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.

  1. Hannah Arendt

    Hannah Arendt
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1906-1975 (aged 69)
    Enrolled in the University of Marburg
    Studied philosophy
    Occupations
    political theoristwriterauthorhistorianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Hannah Arendt was a German-American historian and philosopher. She was one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century.

  2. Mikhail Lomonosov

    Mikhail Lomonosov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1711-1765 (aged 54)
    Enrolled in the University of Marburg
    Studied in 1736-1739
    Occupations
    geologisthistorianphysicistastronomertranslator
    Biography

    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.

  3. Boris Pasternak

    Boris Pasternak
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1890-1960 (aged 70)
    Enrolled in the University of Marburg
    Studied in 1912-1912
    Occupations
    novelistplaywrightwriterprose writertranslator
    Biography

    Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian poet, novelist, composer, and literary translator.

  4. Friedrich Paulus

    Friedrich Paulus
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1890-1957 (aged 67)
    Occupations
    military officerresistance fighter
    Biography

    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.

  5. Jürgen Habermas

    Jürgen Habermas
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1929-.. (age 95)
    Occupations
    university teachersociologistphilosopher
    Biography

    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.

  6. Alexander Gauland

    Alexander Gauland
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1941-.. (age 83)
    Occupations
    juristpoliticianopinion journalistnon-fiction writer
    Biography

    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.

  7. Emil von Behring

    Emil von Behring
    Awards
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1854-1917 (aged 63)
    Occupations
    university teachernon-fiction writerimmunologistphysicianphysiologist
    Biography

    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."

  8. Otto Hahn

    Otto Hahn
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1879-1968 (aged 89)
    Enrolled in the University of Marburg
    1897-1901 studied chemistry
    Occupations
    autobiographeruniversity teacherchemistnuclear physicistnon-fiction writer
    Biography

    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.

  9. Ferdinand Sauerbruch

    Ferdinand Sauerbruch
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1875-1951 (aged 76)
    Occupations
    university teachersurgeon
    Biography

    Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch was a German surgeon. His major work was on the use of negative-pressure chambers for surgery.

  10. Felix Lobrecht

    Felix Lobrecht
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1988-.. (age 36)
    Enrolled in the University of Marburg
    2012-2016 studied political science
    Occupations
    writerpodcasterscreenwritersingercomedian
    Biography

    Felix Manuel Lobrecht is a German stand-up comedian, podcast host, and author.

  11. Katarina Barley

    Katarina Barley
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1968-.. (age 56)
    Occupations
    juristpoliticianjudgeJusticiar
    Biography

    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.

  12. Leo Strauss

    Leo Strauss
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1899-1973 (aged 74)
    Occupations
    politicianuniversity teacherpolitical scientistphilosopher
    Biography

    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.

  13. Jacob Grimm

    Jacob Grimm
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1785-1863 (aged 78)
    Occupations
    collector of fairy talesphilologisttranslatorlibrarianmythologist
    Biography

    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.

  14. Hans-Georg Gadamer

    Hans-Georg Gadamer
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1900-2002 (aged 102)
    Enrolled in the University of Marburg
    1919-1922 graduated with doctorate
    Occupations
    philosopheruniversity teacher
    Biography

    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.

  15. Friedrich Wöhler

    Friedrich Wöhler
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1800-1882 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    biochemistuniversity teacherchemist
    Biography

    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.

  16. Wilhelm Grimm

    Wilhelm Grimm
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1786-1859 (aged 73)
    Occupations
    collector of fairy taleslaw librarianpedagoguechildren's writermythographer
    Biography

    Wilhelm Carl Grimm was a German author and anthropologist. He was the younger brother of Jacob Grimm, of the literary duo the Brothers Grimm.

  17. Ernst Cassirer

    Ernst Cassirer
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1874-1945 (aged 71)
    Occupations
    university teacherart historianphilosopher
    Biography

    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.

  18. Gustav Heinemann

    Gustav Heinemann
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1899-1976 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    theologianpoliticianlawyer
    Biography

    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.

  19. Hans Jonas

    Hans Jonas
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1903-1993 (aged 90)
    Occupations
    university teacherenvironmentalistphilosopher
    Biography

    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.

  20. Gottfried Benn

    Gottfried Benn
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1886-1956 (aged 70)
    Occupations
    poetauthorphysicianphysician writeressayist
    Biography

    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.

  21. Hans-Jochen Vogel

    Hans-Jochen Vogel
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1926-2020 (aged 94)
    Occupations
    politicianjudge
    Biography

    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.

  22. Friedrich Carl von Savigny

    Friedrich Carl von Savigny
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1779-1861 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    university teacherlegal historianwriterjuristpolitician
    Biography

    Friedrich Carl von Savigny was a German jurist and historian.

  23. Margot Käßmann

    Margot Käßmann
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1958-.. (age 66)
    Occupations
    parsonpastortheologianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    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.

  24. Rudolf Bultmann

    Rudolf Bultmann
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1884-1976 (aged 92)
    Occupations
    theologianuniversity teacherphilosopher
    Biography

    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.

  25. Ferdinand Braun

    Ferdinand Braun
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1850-1918 (aged 68)
    Occupations
    university teacherphysicistinventor
    Biography

    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.

  26. Peter Feldmann

    Peter Feldmann
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1958-.. (age 66)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    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.

  27. John Tyndall

    John Tyndall
    Born in
    Ireland Flag Ireland
    Years
    1820-1893 (aged 73)
    Occupations
    university teacherphysicistmountaineerwriterphilosopher
    Biography

    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.

  28. Alexander Kluge

    Alexander Kluge
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1932-.. (age 92)
    Occupations
    television producerfilm editorpoet lawyerlawyerdirector
    Biography

    Alexander Kluge is a German author, philosopher, academic and film director.

  29. Ernst Reuter

    Ernst Reuter
    Born in
    Denmark Flag Denmark
    Years
    1889-1953 (aged 64)
    Occupations
    politicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    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.

  30. Wolfgang Clement

    Wolfgang Clement
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1940-2020 (aged 80)
    Occupations
    politicianinternational forum participantjuristmanagerjournalist
    Biography

    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.

  31. Wilhelm Liebknecht

    Wilhelm Liebknecht
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1826-1900 (aged 74)
    Occupations
    peace activistwriterrevolutionarypoliticianjournalist
    Biography

    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.

  32. Sevim Dağdelen

    Sevim Dağdelen
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1975-.. (age 49)
    Enrolled in the University of Marburg
    1998-2001 studied jurisprudence
    Occupations
    journalisttranslatorpolitician
    Biography

    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.

  33. Nicolai Hartmann

    Nicolai Hartmann
    Born in
    Latvia Flag Latvia
    Years
    1882-1950 (aged 68)
    Occupations
    university teacherwriterphilosopher
    Biography

    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.

  34. Michael Köhlmeier

    Michael Köhlmeier
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1949-.. (age 75)
    Occupations
    novelistwriterscreenwriterradio personality
    Biography

    Michael Köhlmeier is a contemporary Austrian writer and musician.

  35. Costas Simitis

    Costas Simitis
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1936-.. (age 88)
    Occupations
    lawyereconomistpoliticianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    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.

  36. Hans Fischer

    Hans Fischer
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1881-1945 (aged 64)
    Occupations
    internistuniversity teacherphysicianbiochemistchemist
    Biography

    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."

  37. Adolf Butenandt

    Adolf Butenandt
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1903-1995 (aged 92)
    Occupations
    biochemistpoliticianuniversity teacherchemist
    Biography

    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.

  38. Karl Ziegler

    Karl Ziegler
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1898-1973 (aged 75)
    Occupations
    chemistuniversity teacherengineer
    Biography

    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.

  39. Hans Eichel

    Hans Eichel
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1941-.. (age 83)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    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.

  40. Hans Mommsen

    Hans Mommsen
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1930-2015 (aged 85)
    Occupations
    historianuniversity teacherhistorian of Modern Age
    Biography

    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.

  41. Hermann Cohen

    Hermann Cohen
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1842-1918 (aged 76)
    Occupations
    university teacherphilosopheracademic
    Biography

    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".

  42. Jules Hoffmann

    Jules Hoffmann
    Born in
    Luxembourg Flag Luxembourg
    Years
    1941-.. (age 83)
    Occupations
    biologist
    Biography

    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.]

  43. Konrad Duden

    Konrad Duden
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1829-1911 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    linguistlexicographerwriter
    Biography

    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.

  44. Elisabeth Selbert

    Elisabeth Selbert
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1896-1986 (aged 90)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    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.

  45. Wau Holland

    Wau Holland
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1951-2001 (aged 50)
    Occupations
    journalistamateur radio operatorcomputer scientistactivist
    Biography

    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.

  46. Werner Jaeger

    Werner Jaeger
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1888-1961 (aged 73)
    Enrolled in the University of Marburg
    Studied in 1907-1907
    Occupations
    classical scholaruniversity teacherhellenistclassical philologistphilosopher
    Biography

    Werner Wilhelm Jaeger was a German-American classicist.

  47. Georg von Cancrin

    Georg von Cancrin
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1774-1845 (aged 71)
    Occupations
    economistjuristland ownercivil servantwriter
    Biography

    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.

  48. Ole Worm

    Ole Worm
    Born in
    Denmark Flag Denmark
    Years
    1588-1654 (aged 66)
    Occupations
    naturalistuniversity teacherprehistorianphysicistarchaeologist
    Biography

    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.

  49. Adolf Fick

    Adolf Fick
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1829-1901 (aged 72)
    Occupations
    physiologistphysicianbiophysicistuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Adolf Eugen Fick was a German-born physician and physiologist.

  50. Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel

    Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1572-1632 (aged 60)
    Occupations
    composer
    Biography

    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.

  51. Wilhelm Röpke

    Wilhelm Röpke
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1899-1966 (aged 67)
    Occupations
    economistuniversity teacher
    Biography

    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.

  52. Paul Natorp

    Paul Natorp
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1854-1924 (aged 70)
    Occupations
    historianuniversity teacherphilosopherpedagogue
    Biography

    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.

  53. Walter Wallmann

    Walter Wallmann
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1932-2013 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    lawyerjuristpoliticianjudge
    Biography

    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.

  54. Frederick William I, Elector of Hesse

    Frederick William I, Elector of Hesse
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1802-1875 (aged 73)
    Occupations
    sovereign
    Biography

    Frederick William I was, between 1847 and 1866, the last Prince-elector of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel).

  55. Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe

    Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1818-1884 (aged 66)
    Occupations
    chemistuniversity teacher
    Biography

    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.

  56. Annette Kurschus

    Annette Kurschus
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1963-.. (age 61)
    Occupations
    theologian
    Biography

    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.

  57. Carolus Clusius

    Carolus Clusius
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1526-1609 (aged 83)
    Occupations
    university teachermycologistornithologisttranslatorbotanist
    Biography

    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.

  58. Maria de Maeztu Whitney

    Maria de Maeztu Whitney
    Born in
    Spain Flag Spain
    Years
    1881-1948 (aged 67)
    Occupations
    feministhumanistpoliticianpedagogue
    Biography

    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.

  59. Julius Plücker

    Julius Plücker
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1801-1868 (aged 67)
    Occupations
    physicistacademicmathematicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    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.

  60. Werner Bergengruen

    Werner Bergengruen
    Born in
    Latvia Flag Latvia
    Years
    1892-1964 (aged 72)
    Enrolled in the University of Marburg
    In 1910 studied art history, German studies, and Protestant theology
    Occupations
    journalistpoettranslatorwriter
    Biography

    Werner Bergengruen was a Baltic German novelist and poet. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

  61. Wolfgang Gerhardt

    Wolfgang Gerhardt
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1943-.. (age 81)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    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.

  62. Heinrich Anton de Bary

    Heinrich Anton de Bary
    Years
    1831-1888 (aged 57)
    Enrolled in the University of Marburg
    Studied in 1850
    Occupations
    mycologistsurgeonuniversity teacherbotanistentomologist
    Biography

    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.

  63. Abraham Fraenkel

    Abraham Fraenkel
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1891-1965 (aged 74)
    Enrolled in the University of Marburg
    Studied in 1910-1911
    Studied in 1913-1914
    Occupations
    university teachermathematician
    Biography

    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.

  64. Gertrud von Le Fort

    Gertrud von Le Fort
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1876-1971 (aged 95)
    Occupations
    writerpoet
    Biography

    The Baroness Gertrud von Le Fort was a German writer of novels, poems and essays.

  65. Burkhard Hirsch

    Burkhard Hirsch
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1930-2020 (aged 90)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    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).

  66. Nahum Goldmann

    Nahum Goldmann
    Born in
    Belarus Flag Belarus
    Years
    1894-1982 (aged 88)
    Occupations
    poet lawyerpoliticianwriter
    Biography

    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.

  67. Thomas Schäfer

    Thomas Schäfer
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1966-2020 (aged 54)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    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.

  68. George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

    George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1547-1596 (aged 49)
    Occupations
    aristocrat
    Biography

    George I of Hesse-Darmstadt was the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1567 to 1596.

  69. Manfred Kanther

    Manfred Kanther
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1939-.. (age 85)
    Occupations
    politicianjurist
    Biography

    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).

  70. Nechama Leibowitz

    Nechama Leibowitz
    Born in
    Latvia Flag Latvia
    Years
    1905-1997 (aged 92)
    Occupations
    pedagogueuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Nechama Leibowitz was an Israeli Bible scholar and commentator who rekindled interest in Bible study.

  71. Edward Frankland

    Edward Frankland
    Born in
    United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom
    Years
    1825-1899 (aged 74)
    Occupations
    chemist
    Biography

    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.

  72. Helmut Hasse

    Helmut Hasse
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1898-1979 (aged 81)
    Enrolled in the University of Marburg
    Studied in 1920-1922
    Occupations
    university teachermathematician
    Biography

    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.

  73. Tania Singer

    Tania Singer
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1969-.. (age 55)
    Enrolled in the University of Marburg
    Studied psychology
    Occupations
    psychologistinternational forum participantneuroscientist
    Biography

    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.

  74. Anastasios Giannoulatos

    Anastasios Giannoulatos
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1929-.. (age 95)
    Enrolled in the University of Marburg
    Graduated with master's degree
    Occupations
    Orthodox theologiantheologianreligious studies scholaruniversity teachermissionary
    Biography

    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.

  75. Jürgen Kocka

    Jürgen Kocka
    Born in
    Czech Republic Flag Czech Republic
    Years
    1941-.. (age 83)
    Occupations
    university teachersocial historian
    Biography

    Jürgen Kocka is a German historian.

  76. Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov

    Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1720-1758 (aged 38)
    Enrolled in the University of Marburg
    Studied in 1736-1739
    Occupations
    chemistinventor
    Biography

    Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov was a Russian chemist who developed Russian hard-paste porcelain; he was the founder of the Imperial Porcelain Factory.

  77. Carl Ludwig

    Carl Ludwig
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1816-1895 (aged 79)
    Occupations
    physiologistphysiciananatomistuniversity teacher
    Biography

    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.

  78. Paul Julius Möbius

    Paul Julius Möbius
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1853-1907 (aged 54)
    Occupations
    psychiatristneurologistuniversity teacherscientist
    Biography

    Paul Julius Möbius was a German neurologist born in Leipzig. His grandfather was German mathematician and theoretical astronomer, August Ferdinand Möbius (1790–1868).

  79. Juris Hartmanis

    Juris Hartmanis
    Born in
    Latvia Flag Latvia
    Years
    1928-2022 (aged 94)
    Enrolled in the University of Marburg
    In 1949 graduated with Candidate of Philosophy in physics
    Occupations
    computer scientistmathematicianuniversity teachereditor
    Biography

    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".

  80. Claude Chevalley

    Claude Chevalley
    Born in
    South Africa Flag South Africa
    Years
    1909-1984 (aged 75)
    Enrolled in the University of Marburg
    Studied in 1932-1933
    Occupations
    university teachermathematician
    Biography

    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.

  81. Lale Akgün

    Lale Akgün
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1953-.. (age 71)
    Enrolled in the University of Marburg
    Studied in 1973
    Occupations
    politicianwriter
    Biography

    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.

  82. Sergei Shmatko

    Sergei Shmatko
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1966-2021 (aged 55)
    Occupations
    politicianbusinessperson
    Biography

    Sergei Ivanovich Shmatko was a Russian businessman and politician specializing in the energy industry.

  83. Hans Georg Calmeyer

    Hans Georg Calmeyer
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1903-1972 (aged 69)
    Occupations
    lawyernotaryofficialresistance fighterjurist
    Biography

    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.

  84. Friedrich Kohlrausch

    Friedrich Kohlrausch
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1840-1910 (aged 70)
    Occupations
    chemistuniversity teacherphysicist
    Biography

    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.

  85. Carl Leverkus

    Carl Leverkus
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1804-1889 (aged 85)
    Occupations
    chemistpharmacistentrepreneur
    Biography

    Carl Leverkus was a German chemist and chemistry entrepreneur. He is the namesake of the city of Leverkusen.

  86. Ludwig Mond

    Ludwig Mond
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1839-1909 (aged 70)
    Occupations
    chemistbusinessperson
    Biography

    Ludwig Mond FRS was a German-born, British chemist and industrialist. He discovered an important, previously unknown, class of compounds called metal carbonyls.

  87. Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick

    Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1852-1937 (aged 85)
    Occupations
    ophthalmologist
    Biography

    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.

  88. Kirsten Kappert-Gonther

    Kirsten Kappert-Gonther
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1966-.. (age 58)
    Occupations
    politicianpsychotherapistpsychiatrist
    Biography

    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.

  89. Robert Lehr

    Robert Lehr
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1883-1956 (aged 73)
    Occupations
    politicianjudgejurist
    Biography

    Robert Lehr was a German politician (DNVP, CDU). He served as Federal Minister of the Interior from 1950 to 1953 under chancellor Konrad Adenauer.

  90. Elisabeth Blochmann

    Elisabeth Blochmann
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1892-1972 (aged 80)
    Occupations
    professor
    Biography

    Elisabeth Blochmann was a scholar of education, as well as of philosophy, and a pioneer in and researcher of women's education in Germany.

  91. Fritz Hellwig

    Fritz Hellwig
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1912-2017 (aged 105)
    Occupations
    historianuniversity teacherpolitician
    Biography

    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.

  92. Sunao Tawara

    Sunao Tawara
    Born in
    Japan Flag Japan
    Years
    1873-1952 (aged 79)
    Occupations
    pathologistphysiciananatomistprofessor
    Biography

    Sunao Tawara was a Japanese pathologist known for the discovery of the atrioventricular node.

  93. Philipp Grimm

    Philipp Grimm
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1751-1796 (aged 45)
    Occupations
    lawyer
    Biography

    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.

  94. Alexander Ostrowski

    Alexander Ostrowski
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1893-1986 (aged 93)
    Enrolled in the University of Marburg
    Studied in 1912-1914
    Occupations
    university teachermathematician
    Biography

    Alexander Markowich Ostrowski was a Russian mathematician.

  95. Ernst Lemmer

    Ernst Lemmer
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1898-1970 (aged 72)
    Enrolled in the University of Marburg
    In 1919 studied study of history, theology, and general economics
    Occupations
    Federal minister (Germany)trade unionistpoliticianspyminister
    Biography

    Ernst Lemmer was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.

  96. Valerius Cordus

    Valerius Cordus
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1515-1544 (aged 29)
    Occupations
    pharmacologistuniversity teacherichthyologistpsychologistentomologist
    Biography

    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").

  97. Gerhard Jahn

    Gerhard Jahn
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1927-1998 (aged 71)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    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.

  98. Hermann von Kuhl

    Hermann von Kuhl
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1856-1958 (aged 102)
    Occupations
    military officermilitary historian
    Biography

    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.

  99. Friedrich Tiedemann

    Friedrich Tiedemann
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1781-1861 (aged 80)
    Occupations
    university teacherphysiologistmammalogistanatomistzoologist
    Biography

    Friedrich Tiedemann FRS HFRSE was a German anatomist and physiologist. He was an expert on the anatomy of the brain.

  100. Carl Remigius Fresenius

    Carl Remigius Fresenius
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1818-1897 (aged 79)
    Occupations
    chemistuniversity teacherscientist
    Biography

    Carl Remigius Fresenius, was a German chemist, known for his studies in analytical chemistry.