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47 famous people found
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Mayer Amschel ROTHSCHILD
Founder of the Rothschild family international banking dynasty
1743 - 1812 -
Johann Wolfgang VON GOETHE
German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath
1749 - 1832 -
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 -
Martin LUTHER
German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation
1483 - 1546 -
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 -
Friedrich LIST
German-American economist
1789 - 1846 -
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 -
Otton DE FREISING
German churchman and chronicler
1112 - 1158 -
Friedrich Wilhelm VON STEUBEN
Prussian-born military officer who served as inspector general and Major General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
1730 - 1794 -
Gebhard Leberecht VON BLüCHER
Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) who led his army against Napoleon I
1742 - 1819 -
Charlotte BUFF
A youthful acquaintance of the poet Goethe
1753 - 1828 -
Albert DE BRANDEBOURG
Last Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
1490 - 1568 -
Johann Michael MOSCHEROSCH
German satirist and moralist
1601 - 1669 -
Friedrich PARROT
German naturalist and traveller
1792 - 1841