List of holders of the Pour le Mérite Order for Science and the Arts
This is the list of recipients of the Pour le Mérite Order for Science and the Arts, by date of entry.
"The order Pour le mérite for science and arts,
- on May 31, 1842, King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, advised by Alexander von Humboldt , added Pour le mérite to the order founded by Frederick the Great in 1740 as its peace class for services to the sciences and the arts,
- which, after the end of the monarchy and a general ban on religious orders in the German Reich , was able to continue to exist as a self-complementing free association of scholars and artists with the approval of the Prussian State Ministry of March 4, 1924 ,
- and who was prevented from holding new elections after 1933,
has been supplemented and renewed in the Federal Republic of Germany at the suggestion of Federal President Theodor Heuss on May 31, 1952 by co-opting according to the statutes of 1924. "Although not an official order of the Federal Republic of Germany, the respective head of state is the protector of the order and the order is considered to be one of the most prestigious awards for science and art.
List of members
Medal bearer | activity | birthday | Date of death | Aufn.- year |
comment |
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Dominique François Jean Arago | physicist | 02/26/1786 | 10/02/1853 | 1842 | |
Francesco Maria Avellino | archaeologist | 08/14/1778 | 03/09/1850 | 1842 | |
Jöns Jacob Freiherr von Berzelius | Chemist | 08/20/1779 | 08/07/1848 | 1842 | |
Franz Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel | astronomer | 07/22/1784 | 03/17/1846 | 1842 | |
August Boeckh | Antiquarian | 11/24/1785 | 08/03/1867 | 1842 | 1862: Vice Chancellor; 1867: Chancellor |
Franz Bopp | Linguist (Sanskrit) | 09/14/1791 | 10/23/1867 | 1842 | |
Bartolomeo Count Borghesi | archaeologist | 07/11/1781 | April 16, 1860 | 1842 | |
Robert Brown | botanist | 12/21/1773 | 06/10/1858 | 1842 | |
Christian Leopold von Buch | Geologist and paleontologist | 04/26/1774 | 03/04/1853 | 1842 | |
François Rene Viscount De Chateaubriand | writer | 09/04/1768 | 07/04/1848 | 1842 | |
Peter Joseph by Cornelius | painter | 09/23/1783 | 03/06/1867 | 1842 | 1842: Vice Chancellor; 1862: Chancellor |
Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre | Painter and inventor of photographs | 11/18/1787 | 07/10/1851 | 1842 | |
Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach | surgeon | 02/01/1792 | 11/11/1847 | 1842 | |
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg | Naturalist | 04/19/1795 | 06/27/1876 | 1842 | |
Karl Friedrich Eichhorn | Legal scholar | 11/20/1781 | 07/04/1854 | 1842 | |
Johann Franz Encke | astronomer | 09/23/1791 | 08/26/1865 | 1842 | |
Michael Faraday | Chemist, physicist | 09/22/1791 | 08/25/1867 | 1842 | |
Pierre François Leonard Fontaine | architect | 09/10/1762 | 13.10.1853 | 1842 | |
Vittorio Count Fossombroni | Hydraulic engineer and economist | 15.09.1754 | 04/15/1844 | 1842 | |
Carl Friedrich Gauss | Mathematician and astronomer | 04/30/1777 | 02/23/1855 | 1842 | |
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac | Chemist and physicist | December 6th, 1778 | 05/09/1850 | 1842 | |
Jacob Grimm | Germanist | 01/04/1785 | 09/20/1863 | 1842 | |
Sir John Frederick William Herschel | astronomer | 03/07/1792 | 05/11/1871 | 1842 | |
Alexander von Humboldt | Naturalist and geographer | 09/14/1769 | 05/06/1859 | 1842 | 1842: Chancellor |
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres | painter | 08/29/1780 | 01/14/1867 | 1842 | |
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi | mathematician | 12/10/1804 | 02/18/1851 | 1842 | |
Bartholomew Kopitar | Slavist | 08/21/1780 | 08/11/1844 | 1842 | |
Adam Johann von Krusenstern | Explorer | 11/19/1770 | 08/24/1846 | 1842 | |
Karl Friedrich Lessing | painter | 02/15/1808 | 06/05/1880 | 1842 | |
Jean-Antoine Letronne | numismatist | 01/25/1787 | 12/14/1848 | 1842 | |
Franz Liszt | Tonkünstler | 10/22/1811 | 07/31/1886 | 1842 | |
Macedonio Melloni | physicist | 04/11/1798 | 08/11/1854 | 1842 | |
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy | composer | 02/03/1809 | 04/11/1847 | 1842 | |
Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar Prince of Metternich-Winneburg | Statesman | 05/15/1773 | 06/11/1859 | 1842 | |
Giacomo Meyerbeer | composer | 05.09.1791 | 05/02/1864 | 1842 | |
Eilhard Mitscherlich | Chemist | 07/01/1794 | 08/28/1863 | 1842 | |
Thomas Moore | poet | 05/28/1779 | 02/25/1852 | 1842 | |
Johannes Muller | Physiologist, anatomist and biologist | 07/14/1801 | 04/28/1858 | 1842 | |
Hans Christian Oersted | physicist | 08/14/1777 | 03/09/1851 | 1842 | |
Christian Daniel Rauch | sculptor | 01/02/1777 | 12/03/1857 | 1842 | |
Carl Ritter | geographer | 08/07/1779 | 09/28/1859 | 1842 | |
Gioacchino Antonio Rossini | composer | 02/29/1792 | 11/13/1868 | 1842 | |
Friedrich Rückert | Poet and orientalist | 05/16/1788 | 01/31/1866 | 1842 | |
Friedrich Carl von Savigny | Legal scholar | 02/21/1779 | 10/25/1861 | 1842 | 1859: Chancellor |
Johann Gottfried Schadow | sculptor | 05/20/1764 | 01/27/1850 | 1842 | |
Friedrich Wilhelm von Schelling | philosopher | 01/27/1775 | 08/20/1854 | 1842 | |
August Wilhelm von Schlegel | poet | 09/08/1767 | 05/12/1845 | 1842 | |
Julius Veit Hans Schnorr von Carolsfeld | painter | 03/26/1794 | 05/24/1872 | 1842 | |
Johann Lukas Schönlein | Mediciners | 11/30/1793 | 01/23/1864 | 1842 | |
Ludwig Michael von Schwanthaler | sculptor | 08/26/1802 | 11/14/1848 | 1842 | |
Wassilij Andrejewisch Zhukowskij | poet | 02/09/1783 | 04/24/1852 | 1842 | |
Gasparo Luigi Pacifico Spontini | composer | 11/14/1774 | 01/24/1851 | 1842 | |
Albert Thorvaldsen | sculptor | 11/19/1770 | March 24, 1844 | 1842 | |
Ludwig Tieck | poet | 05/31/1773 | 04/28/1853 | 1842 | |
Paolo Toschi | Engraver | 06/07/1788 | 07/30/1854 | 1842 | |
Horace Vernet | painter | 06/30/1789 | 01/17/1863 | 1842 | |
Stephan Ladislaus finite | Botanist and philologist | 06/24/1804 | 03/28/1849 | 1844 | |
Alessandro Conte Manzoni | poet | 03/07/1785 | 05/22/1873 | 1844 | |
Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger | poet | 11/14/1779 | January 20, 1850 | 1844 | |
Jean Antoine Théodore Baron Gudin | painter | 08/15/1802 | December 4th, 1880 | 1845 | |
Heinrich Friedrich Link | Botanist and naturalist | 02/02/1767 | 01/01/1851 | 1845 | |
Pavel Josef Šafarík | Slavist | 05/13/1795 | 06/26/1861 | 1845 | |
Gottfried Johann Jakob Hermann | Classical philologist | 11/28/1772 | December 31, 1848 | 1846 | |
Sir David Brewster | physicist | 12/11/1781 | 02/10/1868 | 1847 | |
Karl Sigismund Kunth | botanist | 06/18/1788 | March 22, 1850 | 1848 | |
Louis Spohr | composer | 04/05/1784 | 10/22/1859 | 1848 | |
Karl Ernst von Baer | zoologist | 02/28/1792 | 11/28/1876 | 1849 | |
Augustin Louis Baron Cauchy | mathematician | 08/21/1789 | 05/23/1857 | 1849 | |
Georg Friedrich Creuzer | Classical philologist | 03/10/1771 | 02/16/1858 | 1849 | |
François Pierre Guilleaume Guizot | historian | 04/10/1787 | 09/12/1874 | 1849 | |
Karl Benedict Rabbit | Classical philologist | 05/11/1780 | 03/21/1864 | 1849 | |
Bernhard Wilhelm Eliodorus von Kaulbach | painter | October 15, 1805 | 04/07/1874 | 1849 | |
Jean-Baptiste Biot | physicist | 04/21/1774 | 02/03/1862 | 1850 | |
Eugène Burnouf | Orientalist, Sanskrit and cuneiform researcher | 08/12/1801 | 05/28/1852 | 1850 | |
Paul Delaroche | painter | 07/17/1797 | 04/11/1856 | 1850 | |
Josef Freiherr von Hammer-Purgstall | Orientalist | 06/09/1774 | 11/23/1856 | 1850 | |
Wilhelm von Schadow | painter | 09/06/1788 | 03/19/1862 | 1850 | |
Daniel-François Esprit Auber | composer | 01/29/1782 | 05/12/1871 | 1851 | |
Justus Freiherr von Liebig | Chemist | 05/12/1803 | 04/18/1873 | 1851 | |
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve | astronomer | 04/15/1793 | 11/23/1864 | 1851 | |
Friedrich Tiedemann | physiologist | 08/23/1781 | 01/22/1861 | 1851 | |
Louis Gallait | painter | 03/10/1810 | 11/20/1887 | 1852 | |
Sir Richard Owen | Zoologist and paleontologist | 07/20/1804 | 12/18/1892 | 1852 | |
Pietro Tenerani | sculptor | 11/11/1789 | 12/14/1869 | 1852 | |
Honoré Théodore Paul Joseph D'Albert Duc De Luynes | Archaeologist and numismatist | December 15, 1802 | 12/17/1867 | 1853 | |
Thomas Babington Macaulay | historian | 10/25/1800 | 12/28/1859 | 1853 | |
Henry Creswicke Rawlinson | Orientalist and cuneiform researcher | 04/11/1810 | 05.03.1895 | 1853 | |
Christian Samuel Weiss | mineralogist | 02/26/1780 | 10/01/1856 | 1853 | |
Sir George Biddell Airy | astronomer | 07/27/1801 | 01/02/1892 | 1854 | |
Jakob Ignaz Hittorff | architect | 08/20/1792 | 03/25/1867 | 1854 | |
Auguste Gaspard Louis Baron Desnoyers Boucher | Engraver | 12/19/1779 | 02/16/1857 | 1855 | |
Jean-Baptiste André Dumas | Chemist | 07/14/1800 | 04/11/1884 | 1855 | |
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet | mathematician | 02/13/1805 | 05/05/1859 | 1855 | |
Christian August Lobeck | Classical philologist | 06/05/1781 | 08/25/1860 | 1855 | |
Johann Friedrich Overbeck | painter | 07/03/1789 | 11/12/1869 | 1855 | |
Leopold von Ranke | historian | 12/21/1795 | 05/23/1886 | 1855 | 1867: Vice Chancellor; 1867: Chancellor |
François Forster | Engraver | 08/22/1790 | 06/25/1872 | 1857 | |
Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger | Geologist and mineralogist | 02/05/1795 | March 19, 1871 | 1857 | |
Christian Lassen | Orientalist | 10/22/1800 | 05/08/1876 | 1857 | |
Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury | painter | 08/08/1797 | 05/05/1890 | 1857 | |
Sir Edward Sabine | Physicist and astronomer | 10/14/1788 | 06/26/1883 | 1857 | |
Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel | sculptor | 12/15/1804 | 02/21/1861 | 1858 | |
Friedrich August Stüler | architect | January 28, 1800 | 03/18/1865 | 1858 | |
Ernst Heinrich Weber | physiologist | 06/24/1795 | 01/26/1878 | 1859 | |
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz | Naturalist | 05/28/1807 | 12/14/1873 | 1860 | |
Heinrich Wilhelm Dove | meteorologist | 06.10.1803 | 04/04/1879 | 1860 | 1867: Vice Chancellor |
John Charles Frémont | Explorer and geographer | 01/21/1813 | 07/13/1890 | 1860 | |
Johann August Eduard Mandel | Engraver | 02/15/1810 | 10/20/1882 | 1860 | |
Franz Ernst Neumann | physicist | 09/11/1798 | 05/23/1895 | 1860 | |
Friedrich Christoph Schlosser | historian | 11/17/1776 | 09/23/1861 | 1860 | |
August Immanuel Bekker | Classical philologist | 05/21/1785 | 06/07/1871 | 1861 | |
Friedrich Benedikt Wilhelm von Hermann | Political economist | 05.12.1795 | 11/23/1868 | 1861 | |
Edmond François Jomard | geographer | 11/22/1777 | 09/23/1862 | 1861 | |
Franz Karl Leo von Klenze | Architect and town planner | 02/29/1784 | 01/27/1864 | 1861 | |
Heinrich Rose | Chemist | 08/06/1795 | 01/27/1864 | 1861 | |
Johann Friedrich Drake | sculptor | 06/23/1805 | 04/06/1882 | 1863 | 1879: Vice Chancellor |
Jean Hippolyte Flandrin | painter | 03/23/1809 | 03/21/1864 | 1863 | |
Edward Hincks | Orientalist | 08/19/1792 | December 3rd, 1866 | 1863 | |
Sir Charles Lyell | geologist | 11/14/1797 | 02/22/1875 | 1863 | |
Josef Karl Anton Mittermaier | Legal scholar | 08/05/1787 | 08/28/1867 | 1863 | |
Jean Victor Poncelet | mathematician | 07/01/1788 | 12/22/1867 | 1863 | |
Friedrich von Raumer | historian | 05/14/1781 | 06/14/1873 | 1863 | |
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen | Chemist | 03/30/1811 | 08/16/1899 | 1864 | |
August Eduard Grell | Sound artist and composer | 11/6/1800 | 08/10/1886 | 1864 | |
Georg Friedrich Schömann | Classical philologist | 06/28/1793 | 03/25/1879 | 1864 | |
Wilhelm Eduard Weber | physicist | October 24, 1804 | 06/23/1891 | 1864 | |
Friedrich Woehler | Chemist | 07/31/1800 | 09/23/1882 | 1864 | |
Georg Friedrich Ziebland | architect | 02/01/1800 | 01/24/1873 | 1864 | |
Léon Cogniet | painter | 08/29/1794 | 11/20/1880 | 1865 | |
Amadeo Peyron | Orientalist | 10/02/1785 | 04/27/1870 | 1865 | |
Friedrich Christian Diez | Romanist | 03/15/1794 | 05/29/1876 | 1866 | |
Peter Andreas Hansen | astronomer | 12/08/1795 | 03/28/1874 | 1866 | |
Christopher Hansteen | astronomer | 09/26/1784 | 04/11/1873 | 1866 | |
Johann Heinrich Strack | architect | 07/06/1805 | 06/13/1880 | 1866 | |
Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann | painter | December 3rd, 1811 | 12/27/1889 | 1867 | |
Peter Jakob Baron Clodt von Juergensburg | sculptor | 06/05/1805 | 11/20/1867 | 1867 | |
Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont | Engraver | 06/13/1797 | 01/20/1892 | 1867 | |
Henri Milne-Edwards | Zoologist and physiologist | 23.10.1800 | 07/29/1885 | 1867 | |
Charles Robert Darwin | Naturalist | 02/12/1809 | 04/19/1882 | 1868 | |
Félix Louis Jacques Duban | architect | 10/14/1797 | December 20, 1870 | 1868 | |
Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer | Orientalist | 02/21/1801 | 02/10/1888 | 1868 | |
August Meineke | Classical philologist | 12/08/1790 | 12/12/1870 | 1868 | |
Theodor Mommsen | Historian and archaeologist | 11/30/1817 | 11/01/1903 | 1868 | 1894: Vice Chancellor |
Henri Victor Regnault | Physicist and chemist | 07/21/1810 | 01/19/1878 | 1868 | |
Sir Charles Wheatstone | physicist | 02/06/1802 | October 19, 1875 | 1868 | |
Johan Nicolai Madvig | Classical philologist | 08/07/1804 | 12/12/1886 | 1869 | |
Franz Xaver Ritter von Miklosich | Slavist | 11/20/1813 | 03/07/1891 | 1869 | |
Johann King of Saxony | Linguist (Italian Studies) | 12/12/1801 | October 29, 1873 | 1869 | |
Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel | painter | December 8th, 1815 | 02/09/1905 | 1870 | 1882: Vice Chancellor; 1886: Chancellor |
Johan Peter Molin | sculptor | 03/17/1814 | 07/29/1873 | 1870 | |
Rudolph Friedrich Moriz Haupt | Classical philologist and Germanist | 07/27/1808 | 02/05/1874 | 1871 | |
Gustav Rose | mineralogist | 03/18/1798 | 07/15/1873 | 1871 | |
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer | Animal painter | 03/07/1802 | 10/01/1873 | 1872 | |
Richard Lepsius | Egyptologist | December 23, 1810 | 07/10/1884 | 1872 | |
Elias Loennrot | Linguist (Finnish Studies) | 04/09/1802 | 03/19/1884 | 1872 | |
Thomas Romney Robinson | astronomer | 04/23/1792 | 02/28/1882 | 1872 | |
Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg | philosopher | 11/30/1802 | 01/24/1872 | 1872 | |
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz | Physiologist and physicist | August 31, 1821 | 09/08/1894 | 1873 | 1886: Vice Chancellor |
Nicaise de Keyser | painter | 08/26/1813 | 07/17/1887 | 1873 | |
Ludwig Knaus | painter | 05.10.1829 | December 07, 1910 | 1873 | |
Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander | astronomer | 03/22/1799 | 02/17/1875 | 1874 | |
Thomas Carlyle | historian | December 04, 1795 | 02/05/1881 | 1874 | |
Ernst Julius Hähnel | sculptor | 03/09/1811 | 05/22/1891 | 1874 | |
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff | physicist | 03/12/1824 | 10/17/1887 | 1874 | |
Humphrey Lloyd | physicist | 04/16/1800 | January 17, 1881 | 1874 | |
Helmuth Karl Bernhard Count von Moltke | War scientist | 10/26/1800 | 04/24/1891 | 1874 | |
Friedrich Max Muller | Orientalist | December 6th, 1823 | 10/28/1900 | 1874 | |
Gottfried Semper | architect | 11/29/1803 | 05/15/1879 | 1874 | |
Heinrich von Sybel | historian | 12/02/1817 | 08/01/1895 | 1874 | |
George Bancroft | historian | 03.10.1800 | January 17, 1891 | 1875 | |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | poet | 02/27/1807 | 03/24/1882 | 1875 | |
Theodor Schwann | Anatomist and physiologist | December 07, 1810 | 01/11/1882 | 1875 | |
William Stokes | Mediciners | 10/01/1804 | 01/10/1878 | 1875 | |
Karl Weierstrass | mathematician | 10/31/1815 | 02/19/1897 | 1875 | |
Otto Nikolaus von Böhtlingk | Orientalist | 06/11/1815 | 04/01/1904 | 1876 | |
Georg Curtius | Classical philologist | April 16, 1820 | 08/12/1885 | 1877 | |
Emil Heinrich Du Bois Reymond | physiologist | 11/07/1818 | 12/26/1896 | 1877 | |
Johannes Japetus Smith Steenstrup | Zoologist and prehistorian | March 8th, 1813 | 06/20/1897 | 1877 | |
Eduard Zeller | philosopher | 01/22/1814 | 03/19/1908 | 1877 | |
Ernst Wilhelm Ritter von Brücke | physiologist | 06/06/1819 | 07/01/1892 | 1878 | |
Charles Hermite | mathematician | 12/24/1822 | 01/14/1901 | 1878 | |
Ernst Curtius | Historian and archaeologist | 09/02/1814 | 07/11/1896 | 1879 | |
Carl von Siebold | zoologist | 02/16/1804 | 04/07/1885 | 1879 | |
Sir George Gabriel Stokes | mathematician | 08/13/1819 | 02/01/1903 | 1879 | |
(Nils) Adolf Erik Freiherr von Nordenskiöld | Polar explorer | 11/18/1832 | 08/12/1901 | 1880 | |
Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Schmidt | architect | 10/22/1825 | 01/23/1891 | 1880 | |
Andreas Achenbach | Landscape painter | 09/29/1815 | 04/01/1910 | 1881 | |
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema | painter | 01/08/1836 | 06/25/1912 | 1881 | |
Niels Wilhelm Gade | composer | 02/22/1817 | December 21, 1890 | 1881 | |
Georg Heinrich Friedrich Hitzig | architect | April 8th, 1811 | 10/11/1881 | 1881 | |
William Dwight Whitney | Orientalist | 02/09/1827 | 06/07/1894 | 1881 | |
Pierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot | Chemist | 10/25/1827 | 03/18/1907 | 1882 | |
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Dieudonne Boussingault | Chemist and agronomist | 02/02/1802 | 05/11/1887 | 1882 | |
Giuseppe Fiorelli | archaeologist | 06/08/1823 | 01/28/1896 | 1882 | |
Gustav Karl Ludwig Richter | Portrait and history painter | 08/03/1823 | 04/03/1884 | 1882 | |
Johannes Schilling | sculptor | 06/23/1828 | 03/21/1910 | 1882 | |
Otto Wilhelm von Struve | astronomer | 05/07/1819 | 04/16/1905 | 1882 | |
Bernhard Rudolf Studer | geologist | 08/21/1794 | 05/02/1887 | 1882 | |
Reinhold Begas | sculptor | 07/15/1831 | 08/03/1911 | 1883 | |
August Wilhelm von Hofmann | Chemist | April 8th, 1818 | 05/05/1892 | 1883 | |
Michele Benedetto Gaetano Amari | Historian and orientalist | 07/07/1806 | 07/16/1889 | 1884 | |
Friedrich Schaper | sculptor | 07/31/1841 | 11/29/1919 | 1884 | 1905: Vice Chancellor; 1915: Chancellor |
William Lord Kelvin Of Largs Thomson | physicist | 06/26/1824 | 12/17/1907 | 1884 | |
Joseph Lord Lister | surgeon | 04/05/1827 | 02/10/1912 | 1885 | |
Georg Waitz | historian | 10/09/1813 | 05/24/1886 | 1885 | |
August Friedrich Pott | Linguist | 11/14/1802 | 07/05/1887 | 1886 | |
Giovanni Battista Carlo de Rossi | archaeologist | 02/23/1822 | 09/20/1894 | 1886 | |
Werner Ernst from Siemens | physicist | 12/13/1816 | December 06, 1892 | 1886 | |
Johannes Brahms | composer | 05/07/1833 | 04/03/1897 | 1887 | |
Gustav Freytag | Poet and writer | 07/13/1816 | 04/30/1895 | 1887 | |
Giulio Monteverde | sculptor | 10/08/1837 | 10/03/1917 | 1887 | |
Heinrich von Treitschke | historian | 09/15/1834 | 04/28/1896 | 1887 | |
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi | composer | 10/10/1813 | 01/27/1901 | 1887 | |
William Wright | Orientalist | January 17, 1830 | 05/22/1889 | 1887 | |
Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius | physicist | 01/02/1822 | 08/24/1888 | 1888 | |
Heinrich Rudolf Hermann Friedrich von Gneist | Legal scholar | 08/13/1816 | 07/22/1895 | 1888 | |
Sir Frederick Baron Leighton of Stretton | Painter and sculptor | December 3rd, 1830 | 01/25/1896 | 1888 | |
Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac | Chemist | 04/24/1817 | 04/15/1894 | 1888 | |
Giuseppe Giovanni Antonio Meneghini | Geologist and paleontologist | 07/30/1811 | 01/29/1889 | 1888 | |
Theodor Nöldeke | Orientalist | 03/02/1836 | December 25, 1930 | 1888 | |
Emile Charles Wauters | painter | 11/19/1846 | December 11, 1933 | 1888 | |
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig | physiologist | 12/29/1816 | 04/23/1895 | 1889 | |
Karl Franz Eduard von Gebhardt | painter | 06/13/1838 | 02/03/1925 | 1890 | |
Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus de Candolle | botanist | 10/28/1806 | 04/04/1893 | 1891 | |
Hermann end | architect | 03/04/1829 | 08/10/1907 | 1891 | |
Adolf von Hildebrand | sculptor | 10/06/1847 | January 18, 1921 | 1891 | |
Vatroslav from Jagic | Slavist | 07/06/1838 | 08/05/1923 | 1891 | |
Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern | Indologist and linguist | 04/06/1833 | 07/04/1917 | 1891 | |
Sir Austen Henry Layard | Archaeologist and diplomat | 03/05/1817 | 07/05/1894 | 1891 | |
Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein | Tonkünstler | 11/28/1829 | 11/20/1894 | 1891 | |
Adrian Friedrich Wilhelm Julius Ludwig Verdy du Vernois | War scientist | 07/19/1832 | 09/30/1910 | 1891 | |
Pasquale Villari | Historian and politician | 10/03/1827 | 12/11/1917 | 1891 | |
Arthur Julius Georg Friedrich von Auwers | astronomer | 09/12/1838 | 01/24/1915 | 1892 | 1903: Vice Chancellor; 1905: Chancellor |
Benjamin Apthorp Gould | astronomer | 09/27/1824 | 11/26/1896 | 1892 | |
Sir John Everett Millais | painter | 06/08/1829 | 08/13/1896 | 1892 | |
Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz | Chemist | 07.09.1829 | 07/13/1896 | 1893 | |
August Kundt | physicist | 11/18/1839 | 05/21/1894 | 1893 | |
Sven Ludvig Lovén | zoologist | 01/06/1809 | 09/03/1895 | 1893 | |
Ludwig Johann Passini | painter | 07/09/1832 | 11/06/1903 | 1893 | |
Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger | physiologist | 06/07/1829 | March 16, 1910 | 1893 | |
Jakob Georg Agardh | botanist | December 8th, 1813 | January 17, 1901 | 1894 | |
Alfred Ritter von Arneth | historian | 07/10/1819 | 07/30/1897 | 1894 | |
Adolf Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Ritter von Baeyer | Chemist | 10/31/1835 | 08/20/1917 | 1895 | |
Michael Jan de Goeje | Arabist | 08/13/1836 | 05/17/1909 | 1895 | |
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff | Chemist | 08/30/1852 | 03/01/1911 | 1895 | |
Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer | numismatist | 05/11/1838 | 04/26/1920 | 1895 | |
Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli | astronomer | 03/14/1835 | 07/04/1910 | 1895 | |
Hermann Carl Vogel | Astrophysicist | 04/03/1841 | 08/13/1907 | 1895 | |
Otto Eduard Leopold Prince of Bismarck | Chancellor | 04/01/1815 | 07/30/1898 | 1896 | |
Heinrich Brunner | Legal scholar | 06/21/1840 | 08/11/1915 | 1896 | |
Herman Grimm | Art and literary scholar | 01/06/1828 | 06/16/1901 | 1896 | |
Friedrich Wilhelm Kohlrausch | physicist | 10/14/1840 | January 17, 1910 | 1896 | |
Rudolf Albert von Kölliker | anatomist | 07/06/1817 | 11/02/1905 | 1896 | |
Alexander Onufrijewitsch Kovalevsky | Embryologist and zoologist | 11/19/1840 | 11/22/1901 | 1896 | |
Johann Wilhelm Hittorf | physicist | 03/27/1824 | 11/28/1914 | 1897 | |
Rudolf Leuckart | zoologist | 07.10.1822 | 02/06/1898 | 1897 | |
Carl Gottfried Neumann | mathematician | 05/07/1832 | March 27, 1925 | 1897 | |
Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz | painter | 07/24/1848 | 11/01/1921 | 1897 | |
William Stubbs | Historian, Lord Bishop of Oxford | 06/21/1825 | 04/22/1901 | 1897 | |
Hermann Usener | Classical philologist | 10/23/1834 | 10/21/1905 | 1897 | |
Albrecht Friedrich Weber | Orientalist | 02/17/1825 | 11/30/1901 | 1897 | |
Johann Kaspar Julius Ficker from Feldhaus | Historian of religion | 04/30/1826 | 07/10/1902 | 1898 | |
Sir William Henry Flower | Naturalist | 11/30/1831 | 07/01/1899 | 1898 | |
Gustav Oskar August Montelius | archaeologist | 09.09.1843 | 04/11/1921 | 1898 | |
Sir John Murray | Deep sea explorer | 03.03.1841 | March 16, 1914 | 1898 | |
Simon Schwendener | botanist | 02/10/1829 | May 27, 1919 | 1898 | |
Sir Hubert von Herkomer | Painter and graphic artist | 05/26/1849 | March 31, 1914 | 1899 | |
Joseph Joachim | Tonkünstler | 06/28/1831 | 08/15/1907 | 1899 | |
Gustav von Schmoller | Economist and historian | 06/24/1838 | 06/27/1917 | 1899 | |
Max Joseph von Pettenkofer | Hygienist and chemist | December 3rd, 1818 | 02/10/1901 | 1900 | |
Charles Camille Saint-Saëns | composer | 10/09/1835 | December 16, 1921 | 1901 | |
Rudolph Virchow | pathologist | 10/13/1821 | 09/05/1902 | 1901 | |
Julius Wellhausen | Historian and orientalist | 05/17/1844 | 07/01/1918 | 1901 | |
Alexandre Emanuel Agassiz | zoologist | December 17, 1835 | March 27, 1910 | 1902 | |
John Lubbock Lord Avebury | Naturalist | 04/30/1834 | 05/28/1913 | 1902 | |
Luigi Antonio Gaudenzio Cremona | mathematician | December 07, 1830 | 06/10/1903 | 1902 | |
Carl Gegenbaur | anatomist | 08/21/1826 | 06/14/1903 | 1902 | |
Adolf von Harnack | Theologian and church historian | 05/07/1851 | 06/10/1930 | 1902 | 1915: Vice Chancellor; 1920: Chancellor |
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker | botanist | 06/30/1817 | December 10, 1911 | 1902 | |
Carl Justi | Art historian | 08/02/1832 | 12/09/1912 | 1902 | |
Gaston Bruno Paulin Paris | Romanist | 08/09/1839 | 05.03.1903 | 1902 | |
Peter Petrovich von Semjonow-Tienschansky | geographer | 01/14/1827 | 03/11/1914 | 1902 | |
Adolf Mussafia | Romanist | 02/15/1835 | 06/07/1905 | 1903 | |
John William Strutt Lord Rayleigh | physicist | 11/12/1842 | 06/30/1919 | 1903 | |
Theodor Ritter von Sickel | historian | December 18, 1826 | 04/21/1908 | 1903 | |
Emil Fischer | Chemist | 10/09/1852 | 07/15/1919 | 1904 | |
François-Auguste Baron Gevaert | Music historian and composer | 07/30/1828 | 12/24/1908 | 1904 | |
Adolf Kirchhoff | Classical philologist | 01/06/1826 | 02/27/1908 | 1904 | |
Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow | mathematician | 12/12/1832 | 09/07/1918 | 1904 | |
Graziadio Isaia Ascoli | Linguist | 07/16/1829 | 01/21/1907 | 1905 | |
Franz Jacob von Defregger | painter | 04/30/1835 | 01/02/1921 | 1905 | |
Simon Newcomb | astronomer | 03/12/1835 | 07/11/1909 | 1905 | |
Franz Bücheler | Classical philologist | 06/03/1837 | 05/03/1908 | 1906 | |
Léopold Victor Delisle | historian | October 24, 1826 | 07/22/1910 | 1906 | |
Robert Koch | bacteriologist | 12/11/1843 | May 27, 1910 | 1906 | |
Max break | composer | 01/06/1838 | 10/02/1920 | 1908 | |
James Viscount Bryce | Historian and legal scholar | 05/10/1838 | 01/22/1922 | 1908 | |
Wilhelm Dilthey | philosopher | 11/19/1833 | 10/01/1911 | 1908 | |
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz | physicist | 07/18/1853 | 02/04/1928 | 1908 | |
Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp Pfeffer | Plant physiologist and botanist | 03/09/1845 | 01/31/1920 | 1908 | |
Friedrich Wilhelm Radloff | Linguist (Turkology) | January 17, 1837 | 05/12/1918 | 1908 | |
John Singer Sargent | painter | 01/12/1856 | 04/14/1925 | 1908 | |
Gabriel Ritter von Seidl | architect | 12/09/1848 | 04/27/1913 | 1908 | |
Johannes Vahlen | Classical philologist | 09/27/1830 | 11/30/1911 | 1908 | |
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff | Classical philologist | 12/22/1848 | 09/25/1931 | 1908 | |
Sir David Gill | astronomer | 06/12/1843 | 01/24/1914 | 1910 | |
Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin | Aeronautical engineer | 07/08/1838 | 03/08/1917 | 1910 | |
Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz | War scientist | 08/12/1843 | 04/19/1916 | 1911 | |
Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering | physiologist | 08/05/1834 | 01/26/1918 | 1911 | |
Andreas Heusler | Legal scholar | 09/30/1834 | 11/02/1921 | 1911 | |
Otto Lessing | sculptor | 02/24/1846 | 11/22/1912 | 1911 | |
Edward Charles Pickering | astronomer | 07/19/1846 | 02/03/1919 | 1911 | |
Sir William Ramsay | Chemist | 10/02/1852 | 07/23/1916 | 1911 | |
Gustaf Magnus Retzius | histologist | 10/17/1842 | 07/21/1919 | 1911 | |
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen | physicist | 03/27/1845 | 02/10/1923 | 1911 | |
Gustav Schönleber | painter | 12/03/1851 | 02/01/1917 | 1911 | |
Vilhelm Thomsen | Orientalist | 01/25/1842 | 05/12/1927 | 1911 | |
Julius Ferdinand by Hann | meteorologist | 03/23/1839 | 10/01/1921 | 1912 | |
Reinhold Koser | historian | 02/07/1852 | 08/25/1914 | 1912 | |
August Louis Tuaillon | sculptor | 07.09.1862 | 02/21/1919 | 1912 | |
Sir William Turner | anatomist | 07/01/1832 | 02/15/1916 | 1912 | |
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt | Psychologist and philosopher | 08/16/1832 | 08/31/1920 | 1912 | |
Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat | painter | 06/20/1833 | 09/08/1922 | 1913 | |
Hermann Diels | Classical philologist | 05/18/1848 | 06/04/1922 | 1913 | |
Ernst Emil Ludwig Hoffmann | architect | 07/30/1852 | 11/11/1932 | 1913 | 1923: Vice Chancellor |
Camillo Golgi | Medic and histologist | 07/07/1843 | 01/21/1926 | 1914 | |
Hans Grässel | architect | August 18, 1860 | 03/11/1939 | 1914 | |
Heinrich von Angeli | History and portrait painter | 07/08/1840 | 10/21/1925 | 1915 | |
Otto Friedrich von Gierke | Legal scholar | 01/11/1841 | 10/10/1921 | 1915 | |
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn | astronomer | 01/19/1851 | 06/18/1922 | 1915 | |
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck | physicist | 04/23/1858 | 04/10/1947 | 1915 | 1925: Vice Chancellor; 1930: Chancellor |
Santiago Ramón y Cajal | Medic and histologist | 05/01/1852 | 10/17/1934 | 1915 | |
Hugo Ritter von Seeliger | astronomer | 09/23/1849 | 12/02/1924 | 1915 | |
Hugo Freiherr von Freytag-Loringhoven | War scientist | 05/20/1855 | October 19, 1924 | 1916 | |
Rudolph Sohm | Legal scholar | October 29, 1841 | May 16, 1917 | 1916 | |
Max Klinger | Erasers and sculptors | 02/18/1857 | 07/04/1920 | 1917 | |
Walther Hermann Nernst | physicist | 06/25/1864 | 11/18/1941 | 1917 | |
Hans Thoma | Painter and graphic artist | 10/02/1839 | 11/07/1924 | 1917 | |
Adolf Erman | Egyptologist | 10/31/1854 | 06/26/1937 | 1918 | |
Georg Friedrich Knapp | Political economist and political scientist | 03/07/1842 | 02/20/1926 | 1918 | |
Johannes Adolf von Kries | physiologist | 06.10.1853 | 12/30/1928 | 1918 | |
Carl Ritter von Linde | engineer | 06/11/1842 | 11/16/1934 | 1918 | |
Eduard Meyer | Ancient historian, ancient orientalist | 01/25/1855 | 08/31/1930 | 1918 | |
Albert Einstein | physicist | 03/14/1879 | 04/18/1955 | 1923 | |
Gerhart Hauptmann | poet | 11/15/1862 | 06/06/1946 | 1923 | |
Felix Klein | mathematician | 04/25/1849 | 06/22/1925 | 1923 | |
Hugo Lederer | sculptor | 11/16/1871 | 08/01/1940 | 1923 | |
Max Liebermann | painter | 07/20/1847 | 02/08/1935 | 1923 | 1923: Vice Chancellor |
Georg Gottfried Julius Dehio | Art historian | 11/22/1850 | 03/19/1932 | 1924 | |
Richard von Hertwig | zoologist | 09/23/1850 | 10/03/1937 | 1924 | |
Hermann von Kuhl | Military writer | 11/02/1856 | 04/11/1958 | 1924 | |
Heinrich Lüders | Indologist | 06/25/1869 | 05/07/1943 | 1924 | 1931: Vice Chancellor |
Hans Erich Pfitzner | composer | 05/05/1869 | May 22, 1949 | 1924 | |
Eduard Schwartz | Classical philologist | 08/22/1858 | 02/13/1940 | 1924 | |
Max Slevogt | Painter and graphic artist | 10/08/1868 | 09/20/1932 | 1924 | |
Richard Georg Strauss | composer | 06/11/1864 | 09/08/1949 | 1924 | |
Richard Willstätter | Chemist | 08/13/1872 | 08/03/1942 | 1924 | |
Hugo Freiherr von Habermann | painter | 06/14/1849 | 02/27/1929 | 1925 | |
Ludolf von Krehl | Mediciners | December 26, 1861 | 05/26/1937 | 1925 | |
David Hilbert | mathematician | 01/23/1862 | 02/14/1943 | 1926 | |
Leopold Karl Walter Count of Kalckreuth | Painter and graphic artist | 05/15/1855 | December 01, 1928 | 1926 | |
Albrecht Penck | geographer | 09/25/1858 | 07.03.1945 | 1926 | |
Karl Vossler | Romanist | 09/06/1872 | May 18, 1949 | 1926 | |
Wilhelm von Bode | Art historian and museum director | 12/10/1845 | 03/01/1929 | 1929 | |
Gustav Heinrich Ernst Martin Wilhelm Furtwängler | Tonkünstler | 01/25/1886 | 11/30/1954 | 1929 | |
Käthe Kollwitz | Sculptor and graphic artist | 07/08/1867 | 04/22/1945 | 1929 | First woman to be awarded the medal. |
Carl Stumpf | Physiologist and philosopher | 04/21/1848 | December 25, 1936 | 1929 | |
Enno Littmann | Orientalist | 09/16/1875 | 05/04/1958 | 1931 | 1952: Chancellor |
Wilhelm Schulze | Indo-Europeanist | 12/15/1863 | January 16, 1935 | 1931 | |
Theodor Wiegand | archaeologist | 10/30/1864 | December 19, 1936 | 1931 | |
Paul Fridolin Kehr | historian | 12/28/1860 | 11/09/1944 | 1932 | |
Ernst Heinrich Barlach | Sculptor, graphic artist and poet | 01/02/1870 | October 24, 1938 | 1933 | |
Heinrich Wölfflin | Art historian | 06/21/1864 | 07/19/1945 | 1933 | |
Paul Bonatz | architect | December 06, 1877 | December 20, 1956 | 1952 | |
Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe | physicist | 01/08/1891 | 02/08/1957 | 1952 | |
Ernst Robert Curtius | Romanist | 04/14/1886 | 04/19/1956 | 1952 | |
Ludwig Curtius | archaeologist | 12/13/1874 | 04/10/1954 | 1952 | |
Gerhard Domagk | Mediciners | 10/30/1895 | 04/24/1964 | 1952 | 1959: Vice Chancellor |
Karl Ritter von Frisch | zoologist | 11/20/1886 | 06/12/1982 | 1952 | |
Erich Haenisch | Sinologist | 08/27/1880 | December 21, 1966 | 1952 | |
Otto Hahn | Chemist | 03/08/1879 | 07/28/1968 | 1952 | |
Max Hartmann | biologist | 07/07/1876 | 10/11/1962 | 1952 | 1952: Vice Chancellor - 1955: Chancellor |
Paul Hindemith | composer | 11/16/1895 | 12/28/1963 | 1952 | |
Karl Hofer | Painter and graphic artist | 10/11/1878 | 04/03/1955 | 1952 | |
Erich Kaufmann | Legal scholar | 09/21/1880 | 11/11/1972 | 1952 | 1955: Vice Chancellor; 1959: Chancellor |
Max Theodor Felix von Laue | physicist | 10/09/1879 | 04/24/1960 | 1952 | |
Theodor Litt | philosopher | December 27, 1880 | 07/16/1962 | 1952 | |
Gerhard Marcks | sculptor | 02/18/1889 | 11/13/1981 | 1952 | |
Friedrich Meinecke | historian | 10/30/1862 | 02/06/1954 | 1952 | |
Emil Nolde | Painter and graphic artist | 08/07/1867 | 04/13/1956 | 1952 | |
Karl Reinhardt | Classical philologist | 02/14/1886 | 01/09/1958 | 1952 | |
Otto Renner | botanist | 04/25/1883 | 07/08/1960 | 1952 | |
Paul Schmitthenner | architect | 12/15/1884 | 11/11/1972 | 1952 | 1959: Vice Chancellor |
Reinhold Schneider | Writer and poet | 05/13/1903 | 04/06/1958 | 1952 | |
Rudolf Alexander Schröder | poet | 01/26/1878 | 08/22/1962 | 1952 | 1952: Vice Chancellor |
Renée Sintenis | Sculptor and graphic artist | 03/20/1888 | 04/22/1965 | 1952 | |
Eduard Spranger | philosopher | 06/27/1882 | 09/17/1963 | 1952 | |
Otto Warburg | biochemist | 10/08/1883 | 08/01/1970 | 1952 | |
Heinrich Wieland | Chemist | 06/04/1877 | 08/05/1957 | 1952 | |
Adolf Windaus | Chemist | December 25, 1876 | 06/09/1959 | 1952 | |
Niels Henrik David Bohr | physicist | 07.10.1885 | 11/18/1962 | 1954 | |
Carl Jacob Burckhardt | historian | 09/10/1891 | 03/03/1974 | 1954 | |
Arthur H. Compton | physicist | 09/10/1892 | 03/15/1962 | 1954 | |
George Peabody Gooch | historian | 10/21/1873 | 08/31/1968 | 1954 | |
Hermann Hesse | writer | 07/02/1877 | 08/09/1962 | 1954 | |
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | Religious philosopher | 09/05/1888 | 04/17/1975 | 1954 | |
Albert Schweitzer | Philosopher, theologian and music historian | 01/14/1875 | 09/04/1965 | 1954 | |
Alfred Weber | sociologist | 07/30/1868 | 05/02/1958 | 1954 | |
Sir Henry Hallett Dale | physiologist | 06/09/1875 | 07/23/1968 | 1955 | |
Étienne Gilson | philosopher | 06/13/1884 | 09/19/1978 | 1955 | |
Werner Jaeger | Classical philologist | 07/30/1888 | October 19, 1961 | 1955 | |
Klas Bernhard Johannes Karlgren | Sinologist | 05.10.1889 | 10/20/1978 | 1955 | |
Oskar Kokoschka | Painter, graphic artist and writer | 03/01/1886 | 02/22/1980 | 1955 | |
Thomas Mann | writer | 06/06/1875 | 08/12/1955 | 1955 | |
Gilbert Murray | Graecist | 01/02/1866 | 05/20/1957 | 1955 | |
Hans Purrmann | Painter and graphic artist | 04/10/1880 | 04/17/1966 | 1955 | |
Luigi Einaudi | Finance scientist | March 24, 1874 | 10/30/1961 | 1956 | |
Max Huber | Legal scholar | 12/28/1874 | 01/01/1960 | 1956 | |
(Elise) Lise Meitner | physicist | 11/07/1878 | October 27, 1968 | 1956 | |
Carl Orff | composer | 07/10/1895 | 03/29/1982 | 1956 | |
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff | painter | 12/01/1884 | 08/10/1976 | 1956 | |
Erwin Schrödinger | physicist | 08/12/1887 | 01/04/1961 | 1956 | |
Thornton Wilder | writer | 04/17/1897 | December 07, 1975 | 1956 | |
Werner Heisenberg | physicist | 05.12.1901 | 02/01/1976 | 1957 | 1974: Vice Chancellor |
George of Hevesy | Chemist and physicist | 08/01/1885 | 07/05/1966 | 1957 | |
Charles B. Huggins | Mediciners | 09/22/1901 | 01/12/1997 | 1957 | |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | architect | 03/27/1886 | 08/17/1969 | 1957 | |
Gerhard Ritter | historian | 04/06/1888 | 07/01/1967 | 1957 | |
Werner Bergengruen | writer | 09/16/1892 | 04.09.1964 | 1958 | |
Romano Guardini | philosopher | 02/17/1885 | 10/01/1968 | 1958 | |
Richard Kuhn | Chemist and biochemist | December 3rd, 1900 | 07/31/1967 | 1958 | 1965: Vice Chancellor |
Percy Ernst Schramm | historian | 10/14/1894 | 11/12/1970 | 1958 | 1963: Chancellor |
Ernst Beutler | Literary scholar | 04/12/1885 | 11/08/1960 | 1959 | |
Ernst Buschor | archaeologist | 06/02/1886 | December 11, 1961 | 1959 | |
Thomas Stearns Eliot | poet | 09/26/1888 | 01/04/1965 | 1959 | |
François Louis Ganshof | historian | 03/14/1895 | 07/26/1980 | 1959 | |
Pieter Catharinus Aria Geyl | historian | 12/15/1887 | December 31, 1966 | 1959 | |
Hans Kienle | astronomer | 10/22/1895 | 02/15/1975 | 1960 | 1968: Vice Chancellor |
Hans Rothfels | historian | 04/12/1891 | 06/22/1976 | 1961 | |
Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker | Physicist and philosopher | 06/28/1912 | 04/28/2007 | 1961 | |
Adolf Butenandt | biochemist | March 24, 1903 | January 18, 1995 | 1962 | |
Albert Defant | Geophysicist | 07/12/1884 | December 24, 1974 | 1962 | |
Franz Dölger | Byzantinist | 04.10.1891 | 05/11/1968 | 1962 | |
Wolfgang Schadewaldt | Classical philologist | 03/15/1900 | 11/10/1974 | 1962 | |
André-Jean Festugière | historian | 03/15/1898 | 08/13/1982 | 1963 | |
André Grabar | Art historian | 07/26/1896 | 10/03/1990 | 1963 | |
Gerhard von Rad | theologian | 10/21/1901 | 10/31/1971 | 1963 | |
Carl Ludwig Siegel | mathematician | December 31, 1896 | 04/04/1981 | 1963 | |
Walther von Wartburg | Romanist | 05/18/1888 | 08/15/1971 | 1963 | |
Rudolf Hillebrecht | Architect and city planner | 02/26/1910 | 03/06/1999 | 1964 | 1970: Vice Chancellor |
Karl Jaspers | philosopher | 02/23/1883 | 02/26/1969 | 1964 | |
Alfred Kühn | zoologist | 04/22/1885 | 11/22/1968 | 1964 | |
Sir James Chadwick | physicist | 10/20/1891 | 07/24/1974 | 1966 | |
Annette Kolb | Writer | 02/03/1870 | December 3rd, 1967 | 1966 | |
Georg Ostrogorsky | Byzantinist | 01/19/1902 | October 24, 1976 | 1966 | |
Emil Staiger | Literary historian | 02/08/1908 | 04/28/1987 | 1966 | |
Alexander Lord Todd | Chemist | 10/02/1907 | 01/10/1997 | 1966 | |
Wieland Wagner | Opera director and set designer | 01/05/1917 | 10/17/1966 | 1966 | |
Hans Wimmer | sculptor | 03/19/1907 | 08/31/1992 | 1966 | |
Kurt Bittel | archaeologist | 07/05/1907 | 01/30/1991 | 1967 | 1979: Vice Chancellor; 1971: Chancellor |
Erich Heckel | Painter and graphic artist | 07/31/1883 | 01/27/1970 | 1967 | |
Marie Luise von Kaschnitz | Writer | 01/31/1901 | 10/10/1974 | 1967 | |
Otto Klemperer | conductor | 05/14/1885 | 07/06/1973 | 1967 | |
Gyula Moravcsik | Byzantinist | 01/29/1892 | December 10, 1972 | 1967 | |
Erwin Panofsky | Art historian | 03/30/1892 | 03/14/1968 | 1967 | |
Hideki Yukawa | physicist | 01/23/1907 | 09/08/1981 | 1967 | |
Carl Zuckmayer | writer | 12/27/1896 | January 18, 1977 | 1967 | |
Theodor Eschenburg | Political scientist and publicist | October 24, 1904 | 07/10/1999 | 1968 | |
Marino Marini | Sculptor and graphic artist | 02/27/1901 | 08/06/1980 | 1968 | |
Kurt Mothes | Plant physiologist | 03/11/1900 | 02/12/1983 | 1968 | |
Alvar Aalto | architect | 02/03/1898 | 05/11/1976 | 1969 | |
Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra | Classical philologist | 04/08/1898 | 07/04/1971 | 1969 | |
Rudolf Bultmann | theologian | 08/20/1884 | 07/30/1976 | 1969 | |
Hugo Friedrich | Romanist | 12/24/1904 | 02/25/1978 | 1969 | |
Stephan Kuttner | Canonist and legal historian | March 24, 1907 | 08/12/1996 | 1969 | |
Konrad Lorenz | zoologist | 11/07/1903 | 02/27/1989 | 1969 | |
Franz Wieacker | Legal historian | 08/05/1908 | 02/17/1994 | 1969 | |
Karl Waldemar Ziegler | Chemist | 11/26/1898 | 08/11/1973 | 1969 | |
Egon Eiermann | architect | 09/29/1904 | 07/19/1970 | 1970 | |
Walther Gerlach | physicist | 08/01/1889 | 08/10/1979 | 1970 | |
Fritz Kortner | Actor and director | 05/12/1892 | 07/22/1970 | 1970 | |
Karl Rahner | theologian | 05.03.1904 | 03/30/1984 | 1970 | |
Hans-Georg Gadamer | philosopher | 02/11/1900 | 03/13/2002 | 1971 | |
Rolf Gutbrod | architect | 09/13/1910 | 01/05/1999 | 1971 | 1985: Vice Chancellor |
Albin Lesky | Classical philologist | 07/07/1896 | 02/28/1981 | 1971 | |
Feodor Lynen | biochemist | 04/06/1911 | 08/06/1979 | 1971 | |
Theodor Schieder | historian | 04/11/1908 | 10/08/1984 | 1971 | |
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen | biochemist | January 15, 1895 | 11/11/1973 | 1971 | |
Andreas Alfoldi | Ancient historian | 08/27/1895 | 02/12/1981 | 1972 | |
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs | biochemist | 08/25/1900 | 11/22/1981 | 1972 | |
Henry Moore | sculptor | 07/30/1898 | 08/31/1986 | 1972 | |
Walter Rossow | Garden architect and landscape planner | 01/28/1910 | 01/02/1992 | 1972 | |
Fritz Winter | painter | 09/22/1905 | 10/01/1976 | 1972 | |
Raymond Aron | sociologist | 03/14/1905 | 10/17/1983 | 1973 | |
Helmut Coing | Legal scholar | 02/28/1912 | 08/15/2000 | 1973 | 1984: Chancellor |
Manfred Eigen | Physical chemist | 05/09/1927 | 02/06/2019 | 1973 | |
Golo man | Historian, publicist and writer | 03/27/1909 | 04/07/1994 | 1973 | |
Hans Erich Nossack | writer | 01/30/1901 | 11/02/1977 | 1973 | |
Bartel Leendert van der Waerden | mathematician | 02/02/1903 | 01/12/1996 | 1973 | |
Maria Wimmer | actress | 01/27/1911 | 01/04/1996 | 1973 | |
Wolfgang Gentner | physicist | 07/23/1906 | 09/04/1980 | 1974 | 1976: Vice Chancellor |
Thrasybulus Georgiades | Musicologist | 01/04/1907 | 03/15/1977 | 1974 | |
Fritz Albert Lipmann | biochemist | 06/12/1899 | 07/24/1986 | 1974 | |
Sir Ronald Syme | historian | 03/11/1903 | 09/04/1989 | 1974 | |
Pierre Boulez | Composer and conductor | March 26, 1925 | 05/01/2016 | 1975 | |
Richard Ettinghausen | Art historian | 02/05/1906 | 04/02/1979 | 1975 | |
Emil Karl Frey | surgeon | 07/27/1888 | 08/06/1977 | 1975 | |
György Ligeti | composer | 05/28/1923 | 06/12/2006 | 1975 | |
Kenzo Tange | architect | 09/04/1913 | 03/22/2005 | 1975 | |
George F. Kennan | Historian and diplomat | 02/16/1904 | 03/17/2005 | 1976 | |
Peter Huchel | writer | 04/03/1903 | 04/30/1981 | 1976 | |
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz | physicist | March 28, 1911 | 12/16/2000 | 1976 | 1979: Chancellor |
Hansjochem Autrum | zoologist | 02/06/1907 | 08/23/2003 | 1977 | |
Sir Ernst Gombrich | Art historian | 03/30/1909 | 11/03/2001 | 1977 | |
Hans Hartung | painter | 09/21/1904 | December 8, 1989 | 1977 | |
Friedrich August von Hayek | Political economist | 05/08/1899 | 03/23/1992 | 1977 | |
Bruno Snell | Classical philologist | 06/18/1896 | 10/31/1986 | 1977 | |
Gerhard Rudolf Edmund Meyer-Schwickerath | Ophthalmologist | 07/10/1920 | 01/20/1992 | 1978 | |
Victor Friedrich Weisskopf | physicist | 09/19/1908 | 04/22/2002 | 1978 | |
Felix Bloch | physicist | October 23, 1905 | 09/10/1983 | 1979 | |
Elias Canetti | writer | July 25, 1905 | 08/14/1994 | 1979 | |
Fritz Schalk | Romanist | January 17, 1902 | 09/20/1980 | 1979 | |
Wolfgang Paul | physicist | 08/10/1913 | 07/12/1993 | 1980 | 1984: Vice Chancellor |
Sir Karl Popper | Science theorists | 07/28/1902 | 09/17/1994 | 1980 | |
Werner Reichardt | physiologist | 01/30/1924 | 09/11/1992 | 1980 | |
Leopold Reidemeister | Art historian | 04/07/1900 | 06/11/1987 | 1980 | |
Wolfgang Clemen | Anglicist | 03/29/1909 | March 16, 1990 | 1981 | |
Felix Gilbert | historian | 05/21/1905 | 02/14/1991 | 1981 | |
Gershom Scholem | philosopher | 05.12.1897 | 02/21/1982 | 1981 | |
Emil Schumacher | painter | 08/29/1912 | 04/10/1999 | 1981 | |
Rudolf Serkin | pianist | 03/28/1903 | 05/08/1991 | 1981 | |
Hans Georg Zachau | Molecular biologist | May 16, 1930 | December 17, 2017 | 1981 | 1992: Chancellor |
Hendrik BG Casimir | physicist | 07/15/1909 | 05/04/2000 | 1982 | |
Sir Bernhard Katz | physiologist | 03/26/1911 | 04/20/2003 | 1982 | |
Ernst Kitzinger | Art historian | 12/12/1912 | 01/22/2003 | 1982 | |
Carl Dahlhaus | Musicologist | 06/10/1928 | 03/13/1989 | 1983 | |
Jean Gaudemet | Legal historian | 09/10/1908 | 05/17/2001 | 1983 | |
Eugène Ionesco | Writer and draftsman | 11/26/1909 | 03/28/1994 | 1983 | |
Elisabeth Legge-Schwarzkopf | singer | December 9, 1915 | 08/03/2006 | 1983 | |
Hans Albrecht Bethe | physicist | 07/02/1906 | 03/06/2005 | 1984 | |
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Singer | May 28, 1925 | 05/18/2012 | 1984 | |
Hermann Paul Joseph Hook | physicist | 07/12/1927 | 1984 | ||
Kaii Higashiyama | Landscape painter | 07/08/1908 | 05/06/1999 | 1984 | |
Otto Kratky | Physical chemist | 03/09/1902 | 02/11/1995 | 1984 | |
Boris Borissowitsch Piotrowski | archaeologist | 02/14/1908 | October 15, 1990 | 1984 | |
Bernhard Bischoff | Paleographer, philologist and historian | December 20, 1906 | 09/17/1991 | 1985 | |
Erwin Neher | Biophysicist | 03/20/1944 | 1985 | ||
Horst Fuhrmann | historian | 06/22/1926 | 09/09/2011 | 1986 | 1992: Vice Chancellor |
Eduardo Chillida Juantegui | sculptor | 01/10/1924 | 08/19/2002 | 1987 | |
Max F. Perutz | Biophysicist | 05/19/1914 | 02/06/2002 | 1987 | |
Stig Fredrik Strömholm | Legal scholar | 09/16/1931 | 1988 | ||
Gordon Alexander Craig | historian | 11/26/1913 | 10/30/2005 | 1990 | |
Carlos Kleiber | conductor | 07/03/1930 | 07/13/2004 | 1990 | |
Jean-Marie Lehn | Chemist | 09/30/1939 | 1990 | ||
Albrecht Schöne | Germanist | 07/17/1925 | 1990 | ||
Bernard Andreae | archaeologist | 07/27/1930 | 1991 | ||
Alfred Brendel | Pianist and writer | 01/05/1931 | 1991 | ||
Herbert Giersch | Economist | 05/11/1921 | 07/22/2010 | 1991 | |
Friedrich Hirzebruch | mathematician | 10/17/1927 | 05/27/2012 | 1991 | |
Karl Dietrich Bracher | Historian and political scientist | March 13, 1922 | 09/19/2016 | 1992 | |
Albert Eschenmoser | Chemist | 08/05/1925 | 1992 | ||
Wolfgang Gerok | Mediciners | 03/27/1926 | 1992 | ||
Eberhard Jüngel | theologian | December 05, 1934 | 1992 | 2009: Chancellor | |
Giorgio Strehler | Director | 08/14/1921 | December 25, 1997 | 1992 | |
Martin Walser | writer | March 24, 1927 | 1992 | ||
Gerhard Casper | Legal scholar | December 25, 1937 | 1993 | ||
Sir Henry Chadwick | Church historian | 06/23/1920 | 06/17/2008 | 1993 | |
Walter Gehring | biologist | 03/20/1939 | 05/29/2014 | 1993 | |
Robert Huber | Chemist | 02/20/1937 | 1993 | ||
Witold Lutosławski | composer | 01/25/1913 | 02/07/1994 | 1993 | |
Aribert Reimann | composer | 03/04/1936 | 1993 | ||
Albrecht Dihle | Classical philologist | 03/28/1923 | 01/29/2020 | 1994 | |
Ludwig Finscher | Musicologist | March 14, 1930 | 06/30/2020 | 1994 | |
Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker | Legal scholar | 09/25/1926 | 1994 | ||
Fritz Stern | historian | 02/02/1926 | 05/18/2016 | 1994 | |
Peter Busmann | architect | 07/17/1933 | 1995 | 1997: Vice Chancellor | |
Hubertus of Pilgrim | Sculptor, and engraver | 08/24/1931 | 1995 | 2009: Vice Chancellor | |
Bert Sakmann | Mediciners | 06/12/1942 | 1995 | ||
Robert Merton Solow | Economist | 08/23/1924 | 1995 | ||
Andrzej Szczypiorski | writer | 02/03/1928 | May 16, 2000 | 1995 | |
Jacques Tits | mathematician | 08/12/1930 | 1995 | ||
Niklaus Wirth | Computer scientist | 02/15/1934 | 1995 | ||
Pina Bausch | Dancer and choreographer | 07/27/1940 | 06/30/2009 | 1996 | |
Peter of Matt | Germanist | 05/20/1937 | 1996 | ||
Rudolf Ludwig Moessbauer | physicist | 01/31/1929 | 09/14/2011 | 1996 | |
Eric R. Kandel | Neurobiologist | 11/07/1929 | 1997 | ||
Dani Karavan | sculptor | December 07, 1930 | 1997 | ||
Jutta lamp | actress | December 13, 1943 | 1997 | ||
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard | Developmental biologist | 10/20/1942 | 1997 | 2009: Vice Chancellor; 2013: Chancellor | |
Hans Belting | Art historian | 07/07/1935 | 1998 | ||
Umberto Eco | Communication scientist and semiotic | 01/05/1932 | 02/19/2016 | 1998 | |
Charles Weissmann | Molecular biologist | 10/14/1931 | 1998 | ||
Magdalena Abakanowicz | sculptor | 06/20/1930 | 04/20/2017 | 1999 | |
Walter Burkert | Classical philologist | 02/02/1931 | 03/11/2015 | 1999 | |
Hans Magnus Enzensberger | writer | 11/11/1929 | 1999 | ||
Sofia Gubaidulina | Composer | October 24, 1931 | 1999 | ||
György Kurtág | composer | 02/19/1926 | 1999 | ||
Robert Weinberg | Cancer researcher | 11/11/1942 | 1999 | ||
Rolf M. Zinkernagel | immunologist | 01/06/1944 | 1999 | ||
Horst Albach | Economist and business economist | 07/06/1931 | 2000 | 2005: Chancellor | |
Paul B. Baltes | Psychologist and gerontologist | 06/18/1939 | 07/11/2006 | 2000 | |
Imre Kertész | writer | 11/09/1929 | March 31, 2016 | 2000 | |
Günther Uecker | Painter and object artist | March 13, 1930 | 2000 | ||
Anton Zeilinger | physicist | 05/20/1945 | 2000 | ||
Günter Blobel | Cell biologist and physician | 05/21/1936 | 02/18/2018 | 2001 | |
Nikolaus Harnoncourt | Conductor and music researcher | December 06, 1929 | 05.03.2016 | 2001 | |
Norman Foster | architect | 06/01/1935 | 2002 | ||
Bronislaw Geremek | Historian and politician | 03/06/1932 | 07/13/2008 | 2002 | |
Richard Serra | sculptor | 11/02/1939 | 2002 | ||
Lord Ralf Dahrendorf | sociologist | 05/01/1929 | 06/17/2009 | 2003 | |
Wim Wenders | Director | 08/14/1945 | 2005 | ||
Reinhard Rare | Economist | 05.10.1930 | 08/23/2016 | 2006 | |
James J. Sheehan | historian | 05/31/1937 | 2006 | ||
Christian Tomuschat | Legal scholar | 07/23/1936 | 2006 | 2013: Vice Chancellor | |
Yuri Manin | mathematician | 02/16/1937 | 2007 | ||
Durs Grünbein | Lyric poet | 10/09/1962 | 2008 | 2013: Vice Chancellor | |
Theodor Hänsch | physicist | 10/30/1941 | 2008 | ||
Svante Pääbo | Molecular Paleontologist | 04/20/1955 | 2008 | ||
Lorraine Daston | Science historian | 06/09/1951 | 2009 | ||
Josef van Ess | Islamic scholar | 04/18/1934 | 2009 | ||
Rudolf Jaenisch | Virologist, immunologist | 04/22/1942 | 2009 | ||
Brigitte Fassbaender | singer | 07/03/1939 | 2010 | ||
Anthony Grafton | historian | May 21, 1950 | 2010 | ||
Barbara Klemm | photographer | December 27, 1939 | 2010 | 2017: Vice Chancellor | |
Willem JM Levelt | psychologist | 05/17/1938 | 2010 | ||
Hermann Parzinger | Prehistoric | 03/12/1959 | 2011 | ||
András ship | Musician | December 21, 1953 | 2011 | ||
Peter Stein | Theater, opera and film director | 10/01/1937 | 2011 | ||
Eric F. Wieschaus | Developmental biologist | 06/08/1947 | 2011 | ||
Caroline Walker Bynum | Medievalist | 05/10/1941 | 2012 | ||
Wolfgang Rihm | composer | 03/13/1952 | 2012 | ||
Reinhard Genzel | Astrophysicist | March 24, 1952 | 2013 | ||
Horst Bredekamp | Art historian | 04/29/1947 | 2014 | ||
Claudio Magris | Germanist | 04/10/1939 | 2014 | ||
Onora O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve | Philosopher and politician | 08/23/1941 | 2014 | ||
Michael Stolleis | Lawyer, legal historian | 07/20/1941 | 2014 | 2017: Vice Chancellor | |
Daniel Barenboim | Conductor, concert pianist | 11/15/1942 | 2015 | ||
Christoph Wolff | Musicologist | May 24, 1940 | 2015 | ||
Hans Clevers | Cell biologist | 03/27/1957 | 2016 | ||
Rebecca Horn | Artist and director | March 24, 1944 | 2016 | ||
Gidon Kremer | violinist | 02/27/1947 | 2016 | ||
Jürgen Osterhammel | historian | 06/01/1952 | 2017 | ||
Karl Schlögel | historian | 03/07/1948 | 2017 | ||
Emmanuelle Charpentier | Microbiologist and geneticist | December 11, 1968 | 2017 | ||
Andrea Breth | Theater director | 10/31/1952 | 2018 | ||
Michael Haneke | filmmakers | 03/23/1942 | 2018 | ||
Heinz Holliger | Composer, conductor and oboist | 05/21/1939 | 2018 | ||
Klaus von Klitzing | physicist | 06/28/1943 | 2019 | ||
Christopher Clark | historian | 03/14/1960 | 2019 | ||
Adam Zagajewski | Lyric poet | June 21, 1945 | 2019 |
Order Chancellor
- 1842 Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt
- 1859 Friedrich Carl von Savigny
- 1862 Peter Joseph von Cornelius
- 1867 August Boeckh, Leopold von Ranke
- 1886 Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel
- 1905 Arthur Julius Georg Friedrich von Auwers
- 1915 Friedrich Schaper
- 1920 Adolf von Harnack
- 1930 Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
- 1952 Enno Littmann
- 1955 Max Hartmann
- 1959 Erich Kaufmann
- 1963 Percy Ernst Schramm
- 1971 Kurt Bittel
- 1979 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz
- 1984 Helmut Coing
- 1992 Hans Georg Zachau
- 2005 Horst Albach
- 2009 Eberhard Jüngel
- 2013 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Web links
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- Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts (Ed.): The members of the order . tape 1: 1842-1881 . Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-7861-6189-5 ( orden-pourlemerite.de [PDF; accessed on September 18, 2011]).
- Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts (Ed.): The members of the order . tape 2: 1882-1952 . Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-7861-1125-1 ( orden-pourlemerite.de [PDF; accessed on September 18, 2011]).
- Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts (Ed.): The members of the order . tape 3: 1953-1992 . Lambert Schneider Verlag, Heidelberg 1994, ISBN 3-7953-0374-5 ( orden-pourlemerite.de [PDF; accessed on September 18, 2011]).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bylaws of the Order in the version dated May 30, 2010. The Order Pour le mérite for Sciences and Arts at the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, accessed on June 3, 2017 .
- ↑ Einstein returned his medal back to Max Planck in 1933 and refused re-entry during tentative discussions about the revival of the order in 1951. Hans Rothfels : Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , 1969/4, p. 421 ( PDF ).