yankel berel> How many hasidic rebeim thru the course of history , studied in universities , what are their names and when did they live ?
Sorry, I am lurking at this thread and I don’t have enregy to go back, so I may not understand the hidden meaning of this question. But I decided to research this intriguing question. The list seems to be short:
Lubavitcher Rebbe – university of Berlin, Montparnase Vocational College
his brother Yisroel Aryeh Leib Schneerson, died while doing PhD at Liverpool university
Talner Rebbe – Boston Latin high school, hebrew college, harvard, hebrew university,
Mayer Twersky, seems to consider himself (or considered?) Talner Rebbe – harvard
a possible drop-out: Munkacser Rebbe, Moshe Leib Rabinovich studied in Israel, undertook secular studies in public schools in São Paulo, Brazil, and later studied in the United States at the Telshe yeshiva in Cleveland, Ohio, refusing to attend college, to his father’s [previous Rebbe] disappointment.
almost there: Dr. Abraham Twerski – got the smicha, from chassidic family, but not really e rebbe – Marquette U, U of Pittsburgh
an honorable mention: Dr. Yehuda Sabiner, First Gerrer Chassid to Graduate Medical School