List of University of Greifswald people



This List of people associated with the University of Greifswald contains notable alumni and faculty past and present of an institution of higher education founded as early as 1456.

If alumni subsequently worked at Greifswald University, they are listed under staff.

Nobel prize laureates

 * Gerhard Domagk (1895–1964), Nobel Prize in Medicine 1939/1947
 * Johannes Stark (1874–1957), Nobel Prize in Physics 1919

Arts and humanities



 * Erhard Albrecht
 * Ernst Moritz Arndt, writer and politician, rector of the University of Bonn
 * Ernst Bernheim
 * Franz Dornseiff, German lexicographer
 * Alfred Gomolka, Member of the European Parliament
 * Günther Jacoby
 * Otto Jahn
 * Ulrich von Hutten, humanist
 * Victor Klemperer
 * Johannes Luther
 * Carl August Peter Menzel, architect
 * Gabriele Mucchi, artist
 * Carl von Noorden
 * Johann Gottfried Quistorp, architect, artist
 * Johann Philipp Palthen, historian and philologist
 * Georg Friedrich Schömann
 * Magdalene Siebenbrodt
 * Theodor Siebs
 * Thomas Thorild, Swedish poet, critic, feminist and philosopher
 * Wilhelm Titel, painter
 * Johannes Voigt
 * Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, classical philologist
 * Fritz Curschmann, historian
 * Adolf Hofmeister, historian
 * Werner Buchholz, historian

Business and law

 * Rudolf Agricola
 * Walter Le Coutre
 * Jan Degenhardt
 * Stefan Habermeier
 * Jürgen Kohler
 * Lothar Anton Alfred Pernice
 * Peter of Ravenna
 * Carl Sartorius
 * Carl Schmitt, political scientist
 * Friedrich Spielhagen
 * Bernhard Windscheid, co-writer of the German civil law code

Mathematics and sciences



 * Wilhelm Blaschke
 * Karl Fredenhagen, physical-chemist (1923-1945)
 * Felix Hausdorff, mathematician
 * Hermann Landois, zoologist
 * Jakob Meisenheimer, Chemie (1918–1923)
 * Gustav Mie, physicist
 * Johann Radon
 * Michael Succow, Right Livelihood Award laureate
 * Horst Völz
 * Michael Beuther

Medicine



 * Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben
 * Horst Bibergeil
 * Christian Calenus
 * Carl Hueter, surgeon
 * Gerhardt Katsch
 * Friedrich Loeffler, bacteriologist
 * Ludwig Mecklinger
 * Gerhard Mohnike
 * Hugo Karl Anton Pernice
 * Ferdinand Sauerbruch, surgeon
 * Carl Ludwig Schleich, doctor and writer
 * Werner Hosemann

Theology

 * Albrecht Alt
 * Hermann Cremer
 * Gustaf Dalman
 * Helmut Echternach
 * Joachim Jeremias
 * Martin Noth
 * Victor Schultze

Students

 * See also Category:University of Greifswald alumni

Arts and humanities

 * Bruno Benthien
 * Hans Bentzien
 * Hans Bunge
 * Hans Jürgen Eggers, pre-historian
 * Caspar David Friedrich, romanticist painter
 * Oskar Manigk, Bildende Kunst
 * Leo Wohleb, Klassische Philologie
 * Thorsten Zwinger, Bildende Kunst

Business and law

 * Georg Beseler
 * Joachim von Bonin
 * Walter Serner, dadaist and writer

Mathematics and sciences



 * Alexander Koenig
 * Sebastian Pflugbeil
 * August Friedrich Thienemann
 * Käthe Voderberg

Medicine

 * Theodor Billroth, surgeon
 * Thomas Kietzmann. physician and professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine, University of Oulu
 * Widukind Lenz, pediatrician, medical geneticist and dysmorphologist
 * Otto Gottlieb Mohnike
 * Aleksander Majkowski
 * Julius Moses, doctor and Member of the Reichstag (SPD)
 * Gustav Nachtigal, explorer of Africa
 * Ludwik Rydygier, Polish surgeon

Politics

 * Otto von Bismarck, first chancellor of the German Empire
 * Bernhard von Bülow, chancellor of the German Empire 1900–1909
 * Gerhard Krüger, Nazi student leader
 * Erich Mix, politician (NSDAP and FDP)
 * Niklas Graßelt, politician (CDU)
 * Graf Guido von Usedom, Prussia diplomate

Theology



 * Ernst Moritz Arndt, writer and politician
 * Hermann Bonnus
 * Johannes Bugenhagen, religious reformer
 * Arnold Dannenmann
 * Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach
 * Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
 * Gotthard Ludwig Kosegarten
 * Gottlieb Mohnike, Theologe und Begründer der Skandinavistik
 * Johannes Schmidt-Wodder
 * Ernst Wilm

Arts and humanities

 * Wilhelm Friese
 * Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (2008), literary theorist at Stanford University
 * Terho Itkonen, Fennist
 * Wolfgang Koeppen, German writer
 * Erik Lönnroth
 * Günther Petersen, journalist
 * Helmhold Schneider, entrepreneur
 * Ehm Welk (1956), German writer
 * Theodore Ziolkowski
 * Matti Klinge, historian
 * Matti Klinge, historian

Business and law

 * Jacques Delors, former President of the European Commission
 * Thomas Heinrich Gadebusch
 * Hans-Heinrich Jescheck
 * Kjell Åke Modéer

Mathematics and sciences

 * Dieter Behrens
 * Günter Ecker, plasma physicist
 * Klaus Pinkau, plasma physicist
 * Volker Storch, zoologist

Medicine

 * Horst Frunder
 * Hans-Klaus Zinser
 * Hannelore Kohl, wife of Helmut Kohl
 * Bengt Scherstén
 * Gert Riethmüller
 * Hans-Joachim Lindemann
 * Jürgen van de Loo
 * Dietrich Niethammer
 * Jürgen Radomski, chairman of Siemens

Theology

 * Bartholomäus Battus
 * Erich Gräßer
 * Eberhard Jüngel
 * Johannes Luther
 * Gottlieb Mohnike (1824), Theologe und Begründer der Skandinavistik
 * Roderich Schmidt
 * Manfred Stolpe, Minister President of Brandenburg, Federal Minister of Germany

Other

 * Pope Callixtus III, approved of the founding of a university in Greifswald
 * Hans Freyer, Soziologe und Philosoph
 * Bengt Lidner, schwedischer Schriftsteller
 * Albrecht Giese, Hansekaufmann
 * Andreas von Ihlenfeld, Offizier im 30-Jährigen Krieg
 * Christiern Pedersen, dänischer Humanist und Schriftsteller
 * Franz Seldte, NSDAP-Politiker
 * Walter Serner, Essayist, Schriftsteller und Dadaist
 * Petrus Vincentius, Rhetoriker, Ethiker, Dialekt und Pädagoge