List of well-known personalities from the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg
The following list of personalities from the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg provides an overview, broken down by subject, of people who were or are connected to the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg as scholars, students or in some other way .
Humanities
history
- Wolfgang Altgeld - historian
- Hans-Peter Baum - economic historian
- Peter Baumgart - historian
- Hermann Bengtson - ancient historian
- Heinrich Bulle - archaeologist
- Max Hermann von Freeden - art historian
- Franz Fuchs - historian
- Peter Herde - historian
- Guido Knopp - journalist, publicist and moderator
- Stefan Kummer - art historian
- Ernst Langlotz - archaeologist
- Hans Möbius - archaeologist
- Erika Simon - archaeologist
- Ulrich Sinn - archaeologist
- Matthias Steinhart - archaeologist
- Ludwig von Urlichs - archaeologist
- Joseph Vogt - ancient historian
- Irma Wehgartner - archaeologist
- Alfred Wendehorst - historian
- Ulrich Wilcken - ancient historian, papyrologist
- Paul Wolters - archaeologist
- Walter Ziegler - historian
- Gerd Zimmermann - historian
philology
- Rüdiger Ahrens - English studies
- Rudolf Aitzetmüller - Slavist
- Peter-André Alt - literary scholar
- Thomas Baier - classical philologist
- Theodor Berchem - Romance studies, rector (1975–1976), president (1976–2003)
- Ferdinand Blümm - classical philologist
- Wolfgang Brückner - folklorist and Germanist
- Hans Dietrich (politician) - teacher
- Joseph Goebbels - student 1918/1919, Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
- Julius Jolly - Indologist, Rector (1909–1910)
- Winfried Kreutzer - Romanist
- Matthias von Lexer - Germanist and lexicographer
- Ralph Pordzik - English studies
- Hans Steininger - Sinologist
- Günter Vittmann - Egyptologist
- Karl Vossler - Romanist
- Norbert Wagner - Germanist
- Claudia Wiener - classical philologist
- Gernot Wilhelm - ancient orientalist
- Rudolf Zenker - Romanist
philosophy
- Werner Beierwaltes - philosopher
- Bonavita Blank - philosopher and naturalist
- Ernst Bloch - Marxist philosopher
- Franz Brentano - philosopher, psychologist and founder of nude psychology
- Nikolaus Burkhäuser - Jesuit and philosopher, professor
- Johann Bartholomäus von Busch , Professor of Law in Heidelberg , Vice Chancellor of the Electoral Palatinate
- Georg Michael Klein - philosopher
- Karl-Heinz Lembeck - philosopher
- Ernst Haeckel - philosopher and zoologist, made Charles Darwin in Germany known
- Heinrich Rombach - philosopher
- Alfred Schöpf - philosopher and psychoanalyst
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling - Philosopher ( German Idealism )
- Johannes Volkelt - philosopher
pedagogy
- Winfried Böhm - educator
- Margarete Götz - pedagogue, professor and vice-president
medicine
anatomy
- Detlev Drenckhahn - anatomist
- Karl Friedrich von Heusinger - anatomist, physiologist and lecturer in the history of medicine
- Albert von Koelliker - anatomist and physiologist
- Mihály von Lenhossék - anatomist
- Theodor Heinrich Schiebler - anatomist
- Rudolf Virchow - anatomist, pathologist, hygienist
- Jens Waschke - anatomist
biochemistry
- Katja Becker - doctor, biochemist, nutritionist
- Caroline Kisker - biochemist
Biomedicine
- Heike Walles - biologist
surgery
- Rainer Arbogast - surgeon
- Karl Heinrich Bauer - surgeon, cancer researcher and racial hygienist
- Hermann Joseph Brünninghausen - surgeon, obstetrician and general staff doctor
- Michael Jäger - surgeon
- Ferdinand Riedinger - surgeon
- Carl Caspar von Siebold - anatomist, surgeon and obstetrician
- Cajetan by Textor - surgeon
- Werner Wachsmuth - surgeon
dermatology
- Karl Vohwinkel - dermatologist
History of medicine
- Georg Sticker - internist and medical historian
- Robert Herrlinger - anatomist and medical historian
- Gundolf Keil - Germanist and medical historian
- Werner E. Gerabek - medical historian and Germanist
- Johannes Gottfried Mayer - medical historian and literary scholar
- Michael Stolberg - medical historian
Gynecology and obstetrics
- Karl Heinrich Wulf - gynecologist
- Johann Peter Weidmann - anatomist, surgeon and obstetrician
Ear, nose and throat medicine
- Horst Ludwig Wullstein - ear, nose and throat doctor, clinic director and university professor
- Hans-Peter Zenner - Oto-Rhino-Laryngologist
Hematology and oncology
- Ralf Bargou - hematologist and oncologist
- Klaus Wilms - hematologist and oncologist
Infectious diseases
- Andrew Ullmann - Professor of Infectiology, Specialist in Internal Medicine a. hematology
Internal Medicine
- E. Grafe - Director of the Medical and Mental Clinic
- Kurt Kochsiek - internist at the medical clinic
- Ernst Wollheim (* 1900) - internist at the medical clinic
Paediatrics
- Hans Rietschel (1878–1970) - pediatrician, professor and director of the University Children's Clinic
Psychiatry and neurology
- Alois Alzheimer - Psychiatrist and Neuropathologist ( Alzheimer's Disease )
- Melchior Josef Bandorf - psychiatrist, student
- Hans Berger - psychiatrist and neurologist, developed electroencephalography
- Hoimar von Ditfurth - psychiatrist and neurologist, senior physician and associate professor
- Emil Kraepelin - psychiatrist, classified mental disorders
- Carl Friedrich von Marcus - internist and pathologist, founder of a psychiatric clinic
- Gerhardt Nissen - child and youth psychiatrist
- Konrad Rieger - psychiatrist
Medical psychology
- Hermann Lang - Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst (Structural Psychoanalysis)
- Dieter Wyss - psychiatrist, psychotherapist and writer
pathology
- Hans-Werner Altmann - pathologist
- Heinrich von Bamberger - pathologist
- Otto Carl Hermann Beckmann (1832–1860) - medical student and prosector of zootomy in Würzburg, professor of pathology in Göttingen
- Eugen Kirch , pathologist
- Karl Landsteiner - pathologist, Nobel Prize winner 1930
Pharmacology and toxicology
- Heinrich von Breslau –1851, pharmacologist, personal physician to the King of Bavaria, received his doctorate in Würzburg in 1808
- Martin Lohse - pharmacologist
- Johann Georg Pickel - pharmacologist
- Michael Joseph Rossbach - pharmacologist
- Wolfgang Wirth - toxicologist
physiology
- Dankwart Ackermann - physiologist, chemist
- Erich Bauereisen - physiologist, gynecologist
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes - doctor, physiologist and poet
- Theodor Schwann - Physiologist ( Schwann cell )
- Stefan Silbernagl - physiologist
virology
- Harald zur Hausen - doctor, Nobel Prize winner 2008
Dentistry
- Hermann Wolf - dentist
Others
- Franz Anton von Balling - balneologist
- Johann Beringer
- Carl Gustav Bernoulli - Swiss doctor, botanist, pharmacist, explorer and archaeologist
- Tiemo Grimm (* 1944) - human geneticist
- Margarete Räntsch - doctor, first dissertation of a woman at the University of Würzburg (1907)
- Johann Alois Minnich - balneologist
- Anton Ruland - librarian and member of the state parliament
- Ludwig Schmidt - assistant at the Hygiene Institute, later professor and director of the Institute for Hereditary Science and Race Research
- Philipp Franz von Siebold - doctor, ethnologist, botanist and collector
- Robert von Welz (1814–1878), professor of dentistry and ophthalmology, doctorate, habilitation, private lecturer at the university, first professor of ophthalmology
Science and math
biology
- Roland Benz - biophysicist, electrophysiologist
- Alexander Borst - Director at the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology
- Theodor Boveri - biologist
- Antonio Brack Egg - biologist, Peruvian Environment Minister 2008–2011
- Martin Heisenberg - neurobiologist, geneticist
- Karl Heinrich Koch - botanist
- Martin Lindauer - zoologist, bee and behaviorist
- Julius Sachs - botanist
- Hans Spemann - zoologist, developmental physiologist, Nobel Prize winner 1935
- Leopold von Ubisch - zoologist
- Theodor A. Wohlfahrt - zoologist, lepidopterologist
- Ulrich Zimmermann - biotechnologist
chemistry
- Svante Arrhenius - chemist, physicist, Nobel Prize winner 1903
- Peter Bäuerle - chemist
- Hugo Bamberger - chemist, entrepreneur, company founder
- Eduard Buchner - chemist, Nobel Prize winner 1907
- Rolf Claessen - chemist, patent attorney
- Emil Fischer - chemist, Nobel Prize winner 1902
- Hartmut Michel - biochemist, Nobel Laureate 1988
- Walther Nernst - chemist, physicist, Nobel Prize winner 1920
- Fritz Vögtle - chemist
- Johannes Wislicenus - chemist
- Karl Lothar Wolf - chemist
earth sciences
- Roland Baumhauer - geographer
- Horst-Günter Wagner - geographer
- Ludwig Walrad Medicus - university lecturer for forestry and agriculture
mathematics
- Werner Uhlmann - mathematician, rector (1969–1971)
- Otto Volk - mathematician, astronomer
- Aurel Voss - mathematician, President of the German Mathematicians Association
- Eduard von Weber - mathematician
- Hans-Georg Weigand - mathematics didactic
- Johann Zahn - mathematician, optician, philosopher
pharmacy
- Hugo Bamberger - pharmacist, chemist, entrepreneur, manufacturer
- Karlheinz Bartels - pharmacist, pharmacy historian
- Anton Müller - student of pharmacy, later first insane doctor at the Juliusspital
physics
- Matthias Bode - physicist
- Edna Carter - physicist
- Rolf Ebert - physicist (1966–2013)
- Alfred Forchel - Physicist, President (since 2009)
- Axel Haase - biophysicist, President (2003–2009)
- Manuel Hobiger - seismologist
- Klaus von Klitzing - physicist, Nobel Prize winner 1985
- Friedrich Kohlrausch - physicist
- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen - physicist, Nobel Prize winner 1901
- Johannes Stark - physicist, Nobel Prize winner 1919
- Eberhard Umbach - physicist
- Wilhelm Wien - physicist, Nobel Prize winner 1911
psychology
- Narcissus Ach - psychologist at the Würzburg School
- Karl Bühler - thought and language psychologist and language theorist
- Kurt Koffka - psychologist, co-founder of Gestalt psychology
- Oswald Külpe - founder of the Würzburg School of Thinking Psychology
- Hans-Joachim Kornadt - psychologist, educationalist
- Karl Marbe - Psychologist from the Würzburg School
- Wolfgang Schneider - educational psychologist
- Charles Spearman - Psychologist ( Two Factor Theory of Intelligence , Classical Test Theory )
- Fritz Strack - social psychologist (including facial feedback hypothesis )
- Carl Stumpf - philosopher, psychologist and music researcher
- Max Wertheimer - psychologist, co-founder of Gestalt psychology
law Sciences
- Thomas Bach - lawyer, sports official, Olympic champion, 9th IOC president, studied law and political science from 1973 to 1979
- Winfried Bausback - Lawyer, Member of the Bundestag (since 2008)
- Erich Berneker - legal historian
- Dieter Blumenwitz - constitutional and international lawyer
- Hugo Böhlau - legal scholar
- Eduard Brücklmeier - lawyer and diplomat, resistance fighter
- Johann Nepomuk Buchinger - lawyer, Reich archivist, taught constitutional and international law
- Felix Dahn - legal scholar, writer and historian
- Eduard Deisenhofer - lawyer and SS-Oberführer
- Thomas Fischer (lawyer) - lawyer and presiding judge at the 2nd criminal senate of the Federal Court of Justice
- Salomon Haenle - lawyer from Heidingsfeld, head of the Neue Würzburger Zeitung and lawyer in Ansbach, co-founder of the German Bar Association
- Friedrich August von der Heydte - lawyer, officer and politician
- Eric Hilgendorf - legal scholar
- Gallus Aloys Kaspar Kleinschrod - criminal lawyer
- Matthias Knauff - lawyer, university professor and judge
- Karl Liebknecht - Marxist and anti-militarist
- Friedrich Merzbacher - legal scholar and director of the Institute for German and Bavarian Legal History
- Wolfgang Pfister - lawyer and judge at the Federal Court of Justice
- August von Platen-Hallermünde - poet
- Eberhard Reichert - lawyer and local politician
- Wilfried Schaumann (1923–1971) - lawyer, full professor in Würzburg from 1961 to 1970
- Theo Waigel - politician ( CSU ), Federal Minister of Finance 1989–1998 and CSU chairman 1988–1999.
- Christoph Weber - lawyer
- Dietmar Willoweit - legal scholar, legal historian
- Ernst Wolgast - constitutional and international lawyer
- Michael Wollenschläger - labor and social lawyer
- Peter Frank - lawyer and attorney general (since 2015)
- Gabriel Morhart - lawyer, including district official, public prosecutor and district president
- Herbert Trimbach - presiding judge at the higher regional court, ministerial director, local politician
Social sciences
Political science
- Arno Waschkuhn - political scientist
- Paul-Ludwig Weinacht - political scientist
- Jean-Marc Ayrault - Prime Minister France
sociology
- Theodor Geiger - sociologist ( stratification sociology )
Economics
- Ulli Arnold - business economist
- Karl Banse - economist
- Norbert Berthold - Economist
- Peter Bofinger - economist, economist, economist
- Karl Umpfenbach - economist
- Ekkehard Wenger - economist
theology
Evangelical theology
- Christoph David Anton Martini - theologian
- Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus - theologian
- Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer - philosopher and theologian
Catholic theology
- Friedrich Philipp von Abert - theologian, Archbishop of Bamberg
- Berthold Altaner - church historian
- Bonaventure Andres - theologian, philologist, educator
- Johann Baptist Andres - theologian, historian, philosopher, canon lawyer
- Johann Baptist Aufhauser - theologian
- Martin Becanus - theologian, philosopher
- Hermenegild Maria Biedermann - theologian
- Andreas Bigelmair - theologian
- Eugen Biser - theologian, religious philosopher
- Philipp Braun - clergyman, theologian and canon lawyer, vicar general of the diocese of Würzburg
- Wilhelm Deinhardt - church historian, theologian
- Friedrich Dessauer - physicist, honorary doctorate 1952
- Franz Gillmann - theologian, canon lawyer
- Leonhard Grebner - theologian, professor of theology and Hebrew language
- Thomas Holtzclau - theologian, professor of dogmatics and exegesis, co-author of the Theologia Wirceburgensis
- Heinrich Kilber - theologian, professor of dogmatics and exegesis, co-author of the Theologia Wirceburgensis
- Hans-Josef Klauck - New Testament scholar
- Joseph Kleiner - Canon lawyer and theologian
- Philipp Kneib - theologian, professor of moral theology
- Ulrich Munier - theologian, professor of dogmatics, co-author of Theologia Wirceburgensis
- Ignaz Neubauer - theologian, professor of dogmatics, morality and exegesis, co-author of the Theologia Wirceburgensis
- Rudolf Schnackenburg - New Testament scholar
- Peter Schegg - theologian, professor of exegesis at the university
- Herman Schell - theology and philosopher
- Andreas Schellhorn - theologian, linguist and politician
- Josef Schreiner - Old Testament scholar and rector of the University of Würzburg (1973-75)
- Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza - theologian
- Johann Baptist Schwab (1811–1872) - theologian, preacher, professor of canon law and church history
- Peter Thyraeus - theologian, controversial theologian
- Michael Wecklein - theologian, librarian, canon
- Georg Wunderle - theologian and religious philosopher
- Johannes Zellinger - theologian
- Rolf Zerfaß - theologian
- Hans-Georg Ziebertz - religious educator
- Joseph Ziegler - Old Testament scholar and rector of the University of Würzburg (1961–62)
Alumni and students
- Vince Ebert - physicist, cabaret artist
- Zita Funkenhauser - foil fencer
- Jan Haft - documentary filmmaker
- Kilian Heller - Dept.
- Georg Heym - poet
- Leo Kirch - media entrepreneur
- Georg Michael Klein - philologist, philosopher and university professor
- Spiridon Miliarakis - botanist
- Urban Priol - cabaret artist
- Richard Rogler - cabaret artist
- Curt Schimmelbusch - surgeon
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The sources can be found in the respective personal article.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ursula Gehring-Münzel: The Würzburg Jews from 1803 to the end of the First World War. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. Volume III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, pp. 499-528 and 1306-1308, here: pp. 511 and 522.
- ↑ Walther J. Habscheid : The University of Würzburg owes its statutes to Wilfried Schaumann. In: Würzburg today. Volume 11, 1971, pp. 73-75.
- ↑ Hans Rall : The case of the Würzburg professor of canon law and church history Johann Baptist Schwab. In: Würzburg diocesan history sheets. Volume 26 ( Franconian Past. Festgabe für Theodor Kramer ), 1964, pp. 334–341.