Famous Citizens and Alumni of The University
- Ernst Abbe, physicist, social reformer, partner of Carl Zeiss and Otto Schott
- Anton Wilhelm Amo, African philosopher
- Johannes R. Becher, poet and politician
- Hans Berger, discoverer of human EEG
- Bernhard, Prince of the Netherlands
- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, influential German naturalist, doctor, comparative anatomist and physiologist
- Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, orientalist and Protestant theologian of the Enlightenment
- Robert Enke, German footballer
- Walter Eucken, founder of neoliberal economic theory
- Rudolf Eucken, philosopher and the winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for Literature
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte, philosopher and early German nationalist
- Gottlob Frege, mathematician, logician, and philosopher
- Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel, inventor of the kindergarten
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe, poet/writer
- Ernst Haeckel, German evolutionary biologist/zoologist
- G. W. F. Hegel, philosopher
- Friedrich Hölderlin, poet
- Martin Luther, reformer
- Philipp Melanchthon, theologian
- Johann Karl August Musäus, German author
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher
- Novalis, poet
- Max Reger, composer, pianist, professor and conductor
- Friedrich Schelling
- Friedrich Schiller, poet/writer
- Caroline Böhmer Schlegel Schelling
- Wilhelm Schlegel, philosopher
- Bernd Schneider, German footballer
- Otto Schott, inventor of fireproof glass, founder of the Schott glass works
- Reinhard Johannes Sorge, German poet, dramatist, and Roman Catholic convert
- Johann Gustav Stickel, orientalist
- Kurt Tucholsky, writer
- Carl Zeiss, founder of the Zeiss company
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“Sole and self-commanded works,
Fears not undermining days,
Grows by decays,
And, by the famous might that lurks
In reaction and recoil,
Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“Television ... helps blur the distinction between framed and unframed reality. Whereas going to the movies necessarily entails leaving one’s ordinary surroundings, soap operas are in fact spatially inseparable from the rest of one’s life. In homes where television is on most of the time, they are also temporally integrated into one’s “real” life and, unlike the experience of going out in the evening to see a show, may not even interrupt its regular flow.”
—Eviatar Zerubavel, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life, ch. 5, University of Chicago Press (1991)