This List of people associated with the University of Greifswald contains notable alumni and faculty past and present of an institution of higher education founded as early as 1456. If alumni subsequently worked at Greifswald University, they are listed under staff.

Nobel prize laureates

* Gerhard Domagk (1895–1964), Nobel Prize in Medicine 1939/1947 * Johannes Stark (1874–1957), Nobel Prize in Physics 1919

Staff

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* Erhard Albrecht * Ernst Moritz Arndt, writer and politician, rector of the University of Bonn * Ernst Bernheim *

Franz Dornseiff Franz may refer to: People * Franz (given name) * Franz (surname) Places * Franz (crater), a lunar crater * Franz, Ontario, a railway junction and unorganized town in Canada * Franz Lake, in the state of Washington, United States – see ...

, German lexicographer * Alfred Gomolka, Member of the European Parliament * Günther Jacoby * Otto Jahn * Ulrich von Hutten, humanist * Victor Klemperer * Johannes Luther *

Carl August Peter Menzel Carl may refer to: * Carl, Georgia, city in USA * Carl, West Virginia, an unincorporated community *Carl (name), includes info about the name, variations of the name, and a list of people with the name * Carl², a TV series * "Carl", an episode of ...

, architect *

Gabriele Mucchi Gabriele Mucchi (1899 – 2002) was an Italian painter. Biography After graduating in architectural engineering at Bologna University in 1923, Gabriele Mucchi abandoned architecture to devote himself to painting, following in the footsteps of hi ...

, artist *

Carl von Noorden Carl Friedrich Johannes von Noorden (11 September 1833 – 25 December 1883) was a German historian who was a native of Bonn. He was a grandson to psychiatrist Christian Friedrich Nasse (1778–1851) and the father of pathologist Carl von Noorden ...

Johann Gottfried Quistorp Johann, typically a male given name, is the German form of ''Iohannes'', which is the Latin form of the Greek name ''Iōánnēs'' (), itself derived from Hebrew name ''Yochanan'' () in turn from its extended form (), meaning " Yahweh is Gracio ...

, architect, artist *

Johann Philipp Palthen Johann Philipp Palthen (26 June 1672 – 26 May 1710) was a Western Pomeranian historian and philologist. Life Palthen was born in Wolgast, a port in what was then Swedish Pomerania. His father was Johann Palthen, a senior official at th ...

, historian and philologist * Georg Friedrich Schömann *

Magdalene Siebenbrodt Magdalene or Magdalen may refer to: *Mary Magdalene, a disciple of Jesus *Magdalene (given name), a feminine given name (and list of persons with that name) *Magdalen College, Oxford, a constituent college of the University of Oxford *Magdalene Col ...

* Theodor Siebs * Thomas Thorild, Swedish poet, critic, feminist and philosopher * Wilhelm Titel, painter * Johannes Voigt * Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, classical philologist * Fritz Curschmann, historian * Adolf Hofmeister, historian * Werner Buchholz, historian

Business and law

Rudolf Agricola Rodolphus Agricola ( la, Rudolphus Agricola Phrisius; August 28, 1443, or February 17, 1444 – October 27, 1485) was a pre- Erasmian humanist of the Northern Low Countries, famous for his knowledge of Latin and Greek. He was an educator, music ...

* Walter Le Coutre *

Jan Degenhardt Jan Degenhardt (born 9 July 1962
December 9, 2010.) is a German lawyer and

* Stefan Habermeier * Jürgen Kohler * Lothar Anton Alfred Pernice *

Peter of Ravenna Peter of Ravenna (c. 1448–1508) was an Italian jurist. He is now best known for his memorization techniques, published in a 1491 work ''Phoenix'' (''Fenix'') on the art of memory, a work that received an early form of copyright. Life He was ...

* Carl Sartorius * Carl Schmitt, political scientist *

Friedrich Spielhagen Friedrich Spielhagen (24 February 1829 – 25 February 1911) was a German novelist, literary theorist and translator. He tried a number of careers in his early 20s, but at 25 began writing and translating. His best known novel is ''Sturmflut'' and ...

Bernhard Windscheid Bernhard Windscheid (26 June 1817 – 26 October 1892) was a German jurist and a member of the pandectistic school of law thought. He became famous with his essay on the concept of a legal action, which sparkled a debate with that is said to ...

, co-writer of the German civil law code

Mathematics and sciences

* Wilhelm Blaschke * Karl Fredenhagen * Felix Hausdorff, mathematician *

Hermann Landois Hermann Landois (19 April 1835, Münster – 29 January 1905) was a German zoologist. He was the brother of physiologist Leonard Landois (1837–1902). He belonged to the Catholic popularizers of science who gained attraction in late ninet ...

, zoologist * Jakob Meisenheimer, Chemie (1918–1923) * Gustav Mie, physicist * Johann Radon * Michael Succow,

Right Livelihood Award The Right Livelihood Award is an international award to "honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today." The prize was established in 1980 by German-Swedish philanthropist Jakob v ...

laureate * Horst Völz * Michael Beuther

Medicine

Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben (1 March 1819 – 24 September 1895) was a German surgeon born in Frankfurt (Oder). He studied medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg, Giessen, Paris and Berlin, receiving his doctorate in 1841 with a thesis on t ...

* Horst Bibergeil * Christian Calenus *

Carl Hueter Carl Hueter (27 November 1838 – 12 May 1882) was a German surgeon born in Marburg. He was the son of obstetrician Karl Christoph Hueter (1803–1857). In 1854 began his medical studies in Marburg at the age of 16. Following the state examina ...

, surgeon *

Gerhardt Katsch Gerhardt Katsch (14 May 1887 –⁠ 7 March 1961) was a German internist. Between 1928 and 1957 he served as Professor of Internal medicine at the University of Greifswald. It was on the initiative of Katsch that in 1930 a residential facility ...

* Friedrich Loeffler, bacteriologist *

Ludwig Mecklinger Ludwig Mecklinger (1919–1994) was a German politician who was one of the health ministers of East Germany and a member of the ruling party Socialist Unity Party (SED). He had degrees both in medicine and law. Early life and education Meckling ...

* Gerhard Mohnike *

Hugo Karl Anton Pernice Hugo Karl Anton Pernice (9 November 1829 – 31 December 1901) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician born in Halle an der Saale. He was the son of legal scholar Ludwig Wilhelm Anton Pernice (1799-1861), and the father of classical archaeol ...

* Ferdinand Sauerbruch, surgeon *

Carl Ludwig Schleich Carl Ludwig Schleich (19 July 1859 – 7 March 1922) was a German surgeon and writer. He is best known for his contribution to clinical anesthesia. In addition, he was also a philosopher, poet and painter. Biography Family Schelich's ancest ...

, doctor and writer * Werner Hosemann

Theology

* Albrecht Alt *

Hermann Cremer August Hermann Cremer (18 October 1834, in Unna, Westphalia – 4 October 1903) was a German Protestant theologian. He was considered head of the so-called ''Greifswalder Schule'' at the University of Greifswald. He studied theology in ...

* Gustaf Dalman *

Helmut Echternach Helmut Friedbert Richard Siegfried Echternach (20 March 1907 – 25 February 1988) was a German Lutheran theologian and pastor, and one of the leaders of the Lutheran High Church Movement in Germany. Born in Waltersdorf, Heiligenbeil Distric ...

* Joachim Jeremias * Martin Noth *

Victor Schultze Victor Schultze (13 December 1851, in Fürstenberg – 6 January 1937, in Greifswald) was a German church historian and archaeologist. He studied theology and art history at the universities of Basel, Strasbourg, Jena and Göttingen, and in 187 ...

Students

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Bruno Benthien Bruno may refer to: People and fictional characters *Bruno (name), including lists of people and fictional characters with either the given name or surname * Bruno, Duke of Saxony (died 880) * Bruno the Great (925–965), Archbishop of Cologne, ...

Hans Bentzien Hans Bentzien (1927–2015) was a German writer and politician who served as the culture minister of East Germany from 1961 to 1966. Being a member of the ruling party Socialist Unity Party (SED), he held several political and public posts in Ea ...

Hans Bunge Hans-Joachim Bunge (3 December 1919 in Arnsdorf, Saxony – 27 May 1990 in Berlin) was a German Dramaturg, Director and Author. Bunge became famous through his conversations with Hanns Eisler about Brecht. Life Bunge, the son of a doctor ...

Hans Jürgen Eggers Hans may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Hans (name), a masculine given name * Hans Raj Hans, Indian singer and politician ** Navraj Hans, Indian singer, actor, entrepreneur, cricket player and performer, son of Hans Raj Hans ** Yuvraj Hans, Punjabi ...

, pre-historian *

Caspar David Friedrich Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscape ...

, romanticist painter * Oskar Manigk, Bildende Kunst * Leo Wohleb, Klassische Philologie * Thorsten Zwinger, Bildende Kunst

Business and law

* Georg Beseler * Joachim von Bonin * Walter Serner, dadaist and writer

Mathematics and sciences

* Alexander Koenig *

Sebastian Pflugbeil Sebastian may refer to: People * Sebastian (name), including a list of persons with the name Arts, entertainment, and media Films and television * ''Sebastian'' (1968 film), British spy film * ''Sebastian'' (1995 film), Swedish drama film ...

August Friedrich Thienemann August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, and the fifth of seven months to have a length of 31 days. Its zodiac sign is Leo and was originally named ''Sextilis'' in Latin because it was the 6th month in t ...

* Käthe Voderberg

Medicine

* Theodor Billroth, surgeon * Widukind Lenz, pediatrician, medical geneticist and dysmorphologist *

Otto Gottlieb Mohnike Otto Gottlieb Mohnike (27 July 1814 – 26 January 1887) was a German physician and naturalist who was a native of Stralsund. He was the son of philologist Gottlieb Mohnike (1781–1841). He received his education in medicine at the Universiti ...

* Aleksander Majkowski * Julius Moses, doctor and

Member of the Reichstag Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in ...

(SPD) * Gustav Nachtigal, explorer of Africa * Ludwik Rydygier, Polish surgeon

Politics

Otto von Bismarck Otto, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg (, ; 1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898), born Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, was a conservative German statesman and diplomat. From his origins in the upper class of J ...

, first chancellor of the

German Empire The German Empire (),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary ...

Bernhard von Bülow Bernhard Heinrich Karl Martin, Prince of Bülow (german: Bernhard Heinrich Karl Martin Fürst von Bülow ; 3 May 1849 – 28 October 1929) was a German statesman who served as the foreign minister for three years and then as the chancellor of t ...

chancellor Chancellor ( la, cancellarius) is a title of various official positions in the governments of many nations. The original chancellors were the of Roman courts of justice—ushers, who sat at the or lattice work screens of a basilica or law cou ...

of the

1900–1909 * Gerhard Krüger, Nazi student leader *

Erich Mix Erich Mix (27 June 1898 in Labuhnken (now Trzcińsk, Poland) in West Prussia (now Starogard Gdański) – 9 April 1971 in Wiesbaden) was a German flying ace during World War II, a politician, a member of the Nazi Party, and later a member of th ...

, politician ( NSDAP and FDP * Graf

Guido von Usedom Guido von Usedom (October 2, 1854February 24, 1925) was a German admiral that served in the Boxer Rebellion and World War I. His most notable service was in the Dardanelles Campaign. Biography Early Years Guido came from the Pomeranian noble ...

, Prussia diplomate

Theology

* Ernst Moritz Arndt, writer and politician * Hermann Bonnus * Johannes Bugenhagen, religious reformer * Arnold Dannenmann * Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach *

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (11August 177815October 1852) was a German gymnastics educator and nationalist whose writing is credited with the founding of the German gymnastics (Turner) movement as well as influencing the German Campaign of 1813, during which a coalition of ...

* Gotthard Ludwig Kosegarten *

Gottlieb Mohnike Gottlieb Christian Friedrich Mohnike (6 January 1781 – 6 July 1841) was a German pastor and philologist who was a native of Grimmen. He was the father of physician Otto Gottlieb Mohnike (1814–1887). He studied theology at the Universities of ...

, Theologe und Begründer der Skandinavistik * Johannes Schmidt-Wodder * Ernst Wilm

Honorary doctorates

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* *

Wilhelm Friese Wilhelm may refer to: People and fictional characters * William Charles John Pitcher, costume designer known professionally as "Wilhelm" * Wilhelm (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname Other uses * Mou ...

* Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (2008), literary theorist at

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* Terho Itkonen, Fennist *

Wolfgang Koeppen Wolfgang Arthur Reinhold Koeppen (23 June 1906 – 15 March 1996) was a German novelist and one of the best known German authors of the postwar period. Life Koeppen was born out of wedlock in Greifswald, Pomerania, to Marie Köppen, a seamstress w ...

, German writer *

Erik Lönnroth Erik Lönnroth (1 August 1910 in Gothenburg – 10 March 2002) was one of the most notable Swedish historians of the 20th century. He was a life member of the Swedish Academy from 1962 and member of various faculties.Günther Petersen, journalist * Helmhold Schneider, entrepreneur * Ehm Welk (1956), German writer *

Theodore Ziolkowski Theodore Ziolkowski (September 30, 1932 – December 5, 2020) was a scholar in the fields of German studies and comparative literature. He coined the term " fifth gospel genre". Early life Theodore J. Ziolkowski was born on September 30, 1932 i ...

* Matti Klinge, historian

Business and law

* Jacques Delors, former President of the European Commission * Thomas Heinrich Gadebusch * Hans-Heinrich Jescheck * Kjell Åke Modéer

Mathematics and sciences

* Dieter Behrens * Günter Ecker, plasma physicist *

Klaus Pinkau Klaus is a German, Dutch and Scandinavian given name and surname. It originated as a short form of Nikolaus, a German form of the Greek given name Nicholas. Notable persons whose family name is Klaus *Billy Klaus (1928–2006), American basebal ...

, plasma physicist * Volker Storch, zoologist

Medicine

* Horst Frunder * Hans-Klaus Zinser * Hannelore Kohl, wife of Helmut Kohl * Bengt Scherstén * Gert Riethmüller * Hans-Joachim Lindemann * Jürgen van de Loo * Dietrich Niethammer * Jürgen Radomski, chairman of

Siemens Siemens AG ( ) is a German multinational conglomerate corporation and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe headquartered in Munich with branch offices abroad. The principal divisions of the corporation are ''Industry'', '' ...

Theology

* Bartholomäus Battus *

Erich Gräßer The given name Eric, Erich, Erikk, Erik, Erick, or Eirik is derived from the Old Norse name ''Eiríkr'' (or ''Eríkr'' in Old East Norse due to monophthongization). The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-Norse ''* ...

Eberhard Jüngel Eberhard Jüngel (5 December 1934 – 28 September 2021) was a German Lutheran theologian. He was Emeritus Professor of Systematic Theology and the Philosophy of Religion at the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University of Tübingen. Lif ...

* Johannes Luther *

(1824), Theologe und Begründer der Skandinavistik * Roderich Schmidt * Manfred Stolpe, Minister President of Brandenburg,

Federal Minister A minister is a politician who heads a ministry, making and implementing decisions on policies in conjunction with the other ministers. In some jurisdictions the head of government is also a minister and is designated the ‘prime minister’, � ...

of Germany

Other

* Pope Callixtus III, approved of the founding of a university in Greifswald * Hans Freyer, Soziologe und Philosoph * Bengt Lidner, schwedischer Schriftsteller *

Albrecht Giese Albrecht Giese (10 February 1524 – 1 August 1580) was a councilman and diplomat of the city of Danzig (Gdańsk). He was a member of the Hanseatic League, and part of an important merchant family who had offices in London and Danzig. Biograp ...

, Hansekaufmann * Andreas von Ihlenfeld, Offizier im 30-Jährigen Krieg * Christiern Pedersen, dänischer Humanist und Schriftsteller *

Franz Seldte Franz Seldte (29 June 18821 April 1947) was a German politician who served as the Reich Minister for Labour from 1933 to 1945.Stackelberg (2007). ''The Routledge Companion to Nazi Germany'', p. 243. Prior to his ministry, Seldte served as the ...

, NSDAP-Politiker * Walter Serner, Essayist, Schriftsteller und Dadaist * Petrus Vincentius, Rhetoriker, Ethiker, Dialekt und Pädagoge

References

External links

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