100 Notable alumni of
University of Rostock
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The University of Rostock is 669th in the world, 241st in Europe, and 31st in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Rostock sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Rudolf Steiner
- Occupations
- playwrightfoundersculptorediting staffesotericist
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Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy. His teachings are influenced by Christian Gnosticism or neognosticism. Many of his ideas are pseudoscientific. He was also prone to pseudohistory.
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Tycho Brahe
- Enrolled in the University of Rostock
- Studied in 1567
- Occupations
- autobiographeralchemistpoetwriterastrologer
- Biography
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Tycho Brahe, generally called Tycho for short, was a Danish astronomer of the Renaissance, known for his comprehensive and unprecedentedly accurate astronomical observations. He was known during his lifetime as an astronomer, astrologer, and alchemist. He was the last major astronomer before the invention of the telescope. Tycho Brahe has also been described as the greatest pre-telescopic astronomer.
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Heinrich Schliemann
- Occupations
- art historianbusinesspersonarchaeologistentrepreneurtraveler
- Biography
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Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius Schliemann was a German businessman and an influential amateur archaeologist. He was an advocate of the historicity of places mentioned in the works of Homer and an archaeological excavator of Hisarlik, now presumed to be the site of Troy, along with the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns. His work lent weight to the idea that Homer's Iliad reflects historical events. Schliemann's excavation of nine layers of archaeological remains has been criticized as destructive of significant historical artefacts, including the layer that is believed to be the Homeric Troy.
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Joachim Gauck
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- politicianjournalistpastoranti-communistnon-fiction writer
- Biography
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Joachim Wilhelm Gauck is a German politician who served as President of Germany from 2012 to 2017. A former Lutheran pastor, he came to prominence as an anti-communist civil rights activist in East Germany.
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Paul Ehrlich
- Occupations
- physicianchemistbiologistpharmacologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Paul Ehrlich was a Nobel Prize-winning German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology and antimicrobial chemotherapy. Among his foremost achievements were finding a cure for syphilis in 1909 and inventing an important modification of the technique for Gram staining bacteria. The methods he developed for staining tissue made it possible to distinguish between different types of blood cells, which led to the ability to diagnose numerous blood diseases.
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Axel Oxenstierna
- Enrolled in the University of Rostock
- Studied in 1599
- Occupations
- politicianland ownermilitary personneldiplomat
- Biography
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Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna was a Swedish statesman and Count of Södermöre. He became a member of the Swedish Privy Council in 1609 and served as Lord High Chancellor of Sweden from 1612 until his death. He was a confidant of King Gustavus Adolphus and then Queen Christina, for whom he was at first regent.
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Anetta Kahane
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 71)
- Enrolled in the University of Rostock
- 1974-1979 studied Latin American studies
- Occupations
- interpreterjournalistwritertranslatorunofficial collaborator
- Biography
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Anetta Kahane is a German left-wing journalist, author and activist against antisemitism, racism and right-wing extremism. From 1974 to 1982 she was an unofficial collaborator for the East German Stasi secret police. In 1998 she founded the Amadeu Antonio Foundation, which she has led since 2003. She has been a target of right wing hate campaigns since 2002 and of possible terror plans since 2015, which are investigated by the German General prosecutor. In 2015 she sparked outrage after stating that the fact that "one-third of Germany's territory has remained White" is "the biggest declaration of bankruptcy" of German politics since Germany's reunification.
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Ulrich von Hutten
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- monkpoliticianpoetImperial Knightwriter
- Biography
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Ulrich von Hutten was a German knight, scholar, poet and satirist, who later became a follower of Martin Luther and a Protestant reformer.
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Johann Heinrich von Thünen
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- geographerfarmereconomist
- Biography
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Johann Heinrich von Thünen, sometimes spelled Thuenen, was a prominent nineteenth-century economist and a native of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, now in northern Germany.
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Uwe Johnson
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- translatornovelistwriter
- Biography
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Uwe Johnson was a German writer, editor, and scholar. Such prominent writers and scholars as Günter Grass and Hans Mayer declared Johnson to be the most significant writer to emerge from East Germany. During the 1950s, he had troubles with the East German authorities, being treated as a "dissident" both for political reasons and for Modernist experiments in his works which made him opposed to the dominant doctrine of Socialist realism; after moving to West Berlin in 1959, he gained the label of "the author of the two Germanies", as, while criticizing East Germany as the state which betrayed the Socialist ideals, he didn't regard West Germany as a viable alternative and opposed the division of Germany in general. His works were dedicated both to East and West German societies and examined the relations between them.
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Friedrich Hund
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- chemistuniversity teacherphysicistnon-fiction writernuclear physicist
- Biography
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Friedrich Hermann Hund was a German physicist from Karlsruhe known for his work on atoms and molecules. He is known for the Hund's rules to predict the electron configuration of chemical elements. His work on Hund's cases and molecular orbital theory allowed to understand the structure of molecules.
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Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann
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- writerphilosopher
- Biography
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Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann was a German philosopher, independent scholar and writer. He was the author of the influential Philosophy of the Unconscious (1869). Von Hartmann's notable ideas include the theory of the Unconscious and a pessimistic interpretation of the "best of all possible worlds" concept in metaphysics.
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Fritz Reuter
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- poet lawyerpainterpoetdraftspersonwriter
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Fritz Reuter was a novelist from Northern Germany who was a prominent contributor to Low German literature.
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Albrecht Kossel
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- physiologistbiochemistphysicianuniversity teacherchemist
- Biography
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Ludwig Karl Martin Leonhard Albrecht Kossel was a German biochemist and pioneer in the study of genetics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1910 for his work in determining the chemical composition of nucleic acids, the genetic substance of biological cells.
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Eugen Gerstenmaier
- Occupations
- resistance fighterpoliticianProtestant theologiantheologian
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Eugen Karl Albrecht Gerstenmaier was a German Protestant theologian, resistance fighter in the Third Reich, and a CDU politician. From 1954 to 1969, he served as the third president of the Bundestag. With a tenure of over 14 years, he is, as yet, the longest serving presiding officer of the German parliament and also the only person to preside over the Bundestag during four legislative periods (the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Bundestag).
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Paul Friedrich I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
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- sovereign
- Biography
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Paul Friedrich ruled as Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin from 1837 to 1842.
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Michael Maier
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- philosopherphysicianmythographeralchemistmystic
- Biography
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Michael Maier was a German physician and counsellor to Rudolf II Habsburg. He was a learned alchemist, epigramist, and amateur composer.
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Maxime Hans Kuczynski
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- anthropologistphysicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Max "Maxime" Hans Kuczyński was a German physician of Polish-Jewish origin. He was the father of the former President of Peru, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.
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Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt
- Enrolled in the University of Rostock
- Studied in 1680
- Occupations
- military personneljurist
- Biography
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Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt was a Swedish general, particularly known for his participation in the Great Northern War.
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Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt
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- judgeneuropathologistneurologistpsychiatristuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt was a German neurologist and neuropathologist. Although he is typically credited as the physician to first describe the Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, this has been disputed. He was born in Harburg an der Elbe and died in Munich.
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Erich Salomon
- Occupations
- reporterphotographerphotojournalistjournalistjurist
- Biography
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Erich Salomon was a German Jewish news photographer known for his pictures in the diplomatic and legal professions and the innovative methods he used to acquire them.
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George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Occupations
- monarch
- Biography
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George ruled the state of Mecklenburg-Strelitz as Grand Duke of Mecklenburg from 1816 until his death.
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Carl Brockelmann
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- orientalistuniversity teacherlinguist
- Biography
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Carl Brockelmann German Semiticist, was the foremost orientalist of his generation. He was a professor at the universities in Breslau, Berlin and, from 1903, Königsberg. He is best known for his multi-volume Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (first published 1898–1902) ('History of Arabic literature') which included all writers in Arabic to 1937, and remains the fundamental reference volume for all Arabic literature, apart from the Christian Arabic texts (covered by Georg Graf).
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Hans Brask
- Enrolled in the University of Rostock
- Studied in 1486
- Occupations
- Catholic priestpriestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Hans Brask was a Swedish Bishop of Linköping.
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Harald Ringstorff
- Enrolled in the University of Rostock
- 1960-1965 graduated with Doctor in chemistry
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Harald Ringstorff was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Minister President of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. He headed a coalition government of the SPD and PDS (since 2007 the Left Party, Die Linke) from 1998 until 2006, and subsequently headed a coalition between the SPD and CDU. With a term of almost ten years, he is the longest-serving former incumbent to date (as of 2024). He served as President of the Bundesrat in 2006/07.
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Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
- Occupations
- chess playerlibrariancryptographernon-fiction writer
- Biography
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Augustus II, called the Younger (German: August der Jüngere), a member of the House of Welf was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. In the estate division of the House of Welf of 1635, he received the Principality of Wolfenbüttel which he ruled until his death. Considered one of the most literate princes of his time, he is known for founding the Herzog August Library at his Wolfenbüttel residence, then the largest collection of books and manuscripts north of the Alps.
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Günther Kleiber
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Günther Kleiber was a former East German politician. He was a member of the politburo of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) from 1984 to 1989, and previously served as a minister for machinery, agricultural machinery and vehicle construction from 1973 to 1986. He was also a member of the SED central committee and the People's Chamber from 1967. He was Vice Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1971 to 1989. From 1986 to 1989, he was the representative of the GDR to COMECON.
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Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach
- Years
- 1792-1847 (aged 55)
- Occupations
- physiciansurgeonuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach was a German surgeon. He was born in Königsberg and died in Berlin.
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Georg-Henning Graf von Bassewitz-Behr
- Biography
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Georg-Henning Graf von Bassewitz-Behr was an SS-Gruppenführer who served as an SS and Police Leader in Dnepropetrovsk, Mogilev and Hamburg during the Second World War.
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Wilhelm Kettler
- Occupations
- university teacher
- Biography
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Wilhelm Kettler was the Duke of Courland, a Baltic German region in today's Latvia. He ruled the western Courland portion of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, while his brother Friedrich ruled the eastern Semigallia portion.
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Erhard Krack
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Erhard Krack was a German politician and mayor of East Berlin from 1974 to 1990.
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Carl Hermann Busse
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- philosopherwriterpoetliterary critic
- Biography
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Carl Busse (12 November 1872 – 3 December 1918) was a German lyric poet. He worked as a literary critic and published his own poetry and prose, occasionally under the pseudonym Fritz Döring.
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Camilo Escalona
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Camilo Escalona Medina is a Chilean politician. He was the President of the Senate. He served as chairman of the Socialist Party of Chile from May 2006 until January 2010.
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Caspar Bartholin the Elder
- Occupations
- philosopherphysicianwriterpolymathanatomist
- Biography
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Caspar Bartholin the Elder was a Danish physician, scientist and theologian.
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Nicholas Mercator
- Enrolled in the University of Rostock
- Studied in 1632-1641
- Occupations
- music theoristastronomerscientistuniversity teachermusicologist
- Biography
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Nicholas Mercator (c. 1620, Holstein – 1687, Versailles), also known by his German name Kauffmann, was a 17th-century mathematician.
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Johann von Rist
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Johann Rist was a German poet and dramatist best known for his hymns, which inspired musical settings and have remained in hymnals.
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Armin Willingmann
- Occupations
- ministerpoliticianuniversity teacherlegal historianjurist
- Biography
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Armin Willingmann is a German legal scholar and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as Deputy Minister-President and State Minister for Research, Energy, Climate Protection and the Environment in the government of Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt Reiner Haseloff since 2021.
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Christian Reiher
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Christian Reiher is a German mathematician. He is the fifth most successful participant in the history of the International Mathematical Olympiad, having won four gold medals in the years 2000 to 2003 and a bronze medal in 1999.
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Johannes Nikolaus Tetens
- Enrolled in the University of Rostock
- Studied in 1755-1758
- Occupations
- psychologistuniversity teacherphysicistphilosophermathematician
- Biography
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Johannes Nikolaus Tetens was a German-Danish philosopher, statistician and scientist.
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Franz Grashof
- Occupations
- university teachermechanical engineer
- Biography
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Franz Grashof was a German engineer. He was a professor of Applied Mechanics at the Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe.
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Joachim Jungius
- Enrolled in the University of Rostock
- 1606-1608 studied metaphysics
- 1616-1617 studied medicine
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- botanistphilosopherbiologistphysicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Joachim Jungius was a German mathematician, logician and philosopher of science.
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Abraham Calovius
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- writeruniversity teachertheologian
- Biography
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Abraham Calovius was a Lutheran theologian, and was one of the champions of Lutheran orthodoxy in the 17th century.
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Fritz Hofmann
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- inventorpharmacistchemist
- Biography
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Fritz Hofmann was a German organic chemist who first synthesized synthetic rubber.
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Philip II, Duke of Pomerania
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- aristocrat
- Biography
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Philip II, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin was from 1606 to 1618 the reigning duke of Pomerania-Stettin and is considered to be among of the most artistic of the Pomeranian dukes. He married Sophia of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (1579-1618) in 1607. The marriage remained childless.
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Monika Krause-Fuchs
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- university teachersociologist
- Biography
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Monika Krause-Fuchs was a German sociologist and sex educator who lived and worked in Cuba between 1962 and 1990. She was the first director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX) and played a key role in the development and implementation of a modern, scientific and effective national program for sex education and family planning in Cuba.
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Friedrich Chrysander
- Occupations
- music criticwritermusicologistediting staff
- Biography
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Karl Franz Friedrich Chrysander was a German music historian, critic and publisher, whose edition of the works of George Frideric Handel and authoritative writings on many other composers established him as a pioneer of 19th-century musicology.
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Kettil Karlsson
- Years
- 1433-1465 (aged 32)
- Occupations
- priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Kettil Karlsson was a Swedish clergyman, diplomat, military leader and statesman during the Kalmar Union era. He was a member of the house of Vasa. At age 25, he was elected Bishop of Linköping. He rebelled against King Christian I in 1463, was Captain General (rikshövitsman) and de facto regent of Sweden from February to August 1464, stepping down during the brief return of King Charles Canutesson from exile. After falling out with King Charles, Kettil Karlsson was subsequently elected Lord Protector and Regent (riksföreståndare) of Sweden from 26 December 1464 to his death.
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Caren Metschuck
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Caren Metschuck is a German former swimmer and a multiple Olympic gold medalist. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, she won gold medals in the 100 m butterfly, 4×100 m freestyle relay team and 4×100 m medley relay, becoming the most successful female competitor of the Summer Olympic Games that year.
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Karl-Heinz Schröter
- Enrolled in the University of Rostock
- Studied in 1975-1980
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Karl-Heinz Schröter is a German politician (Social Democratic Party). He is the current State Minister of the Interior government of Minister-President Dietmar Woidke of Brandenburg. He previously served as district administrator of the Oberhavel district (country Brandenburg) and was a member of the twelfth German Bundestag.
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Johan Wilcke
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- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Johan Carl Wilcke was a Swedish physicist.
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Friedrich Syrup
- Occupations
- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Friedrich Heinrich Karl Syrup was a German jurist and politician.
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Rudolph Sohm
- Occupations
- university teacherauthorjuristlegal historian
- Biography
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Gotthold Julius Rudolph Sohm was a German jurist and Church historian as well as a theologian. He published works concerning Roman and German law, Canon law and Church History.
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Johann Jakob Engel
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- writerphilosopher
- Biography
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Johann Jakob Engel was a German author.
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Christen Sørensen Longomontanus
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- astronomeruniversity teachermathematician
- Biography
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Christen Sørensen Longomontanus was a Danish astronomer.
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Charles Wiener
- Occupations
- explorer
- Biography
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Charles Wiener was an Austrian-French scientist-explorer. Born in Vienna, he is perhaps best known as the explorer who traveled extensively in Peru, climbed the Illimani and came close to re-discovering Machu Picchu.
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Richard Wossidlo
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- writerfolkloristteacherphilologist
- Biography
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Richard Carl Theodor August Wossidlo was a German schoolteacher and folklorist.
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Bernhard Quandt
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Bernhard Quandt was a German politician and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).
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Nikodem Caro
- Occupations
- entrepreneuruniversity teacherchemist
- Biography
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Nikodem Caro was an industrial chemist and entrepreneur. Caro was born in Łódź, to a prominent Silesian-Jewish family. He studied chemistry in Berlin at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin (now Technische Universität Berlin) and got his doctorate from Rostock University. From 1895 on he worked in the Deutsche Dynamit AG with Adolph Frank on the development of calcium cyanamide as a means of fixing nitrogen, hence the Frank-Caro process. Caro became an important figure in the nitrogen fixation industry and a rival of Fritz Haber.
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Max Friedlaender
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- composermusic historianuniversity teacherphilosophermusicologist
- Biography
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Max Friedlaender was a German bass singer, music editor, and musicologist. He specialized in German Lieder.
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Walter Romberg
- Occupations
- mathematicianpolitician
- Biography
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Walter Romberg was a German politician and finance minister of East Germany.
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Jürgen Kurths
- Occupations
- university teachermathematicianastrophysicistphysicist
- Biography
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Jürgen Kurths is a German physicist and mathematician. He is senior advisor in the research department Complexity Sciences of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, a Professor of Nonlinear Dynamics at the Institute of Physics at the Humboldt University, Berlin, and a 6th-century chair for Complex Systems Biology at the Institute for Complex Systems and Mathematical Biology at Kings College, Aberdeen University (UK). His research is mainly concerned with nonlinear physics and complex systems sciences and their applications to challenging problems in Earth system, physiology, systems biology and engineering.
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Christian Martin Frähn
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorianlibrariannumismatistarabist
- Biography
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Christian Martin Joachim Frähn (4 June 1782 – 16 August 1851), German and Russian numismatist and historian, was born at Rostock, Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
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Franz Eilhard Schulze
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- anatomistzoologistbotanistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Franz Eilhard Schulze was a German anatomist and zoologist born in Eldena, near Greifswald.
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Jakob Ulvsson
- Enrolled in the University of Rostock
- Studied in 1457
- Occupations
- Catholic priest
- Biography
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Jakob Ulvsson was Archbishop of Uppsala, Primate of the Roman Catholic Church of Sweden 1469–1515 and the founder of Uppsala University in 1477.
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Adolf Wilbrandt
- Occupations
- translatorpoet lawyerwriterjournalistplaywright
- Biography
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Adolf von Wilbrandt was a German novelist and dramatist.
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Christian Scriver
- Occupations
- writertheologian
- Biography
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Christian Scriver was a German Lutheran minister and devotional writer.
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Daniel Georg Morhof
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorianlibrarian
- Biography
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Daniel Georg Morhof was a German writer and scholar.
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Karl Friedrich Adolf Konrad Bartsch
- Occupations
- university teacherphilologist
- Biography
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Karl Friedrich Adolf Konrad Bartsch was a German medievalist.
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Balthasar, Duke of Mecklenburg
- Years
- 1451-1507 (aged 56)
- Occupations
- Catholic priestuniversity teacherCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Balthasar of Mecklenburg was a Duke of Mecklenburg and Coadjutor of the Diocese of Hildesheim between 1471 and 1474 and the Diocese of Schwerin between 1474 and 1479.
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Ewald Banse
- Occupations
- geographeruniversity teacherwriter
- Biography
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Ewald Banse was a German geographer.
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Johan Jacob Döbelius
- Occupations
- university teacherphysician
- Biography
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Johan Jacob Döbelius, was a German-born Swedish professor of medicine.
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Niklas Nienaß
- Enrolled in the University of Rostock
- Studied in 2013
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Niklas Nienaß is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024.
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Robert Brown
- Occupations
- botanistzoologistexplorergeologist
- Biography
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Robert Brown was a British scientist, explorer, and author.
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Laurentius Paulinus Gothus
- Occupations
- priestastronomer
- Biography
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Laurentius Paulinus Gothus was a Swedish theologian, astronomer and Archbishop of Uppsala.
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Daniel Cramer
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teachertheologian
- Biography
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Daniel Cramer was a German Lutheran theologian and writer from Reetz (Recz), Brandenburg. He was an opponent of the Ramists and the Jesuits.
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Bernhard Moritz Carl Ludwig Riedel
- Occupations
- surgeonuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Bernhard Moritz Carl Ludwig Riedel was a German surgeon, who was a native of Teschentin, Grossherzogtum Mecklenburg.
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Pieter Pauw
- Occupations
- university teacheranatomistbotanist
- Biography
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Pieter Pauw, (2 August 1564 – 1 August 1617) was a Dutch botanist and anatomist. He was a student of Hieronymus Fabricius. He was the first Anatomy Professor at University of Leiden.
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Martina Bunge
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Martina Bunge was a German politician and member of "die Linke" (The Left).
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Christopher von Dohna
- Occupations
- translatorpoliticianwriter
- Biography
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Burgrave Christopher von Dohna was a German politician and scholar during the time of the Thirty Years' War. He came from the Prussian family of the Burgraves of Dohna.
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Nils Turesson Bielke
- Enrolled in the University of Rostock
- Studied in 1588
- Occupations
- judgediplomatcivil servant
- Biography
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Nils Turesson Bielke was a Swedish statesman, member of the privy council, son of Ture Pedersson Bielke.
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Werner Kuhn
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Werner Kuhn is a German politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 until 2019. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party.
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Constantin Gane
- Years
- 1885-1962 (aged 77)
- Occupations
- biographerwriterliterary historianlawyer
- Biography
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Constantin Gane was a Romanian novelist, amateur historian, biographer and memoirist. Born into the boyar aristocracy of Western Moldavia, he worked as a lawyer in Bucharest, achieving literary notoriety with his recollections from the Second Balkan War and the Romanian front of World War I. By the 1930s, he was primarily a writer on historical and genealogical topics, famous for his contribution to women's history. An apologist for Romanian conservatism and Junimism, Gane also completed in 1936 a biography of Petre P. Carp. He was editor at Convorbiri Literare and a columnist for Cuvântul, also putting out his own literary newspaper, Sânziana.
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Henrik Klasson Fleming
- Years
- 1584-1650 (aged 66)
- Enrolled in the University of Rostock
- Studied in 1602
- Occupations
- politicianland ownermilitary personneldiplomat
- Biography
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Henrik Klasson Fleming was a member of the Swedish nobility and admiral, diplomat and lord marshal. He was the author of one of the first autobiographies in Swedish, a colourful depiction of his early life which he wrote for his children in a moralising purpose.
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Ernst Schmutzer
- Occupations
- physicistnon-fiction writeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Ernst Schmutzer was a German theoretical physicist.
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Friedrich Schlie
- Occupations
- classical scholaranthropologistarchaeologistart historian
- Biography
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Friedrich Schlie was a German art historian and archaeologist.
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Johann Wigand
- Occupations
- university teachertheologianpriestbotanist
- Biography
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Johann Wigand was a German Lutheran cleric, Protestant reformer and theologian. He served as Bishop of Pomesania.
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Selig Soskin
- Occupations
- agronomistpolitician
- Biography
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Selig Soskin was an Israeli agronomist and an early member of the Zionist movement.
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Dietrich von Bülow
- Occupations
- theologianCatholic priestjuristCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Dietrich von Bülow was a German Bishop of Lebus-Fürstenwalde.
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Lena F Kourkoutis
- Years
- 1979-2023 (aged 44)
- Enrolled in the University of Rostock
- In 2003 graduated with Diplom in physics
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacherresearcher
- Biography
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Lena Fitting Kourkoutis was an American physicist working in the field of electron microscopy, and a professor of applied and engineering physics at Cornell University. Her research focused on the use of aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope, providing atomic resolution, at cryogenic temperatures (>77K) to study physical processes such as superconductivity and biological structures such as proteins.
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Johannes Loccenius
- Occupations
- historianjurist
- Biography
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Johannes Loccenius was a German jurist and historian, known as an academic in Sweden.
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Nils Gyllenstierna
- Occupations
- civil servantmilitary personnel
- Biography
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Nils Carlsson Gyllenstierna af Fogelvik, a member of the Swedish baronial family of Gyllenstierna, was a Swedish field-marshal, member of the Royal Council, president of the Board of War, and governor-general of Bremen-Verden. Rewarded with the earldom of Fogelvik, he belonged to the cautious senior officers, who he hesitated when faced with Charles XII's aggressive plans, and allied with his son-in-law Arvid Horn in opposition to the King.
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Johann Oldendorp
- Occupations
- university teacherjudge
- Biography
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Johann Oldendorp was a German jurist and reformer.
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Erkki Nghimtina
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Erkki Nghimtina is a Namibian politician and former military officer in the Namibia Defence Force (NDF). A member of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), Nghimtina served as member of the National Assembly of Namibia from 1995 to 2020. He served in various cabinet roles from 2005 to 2020.
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Stephan Praetorius
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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Stephan Praetorius was a German Lutheran theologian and pastor.
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Bengt Oxenstierna
- Years
- 1591-1643 (aged 52)
- Occupations
- travelerpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Bengt Bengtsson Oxenstierna af Eka och Lindö, Baron of Eka and Lindö, in non-contemporary sources sometimes referred to as Resare-Bengt ("Bengt the Traveller"), was a Swedish diplomat and noble, Swedish Privy Councillor, and Governor-General of Ingria and Livonia. He is mainly known for his extensive travels, as he was one of the few Swedish contemporaries who travelled to Persia, Palestine and Egypt.
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Daniel Nettelbladt
- Occupations
- philosopheruniversity teacherjurist
- Biography
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Daniel Nettelbladt was a German jurist and philosopher.
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Henrich Smet
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- physicianphilologistlyricist
- Biography
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Henrich Smet Heidelberg was a physician and humanist scholar.
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Christine Lucyga
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Christine Lucyga is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and former member of the East German Volkskammer (March–October 1990) and the Bundestag (1990–2005).
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Johannes Steuchius
- Enrolled in the University of Rostock
- Studied in 1698
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherpriest
- Biography
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Johannes Steuchius was Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden from 1730 to his death.
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Wenceslaus Johann Gustav Karsten
- Enrolled in the University of Rostock
- 1750-1752 studied philosophy
- In 1755 graduated with Doctor
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teachermathematician
- Biography
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Wenceslaus Johann Gustav Karsten was a German mathematician. In 1768, Karsten published a graphic representation of infinitely many logarithms of real and complex numbers. He was a professor of Mathematics at the Universities of Rostock, Bützow and Halle.
