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Friedrich Hirzebruch

Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch (born 17 October 1927) is a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry, and a leading figure in his generation. He was born in Hamm, Westphalia. He studied at...

Georg August Goldfuss

Georg August Goldfuss (Goldfuß, April 18, 1782 – October 2, 1848) was a German palaeontologist and zoologist. Goldfuss was born at Thurnau near Bayreuth. He was educated at Erlangen, where he graduated Ph.D. in 1804 and became professor of zoology...

Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck

Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (February 14, 1776 - March 16, 1858) was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He...

Wolfgang Paul

Wolfgang Paul (August 10, 1913 – December 7, 1993) was a German physicist, who co-developed the ion trap. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989 for this work. Wolfgang Paul was born on 10 August 1913 in Lorenzkirch, Germany. He grew up in...

Reinhard Selten

Reinhard Selten (born 5 October 1930) is a German economist. Selten was born in Breslau (Wrocław) in Lower Silesia, now in Poland, to a Jewish father and Protestant mother. For his work in game theory, Selten won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in...

Otto Wallach

Otto Wallach (27 March 1847 - 26 February 1931) was a German chemist and recipient of the 1910 Nobel prize in Chemistry for his work on alicyclic compounds. Wallach was born in Königsberg, the son of a Prussian official. His father was transferred...

Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker

Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (4 November 1784 – 17 December 1868), German philologist and archaeologist, was born at Grünberg, Hesse-Darmstadt. Having studied classical philology at the University of Giessen, he was appointed (1803) master in the high...

Ernst Moritz Arndt

Ernst Moritz Arndt (December 26, 1769 – January 29, 1860) was a German patriotic author and poet. Early in his life, he fought for the abolition of serfdom, later against Napoleonic dominance over Germany, and had to flee to Sweden for some time due...

Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus PP. XVI; Italian: Benedetto XVI; German: Benedikt XVI.; born Joseph Alois Ratzinger on 16 April 1927) is the 265th and reigning Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the head of the Catholic Church and...

Joseph Schumpeter

Joseph Alois Schumpeter (8 February 1883 – 8 January 1950) was an economist and political scientist born in Moravia, then Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic. He popularized the term "creative destruction" in economics. Born in Triesch, Moravia ,...

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (February 22, 1857 – January 1, 1894) was a German physicist who clarified and expanded the electromagnetic theory of light that had been put forth by Maxwell. He was the first to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence of...

Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz

Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (also August Kekulé) (7 September 1829 – 13 July 1896) was a German organic chemist. One of the most prominent chemists in Europe from the 1850s until his death, especially in the theoretical realm, he was the...

Felix Hausdorff

Felix Hausdorff (November 8, 1868 – January 26, 1942) was a German mathematician who is considered to be one of the founders of modern topology and who contributed significantly to set theory, descriptive set theory, measure theory, function theory,...

Philipp Franz von Walther

Philipp Franz von Walther (1782 – 1849) was a German surgeon and ophthalmologist who was a native of Burrweiler. In 1803 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Landshut where he was a student of Georg Joseph Beer (1763-1821), and...

Richard Anschütz

Carl Johann Philipp Noé Richard Anschütz (March 10, 1852 - January 8, 1937) was a German chemist. He received his PhD at the University of Bonn for the work with August Kekulé. He became assistant of Kekulé and his sucsessor as professor at the...

Max Verworn

Max Richard Constantin Verworn (November 4, 1863 - November 23, 1921) was a German physiologist who was a native of Berlin. He studied medicine and natural sciences in Berlin, and later moved to Jena, where he furthered his studies with Ernst...

Christian Friedrich Nasse

Christian Friedrich Nasse (April 18, 1778 - April 18, 1851) was a German psychiatrist who was born in Bielefeld. He studied medicine at the University of Halle under physiologist Johann Christian Reil (1759-1813), and following graduation returned...

Friedrich Eduard König

Friedrich Eduard König (November 15, 1846 - February 10, 1936, Bonn ) was a German Lutheran divine and Semitic scholar. He was born at Reichenbach im Vogtland and was educated at the University of Leipzig, where he became docent in 1879 and...

Adolf Kamphausen

Adolf Kamphausen (1829-1909) was a German Protestant theologian, born at Solingen and educated at Bonn. In 1855, as private secretary to Bunsen, he assisted him in his great Bibelwerk. At the same time he was privatdocent at Heidelberg, and in 1863...

Karl Budde

Karl Ferdinand Reinhard Budde (* 13.4.1850, + 29.1.1935) was a German theologian, born at Bensberg. He was inspector of the Evangelisches Theologisches Stift at Bonn from 1878 to 1885, professor at Bonn in 1879, at Strassburg in 1889, and in 1900...

Christian Tomuschat

Christian Tomuschat (born 23 July 1936, in Stettin (Szczecin)) is a German jurist. He is emeritus professor of public international law and European law at the Humboldt University in Berlin and is a former member of the UN Human Rights Committee and...

Franz Gerhard Wegeler

Franz Gerhard Wegeler (May 7, 1769 - 1848) was a German physician from Bonn, who was a childhood friend of Ludwig van Beethoven. He studied medicine at the Universities of Bonn and Vienna. After finishing his studies in Austria, he returned to Bonn,...

Peter Aloys Gratz

Peter Aloys Gratz (17 August 1769 – 1 November 1849) was a German schoolmaster and widely-published Biblical scholar, who contributed to debates within Catholicism in the early nineteenth Century. He was born in Mittelberg, Allgäu, Bavaria, and...

Anton Dereser

Anton Dereser (also known as Thaddeus A. S. Adamo) - born in Fahr in Franconia, 3 February 1757; died in Breslau, 15 or 16 June 1807 - was a Discalced Carmelite professor of hermeneutics and Middle Eastern languages. His Profession was in Cologne 18...

Max Von Gagern

Max von Gagern (b. Weilburg (in Nassau), Germany, 25 March 1810; died Vienna, 17 October 1889) was a German liberal politician. He was the son of Hans Christoph von Gagern, minister of state in Nassau; he attended the gymnasiums at Kreuznach,...

Joseph Ignatius Ritter

Joseph Ignatius Ritter (b. Schweinitz, Silesia, 12 April 1787; d. Breslau, 5 January 1857) was a German historian. He pursued his philosophical and theological studies at the University of Breslau, was ordained priest in 1811, and for several years...

Mary Agria

Mary (Metzig) Agria (born 24 March 1941) is an American writer who spent her early career as a journalist and non-fiction writer, then in 'retirement' began writing a series of novels that deal with the issues facing older Americans, including...

Moritz August Seubert

Moritz August Seubert (June 2, 1818 in Karlsruhe – April 8, 1878 in Karlsruhe) was a German botanist. Seubert was the son of a medical officer of health. He first attended the Lyzeum in Karlsruhe and already at that time had contact with the...

Hermann Hüffer

Hermann Hüffer (24 March 1830 – 15 March 1905) was a German historian and jurist. Hüffer was born in Münster, Prussian Westphalia. Having finished his classical education in his native city, he went to Bonn and applied himself to the study of...

Eulogius Schneider

Eulogius Schneider (baptized as: Johann Georg; October 20, 1756 in Wipfeld am Main – April 1, 1794 in Paris) was a Franciscan monk, professor in Bonn and Dominican in Strasbourg. Johann Georg Schneider was born as the son of a wine grower and his...

Ethelbert Stauffer

Ethelbert Stauffer (May 8, 1902, in Friedelsheim – August 1, 1979 in Erlangen) was a German Protestant theologian and numismatist. In the 1930s Stauffer was a professor of New Testament Studies and director of Ancient History Studies at the...

Eduard Joseph d'Alton

Eduard Joseph d'Alton (August 11, 1772 – May 11, 1840) was a German engraver and naturalist who was a native of Aquileia (today part of Italy). He studied in Vienna, and later worked in several locations, including Weimar and Jena. Afterwards he...

Konrad Martin

Konrad Martin (18 May1812, at Geismar, Province of Saxony – 16 July1879, at Mont St Guibert, near Brussels, Belgium) was a Catholic Bishop of Paderborn. He studied at first under an elder brother who was a priest, and later at the Gymnasium at...

Richard Hesse

Richard Hesse (February 20, 1868 in Nordhausen - December 28, 1944 in Berlin) was a German zoologist and ecologist. Hesse took his PhD in 1892 from the University of Tübingen and was subsequently appointed lecturer, later extraordinary professor ...

Theodor Zincke

Theodor Zincke (19 May 1843 - 17 March 1928) was a German chemist and the academic adviser of Otto Hahn. Theodor Zincke was born in Uelzen on 19 May 1843. He became a pharmacist and graduated in Göttingen with his Staatsexamen. He began studying...

Wilhelm Levison

Wilhelm Levison (* 27 May 1876 in Düsseldorf; † 17 January 1947 in Durham) was a German medievalist. He was well known as a contributor to Monumenta Germaniae Historica, especially for the vitae from the Merovingian era. He also edited Wattenbach's...

Andreas Zimmer

Andreas Zimmer is Professor of Neurobiology and Director of the Institute for Molecular Psychiatry at the University of Bonn; he was previously professor at the University of Bielefeld and a researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health. He...

Karl-Hermann Knoblauch

Karl Hermann Knoblauch (1820-04-11 – 1895-06-30) was a prominent German physicist. He was one of the six founding members of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft at Berlin on 14 January 1845. All six were independent-minded students of Gustav...

Eduard Böcking

Eduard Böcking (May 20, 1802 – May 3, 1870) was a German legal scholar. He is best known for his editions of, and commentaries on, the legal works of classical antiquity. Böcking was born in Trarbach an der Mosel, and attended the gymnasium in...

Franz Philip Kaulen

Franz Philip Kaulen (born 20 March1827, at Düsseldorf; died at Bonn, 11 July1907) was a German Catholic scriptural scholar. He attended the gymnasium in his native city, studied theology at the University of Bonn from 1846 to 1849, and was ordained...

Christian Samuel Theodor Bernd

Christian Samuel Theodor Bernd (April 12, 1775 in Meseritz-August 26, 1854 in Bonn) was a German linguist and heraldist, one of the founders of scientific heraldry. Bernd studied theology at the Jena University. Between 1807 and 1811 he served as...

Johannes Orth

Johannes Orth (January 14, 1847 - January 13, 1923) was a German pathologist who was a native of Wallmerod. He studied medicine at the University of Bonn, earning his doctorate in 1872. Afterwards he became an assistant to Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902)...

John Martin Augustine Scholz

John Martin Augustine Scholz (b. at Kapsdorf, near Breslau, 8 February 1794; d. at Bonn, 20 October 1852) was a German Catholic Orientalist and exegete. He studied in the Catholic gymnasium and the University of Breslau. In 1817 he took the degree...

Erich Hoffmann

Erich Hoffmann (April 25, 1868 – May 8, 1959) was a German dermatologist who was a native of Witzmitz, Pomerania. He studied medicine at the Berlin Military Academy, and was later a professor at the Universities of Halle and Bonn. Hoffmann is...

Werner Hildenbrand

Werner Hildenbrand (born May 25, 1936 in Göttingen, Germany) is a German economist and mathematician. He was educated at the University of Heidelberg, were he received his Diplom in mathematics, applied mathematics and physics in 1961. He continued...

Wilhelm Krelle

Wilhelm Krelle (December 24, 1916 - June 23, 2004) was a German economist. He was born in Magdeburg, Germany. After returning from WWII, he studied physics, mathematics and economics in Tübingen and Freiburg. He received his Ph.D. in economics from...

Franz Hermann Troschel

Franz Hermann Troschel (October 10, 1810 - November 6, 1882) was a German zoologist who was born in Spandau. He studied mathematics and natural history at the University of Berlin, and beginning in 1840 was an assistant to Martin Lichtenstein (1780...

Edwin Theodor Saemisch

Edwin Theodor Saemisch (September 30, 1833 – September 29, 1909) was a German ophthalmologist who was born in Luckau. In 1858 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Berlin, and afterwards was an assistant to Albrecht von Graefe in...

Hans Meerwein

Hans Meerwein (May 20, 1879, Hamburg, Germany – October 24, 1965, Marburg, Germany) was an German chemist.. His name is still present in the names of several reactions and reagents, for example the Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reduction, the Wagner...

Otto Friedrich Carl Dieters

Otto Friedrich Karl Deiters (November 15, 1834 – December 5, 1863) was a German neuroanatomist. He was born in Bonn, studied at the University of Bonn, and spent most of his professional career in Bonn. He is remembered for his microscopic research...

Siegried Blechert

Siegfried Blechert (born 1946 in Aalborg, Denmark) is a German-chemist. Professor Siegfried Blechert studied chemistry at the University of Hannover, Germany and completed his PhD under the supervision of Professor Ekkehard Winterfeldt in 1974....

Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger

Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger (June 7, 1829 - March 16, 1910) was a German physiologist born in Hanau. He studied medicine at the Universities of Marburg and Berlin, earning his doctorate in 1853. While in Berlin he worked as an assistant to Emil...

Hermann Usener

Hermann Karl Usener (October 23, 1834 – October 21, 1905) was a German scholar in the fields of philology and comparative religion. He became professor at the University of Bonn. The Bonn School of classical philology was led by Usener with Franz...

Wendelin Förster

Wendelin Förster (1844- 1915 ) was a German philologist and Romance scholar, born at Wildschültz, Bohemia, and educated in Vienna. He was professor at Vienna and Prague from 1874 to 1876 and at Bonn after 1876. one of his most noteworthy...

Zenonas Ivinskis

Zenonas Ivinskis (May 25, 1908 in Kaušėnai village, near Plungė – December 24, 1971 in Bonn, Germany) was a noted Lithuanian historian. Ivinskis studied at Telšiai and Plungė gymnasiums. In 1925 he entered the University of Lithuania to study...

Rudolf Thurneysen

Eduard Rudolf Thurneysen (March 14, 1857–9 August 1940) was a Swiss linguist and Celticist. Born in Basel, Thurneysen studied classical philology in Basel, Leipzig, Berlin and Paris. His teachers included Ernst Windisch and Heinrich Zimmer. He...

Hermann Schaffhausen

Hermann Schaaffhausen (1816 – 1893) studied medicine in University of Berlin and received his doctor degree in 1839, and became a Professor of Anatomy at the University of Bonn. Schaaffhausen is credited with identifying the remains of Neanderthal 1...