List of well-known pupils in Merseburg schools
The list of well-known students from Merseburg schools includes important students and graduates of the Merseburg Cathedral Gymnasium, founded in 1575, and other higher schools in the city of Merseburg from the beginnings to the present. The list includes the following schools and does not claim to be complete.
- Old cathedral high school (1575–1880) above the cloister of Merseburg Cathedral
- New Domgymnasium (1880–1946) on Domplatz (with the "blue stripes")
- Ernst von Harnack High School (1946–1959) on Domplatz
- Oberlyzeum (from 1937), high school for girls; 1951–1959 Käthe-Kollwitz-Oberschule, today's A.-Dürer-Straße
- Reform-Realgymnasium (1930–1943), destroyed in World War II
- Extended Oberschule (EOS) Ernst Haeckel (1959–1991), A.-Dürer-Straße
- Today's cathedral grammar school (from September 1991), house 1 A.-Dürer-Straße + house 2 Domplatz
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- Martin Janus (1620–1682), Protestant clergyman and hymn composer, oldest known graduate,
- Christian Reuter (1665–1712), comedy writer
- Johann Friedrich Henckel (1678–1744) physician, mineralogist, metallurgist and chemist; Henckel's laboratory and his teaching collection formed one of the germ cells of the Freiberg Bergakademie
- Johann Michael Hoppenhaupt (1685–1751), master builder and sculptor
- Johann Christian Buxbaum (1693–1730), botanist
- Johann Samuel Agner (1701–1769), pastor and writer
- Johann Christian Hoppenhaupt the Younger (1719 - between 1778 and 1786), ornament sculptor and decorator
- Julius von Kirchmann (1802–1884), lawyer and politician
- Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), biologist
- Otto Küstermann (1837–1913), pastor and local historian
- Charles Vetter (1858–1941), painter
- Siegfried Berger (1891–1946), writer
- Rudolf Oeltzschner (1899–1935), aviator and glider record holder
- Richard Feldtkeller (1901–1981), physicist and electrical engineer
- Walter Bauer (1904–1976), writer
- Margarete Bothe (1914–1945), elementary school teacher, historian and Nazi victim
- Gustav Rödel (1915–1995), Brigadier General of the Bundeswehr
- Kurt Biedenkopf (* 1930), lawyer, university professor and CDU politician
- Wilfried Gunkel (1930–2005), marine biologist
- Richard Christ (1931–2013), writer and publicist
- Wolfgang Voelkner (* 1933), engineer and university professor
- Jutta Hoffmann (* 1941), German actress
- Rainer Zille (1945–2005), painter
- Christa Mühl (1947–2019), director, screenwriter and writer
- Werner Stiller (1947–2016), agent and defector
- Wolfram Adolphi (* 1951), journalist and political scientist
- Reinhard Renneberg (* 1951), biochemist and columnist
- Jürgen Jankofsky (* 1953), writer
- Andrea Kathrin Loewig (* 1966), actress
- Bernhard Spring (* 1983) literary scholar, journalist and writer