100 Notable alumni of
University of Giessen
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The University of Giessen is 515th in the world, 191st in Europe, and 28th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Giessen sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Frank-Walter Steinmeier
- Enrolled in the University of Giessen
- 1976-1982 studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Frank-Walter Steinmeier is a German politician who became president of Germany on 19 March 2017. He was previously federal minister for foreign affairs from 2005 to 2009 and again from 2013 to 2017, as well as vice chancellor of Germany from 2007 to 2009. Steinmeier was chairman-in-office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in 2016.
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Alexander Gauland
- Occupations
- juristpoliticianopinion journalistnon-fiction writer
- Biography
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Eberhardt Alexander Gauland is a German politician, journalist and lawyer who has served as leader of the right-wing political party Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the Bundestag since September 2017 and co-leader of the party from December 2017 to November 2019. He has been a Member of the Bundestag (MdB) since September 2017. Gauland was the party's co-founder and was its federal spokesman from 2017 to 2019 and the party leader for the state of Brandenburg from 2013 to 2017.
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Wangari Muta Maathai
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- biologistpoliticianenvironmentalistveterinarianteacher
- Biography
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Wangarĩ Muta Maathai was a Kenyan social, environmental, and political activist who founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights. In 2004 she became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Harald Lesch
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- television presenterphilosophernon-fiction writerastrophysicistphysicist
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Harald Lesch is a German physicist, astronomer, natural philosopher, author, television presenter, professor of physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and professor of natural philosophy at the Munich University of Philosophy.
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Georg Büchner
- Enrolled in the University of Giessen
- Studied in 1833
- Occupations
- writerpoetrevolutionaryphysicianphysician writer
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Karl Georg Büchner was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement. He was also a revolutionary and the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. His literary achievements, though few in number, are generally held in great esteem in Germany and it is widely believed that, had it not been for his early death, he might have joined such central German literary figures as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller at the summit of their profession.
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August Kekulé
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- chemistuniversity teacherpedagogue
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Friedrich August Kekulé, later Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz, was a German organic chemist. From the 1850s until his death, Kekulé was one of the most prominent chemists in Europe, especially in the field of theoretical chemistry. He was the principal founder of the theory of chemical structure and in particular the Kekulé structure of benzene.
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Helge Braun
- Enrolled in the University of Giessen
- 1994-2001 studied medicine
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Helge Reinhold Braun is a German physician and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Between 2018 and 2021, he served as Head of the Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Affairs in the fourth coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. He was the Parliamentary Secretary of State for Bureaucracy Reduction and Federal-State Relations at the Chancellery between 2013 and 2018.
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Volker Bouffier
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- notarypoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Volker Bouffier is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Minister President of the German state of Hessen from 31 August 2010 to 31 May 2022. From 1 November 2014 until 31 October 2015 he was President of the Bundesrat and ex officio deputy to the President of Germany.
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Hans-Jochen Vogel
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- politicianjudge
- Biography
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Hans-Jochen Vogel was a German lawyer and a politician for the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He served as Mayor of Munich from 1960 to 1972, winning the 1972 Summer Olympics for the city and Governing Mayor of West Berlin in 1981, the only German ever to lead two cities with a million+ inhabitants. He was Federal Minister of Regional Planning, Construction and Urban Development from 1972 to 1974, and Federal Minister of Justice from 1974 to 1981. He served as leader of the SPD in the Bundestag from 1983 to 1991, and as Leader of the Social Democratic Party from 1987 to 1991. In 1993, he co-founded the organisation Gegen Vergessen – Für Demokratie (Against Oblivion – For Democracy). He was a member of the National Ethics Council of Germany from its beginning in 2001.
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Nia Künzer
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- association football playercivil servant
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Nia Tsholofelo Künzer is a retired German women's football player.
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Elke Büdenbender
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- judgejurist
- Biography
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Elke Büdenbender is a German jurist, and, since 1995, the wife of Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the current President of Germany.
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Wilhelm Liebknecht
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- peace activistwriterrevolutionarypoliticianjournalist
- Biography
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Wilhelm Martin Philipp Christian Ludwig Liebknecht was a German socialist and one of the principal founders of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). His political career was a pioneering project combining Marxist revolutionary theory with practical legal political activity. Under his leadership, the SPD grew from a tiny sect to become Germany's largest political party. He was the father of Karl Liebknecht and Theodor Liebknecht.
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Brigitte Zypries
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- politicianjurist
- Biography
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Brigitte Zypries is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Between 2017 and 2018, she served as Minister for Economics and Energy in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel; she was the first woman to hold that office in German history.
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Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel
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- politicianmanager
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Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel is a former German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as member of the management board of GIZ since 2019.
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Mariana Iris Harder-Kühnel
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- politician
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Mariana Harder-Kühnel is a German politician (AfD). Since 24 October 2017 she has served as member of the Bundestag.
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Jürgen Stock
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- lawyeruniversity teacherpolice officerinternational forum participantjurist
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Jürgen Stock is a German police officer and academic. He has served as secretary general of Interpol since November 7, 2014.
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Hermann Otto Solms
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- politiciantreasurer
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Hermann Otto Solms is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP).
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Walther Bothe
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- university teacherchemistphysicistinventormathematician
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Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe was a German nuclear physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 with Max Born.
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Johann Konrad Dippel
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- anatomistalchemistchemistphysicianphilosopher
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Johann Konrad Dippel, also spelled Johann Conrad Dippel, was a German Pietist theologian, physician, and alchemist.
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Ludwig Börne
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- writerpoet lawyerpoetliterary criticjournalist
- Biography
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Karl Ludwig Börne was a German-Jewish political writer and satirist, who is considered part of the Young Germany movement.
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August Wilhelm von Hofmann
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- chemistuniversity teacher
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August Wilhelm von Hofmann was a German chemist who made considerable contributions to organic chemistry. His research on aniline helped lay the basis of the aniline-dye industry, and his research on coal tar laid the groundwork for his student Charles Mansfield's practical methods for extracting benzene and toluene and converting them into nitro compounds and amines. Hofmann's discoveries include formaldehyde, hydrazobenzene, the isonitriles, and allyl alcohol. He prepared three ethylamines and tetraethylammonium compounds and established their structural relationship to ammonia.
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Nikos Kotzias
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- diplomatarchaeologistuniversity teacherpoliticianinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Nikolaos Kotzias, GCM is a Greek politician and diplomat who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2015 to 2018.
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Ascanio Sobrero
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- chemistphysicianinventor
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Ascanio Sobrero was an Italian chemist, born in Casale Monferrato. He studied under Théophile-Jules Pelouze at the University of Turin, who had worked with the explosive material guncotton.
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Emil Erlenmeyer
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- chemistuniversity teacherpharmacist
- Biography
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Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer, known simply as Emil Erlenmeyer, was a German chemist known for contributing to the early development of the theory of structure, formulating the Erlenmeyer rule, and designing the Erlenmeyer flask, a type of specialized flask, ubiquitous in chemistry laboratories, which is named after him.
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Ákos Hadházy
- Enrolled in the University of Giessen
- Studied veterinary medicine
- Occupations
- politicianveterinarian
- Biography
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Ákos Ányos Hadházy is a Hungarian veterinarian and politician. He was co-President of the Politics Can Be Different (Lehet Más a Politika; LMP) party from 2016 to 2018, and has been a member of the National Assembly (MP) from the party's National List since 2016, and an independent representative for Budapest 8th Constituency since 2022.
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Heinrich von Brentano
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- notarypoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Heinrich Joseph Maximilian Johann Maria von Brentano di Tremezzo, known professionally as Heinrich von Brentano, was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1955 to 1961.
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Ingrid Matthäus-Maier
- Enrolled in the University of Giessen
- In 1965 studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- judgecivil rights advocatepoliticianjuristbank manager
- Biography
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Ingrid Matthäus-Maier is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
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Theodor Fliedner
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- pastornurse
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Theodor Fliedner was a German Lutheran minister and founder of Lutheran deaconess training. In 1836, he founded Kaiserswerther Diakonie, a hospital and deaconess training center. Together with his wives Friederike Münster and Caroline Bertheau, he is regarded as the renewer of the apostolic deaconess ministry. His work in nursing was pioneering for Florence Nightingale, who spent a few months in Kaiserswerth in 1850.
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Charles-Adolphe Wurtz
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- physicianpoliticianuniversity teacherchemist
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Charles Adolphe Wurtz was an Alsatian French chemist. He is best remembered for his decades-long advocacy for the atomic theory and for ideas about the structures of chemical compounds, against the skeptical opinions of chemists such as Marcellin Berthelot and Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville. He is well known by organic chemists for the Wurtz reaction, to form carbon-carbon bonds by reacting alkyl halides with sodium, and for his discoveries of ethylamine, ethylene glycol, and the aldol reaction. Wurtz was also an influential writer and educator.
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Michael Hüther
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- economistuniversity teacher
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Michael Hüther is a German economist who currently serves as director of the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft. He has previously been the chief economist of DekaBank. Hüther also is an honorary professor at the European Business School International University Schloss Reichartshausen.
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Johannes Dieckmann
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- politicianjournalist
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Johannes Dieckmann was a German journalist and politician who served as the 1st President of the Volkshammer, the parliament of East Germany, from 1949 to 1969.
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Christoph Cellarius
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- university teacherorientalistclassical scholarpedagoguehistorian
- Biography
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Christoph Cellarius (22 November 1638 – 4 June 1707) was a German classical scholar from Schmalkalden who held positions in Weimar and Halle. Although the Ancient-Medieval-Modern division of history was used earlier by Italian Renaissance scholars Leonardo Bruni and Flavio Biondo, Cellarius' Universal History Divided into an Ancient, Medieval, and New Period helped popularize it. After him, this tripartite division became standard.
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Ludwig Bamberger
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- writerpoliticianrevolutionarybankereconomist
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Ludwig Bamberger was a German Jewish economist, politician, revolutionary and writer.
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Udo Bullmann
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- politician
- Biography
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Udo Bullmann is a German politician who has been serving as a member of the European Parliament since 1999. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), part of the Party of European Socialists.
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Rudolf Stammler
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- lawyeruniversity teacherphilosopher of laweconomistjurist
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Karl Eduard Julius Theodor Rudolf Stammler was an influential German philosopher of law. He distinguished a purely formal concept of law from the ideal, the realization of justice. He thought that, rather than reacting and adjusting the law to economic pressures, the law should be deliberately steered towards the current ideal.
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Alexander William Williamson
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- chemistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Prof Alexander William Williamson FRS FRSE PCS MRIA was an English chemist. He is best known today for the Williamson ether synthesis.
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Ingo Wellenreuther
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- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Ingo Wellenreuther is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag from 2002 to 2021.
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Franz Joseph Emil Fischer
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- chemist
- Biography
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Franz Joseph Emil Fischer was a German chemist. He was the founder and first director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Coal Research. He is known for the discovery of the Fischer–Tropsch process.
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Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg
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- rabbi
- Biography
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Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg was an Ashkenazi Orthodox rabbi, posek ("decisor" of Jewish law) and rosh yeshiva. He is best known as the author of the work of responsa Seridei Eish.
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Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost
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- physicistuniversity teachertheologianphysicianchemist
- Biography
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Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost was a German physician and theologian who first described the scientific phenomenon eponymously named the Leidenfrost effect.
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Georg Gottfried Gervinus
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- historianwriteruniversity teacherpoliticianliterary historian
- Biography
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Georg Gottfried Gervinus was a German literary and political historian.
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Kirsten Fründt
- Enrolled in the University of Giessen
- In 1996 graduated with Diploma of Engineering in landscape ecology
- Occupations
- politiciangardenerofficial
- Biography
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Kirsten Fründt was a German politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, she served as Landrat of Marburg-Biedenkopf from 2014 until her death.
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Joachim Prinz
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- rabbi
- Biography
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Joachim Prinz was a German-American rabbi who was an outspoken activist against Nazism in Germany in the 1930s and later became a leader in the civil rights movement in the United States in the 1960s.
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Richard von Volkmann
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- writersurgeonuniversity teacherphysician
- Biography
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Richard von Volkmann was a prominent German surgeon and author of poetry and fiction. Some of his works were illustrated by his son, Hans, a well known artist.
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Carl Remigius Fresenius
- Enrolled in the University of Giessen
- Studied in 1842
- Occupations
- chemistuniversity teacherscientist
- Biography
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Carl Remigius Fresenius, was a German chemist, known for his studies in analytical chemistry.
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Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
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- pteridologistuniversity teacherzoologistentomologistagrostologist
- Biography
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Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck 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 described approximately 7,000 plant species (almost as many as Linnaeus himself). His last official act as president of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina was to admit Charles Darwin as a member. He was the author of numerous monographs on botany and zoology. His best-known works deal with fungi.
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Heike Hänsel
- Enrolled in the University of Giessen
- 1990-1997 graduated with Diplom in ecotrophology
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Heike Hänsel is a German politician, representing The Left. Born in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Heike Hänsel served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg from 2005 to 2021.
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Friedrich Ludwig Weidig
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- journalisttheologianopinion journalistpedagogue
- Biography
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Friedrich Ludwig Weidig was a German Protestant theologian, pastor, activist, teacher and journalist. Initially working as a teacher in Butzbach, he then spent a short time as a pastor in Ober-Gleen, a district of Giessen. In what is now Hesse and the Middle Rhine, he was one of the main figures of the Vormärz and a pioneer of the 1848 Revolution.
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Henri de Saussure
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- mineralogistornithologistentomologistzoologistgeologist
- Biography
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Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure was a Swiss mineralogist and entomologist specialising in studies of Hymenoptera and Orthopteroid insects. He also was a prolific taxonomist.
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Emil Fuchs
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- theologianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Emil Fuchs was a German theologian, the son of Georg Friedrich Fuchs and Auguste Louise Wilhelmine Lonni Hauss.
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Benjamin Mazar
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- archaeologisthistorianwriterpedagogueanthropologist
- Biography
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Benjamin Mazar was a pioneering Israeli historian, recognized as the "dean" of biblical archaeologists. He shared the national passion for the archaeology of Israel that also attracts considerable international interest due to the region's biblical links. He is known for his excavations at the most significant biblical site in Israel: south and south west of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. In 1932 he conducted the first archaeological excavation under Jewish auspices in Israel at Beit She'arim (the largest catacombs ever found in Israel) and in 1948 was the first archaeologist to receive a permit granted by the new State of Israel (Tell Qasile, 1948). Mazar was trained as an Assyriologist and was an expert on biblical history, authoring more than 100 publications on the subject. He developed the field of historical geography of Israel. For decades he served as the chairman of the Israel Exploration Society and of the Archaeological Council of Israel (which he founded as the authority responsible for all archaeological excavations and surveys in Israel). Between 1951 and 1977, Mazar served as Professor of Biblical History and Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1952 he became Rector of the university and later its president for eight years commencing in 1953.
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Eduard David
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Eduard Heinrich Rudolph David was a German politician. He was an important figure in the history of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and of the German political labour movement. After the German Revolution of 1918–19 he was a Minister without portfolio in the government of Philipp Scheidemann, before becoming Minister of the Interior in June 1919 in the succeeding government headed by Gustav Bauer. David remained in that position until October of that year.
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Lorenz Heister
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- surgeonanatomistuniversity teacherbotanist
- Biography
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Lorenz Heister was a German anatomist, surgeon and botanist born in Frankfurt am Main.
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Friedrich Christian Diez
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- romanistwriteruniversity teacherlinguist
- Biography
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Friedrich Christian Diez was a German philologist. The two works on which his fame rests are the Grammar of the Romance Languages (published 1836–1844), and the Etymological Dictionary of the Romance Languages (1853, and later editions). He spent most of his career at University of Bonn.
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Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus
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- carcinologistzoologistuniversity teacherbotanist
- Biography
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Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus was a German zoologist and anatomist. He was an opponent of the ideas of Ernst Haeckel.
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Adolf Spiess
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- pedagoguegymnast
- Biography
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Karl Adolf Spieß was a German gymnast and educator who contributed to the development of school gymnastics for children of both sexes in Switzerland and Germany.
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Carl Schmidt
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- pharmacologistpharmacistphysiologistchemistprofessor
- Biography
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Carl Ernst Heinrich Schmidt, also Karl Genrikhovich Schmidt was a Russian and Baltic German chemist from the Livonia Governorate, Russian Empire.
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Charles Follen
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- university teacherwriterpoet
- Biography
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Charles Theodor Christian Friedrich Follen (September 6, 1796 – January 13, 1840) was a German poet and patriot, who later moved to the United States and became the first professor of German at Harvard University, a Unitarian minister, and a radical abolitionist. He was fired by Harvard for his abolitionist statements.
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Samuel Adler
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- rabbicleric
- Biography
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Samuel Adler was a leading German-American Reform rabbi, Talmudist, and author.
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Martin Wagenschein
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- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Martin Wagenschein was a science educator who worked in mathematical and scientific didactics.
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Joachim Jungius
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- naturalistmathematicianuniversity teacherphysicistbiologist
- Biography
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Joachim Jungius was a German mathematician, logician and philosopher of science.
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Adolph Strecker
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- chemistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Adolph Strecker was a German chemist who is remembered primarily for his work with amino acids.
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Jacob Volhard
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- chemistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Jacob Volhard was the German chemist who discovered, together with his student Hugo Erdmann, the Volhard–Erdmann cyclization reaction. He was also responsible for the improvement of the Hell–Volhard–Zelinsky halogenation.
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August Köhler
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicist
- Biography
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August Karl Johann Valentin Köhler was a German professor and early staff member of Carl Zeiss AG in Jena, Germany. He is best known for his development of the microscopy technique of Köhler illumination, an important principle in optimizing microscopic resolution power by evenly illuminating the field of view. This invention revolutionized light microscope design and is widely used in traditional as well as modern digital imaging techniques today.
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Natalie Pawlik
- Enrolled in the University of Giessen
- Studied in 2016
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Natalie Pawlik is a German politician (SPD) and member of the German Bundestag since October 2021. Since 14 April 2022, Pawlik has been the Commissioner for Matters Related to Ethnic German Resettlers and National Minorities.
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Carl Theodor Welcker
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- politicianuniversity teacheropinion journalistjuristjournalist
- Biography
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Carl Theodor Georg Philipp Welcker was a German legal scholar, law professor, politician, and journalist.
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Georg Ludwig Hartig
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- university teacherwriterforestry scientist
- Biography
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Georg Ludwig Hartig was a German forester.
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George August Samuel of Nassau-Idstein
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- Fürstmilitary personnel
- Biography
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George August Samuel of Nassau-Idstein was Graf from 1677, and Prince from 1688 until his death, of Nassau-Idstein. He worked mainly in Wiesbaden.
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Moshe Smoira
- Years
- 1888-1961 (aged 73)
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Moshe Smoira was an Israeli jurist and the first President of the Supreme Court of Israel.
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Rudolph Leuckart
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- bryologistuniversity teacherbotanistentomologistzoologist
- Biography
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Karl Georg Friedrich Rudolf Leuckart was a German zoologist born in Helmstedt. He was a nephew to naturalist Friedrich Sigismund Leuckart (1794–1843).
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Ferdinand Adolf Kehrer
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- university teachergynaecologistobstetrician
- Biography
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Ferdinand Adolf Kehrer was a German gynecologist who was a native of Guntersblum in Rhenish Hesse. He was the father of neurologist Ferdinand Adalbert Kehrer (1883–1966).
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Friedrich Christoph Schlosser
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- historianwriterlibrarian
- Biography
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Friedrich Christoph Schlosser was a German historian, Professor of History at the University of Heidelberg and a Privy Councillor in Prussia.
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Charlotte von Siebold
- Occupations
- physiciangynaecologist
- Biography
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Marian Theodore Charlotte Heidenreich von Siebold was a German physician. She is regarded as the first gynecologist in Germany. She was the daughter of the physicians Damian and Regina von Siebold and was an early assistant of her parents. She graduated with a degree in obstetrics at the Giessen University in 1817.
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Dagmar Schmidt
- Occupations
- politicianhistorian
- Biography
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Dagmar Schmidt is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag, the German parliament, since 2013.
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Hermann von Ihering
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- ichthyologistteacherentomologistornithologistphysician
- Biography
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Hermann Friedrich Albert von Ihering was a German-Brazilian zoologist. He was the oldest son of Rudolf von Jhering.
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Henry Bence Jones
- Occupations
- physicianchemist
- Biography
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Henry Bence Jones FRS was an English physician and chemist.
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Alexander von Brill
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- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Alexander Wilhelm von Brill was a German mathematician.
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Ulrich K. Preuss
- Occupations
- juristuniversity teacherjudgepolitical scientist
- Biography
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Ulrich K. Preuß teaches Theories of the State at the Hertie School of Governance.
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Karl Engisch
- Occupations
- university teacherjurist
- Biography
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Karl Engisch was a German jurist and a Philosopher of Law. He was described by Hans Joachim Hirsch as one of the "outstanding theorists of criminal justice of the century" ("herausragenden Strafrechtstheoretiker des vergangenen Jahrhunderts").
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Friedrich Balduin von Gagern
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Friedrich Balduin, Baron von Gagern was a German soldier.
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Angela D. Friederici
- Occupations
- psychologistprofessorneuroscientist
- Biography
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Angela Friederici is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, and is an internationally recognized expert in neuropsychology and linguistics. She is the author of over 400 academic articles and book chapters, and has edited 15 books on linguistics, neuroscience, language and psychology.
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Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker
- Occupations
- writerclassical scholaruniversity teacherlinguistclassical archaeologist
- Biography
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Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker was a German classical philologist and archaeologist.
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Max von Forckenbeck
- Enrolled in the University of Giessen
- Studied in 1838
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Maximilian Franz August von Forckenbeck (23 October 1821 – 26 May 1892) was a German lawyer and liberal politician who served as Mayor of Berlin from 1878 until his death. His is considered one of the most important mayors of the city because of his prudent governing style during Berlin's rise as the capital of a unified Germany.
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Johann Jacob Dillenius
- Occupations
- mycologistbryologistuniversity teacherpteridologistbotanist
- Biography
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Johann Jacob Dillen Dillenius was a German botanist. He is known for his Hortus Elthamensis ("Eltham Garden") on the rare plants around Eltham, London, and for his Historia muscorum ("History of Mosses"), a natural history of lower plants including mosses, liverworts, hornworts, lycopods, algae, lichens and fungi.
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Karl Christian von Langsdorf
- Occupations
- university teacherengineermathematician
- Biography
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Karl Christian von Langsdorf, also known as Carl Christian von Langsdorff, was a German mathematician, geologist, natural scientist and engineer.
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Ralf Reski
- Occupations
- geneticistbiotechnologistuniversity teacherbotanist
- Biography
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Ralf Reski is a German professor of plant biotechnology and former dean of the Faculty of Biology of the University of Freiburg. He is also affiliated to the French École supérieure de biotechnologie Strasbourg (ESBS) and Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.
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Ernst Ludwig Alfred Hegar
- Occupations
- physiciansurgeongynaecologist
- Biography
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Ernst Ludwig Alfred Hegar, aka Alfred Hegar, was a German gynecologist famous for developing new medical tools and techniques. He was born on 6 January 1830 in Darmstadt, Germany and died on 5 August 1914. He was buried in Breisgau.
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Ernst Dieffenbach
- Occupations
- ethnologistuniversity teachermalacologistexplorerphysician
- Biography
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Johann Karl Ernst Dieffenbach, also known as Ernest Dieffenbach, was a German physician, geologist and naturalist, the first trained scientist to live and work in New Zealand, where he travelled widely under the auspices of the New Zealand Company, returning in 1841–42 and publishing in English his Travels in New Zealand in 1843.
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Julius Stinde
- Occupations
- chemistjournalistwriter
- Biography
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Julius Stinde, was a German author born at Kirchnüchel in Holstein, the son of a clergyman.
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John Stenhouse
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- chemist
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John Stenhouse FRS FRSE FIC FCS was a Scottish chemist. In 1854, he invented one of the first practical respirators.
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Ferdinand Fellmann
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- philosopher
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Ferdinand Fellmann was a German philosopher. After the expulsion of his family in 1946 out of Hirschberg (now Jelenia Góra, Poland) Fellmann grew up in Hameln/Weser (Germany).
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Dieter Enders
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- chemistuniversity teachernon-fiction writer
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Dieter Enders was a German organic chemist who did work developing asymmetric synthesis, in particular using modified prolines as chiral auxiliaries. The most widely applied of his chiral auxiliaries are the complementary SAMP and RAMP auxiliaries, which allow for asymmetric alpha-alkylation of aldehydes and ketones. In 1974 he obtained his doctorate from the University of Gießen studying under Dieter Seebach and followed this with a postdoc at Harvard University studying with Elias James Corey. He then moved back to Gießen to obtain his Habilitation in 1979, whereupon he became a lecturer, soon obtaining Professorship in 1980 as Professor of Organic Chemistry at Bonn. In 1985 he moved to Aachen, where he was Full Professor of Organic Chemistry and Director. He was editor-in-chief of Synthesis and was on the advisory boards of many other journals including Letters in Organic Chemistry and SynLett.
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Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Thudichum
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- physicianbiochemist
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Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Thudichum, also known as John Louis William Thudichum was a German-born physician and biochemist.
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Heinrich Dernburg
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- university teacherpoliticianjurist
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Heinrich Dernburg was a German jurist, professor, and politician. Born in Mainz, Grand Duchy of Hesse, he was the brother of Friedrich Dernburg and the maternal grandfather of the historian Heinrich Sproemberg.
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Milda Vainiutė
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- university teacherpoliticianjurist
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Milda Vainiutė is a Lithuanian legal scholar and politician.
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Andreas Reinicke
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- juristdiplomat
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Andreas Reinicke is a German diplomat and currently the German Ambassador to Tunisia. He has been the European Union Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process. Alberto Oggero, an Italian diplomat, served as his deputy until 31 December 2013. Reinicke was appointed by the Council of the European Union on 23 January 2012, and his mandate was repealed on 1 January 2014, following proposals to the Political and Security Committee by High Representative of EU for Common Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton.
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Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben
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- university teachersurgeonmilitary physician
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Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben was a German surgeon born in Frankfurt (Oder).
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Viktor von Lang
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- crystallographerphysicistuniversity teacherpoliticianchemist
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Viktor von Lang was an Austrian chemist. He is counted among the pioneers and founders of crystal physics.
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Ludwig Noiré
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- philosopherteacher
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Ludwig Noiré was a German philosopher, known for his studies involving the philosophy of language. He was born in Alzey.
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch
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- researchergeologist
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Dirk Schulze-Makuch is a professor at the Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Technical University Berlin, Germany and Adjunct Professor at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences Washington State University, Pullman, WA. He is best known for his publications on extraterrestrial life, being coauthor of five books on the topic: The Cosmic Zoo: Complex Life on Many Worlds (2017), A One Way Mission to Mars: Colonizing the Red Planet (2011), We Are Not Alone: Why We Have Already Found Extraterrestrial Life (2010), Cosmic Biology: How Life could Evolve on Other Worlds (2010), and Life in the Universe: Expectations and Constraints (2004, 2008, 2018). In 2012 he published with David Darling Megacatastrophes! Nine Strange Ways the World Could End. In 2013 he published the second edition of his science fiction novel Alien Encounter. Together with Paul Davies he proposed in 2010 exploration of Mars by a one-way trip to the planet.
