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The following is a list of notable alumni and faculty of the
University of Leipzig.
Notable alumni
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Theodore Dyke Acland, English physician
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Georgius Agricola, Saxon mining engineer and natural philosopher
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Joseph L. Armstrong, American scholar
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Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay, Polish linguist and slavist
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Kamuran Alî Bedirxan, Kurdish politician and writer
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Lothar Bisky, German politician
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Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
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Marc Bloch, French historian
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John Bohnius, German physician
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Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, American writer and scholar
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Tycho Brahe,[
citation needed] Danish astronomer
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Sylvia Bretschneider (1960-2019), politician, member and speaker of the state assembly (Landtag) of
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
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Selig Brodetsky, President of the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Cai Yuanpei, Chinese linguist
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James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist
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Wei-Liang Chow, Chinese mathematician and stamp collector born in Shanghai, known for his work in algebraic geometry.
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Constantine I, Greek monarch
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William David Coolidge, American physicist
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Karl Ludwig Drobisch (1803–1854), German composer, music theorist and church musician
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Georg Dohrn, German conductor
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Carl H. Dorner, American politician
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Ernst Christoph Dressler, German composer and music theorist
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Émile Durkheim, French sociologist
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Friedrich Adolf Ebert, Saxon librarian
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Nishith Gupta, molecular biologist
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Johann Arnold Ebert, Saxon writer and translator
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Wilhelm Ehmann, musicologist, conductor, founder and director of the Herford School of Church Music
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Ephraim Emerton, American medievalist historian
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John O. Evjen, American theologian and church historian
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Gustav Fechner, German psychologist
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Wilhelm Fuchs (1898–1947), Nazi SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator executed for war crimes
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Arnold Gehlen, German philosopher and sociologist
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Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician
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Kurt Albert Gerlach, German sociologist
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Johann Wolfgang Goethe, German poet
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Woldemar Ludwig Grenser, German obstetrician
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Otto von Guericke, German scientist and politician
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Gotthard Günther, German-American philosopher
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Samuel Hahnemann, founder of homeopathy
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Edith Hamilton, American essayist and educator; first female student at the university together with her sister Alice
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Albert Hauck, German theologian and church historian
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Elsa Herrmann (1893–1957), Jewish German feminist writer and refugee advocate
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Johann Adam Hiller, Saxon composer
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Milton W. Humphreys, American scholar
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Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician
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Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher and mathematician
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Ulrich von Hutten, Hessian humanist and political leader
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Nicolae Iorga, Romanian historian and politician
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Wolfgang Iser, German literary theorist
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Jan Jesenius, Slovak physician, politician and philosopher
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Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, founder and first president of Czechoslovakia, professor of sociology
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Uwe Johnson, German writer and translator
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Ernst Jünger, German novelist and nationalist activist
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Erich Kähler, German mathematician
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Erich Kästner, German satirist and children's writer
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Paul Kirchhoff, German anthropologist and ethnohistorian
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Johannes Knolleisen, German theologian
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Alexander Kohut, Hungarian-American rabbi and orientalist
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Ku Hung-ming, Malaysian-Chinese scholar
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Victor Lange, German-American linguist
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Georg Christian Lehms, German poet and novelist
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher
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August Leskien, German linguist
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German philosopher and writer
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Rudolf Leuckart, German zoologist
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Karl Liebknecht, German communist activist
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Ulrike Liedtke (born 1958), musicologist and politician (SPD)
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Lin Yutang, Chinese novelist and inventor
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Virgil Madgearu, Romanian economist and sociologist
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Bronisław Malinowski, Polish anthropologist
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Sándor Márai, Hungarian poet and novelist
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Emil Mattiesen (1875–1939), composer, pianist and philosopher
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Thomas Mauksch, Lutheran pastor and naturalist
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Angela Merkel, German politician
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Walter Miller, American philologist
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Thomas Müntzer, Thuringian theologian and rebellion leader
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Carl Friedrich Naumann, German mineralogist and geologist
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Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
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Novalis, German writer and philosopher
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Otto Ohlendorf (1907–1951), SS general and Holocaust perpetrator, executed for war crimes
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George Pardee, American physician and politician
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Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu, Romanian Marxist sociologist and politician
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James Phelan, Jr., American politician
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Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist and historian
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Jeff Radebe African politician and cabinet member
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Alexander Radishchev, Russian political thinker
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Constantin Rădulescu-Motru, Romanian psychologist and philosopher
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Hermann Raster, German-American journalist and political figure
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Augustus Quirinus Rivinus (1827–1891), German botanist and physician
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Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist
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Hans Ulrich von Schaffgotsch, Silesian nobleman and general
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Ludwig Scheeffer, German mathematician
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Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist
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Hans-Joachim Schulze, German Bach scholar
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Kurt Schumacher, German politician
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Robert Schumann (1810–1856), German Romantic composer
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Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), German Baroque composer
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Christoph Graupner (1683-1760), German Baroque composer
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Edward Teller, Hungarian-American nuclear physicist
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Galsan Tschinag, Mongolian writer, poet and activist
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Kārlis Ulmanis, Latvian politician
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Dimitri Uznadze, Georgian psychologist
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Richard Wagner (1813-1883), German Romantic composer
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Ernst Heinrich Weber, German physician
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Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher
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Gustav Zeuner, German physicist and engineer
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Caspar Ziegler, jurist
Notable faculty
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Ernst Bloch, philosopher
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Felix Bloch, physicist, winner of the
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1952
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Ludwig Boltzmann, Professor of Physics
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Karl Brugmann, comparative linguist
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Karl Bücher, economist
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Ernst Adolf Coccius, ophthalmologist
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Peter Debye, physicist, 1927-1936 Director of the Physics Institute, winner of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1936
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Adolf Ebert, Romance philologist
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Gustav Fechner, psychologist
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Paul Flechsig, neurologist
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Hans Freyer, sociologist
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Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, theologian and poet
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Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert, publisher of the
Annalen der Physik
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Rudolf Gottschall, critic, poet and dramatist
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Johann Christoph Gottsched, philologist
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Samuel Hahnemann, physician and lecturer at medical faculty 1812-21
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Werner Heisenberg, physicist, 1927–1942; Professor of Theoretical Physics; winner of the
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932
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Gustav Ludwig Hertz, physicist, 1954–1961; Head of the Physics Institute; winner of the
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1925, together with
James Franck
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Gert Jäger, Slavist and translation scholar; member of the
Leipzig School
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Otto Kade, specialist in Russian language and translation scholar; member of the
Leipzig School
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Felix Klein, mathematician
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Werner Krauss, Romanist
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Karl Lamprecht, historian
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August Leskien, linguist
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Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, inventor of the
transistor
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Wilhelm Maurenbrecher, historian
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August Ferdinand Möbius, astronomer and mathematician
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Theodor Mommsen, historian, 1848-1851 Professor of Law;
Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902 for The History of Rome
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Petrus Mosellanus, Greek scholar
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Albrecht Neubert, lecturer in English language and translation scholar; member of the
Leipzig School
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Wilhelm Ostwald, chemist; 1887-1906 Chair of Physical Chemistry;
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909
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Svante Pääbo, Nobel Prize in Medicine, currently teaches molecular evolutionary biology at the university
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Martin Petzoldt, systematic theology; president of the
Neue Bachgesellschaft
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Arthur Prüfer, musicologist
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Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, botanist
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Wilhelm Roscher, economist
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Carl Victor Ryssel, theologian
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Heinrich Simroth, zoologist
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Nathan Söderblom, religious historian; Director of the Religious Studies Institute 1912–1914;
Nobel Peace Prize in 1930
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Georg Steindorff, egyptologist
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Christian Thomasius, philosopher
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Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, physicist, winner of the
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965
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Wolfgang Unger, director of university music
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Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, mathematician
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Ernst Heinrich Weber, physician
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Peter Wollny, musicologist
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Wilhelm Wundt, physician, psychologist
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Paul Zweifel, physician, physiologist
Universitätsmusikdirektor
Several persons held the official title of director of
music at the university, some of them at the same time
Thomaskantor, including:
References
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^ Upon Boltzmann's resignation,
Theodor des Coudres became his successor in the professorial chair at Leipzig.
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