List of people associated with the University of Tübingen

The University of Tübingen has a long list of notable alumni and staff. As of 2021, eleven Nobel Laureates,^[1] 16 Leibniz Laureates^[2] and four Alexander von Humboldt Professorships^[3] are affiliated with the university.

The following list also includes alumni of the Tübinger Stift, which is not a part of the university, but has a close relationship with it.

Archaeology

• Marija Gimbutas (1921–1994), archaeologist
• Manfred Korfmann (1942–2005), archaeologist, director of excavations in Troy
• Aurel Stein (1862–1943), archaeologist (PhD 1883)

Economics

• Helmut Haussmann, German minister of economy (1988–1991)
• Horst Köhler, director of the IMF (2000–2004) and President of Germany (2004–2010)
• Jürgen Stark, Chief Economist and Member of the executive committee of the European Central Bank
• Klaus Töpfer, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive-Director of the United Nations Environment Programme

Egyptology

• Boyo Ockinga, Egyptologist

History

• Ernst Boepple (1887–1950), German Nazi official and SS officer executed for war crimes
• Andrzej Ciechanowiecki (1924–2015), Polish economist, and collector
• Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Chancellor of Germany (1966–1969)
• Hans Mommsen (1930–2015), historian
• Stephan Jakob Neher (1828–1902), Church historian
• Rita Süssmuth (1988–1998), president of the Bundestag, the German federal parliament
• Uwe Wolf (born 1961), musicologist

Indology and Hinduism

• Heinrich von Stietencron, Indologist

Law

• Gerhard Anschütz, father of the constitution of the Bundesland Hesse
• Martin Bangemann, German minister of economy (1984–1988) and EU commissioner (1989–1999)
• Fritz Bauer, German Jewish judge and chief prosecutor of Hesse (1956–1968)
• Julien Chaisse (born 1976), professor of law at the City University of Hong Kong
• Herta Däubler-Gmelin, German minister of justice (1998–2002)
• Wolfgang Ernst, legal historian and professor at the University of Oxford
• Roman Herzog, President of Germany (1994–1999)
• Klaus Hopt, German legal scholar
• Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt, politician and judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (1999–2011)
• Philipp Jenninger, President of the German federal parliament (1984–1988)
• Klaus Kinkel, vice-chancellor and minister of foreign affairs of Germany (1993–1998)
• Dieter Medicus, German legal scholar
• Gebhard Müller, President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (1959–1971)
• Günther Oettinger, European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources, Vice President of the Barroso II commission (2010–)
• Carlo Schmid, German politician and one of the "fathers of the constitution"
• Konstantin von Neurath, Minister of foreign affairs of Germany (1932–1938)
• Christoph Martin Wieland, (1733–1813), poet
• Jürgen Wöhler (b. 1950), German lawyer and manager

Medicine, natural sciences, mathematics

• Yousef Al-Abed (b. 1964), chemist
• S. M. Razaullah Ansari (b. 1932), historian of science
• Alois Alzheimer, psychiatrist and neuropathologist
• Katrin Böhning-Gaese, biologist and ornithologist
• Simon Brendle (b. 1981), mathematician
• Victor von Bruns, surgeon
• Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (1665–1721), botanist, physicist
• Theodor Eimer (1843–1898), zoologist and comparative anatomist
• Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566), botanist, physicist
• Hans Geiger (1882–1945), physicist
• Carl Haeberlin (1870–1954), physician
• Ingmar Hoerr (b. 1968), biologist
• Felix Hoppe-Seyler, chemist and physiologist
• Friedrich von Huene (1875–1969), paleontologist
• Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), astronomer
• Karl Meissner (1891–1959), physicist
• Julius Lothar Meyer (1830–1895), chemist
• Hugo von Mohl (1805–1872), botanist
• Friedrich Miescher, biologist
• George Nagobads (1921–2023), Latvian-born American physician^[4]
• Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (b. 1942), biologist
• Hans Schlossberger (1887–1960), immunologist and microbiologist
• Wilhelm Schickard (1592–1635), astronomer
• Bernhard Schölkopf (b. 1968), computer scientist
• Johann Georg Gmelin (1709–1755), botanist
• Bei Shizhang (1903–2009), biologist
• Karl von Vierordt, physiologist (1818–1884)
• Detlef Weigel (b. 1961), biologist

Philology

• Rabbi David Zvi Hoffmann, Rabbi
• Johann Reuchlin, humanist and philosopher
• Friedrich Hölderlin, poet
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, philosopher
• Alberto Jori, philosopher
• Heinrich Christoph Wilhelm Sigwart, philosopher
• Christoph von Sigwart, philosopher
• Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, philosopher
• Ernst Bloch, philosopher
• Burghart Schmidt, philosopher
• Otfried Höffe, philosopher
• Julian Nida-Rümelin, philosopher
• Ernst Tugendhat, philosopher
• Manfred Frank, philosopher

Psychology

• Paul Enck, psychologist specializing in psychosomatic medicine
• Wolfgang Köhler, psychologist
• Robert Zajonc (1923–2008), psychologist

Sociology

• Ralf Dahrendorf, sociologist, economist, political scientist and politician

Theology

• Karl Barth, Swiss, Reformed, 20th century Protestant theologian
• Ferdinand Christian Baur, Protestant theologian and historian of early Christianity and the New Testament
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lutheran, 20th century Protestant theologian, opponent of the Nazi Regime
• Rudolf Bultmann, 20th century Protestant theologian known for existential biblical interpretation
• Gerhard Ebeling, Protestant theologian, former student of Rudolf Bultmann, specialist in philosophical hermeneutics
• Johannes Eck (1486–1543), Catholic theologian, counter-Reformer
• David F. Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge (since 1991)
• Romano Guardini, Roman Catholic priest, author and academic
• Walter Kasper, Cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church, very Roman Catholic theologian of today
• Hans Küng, Roman Catholic theologian, critic of Catholic doctrine
• Philip Melanchthon (1497–1560), Protestant reformer, first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation
• Eduard Mörike, Protestant theologian, German poet
• Jürgen Moltmann, Protestant theologian
• Konrad Raiser, Protestant theologian, former General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC)
• Charles-Frédéric Reinhard (1761–1837), Württembergian-born French diplomat, essayist, and politician
• Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Protestant theologian, philosopher
• Adolf Schlatter, Protestant theologian
• David Strauss, Protestant theologian and writer who revolutionized the study of the New Testament
• Paul Tillich, German-American theologian at Harvard University, Protestant theologian
• Miroslav Volf, Christian theologian at Yale University
• Karl Heinrich Weizsäcker, Protestant theologian and chancellor of the University of Tübingen