Personalities from the Justus Liebig University
This list contains personalities who have taught, studied or otherwise worked at the University of Giessen . The list does not claim to be complete.
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Georg Ludwig Alefeld (1732–1774) | Medic and physicist | Professor of Medicine and Physics | |
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Johann Wilhelm Baumer (1719–1788) | Medic, physicist and mineralogist | Professor of Medicine and Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy | |
Albrecht Beutelspacher (* 1950) | mathematician | Professorship for Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, founder of the Mathematikum | |
Eduard von Boguslawski (1905–1999) | Agronomist | Crop scientist u. a. on Rauischholzhausen | |
Christian Ludwig Boßler (1810–1877) | Classical philologist, high school professor and director | Studied philology, antiquity and history | |
Georg Büchner (1813–1837) | Writer, medic and revolutionary | Study of medicine | |
Johann Philipp Burggrav (1673–1746) | doctor | Study of medicine | |
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David Christiani (1610-1688) | Mathematician and theologian | Professor of Mathematics and Theology | |
Wilhelm Curtmann (1802–1871) | Pedagogue | Studied theology, philology and poetry | |
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Gerhard Dautzenberg OFM (1934-2019) | Catholic theologian | Professor of Religious Studies (from 1972) | |
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Otfrid-Reinald Ehrismann (* 1941) | Medievalist | 1972 Habilitation and professor in the field of language | |
Johann Georg Estor (1699–1773) | Lawyer, genealogist and a pioneer of modern heraldry | Doctorate to Lic. Iur., Professor of Law | |
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Wolfgang Frey (* 1942) | botanist | 1978 to 1981 professor of botany | |
Wolfgang Friedt (* 1946) | Agronomist | 1985 to 2013 professor of plant breeding | |
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Georg Haas (1886–1971) | Physician and founder of hemodialysis | 1914–1916 physician at the medical clinic of the university, 1916 habilitation, 1921 he received an extraordinary professorship | |
Ernst Habermann (1926-2001) | Pharmacologist and toxicologist | 1966–1993 Head of the Rudolf Buchheim Institute for Pharmacology in the Faculty of Medicine | |
Wilhelm Hanle (1901–1993) | physicist | 1941–1969 professor of physics | |
Philipp Ludwig Hanneken (1637–1706) | theologian | Student of philosophy and theology, doctorate in theology and professor of rhetoric and theology | |
Jörn Happel (* 1978) | historian | Education | |
Lothar Heffter (1862–1962) | mathematician | 1888 habilitation, associate professor | |
Friedrich Wilhelm Hensing (1719–1745) | Mediciners | Professor of Medicine | |
Alexander Herrmann (1900–1981) | ENT doctor | associate professor for ENT medicine | |
Wilhelm Friedrich Hezel (1754-1824) | Orientalist and theologian | Full professor of oriental literature, 1793 rector, from 1800 librarian | |
Julius Hubert Hillebrand (1819–1868) | Legal scholar | Studies, habilitation 1844 | |
Gregor Horstius (1578–1636) | Anatomist and medic | 1608–1622 professor of anatomy and botany | |
Johann Christian Hundeshagen (1783–1834) | Forest scientist | Professor of Forest Sciences and Head of the Forestry School | |
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Ludwig Jungermann (1572–1653) | Medicines and botanists | 1614–1625 professor of anatomy and botany, was also dean of the medical faculty and rector of the university, laid out the botanical garden | |
Rudolf von Jhering (1818-1892) | Legal scholar | Professor of Law | |
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Hans Heinrich Kaminsky (1938-2018) | historian | Professor of Medieval History and Historical Auxiliary Sciences, especially Hessian regional history | |
Gerhard Köbler (* 1939) | Legal scholar | Professor of Law | |
Johann Christoph Koch (1732–1808) | Legal scholar | Professor of Law, University Syndic and Chancellor of the University | |
Johann Kitzel (1574–1627) | Mathematician and legal scholar | full professor of mathematics and law | |
Herbert Kaufmann (* 1941) | Ophthalmologist, strabologist and neuro-ophthalmologist | Professor of Ophthalmology, Director of the University Eye Clinic at JLU | |
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Manfred Landfester (* 1937) | classical philologist | Professor of Classical Philology (Greek Philology) | |
Justus von Liebig (1803–1873) | Chemist and among other things "inventor" of baking powder and the stock cube | 1824–1853 professor of chemistry and pharmacy and namesake of the university | |
Johann Georg Liebknecht (1679–1749) | Mathematician, theologian and superintendent in Giessen | Professor of Mathematics and Theology and Rector of the University | |
Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826–1900) | Politician and founding member of the SPD | Studied theology, philology and philosophy | |
Johann Nepomuk Locherer (1773–1837) | Clergyman and theologian | full professor of theology | |
Egid von Löhr (1784-1851) | Professor of Law | Primarius of the Faculty of Law | |
Manuel Lösel (* 1965) |
Headmaster and State Secretary | Studied music pedagogy, musicology and educational science | |
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Wangari Maathai (1940-2011) | Scientist, politician and Nobel Peace Prize winner | completed a large part of her academic career as part of the university partnerships Gießen - Nairobi (in 1965 Maathai became an assistant to the former Gießen veterinarian Reinhold Hofmann in Nairobi), 1967–1969 stay at the universities of Gießen and Munich as part of a doctoral scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service ( DAAD) and in 1992 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the veterinary medicine department | |
Theodor Marezoll (1794–1873) | Lawyer and university professor | Professor of Law 1817–1837 | |
Wilhelm Ludwig von Maskowsky (1675–1731) | Statesman | Chancellor of the University | |
Balthasar Mentzer the Elder (1565–1627) | theologian | Professor of Theology | |
Ilya Ilyich Metschnikow (1845–1916) | Zoologist, anatomist, bacteriologist and Nobel Prize in Medicine | 1864–1865 studied at the Zoological Institute | |
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Ansgar Nünning (* 1959) | English and literary scholar | since 1996 professor of English and American literary and cultural studies | |
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Frank Ordon (* 1963) | Agricultural scientist habilitation 1998 Giessen | since 2012 Professor of Plant Breeding in Halle, since 2016 also Vice President of the JKI Quedlinburg | |
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Sven Pagel (* 1973) | Business administration degree 1998 | since 2004 professor for business informatics and media management (Düsseldorf University and Mainz University) | |
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Christian Rauch (1877–1976) | Art historian | Professor of art history, built up the art history institute, multiple dean of the philosophy faculty and honorary senator of the university | |
Hugo von Ritgen (1811-1889) | architect | Holder of the Chair of Architecture and Engineering and President of the University | |
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Johann Christian Gottlieb Schaumann (1768–1821) | Philosopher and educator | 1794–1821 Professor of Philosophy, from 1805 Pedagogical Arch | |
Johann August Schlettwein (1731–1802) | Political economist and representative of physiocratism | 1777–1785 professor for economic sciences and permanent dean of the economic faculty | |
Johann Nikolaus Scheuer (* 1950) | Judge | Studied law from 1971 | |
Charlotte Heidenreich von Siebold (1788-1859) | is considered the first female doctor in Germany | 1817 Doctorate in obstetrics with the thesis "About pregnancy outside the uterus and about ectopic pregnancy in particular" (thus the second doctorate in Germany) | |
Erwin Stein (1903–1992) | Politician (CDU), judge of the Federal Constitutional Court and one of the fathers of the Hessian state constitution | Studied law, as a politician co-initiator of the “Law for the Establishment of the Justus Liebig University”, honorary senator of the university and namesake of the university administration building at Goethestrasse 58 | |
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Philipp Friedrich Wilhelm Vogt (1789–1861) | Mediciners | Professor of Medicine | |
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Immanuel Weber (1659-1726) | Historian and legal scholar | Professor of History, Professor of Law, University Sydicus, University Librarian, Vice Chancellor | |
Johann Weinmann (1599–1672) | Lutheran theologian | Studied philosophy and philology, doctorate in theology | |
Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1784–1868), | Philologist and archaeologist | Studied classical philology, private lecturer at the theological faculty and professor of Greek literature and archeology | |
Joseph Winkler (1809-1886) | theologian | Student theology | |
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→ see also: Category of professors at the University of Giessen Students at the University of Giessen
Other personalities at the University of Giessen
Honorary doctorates
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Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.uni-giessen.de/ueber-uns/jlu/portraet/Bedeutende
- ↑ https://www.uni-giessen.de/ueber-uns/jlu/portraet/Bedeutende
- ↑ 800 years of Gießen history , p. 107 and Bernadotte as an honorary doctorate from Gießen (PDF; 1.2 MB)