People
In nearly six centuries numerous notable students and professors have had ties with the university, for instance:
- Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer
- Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Brockmann, philosopher (PhD in 1848)
- Albert Einstein, honorary Doctor of Medicine, 1919
- Arno Esch (1928–1951), student and liberal politician
- Karl von Frisch, ethologist and Nobel Prize laureate
- Joachim Gauck, 11th President of Germany, studies of theology in Rostock until 1965, honorary doctor
- Konrad Gesselen from Geismar, Hesse, astronomer, mathematician, pastor, taught at Rostock and Thorn, wrote Cisiojanus
- Walter Hallstein (1901–1982), first President of the European Commission
- Walter Kempowski, writer
- Albrecht Kossel, medical scientist and Nobel Prize laureate (PhD 1878)
- Max Planck, honorary doctorate, 1919
- Isaac Rülf, philosopher, humanitarian organizer, author (PhD in 1865)
- Moritz Schlick, philosopher
- Heinrich Schliemann, archeologist (PhD in 1869)
- Rudolf Steiner, anthroposophist (PhD in 1891)
- Otto Stern, physicist
- Rudolph Sohm, lawyer and Church historian
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?”
—Russell Hoban (b. 1925)
“The people shall not be restrained from peacefully assembling and consulting for their common good, nor from applying to the legislature by petitions, or remonstrances for redress of their grievances.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“I can never get people to understand that poetry is the expression of excited passion, and that there is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)