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Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (1799–1875),
Astronomy •
Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860),
History •
Karl Barth (1886–1968),
Theology •
Bruno Bauer (1809–1882)
Theology •
Carl Heinrich Becker (1876–1933), Oriental Philology •
Karl Dietrich Bracher (born 1922),
Political Science •
Franz Bücheler (1837–1908),
Classics •
Friedrich Calker (1790–1870), Philosophy •
Constantin Carathéodory, (1873–1850)
Mathematics •
Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (1822–1888),
Physics •
Ernst Robert Curtius (1886–1956), Romance Literature •
Friedrich Christian Diez (1794–1876),
Philology •
Christian Drosten (born 1972), Head of the
Charité Institute of Virology,
Virology •
Benno Erdmann (1898–1909),
Philosophy •
Udo di Fabio (born 1954), member of the
Federal Constitutional Court of Germany since 1999,
Law •
Gerd Faltings (born 1954),
Mathematics •
Alexander Filippou (born 1958), Professor of Inorganic Chemistry •
Heinrich Geißler (1814–1879),
Physics •
Klaus Günther (born 1957), Honorary Professor of Analytical Chemistry •
Felix Hausdorff (1868–1942),
Mathematics •
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894),
Medicine and
Physics •
Georg Hermes (1775–1831),
Theology •
Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894),
Physics •
Werner Hildenbrand (born 1936),
Economics •
Friedrich Hirzebruch (born 1927),
Mathematics •
Manfred Hutter (born 1957),
Religious studies •
Marek Karpinski (born 1948),
Computer Science,
Mathematics •
Gottfried Kinkel (1815–1882),
History •
Wilhelm Krelle (1916–2004),
Economics •
Walther Kruse (1864–1943),
Bacteriology •
Christian Lassen (1800–1876), Oriental Philology •
Maria von Linden, (1869–1936), first female Professor •
Rudolf Lipschitz, (1832–1903),
Mathematics •
Karl Martin Menten, (1957–2024)
Radio astronomy •
Werner Meyer-Eppler (1913–1960),
Phonetics •
Barthold Georg Niebuhr, (1776–1831)
History •
Martin Noth (1902–1968),
Theology •
Felix Otto (born 1966),
Mathematics •
Wolfgang Paul (1913–1993),
Physics •
Carl Adam Petri (born 1926),
Mathematics •
Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845–1920),
Botany •
Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger (1829–1910),
Physiology •
Alfred Philippson (1864–1953), Geology and
Geography •
Julius Plücker (1801–1868), Mathematics and Physics •
Joseph Ratzinger (born 1927), Pope, Theology •
Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833–1905), Geology •
Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl (1806–1876), Classics •
Walter Schellenberg (born 1929), Law •
Rudolf Schieffer (1947–2018), Medieval history •
Annemarie Schimmel (1922–2003), Oriental Philology •
August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767–1845), Philosophy •
Bernhard Schlink (born 1944), Law •
Johannes Schmidt (1843–1901), Linguistics •
Carl Schmitt (1888–1985), Law •
Arnold Schönhage (born 1934), Mathematics •
Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950), Economics •
Reinhard Selten (born 1930), Economics •
Karl Simrock (1802–1872), German Studies •
Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg (1905–1946), Economics •
Ethelbert Stauffer (1902-1979), Theology •
Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (1829–1896), Chemistry •
Eduard Strasburger (1844–1912),
Botany •
Heinrich von Sybel (1817–1895),
History •
Otto Toeplitz (1881–1940),
Mathematics •
Carl Troll (1899–1975),
Geography •
Hermann Karl Usener (1834–1905),
Classics •
Otto Wallach (1847–1931),
Chemistry •
Axel A. Weber (born 1957), President of the
Deutsche Bundesbank since 2004,
Economics •
Walter Weizel (1901–1982),
Physics •
Ernst August Weiß (1900–1942),
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