List of well-known personalities from the Humboldt University of Berlin
This list includes former and current well-known members of the Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin) , including 29 Nobel Prize winners. The reading members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences , who were entitled to hold lectures at the university, occupy a special position among the lecturers .
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| Curt Abel-Musgrave (1860-1938) | Physician, chemist, educator, journalist, author, translator, publicist and local politician | Medical student |
| Nele Alder-Baerens (* 1978) | Middle, long distance and ultra runner | Student of biophysics; promotion |
| Roberto Ampuero (* 1953) | Chilean writer | 1980–1983 student of literature and political economy |
| Alex Arteaga | Head of the auditory architecture sub-division at the master's degree in Sound Studies, UdK Berlin | He studied piano, music theory, electroacoustic music and architecture in Barcelona and Berlin and was at the Institute for Philosophy of the Humboldt University in Berlin with the dissertation Sensuous Framing. Doctorate in the basics of a strategy for the conception and implementation of framework conditions for perception .
2008 to 2012 postdoctoral position at the Kolleg research group Image Act and Embodiment |
| Paul Friedrich August Ascherson (1834–1913) | Botanist, historian, ethnographer and linguist | 1855 Dissertation on the plant geography of the Mark Brandenburg, from 1873 associate professor |
| Susanne Augenhofer (* 1977) | Legal scholar | Junior professor 2009–2013, since 2013 professor |
| Joachim Auth (1930–2011) | physicist | Professor of Semiconductor Physics |
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| Michelle Bachelet (* 1951) | Chilean President | Medical student |
| Susanne Baer (* 1964) | German legal scholar and Federal Constitutional Judge since 2011 | since 2002 professor for public law |
| Adolf von Baeyer (1835-1917) | German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1905 | 1866–1872 associate professor |
| Bruno Bauer (1809-1882) | German theologian, Bible critic, philosopher | Student of theology and philosophy, habilitation in 1834 |
| Edgar Bauer (1820–1886) | German political-philosophical writer and activist | Law student |
| Hans-Joachim Bautsch (1929-2005) | German mineralogist | 1970–1984 Professor of Crystallography, 1984–1993 Professor of Mineralogy and Petrography and Director of the Mineralogical Museum at the Museum of Natural History |
| Karl Bernhard Bamler (1865–1926) | German meteorologist | Pioneer of free ballooning |
| Jurek Becker (1937–1997) | German writer, u. a. Jacob the Liar | 1957–1960 student of philosophy (excluded from studies in 1960 for political reasons) |
| Angelika Behnke (* 1973) | German pastor, first woman at Dresden Frauenkirche | Theology student |
| Emil Adolf von Behring (1854–1917) | German bacteriologist and serologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1901 | 1889–1894 Robert Koch worked at the Berlin Institute for Infectious Diseases |
| Dennis Bemmann (* 1978) | Co-founder of studiVZ | 1999–2001 student of computer science |
| Heinz Berggruen (1914-2007) | Gallery owner, art collector and patron | 1932– studied German |
| Rolf Bertolini (1927-2006) | anatomist | 1980–1986 Professor of Anatomy and Director of the Institute of Anatomy |
| Hannah Besel (* 1995) | Rower | Sports science student |
| Wolf Biermann (* 1936) | German songwriter | Student of political economy |
| Lothar Bisky (1941–2013) | German politician | Student of philosophy |
| Jens Bisky (* 1966) | Journalist and critic | Student of cultural studies and German studies, doctorate on classical and romantic architectural aesthetics |
| Norbert Bisky (* 1970) | painter | Student of German and art history |
| Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) | German statesman | Law student |
| W. Michael Blumenthal (* 1926) | US Secretary of the Treasury, Director of the Jewish Museum Berlin | Member of the University's Board of Trustees |
| Max Bodenstein (1871-1942) | German physical chemist | Professor at the Physicochemical Institute |
| Janis Michael Bohle | Handball players | Sports science / history student |
| Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) | Theologian and resistance fighter | 1927 doctorate
1929–1933 assistant position (1930 habilitation) |
| Max Born (1882-1970) | German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1954 | 1915–1919 associate professor for physics |
| Walther Bothe (1891–1957) | German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1954 | 1925–1929 private lecturer
1929/30 associate professor for physics |
| Charlotte Brauch (* 1991) | LA high jump | Student of Psychology (MA) |
| Wolfgang Brobeil (1911–1981) | German journalist and director | from 1929 student of German studies, history, art history, national economy, philosophy and sociology |
| Norman Bröckl (* 1986) | German canoeists | Student, geography and sports to become a teacher |
| Alexander Brückner (1834-1896) | German historian | Student of history and economics in the 1850s |
| Lothar Brunsch | University lecturer for engineering / industrial engineering | 1970–1974 student of economics
1974–1977 doctorate on problems of the provision of information in the preparation of investments in socialist agriculture under the conditions of the use of IT since 1993 professor of business administration, in particular accounting, finance and annual financial statements |
| Eduard Buchner (1860-1917) | German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1907 | 1898–1909 Professor of Chemistry at the Agricultural University in Berlin (incorporated into the university as a faculty in 1934) |
| Tamara Bunke (1937-1967) | Revolutionary and guerrilla fighter | Student at the Romance Studies Institute |
| Anton Burkhardt (* 1994) | German rower | Law student |
| Adolf Butenandt (1903–1995) | German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939 | 1938–1944 honorary professor of biochemistry |
| Karin Büttner-Janz (* 1952) | Sportswoman, world champion and Olympic champion on uneven bars | 1971–1978 studied medicine |
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| Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945) | German philosopher | Student of German literature and philosophy (private lecturer) |
| Frank Castorf (* 1951) | German director and theater manager | Theater studies student |
| Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838) | German naturalist and poet | college student |
| Christo and Jeanne-Claude (* 1935) | Artist couple | 1995 honorary doctorate |
| Heinrich Cordes (1866–1927) | Lawyer, interpreter, consul, banker | Student of philology, law (state examination) and sinology (diploma) |
| Auguste Cornu (1888–1981) | French historian; Member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin | Professor at the HUB 1951–1956 Chair of Cultural History |
| Heinrich Cunow (1862–1936) | Marxist theorist, member of the SPD state parliament, lecturer at the party school, from 1917 editor of the SPD theory magazine Die Neue Zeit | 1919–1927 professor of ethnology |
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| David J. Dallin (1889–1962) | Belarusian politician, writer and journalist | college student |
| Peter Debye (1884–1966) | Dutch physicist and theoretical chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1936 | 1935–1939 Professor of Physics |
| Karl Dickel (1853-1920) | German forest scientist and lawyer | 1900–1920 associate professor of law |
| Otto Diels (1876–1954) | German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1950 | 1904–1914 private lecturer, 1914–1916 associate professor for organic chemistry |
| Wilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911) | German philosopher, psychologist and educator | Student of history, theology and philosophy |
| Enne Heeren Dirksen (1788–1850) | German mathematician | 1824–1848 full professor of mathematics |
| Hans Dölle (1893–1980) | jurist | Student, assistant |
| Hedwig Dohm (1831-1919) | German writer and women's rights activist | enrolled as a part-time student prior to admission to women's studies in Prussia |
| Ivan Jawachishvili (1876–1940) | Georgian scientist | 1901–1902 visiting scholar |
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| Ernst Theodor Echtermeyer (1805–1844) | German writer, literary historian, aesthetician and philosopher | Student of Philology and Philosophy |
| Lazăr Edeleanu (1861-1941) | Romanian chemist | In the course of his doctorate under August Wilhelm von Hofmann , he succeeded in 1887 with the first synthesis of amphetamine |
| Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795–1876) | German microbiologist | Professor of the history of medicine and physiology, rector 1855/56 |
| Alfred Ehrentreich (1896–1998) | German reform pedagogue | High school teacher, headmaster and author |
| Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915) | German chemist, physician, serologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1908 | 1887–1890 private lecturer, 1890–1899 associate professor for serology |
| Albert Einstein (1879–1955) | German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 | Habilitation (1908), reading member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences (1913–1933) |
| Gotthold Eisenstein (1823-1852) | German mathematician | Student and lecturer |
| Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) | Politician, entrepreneur, philosopher and military historian | Student of philosophy |
| Adolf Erman (1854–1937) | German Egyptologist | Student and professor of Egyptology |
| Franz Joseph Esser (1891–1964) | German painter, draftsman, graphic artist, illustrator, caricaturist, press illustrator | Art history student |
| Frank Ettrich (* 1958) | German sociologist | Sociology student, doctorate (1989/90) and habilitation (1991) |
| August Hermann Ewerbeck (1816–1860) | Translator, writer and doctor | Medical student and Dr. med. |
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| Julius Faucher (1820–1878) | German journalist and free trade propagandist | Student of philosophy |
| Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804–1872) | German philosopher, anthropologist and critic of religion | Student of philosophy |
| Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) | German philosopher | Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Rector |
| Heinrich Fink (1935-2020) | German theologian | Professor of practical theology, rector of the Humboldt University from 1990–92, dismissed by the university after his exposure as a former unofficial employee of the State Security |
| Emil Fischer (1852-1919) | Founder of modern biochemistry, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1902 | 1892–1919 Professor of Chemistry and Director of the I. Chemical Institute |
| Werner Forßmann (1904–1979) | German physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1956 | 1929/30 volunteer assistant in the clinic of Professor Sauerbruch at the Charité, where he undertook the cardiac catheter self-experiment, honorary doctor of the medical faculty of the Humboldt University 1977 |
| Erika Franke (* 1954) | General staff doctor , first Bundeswehr general from the new federal states and second woman in the rank of general in the Bundeswehr | 1972–78 student of medicine |
| Fu Ssu-nien (also Fu Sinian , 1896–1950) | Chinese historian, founding director of the Academia Sinica History and Philology Institute ; Rector of the University of Taiwan | Student (1923-1926) |
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| Konstantine Gamsachurdia (1893–1975) | Georgian writer | 1912–1918 student of German studies |
| Eduard Gans (1797–1839) | German lawyer, legal philosopher and historian of Jewish origin | Student of law, philosophy and history; Private lecturer; Professor ("lex goose") |
| Carl Eduard Geppert (1811–1881) | German classical philologist and historian of the history of Berlin | Student and from 1842 professor in Berlin |
| James Goldschmidt (1874-1940) | German legal scholar | Student and professor |
| Jacob Grimm (1785–1863) | German linguist and literary scholar | Reading member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences (from 1841) |
| Friedrich Gerke (1900–1966) | German Christian archaeologist and art historian | Doctorate and habilitation, 1935–1945 professor |
| Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859) | German linguist and literary scholar | Reading member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences (from 1841) |
| Gregor Gysi (* 1948) | German politician | Law student |
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| Otto Hahn (1879–1968) | German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1944 | Privatdozent (1907-1910), ao. Professor of Chemistry (1910–1934), reading member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences (1934–1944) |
| Dieter Hallervorden (* 1935) | German comedian, presenter and cabaret artist | Student of Romance studies, journalism and theater studies |
| Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930) | Protestant theologian and church historian, President of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society | Professor of Theology |
| Arthur Karl Wilhelm Heffter (1859–1925) | Pharmacologist, chemist | Rector 1922–1923 |
| August Wilhelm Heffter (1796–1880) | German legal scholar | Student from 1815, professor from 1833, rector 1836/37 |
| Lothar Heffter (1862–1962) | German mathematician | Student and PhD student (PhD 1886) |
| Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) | German philosopher | Professor (1818–1831), Rector (1829–1831) |
| Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) | German poet and journalist | Law student |
| Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976) | German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1932 | Professor of Theoretical Physics (1943–1945) |
| Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) | German physiologist and physicist | Medical student, professor of physics (from 1871), rector (1877/78) |
| Karin Herrmann (1936-2018) | German physicist | Professor of Solid State Physics |
| Liselotte Herrmann (1909–1938) | German resistance fighter | Chemistry and biology student |
| Max Herrmann (1865–1942) | German literary historian and theater scholar | professor |
| Gustav Hertz (1887–1975) | German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1925 | Associate professor for physics (1917–1925) |
| Theodor Heuss (1884–1963) | Journalist, politician and 1st Federal President | Student of economics, literature, history, philosophy, art history and political science in the winter semester 1903/04 |
| Regine Hildebrandt (1941-2001) | German politician | Biology student |
| August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892) | German chemist | Professor of Chemistry (1865-1892) |
| Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852–1911) | Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1901 | 1896–1911 honorary professor |
| Karl Höll (1901–1997) | German food chemist | Student and PhD student (PhD 1928) |
| Andrej Holm | German social scientist with a focus on urban renewal, gentrification and housing policy | research assistant at the Institute for Social Sciences |
| Katrin Holtwick (* 1984) | German beach volleyball player | Student of rehabilitation education |
| Trang Le Hong (* 1987) | German-Vietnamese actress | Business administration student |
| Kenji Hövels (* 1993) | German handball player | Sports science / geography student |
| Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1762–1836) | German doctor and a founder of macrobiotics | Professor at the Charité |
| Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835) | Statesman, cultural and linguist | Founder of the university |
| Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) | German naturalist | "Cosmos lectures" on the physical description of the earth (from 1827) |
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| Georgios Ioakimoglou (1887–1979) | Physician, pharmacologist | Licentiate 1913, teaching pharmacology |
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| Heinrich Eduard Jacob (1889–1967) | German-American journalist and writer | Student of German studies, literature, history and musicology |
| Gustav Julius (1810-1851) | German journalist, participant in the revolution of 1848/49 | Theology student |
| Georg Jung (1814–1886) | German lawyer; democratic, later national liberal Prussian politician | Law student |
| Heinz Jung (1935–1996) | German economist and sociologist | Economics student |
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| Georg Kalkbrenner (1875–1956) | Political scientist, Deputy Mayor of Lübeck, holder of the Great Federal Cross of Merit | college student |
| Paul Kárpáti (1933-2017) | Finnougrist and Hungarologist, translator and editor | Student (1952 ff) and research assistant (from 1961 to 1997) |
| Isidor Kastan (1840–1931) | Journalist, writer and doctor | Doctorate in 1867 as Dr. med. |
| Emanuel Kayser (1845–1927) | Geologist and paleontologist, professor of geology and paleontology, rector of the Philipps University of Marburg. | Student 1867–1869, doctorate in 1870, lecturer in 1871, habilitation in 1872 |
| Hans Keilson writer (1909–2011) | 1928–1934 medical student | 1928–1934 medical student |
| Franz-Josef Kemper (1944-2013) | Social geographer | 1995–2009 professor of population geography |
| George F. Kennan (1904-2005) | American diplomat | college student |
| Friedrich Kessler (1901–1998) | German-American lawyer | college student |
| Manfred Kliem (1934-2013) | German historian, lecturer | Dissertation A (1966), Dissertation B (1983) |
| Paul Alfred Kleinert (* 1960) | Writer, editor and translator | Student of theo- and Celtology 1981–1983, I. Theological exam 1993 |
| Antonio Knauth (1855-1915) | German-American lawyer | Law student |
| Hans Kniep (1881–1930) | German botanist | 1924–1930 Professor of Plant Physiology |
| Robert Koch (1843-1910) | German physician and microbiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1905 | 1885–1910 professor of internal medicine and hygiene |
| Manfred Königstein (* 1963) | German economist and university professor | PhD and habilitation at the university |
| Karl Friedrich Köppen (1808–1863) | German teacher and political journalist, 1848s | Theology student |
| Josef Kohler (1849–1919) | German lawyer | Professor of civil law, commercial and criminal law, civil litigation and legal philosophy |
| Eduard Kohlrausch (1874–1948) | German criminal law teacher | from 1919 professor, rector 1932/33 |
| Albrecht Kossel (1853–1927) | German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1910 | 1883–1887 private lecturer, 1887–1895 associate professor of physiology and anatomy |
| Leopold Kronecker (1823-1891) | German mathematician | Studied philosophy, professor of mathematics |
| Jürgen Kuczynski (1904–1997) | German historian and economist | professor |
| Ernst Eduard Kummer (1810-1893) | German mathematician | Professor of Mathematics |
| Jürgen Kuttner (* 1958) | German radio presenter | Student of cultural studies, doctorate (1987) |
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| Ernst Adolf Laspeyres (1800–1869) | German canon lawyer | 1825-1831 |
| Max von Laue (1879–1960) | German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1914 | 1902–1903 student, 1906–1909 private lecturer, 1919–1943 professor of theoretical physics |
| Wassily Leontief (1905-1999) | Russian economist, Nobel Prize in Economics 1973 | Doctorate in 1928 |
| Paul Lensch (1873-1926) | Marxist theorist, journalist, editor-in-chief of the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung from 1922 | 1919–1926 professor of history and economics |
| Karl Richard Lepsius (1810-1884) | German Egyptologist and linguist | Student, professor 1842-1884 |
| Daniel Libeskind (* 1946) | architect | 1997 honorary doctorate |
| Karl Liebknecht (1871-1919) | German socialist | college student |
| Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (1882–1963) | Physicist . Is considered to be the inventor of the field effect transistor , electrolytic capacitor | Student 1900-1904 |
| Franz von Liszt (1851-1919) | Legal scholar | Professor of Criminal Law and International Law |
| (Anneliese Löffler) (1972–1986) | Professor of German Studies | Teaching professor for new German literature |
| Gesine Lötzsch (* 1961) | German politician | Student teacher and research assistant |
| Michael Jérôme Count Leszczyc -Sumiński (1820–1898) | Polish painters and art collectors as well as royal Prussian chamberlain | Student, botanist |
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| Yakov Malkiel (1914-1998) | Linguist and Romanist, Professor of Romance Philology, University of California, Berkeley | Student of Romance Studies, Slavic Studies and Semitic Studies, doctorate in 1938 |
| Titus of Margwelaschwili (1891–1946) | Philosopher and orientalist | Lecturer in philosophy and oriental studies |
| Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979) | German-American sociologist and philosopher | college student |
| Christoph Markschies (* 1962) | theologian | since 2004 professor for early church history (patristic)
2006–2010 president of the university |
| Willy Marckwald (1864–1942) | Chemist | 1889 Habilitation and teaching, organ. Chemistry (kinetic resolution), nuclear chemistry (isolation of polonium), President of the DChG 1928–1931, emigrated to Brazil in 1936 after retiring as a half-Jew |
| Monika Maron (* 1941) | Writer | 1962–1966 student of theater studies and art history |
| Claudia Marx (* 1978) | sportswoman | Sports science student |
| Horst Maschler (* 1933) | German metallurgist and politician, former President of the Brandenburg State Audit Office | Metallurgy student |
| Hans Mayer (1907-2001) | Literary scholar and critic | 1925–1929 studied law, history and philosophy at the Universities of Cologne, Bonn and Berlin |
| Ernst Mayr (1904-2005) | Evolutionary biologist | Doctorate in 1926, then assistant at the Zoological Museum (Museum of Natural History) |
| Franz Mehring (1846-1919) | German publicist and politician | college student |
| Lise Meitner (1878–1968) | Nuclear physicist | since 1907 researcher with Otto Hahn
1912–1915 “unofficial” assistant to Max Planck , 1922 habilitation and lecturer position, 1926–1933 ao. Professor of Experimental Nuclear Physics |
| Kurt Mendelssohn (1906–1980) | Low temperature physicist | Doctorate in 1930, assistant to Franz Eugen Simon at the Physico-Chemical Institute |
| Holger Michaelis (* 1942) | Sociologist and economist | Student, from 1968 research assistant, 1972 doctorate, 1975–1992 professor for the history of sociology |
| Fritz Mierau (1934-2018) | Slavist, literary scholar, translator, essayist and editor | 1957–1962 research assistant at the University's Slavic Institute |
| Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794–1863) | Chemist and mineralogist | 1822–1863 professor of chemistry |
| Eugen Wednesday (1876–1942) | Semitist and Islamic scholar | 1906–1916 and 1919–1935 Professor of Semitic Studies, 1916–1918 Head of the Intelligence Unit for the Orient , 1924 visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Jürgen Mlynek (* 1951) | physicist | 2000–2005 president of the university |
| Wolfgang Mönke (1927–1986) | Historian and editor | Student (1949–1956) of English and philosophy; Assistant to Auguste Cornu |
| Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) | German historian, Nobel Prize for Literature 1902 | 1861–1903 professor of ancient history |
| Johannes Peter Müller (1801-1858) | German physiologist marine biologist and comparative anatomist | professor |
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| Otto Neunhoeffer (1904–1998) | German chemist | 1945 Professor at the Institute for Organic Chemistry |
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| Jan-Hendrik Olbertz (* 1954) | German educationalist and politician | since 2011 President and Professor of Education |
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| Christiane Paul (* 1974) | German film and theater actress | Medical student |
| Reinhard Peesch (1909–1987) | German ethnologist | Member of the Academy of Sciences |
| Grigol Peradze (1899–1942) | Georgian theologian and orientalist, resistance fighter, saint of the Georgian Orthodox Apostle Church | 1922–1925 student of theology and oriental languages |
| Franz Petry (1889-1915) | German economist | 1909, 1911–1912 student of philosophy and economics |
| Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845–1920) | German botanist and plant physiologist | college student |
| Hugo Preuss (1860-1925) | German lawyer, "father of the Weimar Constitution" | Law student and private lecturer |
| Otto Prokop (1921-2009) | Austrian coroner | 1957–1987 Professor of Forensic Medicine and Director of the Institute for Forensic Medicine |
| Paul Preuss (1861-1926) | Botanist and explorer | PhD in botany in 1885 |
| Robert Prutz (1816–1872) | German writer, playwright, publicist | Philology student |
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| Wilhelm Raabe (1831-1910) | writer | Guest auditor |
| Fritz J. Raddatz (1931–2015) | Journalist and art critic | 1953 Degree in German, history and theater studies |
| Johann Christian Reil (1759-1813) | Physician, co-founder of scientific psychiatry | 1810–1813 full professor |
| Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886) | German historian | 1825 associate professor, 1834–1871 professor |
| Hans Reichenbach (1891–1953) | German physicist, philosopher and logician | 1926–1933 associate professor for the philosophy of physics |
| Georg Friedrich Heinrich Rheinwald (1802–1849) | German theologian | 1826–1833 associate professor |
| Martin Rockel (1928-2003) | Celtologist | 1979–1994 university lecturer in Celtology, from 1994 to 1998 honorary professor |
| Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833–1905) | German geographer and Asian researcher | 1886 professor of geography |
| Karl Rosenkranz (1805–1879) | German philosopher, professor in Koenigsberg, 1848s | Student of theology, philosophy |
| Adolf August Friedrich Rudorff (1803–1873) | German lawyer, student of Savigny | 1829–1833 associate professor; 1833–1872 full professor |
| Martin Rücker von Jenisch (1861–1924) | law Sciences | diplomat |
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| Alice Salomon (1872-1948) | Liberal social reformer in the German women's movement | Student |
| Karl Friedrich von Savigny (1814–1875) | Prussian diplomat and Catholic politician | Law student |
| Stepan Shahumyan (1878–1918) | Armenian Soviet politician | Student of philosophy |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775-1854) | German philosopher | Professor of Philosophy |
| Steffen Scheumann (* 1961) | German actor | Cultural studies student |
| Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768–1834) | Protestant theologian and philosopher | Preacher at the Charité, professor from 1810–1834 |
| Johannes Schmidt (1843–1901) | German linguist | professor |
| Julius Schmundt (1815-1894) | German military doctor | 1834–1838 medical student |
| Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) | German philosopher | from 1811 student; from 1820 professor |
| Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) | Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1933 | 1927–1933 professor of theoretical physics |
| Peter Schubert (1938-2003) | German diplomat, last GDR ambassador to Tirana / Albania from 1989–1990 | In 1961 he graduated in Linguistics and Albanology |
| Klaus Schütz (1926–2012) | German politician, Governing Mayor of Berlin from 1967–1977 | 1946–1948 student of history and German studies |
| Robert Schuman (1886–1963) | Franco-German politician, founding father of the EU | Law student |
| Albert Schwegler (1819–1857) | German theologian, philosopher, historian, professor in Tübingen in 1848 | 1841 Doctorate to Dr. phil. "De Philopatride Luciona" |
| Georg Simmel (1858–1918) | German philosopher and sociologist | Student of history, philosophy, philosophy and art history; Private lecturer in 1885, associate professor in 1901 |
| Werner Sombart (1863–1941) | German sociologist, cultural philosopher and economist | Student, professor 1918-1931 |
| Hans Spemann (1869–1941) | German biologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1935 | 1914–1929 honorary professor of zoology |
| Max Stirner (1806-1856) | German philosopher | Student of philosophy 1826–1828 |
| Christian Stoll (* 1960) | German oral and maxillofacial surgeon, chief physician and university professor | 1996–2001 research assistant, 2001 habilitation for oral and maxillofacial surgery |
| Carl Stumpf (1848–1936) | German philosopher | 1894–1921 Professor |
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| Günter Tembrock (1918–2011) | Behavioral scientist | 1937 student, research assistant, 1955 habilitation |
| Werner Teske (1942–1981) | Captain of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR | Student of financial economics, 1969 doctorate |
| Albrecht Daniel Thaer (1752–1828) | Founder of agricultural science | 1810-1828 professor |
| Franz Theremin (1780–1846) | theologian | Professor of theology from 1840 to 1846 |
| Heinrich Thiel (1855–1925) | Merchant, manufacturer | Metallurgy student |
| Wolfgang Thierse (* 1943) | German politician, 1998–2005 President of the German Bundestag | German studies student |
| Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935) | German journalist and writer | Law student |
| Ralph Tuchtenhagen (* 1961) | Historian and cultural scientist | Professor and Director of the Northern Europe Institute 2009- |
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| Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825–1895) | Lawyer and campaigner for equal rights for homosexuals | 1846–1848 history student, study on the Peace of Westphalia submitted for doctorate |
| Ignaz Urban (1848-1931) | Botanist, sub-director of the Botanical Museum Dahlem, researched the flora of West India | obtained his doctorate in 1873 as Dr. phil. |
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| Mario Vargas Llosa (* 1936) | writer | 2005 honorary doctorate |
| Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) | German doctor and politician, founder of modern pathology | Doctorate and professorship at the Charité |
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| Richard Rudolf Walzer (1900–1975) | German-British classical philologist, philosopher and orientalist, member of the British Academy | Student, 1927–1931, assistant, 1932–1933 private lecturer in classical philosophy |
| Otto Warburg (1883-1970) | German biochemist, doctor and physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1931 | 1914–1921 private lecturer, 1921–1923 associate professor of physiology |
| Hermann Wasserschleben (1812-1893) | German legal historian | 1836 doctorate, 1838–1841 private lecturer |
| Ferdinand von Westphalen (1799–1876) | German politician | 1850–1858 Prussian Minister of the Interior |
| Karl Weierstrasse (1815-1897) | German mathematician | 1864–1897 professor of mathematics |
| Wilhelm Wien (1864–1928) | German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1911 | 1892–1896 lecturer in physics |
| Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848–1931) | German classical philologist | Student, professor 1897–1921 |
| Richard Willstätter (1872–1942) | German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1915 | 1912–1916 honorary professor of chemistry |
| Johannes Wolf (1869–1947) | German music historian | 1888–1892 studied German and music history, 1893 doctorate, 1902 habilitation, 1907 professor for historical musicology, 1922–1934 honorary professor |
| Heinrich Wölfflin (1864–1945) | Swiss art historian and theorist | 1901–1912 professor of art history |
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| Wolfgang Yourgrau (1908–1979) | American social psychologist, physicist, Professor University of Denver | Student, 1932 doctorate, 1932–1933 junior assistant |
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| Grigol Tsereteli (1870–1938) | Georgian classical philologist | 1897–1902 assistant professor |
| Micheil Tsereteli (1878–1965) | Georgian historian, sumerologist | 1914–1918 Associate Professor of History, 1933–1945 Professor of History |
Individual evidence
- ^ Introductory service for the first Frauenkirchen pastor . Berliner Morgenpost , November 27, 2016, archived from the original on July 28, 2018 . .
- ↑ The 17-year-old is the young athlete of the year 2012 on www.berlin-sport.de.