List of personalities of the city of Tübingen

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This list contains personalities born in Tübingen as well as those who worked in Tübingen but were born elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.

Personalities born in Tübingen

By 1700

18th century

19th century

1801 to 1850

1851 to 1900

20th century

1901 to 1925

1926 to 1950

1951 to 1975

1976 to 2000

21st century

Well-known residents of Tübingen

Until 1800

  • Martin Prenninger , known as Martinus Uranius (around 1450 - 1501), humanist and legal scholar, held the chair for canon law from 1490 until his death
  • Heinrich Bebel (1472–1518), humanist and poeta laureatus , author of the influential collection Facetiae , taught poetry and eloquence at the university from 1496 until his death.
  • Johannes Hiltebrant (around 1480 - around 1514), humanist teacher
  • Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560), theologian, philologist, philosopher, humanist, so-called “Praeceptor Germaniae”, studied, taught and published 1512–1518 in Tübingen
  • Pier Paolo Vergerio (1498–1565), Lutheran theologian and Italian reformer, had been a councilor to Duke Christoph von Württemberg since 1553 and was based in Tübingen
  • Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566), physician and botanist, editor of the “New Kreüterbuch”, one of the first systematic herbal books
  • Magdalena Morhart (around 1505 - 1574), printer
  • Primus Truber (1508–1586) reformer of Slovenia and founder of the Slovene written language lived from 1567 to 1568 in what is now Derendingen, a suburb of Tübingen
  • Hans Schickhardt (1512–1585), painter
  • Pavao Skalić (1534–1575), Croatian humanist, priest and polymath; taught at the Tübingen University
  • Christoph Jelin (around 1550 - 1610), sculptor, designed, among other things, the Renaissance portal of Hohentübingen and various tombs in the collegiate church
  • Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), Protestant theologian, natural philosopher, astronomer, mathematician and optician
  • Johann Glocker (around 1690 - 1763), painter
  • Wolfgang Dietrich Majer (1698–1762), painter
  • Andreas Kommerell (1741-1824), innkeeper, Reichsposthalter as well as council relative or court relative
  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), the Prussian state philosopher, studied theology at the Tübingen monastery
  • Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843), studied theology at the Tübingen monastery. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was among his fellow students
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854), the philosopher and representative of German idealism, was in the pen with Hegel and Holderlin
  • Karl Friedrich von Hufnagel (1788–1848), legal scholar and politician, director of the local court, died in Tübingen.
  • Friedrich Silcher (1789–1860) worked from 1817 as music director at the University of Tübingen and is buried in the old Tübingen city cemetery. There is a large monument to the composer on the Neckar Island opposite the Hölderlin Tower.
  • Carl Friedrich Haug (1795–1869), Protestant theologian, professor of universal history at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
  • Ludwig August Helvig (1796–1855), draftsman, drawing teacher and lithographer
  • Immanuel Hermann Fichte (1796–1879), theologian

1801 to 1900

  • Wilhelm Hauff (1802–1827), writer, studied in Tübingen
  • Eduard Mörike (1804–1875), also studied theology at the Tübingen Abbey and spent a large part of his life in Tübingen. Mörike's best-known works are the painter Nolten and Peregrina , and one of his best-known poems is Spring leaves its blue ribbon
  • Friedrich August von Quenstedt (1809–1889), studied in Tübingen from 1821, 1837 professor of mineralogy and geology, stratigrapher of the Swabian Jura ( Quenstedt structure )
  • Heinrich Leibnitz (1811–1889), draftsman, painter as well as university drawing teacher and professor of art history
  • Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Alers (1811-1891), studied in Tübingen, forest expert and writer, wrote a textbook about the Calvörde forest
  • Gustav von Rümelin (1815–1889), educator and politician, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, from 1870 to 1889 Chancellor of the University of Tübingen
  • Paul Sinner (1838–1925) famous photographer, "designer of the cultural region"
  • Friedrich Miescher (1844–1895) from Basel discovered nucleic acids in the castle kitchen of Hohentübingen Castle in 1869, the most famous representative of which, DNA , is the memory of genetic information. He recognized that this substance, isolated from the cell nucleus, must be decisive for the inheritance of characteristics.
  • Albert von Berrer (1857–1917) was commander of the 10th Württemberg Infantry Regiment No. 180 from 1907 to 1910
  • Pauline Krone (1859–1945), popular writer and philanthropist
  • Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915), discoverer of Alzheimer's disease
  • Simon Hayum (1867–1948), lawyer and councilor
  • Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), completed his bookseller apprenticeship from 1895 to 1899 at the Heckenhauer bookshop in Tübingen. The bookstore still exists today and is located directly opposite the collegiate church on the Holzmarkt. Hesse's story Im Presselschen Gartenhaus is also set in Tübingen.
  • Eduard Spranger (1882–1963), philosopher, educator and psychologist
  • Richard Ruoff (1883–1967) joined the 1803 Infantry Regiment as a flag junior in 1903 , was awarded the Iron Cross and finally Colonel General
  • Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), philosopher
  • Helmuth von Glasenapp (1891–1963), Professor of Indology and Comparative Religious Studies, taught from 1946 to 1959 in Tübingen
  • Otto Heinrich Schindewolf (1896–1971), paleontologist
  • Carlo Schmid (1896–1979), President of the State Secretariat of Württemberg-Hohenzollern, member of the Parliamentary Council and Federal Minister for Affairs of the Bundesrat and the Länder , studied law and political science 1919–1924 in Tübingen, 1930–1940 private lecturer at the University of Tübingen as well as 1946–1953 holder of the chair for public law there
  • Hugo Benzinger (1900–1944), tailor and city councilor

From 1901

See also