24 Notable alumni of Freiberg University of Technology

Updated: June 08, 2026 EliteDegrees

Freiberg University of Technology is 1028st in the world, 1st in North America, and 61st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 24 notable alumni from Freiberg University of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Freiberg University of Technology won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Georg Gottlieb Pusch

1. Georg Gottlieb Pusch

1790-1846 (aged 56)
paleontologist geologist university teacher
Georg Gottlieb Pusch or in Polish Jerzy Bogumił Pusz was a German geologist. He wrote Geognostischer Katechismus oder Anweisung zum praktischen Geognosiren für angehende Bergleute und Geognosten Craz und Gerlach., Freiburg 1819., 212 S
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John Bigelow, Jr

2. John Bigelow, Jr

1854-1936 (aged 82)
university teacher military personnel writer
John Bigelow Jr. was a United States Army lieutenant colonel. He was the subject of many articles on military frontier life in Outing Magazine published by his brother Poultney Bigelow and with sketches drawn in the field by the then young and obscure Frederic Remington. The book Frontier Cavalryman is based on his journals and service with the Buffalo Soldiers....
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Hieronymous Theodor Richter

3. Hieronymous Theodor Richter

1824-1898 (aged 74)
university teacher chemist metallurgist
Hieronymus Theodor Richter was a German chemist. In 1863, while working at the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, he co-discovered indium with Ferdinand Reich.
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Kwasi Boachi

4. Kwasi Boachi

1827-1904 (aged 77)
mining engineer botanical collector
Kwasi Boakye or Kwasi Boachi was a Prince of the Ashanti Empire who was sent to the Netherlands together with his cousin, Kwame Poku, in 1837, by his father, King Kwaku Dua Panin, to receive education as part of larger negotiations between the Ashanti and the Dutch about the recruitment of Ashanti soldiers for the Dutch East Indies Army.
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Paul Heinrich von Groth

5. Paul Heinrich von Groth

1843-1927 (aged 84)
university teacher crystallographer mineralogist
Paul Heinrich Ritter von Groth was a German mineralogist. His most important contribution to science was his systematic classification of minerals based on their chemical compositions and crystal structures.
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Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt

6. Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt

1853-1933 (aged 80)
university teacher crystallographer mineralogist geologist philosopher
Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt was a German mineralogist, natural philosopher and art collector. He produced a nine-volume atlas of crystal forms (Atlas der Krystallformen) from 1913 to 1923 which was influential in establishing the field of crystallography. He introduced what are now called Goldschmidt symbols Φ and ρ (borrowed from astronomy) for the gnomonic angles of crystals. In 1933, he was...
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Wilhelm Fiedler

7. Wilhelm Fiedler

1832-1912 (aged 80)
translator pedagogue university teacher mathematician
Otto Wilhelm Fiedler was a German-Swiss mathematician, known for his textbooks of geometry and his contributions to descriptive geometry.
August Breithaupt

8. August Breithaupt

1791-1873 (aged 82)
university teacher mineralogist
Johann Friedrich August Breithaupt was a German mineralogist and professor at Freiberg Mining Academy in Freiberg, Saxony.
Waldemar Lindgren

9. Waldemar Lindgren

1860-1939 (aged 79)
mineralogist geologist economic geologist university teacher
Waldemar Lindgren was a Swedish-American geologist and a founder of modern economic geology.
Ernst Friedrich von Schlotheim

10. Ernst Friedrich von Schlotheim

1765-1832 (aged 67)
politician geologist botanist paleontologist
Ernst Friedrich, Freiherr von Schlotheim, German palaeontologist and politician, was born in Allmenshausen, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.
Mauricio Hochschild

11. Mauricio Hochschild

1881-1965 (aged 84)
entrepreneur
Moritz Hochschild (February 17, 1881 – June 12, 1965) was a leading mining industry businessman in the first half of the twentieth century. Along with Simón Iturri Patiño and Carlos Víctor Aramayo, he was one of the three so-called Bolivian tin barons. Additionally, he saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust by facilitating their legal admission to Bolivia.
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Ernst Engel

12. Ernst Engel

1821-1897 (aged 76)
economist statistician politician
Ernst Engel was a German statistician and economist, famous for the Engel curve and Engel's law.
Clemens Winkler

13. Clemens Winkler

1838-1904 (aged 66)
university teacher chemist
Clemens Alexander Winkler was a German chemist who discovered the element germanium in 1886, solidifying Dmitri Mendeleev's theory of periodicity.
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Rudolf Samoylovich

14. Rudolf Samoylovich

1881-1939 (aged 58)
geographer explorer
Rudolf Lazarevich Samoylovich (Russian: Рудольф Лазаревич Самойлович; 13 September (O.S. 1 September), 1881 – 4 March 1939) was a Soviet polar explorer, professor, and doctor of geographic sciences.
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Behbud Khan Javanshir

15. Behbud Khan Javanshir

1878-1921 (aged 43)
politician
Behbud Khan Javanshir was an Azerbaijani politician, diplomat, Minister of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry.
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Julius Weisbach

16. Julius Weisbach

1806-1871 (aged 65)
university teacher surveyor geodesist mathematician mechanical engineer
Julius Ludwig Weisbach was a German mathematician and engineer. He taught at the mining academy (Bergakademie) at Freiberg. He taught surveying, descriptive geometry, and mineral crystal measurement.
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Hans Albrecht

17. Hans Albrecht

1919-2008 (aged 89)
party official politician aircraft pilot heating system contractor fitter
Hans Albrecht was an East German politician and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).
Friedrich Mohs

18. Friedrich Mohs

1773-1839 (aged 66)
university teacher physicist crystallographer mineralogist mining engineer
Carl Friedrich Christian Mohs was a German chemist and mineralogist. He was the creator of the Mohs scale of mineral hardness. Mohs also introduced a classification of the crystal forms in crystal systems independently of Christian Samuel Weiss.
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Novalis

19. Novalis

1772-1801 (aged 29)
poet writer literary theorist philosopher lyricist
Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, pen name Novalis, was a German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and mystic. He is regarded as an influential figure of Jena Romanticism.
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Prince Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia

20. Prince Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia

1976-. (aged 50)
business manager
Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia is a German heir who is the current head of the Prussian branch of the House of Hohenzollern, a dynasty that ruled over the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia until near the end of World War I. He is the great-great-grandson of Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor and last King of Prussia,...
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Theodor Körner

21. Theodor Körner

1791-1813 (aged 22)
poet writer
Carl Theodor Körner was a German poet and soldier. After having lived for some time in Vienna, where he wrote some light comedies and other works for the Burgtheater, he became a soldier and joined the Lützow Free Corps in the German uprising against Napoleon. During this time, he displayed personal courage in many fights, and inspired his comrades by...
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Alexander von Humboldt

22. Alexander von Humboldt

1769-1859 (aged 90)
oceanographer volcanologist naturalist economist world traveler
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835). Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography, while his advocacy of long-term systematic geophysical measurement pioneered modern...
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Mikhail Lomonosov

23. Mikhail Lomonosov

1711-1765 (aged 54)
linguist chemist historian politician writer
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science. Among his discoveries were the atmosphere of Venus and the law of conservation of mass in chemical reactions. His spheres of science were natural science, chemistry, physics, mineralogy, history, art, philology, optical devices and others. One of the founders of modern...
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Abraham Gottlob Werner

24. Abraham Gottlob Werner

1749-1817 (aged 68)
university teacher geologist mineralogist
Abraham Gottlob Werner was a German geologist who set out an early theory about the stratification of the Earth's crust and propounded a history of the Earth that came to be known as Neptunism. While most tenets of Neptunism were eventually set aside, Werner is remembered for his demonstration of chronological succession in rocks; for the zeal with which he...
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