Professor Herbart had many highly talented students, who combined a variety of philological and pedagogic interests characteristic for the "Neuhumanisten" (New Humanists), including Ernst Karl Friedrich Wunderlich, Georg Ludolf Dissen, Friedrich Thiersch and Friedrich Kohlrauschan.
Karl Marx | Friedrich Nietzsche | Friedrich Schiller | Ernst & Young | Friedrich Engels | Max Ernst | Karl Pilkington | Karl Lagerfeld | Karl G. Heider | Carl Friedrich Gauss | Karl Rove | Karl Pearson | Karl May | Karl Liebknecht | Karl Friedrich Schinkel | Karl Dönitz | Karl Jenkins | Friedrich Dürrenmatt | Ernst Haeckel | Friedrich Hayek | Caspar David Friedrich | Karl Stefanovic | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | Friedrich Hölderlin | Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle | Karl Bodmer | Friedrich Ebert | Ernst Mayr | Ernst Jünger | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling |