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29 famous people found
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Mayer Amschel ROTHSCHILD
Founder of the Rothschild family international banking dynasty
1743 - 1812 -
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN
Composer, pianist and conductor
1770 - 1827 -
Wilhelm GRIMM
German author and anthropologist
1786 - 1859 -
Jacob GRIMM
German philologist, jurist, and mythologist
1785 - 1863 -
Heinrich HEINE
Journalist, essayist, literary critic, and one of the most significant German romantic poets
1797 - 1856 -
Johann Sebastian BACH
German composer, organist, violist, and violinist
1685 - 1750 -
Ludwig Aloys DE HOHENLOHE-WALDENBURG-BARTENSTEIN
German prince and Marshal of France
1765 - 1829 -
Baron de MUNCHHAUSEN
German baron
1720 - 1797 -
Moritz VON HESSEN-KASSEL
Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
1572 - 1632 -
Philipp I VON HESSEN
Leading champion of the Protestant Reformation and one of the most important of the early Protestant rulers in Germany
1504 - 1567 -
Albert DE BRANDEBOURG
Last Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
1490 - 1568 -
Friedrich PARROT
German naturalist and traveller
1792 - 1841 -
NOVALIS
Poet, an author and philosopher of early German Romanticism
1772 - 1801 -
Peter Schöffer
German printer
1425 - 1502 -
Jacob FUGGER
German merchant, mining entrepreneur, and banker
1459 - 1525 -
Michael Maestlin
German astronomer and mathematician
1550 - 1631 -
Levin August VON BENNIGSEN
German general in the service of the Russian Empire
1745 - 1826 -
Karl Franz Georg ALBRECHT
Hanoverian lawyer and high-ranking civil servant
1794 - 1873 -
Émilie-Julienne VON SCHWARZBURG-RUDOLSTADT
German countess and hymn writer
1637 - 1706 -
Philipp MELANCHTON
German Lutheran reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther
1497 - 1560