Honorary doctors of the faculties of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena since 1990

Faculty of Theology

• Rt Rev Nicholas M. Baines
  Bishop of Leeds
• The Very Rev. Prof. em. Dr Henry Chadwick DD. KBE. FBA
  em. Regius Professor of Divinity of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge (England)
• Prof. Dr Dr h. c. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
  South African psychologist and reconciliation researcher
• Prof. Dr theol. Otto Kaiser
  em. Professor of Old Testament at Philipps University Marburg
• Prof. Dr Bruce L. McCormack
  American Barth expert
• Prof. Dr John Wiliam Rogerson
  em. Professor of Theology, University of Sheffield
• Prof. Dr Dr h. c. Otto Hermann Pesch (†)
  em. Professor of Theology, University Hamburg
• Prof. em. Dr theol. Dr h.c. Dr h.c. Jacques Waardenburg (†)
  Dutch theologian, religious and Islamic scholar
• Prof. Dr Dr h. c. Hans Weder
  em. Theology University of Zurich

Faculty of Law

• Hans-Joachim Bauer
  Former President of the Higher Regional Court of Jena
• Prof. Dr Stanisław Biernat
  Full Professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and Vice-President of the Polish Constitutional Court
• Dr jur. Walter David (†)
  former Chief Legal Advisor of the Zeiss Foundation Oberkochen
• Prof. Dr Dres. h. c. Wolfgang Huber
  Former Bishop of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-schlesische Oberlausitz, former Chairman of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD)
• Dr iur. Hans-Joachim Jentsch (†)
  former judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
• Stefan Kaufmann
  President of the Thuringian Higher Regional Court
• Dr Klaus Kübel (†)
  Chancellor of the University of Jena 1990-2007
• Prof. Dr Dres. h.c. Marcus Lutter
  em. Professor and Director of the Institute for Commercial and Business Law, University of Bonn
• Günter Schaub (†)
  Retired presiding judge at the Federal Labour Court
• Elmar Joseph Schuler
  President of the Thuringian Fiscal Court
• Prof. Dr Dieter Schwab
  RLegal historian, family law expert
• Prof. Dr iur. Tore Sigeman
  em. Professor of Civil Law and Labour Law at the Universities of Stockholm and Uppsala

Faculty of Economics

• Peter Draper
  South African economist
  
• Professor Steven Klepper (PhD)
  Professor of Economics and Social Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh
• Jürgen Radomski
  Former Siemens Chief Human Resources Officer
• Wolfgang Spindler
  Vice President of the Federal Fiscal Court

Faculty of Philosophy

• Prof. Dr sc. phil. Manfred Bierwisch
  em. Professor of Linguistics at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Vice-President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
• Prof. Dr Włodzimierz Borodziej (†)
  Polish historian and former co-director of the "Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena"
• Prof. Dr Wolfgang Deurer
  freelance architect and church builder of the town church St. Michael in Jena
• Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Gonthier-Louis Fink
  French Germanist
• Dr theol. h.c. Joachim Gauck
  Former Federal Government Commissioner for State Security Documents
• Prof. Dr Dr h. c. mult. Dieter Henrich
  Expert on the history of philosophy from the 18th to the 20th century
• Wulf Kirsten
  German poet, prose writer and editor
• Imi Knoebel
  German artist
• Prof. Dr phil. Odo Marquard (†)
  em.Professor of Philosophy at the Justus Liebig University of Gießen
• Dr h.c. Herta Müller
  Writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
• Dr h.c. Dr h.c. Frank Stella (†), New York City
  Freelance artist
• Dr Volker Ullrich
  ZEIT editor and historian

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• Prof. Dr Niels Birbaumer
  Psychologist and neurobiologist
• Dr Hildegard Hamm-Brücher (†)
  Former Politician - Minister of State (Education)
• Roland Jahn
  Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the Former German Democratic Republic (BStU)
• Prof. Dr Karl G. Jöreskog
  Swedish scientist - father of structural equation modelling
• Prof. Dr Gerd Lüer
  em. Professor of Psychology at the Georg-August University of Göttingen
• Prof. Dr K. Warner Schaie, Ph.D.
  Evan Pugh Professor of Human Development and Psychology,  Pennsylvania State University
• Eduard Schewardnadse (†)
  former President of Georgia
• Prof. Dr Hans-Peter Schwarz (†)
  Political scientist
• Prof. Dr Erwin K. Scheuch
  Sociologist
• Prof. Dr Allen J. Scott
  Social scientist

Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science

• Prof. Dr phil. nat. Dr. h.c. mult. Gerhard Krüger
  Professor of Computer Science, University of Karlsruhe
• Prof. Dr phil. Boris A. Trachtenbrot
  Professor für Informatik, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University (Israel)
• Prof. Dr Hartmut Wedekind
  Database expert
• Prof. Dr Henryk Wozniakowski
  Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warsaw and Columbia University New York

Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

• Prof. Dr Abhay Ashtekar
  Relativity researcher, Director of the Institute for Gravitational Physics and Geometry at Pennsylvania State University
• Prof. Dr Michael Kaschke
  Chairman of the Executive Board of Carl Zeiss AG
• Prof. Dr Herbert Kroemer
  Nobel Laureate in Physics and Professor of Physics at the University of California (Santa Barbara)
• Dr Dieter Kurz
  former Chairman of the Executive Board of Carl Zeiss AG
• Dr Reinhart Neubert
  Pioneer of laser research
• Prof. Dr phil. Dr h.c. Fritz Peter Schäfer (†)
  former Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
• Dr phil. nat. Hermann Schwarz (†)
  former Managing Director of Rohde & Schwarz, Munich

Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences

• Prof. Dr John Bannister Goodenough
  Co-inventor of the lithium-ion battery and professor at the University of Texas at Austin
• Prof. Gerhard Hard
  Geographer, Professor Emeritus of Physical Geography at the University of Osnabrück
• Prof. Dr Dr h. c. mult. Alan Roy Katritzky
  Director of the "Center for Heterocyclic Compounds" at the University of Florida (USA)
• Prof. Dr Klaus Keil (†)
  Amer. Mineralogist; Director of the Hawai Institute of Geophysics and Planetology
• Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Helmut Werner
  Expert for organometallics

Faculty of Biological Sciences

• Prof. Dr rer. nat. Dr h.c. mult. Sydney Brenner
  Director of the Molecular Sciences Institute, Berkeley, California (USA)
• Doz. Dr rer. nat. habil. Ilse Jahn (†)
  Biological historian
• Prof. Dr rer. nat. Dr h.c. mult. Herbert Oelschläger (†)
  Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Director of the Institute of Pharmacy at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• Johanna Schlüter
  Managing Director of Gustav-Fischer Verlag Jena

Faculty of Medicine

• Prof. Dr med. dent. Karl Eichner (†)
  Professor of Dental Prosthetics at the Free University of Berlin
• Prof. Dr Simon Finfer
  Professor at the University of Sydney and doyen for high-level clinical research in the field of intensive care medicine
• PD Dr med. Urs Heim
  Private lecturer at the University of Bern and employee of AO-International Davos
• Prof. Dr med. Thomas Kenner
  Full Professor of Physiology at the University of Graz
• Prof. Dr med. Dietrich Lehmann
  Professor of Clinical Neurophysiology at the University of Zurich
• Prof. Dr Dr h.c. mult. Mahmut Gazi Yasargil
  Microneurosurgeon emeritus Professor of Neurosurgery in Zurich