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page 1University of Breslau alumni
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
Otto Stern
German-American physicist (1888–1969)
Paul Ehrlich
Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891–1942)
Hans Georg Dehmelt
German physicist (1922-2017)
Friedrich Bergius
German chemist (1884–1949)
Paul Tillich
German-American theologian and philosopher
Adolf Anderssen
German chess champion, after Paul Morphy (1858-1860), second unofficial world chess champion (1851-1858, 1860-1865, 1867-1871), chess publicist
Norbert Elias
German sociologist (1897–1990)
Georg Michaelis
German civil servant and chancellor (1857-1936)
Clara Immerwahr
German chemist (1870-1915)
Ferdinand von Richthofen
German traveller, geographer and scientist (1833-1905)
Ferdinand Cohn
German biologist (1828-1898)
Adolf Engler
German botanist (1844-1930)
Gustav Freytag
German writer and politician (1816-1895)
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Prussian-American mathematician, electrical engineer (1865–1923)
Alexander von Middendorff
Baltic German explorer and scientist (1815-1894)
Hans Heinrich Lammers
German jurist, Nazi politician, and Head of the Reich Chancellery (1879-1962)
Richard Courant
German American mathematician (1888-1972)
Adam Asnyk
Polish poet and dramatist (1838–1897)
Helmuth James Graf von Moltke
German resistance fighter (1907–1945)
Carl Wernicke
German physician and neuropathologist (1848–1905)
Martin Wilhelm Kutta
German mathematician (1867–1944)
Abraham Fraenkel
Israeli mathematician (1891-1965)
Heinrich Wilhelm Dove
German scientist (1803–1879)
Edward Lasker
German-American chess player (1885-1981)
Jan Kasprowicz
Polish poet (1860–1926)
Paul Gordan
German mathematician (1837-1912)
Wojciech Korfanty
Polish politician (1873–1939)
Kurd Lasswitz
German author, scientist and philosopher (1848–1910)
Albrecht Weber
German indologist (1825–1901)
Heinz von Foerster
Austrian-American scientist and cybernetician (1911-2002)
Heinrich Laube
German writer (1806-1884)
Emil Krebs
German polyglot and sinologist (1867–1930)
Wolfgang Menzel
German poet (1798–1873)
Kurt Goldstein
German neurologist (1878-1965)
Georg Wissowa
German classical philologist (1859–1931)
Wilhelm Hemprich
German naturalist and explorer (1796–1825)
Gerhard Klopfer
official of the Nazi Party and assistant to Martin Bormann in the Office of the Party Chancellery (1905-1987)
Erich Hecke
German mathematician (1887–1947)
Johann Dzierzon
pioneering apiarist (1811–1906)
Karl Moritz Schumann
German botanist (1851–1904)
Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers
German botanist (1816–1853)
Joseph Schacht
German Islamic scholar (1902–1969)
Nathanael Pringsheim
German botanist (1823-1894)
Karl Friedrich Adolf Konrad Bartsch
philologist and university teacher (1832-1888)
Johannes Thiele
German chemist (1865-1918)
Bruno Hildebrand
German economist (1812-1878)
Albert Battel
German Righteous Among the Nations
Johannes Weiss
German theologian (1863-1914)
Max Gerson
German physician, originator of Gerson Therapy (1881-1959)
Ernst Steinitz
German mathematician (1871–1928)
Kurt Lischka
SS Lieutenant Colonel & Gestapo chief assigned to Paris (1909-1989)
David Frischmann
Hebrew writer (1859-1922)
Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard
German archaeologist (1795-1867)
Gerhard Rose
German expert on tropical medicine; defendant at the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial (1896-1992)
Stephan Cohn-Vossen
Russian mathematician (1902–1936)
Eduard Lasker
German politician and jurist (1829-1884)
Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer
German botanist (1803-1868)
Friedrich Wilhelm Weber
German politician and poet (1813-1894)