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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Surname	activity	Connection to JLU
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Georg Ludwig Alefeld (1732–1774)	Medic and physicist	Professor of Medicine and Physics
B.
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
I. J
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
T U V
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
Z Theodorus Vietor , theologian (Prof. 1625–1639) Johann Georg Rosenmüller (1736–1815), theologian August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome (1753–1833), professor of camera studies Ferdinand von Ritgen (1787–1867), professor of medicine Carl Theodor Welcker (1790–1869), constitutional lawyer Heinrich Buff (1805–1878), student of Liebig and professor of physics Hermann Wasserschleben (1812–1893), legal historian and chancellor (1875–1883) Carl Vogt (1817–1895), professor of zoology, member of the Paulskirparlament, reformer of the University of Geneva Moriz Carrière (1817–1895), philosopher and writer Alfred Clebsch (1833–1872), mathematician Moritz Pasch (1843–1930), mathematician Étienne Laspeyres (1834–1913), political economist and statistician Eberhard Schrader (1836–1908), orientalist Oskar von Bülow (1837–1907), German lawyer and legal scholar Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845–1923), professor of physics, Nobel Prize winner Otto Behaghel (1854–1936), Germanist Julius Geppert (1856-1937), pharmacologist Wilhelm Sievers (1860–1921), professor of geography, explorer Friedrich Engel (1861–1941), professor of mathematics Paul Drude (1863–1906), professor of physics Wilhelm Wien (1864–1928), professor of physics, Nobel Prize winner Paul Kahle (1875–1964), orientalist Kurt Koffka (1886–1941), psychologist Hans Lorenz Stoltenberg (1888–1963), sociologist Walther Bothe (1891–1957), professor of physics, Nobel Prize winner Christian Gerthsen (1894–1956), professor of physics Bernhard Grzimek (1909–1987), veterinarian, animal filmmaker, author and editor of animal books Friedrich Hartmut Dost (1910–1985), pediatrician, founder of pharmacokinetics Anne-Eva Brauneck (1910–2007), criminologist, Germany's first female criminal law professor Dietrich von Denffer (1914–2007), botanist, textbook author, founding dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Philosophy and the Department of Biology Helmut Ridder (1919–2007), constitutional lawyer, law professor Horst-Eberhard Richter (1923–2011), psychoanalyst Rudolf Hoppe (1922–2014), chemistry professor (in 1962 the first to synthesize the first binary noble gas compound XeF 2 ) Odo Marquard (1928–2015), philosopher Arthur Scharmann (1928–2012), physicist Reginald Gruehn (1929–2002), Professor of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry Joachim Werner Dudeck (1932–2010), professor of medical informatics Hans-Joachim Weimann (1932–2012), Professor of Forest Planning Fritz Lampert (* 1933), physician (professor of paediatrics ), founder of the Tour of Hope Peter Moraw (1935–2013), historian Konstantinos Simitis (* 1936), professor for commercial and civil law at JLU, Greek Prime Minister Dieter Beckmann (1937–2012), first holder of the chair for medical psychology Bernulf Kanitscheider (1939–2017), philosopher and science theorist Wolf Oschlies (* 1941), Professor of Eastern European Studies Brun-Otto Bryde (* 1943), law professor, judge at the Federal Constitutional Court Albrecht Beutelspacher (* 1950), mathematics professor, founder of the Mathematikum Claus Leggewie (* 1950), professor of politics Wolfgang Sander (* 1953), educational scientist Ulrich Horstmann (* 1949), literary scholar and writer Heiner Goebbels (* 1952), composer and theater director, professor at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies Peter Winker (* 1965), econometrician, professor of statistics and econometrics → see also: Category of professors at the University of Giessen Students at the University of Giessen Johann Konrad Dippel (1673–1734), pietistic theologian and alchemist; A role model for Frankenstein ? Johann Jacob Dillen (1684–1747), botanist Friedrich Christian Laukhard (1757–1822), theologian and political writer Ludwig Börne (1786–1837), poet, studied in Giessen Wilhelm Snell (1789–1851), lawyer and radical liberal politician Friedrich Ludwig Weidig (1791–1837), protagonist of the Vormärz Karl Follen (1796–1840), scholar, writer and radical democrat of the Vormärz Jacob Ludwig Theodor Reh (1801–1868), President of the Frankfurt National Assembly Georg Gottfried Gervinus (1805–1871), historian Samuel Adler (1809-1891), German-American rabbi Wilhelm Büchner (1816–1892), Liebig student and manufacturer August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892), chemist Jacob Volhard (1834–1910), student of Liebig and father of Franz Volhard Ludwig Büchner (1824–1899), doctor and philosopher Gustav Baist (1824–1914), Protestant pastor, founder of several Raiffeisenkassen in Franconia Ernst Hoffmann (1827–1877), anatomist, rector of the University of Basel August Kekulé (1829-1896) Georg Christian Stiebeling (1830–1895), German-American doctor, socialist Emil Erlenmeyer (1845–1850, with interruptions), chemist Dora Fabian , b. Heinemann Willy Moog (1888–1935), philosopher and educator Oswald Adolph Kohut (1901–1977), member of the FDP Walter Mandler (1922–2005), optics designer for Leica Gottfried Munzenberg (* 1940), physicist, discoverer of new elements Alexander Gauland (* 1941), politician ( AfD ) Winfried Franzen (* 1943), philosopher Claus PW Zebitz (* 1950), biologist and phytomedicist Günter Ollenschläger (* 1951), head of the Medical Center for Quality in Medicine 1995–2014 Brigitte Zypries (* 1953), former Federal Minister of Justice Frank-Walter Steinmeier (* 1956), Acting Federal President (Germany) Harald Lesch (* 1960), physicist René Pollesch (* 1962), playwright and director Michael Hüther (* 1962), Director of the Institute for German Economics Tim Staffel (* 1965), author Boris Nikitin (* 1979), theater director Rimini Protokoll (1969/1972), artist collective Tuğçe Albayrak (November 28, 1991 - November 28, 2014), Turkish-born teacher training student, known for her moral courage and courageous advocacy for others, until she fell into a coma after being attacked and died as a result of the injury Saskia Hennig von Lange (* 1976), writer Ali Can (* 1993), social activist Other personalities at the University of Giessen Karl Ludwig Wilhelm von Grolman (1775–1829), Chancellor of the University of Giessen Franz Joseph Freiherr von Arens (1779–1855), Chancellor of the University of Giessen Honorary doctorates The French revolutionary general Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte received an honorary doctorate in philosophy on December 17, 1798. In 1818 he ascended the Swedish throne as Charles XIV Johann . The entomologist Heinrich Friese received an honorary doctorate in 1907. Kaspar Elm received an honorary doctorate in 1997.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.uni-giessen.de/ueber-uns/jlu/portraet/Bedeutende
2. ↑ https://www.uni-giessen.de/ueber-uns/jlu/portraet/Bedeutende
3. ↑ 800 years of Gießen history , p. 107 and Bernadotte as an honorary doctorate from Gießen (PDF; 1.2 MB)