University of Leipzig

The University of Leipzig (Universität Leipzig), located in Leipzig in the Free State and former Kingdom of Saxony, is one of the oldest universities in Europe.

People associated with the University of Leipzig

The University of Leipzig in the past has attracted a number of renowned

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scholars. Among the great minds that shaped the profile of the university

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are:

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• chemist Wilhelm Ostwald
• economist Karl Bücher
• economist Wilhem Roscher
• educationalist Theodor Litt
• germanist Theodor Frings
• Greek scholar Petrus Mosellanus
• historian Karl Lamprecht
• historian Walter Markov
• historian Wilhelm Maurenbrecher
• neurologist Paul Flechsig
• philologist Johann Christoph Gottsched
• philosopher Ernst Bloch
• philosopher Christian Thomasius
• physicist Werner Heisenberg
• physicist Gustav Ludwig Hertz
• psychologist Wilhelm Wundt
• romanist Werner Krauss
• theologian and poet Christian Fürchtegott Gellert

The following illustrious students spent their earlier years at Leipzig.

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• Georg Agricola, mining engineer and natural philosopher
• Marc Bloch, French historian
• Émile Durkheim, French sociologist
• Kurt Albert Gerlach, Sociologist
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet
• Ulrich von Hutten writer and political leader
• Erich Kästner, author
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Philosopher and writer
• Lin Yutang, writer
• Thomas Müntzer, political leader and theologian
• Friedrich Nietzsche philosopher
• Samuel Pufendorf, Historian
• Robert Schumann, composer
• Richard Wagner, composer
• Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, physicist and philosopher
• Gustav Zeuner, physicist and engineer
• Alexander Kohut, rabbi and Orientalist