Christian Ludwig Liebknecht was a German socialist and one of the principal founders of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). His political career was a pioneering project combining Marxist revolutionary theory with practical legal political activity. Under his leadership, the SPD grew from a tiny sect to become Germany's largest political party. He was the father of Karl Liebknecht and Theodor Liebknecht.
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Sevim Dağdelen
- Enrolled in the University of Marburg
- 1998-2001 studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- journalisttranslatorpolitician
- Biography
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Sevim Dağdelen is a German politician and a member of the Bundestag. She was elected for Left Party (die Linke) and switched in October 2023 to Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht.
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Nicolai Hartmann
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- university teacherwriterphilosopher
- Biography
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Paul Nicolai Hartmann was a Baltic German philosopher. He is regarded as a key representative of critical realism and as one of the most important twentieth-century metaphysicians.
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Michael Köhlmeier
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- novelistwriterscreenwriterradio personality
- Biography
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Michael Köhlmeier is a contemporary Austrian writer and musician.
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Costas Simitis
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- lawyereconomistpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Constantine G. Simitis is a Greek retired politician who led the 'Modernization' movement of Greece. He succeeded in leadership Andreas Papandreou, the founder of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), and served as Prime Minister of Greece from 1996 to 2004.
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Hans Fischer
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- internistuniversity teacherphysicianbiochemistchemist
- Biography
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Hans Fischer was a German organic chemist and the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Chemistry "for his researches into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll and especially for his synthesis of haemin."
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Adolf Butenandt
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- biochemistpoliticianuniversity teacherchemist
- Biography
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Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt was a German biochemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939 for his "work on sex hormones." He initially rejected the award in accordance with government policy, but accepted it in 1949 after World War II. He was President of the Max Planck Society from 1960 to 1972. He was also the first, in 1959, to discover the structure of the sex pheromone of silkworms, which he named bombykol.
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Karl Ziegler
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- chemistuniversity teacherengineer
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Karl Waldemar Ziegler was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963, with Giulio Natta, for work on polymers. The Nobel Committee recognized his "excellent work on organometallic compounds...led to new polymerization reactions and... paved the way for new and highly useful industrial processes". He is also known for his work involving free-radicals, many-membered rings, and organometallic compounds, as well as the development of Ziegler–Natta catalyst. One of many awards Ziegler received was the Werner von Siemens Ring in 1960 jointly with Otto Bayer and Walter Reppe, for expanding the scientific knowledge of and the technical development of new synthetic materials.
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Hans Eichel
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- politician
- Biography
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Hans Eichel is a German politician (SPD) and the co-founder of the G20, or "Group of Twenty", an international forum for the governments and central bank governors of twenty developed and developing nations to discuss policy issues pertaining to the promotion of international financial stability.
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Hans Mommsen
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- historianuniversity teacherhistorian of Modern Age
- Biography
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Hans Mommsen was a German historian, known for his studies in German social history, for his functionalist interpretation of the Third Reich, and especially for arguing that Adolf Hitler was a weak dictator. Descended from Nobel Prize-winning historian Theodor Mommsen, he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
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Hermann Cohen
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- university teacherphilosopheracademic
- Biography
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Hermann Cohen was a German Jewish philosopher, one of the founders of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, and he is often held to be "probably the most important Jewish philosopher of the nineteenth century".
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Jules Hoffmann
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- biologist
- Biography
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Jules Alphonse Nicolas Hoffmann is a Luxembourg-born French biologist. During his youth, growing up in Luxembourg, he developed a strong interest in insects under the influence of his father, Jos Hoffmann. This eventually resulted in the younger Hoffmann's dedication to the field of biology using insects as model organisms. He currently holds a faculty position at the University of Strasbourg. He is a research director and member of the board of administrators of the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Strasbourg, France. He was elected to the positions of Vice-President (2005-2006) and President (2007-2008) of the French Academy of Sciences. Hoffmann and Bruce Beutler were jointly awarded a half share of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity,". [More specifically, the work showing increased Drosomycin expression following activation of Toll pathway in microbial infection.]
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Konrad Duden
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- linguistlexicographerwriter
- Biography
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Konrad Alexander Friedrich Duden was a Gymnasium (high school) teacher who became a philologist. He founded the well-known German language dictionary bearing his name Duden.
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Elisabeth Selbert
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- politicianlawyer
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Elisabeth Selbert was a German politician and lawyer. She was one of the four women who worked on the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, collectively called the Mütter des Grundgesetzes (English: Mothers of the Basic Law). She had a central role in ensuring that explicit equality between men and women was included as a fundamental right in the Basic Law.
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Wau Holland
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- journalistamateur radio operatorcomputer scientistactivist
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Herwart Holland-Moritz, known as Wau Holland, was a German computer security activist and journalist who in 1981 cofounded the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), one of the world's oldest hacking clubs.
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Werner Jaeger
- Enrolled in the University of Marburg
- Studied in 1907-1907
- Occupations
- classical scholaruniversity teacherhellenistclassical philologistphilosopher
- Biography
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Werner Wilhelm Jaeger was a German-American classicist.
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Georg von Cancrin
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- economistjuristland ownercivil servantwriter
- Biography
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Count Georg Ludwig Cancrin was a Russian German aristocrat and as a politician best known for spearheading reforms in the Russian financial system early in the 19th century.
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Ole Worm
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- naturalistuniversity teacherprehistorianphysicistarchaeologist
- Biography
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Ole Worm, who often went by the Latinized form of his name Olaus Wormius, was a Danish physician, natural historian and antiquary. He was a professor at the University of Copenhagen where he taught Greek, Latin, physics and medicine.
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Adolf Fick
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- physiologistphysicianbiophysicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Adolf Eugen Fick was a German-born physician and physiologist.
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Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
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- composer
- Biography
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Maurice of Hesse-Kassel, also called Maurice the Learned or Moritz, was the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) in the Holy Roman Empire from 1592 to 1627.
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Wilhelm Röpke
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- economistuniversity teacher
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Wilhelm Röpke was a German economist and social critic, best known as one of the spiritual fathers of the social market economy. A Professor of Economics, first in Jena, then in Graz, Marburg, Istanbul, and finally Geneva, Röpke theorised and collaborated to organise the post-World War II economic re-awakening of the war-wrecked German economy, deploying a program referred to as ordoliberalism, a more conservative variant of German liberalism.
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Paul Natorp
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- historianuniversity teacherphilosopherpedagogue
- Biography
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Paul Gerhard Natorp was a German philosopher and educationalist, considered one of the co-founders of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism. He was known as an authority on Plato.
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Walter Wallmann
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- lawyerjuristpoliticianjudge
- Biography
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Walter Wallmann was a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as the Mayor of Frankfurt between 1977 and 1986, and as Minister-president of Hesse from 1987 to 1991.
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Frederick William I, Elector of Hesse
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- sovereign
- Biography
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Frederick William I was, between 1847 and 1866, the last Prince-elector of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel).
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Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
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- chemistuniversity teacher
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Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe was a major contributor to the birth of modern organic chemistry. He was a professor at Marburg and Leipzig. Kolbe was the first to apply the term synthesis in a chemical context, and contributed to the philosophical demise of vitalism through synthesis of the organic substance acetic acid from carbon disulfide, and also contributed to the development of structural theory. This was done via modifications to the idea of "radicals" and accurate prediction of the existence of secondary and tertiary alcohols, and to the emerging array of organic reactions through his Kolbe electrolysis of carboxylate salts, the Kolbe-Schmitt reaction in the preparation of aspirin and the Kolbe nitrile synthesis. After studies with Wöhler and Bunsen, Kolbe was involved with the early internationalization of chemistry through work in London (with Frankland). He was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and won the Royal Society of London's Davy Medal in the year of his death. Despite these accomplishments and his training important members of the next generation of chemists (including Zaitsev, Curtius, Beckmann, Graebe, Markovnikov, and others), Kolbe is best remembered for editing the Journal für Praktische Chemie for more than a decade, in which his vituperative essays on Kekulé's structure of benzene, van't Hoff's theory on the origin of chirality and Baeyer's reforms of nomenclature were personally critical and linguistically violent. Kolbe died of a heart attack in Leipzig at age 66, six years after the death of his wife, Charlotte. He was survived by four children.
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Annette Kurschus
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- theologian
- Biography
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Annette Kurschus is a German Protestant theologian and pastor. She was Praeses (or in German Präses) of the Protestant Church of Westphalia from 2012 until 2023, in November 2015 she became Vice-President of the Council of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD – Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland). She was President of the Council of the EKD from 2021 until 2023.
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Carolus Clusius
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- university teachermycologistornithologisttranslatorbotanist
- Biography
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Charles de l'Écluse, L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius, seigneur de Watènes, was an Artois doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th-century scientific horticulturists.
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Maria de Maeztu Whitney
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- feministhumanistpoliticianpedagogue
- Biography
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María de Maeztu Whitney was a Spanish educator, feminist, founder of the Residencia de Señoritas and the Lyceum Club in Madrid. She was sister of the writer, journalist and occasional diplomat, Ramiro de Maeztu and the painter Gustavo de Maeztu.
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Julius Plücker
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- physicistacademicmathematicianuniversity teacher
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Julius Plücker was a German mathematician and physicist. He made fundamental contributions to the field of analytical geometry and was a pioneer in the investigations of cathode rays that led eventually to the discovery of the electron. He also vastly extended the study of Lamé curves.
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Werner Bergengruen
- Enrolled in the University of Marburg
- In 1910 studied art history, German studies, and Protestant theology
- Occupations
- journalistpoettranslatorwriter
- Biography
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Werner Bergengruen was a Baltic German novelist and poet. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Wolfgang Gerhardt
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- politician
- Biography
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Wolfgang Gerhardt is a German politician and was the leader of the Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP) from 1995 until he was succeeded by Guido Westerwelle in 2001.
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Heinrich Anton de Bary
- Years
- 1831-1888 (aged 57)
- Enrolled in the University of Marburg
- Studied in 1850
- Occupations
- mycologistsurgeonuniversity teacherbotanistentomologist
- Biography
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Heinrich Anton de Bary was a German surgeon, botanist, microbiologist, and mycologist (fungal systematics and physiology). He is considered a founding father of plant pathology (phytopathology) as well as the founder of modern mycology. His extensive and careful studies of the life history of fungi and contribution to the understanding of algae and higher plants established landmarks in biology.
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Abraham Fraenkel
- Enrolled in the University of Marburg
- Studied in 1910-1911
- Studied in 1913-1914
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Abraham Fraenkel was a German-born Israeli mathematician. He was an early Zionist and the first Dean of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is known for his contributions to axiomatic set theory, especially his additions to Ernst Zermelo's axioms, which resulted in the Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory.
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Gertrud von Le Fort
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- writerpoet
- Biography
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The Baroness Gertrud von Le Fort was a German writer of novels, poems and essays.
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Burkhard Hirsch
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Burkhard Hirsch was a German politician and civil liberties advocate. A member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), Hirsch spent 21 years in the Bundestag (1972–1975, 1980–1998). He also served five years as Minister of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia (1975–1980).
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Nahum Goldmann
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- poet lawyerpoliticianwriter
- Biography
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Nahum Goldmann was a leading Zionist. He was a founder of the World Jewish Congress and its president from 1951 to 1978, and was also president of the World Zionist Organization from 1956 to 1968.
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Thomas Schäfer
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Thomas Schäfer was a German lawyer and politician for the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). He was Minister of Finance of Hesse between 2010 and 2020.
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George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
- Occupations
- aristocrat
- Biography
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George I of Hesse-Darmstadt was the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1567 to 1596.
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Manfred Kanther
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- politicianjurist
- Biography
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Manfred Kanther is a German conservative politician and was Minister of the Interior of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1993 to 1998. He has been a member of the CDU (since 1958).
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Nechama Leibowitz
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- pedagogueuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Nechama Leibowitz was an Israeli Bible scholar and commentator who rekindled interest in Bible study.
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Edward Frankland
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Sir Edward Frankland, KCB, FRS, FRSE was an English chemist. He was one of the originators of organometallic chemistry and introduced the concept of combining power or valence. An expert in water quality and analysis, he was a member of the second royal commission on the pollution of rivers, and studied London's water quality for decades. He also studied luminous flames and the effects of atmospheric pressure on dense ignited gas, and was one of the discoverers of helium.
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Helmut Hasse
- Enrolled in the University of Marburg
- Studied in 1920-1922
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Helmut Hasse was a German mathematician working in algebraic number theory, known for fundamental contributions to class field theory, the application of p-adic numbers to local class field theory and diophantine geometry (Hasse principle), and to local zeta functions.
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Tania Singer
- Enrolled in the University of Marburg
- Studied psychology
- Occupations
- psychologistinternational forum participantneuroscientist
- Biography
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Tania Singer is a German psychologist and social neuroscientist and the scientific director of the Max Planck Society's Social Neuroscience Lab in Berlin, Germany. Between 2007 and 2010, she became the inaugural chair of social neuroscience and neuroeconomics at the University of Zurich and was the co-director of the Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research in Zurich. Her research focuses on the developmental, neuronal, and hormonal mechanisms underlying human social behavior and social emotions such as compassion and empathy. She is founder and principal investigator of the ReSource project, one of the largest longitudinal studies on the effects of mental training on brain plasticity as well as mental and physical health, co-funded by the European Research Council. She also collaborates with the macro-economist Dennis Snower on research on caring economics. Singer's Caring Economics: Conversations on Altruism and Compassion, Between Scientists, Economists, and the Dalai Lama was published in 2015. She is the daughter of the neuroscientist Wolf Singer.
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Anastasios Giannoulatos
- Enrolled in the University of Marburg
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- Orthodox theologiantheologianreligious studies scholaruniversity teachermissionary
- Biography
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Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania is the Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania and as such the primate and Head of the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania. He was elected in June 1992. Professor Emeritus of the National University of Athens. Honorary Member of the Academy of Athens. Anastasios is one of the presidents of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches. He is also the honorary president of the World Conference of Religions for Peace.
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Jürgen Kocka
- Occupations
- university teachersocial historian
- Biography
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Jürgen Kocka is a German historian.
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Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov
- Enrolled in the University of Marburg
- Studied in 1736-1739
- Occupations
- chemistinventor
- Biography
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Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov was a Russian chemist who developed Russian hard-paste porcelain; he was the founder of the Imperial Porcelain Factory.
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Carl Ludwig
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- physiologistphysiciananatomistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig was a German physician and physiologist. His work as both a researcher and teacher had a major influence on the understanding, methods and apparatus used in almost all branches of physiology.
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Paul Julius Möbius
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- psychiatristneurologistuniversity teacherscientist
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Paul Julius Möbius was a German neurologist born in Leipzig. His grandfather was German mathematician and theoretical astronomer, August Ferdinand Möbius (1790–1868).
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Juris Hartmanis
- Enrolled in the University of Marburg
- In 1949 graduated with Candidate of Philosophy in physics
- Occupations
- computer scientistmathematicianuniversity teachereditor
- Biography
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Juris Hartmanis was a Latvian-born American computer scientist and computational theorist who, with Richard E. Stearns, received the 1993 ACM Turing Award "in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory".
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Claude Chevalley
- Enrolled in the University of Marburg
- Studied in 1932-1933
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Claude Chevalley was a French mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, algebraic geometry, class field theory, finite group theory and the theory of algebraic groups. He was a founding member of the Bourbaki group.
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Lale Akgün
- Enrolled in the University of Marburg
- Studied in 1973
- Occupations
- politicianwriter
- Biography
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Dr. Lale Akgün is a German politician and member of the SPD. She served as an MP for Cologne II electoral district in the German Bundestag from 2002 to 2009.
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Sergei Shmatko
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Sergei Ivanovich Shmatko was a Russian businessman and politician specializing in the energy industry.
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Hans Georg Calmeyer
- Occupations
- lawyernotaryofficialresistance fighterjurist
- Biography
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Hans Georg Calmeyer was a German lawyer from Osnabrück who saved thousands of Jews from certain death during the German occupation of the Netherlands from 1941 until 1945. On 4 March 1992, Yad Vashem recognised Hans Calmeyer as Righteous Among the Nations.
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Friedrich Kohlrausch
- Occupations
- chemistuniversity teacherphysicist
- Biography
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Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch was a German physicist who investigated the conductive properties of electrolytes and contributed to knowledge of their behaviour. He also investigated elasticity, thermoelasticity, and thermal conduction as well as magnetic and electrical precision measurements.
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Carl Leverkus
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- chemistpharmacistentrepreneur
- Biography
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Carl Leverkus was a German chemist and chemistry entrepreneur. He is the namesake of the city of Leverkusen.
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Ludwig Mond
- Occupations
- chemistbusinessperson
- Biography
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Ludwig Mond FRS was a German-born, British chemist and industrialist. He discovered an important, previously unknown, class of compounds called metal carbonyls.
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Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick
- Occupations
- ophthalmologist
- Biography
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Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick was a German ophthalmologist who invented the contact lens. He was the nephew of the German physiologist Adolf Eugen Fick, and the son of the German anatomy professor Franz Ludwig Fick.
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Kirsten Kappert-Gonther
- Occupations
- politicianpsychotherapistpsychiatrist
- Biography
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Kirsten Kappert-Gonther is a German psychotherapist and politician of Alliance 90/The Greens. Since the 2017 German federal election, she has been a member of the Bundestag, the federal parliament of Germany. She did not win the constituency mandate in Bremen I, but was elected via the Bremen state list.
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Robert Lehr
- Occupations
- politicianjudgejurist
- Biography
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Robert Lehr was a German politician (DNVP, CDU). He served as Federal Minister of the Interior from 1950 to 1953 under chancellor Konrad Adenauer.
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Elisabeth Blochmann
- Occupations
- professor
- Biography
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Elisabeth Blochmann was a scholar of education, as well as of philosophy, and a pioneer in and researcher of women's education in Germany.
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Fritz Hellwig
- Occupations
- historianuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Fritz Hellwig was a German CDU politician and European Commissioner. He was born in Saarbrücken and turned 100 in August 2012. and died on 22 July 2017 at the age of 104. He died 12 days before his 105th birthday, being the last surviving member of the Second Bundestag.
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Sunao Tawara
- Occupations
- pathologistphysiciananatomistprofessor
- Biography
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Sunao Tawara was a Japanese pathologist known for the discovery of the atrioventricular node.
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Philipp Grimm
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Philipp Wilhelm Grimm was a German lawyer and father to the Brothers Grimm and seven other children, including Ludwig Emil Grimm and Charlotte Amalie Grimm. He was husband of Dorothea Grimm.
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Alexander Ostrowski
- Enrolled in the University of Marburg
- Studied in 1912-1914
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Alexander Markowich Ostrowski was a Russian mathematician.
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Ernst Lemmer
- Enrolled in the University of Marburg
- In 1919 studied study of history, theology, and general economics
- Occupations
- Federal minister (Germany)trade unionistpoliticianspyminister
- Biography
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Ernst Lemmer was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.
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Valerius Cordus
- Occupations
- pharmacologistuniversity teacherichthyologistpsychologistentomologist
- Biography
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Valerius Cordus was a German physician, botanist and pharmacologist who authored the first pharmacopoeia North of the Alps and one of the most celebrated herbals in history. He is also widely credited with developing a method for synthesizing ether (which he called by the Latin name oleum dulci vitrioli, or "sweet oil of vitriol").
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Gerhard Jahn
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Gerhard Jahn was a German politician and a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1967 to 1969, and Federal Minister of Justice from 1969 to 1974.
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Hermann von Kuhl
- Occupations
- military officermilitary historian
- Biography
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Hermann Josef von Kuhl was a Prussian military officer, member of the German General Staff, and a Generalleutnant during World War I. One of the most competent commanders in the German Army, he retired in 1919 to write a number of critically acclaimed essays on the war. Hermann von Kuhl is one of only three recipients to be distinguished with both the "military class" and "peace class" of the Pour le Mérite, Prussia's and Germany's highest honor.
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Friedrich Tiedemann
- Occupations
- university teacherphysiologistmammalogistanatomistzoologist
- Biography
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Friedrich Tiedemann FRS HFRSE was a German anatomist and physiologist. He was an expert on the anatomy of the brain.
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Carl Remigius Fresenius
- Occupations
- chemistuniversity teacherscientist
- Biography
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Carl Remigius Fresenius, was a German chemist, known for his studies in analytical chemistry.
