List of well-known personalities of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Many well-known people studied or taught at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . The following list provides an overview by subject area, without claiming to be exhaustive.
medicine
- Johannes Christoph Ludwig Beringer (1709–1746) - personal physician to the Prince-Bishop of Speyer
- Vincenz Czerny (1842-1916) - surgeon and cancer researcher
- Maximilian Joseph von Chelius - surgeon
- Jörg Debatin - Prof. Dr. med. (1961) medical director of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
- Joachim Dudeck (1932-2010) - Founder of the Clinical Cancer Register (Giessen tumor documentation system GTDS)
- Thomas Erastus - Prof. (1558–1580)
- Wilhelm Erb - Prof. (1803–1907) - made important contributions to the development of modern neurology
- Otto Hallen - Prof. Dr. med. (1968–1989) Director of the Neurological Department of the Second Medical Faculty
- Adam Hammer - Prof. Dr. med. (1837–1842) was the first to diagnose myocardial infarction in living people
- Jakob Henle - anatomist and pathologist, u. a. Discoverer of the Henle Loop
- Ida Henrietta Hyde - was the third woman to receive her doctorate in Heidelberg in 1896 and was later professor of physiology at the University of Kansas
- Karl Jaspers - psychiatrist (1909-1913)
- Hugo A. Katus - cardiologist, inventor of the troponin T test
- Ludolf von Krehl - internist
- Arthur Kronfeld - psychiatrist and psychotherapist (1908-1913)
- Wolfgang Kübler - cardiologist
- Adolf Kußmaul - (studied from 1840 to 1848 and professor from 1857 to 1859) German doctor, university professor and medical researcher, he is considered to be the co-author of the term Biedermeier
- Otto Meyerhof - biochemist (1908–1912, 1930–1938) director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (today the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research), Nobel Prize winner in 1922
- Daniel fog - 1,709 doctors, pharmacists and botanist and Electoral Palatinate court physician put, the Botanical Gardens Heidelberg's new about
- Daniel Wilhelm Nebel - physician and chemist; described the Nebelsche Steinkind
- Wilhelm Bernhard Nebel - physicist and doctor, dealt with the inoculation of smallpox from 1729
- Franz Joseph von Oberkamp (1710–1767) - physician
- Friedrich August Benjamin Puchelt (1784–1856) - full professor of pathology and director of the clinic
- Edmund Randerath (1899–1961) - pathologist, professor, dean of the medical faculty, rector (1956–1957)
- Klaus Rother (1926–2016) - Immunologist, Vice Dean (1972–1979), Vice Rector (1980–1982) of Heidelberg University and Member of the Board of Heidelberg University Hospital (1986–1989)
- Gerd Rudolf - Professor of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy
- Bert Sakmann - (Prof.) Nobel Prize for Medicine 1991
- Hans Schaefer - (Prof. 1950–1974)
- Gustav Adolf Scheel (1907–1979) - Reich student leader
- Franz Schieck - Professor of Ophthalmology and Rector in Königsberg, Halle and Würzburg
- Peter de Spina II. - Rector and personal physician, savior of the university archive during the Thirty Years' War
- Peter de Spina III. - Professor of medicine and personal physician, savior of the university archive in the Thirty Years War
- Rahel Straus b. Goitein (1880–1963) - studied from May 1900 as the first woman, 1905 state examination, 1907 doctorate to Dr. med.
- Otto Warburg - Medicine, Physiology, Nobel Prize Winner 1931 (Stud., Ph., Habil.)
- Viktor Freiherr von Weizsäcker - neurologist and psychosomatic specialist (1908–1941, 1945–1952)
- José Rizal - ophthalmologist (approx. 1890, doctorate), Filipino national hero and writer
- Friedrich Vogel - leading human geneticist, founding director of the Institute for Anthropology and Human Genetics (1962–1993)
- Harald zur Hausen - Chairman and Scientific Member of the Foundation Board of the DKFZ , Nobel Prize for Medicine 2008
Musicology
- Thüring Bräm - conductor and composer, rector of the Lucerne School of Music
Science / mathematics
- Curt Abel-Musgrave - Chemist (PhD 1908)
- Johann Baptist Obernetter
- Carl Josef Bayer - chemist (student 1869–1871)
- Rudolf Benkendorff - meteorologist (student 1908–1910)
- Alexander Porfirjewitsch Borodin - chemist and composer (student 1859–1962)
- Walther Bothe - Physicist (Prof.) Nobel Prize for Physics 1954
- Georg Bredig - chemist (Prof. 1901-1910)
- Hans Bucka - physicist (habilitation student 1961)
- Robert Bunsen - Chemistry (Prof. 1852–1889)
- Otto Bütschli - zoologist, cell researcher (Prof. 1878–1920)
- Albrecht Dold - mathematician (Prof. 1963–1996)
- Karl Drais - inventor (stud. 1803–1805)
- Loránd Eötvös - physicist (student 1867–1870)
- Leopold Gmelin - chemist (Prof. 1813-1853)
- Emil Julius Gumbel - mathematician (Prof. 1930-1932)
- Heinz Haber - science popularizer (private lecturer 1945/46)
- Theodor Hänsch - Physicist (Prof.) Nobel Prize in Physics 2005
- Lothar Heffter - mathematician (stud.)
- Anton von Heiligenstein - astronomer and mathematician (student 1824/1825, habil. 1829, PD 1829–1834)
- Stefan Hell - Physicist Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2014 (student 1981–1987)
- Hermann von Helmholtz - Physics (Prof. 1858–1870)
- Alfred Hettner - geographer (Prof. 1899–1928)
- Norman J. Holter - biophysicist (1914–1983)
- Heinrich Hübsch - (studied 1813) mathematics and philosophy, was architect & chief construction director in Karlsruhe (* 1795 † 1863)
- J. Hans D. Jensen - Physicist (Prof.) Nobel Prize in Physics 1963
- Willi Jäger - mathematician (1940–)
- Emanuel Kayser - geologist and paleontologist (1866–1867)
- Gustav Robert Kirchhoff - Physics (Prof. 1854–1875)
- Hermann Kopp - chemist (Prof. from 1864)
- Albrecht Kossel - chemist (Prof. 1901–1927) Nobel Prize for Medicine 1910
- Nikolaus von Kues - mathematician (stud.)
- Richard Kuhn - Chemist (Prof.) Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1938
- Robert Lauterborn - hydrobiologist, zoologist and botanist (stud. Hab. Prof.)
- Philipp Lenard - Physicist (Prof. 1907–1938) Nobel Prize in Physics 1905
- Mileva Maric - Albert Einstein's first wife, winter semester 1897/98 she studied at the University of Heidelberg
- Michael Mästlin - Astronomer - (Prof. 1580–1584)
- Hermann von Meyer - vertebrate paleontologist
- Hermann Quincke - physicist (Prof. 1875–1907)
- Werner Rauh - Botanist (Prof. 1955–1981)
- Paul Reiner - Dr. (1886–1932), reform pedagogue (student) chemistry, mineralogy, physics, sociology and philosophy
- Rudy Rucker - mathematician (Prof. 1978–1980)
- Herbert Seifert - Mathematician (Prof.)
- Otto Schoetensack - paleoanthropologist (Prof. 1904–1912)
- Georg Wittig - Chemist (Prof.) Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1979
Philosophical and Philological Faculties
- Felix Adler - Linguist (Stud. 1874)
- Michael von Albrecht - Classical Philologist (Prof.)
- Hannah Arendt - philosopher (stud.)
- Jan Assmann - Egyptologist (Prof.)
- Arnold Bergstraesser - political scientist
- Walter Berschin - Philologist (Prof.)
- Cornelia Betsch - Psychologist (stud., Prom 2006)
- Ernst Blass - expr. Poet - (stud. Jur. 1912 / 13-15; PhD)
- Friedrich Burschell - writer - (student phil. 1911–1913)
- Alexander Brückner - historian
- Conrad Celtis - Humanist - (student 1484–1485)
- Friederike Werner - Egyptologist (PhD 1994)
- Friedrich Creuzer - Philologist (Prof. 1804-1858)
- Joseph Goebbels - Propaganda Minister of the German Reich
- Albrecht Dihle - Classical Philologist (Prof.)
- Olaf Drümmer - psychologist (studied 1982–1990), later software entrepreneur and non-fiction author
- Hans von Eckardt - Sociology, Politics and Media (student 1919, Prof. 1927)
- Joseph von Eichendorff (student 1807)
- Ludwig Finscher - musicologist, Balzan Prize (Prof.)
- Johannes Freinsheim - historian (Prof. 1656–1660)
- Jakob Friedrich Fries - Philosopher (Prof. 1806–1816)
- Markus Gabriel - Philosopher (PhD 2005, Habil. 2008)
- Hans-Georg Gadamer - Philosopher (Prof. 1949–1968)
- Georg Gottfried Gervinus - literary historian (Prof. 1844-1853)
- Leonhard Grebner - Philosophy (Prof. 1723–1726)
- August Grisebach - Art Historian (Prof.)
- Friedrich Gundolf - Philologist (Prof.)
- Jürgen Habermas - philosopher (associate professor 1961–1964)
- Karl Ludwig Hampe - historian (Prof. 1903-1936)
- Dirk Hecht - prehistorian and archivist (student 1993–1999, PhD 2005)
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Philosopher (Prof. 1816–1818)
- Johann Christoph Held - Classical philologist (student 1809–1811)
- Johannes Hiltebrant - humanistic teacher (student 1496–1497)
- Ulrich Hochschild - ambassador
- Felix Holldack - lawyer and university lecturer (studies and doctorate)
- Ignaz Hub - poet, editor and publisher (prom. 1834)
- Karl Jaspers - philosopher (1913-1948)
- Gottfried Keller - poet (student 1848–1850)
- Bertha Kipfmüller - teacher and peace activist
- Wolfgang Klein - linguist, Leibniz Prize winner
- Rolf Klemmt - Director at the German Institute of Jyväskylä University in Finland, author and translator
- Johannes Koch (1763–1843) - professor of metaphysics and follower of Kant
- Hermann Köchly - classical philologist (Prof. 1864–1876)
- Rolf Lauter - art historian, curator
- Lothar Ledderose - art historian, East Asian. Art sch., Balzan Prize (Prof.)
- Karl Lemcke - aesthetician, art historian, songwriter and later rector at the University of Stuttgart
- Peter Luder - humanist (student 1431–1433)
- Jakob Loewenberg - writer and pedagogue (student 1885–1886)
- Karl Löwith - Philosopher (Prof. 1952–1973)
- Philipp Melanchthon - Reformer (student 1509–1512)
- Johann Friedrich Mieg - Historian (Prof. for Hebrew Language)
- Franz Josef Mone - historian and archive director of the General State Archives in Karlsruhe (student 1814–1816)
- Glenn W. Most - classical philologist, Leibniz Prize winner (* 1952)
- Carl Neumann - art historian (Prof.)
- Friedrich Panzer - German Studies (Prof. 1919–1956)
- Georg Picht - philosopher, theologian (Prof. 1960–1972, German educational catastrophe 1964)
- Jacob Picard - poet, writer - (student law before World War I)
- Samuel von Pufendorf - natural law philosopher, historian, international law teacher (Prof. 1661–1668)
- Petrus Ramus - philosopher (extraordinary teacher 1569–1570)
- Hermann Ranke - Egyptologist (Prof. 1878–1953)
- Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer - Diplomat (student)
- Karl Alexander von Reichlin-Meldegg - philosopher (Prof. 1832 / 1839–1877)
- Heinrich Rickert - Philosopher (Prof. 1916–1936)
- Eduard Maximilian Röth - philosopher (habil 1840, Prof. 1846-1858)
- Karl Ludwig Roth - classical philologist (Prom 1834)
- Thomas Roth - Journalist (stud.)
- Edith Rothe - librarian, author and publicist
- Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - historian (Prof. 1817–1861)
- Friedrich Alfred Schmid Noerr - philosopher (Prof. 1910–1918)
- Heinrich Schmid - philosopher (associate professor)
- Anna Seghers (Netty Reiling) - poet (student of art history, 1920–1924, Dr. phil. 1924)
- Franz Six - newspaper scholar, Nazi functionary
- Joseph Stöckle - philologist and writer (student 1870–1871)
- Henry Sweet - philologist
- Johann Andreas von Traitteur - Geometrician (Prof. 1784–1803, Dr. phil. 1786)
- Henry Thode - art historian (Prof.)
- Heinrich von Treitschke - historian (Prof. 1867–1874)
- Ralph Tuchtenhagen - historian (private lecturer 2001-2003)
- Johann Heinrich Voß - translator (Prof. 1805–1826)
- Alfred Weber (1868–1958) - philosophy of history, cultural and state sociology
- Franz Emanuel Weinert - Psychologist (Prof. 1968–1982)
- Wilhelm Windelband - philosopher (Prof. 1903–1915)
- Katharina Windscheid - pioneer for women's studies in Germany (Dr. phil. 1895, first woman to do her doctorate in Heidelberg)
- Wilhelm Wundt - Psychologist (Prof. 1864–1874)
Jurisprudence
see also: Law Faculty of the University of Heidelberg
- Kaspar Agricola (1514 / 1524–1597) - lawyer (student, professor, dean, rector)
- Alexander Bellendörfer (1436–1512), Chancellor and protonotary of the Electoral Palatinate - student from 1450
- Karl Heinrich Ludwig Brinckmann (1809–1855), legal scholar, private lecturer from 1846 to 1855
- Johann Caspar Bluntschli - Lawyer (Prof.)
- Oskar von Bülow - lawyer, legal scholar, habilitation 1863 de praejudicialibus exceptionibus at the Ruperto Carola, from 1863 to 1865 private lecturer there , Prof. Gießen, Tübingen, Leipzig
- Carl Burckhardt - Swiss politician and lawyer (student)
- Ludwig August Burckhardt –1863 lawyer and historian (student)
- Joachim F. Christopeit - Intern. Manager and lawyer (Prof. for international business law)
- Joachim Christian Coch - legal scholar in Swedish Pomerania and judge at the Wismar Tribunal
- Hugo Donellus - lawyer, humanist, university professor (Prof. 1573–1579)
- Otto von Gierke - lawyer
- Reinhard Goerdeler - Lawyer (Diss. 1948)
- Heinz Cramer - professional soldier
- Karl Julius Guyet - Lawyer (1818–1836: Stud., Prom., Habil., Prof.)
- Adam Huth - Jesuit and canon lawyer (Prom., Prof., Dean)
- Georg Jellinek - lawyer (Prof. 1891-1911)
- Franz Jügert (1563–1638) - lawyer, syndic and assessor at the Imperial Court of Justice
- Paul Kirchhof - Lawyer (Prof. since 1981)
- Juliane Kokott - Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Communities
- Marcus Krüsmann - lawyer, including mayor of Limburg ad Lahn
- Hermann Emil Kuenzer - lawyer, Colonel a. D., Reich Commissioner, Interpol
- Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier (Prof. 1821–1867)
- Daniel Nebel (1558–1626), lawyer and rector
- Alfred von Planta (1857–1922) - Swiss lawyer, diplomat, industrialist and politician, President of the Swiss National Council
- Mark G. von Pückler (* 1940) - lawyer and specialist author
- Gustav Radbruch - Prof. for Criminal Law and Legal Philosophy
- Oswald Ring - lawyer and media manager (student 1954–1958)
- Hanns Martin Schleyer - lawyer (student 1933–1938)
- Albert Schulz (pseudonym San-Marte ) - lawyer, poet, literary scholar and Germanist (studied 1822–1824), briefly imprisoned in the Heidelberg student prison
- Robert Schumann - lawyer (student 1829)
- Rolf Serick - Lawyer (Prof. 1956–1987)
- Georg von Siemens - founder of Deutsche Bank (stud.)
- Carl von Schubert - State Secretary in the Foreign Office of the Weimar Republic (student until 1904)
- Johannes de Spina (1642–1689), lawyer and rector
- Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut - Lawyer (Prof. for Roman Law 1805–1840, Rector of the University 1805–1807 and 1821)
- Peter Ulmer - lawyer (Prof. 1975–2001, rector of the university 1991–1997)
- Karl Adolph von Vangerow - Lawyer (Prof. for Roman Law 1840–1870)
- Ernst Walz - lawyer (associate professor for administrative law, honorary senator of the university on his 40th anniversary as Lord Mayor of the city in 1926)
- Martin Paul Waßmer - Legal scholar (Prof. for Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law)
- Franz Ignaz Wedekind - legal scholar (doctorate, professor, dean, rector and procurator at the university)
- Georg Joseph Wedekind - Lawyer (PhD, Prof.)
- Otto Günther von Wesendonk - PhD 1908, diplomat, orientalist, writer
- Ulrich Wille - Swiss general in the First World War
- Bernhard Windscheid - Lawyer (Prof. for Roman Law 1871–1874)
- Carl-Heinz Witt - lawyer and university professor (Habil., Apl. Prof.)
Social sciences
- Klaus von Beyme - Political Scientist (Prof. 1974–1999)
- William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - sociologist (student around 1892–1894)
- Jürgen Domes - political scientist (doctorate 1960)
- Norbert Elias - sociologist (student 1919, postgraduate student 1924–1930)
- Björn Kraus - social scientist (PhD 2000)
- Paul Reiner - Reform Pedagogue , Dr. (stud.), chemistry, mineralogy, physics, sociology and philosophy
- Stefanie Seiler - sociologist
- Anja Senz - political scientist , sinologist
- Dolf Sternberger - political scientist (Prof. 1960–1989)
- Max Weber - sociologist
- Hansjörg Weitbrecht - sociologist (honorary professor since 1994)
theology
- Rainer Albertz - Protestant theologian (student)
- Klaus Berger - Protestant theologian (Prof.)
- Rudolf Bohren - Protestant theologian (Prof.)
- Heinrich Bornkamm - Protestant theologian (Prof.)
- Günther Bornkamm - ev. Theologian (Prof.)
- Johannes Brenz - ev. Theologian a. Reformer (stud.)
- Martin Bucer - ev. Theologian a. Reformer (stud.)
- Hans von Campenhausen - Protestant theologian (Prof.)
- Johann Amos Comenius - theologian, pedagogue (student 1613–1614)
- Georg Cruciger - Protestant theologian, philosopher (student 1598–1600)
- Martin Dibelius - Protestant theologian (Prof.)
- Johannes Eck - cath. Theologian (stud.)
- Wolfgang Fenske - Protestant theologian (student)
- Heinrich Benedikt Fleischbein - cath. Theologian (professor), priest, dean of the theological faculty in 1786 and 1790
- Martin Frecht - ev. Theologian a. Reformer (Prof., Rector 1530/31)
- Gustav Hölscher - Protestant theologian (Prof.)
- Nikolaus von Kues - cath. Theologian (stud.)
- Heinz-Wolfgang Kuhn - Protestant theologian (student, Prof.)
- Bartholomäus Lutz - cath. Theologian and Canon Lawyer (Prof.)
- Martin Lydius - ev. Theologian and head of the Collegium Philosophicum
- Philipp Marbach - Protestant theologian (Prof.)
- Johan Friedrich Mieg - Reformed theologian (Prof., Rector 1676, 1684)
- Ludwig Christian Mieg - Reformed theologian (student, Prof., Rector 1708)
- Ludwig Georg Mieg - Reformed preacher, theologian and university professor (student, Ephorus of the Sapienzkollegium)
- Theophilus Neuberger - Protestant theologian (student from 1610)
- Johannes Oekolampad - ev. Theologian a. Reformer (stud.)
- Caspar Olevian - Protestant theologian (Prof.)
- Wolfhart Pannenberg - evangelical theologian (stud.)
- David Pareus - Protestant theologian (Prof.)
- Reinhold Pauli (1638–1682), ev. Theologian (Stud, Prom. 1666)
- Johann Pfeffer - cath. Theologian (stud., Prof.)
- Amandus Polanus von Polansdorf - ev. Theologian (stud.)
- Gerhard von Rad - ev. Theologian (Prof.)
- Rolf Rendtorff - Protestant theologian (Prof., Rector 1970–1972)
- Richard Rothe - Protestant theologian (Prof.)
- Dominique Salhorgne - cath. Theologian (Prof.), later General of the Lazarists
- Erhard Schnepf - ev. Theologian a. Reformer (stud.)
- Hans-Joachim Schwager - Protestant Theology (stud.)
- Lothar Steiger - ev. Theologian (Prof.)
- Heřman z Tardy - ev. Theology (stud.)
- Gerd Theißen - Protestant theologian (Prof.)
- Helmut Thielicke - Protestant theologian 1936–1940 (Prof.)
- Immanuel Tremellius - ev. Theologian (Prof.)
- Ernst Troeltsch - ev. Theologian (Prof.)
- Zacharias Ursinus - ev. Theologian (Prof.)
- Heinz-Dietrich Wendland Protestant theologian (1929 private lecturer with teaching position for New Testament and social ethics; 1934 Protestant student pastor in Heidelberg)
- Claus Westermann - Protestant theologian (Prof.)
- Hans Walter Wolff - Protestant theologian (Prof.)
- Girolamo Zanchi - ev. Theologian (Prof.)
- Georg Ziegler - missionary in China
Economics
The subject of economics / economics was started as " political science ". Business administration came later.
- Rudolf Haas (1843–1916), Privy Councilor of Commerce, mining entrepreneur
- Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling - (Prof. 1784–1786)
- Karl Knies - political economist (Prof. 1865-1896)
- Ludwig Walrad Medicus -, university lecturer for forestry and agriculture, (Stud. 1787–1791; ao Prof. 1795–1804)
- Erich Preiser - national economist (Prof. 1947–1956)
- Karl Heinrich Rau - founder of political economy, Prof. 1822–1870
- Alfred Weber - national economist (Prof. 1897–1947)
- Victor Zarnowitz (1919–2009) - Polish-American economist
Politician
- Andreas Ackermann (* 1946), politician (SPD)
- Reinhard Bütikofer - Federal Managing Director of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen (student around 1975)
- Silvana Koch-Mehrin - FDP politician, MEP (student)
- Helmut Kohl - Chancellor a. D.
- Rezzo Hose - Ex- Member of the Bundestag , Ex- Parliamentary State Secretary
- Beatrix von Storch - AfD politician, Member of the Bundestag (student)
- Hans-Christian Ströbele - Member of the Bundestag (student 1960 to?)
- Florian Toncar - Member of the Bundestag and Member of the Financial Market Stabilization Fund
- Bernhard Vogel - Rhineland-Palatinate and Thuringian Minister President a. D., 1960–1967 research assistant and lecturer at the Institute for Political Science
- Ute Vogt - SPD politician (student)
Individual evidence
- ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 14, Leipzig 1908, p. 867; online via Zeno.org