Caspar Abel, theologian Valens Acidalius, writer Anton Wilhelm Amo, first black student in Europe Johann Arndt, theologian Christian Heinrich Bünger, anatomist Sethus Calvisius, musician Joachim Heinrich Campe, writer David Caspari, theologian Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician Wilhelm Gesenius, philologist Carl Benedict Hase, classicist Hoffmann von Fallersleben, writer Johann Georg Jacobi, writer Augustus Quirinus Rivinus (August Bachmann), physician and botanist