The following is a list of notable alumni and faculty of the University of Leipzig. Notable alumni Theodore Dyke Acland, English physician Georgius Agricola, Saxon mining engineer and natural philosopher Joseph L. Armstrong, American scholar Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay, Polish linguist and slavist Kamuran Alî Bedirxan, Kurdish politician and writer Lothar Bisky, German politician Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics Marc Bloch, French historian John Bohnius, German physician Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, American writer and scholar Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer Sylvia Bretschneider (1960-2019), politician, member and speaker of the state assembly (Landtag) of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Selig Brodetsky, President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Cai Yuanpei, Chinese linguist James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist Wei-Liang Chow, Chinese mathematician and stamp collector born in Shanghai, known for his work in algebraic geometry. Constantine I, Greek monarch William David Coolidge, American physicist Karl Ludwig Drobisch (1803–1854), German composer, music theorist and church musician Georg Dohrn, German conductor Carl H. Dorner, American politician Ernst Christoph Dressler, German composer and music theorist Émile Durkheim, French sociologist Friedrich Adolf Ebert, Saxon librarian Johann Arnold Ebert, Saxon writer and translator Wilhelm Ehmann, musicologist, conductor, founder and director of the Herford School of Church Music Ephraim Emerton, American medievalist historian John O. Evjen, American theologian and church historian Gustav Fechner, German psychologist Wilhelm Fuchs (1898–1947), Nazi SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator executed for war crimes Arnold Gehlen, German philosopher and sociologist Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician Kurt Albert Gerlach, German sociologist Johann Wolfgang Goethe, German poet Woldemar Ludwig Grenser, German obstetrician Otto von Guericke, German scientist and politician Gotthard Günther, German-American philosopher Samuel Hahnemann, founder of homeopathy Edith Hamilton, American essayist and educator; first female student at the university together with her sister Alice Albert Hauck, German theologian and church historian Elsa Herrmann (1893–1957), Jewish German feminist writer and refugee advocate Johann Adam Hiller, Saxon composer Milton W. Humphreys, American scholar Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher and mathematician Ulrich von Hutten, Hessian humanist and political leader Nicolae Iorga, Romanian historian and politician Wolfgang Iser, German literary theorist Jan Jesenius, Slovak physician, politician and philosopher Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, founder and first president of Czechoslovakia, professor of sociology Uwe Johnson, German writer and translator Ernst Jünger, German novelist and nationalist activist Erich Kähler, German mathematician Erich Kästner, German satirist and children's writer Paul Kirchhoff, German anthropologist and ethnohistorian Johannes Knolleisen, German theologian Alexander Kohut, Hungarian-American rabbi and