100 Notable alumni of
University of Erlangen Nuremberg
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The University of Erlangen Nuremberg is 369th in the world, 129th in Europe, and 22nd in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Erlangen Nuremberg sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Markus Söder
- Enrolled in the University of Erlangen Nuremberg
- 1987-1991 graduated with Staatsexamen in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Markus Thomas Theodor Söder is a German politician from Bavaria, Germany serving as Minister-President of Bavaria since 2018 and leader of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) since 2019.
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Philipp Plein
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- fashion designerdesignerdressmaker
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Philipp Patrick Hannes Plein is a German fashion designer, entrepreneur, and the founder of the Philipp Plein International Group, which includes the Philipp Plein, Plein Sport, and Billionaire brands.
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Max Stirner
- Enrolled in the University of Erlangen Nuremberg
- 1828-1829 studied theology
- Occupations
- gymnasial teachereducatorjournalistprofessor of philosophytranslator
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Max Stirner, born Johann Kaspar Schmidt, was a German philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-consciousness. Stirner is often seen as one of the forerunners of nihilism, existentialism, psychoanalytic theory, postmodernism, individualist anarchism, and egoism.
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Ludwig Feuerbach
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- critic of religionsanthropologisttheologianuniversity teacherphilosopher
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Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach was a German philosopher and anthropologist who was a leading figure among the Young Hegelians. He is best known for his 1841 book, The Essence of Christianity, which argued that God is a projection of the essential attributes of humanity. His critique of religion formed the basis for his advocacy of atheism, materialism, and sensualism. In his later work, Feuerbach developed a more complex theory of religion arising from the human confrontation with nature. His thought served as a critical bridge between the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and that of Karl Marx.
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Emmy Noether
- Enrolled in the University of Erlangen Nuremberg
- 1900-1907 graduated with doctorate in mathematics
- Occupations
- university teachermathematicianphysicist
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Amalie Emmy Noether was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra. She also proved Noether's first and second theorems, which are fundamental in mathematical physics. Noether was described by Pavel Alexandrov, Albert Einstein, Jean Dieudonné, Hermann Weyl, and Norbert Wiener as the most important woman in the history of mathematics. As one of the leading mathematicians of her time, she developed theories of rings, fields, and algebras. In physics, Noether's theorem explains the connection between symmetry and conservation laws.
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Georg Simon Ohm
- Enrolled in the University of Erlangen Nuremberg
- Studied in 1805-1811
- Occupations
- university teachermathematicianphysicist
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Georg Simon Ohm was a German mathematician and physicist. As a school teacher, Ohm began his research with the new electrochemical cell, invented by Italian scientist Alessandro Volta. Using equipment of his own creation, Ohm found that there is a direct proportionality between the potential difference (voltage) applied across a conductor and the resultant electric current; this relation is known as Ohm's law.
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Emanuel Lasker
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- philosophermathematicianbridge playerchess composerchess player
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Emanuel Lasker was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher. He was the second World Chess Champion, holding the title for 27 years, from 1894 to 1921, the longest reign of any officially recognised World Chess Champion, winning 6 World Chess Championships. In his prime, Lasker was one of the most dominant champions.
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Dagmar Wöhrl
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- beauty pageant contestantlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Dagmar Gabriele Wöhrl is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). She was elected to the German Bundestag six times, serving from 1994 to her retirement in 2017. From 2005 until 2009 she was a Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. She has served as Chairwoman of the Committee for Economic Cooperation and Development of the German Bundestag. She was also a member of the 'Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with Arabic-Speaking States' in the Middle East.
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Samuel Hahnemann
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- chemistpharmacologistuniversity teacherlibrarianhomeopath
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Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann was a German physician, best known for creating the pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine called homeopathy.
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Justus von Liebig
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterchemistinventoragronomist
- Biography
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Justus Freiherr von Liebig was a German scientist who made major contributions to the theory, practice, and pedagogy of chemistry, as well as to agricultural and biological chemistry; he is considered one of the principal founders of organic chemistry. As a professor at the University of Giessen, he devised the modern laboratory-oriented teaching method, and for such innovations, he is regarded as one of the most outstanding chemistry teachers of all time. He has been described as the "father of the fertilizer industry" for his emphasis on nitrogen and minerals as essential plant nutrients, and his popularization of the law of the minimum, which states that plant growth is limited by the scarcest nutrient resource, rather than the total amount of resources available. He also developed a manufacturing process for beef extracts, and with his consent a company, called Liebig Extract of Meat Company, was founded to exploit the concept; it later introduced the Oxo brand beef bouillon cube. He popularized an earlier invention for condensing vapors, which came to be known as the Liebig condenser.
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Sandra Ciesek
- Enrolled in the University of Erlangen Nuremberg
- Studied in 2018
- Occupations
- researchervirologist
- Biography
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Sandra Ciesek is a German physician and virologist. She is the director of the Institute of Medical Virology at the Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt and professor of medical virology at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Her main areas of research include new forms of therapy for hepatitis C and, more recently, the search for drugs against COVID-19.
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger
- Enrolled in the University of Erlangen Nuremberg
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- playwrightjournalistreporterwritertranslator
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger was a German author, poet, translator, and editor. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Andreas Thalmayr, Elisabeth Ambras, Linda Quilt and Giorgio Pellizzi. Enzensberger was regarded as one of the literary founding figures of the Federal Republic of Germany and wrote more than 70 books, with works translated into 40 languages. He was one of the leading authors in Group 47, and influenced the 1968 West German student movement. He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize and the Pour le Mérite, among many others.
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Louis Agassiz
- Enrolled in the University of Erlangen Nuremberg
- In 1828 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- philosopherwriterbotanical collectorscientific collectorphysical geographer
- Biography
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Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz FRS FRSE was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history.
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Christian Schmidt
- Enrolled in the University of Erlangen Nuremberg
- Studied in 1977-1982
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Hans Сhristian Friedrich Schmidt is a German politician and member of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who has been the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina since August 2021.
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Hans Geiger
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- scientistuniversity teachernuclear physicistlaboratory directorinventor
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Johannes Wilhelm "Hans " Geiger was a German experimental physicist. He is known as the inventor of the Geiger counter, a device used to detect ionizing radiation, and for carrying out the Rutherford scattering experiments, which led to the discovery of the atomic nucleus. He also performed the Bothe–Geiger coincidence experiment, which confirmed the conservation of energy in light-particle interactions.
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Ludwig Tieck
- Occupations
- novelistwriterpublisherEnglish–German translatortranslator
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Johann Ludwig Tieck was a German poet, fiction writer, translator, and critic. He was one of the founding fathers of the Romantic movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Rudolf Otto
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- theologianuniversity teacherpoliticiannon-fiction writerphilosopher
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Rudolf Otto was a German Lutheran theologian, philosopher, and comparative religionist. He is regarded as one of the most influential scholars of religion in the early twentieth century and is best known for his concept of the numinous, a profound emotional experience he argued was at the heart of the world's religions. While his work started in the domain of liberal Christian theology, its main thrust was always apologetical, seeking to defend religion against naturalist critiques, making him a more conservative figure. Otto eventually came to conceive of his work as part of a science of religion, which was divided into the philosophy of religion, the history of religion, and the psychology of religion.
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Wilhelm Kempff
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- university teacherpianistautobiographermusicologistcomposer
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Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff was a German pianist, teacher and composer. Although his repertoire included Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms, Kempff was particularly well known for his interpretations of the music of Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, recording the complete sonatas of both composers. He is considered to have been one of the chief exponents of the Germanic tradition during the 20th century and one of the greatest pianists of all time.
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Günther Beckstein
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Günther Beckstein is a German CSU politician from Bavaria and was the 17th minister-president of Bavaria from 9 October 2007 to 27 October 2008. He is well known for his outspoken views on law and order.
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Friedrich Naumann
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- geopolitical analysttheologianeditorpolitician
- Biography
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Friedrich Naumann was a German liberal politician and Protestant parish pastor. In 1896, he founded the National-Social Association that sought to combine liberalism, nationalism and (non-Marxist) socialism with Protestant Christian values, proposing social reform to prevent class struggle. He led the party until its merger into the Free-minded Union in 1903. From 1907 to 1912 and again from 1913 to 1918, he was a member of the Reichstag of the German Empire.
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Heinrich Bedford-Strohm
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- university teachertheologianpastor
- Biography
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Heinrich Bedford-Strohm is a German Lutheran bishop. Since September 2022 he is the Moderator of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC).
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Johann Peter Hebel
- Enrolled in the University of Erlangen Nuremberg
- Studied in 1780
- Occupations
- theologianuniversity teacherProtestant theologianwriterpoet
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Johann Peter Hebel was a German short story writer, dialectal poet, Lutheran theologian and pedagogue, most famous for a collection of Alemannic lyric poems (Allemannische Gedichte) and one of German tales (Schatzkästlein des rheinischen Hausfreundes – "Treasure Chest of Rhenish Tales").
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Erich Neumann
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- mythographerpoetwriterart historianphilosopher
- Biography
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Erich Neumann was a German analytical psychologist and student of Carl Jung.
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Melanie Huml
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Melanie Huml is a German physician and politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) who has been serving as State Minister for European and International Affairs in the cabinet of Minister-President Markus Söder since 2021. She has been a member of the Landtag of Bavaria since October 2003.
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Eduard Buchner
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- university teacherbiochemistchemist
- Biography
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Eduard Buchner was a German chemist and expert on fermentation (sometimes called a zymologist), awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on fermentation.
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Joachim Herrmann
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Joachim Herrmann is a German politician. He is a member of the CSU party. Herrmann is an MP in the Landtag, the parliament of Bavaria since 1994. Since 16 October 2007 he has been Minister of the Interior of the state of Bavaria.
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Klaus Schmidt
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- university teacherhistorianarchaeologistanthropologistprehistorian
- Biography
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Klaus Schmidt was a German archaeologist and prehistorian who led the excavations at Göbekli Tepe from 1996 to 2014.
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Hans Reichenbach
- Enrolled in the University of Erlangen Nuremberg
- Studied in 1915
- Occupations
- university teacherphilosopherphysicist
- Biography
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Hans Reichenbach was a leading philosopher of science, educator, and proponent of logical empiricism. He founded the Gesellschaft für empirische Philosophie (Society for Empirical Philosophy) in Berlin in 1928, also known as the "Berlin Circle". Carl Gustav Hempel, Richard von Mises, David Hilbert and Kurt Grelling all became members of the Berlin Circle.
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Ferdinand von Lindemann
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann was a German mathematician, noted for his proof, published in 1882, that π (pi) is a transcendental number, meaning it is not a root of any nonzero polynomial with rational coefficients.
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Helmuth Plessner
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- anthropologistphilosophersociologistuniversity teacher
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Helmuth Plessner was a German philosopher and sociologist, and a primary advocate of "philosophical anthropology".
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Karlheinz Brandenburg
- Enrolled in the University of Erlangen Nuremberg
- In 1980 graduated with Diplom in electrical engineering
- In 1982 graduated with Diplom in mathematics
- Occupations
- electrical engineeruniversity teacheraudio engineermathematicianengineer
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Karlheinz Brandenburg is a German electrical engineer and mathematician. Together with Ernst Eberlein, Heinz Gerhäuser (former Institutes Director of Fraunhofer IIS), Bernhard Grill, Jürgen Herre and Harald Popp (all Fraunhofer IIS), he developed the widespread MP3 method for audio data compression. He is also known for his elementary work in the field of audio coding, perception measurement, wave field synthesis and psychoacoustics. Brandenburg has received numerous national and international research awards, prizes and honors for his work. Since 2000 he has been a professor of electronic media technology at the Technical University Ilmenau. Brandenburg was significantly involved in the founding of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (IDMT) and currently serves as its director.
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Ernst Troeltsch
- Occupations
- theologianhistorianuniversity teachersociologistphilosopher
- Biography
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Ernst Peter Wilhelm Troeltsch was a German liberal Protestant theologian, a writer on the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of history, and a classical liberal politician. He was a member of the history of religions school. His work was a synthesis of a number of strands, drawing on Albrecht Ritschl, Max Weber's conception of sociology, and the Baden school of neo-Kantianism.
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August Engelhardt
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- cult leadernutritionistsettler
- Biography
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August Engelhardt was a German author. He promoted fruitarianism, specifically the consumption of coconuts and coconut products, and was the founder of a sect of sun worshipers.
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Roland Busch
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- chief executive officermanagerphysicist
- Biography
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Roland Emil Busch is a German business executive and physicist who serves as the chief executive officer and president of Siemens AG.
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Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart
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- composerpoetjournalistwriter
- Biography
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Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart was a German poet, organist, composer, and journalist. He was repeatedly punished for his social-critical writing and spent ten years in severe conditions in jail.
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Alexander Rüstow
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- university teachereconomistsociologist
- Biography
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Alexander Rüstow was a German sociologist and economist. At the Colloque Walter Lippmann in August 1938 he popularised the term "neoliberalism". He became one of the fathers of the "Social Market Economy" that shaped the economy of West Germany after World War II. Rüstow was the grandnephew of Wilhelm Rüstow, the grandson of Cäsar Rüstow and the father of Dankwart Rustow.
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Martin Sichert
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- merchantpolitician
- Biography
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Martin Johannes Sichert is a German merchant and politician (AfD). He has been a member for the 19th Bundestag and was AfD Bavarian state chairman from 2017 to 2019.
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Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
- Occupations
- scientific collectorpteridologistuniversity teachercartographerbotanist
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Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (17 April 1794 – 13 December 1868) was a German botanist and explorer. Between 1817 and 1820, he travelled 10,000 km through Brazil while collecting botanical specimens. His most important work was a comprehensive flora of Brazil, Flora Brasiliensis, which he initiated in 1840 and was completed posthumously in 1906.
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Wilhelm Hoegner
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- writerlawyerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Wilhelm Johann Harald Hoegner was the second Bavarian minister-president after World War II (1945–1946 and 1954–1957), and the father of the Bavarian constitution. He has been the only Social Democrat to hold this office since 1920.
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Christian Friedrich Schönbein
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- university teacherchemistpolitician
- Biography
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Christian Friedrich Schönbein HFRSE was a German-Swiss chemist who is best known for inventing the fuel cell (1838) at the same time as William Robert Grove and his discoveries of guncotton and ozone. He also created the concept of geochemistry in 1838.
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Alma Adamkienė
- Enrolled in the University of Erlangen Nuremberg
- Studied philology
- Occupations
- philanthropistphilologistpolitician
- Biography
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Alma Adamkienė was a Lithuanian philologist and philanthropist. She was the wife of the president of Lithuania, Valdas Adamkus, and was First Lady during his two terms (1998–2003 and 2004–2009). She also held United States citizenship.
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Jürgen Kuczynski
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- sociologisthistorianeconomic historianeconomistessayist
- Biography
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Jürgen Kuczynski was a German economist, journalist, and communist. He also provided intelligence to the Soviet Union during World War II.
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Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber
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- lichenologistuniversity teachernaturalistbotanical collectorbotanist
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Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, often styled J.C.D. von Schreber, was a German naturalist.
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Otto Gessler
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Otto Karl Gessler was a liberal German politician during the Weimar Republic. From 1910 until 1914, he was mayor of Regensburg and from 1913 to 1919 mayor of Nuremberg. He served in numerous Weimar cabinets, most notably as Reichswehrminister (Minister of Defence) from 1920 to 1928.
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Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder
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- writerjuristpoet lawyerart historian
- Biography
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Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder was a German jurist and writer. With Ludwig Tieck and the Schlegel brothers, he co-founded German Romanticism.
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Siegfried Russwurm
- Occupations
- executive
- Biography
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Siegfried Russwurm is a German business executive who was president of the Federation of German Industries (BDI) from 2021 to 2024. He has held a number of positions and is chairman of the supervisory board of Thyssenkrupp and Voith Group and a former member of the Siemens Executive Board.
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Ossama bin Abdul Majed Shobokshi
- Enrolled in the University of Erlangen Nuremberg
- Graduated with Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
- Occupations
- diplomatphysicianpolitician
- Biography
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Ossama bin Abdul Majed Shobokshi was a Saudi Arabian academic, physician, diplomat and politician.
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Hermann Blumenau
- Enrolled in the University of Erlangen Nuremberg
- Studied in 1846
- Occupations
- scientific explorerchemistpharmacistsettlernaturalist
- Biography
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Hermann Bruno Otto Blumenau was a German pharmacist who founded the city of Blumenau, situated in the Itajaí-Açu river valley in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
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Albert Neisser
- Occupations
- physicianpathologistdermatologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser was a German physician who discovered the causative agent (pathogen) of gonorrhea, a strain of bacteria that was named in his honour (Neisseria gonorrhoeae).
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Walter Flex
- Occupations
- military personnelpoetwriter
- Biography
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Walter Flex was a German author of The Wanderer between the Two Worlds: An Experience of War (Der Wanderer zwischen beiden Welten) of 1916, a war novel dealing with themes of humanity, friendship, and suffering during World War I. Due to his idealism about Prussian virtues and the Great War, as well as the posthumous popularity of his writings, Walter Flex is sometimes compared to Allied war poets Rupert Brooke and Alan Seeger.
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Joseph Seligman
- Occupations
- financierbanker
- Biography
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Joseph Seligman was an American banker and businessman who founded J. & W. Seligman & Co. He was the patriarch of what became known as the Seligman family in the United States and related to the wealthy Guggenheim family through Peggy Guggenheim's mother Florette.
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Friedrich Carl Andreas
- Years
- 1846-1930 (aged 84)
- Occupations
- orientalistinterpreterlinguistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Friedrich Carl Andreas was an orientalist of German, Malay, and Armenian parentage (descendant of the Bagratuni royal family). He was the husband of psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé.
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Alexander von Middendorff
- Occupations
- zoologistornithologistbotanistland ownerbiologist
- Biography
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Alexander Theodor von Middendorff was a Russian zoologist and explorer of Baltic German and Estonian extraction. He was known for his expedition in 1843–45 to the extreme north and east of Siberia, describing the effects of permafrost on the spread of animals and plants.
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Lorentzos Mavilis
- Enrolled in the University of Erlangen Nuremberg
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- chess playerchess composerpoettranslatorpolitician
- Biography
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Lorentzos Mavilis was a Greek sonneteer, war poet, and chess problems composer. He is best known for his sonnets.
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Hermann Haken
- Occupations
- authortheoretical physicistphysicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Hermann Haken was a German physicist and professor emeritus in theoretical physics at the University of Stuttgart. He is known as the founder of synergetics and one of the "fathers" of quantum-mechanical laser theory. He is a cousin of the mathematician Wolfgang Haken, who proved the Four color theorem. He was a nephew of Werner Haken, a doctoral student of Max Planck.
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Gerd Schaller
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Gerd Schaller is a German conductor, best known for his performing and recording rare works, including the first full recordings of Bruckner's output.
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Arthur Harden
- Occupations
- university teacherbiochemistchemist
- Biography
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Sir Arthur Harden, FRS was a British biochemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929 with Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin for their investigations into the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes. He was a founding member of the Biochemical Society and editor of the Biochemical Journal for 25 years.
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Carl Ludwig
- Occupations
- physicianphysiologistuniversity teacheranatomist
- Biography
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Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig was a German physician and physiologist. His work as both a researcher and teacher had a major influence on the understanding, methods and apparatus used in almost all branches of physiology.
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Ulrich Maly
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dr. Ulrich Maly is a German politician, a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany who served as Mayor of Nuremberg from 2002 till 2020.
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Arthur Eichengrün
- Occupations
- art collectorchemist
- Biography
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Arthur Eichengrün was a German Jewish chemist, materials scientist, and inventor. He is known for developing the highly successful anti-gonorrhea drug Protargol, the standard treatment for 50 years until the adoption of antibiotics, and for his pioneering contributions in plastics: co-developing (with Theodore Becker) the first soluble cellulose acetate materials in 1903, called "Cellit", and creating processes for the manufacture of these materials which were influential in the development of injection moulding. During World War I his relatively non-flammable synthetic cellulose acetate lacquers, marketed under the name "Cellon", were important in the aircraft industry. He contributed to photochemistry by inventing the first process for the production and development of cellulose acetate film, which he patented with Becker.
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Christian August Vulpius
- Occupations
- writerlibrarian
- Biography
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Christian August Vulpius was a German novelist and dramatist. His sister married the noted German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Otto Bradfisch
- Occupations
- economistGestapo employeejurist
- Biography
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Otto Bradfisch was an economist, a jurist, an SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant colonel), leader of Einsatzkommando 8 of Einsatzgruppe B of the Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei or SiPo) and the SD, and Commander of the Security Police in Litzmannstadt (Łódź) and Potsdam.
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Georg August Goldfuss
- Occupations
- mineralogistzoologistbiologistuniversity teachergeologist
- Biography
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Georg August Goldfuß was a German palaeontologist, zoologist and botanist. He became a professor of zoology at the University of Erlangen and later at the University of Bonn. He coined the terms "protozoa" and "pelecypoda".
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Georg Friedrich Puchta
- Occupations
- juristjudgelegal historianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Georg Friedrich Puchta was a German Legal scholar.
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Friedrich Kohlrausch
- Occupations
- university teacherchemistphysicist
- Biography
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Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch was a German physicist who investigated the conductive properties of electrolytes and contributed to knowledge of their behaviour. He also investigated elasticity, thermoelasticity, and thermal conduction as well as magnetic and electrical precision measurements.
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Martin Ohm
- Enrolled in the University of Erlangen Nuremberg
- Studied in 1811
- Occupations
- university teachermathematicianpolitician
- Biography
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Martin Ohm was a German mathematician and a younger brother of physicist Georg Ohm.
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Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe was a pastor of the Lutheran Church, Confesional Lutheran writer, and is often regarded as being a founder of the deaconess movement in Lutheranism and a founding sponsor of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS). From the small town of Neuendettelsau, he sent pastors to North America, Australia, New Guinea, Brazil, and Ukraine. His work for a clear confessional basis within the Bavarian church sometimes led to conflict with the ecclesiastical bureaucracy. His chief concern was that a parish find its life in the eucharist, and from that source evangelism and social ministries would flow. Many Lutheran congregations in Michigan, Ohio, and Iowa were either founded or influenced by missionaries sent by Löhe. He is commemorated on 2 January by the calendars of both the LCMS and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
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Friedrich Paulsen
- Occupations
- university teachereducatorphilosopher
- Biography
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Friedrich Paulsen was a German Neo-Kantian philosopher and educator.
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Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach
- Enrolled in the University of Erlangen Nuremberg
- Studied in 1817-1820
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach was a German geometer and the son of legal scholar Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, and the brother of philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach. After receiving his doctorate at age 22, he became a professor of mathematics at the Gymnasium at Erlangen. In 1822 he wrote a small book on mathematics noted mainly for a theorem on the nine-point circle, which is now known as Feuerbach's theorem. In 1827 he introduced homogeneous coordinates, independently of Möbius.
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Georg Friedrich Daumer
- Occupations
- translatorpoetphilosopherwriter
- Biography
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Georg Friedrich Daumer was a German poet and philosopher.
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Katja Hessel
- Occupations
- juristlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Katja Hessel is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria from 2017 to March 2025.
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Thomas Silberhorn
- Occupations
- juristlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Thomas Silberhorn is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2002.
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Helmut Haussmann
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Helmut Haussmann is a German academic and politician. He served as minister of economy from 1988 to 1991.
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Carl August von Steinheil
- Occupations
- astronomerphysicistopticianmathematicianinventor
- Biography
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Carl August von Steinheil was an Alsatian physicist, inventor, engineer and astronomer.
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Oscar Schneider
- Occupations
- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Oscar Schneider was a German politician (CSU). From 1982 to 1989 he was Federal Minister for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development.
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Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Pierrette Gabrielle Herzberger-Fofana is a German-Malian politician of Alliance 90/The Greens and member of the European Parliament.
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Karl Hase
- Occupations
- university teacherProtestant theologianchurch historian
- Biography
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Karl August von Hase was a German Protestant theologian and church historian.
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Eberhard Arnold
- Years
- 1883-1935 (aged 52)
- Occupations
- theologianphilosopherwriter
- Biography
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Eberhard Arnold was a German theologian and Christian writer. He was the founder of the Bruderhof in 1920.
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Andreas Dombret
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- university teachereconomistbanker
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Andreas Raymond Dombret is a German-American banker who served as member of the executive board of the Deutsche Bundesbank from 2010 until 2018. In that capacity, he held responsibility for Banking and Financial Supervision, Risk Controlling and the Bundesbank's Representative Offices abroad.
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Jürgen Mittelstraß
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- university teacherphilosopher
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Jürgen Mittelstraß is a German philosopher especially interested in the philosophy of science.
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Klaus-Dieter Fritsche
- Enrolled in the University of Erlangen Nuremberg
- Studied legal science
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- politician
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Klaus-Dieter Fritsche is a former German civil servant who served as State Secretary and Commissioner for the Intelligence Services in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2014 until 2018. He is a member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU).
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Walter Höllerer
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- writerliterary criticlinguistuniversity teacher
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Walter Höllerer was a German writer, literary critic, and literature academic. He was professor of literary studies at Technische Universität Darmstadt from 1959 to 1988. Höllerer was a member of the Group 47, founder of the German literary magazine Akzente (1953) and the Literary Colloquium of Berlin (1963).
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Nathan Marcus Adler
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- rabbitheologian
- Biography
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Nathan Marcus HaKohen Adler was the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire from 1845 until his death.
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Bruno Reichart
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- university teachercardiac surgeonphysician
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Bruno Reichart is a retired German cardiothoracic surgeon who performed Germany's first successful heart transplant in 1981 and its first combined heart–lung transplant in 1983.
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Jean-Pol Martin
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- writeruniversity teacher
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Jean-Pol Martin studied teacher education for foreign language teachers in Germany, and developed a teaching method called learning by teaching. He spent most of his career at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and was a professor there until his retirement in 2008.
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Albert Döderlein
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- university teacherobstetriciangynecologist
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Albert Sigmund Gustav Döderlein was a German obstetrician and gynecologist. He was the father of gynecologist Gustav Döderlein.
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Adolf Slaby
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- electrotechnicianphysicistuniversity teacherpolitician
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Adolf Karl Heinrich Slaby was a German electronics pioneer and the first Professor of electro-technology at Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg (today Technische Universität Berlin, 1886).
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Julius Eduard Hitzig
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- writerpublisherjudgebiographer
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Julius Eduard Hitzig, born Isaac Elias Itzig, was a German author and civil servant.
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Ludwig Knorr
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- university teacherchemist
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Ludwig Knorr was a German chemist. Together with Carl Paal, he discovered the Paal–Knorr synthesis, and the Knorr quinoline synthesis and Knorr pyrrole synthesis are also named after him. The synthesis in 1883 of the analgesic drug antipyrine, now called phenazone, was a commercial success. Antipyrine was the first synthetic drug and the most widely used drug until it was replaced by Aspirin in the early 20th century.
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Kai Brodersen
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- classical philologisttranslatorediting staffuniversity teacherhistorian of classical antiquity
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Kai Brodersen is a contemporary ancient historian and classicist on the faculty of the University of Erfurt. He has edited, and translated, both ancient works and modern classical studies. His research focuses on "Applied Sciences" in antiquity, geography, historiography, rhetoric and ancient jokes, mythography and paradoxography, Septuagint studies and Aristeas, inscriptions and curse tablets, early Greek and Hellenistic history, Roman provinces (including Britannia), women and men in the Ancient World, turning points of Ancient History, history of classical scholarship and reception, often with twist (including Asterix) - plus a book for children.
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Heinrich Scholz
- Enrolled in the University of Erlangen Nuremberg
- Studied in 1912-1913
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- university teachertheologianphilosophermathematicianhistorian of mathematics
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Heinrich Scholz was a German logician, philosopher, and Protestant theologian. He was a peer of Alan Turing who mentioned Scholz when writing with regard to the reception of "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem": "I have had two letters asking for reprints, one from Braithwaite at King's and one from a professor in Germany... They seemed very much interested in the paper. [...] I was disappointed by its reception here."
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Karl vom Stein zum Altenstein
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- politician
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Karl Sigmund Franz Freiherr vom Stein zum Altenstein was a Prussian politician and the first Prussian education minister. His most lasting impact was the reform of the Prussian educational system.
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Sasagu Arai
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- biblical scholar
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Sasagu Arai was a Japanese scholar of New Testament Study and researcher of early Christianity and Gnosticism. Arai was a Doctor of Theology. Professor emeritus of University of Tokyo and Keisen University (in which he took office as president), and a member of the Japan Academy. He graduated (1962) at Erlangen-Nürnberg University in Germany.
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Wilhelm Bousset
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- university teachertheologian
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Wilhelm Bousset was a German theologian and New Testament scholar. He was of Huguenot ancestry and a native of Lübeck. His most influential work was Kyrios Christos, an attempt to explain the origins of devotion to Christ as the product of second century Hellenistic forces, and is still the most widely influential academic work on early Christology, even though its conclusions are not supported by modern scholarship.
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David Einhorn
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- rabbi
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David Einhorn was a German rabbi and leader of Reform Judaism in the United States. In 1855, he became the first rabbi of the Har Sinai Congregation in Baltimore, the oldest Jewish-American congregation affiliated with the Reform movement since its inception. While there, he created an early American prayer book for the congregation that became one of the progenitors of the 1894 Union Prayer Book.
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İlhan Fuat Akyıldız
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- academicuniversity teachercomputer scientistresearcherengineer
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Ian F. Akyildiz is a Turkish-American electrical engineer. He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, in 1978, 1981 and 1984, respectively. Currently, he is the President and CTO of the Truva Inc. since March 1989. He retired from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Tech in 2021 after almost 35 years service as Ken Byers Chair Professor in Telecommunications and Chair of the Telecom group.
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Moritz Wagner
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- zoologistbiologistuniversity teacherwriterethnographer
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Moritz Wagner was a German explorer, collector, geographer and natural historian. Wagner devoted three years (1836–1839) to the exploration of Algiers: it was here that he made important observations in natural history, which he later supplemented and developed: that geographical isolation could play a key role in speciation.
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William Fogg Osgood
- Enrolled in the University of Erlangen Nuremberg
- Studied in 1889-1890
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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William Fogg Osgood was an American mathematician.
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Siegfried Balleis
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- politician
- Biography
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Siegfried Balleis is a German politician, representative of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria.
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Rudolf Kippenhahn
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- authorastronomeruniversity teacherphysicistscience communicator
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Rudolf Kippenhahn was a German astrophysicist and science author.
