List of well-known personalities of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena

This list contains personalities who are connected to the Friedrich Schiller University Jena .

The university has existed in Jena since 1558 . There are currently around 18,000 students enrolled there.

The personalities of the university include on the one hand well-known people who studied there and on the other hand people who teach or taught there and who have achieved a certain degree of awareness.

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Present person
Currently working at the FSU

students

Surname	Life dates	Studied in Jena	Classification and Achievements
Paul Adloff	1870-1944	Dentistry and Zoology	Dentist and anthropologist
Ernst Moritz Arndt	1769-1860	u. a. Theology , history , geography and ethnology	Historian , publicist , etc. a. Rector of the University of Bonn
Friedrich Albrecht Augusti	1691-1782	theology	Protestant clergyman and theologian as well as former rabbi
Bernhard Averbeck	1874-1930	law Sciences	Cement manufacturer in Göschwitz near Jena, President of the German Cement Association
Horst Averbeck	1900-1986	Economics	Mining entrepreneur, businessman and inventor; is considered a pioneer in joint development in German concrete road construction
Johann Friedrich Bachstrom	1686-1742	theology	Theologian, physician, technician, writer and educator
Ernst Gottfried Baldinger	1738-1804	medicine	Physician, personal physician of the Hess. Landgraves
Jan Ignacy Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay	1845-1929	philology	linguist
Max Bense	1910-1990	Habilitation, philosophy , 1946	Philosopher , semiotic , university curator 1945–1946, later University of Stuttgart
Duke Bernhard	1638-1678		first duke of the independent duchy of Saxony-Jena
August Daniel von Binzer	1793-1868		Poet , journalist , member of the original fraternity
Elisabeth Blochmann	1892-1972	u. a. History , German Studies and Education	pedagogue
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach	1752-1840	medicine	Anatomist and anthropologist
Samuel Bredetzky	1772-1812	u. a. Theology, philosophy and science	Evangelical superintendent of Galicia, teacher and writer
Alfred Edmund Brehm	1829-1884	Natural sciences	Zoologist , author of Brehms Tierleben
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Breyer	1771-1818	philosophy	Historian and university professor
Alexander Brückner	1834-1896	History and economics	Economic historian and cultural historian
Gottfried Ferdinand von Buckisch and Löwenfels	1641-1699	Law	Lawyer and church historian
Johann Karl Immanuel Buddeus	1780-1844	Law	Political scientist
Jakob Burckhard	1681-1752	philology	Classical philologist and librarian
August Burckhardt	1868-1935	Philology and History	historian
Johann Philipp Burggrav	1673-1746	medicine	doctor
Johann Philipp Burggrave	1700-1775	medicine	Doctor and author
Gabriel Christoph Benjamin Busch	1759-1823	theology	Clergyman, theologian and writer
Rudolf Carnap	1891-1970	Mathematics , physics and philosophy	philosopher
Galeazzo Ciano	1903-1944	law Sciences	Italian politician (Foreign Minister 1936–1943) and diplomat
Matthias Claudius	1740-1815	Theology and Law (1759–1763)	poet
Georg Friedrich Creuzer	1771-1858	Theology (1790/91)	Classical philologist
Sigrid dam	1940 – today	German Studies and History (1959–1965)	Literary scholar and multiple honored writer
Franz von Dingelstedt	1814-1881	Doctorate in absentia (1838)	Poet , journalist and important theater director , director of the Vienna Burgtheater , famous for the Weser song
Martin Disteli	1802-1844	Philosophy (1821 / 22–1823)	Swiss painter , painted the robbery of the Sabine women in the dungeon of the university in 1822
Carl Duisberg	1861-1935	Chemistry , PhD 1882	Chemist, industrialist
Johann Conrad Dürr	1625-1677	Theology and Philosophy 1649	Polyhistor
Volker Ebersbach	1942 – today	Classical Philology and German Studies (1961–1966), doctorate in 1967	Writer , university professor
Ines Eck	1956 – today	Medicine, literature, language and cultural studies	Artist Fluxus tradition (words, images, sounds, social issues)
Ernst II of Saxe-Altenburg	1871-1955	Astrophysics (early 1930s)	last ruling duke of the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg , NSDAP member; only former German prince, the citizens of the GDR was
Roland Freisler	1893-1945	Law, PhD 1922	National Socialist - President of the People's Court in Berlin
Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel	1782-1852	Mathematics and natural sciences (1799–1802)	Founder of the kindergarten
Jürgen Fuchs	1950-1999	Social Psychology (1971–1975) forcibly de-registered	Writer, psychologist , GDR civil rights activist
Heinrich von Gagern	1799-1880	Law (1818/19)	Fraternity member, 1848 President of the National Assembly in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt
Ines Geipel	1960 – today	German studies	Writer and professor
Heinrich Gelzer	1847-1906	Ancient History (1878–1906)	Orientalist
Johann Matthias Gesner	1691-1761	Philology (1710–1715)	Class Philologist, librarian
Martin Gimm	1930 – today	Musicology, Oriental Studies (1949/51)	Sinologist
Johann Jakob Gradmann	1750-1817	theology	Clergyman, theologian and educator
Johann Gottfried Gregorii	1685-1770	Theology (1703-1718)	Geographer, cartography theorist, later pastor
Johann Diederich Gries	1775-1842	Jurassic 1795	writer
Johann Peter Grieß	1829-1888	1850/51	Chemist
Gottfried August Gründler	1710-1775		Engraver and master drawing in Halle (Saale)
Otto von Guericke	1602-1686	Law (1621–1623)	Physicist , founder of vacuum technology
Jacob Paul von Gundling	1673-1731	Law and History	Historian , court scholar and involuntary court jester in the immediate vicinity of the Prussian "soldier king" Friedrich Wilhelm I , President of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin
Nikolaus Hieronymus Gundling	1671-1729	Law (1692–1695)	Professor of natural law and philosophy as well as prorector of the Friedrichs-Universität Halle / Saale, formerly an enlightener, polyhistor, royal Prussian. Privy councilor and consistorial councilor of the Duchy of Magdeburg
Friedrich Joseph Haass	1780-1853	Philosophy (1802/03)	Medic, the "Holy Doctor of Moscow"
Theodor Hackspan	1607-1659	philosophy	Orientalist and theologian, professor in Altdorf
Ernst Haeckel	1834-1919	Habilitation March 4, 1861 at the Medical Faculty	Physician, zoologist, breakthrough in the theory of evolution
Friedrich von Hagedorn	1708-1754	Law (1726–1729)	poet
Gunther von Hagens	1945 – today	Medicine (1965–1968)	Anatom , university professor, entrepreneur, is considered the inventor of plastination , initiator of the controversial exhibition Body Worlds
Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (Novalis)	1772-1801	law Sciences	poet
Arvid Harnack	1901-1942	Law 1920–1923	Lawyer, economist and resistance fighter
Carl Hauptmann	1858-1921	Philosophy and Natural Sciences (1880–1883)	Writer (brother of Gerhart Hauptmann)
Gerhart Hauptmann	1862-1946	Philosophy and literary history 1882/83	Poet, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1912
Georg Achatz Heher	1601-1667	Law 1621–1623	Lawyer, diplomat and chancellor
Johann Ludwig Heim	1741-1819	theology	Theologian, mineralogist and geologist
Georg Heinrich Henrici	1770-1851	philosophy	Philosopher and clergyman
Wilhelm Friedrich Hezel	1754-1824	u. a. Theology 1772–1775	Orientalist, theologian and university professor
Johann Hoffmann	1644-1718	Theology (1670–1673)	Protestant hymn poet and teacher
Ernst Hoffmann	1827-1877	Natural sciences	Anatom, Rector of the University of Basel
Cuno Hoffmeister	1892-1968	Astronomy, Mathematics and Physics (1920–1925)	Astronomer and geophysicist
Friedrich Hofmann	1813-1888	History (1834-1840)	writer
Daniel Hofmann	≈1538-1611	Philosophy and theology	Theologian, protagonist in the Hofmann dispute (1598)
Ludwig Hofmann	1798-1879	Jurisprudence	Politician
Friedrich Holderlin	1770-1843	Philosophy (1794/95)	poet
Walther von Hollander	1892-1973	Literature and philosophy	writer
Herbert Hörz	1933 – today	Philosophy and Physics (1952–1953)	Science philosopher, science historian and university professor
Friedrich Hufeland	1774-1839	medicine	City and court physician in Weimar, professor of medicine
Franz Maximilian Freiherr Jahnus von Eberstädt	1711-1772		Austrian field marshal lieutenant and city commander of Hamburg
Johann Christopher Jauch	1669-1725	theology	Superintendent zu Lüneburg, author of baroque poems and lyrics
Marie Elise Kayser	1885-1950	medicine	First graduate of the medical faculty, founder of the human milk collection points in Germany
Georg Klaus	1912-1974	Pedagogy (1947/48)	Mathematical logician, philosopher, cyberneticist, university professor and chess player
Friedrich August Klein	1793-1823	Theology, philosophy and philology	Theologian and clergyman
Hans Kniep	1881-1930	botany	biologist
Andreas Knorr	1965 – today	Physics (1986–1990), PhD 1993	Theoretical physicist, university professor
Friedrich Koch	1813-1872	Theology (1832-1835)	Philologist and grammarian, received his doctorate in Jena in 1848
Johann Christoph Koch	1732-1808	Law (PhD 1756)	University professor, privy councilor and university chancellor
Johann Matthias Koch from Gailenbach	1646-1713	law Sciences	Patrician, merchant and privy councilor in Augsburg
Albrecht Heinrich Matthias Cooking	1776-1847	Theology (PhD 1799)	Protestant theologian and clergyman
Fabienne Kohlmann	1989 – today	psychology	Athlete , World Cup and European Championship participant (400 m hurdles and 4 × 400 m relay)
Jan Kollár	1793-1852	Philosophy and Theology (1817–1819)	Protestant clergyman, poet and linguist
Edmund King	1858-1939	Higher teaching post	Educator, local politician, philosopher
Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher	1796-1868	Theology (1817-1819)	theologian
Hans Küstermann	1873-1915	Rights (1892-1896)	jurist
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz	1646-1716	Mathematics, physics, astronomy (1663–1666)	Philosopher , scientist , mathematician , diplomat , physicist , historian , librarian , lawyer , church lawyer , is considered the universal spirit of his time, namesake of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin
Samuel Lenz	1686-1776		Historian, lawyer and university professor
Heinrich Leo	1799-1888	philology	Original fraternity , historian, Prussian politician
Robert Ley	1890-1945	Natural sciences	leading NSDAP member, head of the German Labor Front , member of the Reichstag , accused of the Nuremberg trials
Christine Lieberknecht	1958 – today	Theology (1976–1982)	Politician (CDU), Prime Minister of the Free State of Thuringia (2009-2014)
Heinrich Liebmann	1874-1939	mathematics	Mathematician, son of Otto Liebmann
Jan songs	1979 – today	law Sciences	Legal scholar and judge
Hermann Lietz	1868-1919	Theology, philosophy, history and German studies	German reform pedagogue
Uwe Jens Lornsen	1793-1838	Jurassic (1816-1820)	Original fraternity member , administrative lawyer and publicist
Carl Friedrich Ernst Ludwig	1773-1846		Publicist and journalist
Johann Jakob Lungershausen	1665-1729	Theology and philology	Theologian, university professor and superintendent von Mühlhausen
Johann Christian Lünig	1662-1740		Historian, lawyer and publicist
Georg Lysthenius , also Georg List	1532-1596	theology	Lutheran theologian and reformer
Johann Christian von Majer	1741-1821	Law, doctorate in 1771	Law scholar and university professor
Traugott Märcker	1811-1874	History and philology	Historian and archivist
Theodor Marezoll	1794-1873	law Sciences	Law scholar and university professor
Franz Heinrich Martens	1778-1805	Medicine (Doctorate 1800)	Doctors and university professors
Karl Marx	1818-1883	1841 Doctorate in philosophy in absentia	Philosopher and political journalist
Hans Ferdinand Maßmann	1797-1874	Protestant theology and classical philology	Germanist, teacher, sports pedagogue and poet
Johann Matthias Matsko	1721-1796	mathematics	Mathematicians, university professors and university professors
Gottfried Meinhold	1936 – today	Speech Science Vice Rector	Science fiction writer
Johann Gerhard Meuschen	1680-1743	theology	Theologian and clergyman, general superintendent of Saxe-Coburg
Thank God Wilhelm Meyer	1768-1816	theology	Lutheran theologian, clergyman and university professor
Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer	1800-1873	theology	Lutheran theologian and clergyman, senior consistorial councilor in Hanover, founder of the critical-exegetical commentary on the New Testament
Jacob Meyer	1799-1865	Theology, philosophy	Swiss naturalist, geographer and educator
Joachim Bartholomäus Meyer	1624-1701		Librarian and hymn poet
Johann Christian Friedrich Meyer	1777-1854	Law, Cameralistics , Physics (PhD 1803)	Forest scientist
Nikolai Miklucho-Maklai	1846-1888	Philosophy and medicine	Russian explorer, anthropologist
Moritz Mitzenheim	1891-1977	theology	Thuringian regional bishop, honorary doctorate from the FSU in 1947
Rowena Morse	1870-1958	PhD in 1904	as the first woman to do her doctorate at the University of Jena
Reimar Muller	1932-2020	History (1951–1952) and Classical Philology (1952–1957)	Classical philologist, academy professor in Berlin
Johann Karl August Musäus	1735-1787	Theology and Classical Philology	Writer, fairy tale collector
Carl Friedrich Naumann	1797-1873	philosophy	geologist
Christian Gotthold Neudecker	1807-1866	Theology, History and Education (1826–1829)	Church historian, private scholar and educator
Klaus Niedner	1911-2003	medicine	Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Medical Academy Erfurt
Dieter Noll	1927-2008	German studies, art history and philosophy (1948–1950)	writer
Ernst Robert Osterloh	1813-1884	law Sciences	Legal scholar, judge and university professor
Axel Oxenstierna	1583-1654	Theology and Law (1601–1603)	Swedish Chancellor under King Gustav Adolf
Peter-Jürgen Paschold	1946-2013	Agriculture	Crop scientist
Hermann Pistor	1875-1951	Mathematics, physics, geography	Co-founder of modern optics in Germany
Georg Poelchau	1773-1836	1792-1796	Musician, private scholar, music collector
Johannes Pretten	1634-1708	before 1659, PhD 1685	theologian
Samuel von Pufendorf	1632-1694	Natural law with Erhard Weigel 1656–1658	Lawyer and historian
Bernhard Pünjer	1850-1885	Theology and Philosophy, 1874 PhD, 1874 Lic. Theol, 1875 Habilitation	theologian
Johann Stephan Pütter	1725-1807	law Sciences	jurist
Heinrich Rahn	1601-1662	law Sciences	University professor, Rector Univ. Rostock
Lutz Rathenow	1952 – today	Teacher for German and History	writer
Georg Friedrich Rebmann	1768-1824	law Sciences	publicist
Gottfried Christian Reich	1769-1848	medicine	Doctors and university professors
Johann Elias Reichardt	1668-1731	theology	Pedagogue
Christian Ernst von Reichenbach	1644-1699	Jurisprudence	Statesman and university professor
Thomas Reinesius	1587-1667	medicine	Doctor and philologist
Fritz Reuter	1810-1874	Law 1832/33	Fraternity, writer
Heinrich Arminius Riemann	1793-1872	theology	Theologian, fraternity member
Eugene Rochko	?-today	Computer science from 2012 to 2016	Mastodon inventor and developer
Alexander Rost	1816-1875	Law from 1836	writer
Edith Rothe	1897-1989	German studies, history, art history	Librarian, Author and Publicist
Johann Rothmaler	1601-1650	theology	General Superintendent von Rudolstadt, honorary doctorate from the university
Christian Gotthilf Salzmann	1744-1811	theology	Theologian and educator
Karl Ludwig Sand	1795-1820	Theology (1817-1819)	Original fraternity member , assassin of August von Kotzebue
Jakob Schaller	1604-1676	Theology, Philosophy 1629–1631	Philosopher and theologian
Heinrich Gottfried Scheidemantel	1739-1788	History and Law	German lawyer and university professor
Werner Scheler	1923-2018	Medicine (1946–1951)	President of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR
Johann Georg Schelhorn	1694-1773	theology	German theologian, clergyman and church historian
Johann Adam Schertzer	1628-1683	theology	Lutheran theologian and university professor
Christian Samuel Schier	1791-1824		poet
Johann Justin Schierschmid	1707-1778	Law and philosophy	University professor for law and philosophy
Solomon Marcus Schiller-Szinessy	1820-1890	Doctorate in philosophy and mathematics in 1845	Hungarian-British scholar and rabbi , first Jewish professor at Cambridge University
Julius Heinrich Gottlieb Schlegel	1772-1839	Study of medicine and surgery from 1788 to 1795, doctorate in 1795	Medic, administrative officer and specialist writer
Johann Ferdinand Schlez	1759-1839	Studied theology from 1778 to 1781	Clergyman, educator and writer
Arthur Schopenhauer	1788-1860	Doctorate in philosophy in 1813	Philosopher and author
Heinrich Schmid	1799-1836	Study of philosophy	philosopher
Georg Schubart	1650-1701	Studied theology, law, history and antiquity, philosophy and eloquence	Historian, lawyer and philosopher
Hugo Schuchardt	1842-1927	philosophy	Romanist
Johann Sigismund Schulin	1694-1750	unknown	German-Danish diplomat and foreign minister
Adolf Moritz Schulze	1808-1881	Philology and Theology	Theologian and educator
Nicolaus Schwebel	1713-1773	philologist	Philologist, poet and educator
Christoph Timotheus Seidel	1703-1758	theology	Lutheran theologian and professor at the University of Helmstedt
Charles Sorley	1895-1915	1914	British poet of the First World War
Karl vom Stein to Altenstein	1770-1840	law	Prussian politician , was the first Prussian minister of education to lay the foundations for the German school system
Ingo Steinwart	1970 – today	Graduate college and doctorate in natural sciences	Mathematician and current professor at the University of Stuttgart
Manfred Stolpe	1936-2019	Law (1955–1959)	Politician ( SPD ), Prime Minister of Brandenburg (1990–2002), Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Housing (2002–2005)
August Thieme	1780-1860	theology	Pastor, teacher, poet
Ferdinand Tönnies	1855-1936	Philology and History (1872–1977, partly in Jena)	Sociologist , economist , philosopher , founder of German sociology
Kurt Tucholsky	1890-1935	Doctorate to Dr. iur. 1915	Journalist, writer and publicist
Ludwig Wachler	1767-1838	theology	Literary historian
Sahra Wagenknecht	1969 – today	Philosophy and German literature studies	Politician (Die Linke)
Adolph Dietrich Weber	1753-1817	Law 1770 to 1773	Law scholar and university professor
Immanuel Weber	1659-1726	Law 1682	Historian, legal scholar and university professor
Johann Christoph Weingärtner	1771-1833	Theology from 1789 to 1791	Mathematician, clergyman and theologian
Johann Weinmann	1599-1672	Theology from 1618 to 1620	Lutheran theologian
Heinrich Weipert	1856-1905	Doctorate Dr. jur. 1884	Lawyer, professor at Tokyo University, advisor to the Japanese government, consul in Korea
Friedrich Weise	1649-1735	Philosophy and Theology 1670 to 1673	Clergyman, theologian and university professor
Emil Welti	1825-1899	Law 1844–1847	Swiss politician , member of the Federal Council and multiple Federal President
Johann Ernst Wenigk	1702-1745	from 1718 theology and philosophy	Clergyman, theologian and hymn poet
Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann	1770-1840	at the medical faculty 1790–1792	Natural scientist and entomologist
Friedrich Adolf Willers	1883-1959	Mathematics and Physics 1903/04	applied mathematician
Johann Joachim Winckelmann	1717-1768	Studied higher mathematics and medicine with Georg Erhard Hamberger in 1741/42	Founder of Classical Archeology
Jost Winteler	1846-1929	Study of German Studies a. a. with Eduard Sievers 1870/75	Author of a groundbreaking dissertation on the sound system of a Swiss-German dialect and later Albert Einstein's father
Friedrich Ludwig von Witzleben	1755-1830	Study at the law faculty and doctorate in law 1774–1778	General director of Forste in Hessen, author of forestry specialist literature and founder of the Waldau Forestry School
Christa Wolf	1929-2011	German Studies (1949–1953, partly in Jena, partly in Leipzig)	multiple award-winning writer, controversial because of her GDR biography
Christian Wolff	1679-1754	Theology, Mathematics and Physics (1699–1702)	Polymath
Otto Wolters	1796-1874	Theology from 1817 to 1819	Chief Pastor of the Katharinenkirche in Hamburg

Employee

Surname	Life dates	Employee in Jena	Classification and Achievements
Ernst Abbe	1840-1905	Professor of Theoretical Physics (1870–1891), then director of the Jena University Observatory	Astronomer , physicist , optician , entrepreneur and social reformer , co-founder of modern optics, developed many optical instruments, made Carl Zeiss world famous
Walter Ameling	1958 – today	Professor of Ancient History (1996–2009) Dean of the Philosophical Faculty (2003-2005)	Ancient historian
Felix Auerbach	1856-1933	Professor of Theoretical Physics (1889–1933)	physicist
Bruno belly	1877-1942	Professor of Philosophy (1911), Rector of the University (1922)	philosopher
Walther Bauersfeld	1879-1959	Associate Professor for Special Areas of Physics (1927–1945)	Engineer and physicist
Kaspar Achatius Beck	1685-1733	associate professor of law (1718–1730, full professorship from 1726) Professor of the Pandects (1730–1733)	Lawyer, Councilor of the Ernestine Saxon Houses
Max Bense	1910-1990	Curator 1945 Associate Professor for Philosophical and Scientific Propaedeutics (1946–1948)	Philosopher, semiotic
Hans Berger	1873-1941	Professor and Head of the Psychiatric University Clinic (1919–1938) Rector of the University (1927/28)	Psychiatrist , neurologist , developer of electroencephalography (EEG)
Heinrich Besseler	1900-1969	Full Professor of Musicology (1949–1956)	Musicologist
Otto Binswanger	1852-1929	a. o. Professor of the Psychiatric University Clinic (1882-1891) Head of the Psychiatric University Clinic (1891-1919) Vice Rector of the University (1911)	Psychiatrist, neurologist, treated a. a. Friedrich Nietzsche
Reinhard Blickhan		Professor of Movement Science	Biologist , winner of the Walter Arndt Prize (1993)
Max Hildebert Boehm	1891-1968	Professor of Folk Theory and Sociology of Ethnicity (1933–1945)	National Socialist representative of "völkisch" sociology
Felix Boesler	1901-1976	Professor of Economics and Public Finance (1939–1945)	National Socialist expert on the connection between population and financial policy, advised Heinrich Himmler on the General Plan East from 1940
Michael Brenner	1994 – today	Professor of German and European Constitutional and Administrative Law (since 1995)	Legal scholar
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Breyer	1771-1818	from 1800 private lecturer, 1803 a. o. Professor	Historian and university professor
Johann Salomon Brunnquell	1693-1735	Professor of Law (1728–1735)	Legal historian
Heinrich Gustav Brzoska	1807-1839	from 1832 private lecturer, from 1835 a. o. Professor	Pedagogue
Alexander Cartellieri	1867-1955	Professor of general history and historical auxiliary sciences (1902–1935) Vice Rector (1914)	historian
Siegfried Jost Casper	1929 – today	Head of the Jena Botanical Garden (1992–?)	biologist
Eduard Chambon	1822-1857	Privatdozent, later professor of private law	Legal scholar
Uwe Claussen	1945-2008	Professor of Human Genetics (1993-2008)	Mediciners
Corinna Dahlgrün	1957 – today	Professor of Practical Theology (since 2005)	Protestant theologian
Klaus Dicke	1953 – today	Professor (1995-2017) Rector (2004-2014)	Political scientist
Berthold Delbrück	1842-1922	Professor of Comparative Linguistics and Sanskrit (1870–1913) Rector (1908–1909)	Linguist
Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner	1780-1849	Associate Professor of Chemistry , Pharmacy and Technology (1810–1849)	Chemist, thought leader for the creation of the periodic table
Gustav Doederlein	1893-1980	Professor of Gynecology (1946–1959)	President of the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics
Klaus Dörre	1957 – today	current professor for work and economic sociology	sociologist
Johann Gustav Droysen	1808-1884	Professor of History (1851-1859)	historian
Gustav Eichhorn	1862-1929	Professor of Prehistory and Protohistory (1927–1929) Head of the Germanisches Museum (1918–1929)	Prehistoric, founder of the state conservation of monuments in Thuringia
Johann Gottfried Eichhorn	1752-1827	Professor of Oriental Languages ​​(1755–1788)	Orientalist
Abraham Esau	1884-1955	Professor of Physics (1928–1945) Rector (1932–1935, 1937–1939)	Physicist, member of the uranium project to research nuclear fission
Johann Georg Estor	1699-1773	Teaching activity 1735–1742	jurist
Ludwig Ettmüller	1802-1877	Privatdozent from 1830 to 1833	philologist
Rudolf Eucken	1846-1926	Professor of Philosophy (1874–1920)	Philosopher and winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for Literature
Heinz Ensign	1941 – today	former professor of Caucasus Studies	Caucusologist, holder of the Georgian Order of Honor
Alfred Fahr	1949 – today	Professor of Pharmaceutical Technology (2000–2015)	pharmacist
Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach	1775-1833	Privatdozent (since 1798) associate professor of law (1801) Professor of feudal law (1801)	Lawyer, founder of modern German criminal law
Johann Gottlieb Fichte	1762-1814	Professor of Philosophy (1794–1799)	Philosopher, representative of German idealism
Karl Follen	1796-1840	Lecturer in comparative literature (1819)	Scholar, writer and radical democrat of the Vormärz
Norbert Frei	1955 – today	Professor of Modern and Contemporary History (since 2005)	historian
Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege	1848-1925	associate professor (1878-1896) full professor (1896–1917)	Logician, philosopher, mathematician
Jakob Friedrich Fries	1773-1843	Professor of Philosophy (1816–1819, 1838–1843) Professor of Mathematics and Physics (1824–1838)	Philosopher, physicist and mathematician, speaker at the Wartburg Festival
Wolfgang Frindte	1951 – today	Professor of Communication Psychology (1997-2017)	Communication scientist, co-founder of the Institute for Communication Studies at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Peter Gallmann	1952 – today	Professor of Contemporary German Language (2001-2017)	Linguist, member of the Council for German Spelling
Carl Gegenbaur	1826-1903	Associate Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy (1855–1858) Professor of Comparative Anatomy (1858–1873)	anatomist
Christian August Gottlieb Göde	1774-1812	Professor of Law and Philosophy	Legal scholar
Harald Graef	1942 – today	Lecturer in construction law after 1990	President of the Thuringian Constitutional Court
Johann Jakob Griesbach	1745-1812	Professor of Theology (1775–1812)	theologian
Karl Griewank	1900-1953	Professor of History (1947–1953)	historian
Rolf Groeschner	1947 – today	Professor of Public Law and Legal Philosophy (1993–2013)	Legal scholar, legal philosopher
Walter Grundmann	1906-1976	Professor of New Testament and Ethnic Theology (1936–1945)	National Socialist theologian, active member of the German Christians
Erich Gutenberg	1897-1984	Professor of Business Administration (1941–1947)	Economist , founder of modern German business administration (BWL)
Karl Julius Guyet	1802-1861	Professor of Law (1836–1861)	Civil lawyer, Rector of the University, Privy Councilor of Justice
Ernst Haeckel	1834-1919	Professor of Zoology (1865–1909)	Zoologist and philosopher
Karl von Hase	1800-1890	Professor of Theology (1830-1883) Rector	theologian
Josef Haemel	1894-1969	Professor of Dermatology (1935–1945, 1947–1958) Director of the University Skin Clinic (1935–1945) Dean of the Medical Faculty (1939–1944) Vice Dean of the Medical Faculty (1950–1958) Rector (1951–1958)	Dermatologist
Erich Häßler	1899-2005	Head of the University Children's Clinic (1953–1965)	Pediatrician
Gerhard Heberer	1901-1973	Professor of General Biology and Anthropogeny (1938–1945)	National Socialist "racial researcher", member of the SS research association German Ahnenerbe
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	1770-1831	Lecturer in philosophy (1801–1805) Associate Professor of Philosophy (1805–1807)	Philosopher, important representative of German idealism
Max Henkel	1870-1941	Head of the University Women's Clinic (1910–1935) Rector (1923/24)	Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics
Georg Heinrich Henrici	1770-1851	Private Lecturer in Philosophy	Philosopher and clergyman
Klaus-Peter Hertzsch	1930-2015	Professor of Practical Theology
Karl Gustav Himly	1772-1837	Professor of Internal Medicine (1801–1803)	Surgeon and ophthalmologist
Johann Friedrich Hirt	1719-1783	Associate Professor of Philosophy (1758–1769) Professor of Theology (1769–1775)	Theologian and orientalist
Johann Hoffmann	1644-1718	Privatdozent (1673–1676)	Protestant hymn poet and teacher
Peter M. Huber	1959 – today	Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law , European Law , Public Economic and Environmental Law (1992–2001)	jurist
Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland	1762-1836	Honorary Professor (1793–1801)	Physician, founder of the first morgue and the first polyclinic , director of the Charité in Berlin
Friedrich Hufeland	1774-1839	Private lecturer (1811), professor (1812) of medicine	Physician, city and court physician in Weimar
Friedrich Hund	1896-1997	Professor of Theoretical Physics (1946–1951), Rector (1948)	Physicists, established Hund's rule , discovered the tunnel effect
Yusuf Ibrahim	1877-1953	Professor of Pediatrics (1917–1953)	Mediciners
Johann Adolph Jacobi	1769-1847	Associate Professor of Philosophy (from 1798)	Protestant theologian
Berthold Kihn	1895-1964	Professor of Neurology (1938–1945)	Mediciners
Georg Klaus	1912-1974	Professor of Dialectical and Historical Materialism (1950–1953)	philosopher
Friedrich August Klein	1793-1823	associate professor of theology	Theologian and clergyman
Matthias Knauff	1978 – today	Professor of Public Law	Legal scholar, university professor and judge
Hans Knöll	1913-1978	Professor of Bacteriology (1950–1976)	Bacteriologist, realized the first large-scale penicillin production in Europe in 1942
Ludwig Knorr	1859-1921	Professor of Chemistry (1889–1921)	Lay the foundations for the German pharmaceutical industry
Johann Christoph Koch	1732-1808	Private lecturer in law (1756–1759)	University professor, privy councilor and university chancellor
Paul Koebe	1882-1945	Professor of Mathematics	mathematician
Christian Heinrich Gottlieb Köchy	1769-1828	Private lecturer in law (1800–1803)	Legal scholar
Richard Kolb	1891-1945	Professor of Defense History and Defense Philosophy (1938)	National Socialist Broadcasting Director and SS-Hauptsturmführer
Klaus Kübel	1941-2008	Chancellor (1990-2007)	Lawyer , honorary doctorate for services to the FSU
Hermann Kuhnt	1850-1925	Professor of Ophthalmology (1891-1892)	Mediciners
Bernhard Kummer	1897-1962	Professor of Nordic Language and Culture and Germanic Religious History (1942–1945)	National Socialist Germanist and specialist in Old Norse languages
Falko Langenhorst	1964 – today	Professor of General and Applied Mineralogy (2004–2008) Professor of Analytical Mineralogy (2011 – today)	Mineralogist , winner of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
Henning Laux	1979 – today	Research assistant at the Chair for General and Theoretical Sociology from 2006 to 2012	Sociologist and university professor
Johann von Leers	1902-1965	Professor of History (1940–1945)	Anti-Semitic and National Socialist propagandist
Olaf Leiße	1966 – today	Professor for European Studies (substitute from 2007, associate professor from 2014)	Political scientist
Oliver Lembcke	1969 – today	Research assistant at the chair for political theory and at the chair for public law and legal philosophy, later substitute professor	Political scientist
Otto Liebmann	1840-1912	Professor of Philosophy 1882	philosopher
Jan songs	1979 – today	Research assistant from 2003 to 2013	Legal scholar and judge
Heinrich Luden	1778-1847	Professor of History (1806–1847)	Historian, original fraternity member
Johann Jakob Lungershausen	1665-1729	Adjunct from 1693, professor from 1701 to 1716	theologian
Georg Machnik	1935 – today	Professor of Pathology Rector (1993–2000)	Hepato gastroenterologist
Johann Christian von Majer	1741-1821	a. o. Professor of Philosophy from 1772	Law scholar and university professor
Johann Gottlob Marezoll	1761-1828	Honorary Professor of Theology	preacher
Theodor Marezoll	1794-1873	Privatdozent 1817/18	Law scholar and university professor
Franz Heinrich Martens	1778-1805	a. o. Professor of Medicine 1804, 1805 o. Professor	Doctors and university professors
Erich Maschke	1900-1982	professor	historian
Klaus Matthes	1931-1998	Professor 1964–1968, Dean 1966	Director at the Central Institute for Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , later the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics
Heinz Mettke	1924-2007	professor	Germanist
Wolf Meyer-Erlach	1891-1982	Professor of Practical Theology (1933–1945) Dean of the Faculty (from 1934) Rector of the University (1935–1937)	National Socialist theologian
Karl-Ulrich Meyn	1939 – today	Professor (1991-2004) Vice Rector (1993–1997) Rector (2000-2004)	Lawyer , deputy judge at the Thuringian Constitutional Court (1995–?)
Wilfried Möbius	1914-1996	Head of the University Women's Clinic (1959–1980) Dean of the Medical Faculty (1968–1974)	Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics
Joachim Müller	1906-1986	Director of the Germanic Institute (1953–1968) Professor of German Literature (1969–1971)	Literary scholar
Georg Mylius	1548-1607	Professor of Theology (1569–1603)	theologian
Lutz Niethammer	1939 – today	Professor of Modern and Modern History (1993-2005)	historian
Carl Nipperdey	1821-1875	from 1855 member of the Senate Dean of the Philosophical Faculty (1857, 1861) Vice-Rector of the University (1857/58) Professor of Classical Philology (1852–1975) Professor of Eloquence (1867–1875)	Classical philologist
Christoph Ohler	1967 – today	Professor of Law	Legal scholar and constitutional judge
Lorenz Oken	1779-1851	Associate Professor of Medicine (1807–1812) Honorary Professor for Natural Sciences (1812–1819)	Medicines and naturalists
Harry Paul	1931 – today	research assistant (1955–1958)	physicist
Heinz Penzlin	1932 – today	Professor of General Zoology and Animal Physiology (1974–1997)	biologist
Peter Petersen	1884-1952	Educational Science (1923–1950)	Reform pedagogue , founder of the Jena-Plan schools
Erich Preiser	1900-1967	Professor of Economics (1939-1946)	economist
William Thierry Preyer	1841-1897	Professor of Physiology	physiologist
Bernhard Pünjer	1850-1885	Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology	theologian
Gerhard von Rad	1901-1971	Professor of Theology (1934–1945)	theologian
Alfred Recknagel	1910-1994	1929 student, 1947–1948 lecturer	physicist
Johann Elias Reichardt	1668-1731	Lecturer in theology	Pedagogue in Gotha
Christian Ernst von Reichenbach	1644-1699	Lecturer in Law	Statesman
Klaus Richter	1936-2001	Honorary professor for animal physiology	biologist
Wilhelm Röpke	1899-1966	Professor of Economics (1924 ff.)	Political economist
Werner Rolfinck	1599-1673	Professor of surgery, anatomy and botany (1629–1641) Professor of Iatrochemistry (1641–1673)	Anatom, rejected the idea that all metals can be turned into gold
Hartmut Rosa	1965 – today	current professor of sociological theory	Sociologist and political scientist, known for his theory of deceleration
Caroline Rosenthal	1969 – today	Professor of American Literature and Cultural Studies (since 2009)	Germanist, Americanist, Editor of the Journal for Canada Studies
Walter Rosenthal	1954 – today	Professor (since 2014) President (since 2014)	Mediciners
Michael Joseph Rossbach	1842-1894	Professor of Medicine	Director of the University Hospital
Friedrich Rückert	1788-1866	Privatdozent (1810-1812)	Philologist, translator, poet
Falk Ruttke	1894-1955	Professor of "Race and Law" (1940–1945)	Lawyer, representative of the " National Socialist Racial Hygiene "
Caspar Sagittarius	1643-1694	Professor of History (1674–1694)	Historian and philologist
Heinrich Gottfried Scheidemantel	1739-1788	Professor of feudal law from 1769 to 1784	Constitutional lawyer
Max Scheler	1874-1928	Private lecturer in philosophy (1900–1905)	philosopher
Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling	1775-1854	Professor of Philosophy (1798–1803)	Philosopher, main exponent of German idealism
Johann Justin Schierschmid	1707-1778	a. o. Professor of Philosophy	Legal scholar and philosopher
Friedrich Schiller	1759-1805	Professor of Philosophy (as a historian) (1789–1799)	Historian and writer, the most important German playwright
Gregor Schirmer	1932 – today	1961 Lecturer in International Law and Vice Rector 1965 Habilitation (international law)	International lawyer, SED functionary, active in the PDS , Die Linke and the Marxist Forum after the fall of the Wall
August Wilhelm Schlegel	1767-1845	Associate Professor of Philology (1798–1801)	Literary historian, translator , writer , Indologist , philosopher , co-founder of German Romanticism
Ron Winkler	1973 – today	Linguistics and literature studies	Lyric poet
Friedrich Schlegel	1772-1829	Privatdozent (1800/01)	Co-founder of German Romanticism
August Schleicher	1821-1868	Professor of Philosophy (1851–1868)	Linguist
Matthias Jakob Schleiden	1804-1881	associate professor (1839-1850) Professor of Botany (1850–1863) Head of the Botanical Garden (1850–1863)	Botanist, co-founder of the cell theory
Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt	1812-1887	Professor of History (1860–1887)	Historian, member of the Reichstag 1874–1876
Ernst Schmutzer	1930 – today	Rector of the University (1990–1993)	theoretical physicist
Erwin Schrödinger	1887-1961	a. o. Professor without apprenticeship position (1920)	Austrian physicist , scientific theorist , co-founder of quantum physics , winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics
Georg Schubart	1650-1701	Professor of practical philosophy, as well as of poetry and eloquence	Lawyer, philosopher, rhetorician and historian
Georg Schuppener	1968 – today	Lecturer (1999–2000)	Linguist
Bernhard Sigmund Schultze	1827-1919	Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics (1858–1903), Rector (winter semester 1864/65)	Obstetrician reformer and founder of modern gynecology
Eduard Sievers	1850-1932	Professor of Germanic and Romance Philology (1871–1881) Professor of German Philology (1881–1883) Vice Rector (1881/82)	Germanist
László Sólyom	1942 – today	Law (1966–1969)	Lawyer , librarian , politician , acting President of Hungary
Günter Steiger	1925-1987	University custodian	historian
Ingo Steinwart	1970 – today	Research Associate (2000-2003)	Mathematician and current professor at the University of Stuttgart
Johann Gustav Stickel	1805-1896	Professor of Theology (1830–1839) Professor of Oriental Literature (1839–1896)	Theologian, orientalist, numismatist
Johannes Stigel	1515-1562	Professor of Philosophy (1558–1562)	Poet and rhetorician, the first dean of the philosophical faculty
Karl Volkmar Stoy	1815-1885	Professor of Education (1845–1865)	Pedagogue, most important exponent of Herbartianism
Rudolf Straubel	1864-1943	Professor of Physics (1897–1943)	physicist
Bernhard Strauss	1956 – today	Professor of Medical Psychology and Psychosocial Medicine (since 1996)	Psychologist , psychotherapist , psychoanalyst
Helmut Thiele	1926-2003	Professor of Mathematics (1964–1968)	Mathematical logician and theoretical computer scientist
Carl Johannes Thomae	1840-1921	Professor of Philosophy (1879–1914)	mathematician
Udo Tworuschka	1949 – today	Professor of Religious Studies (1993–2011) Vice Dean of the Faculty of Theology (1995–1997) Dean of the Faculty of Theology (2000–2002)	Protestant theologian, religious scholar
Georg Uschmann	1913-1986	Director of the Ernst Haeckel House (1959–1979)	Science historian (natural sciences, medicine), establishment of the chair for the history of natural sciences (1965) in Jena, namesake of the Georg Uschmann Prize for outstanding individual achievements in the history of science for younger scientists
Albert Voit	1562-1606	Professor of Poetics (? –1857)	Literary scholar
Karl Vollers	1857-1909	Professor of Oriental Languages (1896–1909)	Orientalist
Peter Walgenbach	1962 – today	Professor of General Business Administration / Organization, Leadership and Human Resource Management (since 2008)	Business economist
Paul Weber	1868-1930	1896 private lecturer, 1901 professor for art history	Art historian, founder of the Jena City Museum
Erhard Weigel	1625-1699	Professor of Mathematics (1653–1699)	Mathematician, builder of the Weigel house
Friedrich Weise	1649-1735	Professor of Theology 1780 to 1782	Clergyman, theologian and university professor
Lukas Weischner	1550 / 55-1609	Librarian of the university library and university bookbinder (1588 / 89–1609)
Matthias Wesenbeck	1531-1586	Professor of Law and Philosophy (1558–1569)	jurist
Petrus Wesenbeck	1546-1603	Professor of Law (1570–1587)	jurist
Friedrich Widebrand	1532-1585	Professor of Latin Language and Logic (1563–1569)	theologian
Anarg Friedrich von Wildenfels	1555-1602	Rector
Max Vienna	1866-1938	Director of the Physics Institute	Physicist (optics)
Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff	1799-1851	professor	Literary scholar
Friedrich Zucker	1881-1973	Rector (1928/29 and 1945–1948)	Classical philologist and papyrologist

Individual evidence

1. ^ Martin Disteli: Anti-clerical caricatures and satires XXXIV
2. ^ Philippe Kaenel: Martin Disteli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 9, 2004 , accessed June 29, 2019 . Here, humanities are listed as a subject, but according to humanities , humanities was a synonym for philosophy at the time . A further source , however, speaks of nature - and world history , physics , chemistry , political economy and jurisprudence .
3. ↑ ard.ndr.de accessed on August 2, 2010
4. ↑ Personnel and course directories of the University of Jena . Neuenhahn, Jena 1927.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Rector's Table of the FSU ( Memento from November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 911 kB)
6. ^ Theodor Muther:  Estor, Johann Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, pp. 390-392.
7. ↑ http://www.presse-wissenschaft.de/idw-news-49656.php  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ^ Josef Hämel: Siegling, Claudia: Prof. Dr. med. Josef Hämel (1894–1969): Life and Work
9. ^ August Wilhelm Schlegel: Curriculum Vitae and Works
10. ^ Erwin Schrödinger: Biography of the Austrian Central Library for Physics
11. ↑ Johann Gustav Stickel: Article in the English Wikipedia
12. ↑ Georg Uschmann: Contains information on the life data ( Memento from March 17, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
13. ^ Georg Uschmann: History of the Ernst Haeckel House ( Memento from September 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
14. ↑ Georg Uschmann: Contains information on the Georg Uschmann Prize (pp. 30–31) (PDF; 1.8 MB)
15. ^ Georg Uschmann: Leopoldina: Georg Uschmann Prize for the History of Science
16. ^ Friedrich Zucker: People - University museums and collections in Germany