The University of Tübingen has a long list of notable alumni and staff. As of 2021, eleven Nobel Laureates, [1] 16 Leibniz Laureates [2] and four Alexander von Humboldt Professorships [3] are affiliated with the university.
The following list also includes alumni of the Tübinger Stift, which is not a part of the university, but has a close relationship with it.
Archaeology
- Marija Gimbutas (1921–1994), archaeologist
- Manfred Korfmann (1942–2005), archaeologist, director of excavations in Troy
- Aurel Stein (1862–1943), archaeologist (PhD 1883)
Economics
- Helmut Haussmann, German minister of economy (1988–1991)
- Horst Köhler, director of the IMF (2000–2004) and President of Germany (2004–2010)
- Jürgen Stark, Chief Economist and Member of the executive committee of the European Central Bank
- Klaus Töpfer, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive-Director of the United Nations Environment Programme
Egyptology
- Boyo Ockinga, Egyptologist
History
- Ernst Boepple (1887–1950), German Nazi official and SS officer executed for war crimes
- Andrzej Ciechanowiecki (1924–2015), Polish economist, and collector
- Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Chancellor of Germany (1966–1969)
- Hans Mommsen (1930–2015), historian
- Stephan Jakob Neher (1828–1902), Church historian
- Rita Süssmuth (1988–1998), president of the Bundestag, the German federal parliament
- Uwe Wolf (born 1961), musicologist
Indology and Hinduism
- Heinrich von Stietencron, Indologist
Law
- Gerhard Anschütz, father of the constitution of the Bundesland Hesse
- Martin Bangemann, German minister of economy (1984–1988) and EU commissioner (1989–1999)
- Fritz Bauer, German Jewish judge and chief prosecutor of Hesse (1956–1968)
- Julien Chaisse (born 1976), professor of law at the City University of Hong Kong
- Herta Däubler-Gmelin, German minister of justice (1998–2002)
- Wolfgang Ernst, legal historian and professor at the University of Oxford
- Roman Herzog, President of Germany (1994–1999)
- Klaus Hopt, German legal scholar
- Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt, politician and judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (1999–2011)
- Philipp Jenninger, President of the German federal parliament (1984–1988)
- Klaus Kinkel, vice-chancellor and minister of foreign affairs of Germany (1993–1998)
- Dieter Medicus, German legal scholar
- Gebhard Müller, President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (1959–1971)
- Günther Oettinger, European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources, Vice President of the Barroso II commission (2010–)
- Carlo Schmid, German politician and one of the "fathers of the constitution"
- Konstantin von Neurath, Minister of foreign affairs of Germany (1932–1938)
- Christoph Martin Wieland, (1733–1813), poet
- Jürgen Wöhler (b. 1950), German lawyer and manager
Medicine, natural sciences, mathematics
- Yousef Al-Abed (b. 1964), chemist
- S. M. Razaullah Ansari (b. 1932), historian of science
- Alois Alzheimer, psychiatrist and neuropathologist
- Katrin Böhning-Gaese, biologist and ornithologist
- Simon Brendle (b. 1981), mathematician
- Victor von Bruns, surgeon
- Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (1665–1721), botanist, physicist
- Theodor Eimer (1843–1898), zoologist and comparative anatomist
- Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566), botanist, physicist
- Hans Geiger (1882–1945), physicist
- Carl Haeberlin (1870–1954), physician
- Ingmar Hoerr (b. 1968), biologist
- Felix Hoppe-Seyler, chemist and physiologist
- Friedrich von Huene (1875–1969), paleontologist
- Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), astronomer
- Karl Meissner (1891–1959), physicist
- Julius Lothar Meyer (1830–1895), chemist
- Hugo von Mohl (1805–1872), botanist
- Friedrich Miescher, biologist
- George Nagobads (1921–2023), Latvian-born American physician [4]
- Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (b. 1942), biologist
- Hans Schlossberger (1887–1960), immunologist and microbiologist
- Wilhelm Schickard (1592–1635), astronomer
- Bernhard Schölkopf (b. 1968), computer scientist
- Johann Georg Gmelin (1709–1755), botanist
- Bei Shizhang (1903–2009), biologist
- Karl von Vierordt, physiologist (1818–1884)
- Detlef Weigel (b. 1961), biologist
Philology
- Rabbi David Zvi Hoffmann, Rabbi
- Johann Reuchlin, humanist and philosopher
- Friedrich Hölderlin, poet
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, philosopher
- Alberto Jori, philosopher
- Heinrich Christoph Wilhelm Sigwart, philosopher
- Christoph von Sigwart, philosopher
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, philosopher
- Ernst Bloch, philosopher
- Burghart Schmidt, philosopher
- Otfried Höffe, philosopher
- Julian Nida-Rümelin, philosopher
- Ernst Tugendhat, philosopher
- Manfred Frank, philosopher
Psychology
- Paul Enck, psychologist specializing in psychosomatic medicine
- Wolfgang Köhler, psychologist
- Robert Zajonc (1923–2008), psychologist
Sociology
- Ralf Dahrendorf, sociologist, economist, political scientist and politician
Theology
- Karl Barth, Swiss, Reformed, 20th century Protestant theologian
- Ferdinand Christian Baur, Protestant theologian and historian of early Christianity and the New Testament
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lutheran, 20th century Protestant theologian, opponent of the Nazi Regime
- Rudolf Bultmann, 20th century Protestant theologian known for existential biblical interpretation
- Gerhard Ebeling, Protestant theologian, former student of Rudolf Bultmann, specialist in philosophical hermeneutics
- Johannes Eck (1486–1543), Catholic theologian, counter-Reformer
- David F. Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge (since 1991)
- Romano Guardini, Roman Catholic priest, author and academic
- Walter Kasper, Cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church, very Roman Catholic theologian of today
- Hans Küng, Roman Catholic theologian, critic of Catholic doctrine
- Philip Melanchthon (1497–1560), Protestant reformer, first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation
- Eduard Mörike, Protestant theologian, German poet
- Jürgen Moltmann, Protestant theologian
- Konrad Raiser, Protestant theologian, former General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC)
- Charles-Frédéric Reinhard (1761–1837), Württembergian-born French diplomat, essayist, and politician
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Protestant theologian, philosopher
- Adolf Schlatter, Protestant theologian
- David Strauss, Protestant theologian and writer who revolutionized the study of the New Testament
- Paul Tillich, German-American theologian at Harvard University, Protestant theologian
- Miroslav Volf, Christian theologian at Yale University
- Karl Heinrich Weizsäcker, Protestant theologian and chancellor of the University of Tübingen
References
- ^ "Nobelpreisträger | Universität Tübingen". uni-tuebingen.de. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
- ^ "Leibniz-Preise | Universität Tübingen". uni-tuebingen.de. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
- ^ "Humboldt-Professuren | Universität Tübingen". uni-tuebingen.de. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
- ^ "Mūžībā devies Latvijā dzimušais ASV hokeja izlases sporta ārsts Nagobads". TV3 (in Latvian). Riga, Latvia. April 1, 2023. Retrieved April 3, 2023.