University of Königsberg: Students/Graduates



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David Hilbert

David Hilbert (January 23, 1862 – February 14, 1943) was a German mathematician, recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental...

End Date:

1885

Degree:

Doctor of Science

Start Date:

1880

Georg Klebs

Georg Albrecht Klebs (23 October 1857 – 15 October 1918) was a German botanist from Neidenburg (Nidzica), Prussia. His brother was the historian Elimar Klebs. Klebs studied chemistry, philosophy, and art history at the University of Königsberg and...

Edwin Klebs

Edwin Klebs (6 February 1834 – 23 October 1913) was a German-Swiss pathologist. He is mainly known for his work on infectious diseases. He was the father of Arnold Klebs. Klebs was born in Königsberg, Province of Prussia. He studied at the...

Bernard Fernow

Bernhard Eduard Fernow (January 7, 1851 – February 6, 1923) was the third chief of the USDA's Division of Forestry of the United States from 1886 – 1898, preceding Gifford Pinchot in that position, and laying much of the groundwork for the...

Arnold Sommerfeld

Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld (5 December 1868 – 26 April 1951) was a German theoretical physicist who pioneered developments in atomic and quantum physics, and also educated and groomed a large number of students for the new era of theoretical...

Hermann Minkowski

Hermann Minkowski (June 22, 1864 – January 12, 1909) was a German mathematician of Polish Jewish descent, who created and developed the geometry of numbers and who used geometrical methods to solve difficult problems in number theory, mathematical...

Woldemar Voigt

Woldemar Voigt (2 September 1850 – 13 December 1919) was a German physicist, who taught at the Georg August University of Göttingen. He was born in Leipzig, and died in Göttingen. He was a student of Franz Ernst Neumann. He worked on crystal physics...

Friedrich Ernst Dorn

Friedrich Ernst Dorn (27 July 1848 – 16 December 1916) was a German physicist who was the first to discover that a radioactive substance, later named radon, is emitted from radium. Dorn was born in Guttstadt (Dobre Miasto), Province of Prussia, and...

Gustav Kirchhoff

Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (12 March 1824 – 17 October 1887) was a German physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects. He coined the term ...

Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander

Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (March 22, 1799 – February 17, 1875) was a German astronomer. He is known for his determinations of stellar brightnesses, positions, and distances. Argelander was born in Memel in the Kingdom of Prussia (now...

Carl Wilhelm Borchardt

Carl Wilhelm Borchardt (22 February 1817 – 27 June 1880) was a German mathematician. Borchardt was born to a Jewish family in Berlin. His father, Moritz, was a respected merchant, and his mother was Emma Heilborn. Borchardt studied under a number of...

Moshe Novomeysky

Moshe Novomeysky (Hebrew: משה נובומייסקי‎, Russian: Моисей Абрамович Новомейский; November 25, 1873 – March 27, 1961) was an early Israeli pioneer, scientist, and developer of the Palestine Potash Company, precursor of the Dead Sea Works. Mikhail ...

Alfred Clebsch

Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch (19 January 1833, Königsberg – 7 November 1872, Göttingen) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory. He attended the University of Königsberg and was...

Carl Neumann

Carl Gottfried Neumann (May 7, 1832 - March 27, 1925) was a German mathematician. Neumann was born in Königsberg, Prussia, as the son of the mineralogist, physicist and mathematician Franz Ernst Neumann (1798-1895), who was professor of mineralogy...

Kristijonas Donelaitis

Kristijonas Donelaitis (January 1, 1714 in in Lasdinehlen near Gumbinnen, Kaliningrad Oblast – February 18, 1780 in Tollmingkehmen, Kaliningrad Oblast; Latin: Christian Donalitius) was a Prussian-Lithuanian Lutheran pastor and poet. He lived and...

Martynas Mažvydas

Martynas Mažvydas (1510 near Žemaičių Naumiestis (now in Šilutė district municipality) - May 21, 1563 in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) was the author and the editor of the first printed book in the Lithuanian language. Variants of his name include...

Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias Werner

Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias Werner (November 18, 1768 – January 17, 1823) was a German poet, dramatist, and preacher. Werner was born at Königsberg in East Prussia. His mother died a religious maniac, and Werner inherited her weak and unbalanced...

Theodor Kaluza

Theodor Franz Eduard Kaluza (November 9, 1885 – January 19, 1954) was a German mathematician and physicist known for the Kaluza-Klein theory involving field equations in five-dimensional space. His idea that fundamental forces can be unified by...

Johann Gottfried Herder

Johann Gottfried von Herder (25 August 1744 – 18 December 1803) was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic. He is associated with the periods of Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism. Born in Mohrungen (Morąg) in...

Ewald Christian von Kleist

Ewald Christian von Kleist (March 7, 1715 – August 24, 1759) was a German poet and officer. Kleist was born at Zeblin, near Köslin (Koszalin) in Pomerania, to the von Kleist family of cavalry leaders. After attending the Jesuit school in Deutsch...

Rudolph Koenig

Karl Rudolph Koenig (German: Rudolf Koenig; November 26, 1832 – October 2, 1901), known by himself and others as Rudolph Koenig, was a German physicist, chiefly concerned with acoustic phenomena. Koenig was born in Königsberg (Province of Prussia),...

Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig Hagen

Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig Hagen (March 3, 1797 - February 3, 1884) was a German physicist and hydraulic engineer. Hagen was born in Königsberg, East Prussia (today Kaliningrad, Russia). He studied mathematics, architecture, and civil engineering at...

Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant (German pronunciation: [ɪˈmanuɛl kant]) (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was an 18th-century German philosopher from the Prussian city of Königsberg. Kant was the last influential philosopher of modern Europe in the classic sequence...

Christian Goldbach

Christian Goldbach (March 18, 1690 – November 20, 1764) was a Prussian mathematician who also studied law. He is remembered today for Goldbach's conjecture. Born in the Duchy of Prussia's capital Königsberg, part of Brandenburg-Prussia, Goldbach was...

E.T.A. Hoffmann

Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (January 24, 1776 – June 25, 1822), better known by his pen name E.T.A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann), was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and...

Helmut Echternach

Helmut Friedbert Richard Siegfried Echternach (March 20, 1907 – February 25, 1988) was a German Lutheran theologian and pastor, and one of the leaders of the Lutheran High Church Movement in Germany. Born in Waltersdorf, Heiligenbeil District, East...

Max von Schenkendorf

Gottlob Ferdinand Maximilian Gottfried von Schenkendorf (Born December 11, 1783 in Tilsit in East Prussia; Died December 11, 1817 in Koblenz) was a German poet, born in Tilsit and educated at Königsberg. During the War of Liberation, in which he...

Johann Sigismund Elsholtz

Johann Sigismund Elsholtz (August 26, 1623 – February 28, 1688), (some sources mention his day of birth as August 28, and his death on February 19) was a German naturalist who was a native of Frankfurt an der Oder. He studied at the Universities of...

Heinz Pose

Rudolf Heinz Pose (10 April 1905 in Königsberg – 13 November 1975 in Dresden) was a German nuclear physicist. He did pioneering work which contributed to the understanding nuclear energy levels. He worked on the German nuclear energy project...

Robert Michaelis von Olshausen

Robert Michaelis von Olshausen (July 3, 1835 – February 1, 1915) was a German obstetrician and gynecologist who was a native of Kiel. In 1857 he earned his doctorate from Königsberg, and subsequently was a medical assistant in Berlin and Halle an...

Friedrich Gustav von Bramann

Friedrich Gustav von Bramann (September 25, 1854 – April 21, 1913) was a German surgeon born in Wilhelmsberg near Darkehmen, East Prussia. He studied medicine at the University of Königsberg where he joined the Corps Hansea. He became assistant...

Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht

Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht (March 4, 1800 – May 22, 1876) was a German constitutional lawyer, jurist, and docent. Albrecht was most notable as a member of the Göttingen Seven, a group of academics who in 1837 protested the abrogation of the...

Horst Ademeit

Horst Ademeit (* 8 February 1912 in Breslau, † 7 August 1944 near Dünaburg (Missing in action, most likely Killed in action) was a German former Luftwaffe fighter ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves during World...

Wojciech Kętrzyński

Wojciech Kętrzyński (11 July 1838 – 15 January 1918), born Adalbert von Winkler, was a historian and the director of the Ossolineum Library in Lwów, Austrian partition of Poland. He focused on Polish history in a time when no independent Polish...

Paul Pulewka

Paul Pulewka (11 February 1896 – 22 October 1989) was a German pharmacologist from Elbing (Elbląg). Pulewka graduated from the Königsberg Medical Faculty in 1923 and earned doctorates in pharmacology and toxicology from the Pharmacology Institute of...

Julius von Mirbach

Julius Graf von Mirbach (1839–1921) was a German politician, born in Sorquitten, East Prussia. He studied law at University of Königsberg, Bonn, and Berlin and served as an officer in the Prussian Army, resigning in 1865. In 1874 he entered the...

Georg Hermann Quincke

Georg Hermann Quincke (November 19, 1834 – January 13, 1924) was a German physicist. Born at Frankfurt (Oder), Quincke was the son of prominent physician Geheimer Medicinal-Rath Hermann Quincke and the older brother of physician Heinrich Quincke....

Paul Friedländer

Paul Friedländer (August 29, 1857, Königsberg - September 4, 1923, Darmstadt) was a German chemist. Friedländer studied chemistry in Königsberg, Strasbourg and Munich where he assisted Adolf von Baeyer. As a university lecturer in Darmstadt his main...

Ludwig Friedländer

Ludwig Henrich Friedlaender (July 16, 1824 Königsberg – December 16, 1909) was a German philologist. He studied at the universities of his hometown Königsberg, Leipzig, and Berlin from 1841 to 1845. In 1847 he became privat-docent of classical...

Karl Bogislaus Reichert

Karl Bogislaus Reichert (December 20, 1811 – December 21, 1883) was a German anatomist. Reichert was born in Rastenburg (Kętrzyn), East Prussia. He studied etiology and histology in Königsberg. He was a student of Friedrich Schlemm and Johannes...

Emil Wiechert

Emil Johann Wiechert (26 December 1861 – 19 March 1928) was a German geophysicist. Wiechert was born in Tilsit, Province of Prussia, the son of Johann and Emilie Wiechart. After his father died, Emilie moved to Königsberg so that Emil could study at...

Samuel James Meltzer

Samuel James Meltzer (March 22, 1851 – November 7, 1920) was an American physiologist, born in Russia. He was educated at Konigsberg, Prussia, studied philosophy at and medicine at the University of Berlin (M. D., 1882); and in the following year he...

Peter Crüger

Peter Crüger or Peter Krüger (1580 in Königsberg — 1639) was a mathematician, astronomer, polymath, and teacher of Johannes Hevelius. In scientific documents published in Latin, his common name Krüger (German for potter or innkeeper, also spelled...

August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein

August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein (Latvian: Augusts Bīlenšteins) (March 4, 1826 – July 6, 1907) was a Baltic German linguist, folklorist, ethnographer, and theologian. Bielenstein was born in Mitau (Jelgava), where he also died. He studied at the...

Georg Adolf Erman

Georg Adolf Erman (12 May 1806 – 12 July 1877) was a German physicist. Erman was born in Berlin as the son of Paul Erman. He studied natural science at the universities of Berlin and Königsberg, spent from 1828 to 1830 in a journey round the world,...

Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (born December 19, 1916) is a German political scientist. Her most famous contribution is the model of the spiral of silence, detailed in The Spiral of Silence : Public Opinion - Our Social Skin. The model is an explanation...

Theodor Goldstücker

Theodor Goldstücker (January 18, 1821 – March 6, 1872) was a German Sanskrit scholar. He was born of Jewish parents in Königsberg. After attending the gymnasium of that town, he entered its university in 1836 as a student of Sanskrit. In 1838 he...

Hermann August Hagen

Hermann August Hagen (1817,Königsberg - 1893, Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was a German entomologist who specialised in Neuroptera and Odonata. In 1845 he began to collaborate with Edmond de Sélys Longchamps . Hagen was the son of Carl Heinrich Hagen...

Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach

Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach (February 1, 1792 at Königsberg, Prussia – November 11, 1847 in Berlin) was a German surgeon. Dieffenbach studied theology at the universities at Rostock and Greifswald, and medicine at the Albertina university in...

Friedrich von Gentz

Friedrich von Gentz (2 May 1764 – 9 June 1832) was a German publicist and statesman. Gentz was born at Breslau. His father was an official, his mother distantly related to the Prussian minister Friedrich Ancillon. On his father's transfer to Berlin...

Bernhard Weiss

Bernhard Weiss (June 20, 1827 – January 14, 1918) was a German Protestant New Testament scholar. Weiss was born at Königsberg. After studying theology at the University of Königsberg (Albertina), Halle and Berlin, he became professor extraordinarius...

Martin Chemnitz

Martin Chemnitz (November 9, 1522 – April 8, 1586) was an eminent second-generation Lutheran theologian, reformer, churchman, and confessor. In the Lutheran tradition he is known as Alter Martinus, the "Second Martin": Si Martinus non fuisset,...

Martin Eduard von Simson

Martin Sigismund Eduard von Simson (November 10, 1810 – May 2, 1899) was a German jurist and distinguished liberal politician of the Kingdom of Prussia and German Empire, who served as President of the Frankfurt Parliament as well as the first...

Paul Albert Gordan

Paul Albert Gordan (27 April 1837 – 21 December 1912) was a German mathematician, a student of Carl Jacobi at the University of Königsberg before obtaining his Ph.D. at the University of Breslau (1862), and a professor at the University of Erlangen...