writer of the Romantic period David Strauss (1808–1874), Protestant theologian and writer Georg Herwegh (1817–1875), poet, revolutionist Felix Hoppe-Seyler (1825–1895), principal founder of the disciplines of biochemistry and molecular biology, discoverer of the blood pigment hemoglobin Lothar Meyer (1830–1895), chemist, one of the founders of the periodic table of chemical elements alongside Dmitri Mendeleev Friedrich Miescher (1844–1895), physician and biologist, discoverer of the nucleic acid as a precondition for the identification of DNA Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918), inventor, professor, later Nobel laureate for physics Carl Correns (1864–1933), botanist and geneticist Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915), psychiatrist and neuropathologist Gerhard Anschütz (1867–1948), jurisprudent Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965), theologian, writer, humanitarian, philosopher and physician, Nobel laureate for peace Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), philosopher, lived and died here Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1904–1988), politician, Chancellor of Germany, lived and died here Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), Lutheran theologian and pastor, anti-Nazi-dissident, studied here Hans Mayer (1907–2001), literary scholar and critic, lived and died here Walter Jens (1923–2013), philologist, writer and university professor of rhetoric, lived and died here Martin Walser (born 1927), writer, studied here Pope Benedict XVI (born 1927), held a chair of dogmatic theology at the university Hans Küng (1928–2021), Roman-Catholic theologian and author, professor of theology, critic of the official church, creator of Foundation for a Global Ethic (Stiftung Weltethos), lived and died here Ralf Dahrendorf (1929–2009), held a chair of sociology Manfred Korfmann (1942–2005), archeologist and professor, excavator of ancient Troy Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (born 1942), developmental biologist and Nobel laureate, lives here Horst Köhler (born 1943), politician, President of Germany 2004–2010 See also Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Tübingen Tübingen Tarock, a form of Tarot game from Tübingen References External links Eberhard Karls University Former states and territories of Baden-Württemberg Tübingen (district) Württemberg Populated places on the Neckar basin Populated riverside places in Germany Towns in Baden-Württemberg