page_title: University of Copenhagen
section_title: Notable alumni (chronological order)
hierarchical_section_title: University of Copenhagen / Notable alumni (chronological order)
caption_attribution_description: English: Sketch of Søren Kierkegaard. Based on a sketch by Niels Christian Kierkegaard (1806-1882).
context_page_description: The University of Copenhagen is a public research university in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia, and ranks as one of the top universities in the Nordic countries and Europe.
  Its establishment sanctioned by Pope Sixtus IV, the University of Copenhagen was founded by Christian I of Denmark as a Catholic teaching institution with a predominantly theological focus. Up until the 18th century, the university was primarily concerned with educating clergymen. Through various reforms in the 18th and 19th century, the University of Copenhagen was transformed into a modern, secular university, with science and the humanities replacing theology as the main subjects studied and taught.
  The University of Copenhagen consists of six different faculties, with teaching taking place in its four distinct campuses, all situated in Copenhagen. The university operates 36 different departments and 122 separate research centres in Copenhagen, as well as a number of museums and botanical gardens in and outside the Danish capital.
context_section_description: Tycho Brahe (1546–1601), Danish astronomer, first scientific documentation of supernovas, mentor of Johannes Kepler.
  Thomas Fincke (1561–1656), Danish mathematician and physicist.
  Caspar Bartholin (1585–1629), professor in medicine and theology. Author of textbooks on anatomy and the discoverer of the workings of the olfactory nerve.
  Olaus Wormius (1588–1655), Danish physician and antiquarian.
  Thomas Bartholin (1616–1680), discoverer of the lymphatic system.
  Rasmus Bartholin (1625–1698), professor in geometry and medicine. Discovered birefringence, but was unable to give a scientific explanation.
  Thomas Hansen Kingo (1634–1703), Danish bishop and poet.
  Nicholas Steno (1638–1696), a pioneer in anatomy and geology.
  Ole Rømer (1644–1710), Danish astronomer, made the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
  Peder Horrebow (1679–1764), Danish astronomer and member of Académie des Sciences.
  Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754), Danish-Norwegian writer and playwright.
  Morten Thrane Brunnich (1737–1827), Danish zoologist.
  Caspar Wessel (1745–1818), mathematician.
  Martin Vahl (1749–1804), Danish-Norwegian botanist and zoologist.
  Hans Christian Ørsted (1777–1851), Danish physicist and chemist, discovered electromagnetism.
  Anders Sandøe Ørsted (1778–1860), Danish lawyer and prime minister of Denmark (1853–1854).
  Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (1779–1850), poet, author of lyrics of the Danish national anthem Der er et yndigt land.
  N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783–1872), Danish writer, poet, philosopher and priest.
  Christopher Hansteen (1784–1873), Norwegian astronomer and physicist.
  Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1791–1860), Danish poet and critic.
  Magnús Eiríksson (1806–1881), Icelandic theologian.
  Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), Danish theologian and philosopher, the father of existentialism.
  Anders Sandøe Ørsted (1816–1872), professor of botany 1851–1862.
  Hinrich Johannes Rink (1819–1893), Danish geologist, and founder of the first Greenlandic language newspaper.
  Peter Ludvig Panum (1820–1885), Danish physiologist and pathologist, the Panum Building in Copenhagen is named in his honor.
  Hans Schjellerup (1827–1887), Danish astronomer.
  Carl Lange (1834–1900), Danish physician.
  Thorvald N. Thiele (1838–1910), Danish astronomer, actuary and mathematician.
  Julius Petersen (1839–1910), Danish mathematician.
  Eugenius Warming (1841–1924), Danish botanist and founding figure of ecology.
  Georg Brandes (1842–1927), Danish writer and critic.
  Vilhelm Thomsen (1842–1927), Danish linguist.
  Harald Høffding (1843–1931), Danish philosopher theologian psychologist.
  Hans Christian Gram (1853–1938), Danish bacteriologist, inventor of Gram staining.
  Christian Bohr (1855–1911), Danish physician who described Bohr effect.
  Wilhelm Johannsen (1857–1927), Danish botanist, first coined the word gene in its modern usage.
  Niels Ryberg Finsen (1860–1904), Nobel laureate in medicine (1903).
  Otto Jespersen (1860–1943), Danish linguist, co-founder of the International Phonetic Association.
  Kirstine Meyer (1861–1941), Danish physicist.
  Hannes Hafstein (1861–1922), Icelandic politician and poet.
  Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger (1867–1928), Nobel laureate in medicine (1926).
  Holger Pedersen (1867–1953), Danish linguist.
  S. P. L. Sørensen (1868–1939), Danish chemist who introduced the concept of pH.
  Martin Knudsen (1871–1949), Danish physicist.
  August Krogh (1874–1949), Nobel laureate in medicine (1920).
  Holger Scheuermann (1877–1960), Danish surgeon after whom Scheuermann's disease is named.
  Kirstine Smith (1878–1939), Danish statistician credited with creation of optimal design of experiments.
  Benjamin Christensen (1879–1959), Danish film director, screenwriter and actor.
  Ingeborg Hammer-Jensen (1880-1955), classical scholar and philologist.
  Niels Bohr (1885–1962), contributed to development of the atomic model and quantum mechanics. Director at the university's Institute of Theoretical Physics. Nobel laureate in physics (1922).
  Øjvind Winge (1886–1964), Danish biologist.
  Harald Bohr (1887–1951), Danish Olympic silver medalist football player and mathematician; brother of Niels Bohr.
caption: Søren Kierkegaard
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