orientalist Ku Hung-ming, Malaysian-Chinese scholar Victor Lange, German-American linguist Georg Christian Lehms, German poet and novelist Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher August Leskien, German linguist Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German philosopher and writer Rudolf Leuckart, German zoologist Karl Liebknecht, German communist activist Ulrike Liedtke (born 1958), musicologist and politician (SPD) Lin Yutang, Chinese novelist and inventor Virgil Madgearu, Romanian economist and sociologist Bronisław Malinowski, Polish anthropologist Sándor Márai, Hungarian poet and novelist Emil Mattiesen (1875–1939), composer, pianist and philosopher Thomas Mauksch, Lutheran pastor and naturalist Angela Merkel, German politician Walter Miller, American philologist Thomas Müntzer, Thuringian theologian and rebellion leader Carl Friedrich Naumann, German mineralogist and geologist Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher Novalis, German writer and philosopher Otto Ohlendorf (1907–1951), SS general and Holocaust perpetrator, executed for war crimes George Pardee, American physician and politician Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu, Romanian Marxist sociologist and politician James Phelan, Jr., American politician Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist and historian Jeff Radebe African politician and cabinet member Alexander Radishchev, Russian political thinker Constantin Rădulescu-Motru, Romanian psychologist and philosopher Hermann Raster, German-American journalist and political figure Augustus Quirinus Rivinus (1827–1891), German botanist and physician Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist Hans Ulrich von Schaffgotsch, Silesian nobleman and general Ludwig Scheeffer, German mathematician Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist Hans-Joachim Schulze, German Bach scholar Kurt Schumacher, German politician Robert Schumann, German composer Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer Edward Teller, Hungarian-American nuclear physicist Galsan Tschinag, Mongolian writer, poet and activist Kārlis Ulmanis, Latvian politician Dimitri Uznadze, Georgian psychologist Richard Wagner, German composer Ernst Heinrich Weber, German physician Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher Gustav Zeuner, German physicist and engineer Caspar Ziegler, jurist Notable faculty Ernst Bloch, philosopher Felix Bloch, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1952 Ludwig Boltzmann, Professor of Physics Karl Brugmann, comparative linguist Karl Bücher, economist Ernst Adolf Coccius, ophthalmologist Peter Debye, physicist, 1927-1936 Director of the Physics Institute, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1936 Adolf Ebert, Romance philologist Gustav Fechner, psychologist Paul Flechsig, neurologist Hans Freyer, sociologist Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, theologian and poet Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert, publisher of the Annalen der Physik Rudolf Gottschall, critic, poet and dramatist Johann Christoph Gottsched, philologist Samuel Hahnemann, physician and lecturer at medical faculty 1812-21 Werner Heisenberg, physicist, 1927–1942; Professor of Theoretical Physics; winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932 Gustav Ludwig Hertz, physicist, 1954–1961; Head of the Physics Institute; winner of the Nobel