List of personalities from the Philipps University of Marburg
This article lists personalities from the Philipps University of Marburg .
Professors
theology
Protestant theologians
- Ernst Christian Achelis
- Samuel Andreae
- Karl Bornhauser
- Karl Budde - Old Testament scholar
- Rudolf Bultmann - New Testament scholar
- Wolf Wilhelm Friedrich Graf von Baudissin - religious historian and author
- Johannes Crocius - was also the rector of the university
- Andreas Leonhard Creuzer - practical theologian and honorary citizen of Marburg
- Georg Cruciger - Lutheran theologian, professor of the Hebrew language
- Sebastian Curtius - German Reformed clergyman and theologian as well as dean and rector
- Heinrich Frick - systematic theologian and religious scholar
- Ernst Fuchs - New Testament scholar and hermeneuticist
- Gerhard Geldenhauer - humanist and reformer
- Kurt Goldammer - religious scholar and Paracelsus researcher
- Wolfgang Hage - Protestant theologian and church historian
- Adolf Harnack - Protestant theologian and church historian
- Friedrich Heiler - religious scholar
- Carl Friedrich Georg Heinrici - Protestant theologian
- Wilhelm Heitmüller - New Testament scholar and Protestant theologian
- Ernst Ludwig Theodor Henke - Protestant theologian
- Heinrich Heppe - Protestant theologian and pioneer of Marburg theological liberalism
- Heinrich Hermelink - Protestant church historian
- Wilhelm Herrmann - Protestant theologian
- Wolfgang Huber - Protestant theologian
- Aegidius Hunnius the Elder - Protestant theologian
- Andreas Hyperius - Protestant theologian and reformer
- Jörg Jeremias - Protestant theologian and Old Testament scholar
- Adolf Jülicher - Protestant theologian, New Testament scholar and church historian
- Karl Wilhelm Justi
- Otto Kaiser
- Peter Kawerau
- Siegfried Wedge
- Johann Christian Kirchmayer
- Adam Krafft
- Johann Wilhelm Krafft
- Werner Georg Kümmel
- Franz Lambert of Avignon
- Ludwig Christian Mieg - Reformed theologian
- Carl Mirbt
- Johann Hartmann Misler
- Johann Nikolaus Misler
- Julius Muller
- Wilhelm Münscher
- Alfred Niebergall - Rector of the University of Marburg 1962–1964
- Friedrich Niebergall
- Rudolf Otto
- Reinhold Pauli - Reformed theologian, professor and rector
- Karl Pinggéra - church historian
- Martin Rade
- Ernst Ranke
- Kurt Rudolph
- Ludwig Schick - Canon lawyer
- Werner H. Schmidt
- Hans Schneider - Protestant theologian and church historian
- Hans von Soden
- Gregorius Stannarius - Reformed clergyman, theologian and philosopher
- Dietrich Stollberg
- Kaspar Sturm
- Heinrich Wilhelm Josias Thiersch
- Paul Tillich
- Leander van Eß - Catholic theologian, church historian
- August Vilmar
- Ludwig Wachler
- Johannes White
- David Samuel Daniel Wyttenbach
- Christian Zippert - practical theologian, liturgical scientist and bishop of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck
- Eduard Zeller
- Winfried Zeller (1911–1982), church historian
philosophy
- If the people named here were not only philosophers, but also exercised other important professions, offices, etc., some of which were related to Marburg, the latter are also mentioned separately with was
- Peter Bieri - was also a well-known writer under the pseudonym Pascal Mercier
- Karl Theodor Bayrhoffer
- Reinhard Brandt
- Hermann Cohen - was also a co-founder of the Marburg Neo-Kantian school
- Julius Ebbinghaus - was also the university rector
- Erich Frank
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Rudolf Goclenius the Elder - was also professor of logic, ethics and methapysics and witch theorist
- Nicolai Hartmann - was also a fundamental ontologist , an important exponent of critical realism and one of the most important innovators of metaphysics in the 20th century
- Martin Heidegger
- Heinz Heimsoeth
- Hans Heinz Holz
- Peter Janich
- Dietmar Kamper - was also a writer, sociologist and educationalist
- Friedrich Albert Lange - was also a neo-Kantian, economist, educator and socialist
- Karl Löwith
- Paul Natorp - was also a teacher and co-founder of the Marburg School of Neo-Kantianism
- Klaus Reich - authored groundbreaking writings on Kant
- Philipp Casimir Schlosser
- David Theodor August Suabedissen - was also an educator and theologian
- Burkhard Tuschling (1937–2012)
- Wolfgang Wieland (philosopher)
sociology
- If the persons named here were or are not only sociologists, but also hold other important professions, offices, etc., some of which are related to Marburg, the latter are mentioned separately with was or is also mentioned
law Sciences
- Gottfried Achenwall
- Wilhelm Christoph Friedrich Arnold
- Anton Bauer
- Volker Beuthien
- Johann Wilhelm Bickell - Canon lawyer, 1846 Minister of Justice
- Monika Böhm - legal scholar and state attorney at the Hessian State Court in Wiesbaden.
- Johann Viktor Bredt
- Rudolf Bruns - civil procedure lawyer
- Johann Peter Bucher
- Johann Ludwig Conradi
- Carl Crome
- Johann Heinrich Dauber - new founder of the Philipps University in 1653, Vice Chancellor of Hesse-Kassel
- Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm Duncker
- Johann Eisermann - called Ferrarius Montanus, religious scholar, lawyer and first rector of the university
- Ludwig Enneccerus - lawyer, politician
- Johann Heinrich Christian Erxleben (1753–1811) - lawyer, prorector, vice chancellor
- Johann Georg Estor (1699–1773) - lawyer, vice-chancellor of the university
- Johann Feige (1482–1543) - Chancellor of the Landgraviate of Hesse
- Felix Genzmer - lawyer and Scandinavian
- Johannes Goddaeus , lawyer and rector of the university
- Hubert Görg
- Erich Graff - Professor, Dean, Vice Chancellor and Rector of the University
- Peter Häberle
- Karl Alfred Hall
- Tobias Helms
- Heinrich Wilhelm Herrfahrdt
- Gerhard Hoffmann
- Arnold Moritz Holtermann - Rector of the University in 1670 and 1679/80
- Aemilius Ludwig Hombergk zu Vach - also chancellor of the university
- Johann Friedrich Hombergk zu Vach - Rector and Chancellor of the University
- Sylvester Jordan - politician
- Johann Kitzel (1574–1627) - full professor of law
- Johannes Kleinschmidt (1607–1663) - full professor, university counsel and dean
- Franz Leonhard
- Christoph Lersner (1520–1603) - full professor of law
- Hermann Lersner (1535–1613) - full professor of law, rector and vice-chancellor of the university
- Jakob Lersner (1504–1579) - full professor of law and vice-chancellor of the university
- Johann Lersner (1512–1550) - full professor of law, rector
- Franz von Liszt - criminal lawyer and politician
- Eduard Sigismund Loebell (1791–1869) - Full Professor of Law and Vice Chancellor of the University
- Ferdinand Mackeldey
- Dieter Meurer
- From 1972 to 2000, Hans Münkner was professor for domestic and foreign corporate law and cooperative theory
- Johann Oldendorp
- Rudolf Reinhardt
- Dieter Rössner - legal scholar, criminologist and criminal lawyer
- Friedrich Carl von Savigny - statesman
- Leo of Savigny
- Walther Schücking - international lawyer, first German judge at the Permanent International Court of Justice in The Hague, politician
- Erich Schwinge - military lawyer with a Nazi past
- Heinrich Christian von Selchow
- Regner Sistine (1543-1617)
- August Ubbelohde - University judge, representative of the University of Marburg in the preuss. Mansion
- Karl Friedrich Vollgraff - lawyer and sociologist
- Ernst Wolf (lawyer)
- Christian Wolff - philosopher, lawyer, mathematician
- Otto Philipp Zaunschliffer
politics
- John Kannankulam
- Johannes M. Becker is also a peace researcher and managing director at the Center for Conflict Research at Philipps University
Economics
- Walter Braeuer - Economist
- Eberhard Dülfer - Economist
- Walter Hamm - Economist
- Asta Hampe - statistician
- Karl Paul Hensel - political economist
- Ernst Heuss - Economist
- Bruno Hildebrand - Economist
- Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling - cinematographer, star operator, pietistic writer
- Hans Köppe - national economist
- Nathanael Gottfried Leske - camera operator
- Hermann Paasche - political scientist
- Bernd Schiemenz - business economist
- Alfred Schüller - Economist
- Wilhelm Röpke - economist
- Walter Troeltsch - economist
medicine
anatomy
- Ernst Daniel August Bartels
- Christian Heinrich Bünger
- Friedrich Matthias Claudius (1822–1869)
- Carl Ludwig - Associate Professor for Comparative Anatomy
- Joseph Disse - anatomist, histologist
- Franz Ludwig Fick (1813-1858)
- Emil Gasser (1847-1919)
- Nathanael Lieberkühn
- Samuel Christian Lucae (1787-1821)
- Georg Marius - elected rector in 1568/69
- Christian Friedrich Michaelis (1754-1814)
- Hans Strahl (1857–1920)
- Guido Richard Wagener
Ophthalmology
- Alfred Bielschowsky - was also the (co-) founder of the German Institute for the Blind in Marburg
- Wilhelm Grüter (1882–1963)
- Johann Heinrich Jung (called Jung-Stilling) was also a cameralist and pietistic writer
- Werner Kyrieleis
- Karl Stargardt - discoverer of Stargardt's disease
surgery
- Dietrich Wilhelm Heinrich Busch (1788–1858) - surgeon and obstetrician
- Paul Leopold Friedrich (1864-1916)
- Rudolf Klapp (1873–1949)
- Ernst Küster
- Wilfried Lorenz - pioneer of theoretical surgery
- Wilhelm Roser
- Matthias Rothmund
- Ferdinand Sauerbruch
- Christoph Ullmann (1773–1849) - also an ophthalmologist
- Eduard Zeis
- Rudolf Zenker - first heart transplant in Germany
Gynecology and obstetrics
- Eduard Caspar von Siebold (1801–1861) - gynecologist and obstetrician
- Karl Christoph Hüter - Obstetrician
- Klaus-Dieter Schulz (1937-2007) - gynecologist
- Georg Wilhelm Stein the Elder - obstetrician and surgeon
- Georg Wilhelm Stein the Younger - Obstetrician
- Walter Stoeckel (1871–1961) - gynecologist and obstetrician
Immunology and hygiene
- Emil von Behring - winner of the first Nobel Prize for Medicine
- Werner Slenczka - discoverer of the Marburg virus
- Erich Wernicke
Internal Medicine
- Gustav von Bergmann
- Hans Erhard Bock
- Ludolph Brewer
- Gustav Adolf Martini (1916-2007)
- Günther Simon
- Ernst Thesing
- Peter von Wichert
Pediatrics
- Josef Becker (1895–1966)
- Horst Bickel (1918-2000)
- Ernst Freudenberg (1884–1967)
- Friedrich Linneweh (1908–1992)
pathology
- Ludwig Aschoff (1866–1942) - Aschoff-Tawara knot
- Friedrich Wilhelm Beneke (1824–1882)
- Johann Heinrich Sternberg (1774–1809) - was also head of the Elisabeth Hospital and one of the leaders in the Marburg uprising of 1809
psychiatry
- Heinrich Cramer (1831-1893)
- Helmut E. Ehrhardt (1914–1997)
- Maximilian Jahrmärker (1872–1943)
- Ernst Kretschmer (1888–1964)
- Helmut Remschmidt (* 1938) - child and youth psychiatrist
- Hermann Stutte (1909–1982) - child and youth psychiatrist
- Franz Tuczek (1852–1925)
- Werner Villinger (1887–1961) - child and youth psychiatrist
- Doris Weber (* 1916) - youth psychiatrist (autism researcher)
Dentistry
- Paul Adloff (1870–1944) - was also an anthropologist
- Guido Fischer (1877-1959)
More medics
- Ernst Gottfried Baldinger (1738–1804)
- Johann Wilhelm Heinrich Conradi (1780–1861)
- Euricius Cordus (1486–1535) - physician and botanist, is considered to be one of the founders of scientific botany in Germany
- Janus Cornarius (1500–1558) - medic, humanist
- Johann Dryander (1500–1560) - anatomist, doctor, mathematician and astronomer
- Leopold Eichelberg (1804–1879) - medic and revolutionary
- Emil Heinz Graul (1920–2005) - nuclear medicine specialist
- Rudolf Happle (1938) - doctor and Limerick author
- Johannes Hartmann (1568–1631) - universal scholar
- Arthur Heffter (1859-1925) - pharmacologist
- Johann Moritz David Herold (1790–1862) - doctor, anatomist, zoologist and natural historian
- Karl Friedrich von Heusinger (1792–1883) - anatomist, pathologist, physiologist and medical historian
- Horst Franz Kern (* 1938) - anatomist, histologist and cell biologist; University President 2000–2003
- Albrecht Kossel (1853–1927) - physician, physiologist and biochemist; Nobel Prize 1910
- Eduard Külz (1845–1895) - physiologist
- Conrad Theodor Linker (1622–1660) - Medicine and Eloquence
- Otto Loewi (1873–1961) - pharmacologist
- Adam Lonitzer (Lonicerus) (1528–1586) - naturalist, doctor and botanist
- Hans Meyer (1877–1964) - radiologist
- Jakob Müller (1594–1637) - medicine and mathematician
- Daniel Nebel (1664–1733) - physician, pharmacist and botanist as well as court physician from the Electoral Palatinate; long-time dean of the medical faculty and rector of the university
- Philipp Jacob Piderit (1753–1817), physician in Kassel
- Max Rubner (1854–1932) - hygienist and state medicinologist
- Theodor Rumpf (1851–1934) - internist, infectiologist and neurologist
- Victorinus Schönfeldt (1525–1592) - mathematician and physician; Personal physician of Landgrave Wilhelm IV
- Georg Gerhard Wendt (1921–1987) - human geneticist
Pharmaceuticals
- Peter Dilg - pharmacist and pharmacy historian
- Alfred Fahr - pharmacist
- Max Wichtl - pharmacist
- Constantin Zwenger - pharmacist
psychology
- If the persons named here were or are not only psychologists, but also hold other important professions, offices, etc., some of which are related to Marburg, the latter are also mentioned separately
- Heinrich Düker - was also an SPD politician
- Irmela Florin
- Erich Rudolf Jaensch - was also a philosopher
- Gustav A. Lienert
- Manfred Ritter
- Frank Rösler
- Detlef Rost - is also the initiator of the Marburg gifted project
- Hartmann Scheiblechner
- Rainer Schwarting
- Werner Villinger - child and youth psychiatrist
Language , literature and speaking
- Luise Berthold - linguist and Germanist
- Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky - neurolinguist
- August Buck - Romanist
- Johann Gustav Gildemeister - orientalist
- Christa Heilmann - speech scientist
- Cornelius Hölk - philologist
- Hermann Jacobsohn - philologist
- Hermann Kirchner - poet, rhetorician, historian, lawyer
- York-Gothart Mix - literary scholar
- Hermann Vultejus - Chancellor, statesman; in Marburg Professor of Ancient Greek
- Christian Winkler (Germanist) - speech scientist
history
- Karl Christ
- Dietrich Claude
- Werner Geise
- Winfried Held - classical archaeologist
- Johannes Magirus
- Wilhelm Mommsen
- Helmut Roth - prehistoric
- Johann Hermann Schmincke - historian
- Ulrich victory
Social sciences and humanities
- Wolfgang Abendroth - political scientist
- Erich Auerbach - Romanist
- Hans Christoph Berg - psychologist and school teacher
- Johannes Bering - Kantian
- Helmut Beumann - historian
- Theodor Birt - classical philologist
- Herbert Birtner - musicologist
- Elisabeth Blochmann - pedagogue
- Hartmut Bobzin - orientalist
- Franz Borkenau - sociologist, historian
- Helmut von Bracken - educator
- Walther Bremer - prehistoric
- Horst Breuer - English studies
- Franz Brunhölzl - medieval philologist
- Wilhelm Busch - historian
- Hermann von dem Busche - humanist
- Broder Carstensen - English studies
- Eckart Conze - historian
- Karl Christ - ancient historian
- Georg Friedrich Creuzer - classical philologist
- Michael Conrad Curtius (1724–1802) - philologist and historian
- Ernst Robert Curtius - Romanist
- Ernst-Otto Czempiel - political scientist
- Ernst Dammann - Africanist and religious scholar
- Ludwig Dehio - historian
- Frank Deppe - political scientist
- Max Deutschbein - English studies
- Catharinus Dulcis - Romanist
- Kaspar Ebel - philosopher
- Ernst Elster - Germanist
- Hans Engel - musicologist
- Joseph Friedrich Engelschall - university painter , professor d. Sealing u. Drawing art, poet
- Wilhelm Fabricius - historian
- Walter Falk - Germanist
- Johannes Ferianius - pedagogue and theologian
- Bernhard Forssman - Indo-Europeanist
- Paul Friedländer - philologist
- Albrecht Götze - ancient orientalist
- Adolf Grabowsky - political scientist
- Richard Hamann - art historian
- Richard Hamann-Mac Lean - art historian
- Gerhard Heilfurth - folklorist
- Walter Heinemeyer - historian
- Joachim Heinzle - Mediaevist
- Karl Helm - Germanist
- Uwe Hericks - school educator
- Karl Friedrich Hermann - archaeologist
- Ernst Adolf Herrmann - historian
- Eobanus Hessus - humanist, poet
- Andreas Hillgruber - historian
- Werner Hofmann - economic sociologist
- Otto Homburger - Art Historian (Hon.Prof.)
- Paul Jacobsthal - archaeologist
- Peter Jaeck - sports scientist
- Michael Job - Indo-Europeanist
- Hermann Jungraithmayr - Africanist
- Carl Justi - art historian
- Ferdinand Justi - orientalist, traditional costume painter
- Dirk Kaesler (sociologist)
- Guido Kaschnitz von Weinberg - archaeologist
- Wolfgang Klafki - educational scientist
- Heinrich Klotz - art historian
- Max Kommerell - Germanist
- Eduard Koschwitz - Romance philologist and founder of the Marburg summer courses
- Katharina Krause - art historian
- Werner Krauss - Romanist
- Richard Krautheimer - art historian
- Josef Kunz - Germanist
- Karl Lamprecht - historian
- Ingeborg Leister - geographer
- Max Lenz - archivist and historian
- Susanne Lin-Klitzing - school teacher
- Johannes Lonicerus - classical philologist
- Reinhard Lorich (Lorichius) - Professor of Rhetoric and Poetry
- Gert Mattenklott - literary scholar
- Heinz Maus - sociologist
- Harry Maync - Germanist
- Gero von Merhart - prehistoric
- Werner Milch - Germanist
- Walther Mitzka - Germanist
- Walter W. Müller - Semitist
- Heinrich Mutschmann - English studies
- Benedikt Niese - Class. Philologist and historian
- Johannes Nobel - Indologist
- Ernst Nolte - historian
- Gerhard Oestreich - historian
- Horst Oppel - Anglicist
- Heinrich Otten - orientalist
- Kurt Otten - English studies
- Petrus Paganus - professor and poet
- Hans Patze - historian
- Gerhard Pickerodt - Germanist
- Ingo Pini - archaeologist
- Peter von Polenz - Germanist
- Jürgen Petersohn - historian
- Anton von Premerstein - ancient historian
- Karl Prümm - media scientist
- Wilhelm Rau - Indologist
- Georg von Rauch - historian
- Renate Rausch - sociologist
- Dietrich Christoph von Rommel - archivist and historian
- Günther Rönnebeck - pedagogue and ministerial official
- Otto Rössler - Semitist
- Peter Rück - historian
- Peter Scheibert - historian
- Annemarie Schimmel - orientalist
- Walter Schlesinger - historian
- Arbogast Schmitt - Classical Philologist
- Heinrich Schmitthenner - geographer
- Carl Schott - geographer
- Edward Schröder - Germanist
- Leonhard Schultze - geographer (from 1912 Schultze-Jena)
- Hans K. Schulze - historian
- Johann Balthasar Schupp - rhetorician, pastor and writer
- Friedrich Sengle - Germanist
- Max Graf zu Solms - sociologist
- Leo Spitzer - Romanist
- Ursula Spuler-Stegemann - Islamic scholar
- Karl von den Steinen - ethnologist
- Edmund E. Stengel - historian
- Heinz Stübig - educator
- Heinrich von Sybel - historian and politician
- Ludwig von Sybel - archaeologist
- Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann - historian and philosopher
- Gyburg Uhlmann , b. Radke, Classical Philologist
- Wilhelm Viëtor - Anglicist, linguist and neophilologist
- Friedrich Vogt - Germanist
- Justus Vultejus - Professor of the Hebrew Language
- Ludwig Wachler - literary historian, theologian
- Karl Friedrich Weber - Classical Philologist
- Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann - European ethnologist and documentary filmmaker
- Leo Weisgerber - linguist
- Julius Wellhausen - orientalist
- Georg Wenker - Librarian and Linguist ( German Linguistic Atlas )
- Georg Wissowa - classical philologist
- Friedrich Wolters - economic historian
- Johann von Wowern - politician, classical philologist and lawyer
- Ferdinand Wrede - Librarian and Linguist (German Linguistic Atlas)
- Georg Wünsch theologian and church politician
- Otto Philipp Zaunschliffer - lawyer and rhetorician
Science / mathematics
biology
- Friedrich Alverdes - zoologist
- Friedrich Ludwig Emil Diels - botanist
- Armin Geus - biology and medicine historian
- Karl Ritter von Goebel - botanist
- Johann Moritz David Herold - zoologist
- Hans-Dieter Klenk - virologist
- Eugen Korschelt - zoologist
- Roland Lill - biochemist
- Blasius Merrem - zoologist
- Conrad Moench - pharmacist, chemist and botanist
- Karl Joachim Netter - pharmacologist
- Wilhelm Nultsch - botanist
- André Pirson - botanist
- Hermann Remmert - ecologist
- Otto Heinrich Schindewolf - paleontologist
- Rudolf Schmitz - Pharmacist
- Hans-Adolf von Stosch - botanist
- Rudolf K. Thauer - microbiologist
- Albert Wigand (botanist) - pharmaceutical biologist
chemistry
- Hans Günter Aurich
- Karl Friedrich von Auwers
- Horst Böhme - pharmaceutical chemist
- Robert Bunsen
- Georg Ludwig Carius
- Rudolf Criegee - discoverer of the Criegee ozonolysis
- Kurt Dehnicke - chemist (inorganic scientist)
- Karl Dimroth - chemist (organic chemist)
- Friedrich Fittica
- Karl Theophil Fries
- Johannes Gadamer - pharmaceutical chemist
- Erwin Hellner
- Friedrich Hensel - physical chemist
- Erich Hückel - was also a physicist
- Siegfried Hünig
- Wilhelm Jost - physical chemist
- Bernhard Kadenbach - biochemist
- Hans Kautsky
- Hermann Kolbe - chemist (organic chemist)
- Hans Kuhn - physical chemist
- Hans Meerwein - biochemist
- Johannes Daniel Mylius
- Heinrich Nöth
- Christian Reichardt - chemist (organic chemist)
- Günter Schmid - chemist (inorganic scientist)
- Ernst Schmidt - pharmaceutical chemist
- Alfred Thiel
- Johann Jacob Waldschmiedt
- Ferdinand Wurzer - was also a doctor
- Paultheo von Zezschwitz
- Theodor Zincke
physics
- Hans Ackermann
- Ferdinand Braun
- Bruno Eckhardt
- Wilhelm Feussner - was also a mathematician and university librarian
- Siegfried Flügge
- Ernst O. Goebel
- Gerald Grawert
- Siegfried Grossmann
- Eduard Grüneisen
- Carl Hermann
- Ulrich Höfer
- Karl Hermann Knoblauch
- Stephan W. Koch
- Rudolf Kohlrausch
- Günther Ludwig
- Otfried Madelung
- Franz Melde
- Georg Wilhelm Munke
- Antonius Niger - was also a medic
- Joachim Petzold (1928–2013)
- Mauritius Renninger
- Stefan Schmitt-Rink
- Johann Gottlieb Stegmann
- Hans-Jürgen Stöckmann
- Wilhelm Walcher
- Hans Wolter
mathematics
- Ilka Agricola
- Vojislav Gregorius Avakumovic
- Manfred Breuer
- Alexander Dressler
- Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel
- Christian Ludwig Gerling - mathematician, physicist
- Helmut Hasse
- Kurt Hensel
- Maximilian Krafft
- Jürgen Lehn
- Horst F. Niemeyer
- Karl Reinhard Müller
- Alexander Peyerimhoff
- Kurt Reidemeister
- Denis Papin
- Arnold Schmidt
- Franz Karl Schleicher
- Victorinus Schönfeldt
- Friedrich Herrmann Schottky
- Friedrich Stegmann
- Johann Konrad Spangenberg - mathematician and philosopher
- Christian Sturm
- György Targonski
- Heinrich Weber
Earth Sciences and Crystallography
- Rudolf Allmann - crystallographer
- August Denckmann - geologist
- Hansjörg Dongus - geographer
- Wilhelm Dunker - geologist and malacologist
- Theobald Fischer - geographer
- Werner Fischer - crystallographer
- Erwin Hellner - crystallographer
- Carl Hermann - crystallographer
- Johann Friedrich Christian Hessel - crystallographer
- Emanuel Kayser - geologist and palaeontologist, Rector Magnificus and Prorector of the Philipps University of Marburg
- Fritz Laves - crystallographer
- Alfred Pletsch - geographer
- Mauritius Renninger - crystallographer
- Alfred Wegener - discoverer of continental drift, pioneer of polar research
art
- Hans Engel - musicologist
- Gustav Jenner - composer, conductor and recipient of an honorary doctorate from Philipps University
- Kurt Utz - University Music Director
Librarians
- Johann Joachim Schröder - theologian, orientalist
- Johannes Bering - philosopher
- Carl Julius Caesar - classical philologist
- Wilhelm Fabricius
- Wolf Haenisch
- Otto Hartwig
- Franz-Heinrich Philipp
- Ingeborg Schnack
- Dirk Barth
Alumni
A.
- Viktor Agartz - economist
- Hans Peter Althaus - linguist
- Johannes Althusius - theologian and lawyer
- Wilhelm Altmann - historian and librarian
- Karl Altmüller - lawyer and writer
- Hubertus von Amelunxen - art historian
- Günther Anders - social philosopher
- Gert Anhalt - journalist
- Hannah Arendt - philosopher
- Hans Arens - linguist
- Adolf Arndt - politician and lawyer
- Jens Asendorpf - psychologist
- Axel Azzola - lawyer and defender of Ulrike Meinhof in the Stammheim trial
B.
- Rico Badenschier - doctor, politician
- Jürgen Bähr - geographer
- John Baillie - Scottish theologian
- Katarina Barley - lawyer, politician
- Karl Barth - theologian
- Anton de Bary - physician, botanist
- Walter Bauer - New Testament scholar, church historian
- Walter Baumgartner - theologian
- Joe Bausch - doctor, lawyer, actor
- Karl Theodor Bayrhoffer - 1848 freedom fighter
- Hanno Beck - geographer, Humboldt researcher
- Ulrike Beisiegel - biochemist
- Herbert Bellmer - educator and writer
- Gottfried Benn - writer
- Gerold Bepler - oncologist
- Werner Bergengruen - writer
- Erich Volkmar von Berlepsch - governor in Thuringia
- Karl Bernhardi - State Librarian
- Elsa Blöcher - historian and local researcher
- Elisabeth Blochmann - educator and philosopher
- Walter Bloem - writer
- Otto Böckel (1859–1923) - "Hessian Farmer King", founded the German Anti-Semitic Association in 1886
- Christoph Bode - English and American studies
- Friedrich Bohl - politician, businessman
- Andreas Böhm - philosopher and mathematician
- Rudolf Böhm (Anglist) - Anglist
- Paul Boldt - lyric poet
- Wolfgang de Boor - psychiatrist
- Günther Bornkamm - theologian
- Hans Böttcher (philologist), radio pioneer, radio play director and speaker
- Torben Braga - politician
- Ferdinand Braun - physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- Rudolf Breitscheid - politician
- Christian Brentano - writer and publicist
- Manfred Breuckmann - sports reporter
- Klaus Bringmann - ancient historian
- Alexander Crum Brown - chemist
- Christine Brückner - writer
- Peter Brunner - theologian
- Karl Franz Ferdinand Bucher - legal scholar, also private lecturer in Marburg
- Ludwig Büff - lawyer
- Johannes Buno - educator and theologian
- Wolrad Burchardi - legal scholar
- Adolf Butenandt - chemist and Nobel Prize winner
C.
- Jessie Cameron - British mathematician
- Leonhard Heinrich Ludwig Georg von Canngießer - statesman
- Ernst Cassirer - philosopher
- Dieter Cherubim - Germanist
- Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus - zoologist
- Wolfgang Clement - SPD politician
- Carolus Clusius - Dutch Scholar, doctor and botanist
- Hans Conzelmann - theologian
- Valerius Cordus - botanist, doctor, pharmacologist and naturalist
D.
- Max Danz - doctor and athletics official
- Alexander Demandt - ancient historian and cultural scientist
- Heinrich Debus - chemist
- Wilhelm Christoph Diede zum Fürstenstein - Danish diplomat
- Rudolf Diels - lawyer
- Patricia Irene Diffené - English studies
- Wilhelm Dilich - cartographer
- Franz von Dingelstedt - theater man
- Erich Dinkler - Christl. archaeologist
- Andreas Dittmann - Geographer
- Joachim Dorfmüller - music teacher, musicologist, pianist and organist
- Alexander Freiherr von Dörnberg - lawyer, Nazi diplomat
- Hanno Drechsler - Lord Mayor of Marburg
- Wolfgang Drechsler - political scientist
- Alfred Dregger - politician
- Ernst Dronke - writer and journalist
- Konrad Duden - pioneer of German standardized spelling
- Alfred Dührssen - gynecologist
- Heinz Düx - Judge (Auschwitz Trial)
E.
- Ernst Eckstein - writer
- Christoph Ehmann - educational researcher
- Hans Eichel - Minister of Finance, Prime Minister of Hesse
- Carl August Emge - lawyer
- Erika Essen - German didactic specialist
F.
- Peter Feldmann - Lord Mayor (Frankfurt a. M.)
- Adolf Fick - Physiologist
- Franz Nikolaus Finck - linguist
- Hans Fischer - chemist and Nobel Prize winner
- Franz Chassot von Florencourt - writer, journalist
- Birger Forell - pastor
- Reinhard von Frank - Professor of Law, Criminal Law Commentator
- Edward Frankland - chemist
- Ernst Fresdorf - senior municipal official
- Karl Josef Friedrich - Protestant pastor and writer
- Hans Friderichs - Federal Minister of Economics, politician and banker
- Ferdinand Friedensburg - politician
- Friedrich Wilhelm I (Hessen-Kassel) - 1822–1824 student in Marburg
- Theodor Frings - Germanist
- Waldemar Fromm - German studies specialist
- Johann Nicolaus Frobesius
G
- Hans-Georg Gadamer - philosopher
- Kurt Gärtner (Medievalist) - Germanist
- José Ortega y Gasset - philosopher
- Georg Gaßmann - Mayor of Marburg
- Alexander Gauland - lawyer, publicist and politician
- Johannes Geibel - theologian
- Hans W. Geißendörfer - filmmaker
- Friedrich August Genth - chemist and mineralogist (am. Frederick Augustus Genth)
- Wolfgang Gerhardt - FDP politician
- Jürgen Gießing - sports and education scientist
- Hans Bernd Gisevius - Nazi resistance activist
- Klaus Hubert Görg - business lawyer
- Rainer Goebel - psychologist
- Johann Peter Grieß (Griess) - chemist
- WEB Griffin - writer
- Brothers Grimm - Germanists, fairy tale collectors
- Karl Grimm - lawyer
- Johannes Gross - journalist
- Georg Ulrich Großmann - art historian
- Josef Guggenmos - poet, author of children's books
- Wilhelm Gülich - librarian and politician
- Antonius H. Gunneweg - theologian
- Karl Eugen Guthe - German-American physicist
H
- Jürgen Habermas - sociologist and philosopher
- Katharina Hagena - writer
- Walter Hahland - Classical archaeologist
- Otto Hahn - chemist and Nobel Prize winner
- Adolf Haeuser - Chairman of the Marburg University Association
- Salomon Hahndorf - editor
- Patrick Hamilton (theologian) - Scotsman, burned as a heretic
- Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel - English studies specialist
- Eberhard Werner Happel - writer
- Jürgen Wilhelm Harms - zoologist
- Hans Harmsen - population scientist
- Juris Hartmanis - computer scientist and Turing Prize winner
- Michael Hartmann - sociologist
- Fritz Hartung (lawyer) - Reich judge and commentator on criminal law
- Helmut Hasse - mathematician
- Johann Matthäus Hassencamp - ev. Theologian, orientalist, mathematician
- Georg Heer - Privy Counselor and Student Historian
- Heinz Heimsoeth - philosopher
- Martin Hein - ev. Bishop
- Gustav Heinemann - German Federal President
- Philipp Casimir Heintz - clergyman and historian
- Karl Heldmann - historian
- Fritz Hellwig - politician
- Martin Hellwig - economist
- Hermann Hengsberger - lawyer
- Arthur Henkel - Germanist
- Heinrich Henkel - lawyer
- Helmut Henne - Germanist
- Dieter Henrich (philosopher)
- Hans-Hermann Hertle - historian
- Beatrice Heuser - political scientist
- Burkhard Hirsch - Minister of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Thomas Archer Hirst - mathematician
- Barbara Hobom - molecular biologist
- Philipp Hoffmeister - Reformed preacher, collector of fairy tales, draftsman and naturalist
- Wilhelm Friedrich Hombergk zu Vach - German lawyer and Chancellor of the County of Hanau-Munzenberg
- Siegfried Hoppe-Graff - educator and psychologist
- Carl Hueter - surgeon
- Friedrich Hund - physicist
- Wulf D. Hund - sociologist
- Hermann Hupfeld - theologian, orientalist
I.
- Johann Adam Freiherr von Ickstatt - philosopher, representative of the Enlightenment, director of the University of Ingolstadt and founder of the Bavarian secondary school system
J
- Werner Jaeger - Classical Philologist
- Gerhard Jahn - Federal Minister of Justice
- Hans-Joachim Jentsch - lawyer
- Otto John - lawyer, President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution
- Hans Jonas - technology philosopher
- Franz Jügert - lawyer
- Hans-Gernot Jung - theologian, regional bishop
- Robert Jütte - medical historian
K
- Ernst Käsemann - theologian
- Margot Käßmann - Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Hanover
- Joachim Kahl - philosopher, did his doctorate at the university in Protestant theology
- Astrid Kaiser - educational scientist, did her doctorate at the university in educational sciences
- Wilhelm Kamlah - philosopher
- Jörg Kammler - political scientist
- Manfred Kanther - politician
- Fritz Mordechai Kaufmann - journalist
- Peter Kemper - radio journalist HR
- Kim Hwang-sik - Prime Minister of South Korea (last name prefixed in Korean)
- Albrecht Kippenberger - art historian
- Christian von Kirchberg - judge at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar
- Melchior Kirchhofer - Switzerland. Pastor
- Wilhelm Kiesselbach - ENT doctor
- Albert Klein - Bishop
- Christoph Kleine - religious scholar and Japanologist
- Josef Klik - athlete, teacher
- Alexander Kluge - lawyer, filmmaker
- Karl Knies - economist
- Hans-Georg Knopp - Secretary General of the Goethe Institute
- Ernst Koch - lawyer
- Michael Köhlmeier - writer, musician and presenter
- Alexander Koenig - Zoologist ( Museum Koenig )
- Jürgen Kolbe - Germanist, writer and local politician
- Franz König (medical doctor)
- Helmut Koester - theologian
- N'Golo Konaré - blind German teacher and musician from Mali
- Heinz Kosok - English studies
- Dieter Kramer - ethnologist
- Klaus Peter Krause - business journalist
- Pascal Krems - ornithologist and lawyer
- Oswald Kroh - educator and psychologist
- Friedrich Krollpfeiffer - chemist
- Gerhard Krüger - philosopher
- Friedrich Ernst Krukenberg - physician
- Wilhelm Krull - Foundation Manager
- Otto Kruse - psychologist and expert on writing inhibitions
- Hans Kuhn - Germanist
- Hjalmar Kutzleb - writer, educator
L.
- Gertrud von Le Fort - writer
- Volkmar Lehmann - Slavist
- Robert Lehr - Federal Minister of the Interior
- Nechama Leibowitz - Bible researcher and teacher
- Werner Leich - Thuringian regional bishop
- Friedrich Leinert - composer and musicologist
- Ernst Lemmer - politician
- Friedrich von der Leyen - Germanist
- Stephan Lessenich - Sociology Professor
- Heinrich Leuchter - theologian
- Dagmar Leupold - writer
- Wilhelm Liebknecht - politician
- Felix Lobrecht - stand-up comedian
- Jakob Loewenberg - writer, educator
- Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov - Russian naturalist and poet, co-founder of Moscow University
- Friedrich Lucae - lawyer and writer
- Carl Ludwig - physician, physiologist
- Alexander Lüdeke - author and translator
- Christina Luft - psychologist and professional dancer
M.
- Ernst Friedrich Georg Otto von der Malsburg - lawyer, writer
- Adelbert Matthaei - art historian
- Bernd Baron von Maydell - lawyer
- Andreas Mayer (mathematician)
- Hermann Adolph Meinders - lawyer, historian and historian
- Ulrike Meinhof - journalist, RAF founding member and left-wing terrorist
- Ernst Meister - writer
- Friedrich Mennecke - medic
- Nikolai Alexandrovich Menshutkin - chemist
- Balthasar Mentzer the Younger - theologian
- Peter Merseburger - TV journalist
- Friedrich Merz - lawyer, politician
- Friedrich Michael - publisher
- Albert Molnár - reformed theologian
- Ludwig Mond - chemist, industrialist
- Wolfgang J. Mommsen - Historian (twin brother of the historian Hans Mommsen )
- Salomon Hermann Mosenthal - writer
- Friedrich von Motz - Prussian Finance Minister
- Hans Much - physician and writer
- Franz Walter Müller - Romanist
- Erich Müller-Gangloff - publicist
- Horst Haider Munske - Germanist
- Georg Heinrich Mylius (1884–1979) - pharmacist
N
- Otto Nasse - medic
- Michael Naumann - Publicist ( Die Zeit )
- Gerhard Nebel - writer
- Helmut Neuhaus - historian
- Friedrich Neumann - Germanist
- Gotthard Neumann - prehistoric
O
- Peter Oberender - Economist
- Ferdinand Ochs - District Administrator
- Friedrich Oetker - lawyer, politician
- Richard Ohnsorg - actor and theater director
- Dietrich Oldenburg - lawyer, writer
P
- Boris Pasternak - writer and Nobel Prize winner
- Friedrich Paulus - officer
- Ruth Pfau - Leprosy doctor in Pakistan and religious sister
- Wilhelm Pfeffer - botanist
- Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer - doctor, botanist
- Klaus Pickshaus - political scientist
- Johann Jakob von Pistor - Russian lieutenant general
- Albert Pfuhl - Hessian state politician (SPD)
- Julius Plücker - mathematician and physicist
- Franz Pöggeler - educator
- Reinfried Pohl - insurance magnate
- Tanja Pommerening - Egyptologist
- Georg von Porbeck - lawyer
- Otto von Porbeck - lawyer
- Friedrich Prüser - Director of the Bremen State Archives
- Johann Stephan Pütter - lawyer
Q
- Alfred de Quervain - theologian
R.
- Ulrich Raulff - Director of the German Literature Archive in Marbach
- Ludwig Rehn - doctor
- Klaus Reichert - President of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt
- Adolf Reichwein - educator
- Helmut Reitze - HR director
- Kurt Reuber - pastor, doctor, visual artist (Stalingrad Madonna)
- Ernst Reuter - politician, Governing Mayor of Berlin
- Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl - cultural historian
- Heinz Risse - writer
- Henning Ritter - journalist, translator, writer
- Julius Rodenberg - writer
- Georg Rohde - classical philologist
- Dietmar Rothermund - historian
- Vera Rüdiger - politician
- Hans Gottlob Rühle - lawyer
S.
- Martin Sabrow - historian
- Jasep Saschytsch - Belarusian politician and officer
- Ferdinand Sauerbruch - surgeon
- Botho Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein - DRK Honorary President
- Alexander Mikhailovich Saizew - chemist
- Hans Joachim Schaefer - Dramaturg
- Jan Schalauske - politician
- Heinrich Scheffer - Mayor of Kirchhain
- Heinrich Schlier - theologian
- Jürgen Schmädeke - historian, journalist
- Stefan S. Schmidt - painter
- Paul Schneider - Pastor
- Gottfried Schramm - Eastern European historian
- Paul Schreckenbach - pastor, writer of historical novels
- Klaus Schrenk - General Director of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
- Beate Schücking - doctor, rector of the University of Leipzig
- Walter Schulz - philosopher
- Heinrich Schütz - composer
- Anton Schwob - Austrian Germanist
- Heinrich Wolfgang Seidel - writer
- Reimund Seidelmann - political scientist, art collector
- Elisabeth Selbert - lawyer, politician
- Bogislav von Selchow - writer, student corps leader 1920
- Hans Sennholz - German economist and US university professor
- Robert Servatius - lawyer
- Vasily Sesemann - Baltic philosopher
- Manfred Siebald - Americanist
- Fritz Siemens - physician
- Konstantinos Simitis - Prime Minister of Greece from 1996 to 2004
- Spiros Simitis - Law Professor, Chairman of the National Ethics Council
- Ronald Smelser - am. Historian
- Hans Somborn - actor and director
- Rudolf Stammler
- Peter Steinacker - Church President
- Rolf Steininger - historian
- Werner Friedrich Julius Stephan von Spiegel - nature lover ("mirror lust")
- Heinrich Spoerl - writer
- Alfred Walter Stewart - British chemist a. Detective novelist (JJ Connington)
- Georg Christian Stiebeling - doctor, socialist
- Edward Stilgebauer - writer (1868-1936)
- Benedikt Stilling - Medic
- Michael P. Streck - ancient orientalist
- Carl Strehl - co-founder of the German Institute for the Blind
- Michael Stürmer - historian
- Emil Stumpp - painter and draftsman
- Tawara Sunao - medic
- Friedrich Sylburg - Class. philologist
- Werner Sylten - pastor
T
- Władysław Tatarkiewicz - philosopher
- Walter Thiel - chemist
- Helmut Thielicke - theologian
- John Tyndall - physicist, discoverer of the Tyndall effect
U
- Armin Ulrich - director
V
- Konrad Vanja - Director of the Museum for European Cultures, Berlin
- Theo Vennemann - linguist
- Otmar von Verschuer - Nazi scientist and StuKoMa
- August Vilmar - conservative Hessian statesman, theologian and Germanist
- Ludwig von Vincke - Prussian reformer
- Hans-Jochen Vogel - Minister of Justice, SPD Federal Chairman, candidate for Chancellor, Lord Mayor of Munich
- Alice Voinescu - Romanian philosopher, essayist and translator
- Jacob Volhard - chemist
- Gerhard Volkheimer - gastroenterologist
- Karl Vorländer - philosopher
- Birgit Voßkühler - Law
W.
- Ernst Wachler - founder of the mountain theater in Thale / Harz
- Hans Heinrich Wachs - physician, landowner and politician
- Wilhelm Wagner - medic
- Walter Wallmann - politician, Prime Minister of Hesse
- Hermann Weber - historian
- Werner Wedemeyer - lawyer
- Ferdinand Weerth - theologian
- Max Weinreich - Yiddist
- Wilhelm Weischedel - philosopher
- Herbert Ernst Wiegand - Germanist, Linguist
- Ludolf Wienbarg - publicist
- Franziska Wiethold - former deputy head of the HBV union
- Paul Wigand - lawyer
- Ludwig von Wildungen - chief forest master and hunting writer
- Karl Georg Winkelblech - chemist, national economist
- Dmitri Iwanowitsch Vinogradow - inventor of the Russian hard porcelain and founder of the porcelain manufactory in St. Petersburg
- Gilbert Winram - Scottish theologian
- Wolfgang Wippermann - historian
- Andreas Wiß - poet
- Georg Wittig - chemist and Nobel Prize winner
- Friedrich Wöhler - chemist
- Peter Woeste - diplomat
- Karl Dietrich Wolff - SDS chairman, publisher
- Kurt Wolff - publisher
- Olaus Wormius - Ole Worm, Imperial archivist of Denmark, archaeologist
- Willi Wottreng - journalist and book author
- Hermann Wurmbach - zoologist
- Ulrich Wyss - Professor of German Studies
- Daniel Albert Wyttenbach - classical philologist
Y
- Alexandre Yersin - physician, discoverer of the plague pathogen (Yersinia pestis)
Z
- Andreas Zick - social psychologist
- Karl Ziegler - chemist and Nobel Prize winner
Honorary citizens and honorary senators
The Philipps University can honor personalities who are characterized by a special bond with the university. From 1921 they were given the title of “honorary citizen” of the university, and in 1927 they were renamed “Honorary Senator”.
- Adolf Haeuser , lawyer and chemist (awarded in 1921)
- Otto Ubbelohde , eraser and illustrator (awarded in 1921)
- George D. Horst , entrepreneur for hosiery and knitwear, art collector (awarded in 1922)
- Ludwig Pfeiffer , lawyer, until 1934 director of the Deutsche Bank branch in Kassel and from 1945 chairman of the IHK Kassel (awarded in 1923)
- Paul Guder , Secret Medical Councilor (conferred in 1923)
- Emil Sardemann , Medical Councilor (conferred in 1923)
- Gottlieb Braun , publishing bookseller in Marburg (awarded 1927) (*)
- Friedrich Grimm , associate professor in Münster, lawyer and publicist (awarded 1927) (*)
- Heinrich Hopf , social democrat and local politician. Head of the City Council in Frankfurt from 1919 to 1924, Chairman of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Hesse-Nassau (awarded 1927)
- Hans Jenner , District Administrator (awarded 1927)
- Christian Jakob Kappus , secondary school teacher in Wiesbaden (awarded 1927) (*)
- Alexander von Keudell , lawyer, district administrator (awarded 1927)
- Robert Lehr , Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf (awarded in 1927)
- Wilhelm Lutsch , governor in Wiesbaden and central politician, revocation of honorary senator status in 1938, returned to honorary senator after the end of the Nazi era (conferred in 1927)
- Johannes Mueller , lawyer, Lord Mayor of Marburg (awarded 1927)
- Gottfried Rabe von Pappenheim , lawyer, district administrator and governor in Hesse (awarded 1927)
- August Rohde , Councilor of Justice and Head of the City Council of Marburg (awarded in 1927)
- William Rosenblath , neurologist (awarded 1927)
- Otto Schellmann , lawyer, regional councilor, deputy governor in Kassel (awarded 1927)
- Wilhelm Schmieding , District Administrator, Member of Parliament (DVP), from 1921 then Regional Director of the Free State of Waldeck-Pyrmont (awarded 1927)
- Adolfo Schürmann , doctor (awarded 1927)
- Ernst August Schwebel , District Administrator of the Marburg District (awarded 1927) (*)
- Georg Thöne , President of the State Insurance Institute for Hesse-Nassau and SPD politician, revocation of honorary senator status in 1938, after the end of the National Socialist era, he was made an honorary senator again (conferred in 1927)
- Werner Tönsmann , General Director of the main German agricultural cooperative in Korbach (awarded in 1927) (*)
- Oswald Waldschmidt , German magistrate and politician (DNVP) (awarded in 1927)
- Richard Weber , editor of the "Kasseler Post" and chairman of the Central German Newspaper Publishers' Association (awarded in 1927)
- Paul Duden , director of Farbwerke Hoechst, son of German studies specialist Konrad Duden (awarded 1928) (*)
- Hermann Mengel , chemist, manager of the Hoechst paintworks (awarded in 1928)
- Julius Grimm , President of the District Court and Head of the City Council in Hanau (awarded in 1929)
- Hermann Wenzel , Privy Councilor, University Judge (awarded 1929)
- Ernst Leitz , head of the optical works in Wetzlar (awarded 1931)
- Ernst von Hülsen , Upper President of the Hesse-Nassau Province in 1932 and 1933, Curator of the Philipps University of Marburg (awarded 1932) (*)
- Heinrich Hackmann , full professor for the history of religion at the University of Amsterdam (awarded 1934)
- Max Schindowski , former Ministerialrat D. in the building construction department of the Prussian Ministry of Finance (awarded 1934)
- Bogislav Freiherr von Selchow , frigate captain ret. D., Freicorps Leader (awarded 1939) (*)
- Emil Krückmann , secret medical advisor and professor of ophthalmology (awarded 1940)
- Karl Weinrich , Gauleiter Kassel (awarded 1940) - Weinrich refused the honor and was therefore never an honorary senator (*)
- Wilhelm Traupel , Governor of the Province of Hessen-Nassau in Kassel and SS-Oberführer (awarded 1940) (*)
- Carl-Ludwig Lautenschläger , deputy board member of IG Farben (awarded in 1941) (*)
- Hans Alfred Engel , lawyer, studied and doctorate in Marburg. Director of the social department in the Reich Labor Ministry, from 1942 as State Secretary in the Ministry (awarded 1941) (*)
- Konrad von Monbart , lawyer, since 1933 district president in Kassel (awarded in 1944) (*)
- Anton Kippenberg , Germanist, publisher and director of Insel-Verlag from 1905 to 1950, President of the Goethe Society from 1938 to 1950 (awarded 1949) (*)
- Alexander Beck , Professor of Roman and Swiss Law at the University of Bern (awarded in 1949)
- Paul Ferdinand Jacobsthal , archaeologist (awarded 1950)
- Friedrich August Pinkerneil - economic functionary, honorary senator and honorary doctor (awarded 1950)
- Reinhold Letschert , Head of Volksbank Kassel (awarded 1952)
- Fritz Hoch , District President Kassel (SPD) (awarded in 1952)
- Alan Coatsworth , insurance businessman and promoter of international Christian-Jewish understanding from Toronto, Canada (awarded 1952)
- Georg Häring , Governor of Kassel (SPD) (awarded in 1952)
- Wilhelm Schoof , Germanist and Head of Studies in Bad Hersfeld (awarded 1952) (*)
- Michel Erlenbach , chemist, member of the board of directors of Farbwerke Hoechst and chairman of the supervisory board of Behringwerke (awarded 1955)
- Willy Viehweg , reform pedagogue and ministerial director in the Hessian Ministry of Culture (SPD) (awarded in 1958)
- Karl Winnacker , chemist and director of Farbwerke Hoechst (awarded in 1959) (*)
- Bertram Schaefer , entrepreneur and owner of a wallpaper factory (awarded 1961)
- Karl Larsen , Director of the Rheingauer Volksbank in Geisenheim, Chairman of the German Cooperative and Raiffeisen Association (awarded in 1965) (*)
- Heinz Massingh , director of a coal and steel company, President of the Kassel Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 1952 to 1966 (awarded 1966)
- Herbert Reichel , textile entrepreneur (awarded 1967) (*)
- Karl Vötterle , publisher in Kassel (awarded 1968)
- Martha Schmidtmann , pathologist (awarded 1968)
- Marie Luise Zarnitz , chemist and art collector (awarded in 1996)
- Reinfried Pohl , entrepreneur (awarded 1998)
- Hilde Eitel , entrepreneur and textile designer (awarded in 2002)
The Senate of the University of Marburg disapproves of the behavior of the persons marked with (*) during the National Socialist era .
Visitors / people connected to the university
- Stephan Agricola - Reformer ( Marburg Religious Discussion )
- Bettina von Arnim - writer (see Marburg House of Romanticism )
- Reinhard Balzer - Patron (Mineralogical Museum)
- Paul Baum - painter, professor of painting in Kassel, honorary doctorate from Philipps University in 1927
- Howard P. Becker - Americ. University officer
- Friedrich Ludwig von Berlepsch - Prefect
- Ludwig Bickell - State Conservator for Monument Protection
- Ernst Biltz - pharmacist, chemist, honorary doctorate in 1888
- Marie Anne Victorine Boivin - midwife, author of an early standard work on obstetrics, honorary doctorate in 1828
- Wilhelm Braun-Elwert - University bookseller
- Clemens Brentano - poet
- Johannes Brenz - Reformer (Marburg Religious Discussion)
- Giordano Bruno - poet and philosopher, burned as a heretic
- Martin Bucer - Reformer (Marburg Religious Discussion)
- Joachim Heinrich Campe - educator
- José Carreras - Tenor (Honorary Doctor 2006)
- Wolfgang Clement - politician, former trainee lawyer at the Institute for Litigation Law
- Alan Coatsworth - Patron (University Library)
- Henry Crabb Robinson - journalist and writer
- Paul Deussen - philosophy historian, indologist
- Johannes Dieckmann - President of the GDR People's Chamber ("All-German Conversation" on January 13, 1961)
- Paul Duden - Chairman of the Marburg University Association
- Carl Duisberg - industrialist ("Dr.-Carl-Duisberg-Haus", student residence)
- Karl Egermann - Managing Director of the Marburg Student Union
- TS Eliot - Writer (Summer Student 1914)
- Anton Fridrichsen - Scandinavian theologian (honorary doctorate 1927)
- Max Frisch - writer (honorary doctorate 1962)
- Hansgeorg Gareis - Chairman of the Marburg University Association
- Carl Graepler - Director of the Marburg University Museum
- Alfred Gysi - Swiss dentist (honorary doctor 1927)
- Johann Otto Ludwig Christian Hach - University drawing teacher (Dr. phil. 1831)
- Edward Hartshorne - Americ. University officer
- Kaspar Hedio - Reformer (Marburg Religious Discussion)
- Jules Alphonse Hoffmann - biologist and Nobel Prize in Medicine, former postdoctoral fellow at Philipps University
- August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben - German Studies (visiting August Vilmar)
- Arthur J. Hopkinson - British and Indian Civil Servant (Summer Student 1914)
- Ernst von Hülsen - curator of the Philipps University
- Alexander von Humboldt - natural scientist
- Wilhelm von Humboldt - statesman
- Otmar Issing - economist
- Johann Peter Theodor Janssen - painter (murals in the university auditorium, honorary doctorate in 1904)
- Justus Jonas the Elder - Reformer (Marburg Religious Discussion)
- Marie Luise Kaschnitz - writer
- Anton Kippenberg - publisher
- Katharina Kippenberg - editor
- Albrecht Kippenberger (1890–1980), art historian and first director of the university museum
- Benedikt Klein - Medieval Germanist
- Heinz Kloss - linguist
- Carl Knetsch - State Archives Director
- Adolph Knigge - writer
- Samson B. Knoll - Chief Interrogator for Military Government Information Control of the US Army Administration (OMGUS) in Marburg 1945/46, Germanist and historian
- Gustav Könnecke - Grimmelshausen researcher
- Walter Kröll - University President
- Friedrich Küch - State Archives Director
- Will Lammert - Sculptor (Memorial of the University of 1927)
- Georg Landau - archivist (honorary doctorate 1846)
- Alexander Linnemann - Architect (design of the auditorium from 1891)
- Martin Luther - Reformer (Marburg Religious Discussion)
- Friedrich von Matthisson - poet
- Philipp Melanchthon - Reformer (Marburg Religious Discussion)
- Adolph Menzel - painter
- Sophie Mereau - writer
- Geoffrey Nuttall - British clergyman and church historian
- Carl Ochsenius - geologist
- Johannes Oekolampad - Reformer (Marburg Religious Discussion)
- Franz von Papen - politician ("Marburg speech" 1934)
- Robert Prutz - writer, publisher, journalist
- Barry Raftery - Irish archaeologist a. Celtologist
- Carl Schäfer - Architect ("Old University")
- Caroline Schelling - writer and "muse"
- Otto Schmeil - biology didactician and specialist book author
- Helmut Schmidt - politician, publicist (honorary doctor 2006)
- Otto von Solms - Rector (around 1567)
- Louis Spohr - musician, composer (honorary doctorate 1827)
- Kurt Steinmeyer - director of the Philippinum grammar school
- Carl Stock - sculptor (bronze "tennis player" 1927)
- Shepard Stone - New York Times journalist and historian; organized the establishment of a democratic press in the American zone of occupation in 1945/46
- Tendzin Gyatsho - 14th Dalai Lama (Honorary Doctor 2009)
- Otto Ubbelohde - fairy tale illustrator (Grimms), painter
- Hans Vießmann - Patron (Marburg University Association)
- Martin Viessmann - entrepreneur, patron (Marburg University Association)
- Conrad Westermayr - Director of the State Drawing Academy in Hanau
- Karl Winnacker - Chairman of the Marburg University Association
- Daniel Jeanne Wyttenbach - Marburg's first honorary doctorate in 1827: writer, philanthropist and patron
- Rudolf Zingel - University President 1971–1979
- Christian Zippert - Bishop of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck
- Ulrich Zwingli - Reformer (Marburg Religious Discussion)
See also
- List of personalities of the city of Marburg
- List of honorary citizens of Marburg
- List of the city leaders of Marburg
Web links
- Marburg professor catalog online
- Historical personal directories of the Philipps University online
- List of honorary senators of the University of Marburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to Rermschmidt in the Oberhessische Presse on July 19, 2016 , Weber celebrated at least her 100,!