From Ludwig Erhard to Georg Friedrich Ohm
During the more than 270 years of the University’s history, many of its alumni and researchers have made a name for themselves. Many well known figures have studied or researched at the University. We present a selection in our gallery of best-known alumni since the founding of FAU.
Arthur Eichengrün
- Job title: 1867–1949, German chemist
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
- Job title: 1804–1872, famous German philosopher
Hermann Emil Fischer
- Job title: 1852–1919, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Hans Geiger
- Job title: 1882–1945, founder of the Geiger counter
Kurt Glässer
- Job title: 1904–2003, founder of the Kurt Glässer Foundation
Christian von Glück
- Job title: 1755–1831, lawyer
Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann
- Job title: 1755–1843, founder of homoeopathy
Johann Peter Hebel
- Job title: 1760–1826, poet
Karl Hegel
- Job title: 1813–1901, historian
Alexander von Humboldt
- Job title: 1769–1859, geographer and explorer
Hermann Kesten
- Job title: 1900–1996, writer and president of the PEN centre
Justus von Liebig
- Job title: 1803–1873, one of the most famous and succesful chemists of his century
Michael Kobr
- Job title: Co-author of the Kluftinger crime novels
Wilhelm Löhe
- Job title: 1808–1872, theologian
Ernst Wilhelm Martius
- Job title: 1756–1849, pharmacist
Theodor Wilhelm Christian Martius
- Job title: (1796–1863), pharmacist
Emmy Noether
- Job title: 1882–1935, mathematician
Max Noether
- Job title: 1844–1921, mathematician
Georg Simon Ohm
- Job title: 1789–1854, physicist
Franz Penzoldt
- Job title: 1849–1927, physician
August Graf von Platen
- Job title: 1796–1835, poet
Friedrick Rückert
- Job title: 1788–1866, specialist in oriental studies and poet
Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber
- Job title: 1739–1810, botanist
Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart
- Job title: 1739–1791, poet
Karl Freiherr vom Stein zum Altenstein
- Job title: 1770–1840, politician
Ludwig Tieck
- Job title: 1773–1853, poet
Siegrfried Trotnow
- Job title: 1941–2004,
Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder
- Job title: 1773–1798, poet