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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