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:
“It is time that we start thinking about foundational issues: about our attitudes toward fair trials... Who are the People in a multicultural society?... The victims of discrimination are now organized. Blacks, Jews, gays, women—they will no longer tolerate second-class status. They seek vindication for past grievances in the trials that take place today, the new political trial.”
—George P. Fletcher, U.S. law educator. With Justice for Some, p. 6, Addison-Wesley (1995)
“...a fixed aim furnishes us with a fixed measure, by which we can decide whether such or such an action proposed is worth trying for or not, and as aims must vary with the individual, the decisions of any two people as to the desirableness of an action may not be the same.”
—Anna C. Brackett (1836–1911)
“The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because it’s the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained.”
—Gerda Lerner (b. 1920)