page_title: Humboldt University of Berlin
section_title: Notable alumni and faculty
hierarchical_section_title: Humboldt University of Berlin / Notable alumni and faculty
caption_attribution_description: Information added by Wikimedia users.English: Otto von Bismarck-Schönhausen (Reichskanzler of Germany, 1871 - 1890), after his resignation in 1890.
context_page_description: Humboldt University of Berlin is a university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humboldt, Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Ernst Daniel Schleiermacher as the University of Berlin in 1809, and opened in 1810, making it the oldest of Berlin's four universities. From 1810 until its closure in 1945, it was named Friedrich Wilhelm University. During the Cold War the university found itself in East Berlin and was de facto split in two when the Free University of Berlin opened in West Berlin. The university received its current name in honour of Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt in 1949.
  The university is divided into nine faculties, including its medical school shared with the Free University of Berlin, has a student enrollment of around 32,000 students, and offers degree programmes in some 189 disciplines from undergraduate to postdoctorate level. Its main campus is located on the Unter den Linden boulevard in central Berlin. The university is known worldwide for pioneering the Humboldtian model of higher education, which has strongly influenced other European and Western universities.
context_section_description: As of October 2019, the university has been associated with 55 Nobel Prize winners (including former students, faculty and researchers).
  Theodore Dyke Acland (1851–1931), surgeon and physician
  Bozorg Alavi (1904–1997), novelist and writer
  Alexander Altmann (1906–1987), rabbi and scholar of Jewish philosophy and mysticism
  Gerhard Anschütz (1867–1948), leading jurisprudent and "father of the constitution" of the state of Hesse
  Jörg Baberowski (born 1961), professor of eastern European history
  Michelle Bachelet (born 1951), pediatrician and epidemiologist, president of the Republic of Chile
  Azmi Bishara (born 1956), Arab-Israeli politician
  Bruno Bauer (1809–1882), theologian, Bible critic and philosopher
  Jurek Becker (1937–1997), writer (Jacob the Liar)
  Eliezer Berkovits (1908–1992), rabbi, philosopher and theologian
  Algernon Sydney Biddle (1847-1891), American lawyer and law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
  Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), first German chancellor
  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), theologian and resistance fighter
  Beatrix Borchard, (born 1950), musicologist
  Max Born (1882–1970), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1954
  Aron Brand (1910–1977), pediatric cardiologist
  Rudolf Brandt (1909–1948), Nazi SS officer, executed for war crimes
  Gottlieb Burckhardt (1836–1907), psychiatrist, first physician to perform modern psychosurgery (1888)
  Michael C. Burda, macroeconomist
  Ezriel Carlebach (1909–1956), Israeli journalist and editorial writer
  Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945), philosopher
  Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838), natural scientist and writer
  Georg von Dadelsen (1918–2007), musicologist, Neue Bach-Ausgabe
  Angela Davis (born 1944), political activist, educator, author, philosopher
  Gustav Adolf Deissmann (1866-1937), theologian, New Testament Greek philologist, author, Nobel nominee
  Suat Derviş (1904/1905–1972), Turkish novelist, journalist, and political activist
  Harilal Dhruv (1856–1896), Indian lawyer, poet, indologist
  Wilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911), philosopher
  Georg Dohrn, conductor
  W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), African-American activist and scholar
  Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915), physician, Nobel Prize for medicine in 1908
  Albert Einstein (1879–1955), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1921
  Gotthold Eisenstein (1823–1852), mathematician, specialized in number theory and analysis
  Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), journalist and philosopher
  Annemarie Esche, scholar of Burmese literature
  Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804–1872), philosopher
  Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814), philosopher, rector of the university (1810–1812)
  Horst Fischer (1912–1966), SS concentration camp doctor executed for war crimes
  Emil Fischer (1852–1919), founder of modern biochemistry, Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1902
  Werner Forßmann (1904–1979), physician, Nobel Prize for medicine in 1956
  James Franck (1882–1964), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1925
  Wilhelm Frick (1877-1946), Nazi official, executed for war crimes
  Karl Gebhardt (1897–1948), Nazi SS physician who conducted criminal medical experiments; executed for war crimes
  Ernst Gehrcke (1878–1960), experimental physicist
  Jacob Grimm (1785–1863), linguist and literary critic
  Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), linguist and literary critic
  Gregor Gysi (1948–), German politician and lawyer
  Fritz Haber (1868–1934), chemist, Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1918
  Otto Hahn (1879–1968), chemist, Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1944
  Sir William Reginald Halliday (1886–1966), principal of King's College London (1928–1952)
  Robert Havemann (1910–1982), chemist, co-founder of European Union, and leading GDR dissident
  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), philosopher, rector of the university (1830–1831)
  Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), writer and poet
  Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1932
  Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894), physician and physicist
  Gustav Hertz (1887–1975), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1925
  Paula Hertwig (1889–1983), biologist, politician
  Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894), physicist
  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) rabbi, philosopher, and theolo
caption: Otto von Bismarck
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