University of Marburg - Famous Alumni and Professors

Famous Alumni and Professors

Famous natural scientists who studied or taught at the University of Marburg:

  • Ludwig Aschoff
  • Emil von Behring
  • Ferdinand Braun
  • Klaus Bringmann
  • Robert Bunsen
  • Adolf Butenandt
  • Georg Ludwig Carius
  • Franz Ludwig Fick
  • Hans Fischer
  • Edward Frankland
  • Frederick Augustus Genth
  • Johann Peter Griess
  • Karl Eugen Guthe
  • Otto Hahn
  • Johannes Hartmann
  • Thomas Archer Hirst
  • Erich Hückel
  • Karl Hermann Knoblauch
  • Hermann Kolbe
  • Albrecht Kossel
  • Otto Loewi
  • Hans Meerwein
  • Ludwig Mond
  • Denis Papin
  • Otto Heinrich Schindewolf
  • Tawara Sunao
  • John Tyndall
  • Wilhelm Walcher
  • Alfred Wegener
  • Georg Wittig
  • Alexandre Yersin
  • Karl Ziegler
  • Theodor Zincke

Marburg was always known as a humanities university. It retained that strength, especially in Philosophy and Theology for a long time after World War II. Famous theologians include:

  • Rudolf Bultmann
  • Friedrich Heiler
  • Wilhelm Herrmann
  • Aegidius Hunnius
  • Andreas Hyperius
  • Otto Kaiser
  • Jacob Lorhard
  • Rudolf Otto
  • Kurt Rudolph
  • Paul Tillich
  • August Friedrich Christian Vilmar

Famous philosophers include:

  • Wolfgang Abendroth, Political Science
  • Ernst Cassirer
  • Hermann Cohen
  • Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Nicolai Hartmann
  • Martin Heidegger
  • Hans Jonas
  • Friedrich Albert Lange
  • Karl Löwith
  • Paul Natorp
  • Christian Wolff
  • Eduard Zeller
  • Karl Theodor Bayrhoffer
  • Hans Heinz Holz

Other famous students:

  • Hannah Arendt
  • Karl Barth
  • Gottfried Benn
  • Gerold Bepler
  • Georg Friedrich Creuzer
  • T. S. Eliot (who had to quit a summer school in August 1914 - at start of World War I)
  • José Ortega y Gasset
  • Jacob Grimm
  • Wilhelm Grimm
  • Caspar Friedrich Hachenberg
  • Gustav Heinemann
  • Beatrice Heuser
  • Kim Hwang-sik
  • Helmut Koester
  • Wilhelm Liebknecht
  • Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov
  • Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre
  • Ulrike Meinhof
  • Boris Pasternak
  • Ernst Reuter
  • Isaac Rülf
  • Ferdinand Sauerbruch
  • Friedrich Carl von Savigny
  • Annemarie Schimmel
  • Heinrich Schütz
  • Manfred Siebald
  • Leo Strauss
  • Wilhelm Röpke
  • Konstantinos Simitis
  • Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov

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