Resident und Non-Resident Permanent Fellows from 1981 to today
Permanent Fellows
- Peter Wapnewski: 1980 - 1990 - Rector 1980 - 1986 - retired since 1990
- Wolf Lepenies: 1984 - 2006; Rector 1986 - 2001 - retired since 2006
- Jürgen Kocka: 1991 - 2000
- Dieter Grimm: since 2000 - Rector 2001 - 2007
- Horst Bredekamp: since 2003
- Sybille Krämer: 2006 - 2008
- Luca Giuliani: since 2007
- Lorraine Daston: since 2008
Non-resident Permanent Fellows
- Gunter S. Stent: 1985 - 1989
- Yehuda Elkana: 1987 - 2006
- Rüdiger Wehner: 1991 - 2008
- Stephen Greenblatt: since 2001
- Raghavendra Gadagkar: since 2002
- Andrei Plesu: 2002 - 2007
- Paul Schmid-Hempel: seince 2008
Long-term Fellows
- Aziz Al-Azmeh: 1994/95 and 1996 - 1998
- Navid Kermani: 2001 - 2003