- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (in English: William Conrad Roentgen was a German physicist, of the University of Würzburg, who, on November 8, 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as x-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. - Julius von Sachs
Julius von Sachs, German botanist, was born in Breslau, Silesia. At an early age he showed a taste for natural history, and on leaving school he became, in 1851, private assistant to the physiologist Jan Evangelista Purkinje at Prague. In 1856 he graduated as doctor of philosophy, and then adopted a botanical career, establishing himself as "Privatdozent" for plant physiology in the University of Prague. - Martin Heisenberg
Martin Heisenberg is a German neurobiologist and geneticist. As of 2006, he is the chair for genetics and neurobiology at the bio centre of the University of Würzburg. The son of Werner Heisenberg, Heisenberg studied chemistry and molecular biology in Munich, Tübingen and Pasadena. In 1975 he became Professor of genetics and neurobiology at the University of Würzburg. Heisenberg's work has focused on the neurogenetics of Drosophila (the fruit fly), … - Johannes Stark
Johannes Stark (April 15, 1874 - June 21, 1957) was a prominent 20th century physicist, and a Physics Nobel Prize laureate. Born in Schickenhof, Bavaria, (now Zwettl), Stark was educated at the Bayreuth Gymnasium (grammar school) and later in Regensburg. His collegiate education began at the University of Munich, where he studied physics, mathematics, chemistry, and crystallography. His tenure at that college began in 1894; he graduated in 1897, … - Oswald Külpe
Oswald Külpe was one of the structural psychologists of the late 19th and early 20th century. He was influenced strongly by his mentor Wilhelm Wundt, but later disagreed with Wundt on the complexity of human consciousness that could be studied. Külpe was a student of history at the University of Leipzig when he encountered Wundt and decided to change his major to work with Wundt. When he graduated he became Wundt's assistant. - Heinrich Quincke
Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke (26 August 1842 - 19 May 1922) was a German internist and surgeon. His main contribution to internal medicine was the introduction of the lumbar puncture for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. After 1874, his main area of research was pulmonary medicine. Born at Frankfurt-on-the-Oder, Heinrich was the son of prominent physician Hermann Quincke and the younger brother of physicist Georg Hermann Quincke. - Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn
Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn was a Prince-Bishop of Würzburg, Echter was born in Mespelbrunn Castle, Spessart (Lower Franconia) and died in Würzburg. Educated in Mainz, Louvain, Douai, Paris, Angers, Pavia, and Rome. In Rome he became a licentiate of canon and civil law. In 1567 he entered on his duties as canon of Würzburg, an office to which he had been appointed in 1554; in 1570 he became the dean of the cathedral chapter, and in 1573, at the age of twenty-eight, … - Klaus Kleinfeld
Klaus Kleinfeld (born November 6 1957 in Bremen, Germany) was chief executive officer (CEO) of Siemens AG from 2005 till July 2007. On April 25, 2007, Siemens AG distributed a press release announcing that the supervisory board was not planning to renew Kleinfeld's contract, due to United States authorities' ongoing investigations of the Siemens corruption scandal. Displeased by this decision, Kleinfeld announced that he would leave his position by September 30, 2007. - Klaus von Klitzing
Klaus von Klitzing is a German physicist. For his discovery of the Integer Quantum Hall Effect he was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics. After studying physics in Braunschweig, von Klitzing spent 10 research years at University Würzburg (Ph.D. thesis 1972 on "Galvanomagnetic Properties of Tellurium in Strong Magnetic Fields", habilitation 1978), with research work at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford and High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Grenoble. - Max Wertheimer
Max Wertheimer was one of the founders of Gestalt psychology. Wertheimer studied law for more than two years, but decided then to change to philosophy. He got his doctoral degree (summa cum laude) from the University of Würzburg in 1904. In 1910 he worked at the Psychological Institute of Frankfurt University. There he became interested in perception. Together with two younger assistants, Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka, … - Lorenz Oken
Lorenz Oken, was a German naturalist. His real name was Lorenz Ockenfuss. He was born in Bohlsbach in Swabia and studied natural history and medicine at the University of Würzburg. He went on to the University of Göttingen, where he became a "Privatdozent" (unsalaried lecturer), and shortened his name to Oken. As Lorenz Oken, he published a small work entitled "Grundriss der Naturphilosophie, der Theorie der Sinne, … - Heinrich Müller
Heinrich Müller was a German anatomist and professor at the University of Würzburg. He is best known for his work in comparative anatomy and his studies regarding the eye. In 1851 Müller noticed the red color in rod cells known as rhodopsin or visual purple, which is a pigment in the rods of the retina. However, Franz Christian Boll (1849-1879) is credited as the discoverer of rhodopsin because was able to describe its visual pigment cycle. - Alois Alzheimer
Aloysius "Alois" Alzheimer was a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist and a colleague of Emil Kraepelin. Alzheimer is credited with the first published case of "presenile dementia", which Kraepelin would later identify as Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's father served in the office of notary public in the family's hometown. Alzheimer attended Aschaffenburg, Tübingen, Berlin, and Würzburg universities. He received a medical degree at Würzburg University in 1887. - Hermann Emil Fischer
Hermann Emil Fischer (October 9, 1852 - July 15, 1919) was a German chemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1902. Emil Fischer was born in Euskirchen, near Cologne, the son of a businessman. After graduating he wished to study natural sciences, but his father compelled him to work in the family business until determining that his son was unsuitable. Fischer then attended the University of Bonn in 1872, but switched to the University of Strasbourg in 1872. - Johann Beringer
Professor Johann Bartholomew Adam Beringer of the faculty of medicine at the University of Würzburg was the victim of a famous early 18th century hoax, perpetuated on him by his colleagues J. Ignatz Roderick, professor of geography and mathematics, and Johann Georg von Eckhart, privy counsellor and university librarian, apparently in retaliation for Beringer's habitual arrogance. The hoaxers carved limestone into the shapes of animals such as lizards, frogs, … - August Graf von Platen
Graf August von Platen-Hallermünde, German poet and dramatist, was born at Ansbach, the son of the "Oberforstmeister" in the little principality of that name. The latter, together with other Franconian principalities, having shortly after his birth become incorporated with Bavaria, he entered the school of cadets ("Kadettenhaus") in Munich, where he showed early promise of poetical talent. - Ludwig Büchner
Friedrich Karl Christian Ludwig Büchner was a German philosopher, physiologist and physician who became one of the exponents of 19th century scientific materialism. Büchner was born at Darmstadt, Germany, on March 29, 1824. From 1842 to 1848 he studied physics, chemistry, botany, mineralogy, philosophy and medicine at the University of Giessen, … - Erich Lexer
Erich Lexer was a German surgeon who was born in Freiburg im Breisgau. He studied medicine at the University of Würzburg, and afterwards was a professor of surgery at Albertus University in Königsberg (1905-1910), Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (1910-1919), Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (1919-1928) and the university clinic at Munich (1928-1936). Lexer is remembered for his introduction of surgical techniques concerning plastic and cosmetic surgery. - Franz von Rinecker
Franz von Rinecker was a German pharmacologist who was a native of Schesslitz from the district of Bamberg. He studied medicine at Munich and Würzburg, earning his medical degree in 1834. In 1838 he became professor of pharmacology at the University of Würzburg. Some of his more well known students and assistants were Emil Kraepelin, Franz von Leydig, Ernst Haeckel and Carl Gerhardt, who later succeeded Rinecker at the department of pediatrics. - Franz Leydig
Franz von Leydig (May 21, 1821 - April 13, 1908), also Franz Leydig, was a German zoologist and comparative anatomist. Franz Leydig studied philosophy in Munich beginning in 1840, and from 1842, Leydig studied medicine at the University of Würzburg, with Franz von Rinecker. Leydig attained a doctorate of medicine from Würzburg in 1847. He became an assistant at the Institute for Physiology under Albert von Kölliker. - Adolf Bastian
Adolf Bastian was a 19th century polymath best remembered for his contributions to the development of ethnography and the development of anthropology as a discipline. Bastian was born in Bremen, German Confederation, into a prosperous bourgeois German family of merchants. His career at university was broad almost to the point of being eccentric. He studied law at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, and biology at what is today Humboldt University of Berlin, … - Ludwig Aschoff
Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff was a German physician and pathologist. He is considered to be one of the most influential pathologists of the early 20th century and is regarded as the most important German pathologist after Rudolf Virchow. Aschoff studied medicine at the University of Bonn, University of Strasbourg, and the University of Würzburg. - Aloysius Cardinal Ambrozic
Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic is a Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop Emeritus of Toronto. He became a cardinal on February 21, 1998. Ambrozic was born in Gabrje, Slovenia as Alojzij Ambrožič. In 1945 he and his family fled to Austria, where he completed high school in various refugee camps. The family came to Canada in 1948, and Ambrozic was ordained as a priest in Toronto in 1955. He served first in Port Colborne, Ontario, and later taught at St. - Carl Semper
Carl Gottfried Semper was a German ethnologist and animal ecologist. He achieved a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Würzburg in 1856. He traveled to the Philippines and Palau two years later, staying in the region until 1865. Semper published several works detailing his observations and experiences among Pacific peoples. - Henry Villard
Henry Villard (April 10 1835 - November 12, 1900) was an American journalist and financier of German origin. - Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar
Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar was a German physician. Cretzschmar was born at Sulzbach and studied medicine at the University of Würzburg. He taught anatomy and zoology at the Senckenberg Medical Institute of Frankfurt. Cretzschmar was the founder and second director of the Senckenberg Natural History Society in 1817. One of the founding members of the society was Eduard Rüppell, and the two men collaborated in publishing the results of Rüppell's explorations in Africa. - Hans Krahe
Hans Krahe was a German philologist and linguist, specializing over many decades in the Illyrian languages. Between 1936 and 1946 he was a professor at the University of Würzburg, where he founded the Archiv für die Gewässernamen Deutschlands in 1942. - Olav Gunnar Ballo
Olav Gunnar Ballo is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party (SV). He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Finnmark in 1997. He studied medicine at University of Würzburg, and has been a doctor. He represented SV in Alta municipality council from 1991-1997. - Adolf Bertram
"His Eminence "Adolf Cardinal Bertram was archbishop of Breslau and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. - Franziskus Cardinal von Bettinger
"His Eminence" Franziskus Cardinal von Bettinger was Roman Catholic Archbishop of Munich from 1909 to 1917. Bettinger was born in Landstuhl in the Palatinate, the eldest of the six children (five sons and one daughter) of Franz Michael Bettinger, a blacksmith, and his wife, Maria Josephine Weber. He studied philosophy, theology and canon law at the Lyceum of Speyer, the University of Innsbruck, the University of Würzburg, and the Seminary of Speyer. - Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt
Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt ; (May 5, 1833 - July 22, 1902) was a German internist who was a native of Speyer. He studied medicine at the University of Würzburg, earning his doctorate in 1856. Subsequently he was an assistant to Heinrich von Bamberger (1822-1888) and Franz von Rinecker (1811-1883) in Würzburg, and worked under Wilhelm Griesinger (1817-1868) in Tübingen. In 1885 he was successor to pathologist Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs (1819-1885) in Berlin, … - Albert Stöckl
Albert Stöckl (Möhren, near Freuchtlingen, in Middle Franconia, Bavaria, 15 March1823-Eichstädt, 15 November 1895) was a German neo-scholastic philosopher and theologian. He received his classical education at the gymnasium at Eichstädt, studied philosophy and theology at the episcopal lyceum in the same city (1843-48), and was ordained priest 22 April, 1848. His first position was that of curate at the pilgrimage church at Wemding. - Georg Hermann Quincke
Georg Hermann Quincke was a German physicist. Born at Frankfort-on-the-Oder, he was the son of prominent physician Geheimer Medicinal-Rath Hermann Quincke and the older brother of physician Heinrich Quincke. He received his Ph. D. in 1858 at Berlin, having previously studied also at Königsberg and at Heidelberg. He became privatdocent at Berlin in 1859, was appointed professor in the University of Würzburg in 1872, … - Jacques-Joseph Haus
Jacques-Joseph Haus was born in Würzburg, Germany on January 5, 1796 to Ernest-Augustus Haus and Marie-Barbe Stang. He died in Ghent, Belgium on february 23,1881. Haus attended school through to university in Würzburg. He achieved a doctor's rank in philosophy January 3 1814, two days before turning eighteen. Three years later, April 26 1817, he was proclaimed "summa cum laude" doctor in civil law and in canonical law. - Friedrich Wilhelm Scanzoni von Lichtenfels
Friedrich Wilhelm Scanzoni von Lichtenfels was a German gynecologist and obstetrician who was a native of Prague. He studied medicine in Prague, and spent most of his professional career as chair of obstetrics (1850-1888) at the University of Würzburg. Scanzoni was a leading authority of obstetrics in 19th century Europe. He is best remembered today for the birthing procedure known as the "Scanzoni maneuver". - Jean-Jacques Haus
Jean-Jacques Haus (January 5, 1796-1881) was born in Würzburg, Germany in 1796. By his father, Ernest-Augustus Haus, and by his mother Marie-Barbe Stang. Jacques-Joseph Haus made his primary, middle and superior studies in his native city. He got doctor's rank in philosophy January 3 1814 not having reached the age of eighteen years. Three years later, April 26 1817, he was proclaimed summa cum laude Ph.D. in civil law and in canonical law. - William Joseph Behr
William Joseph Behr, German publicist and writer, was born at Salzheim. He studied law at Würzburg and Göttingen, became professor of public law in the university of Würzburg in 1799, and in 1819 was sent as a deputy to the Landtag of Bavaria. Having associated himself with the party of reform, he was regarded with suspicion by the Bavarian king Maximilian I and the court party, although favoured for a time by Maximilian's son, … - Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs
Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs was a German astronomer. She made important observations of variable stars. Eva Rohlfs was born in Coburg (Duchy Saxe-Coburg-Gotha). She studied in Würzburg, Munich and Kiel from 1931 to 1933. After nine years of withdrawal into family life, she studied from 1942 until the end of the Second World War at the University of Göttingen. From 1945, she worked closely with professor Cuno Hoffmeister as an assistant astronomer at the Sonneberg Observatory. - Adam Contzen
Adam Contzen (April 17, 1571, Monschau (Montjoie), Duchy of Jülich-June 19, 1635, Munich) was a German Jesuit economist and exegete. Contzen was born in 1573, or, according to Carlos Sommervogel, in 1575. Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz gives the 1571 date listed above. Contzen entered the Society of Jesus at Trier in 1595. He was professor of philosophy in the University of Würzburg in 1606, and was transferred to the University of Mainz in 1610, … - Dunkinfield Henry Scott
Dunkinfield Henry Scott (28 November 1854-29 January 1934) was an English paleobotanist, a leading authority on the structure of fossil plants. He published his "On the structure and affinities of fossil plants from the Palaeozoic rocks" in 1897. Scott was born in London, the son of George Gilbert Scott, matriculated at the University of Oxford, Christ Church College, graduating in 1876.
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