Munich
Bavaria, Germany
Munich, the capital of Bavaria in southern Germany, is connected to the Islamic stream through the poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1938), who was awarded his doctorate by the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1907 for his thesis 'The Development of Metaphysics in Persia.'
2 teachers
Teachers who lived here
William of Ockham
William of Ockham (1287–1347)
exile and writing 1329–1347
Georg Ohm
Georg Ohm (1789–1854)
Georg Ohm
Georg Ohm (1789–1854)
Justus von Liebig
Justus von Liebig (1803–1873)
Justus von Liebig
Justus von Liebig (1803–1873)
Adolf von Baeyer
Adolf von Baeyer (1835–1917)
Adolf von Baeyer
Adolf von Baeyer (1835–1917)
Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906)
Wilhelm Rontgen
Wilhelm Rontgen (1845–1923)
Wilhelm Rontgen
Wilhelm Rontgen (1845–1923)
Wilhelm Rontgen
Wilhelm Rontgen (1845–1923)
Felix Klein
Felix Klein (1849–1925)
Emil Fischer
Emil Fischer (1852–1919)
Heinrich Ehrentreu
Heinrich Ehrentreu (1854–1927)
Max Planck
Max Planck (1858–1947)
Max Planck
Max Planck (1858–1947)
Walther Nernst
Walther Nernst (1864–1941)
Wilhelm Wien
Wilhelm Wien (1864–1928)
Wilhelm Wien
Wilhelm Wien (1864–1928)
Arnold Sommerfeld
Arnold Sommerfeld (1868–1951)
Arnold Sommerfeld
Arnold Sommerfeld (1868–1951)
Pope Pius XII
Pope Pius XII (1876–1958)
nuncio to Bavaria 1917–1925
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
Max von Laue
Max von Laue (1879–1960)
Gershom Scholem
Gershom Gerhard Scholem (founder of academic Kabbalah studies) (1897–1982)
studied 1919–1922
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976)
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976)
Karl Rahner
Karl Rahner (1904–1984)
retirement (early) 1971–1981
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988)
editorial work, Stimmen der Zeit 1937–1939
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI (1927–2022)
archbishop 1977–1982
Works composed here
- 1976
Foundations of Christian Faith: An Introduction to the Idea of Christianity
by Karl Rahner