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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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or professors:
“Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)
“Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the professors of science, who are frequently men of great intelligence but of limited interests and education, feel a politely disguised contempt for it; and thus the study of one of the most pervasive and powerful influences on human life is traduced and neglected.”
—Yvor Winters (1900–1968)