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

Staff

Arts and humanities

Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860), writer and politician
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, classical philologist

Business and law

Mathematics and sciences

Michael Succow (1941-), biologist and ecologist, 1997 Right Livelihood Award laureate

Medicine

Friedrich Loeffler (1852–1915), noted bacteriologist

Theology

Students

See also Category:University of Greifswald alumni

Arts and humanities

An early self-portrait of Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), who was born in Greifswald and received his first artistic instruction from Johann Gottfried Quistorp.
  • Bruno Benthien
  • Hans Bentzien
  • Hans Bunge
  • Hans Jürgen Eggers, pre-historian
  • Caspar David Friedrich, romanticist painter
  • Gerhard Krüger, Nazi student leader
  • Oskar Manigk, Bildende Kunst
  • Leo Wohleb, Klassische Philologie
  • Thorsten Zwinger, Bildende Kunst

Business and law

Prince Bernhard von Bülow (1849–1929), chancellor of the German Empire from 1900 to 1909

Mathematics and sciences

Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), chancellor of the German Empire from 1871 to 1890

Medicine

Theology

Honorary doctorates

Arts and humanities

Business and law

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

Other

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