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Munchhausen, Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Baron von (also Baron von Munchausen)
German adventurer, huntsman, raconteur, and soldier
[ 30% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Herschel, William, Sir (orig. Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel)
English (German-born) astronomer discovered Uranus 1781 discovered Titania and Oberon 1787
[ 30% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Otto I (also Otho I; Otto Friedrich Ludwig)
Greek (Austrian-born) ruler king of Greece 1832-1862 deposed son of Louis I of Bavaria brother of Maximilian II of...
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Wilhelm I (also William I; Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig)
German Prussian ruler king of Prussia 1861-1888 kaiser of Germany 1871-1888
[ 29% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Max Christian Friedrich Bruch (Bruch, Max)
1838 - Max Christian Friedrich Bruch, born on the 6th of January in Cologne, Germany. He is a German composer remembered...
[ 29% ] Last updated: Tue 10th Apr 07
Beilstein, Konrad Friedrich (Konrad)
1838 - Born on the 17th of February in Saint Petersburg, Russia. - He received education at the Georg-August University...
[ 28% ] Last updated: Tue 31st Jul 07
Schumacher, Ernst Friedrich (E. F. Schumacher)
British (German-born) economist naturalized British citizen 1946 wrote "Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Matte...
[ 28% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Bottger, Johann Friedrich (Johann)
1682 - Böttger was born in Schleiz, Thuringia on the 4th of February. 1708 - His potteries were under royal patronage,...
[ 28% ] Last updated: Tue 21st Aug 07
Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich (pseudonym Jean Paul)
German author
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Shestov, Lev (also Leo Chestov; orig. Lev Isaakovich Schwarzmann)
Russian (Ukrainian-born) existentialist philosopher wrote "Dostoevsky and Nietzsche: The Philosophy of Tragedy" 1903
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Krupp, Alfred
German munitions manufacturer son of Friedrich Krupp
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Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
German critic and translator brother of Friedrich von Schlegel
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Wilhelm I (also William I)
German ruler king of Wurttemberg 1816-1864 son of Friedrich
[ 1% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Hess, Moses
German socialist and Zionist converted Friedrich Engels to socialism
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Wilhelm II (also William II)
German ruler last king of Wurttemberg 1891-1918 overthrown great-grandson of Friedrich
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Schlegel, Dorothea von (nee Mendelssohn)
German translator daughter of Moses Mendelssohn wife of Friedrich von Schlegel aunt of Felix Mendelssohn
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Krupp, Bertha
German munitions manufacturer eponym of Big Bertha wife of Gustav Krupp daughter of Friedrich Alfred Krupp
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Zweig, Arnold
1881- Birth of an Australian writer of diverse talents and profound cultural insights - Viewed himself as a cosmopolitan mediato...
[ 1% ] Last updated: Thu 08th Mar 07
Olbers, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthaus
1758 - Born on the 11th of October. 1780 - He began practicing medicine in Bremen, Germany. - He devised the first satis...
[ 1% ] Last updated: Thu 21st Jun 07
Cartan, Elie Joseph (Elie)
1869 - Elie Cartan was born in the village of Dolomieu in Savoie on the 9th of April. 1888-1894 - He became a student at...
[ 1% ] Last updated: Mon 17th Sep 07
Dirichlet, Peter Gustav Lejeune
German mathematician proved infinitude of prime numbers in any infinite arithmetic sequence of positive integers 1826 (p...
[ 1% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Bosch, Karl (Carl Bosch)
1874 - Born in Cologne on the 27th of August. 1892-1898 - He studied at the Technical College of Charlottenburg and the ...
[ 1% ] Last updated: Wed 16th May 07
Zumpt, August Wilhelm
1815 – He was born on the 4th day of December this year in Königsberg, Berlin. 1851 – He studied in Berlin...
[ 1% ] Last updated: Mon 19th Mar 07
Baedeker, Karl
1801 - Born on the 3rd of November in Essen, Prussia. 1827 - Started his publishing company in Koblenz. 1832 - The Baede...
[ 1% ] Last updated: Sat 16th Dec 06
Stradella, Alessandro
1639 - Born in Rome on the 3rd of April. 1667 - He moved to Rome where he composed copiously, mostly sacred music, and...
[ 1% ] Last updated: Thu 28th Jun 07
Behring, Emil Adolf von (Emil)
1854 - Born on the 15th of March in Hansdorf in West Prussia, now a part of Poland. 1878 - He took up Medical course at ...
[ 0% ] Last updated: Tue 31st Jul 07
Achard, Franz Karl
1753 - Born on the 28th of April in Berlin, Germany. 1776 - He was elected to the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin....
[ 0% ] Last updated: Tue 29th May 07
Beck, Ludwig August Theodor
1880 - Born on the 29th of July in Biebrich, Germany. 1933 - After serving on the Western Front in World War I, he was e...
[ 0% ] Last updated: Mon 30th Jul 07
Deleuze, Gilles
1925 – He was born on the 18th day of January this year in Paris. 1944 – He went to study at the Sorbonne....
[ 0% ] Last updated: Thu 31st May 07
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
1646 - Born on the 1st of July in Leipzig to Friedrich Leibniz and Catherina Schmuck. 1669 - Leibniz was appointed Asses...
[ 0% ] Last updated: Mon 25th Jun 07
