List of University of Bonn people

Last updated September 07, 2025

This is a list of University of Bonn people including people who have taught or studied at the University of Bonn

Nobel laureates

Reinhard Genzel – 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics
- "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy"
Harald zur Hausen – 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- "for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer"
Reinhard Selten – 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics
- "for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games"
Wolfgang Paul – 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics
- "for the development of the ion trap technique"
Luigi Pirandello – 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature
- "for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art"
Otto Wallach – 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- "in recognition of his services to organic chemistry and the chemical industry by his pioneer work in the field of alicyclic compounds"
Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse – 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature
- "as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories"
Philipp Lenard – 1905 Nobel Prize in Physics
- "for his work on cathode rays"

Fields Medalists

Maryna Viazovska - 2022 Fields Medal
- "for the proof that the E8 lattice provides the densest packing of identical spheres in 8 dimensions, and further contributions to related extremal problems and interpolation problems in Fourier analysis"
Peter Scholze – 2018 Fields Medal
- "for transforming arithmetic algebraic geometry over p-adic fields through his introduction of perfectoid spaces, with application to Galois representations, and for the development of new cohomology theories"
Maxim Kontsevich – 1998 Fields Medal
- "for his contributions to four problems of Geometry"
Gerd Faltings – 1986 Fields Medal
- "for his proof of the Mordell Conjecture"

Faculty

Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (1799–1875), Astronomy
Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860), History
Karl Barth (1886–1968), Theology
Bruno Bauer (1809–1882) Theology
Carl Heinrich Becker (1876–1933), Oriental Philology
Karl Dietrich Bracher (born 1922), Political Science
Franz Bücheler (1837–1908), Classics
Friedrich Calker (1790–1870), Philosophy
Constantin Carathéodory, (1873–1850) Mathematics
Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (1822–1888), Physics
Ernst Robert Curtius (1886–1956), Romance Literature
Friedrich Christian Diez (1794–1876), Philology
Christian Drosten (born 1972), Head of the Charité Institute of Virology, Virology
Benno Erdmann (1898–1909), Philosophy
Udo di Fabio (born 1954), member of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany since 1999, Law
Gerd Faltings (born 1954), Mathematics
Alexander Filippou (born 1958), Professor of Inorganic Chemistry
Heinrich Geißler (1814–1879), Physics
Felix Hausdorff (1868–1942), Mathematics
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894), Medicine and Physics
Georg Hermes (1775–1831), Theology
Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894), Physics
Werner Hildenbrand (born 1936), Economics
Friedrich Hirzebruch (born 1927), Mathematics
Manfred Hutter (born 1957), Religious studies
Marek Karpinski (born 1948), Computer Science, Mathematics
Gottfried Kinkel (1815–1882), History
Wilhelm Krelle (1916–2004), Economics
Walther Kruse (1864–1943), Bacteriology
Christian Lassen (1800–1876), Oriental Philology
Maria von Linden, (1869–1936), first female Professor
Rudolf Lipschitz, (1832–1903), Mathematics
Karl Martin Menten, (1957–2024) Radio astronomy
Werner Meyer-Eppler (1913–1960), Phonetics
Barthold Georg Niebuhr, (1776–1831) History
Martin Noth (1902–1968), Theology
Felix Otto (born 1966), Mathematics
Wolfgang Paul (1913–1993), Physics
Carl Adam Petri (born 1926), Mathematics
Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845–1920), Botany
Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger (1829–1910), Physiology
Alfred Philippson (1864–1953), Geology and Geography
Julius Plücker (1801–1868), Mathematics and Physics
Joseph Ratzinger (born 1927), Pope, Theology
Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833–1905), Geology
Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl (1806–1876), Classics
Walter Schellenberg (born 1929), Law
Rudolf Schieffer (1947–2018), Medieval history
Annemarie Schimmel (1922–2003), Oriental Philology
August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767–1845), Philosophy
Bernhard Schlink (born 1944), Law
Johannes Schmidt (1843–1901), Linguistics
Carl Schmitt (1888–1985), Law
Arnold Schönhage (born 1934), Mathematics
Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950), Economics
Reinhard Selten (born 1930), Economics
Karl Simrock (1802–1872), German Studies
Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg (1905–1946), Economics
Ethelbert Stauffer (1902-1979), Theology
Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (1829–1896), Chemistry
Eduard Strasburger (1844–1912), Botany
Heinrich von Sybel (1817–1895), History
Otto Toeplitz (1881–1940), Mathematics
Carl Troll (1899–1975), Geography
Hermann Karl Usener (1834–1905), Classics
Otto Wallach (1847–1931), Chemistry
Axel A. Weber (born 1957), President of the Deutsche Bundesbank since 2004, Economics
Walter Weizel (1901–1982), Physics
Ernst August Weiß (1900–1942), Mathematics

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References

↑ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Ernst von Lasaulx". Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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[1] Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Ernst von Lasaulx". Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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