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anatomist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Friedrich Tiedemann		German zoologist	Electorate of Hesse	1781-08-23	1861-01-22	Kassel	Munich	Q64049
Carl Gegenbaur		German scientist (1826–1903)	Kingdom of Bavaria German Empire	1826-08-21	1903-06-14	Würzburg	Heidelberg	Q61300

anthropologist

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Georg Friedrich Creuzer	Philologist and archaeologist	Electorate of Hesse	1771-03-10	1858-02-16	Marburg	Heidelberg	Q69685
Jean Antoine Letronne	French archaeologist	France	1787-01-25	1848-12-14	Paris	Paris	Q574368
Karl Richard Lepsius	German archaeologist, egyptologist and librarian (1810-1884)	German Reich	1810-12-23	1884-07-10	Naumburg	Berlin	Q77231
Ernst Curtius	German archaeologist and historian (1814–1896)	Lübeck	1814-09-02	1896-07-11	Lübeck	Berlin	Q61407
Austen Henry Layard	British politician (1817–1894)	France United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1817-03-05	1894-07-05	Paris	London	Q275013
Giovanni Battista De Rossi	Italian archaeologist (1822-1894)	Kingdom of Italy	1822-02-23	1894-09-20	Rome	Castel Gandolfo	Q699662
William Turner	British anatomist	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1832-01-07	1916-02-15	Lancaster	Edinburgh	Q820018
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury	English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath (1834-1913)	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1834-04-30	1913-05-28	London	Broadstairs	Q312503
Gustaf Retzius	Swedish histologist (1842–1919)	Sweden	1842-10-17	1919-07-21	Kungsholm parish	Adolf Fredriks parish	Q640991
Oscar Montelius	Swedish archaeologist	Sweden	1843-09-09	1921-11-04	Maria Magdalena parish	Maria Magdalena parish	Q312397
Theodor Wiegand	German archaeologist (1864–1936)	Germany	1864-10-30	1936-12-19	Bendorf	Berlin	Q66092
Boris Piotrovsky	Soviet academic	Russian Empire Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic Soviet Union	1908-02-01 1908	1990-10-15 1990	Saint Petersburg	Saint Petersburg	Q481605
Hans Belting	German art historian (1935–2023)	Germany	1935-07-07	2023-01-09	Andernach	Berlin	Q66209

archaeologist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Edme-François Jomard		French cartographer, engineer and archaeologist (1777–1862)	France	1777-11-17	1862-09-23	Versailles	Paris	Q240788
Hermann Parzinger		German archaeologist, head of Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK)	Germany	1959-03-12		Munich		Q89733

architect

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine	French architect (1762-1853)	France	1762-09-20 1762	1853-10-10 1853	Pontoise	former 8th arrondissement of Paris	Q652952
Leo von Klenze	German architect and painter (1784–1864)	Kingdom of Bavaria	1784-02-29	1864-01-26 1864-01-27	Schladen	Munich	Q60163
Paolo Toschi	Italian painter, engraver and architect (1788-1854)	Duchy of Parma and Piacenza	1788-06-07	1854-07-30	Parma	Parma	Q551149
Jacques Ignace Hittorff	French architect (1792-1867)	France	1792-08-20	1867-03-25	Cologne	9th arrondissement of Paris Paris	Q643621
Félix Duban	French architect	France	1797-10-14 1798-10-14	1870-10-08	Paris	Bordeaux	Q653434
Friedrich August Stüler	Prussian architect and builder (1800-1865)	Kingdom of Prussia	1800-01-28	1865-03-18	Mühlhausen	Berlin	Q61256
Heinrich Strack	German architect	Kingdom of Prussia	1805-07-06	1880-07-13 1880-06-13	Bückeburg	Berlin	Q72120
Friedrich Hitzig	German architect (1811-1881)	Kingdom of Prussia	1811-04-08	1881-10-11	Berlin	Berlin	Q69102
Friedrich von Schmidt	Austrian architect	Kingdom of Württemberg Austria-Hungary	1825-10-22 1825-10-23	1891-01-23	Gschwend	Vienna	Q77431
Hermann Ende	German architect	Kingdom of Prussia	1829-03-04	1907-08-10	Gorzów Wielkopolski	Wannsee	Q68214
Gabriel von Seidl	German architect	Kingdom of Bavaria	1848-12-09	1913-04-27	Munich	Munich	Q86955
Ludwig Hoffmann	German architect (1852-1932)	German Empire Weimar Republic	1852-07-30 1852	1932-11-11 1932	Darmstadt	Berlin	Q71886
Hans Grässel	German architect (1860-1939)	German Reich	1860-08-18	1939-03-10	Rehau	Munich	Q73874
Paul Bonatz	German architect (1877-1956)	Germany	1877-12-06	1956-12-20	Solgne	Stuttgart	Q67612
Paul Schmitthenner	German architect; Judges' Trial affiant	Germany	1884-12-15	1972-11-11 1963-11-11	Lauterbourg	Munich	Q95325
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe	German architect	Germany United States of America	1886-03-27	1969-08-17	Aachen	Chicago	Q41508
Alvar Aalto	Finnish architect and designer (1898–1976)	Finland	1898-02-03	1976-05-11	Kuortane	Helsinki	Q82840
Egon Eiermann	architect	Germany	1904-09-29	1970-07-19	Nowawes Neuendorf	Baden-Baden	Q65803
Rudolf Hillebrecht	German architect	Germany	1910-02-26	1999	Linden-Limmer	Hanover	Q92380
Kenzō Tange	Japanese architect (1913–2005)	Japan Empire of Japan	1913-09-04	2005-03-22	Sakai	Minato	Q151794
Norman Foster	British architect (born 1935)	United Kingdom	1935-06-01		Stockport		Q104898

archivist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Paul Fridolin Kehr		German historian	German Reich	1860-12-28	1944-11-09	Waltershausen	Wässerndorf	Q108748
Friedrich Meinecke		German historian, philosopher of history and university teacher (1862-1954)	Germany	1862-10-30	1954-02-06	Salzwedel	West Berlin	Q66147

art historian

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Gottfried Semper	German architect (1803-1879)	Hamburg	1803-11-29	1879-05-15	Hamburg	Rome	Q61342
Herman Grimm	German scholar, writer (1828-1901)	Kingdom of Prussia	1828-01-06	1901-06-16	Kassel	Berlin	Q65292
Carl Justi	German art historian		1832-08-02	1912-12-09 1912-12-10	Marburg	Bonn	Q77314
Wilhelm von Bode	German art historian and museum director (1845-1929)	Germany	1845-12-10	1929-03-01	Calvörde	Berlin	Q64607
Georg Dehio	German art historian	Germany	1850-11-22	1932-03-19 1932-03-21	Tallinn	Tübingen	Q896685
Heinrich Wölfflin	Swiss art critic and art historian (1864-1945)	Switzerland	1864-06-21	1945-07-19	Winterthur	Zürich	Q123466
Erwin Panofsky	German art historian	Germany United States of America	1892-03-30	1968-03-14	Hanover	Princeton	Q57656
Percy Ernst Schramm	German historian and politician (1894-1970)	Germany	1894-10-14	1970-11-12	Hamburg	Göttingen	Q74203
André Grabar	art historian	Russian Empire France	1896-07-26	1990-10-05	Kyiv	16th arrondissement of Paris	Q519108
Richard Ettinghausen	German art historian (1906-1979)	United States of America	1906-02-05	1979-04-02	Frankfurt	Princeton Mercer County	Q216041
Ernst Gombrich	Austrian art historian	United Kingdom Austria	1909-03-30	2001-11-03	Vienna	London	Q78504
Ernst Kitzinger	German-American art historian	Germany United States of America	1912-12-27	2003-01-22	Munich	Poughkeepsie	Q88907
Horst Bredekamp	German art historian	Germany	1947-04-29		Kiel		Q111643

astronomer

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Friedrich Bessel	German astronomer and mathematician	Kingdom of Prussia	1784-07-22	1846-03-17	Minden	Königsberg	Q75845
François Arago	French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (1786-1853)	France	1786-02-26	1853-10-02	Estagel	Paris	Q154353
Edward Sabine	British Army general (1788-1883)	Kingdom of Ireland United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Kingdom of Great Britain	1788-10-14	1883-06-26	Dublin	East Sheen	Q311223
Johann Franz Encke	German astronomer	Kingdom of Prussia	1791-09-23	1865-08-26	Hamburg	Berlin Spandau	Q57294
John Frederick William Herschel	English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer (*1792 – †1871)	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1792-03-07	1871-05-11	Slough	Kent	Q14278
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve	Baltic German astronomer	Duchy of Holstein Russian Empire	1793-04-15	1864-11-23	Altona	Pulkovo	Q57164
Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander	German astronomer	Kingdom of Prussia	1799-03-22	1875-02-17	Klaipėda	Bonn	Q58685
Otto Wilhelm von Struve	Baltic German astronomer	Russian Empire German Empire	1819-05-07	1905-04-14	Tartu	Karlsruhe	Q58847
Benjamin Apthorp Gould	American astronomer	United States of America	1824-09-27	1896-11-26	Boston	Cambridge	Q520915
Simon Newcomb	American astronomer (1835-1909)	Canada United States of America	1835-03-12	1909-07-11	Nova Scotia Wallace	Washington, D.C.	Q164401
Giovanni Schiaparelli	Italian astronomer and science historian (1835-1910)	Kingdom of Italy	1835-03-14	1910-07-04	Savigliano	Milan	Q14281
Arthur Auwers	German astronomer	Kingdom of Prussia	1838-09-12	1915-01-24	Göttingen	Groß-Lichterfelde	Q57349
Hermann Carl Vogel	German astronomer (1841-1907)	Kingdom of Saxony	1841-04-03	1907-08-13	Leipzig	Potsdam	Q58812
David Gill	Scottish astronomer	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1843-06-12	1914-01-24	Aberdeen	London	Q319969
Edward Charles Pickering	American astronomer	United States of America	1846-07-19	1919-02-03	Boston	Cambridge	Q156896
Hugo von Seeliger	German astronomer (1849-1924)	Germany	1849-09-23	1924-12-02	Bielsko-Biała	Munich	Q64481
Jacobus Kapteyn	Dutch astronomer, best known for his extensive studies of the Milky Way and as the first discoverer of evidence for galactic rotation (1851-1922)	Kingdom of the Netherlands	1851-01-19 1851	1922-06-18 1922	Barneveld Utrecht	Amsterdam	Q156892
Reinhard Genzel	German astronomer	Germany	1952-03-24		Bad Homburg vor der Höhe		Q65807

biochemist

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Emil Fischer	German chemist (1852-1919)	German Empire	1852-10-09	1919-07-15	Euskirchen	Berlin	Q70554
Otto Heinrich Warburg	German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate	German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany West Germany	1883-10-08	1970-08-01	Freiburg im Breisgau	West Berlin	Q76464
Gerhard Domagk	German bacteriologist (1895-1964)	Germany	1895-10-30	1964-04-24	Łagów	Königsfeld im Schwarzwald	Q57192
Fritz Albert Lipmann	German-American biochemist	Germany United States of America	1899-06-12	1986-07-24	Königsberg	Poughkeepsie	Q77104
Hans Krebs	German-British biochemist (1900-1981)	Germany United Kingdom	1900-08-25	1981-11-22	Hildesheim	Oxford	Q57191
Richard Kuhn	Austrian-German biochemist	Austria-Hungary Nazi Germany West Germany	1900-12-03	1967-07-31	Vienna	Heidelberg	Q78483
Adolf Butenandt	German biochemist (1903-1995)	Germany	1903-03-24	1995-01-18	Bremerhaven	Munich	Q5327
Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen	German biochemist, Nobel Laureate	Germany	1911-04-06	1979-08-06	Munich	Munich	Q44597
Robert Huber	German Nobel laureate in chemistry	Germany	1937-02-20		Munich		Q76623

biologist

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Carl Sigismund Kunth	German botanist (1788–1850)	Kingdom of Saxony	1788-06-18	1850-03-22	Leipzig	Berlin	Q77074
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg	German biologist (1795–1876)	Kingdom of Prussia	1795-04-19	1876-06-27	Delitzsch	Berlin	Q76549
Henri Milne-Edwards	French zoologist (1800-1885)	France	1800-10-23	1885-07-29	Bruges Belgium	Paris	Q505173
Theodor Schwann	German physiologist	Germany	1810-12-07	1882-01-11	Santiago	Cologne	Q76745
Rudolf Virchow ,hola nose que esta pasando asi que dire que ¿Wikipedia deja editar esto?	German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician (1821-1902)	Kingdom of Prussia	1821-10-13	1902-09-05	Świdwin	Berlin	Q76432
Robert Koch	German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)	Kingdom of Hanover German Empire	1843-12-11	1910-05-27	Clausthal	Baden-Baden	Q37193
Richard Hertwig	German zoologist (1850-1937)	German Reich	1850-09-23	1937-10-03	Friedberg	Schlederloh	Q85907
Max Perutz	Austrian-born British molecular biologist (1914-2002)	United Kingdom Austria United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1914-05-19	2002-02-06	Vienna	Cambridge	Q78480
Günter Blobel	German American biologist (1999 Nobel Prize)	Nazi Germany Germany United States of America	1936-05-21	2018-02-18	Niegosławice	New York City	Q60108
Rudolf Jaenisch	German geneticist	Germany United States of America	1942-04-22		Międzygórze		Q90073
Bert Sakmann	German biologist and physician (1991 Nobel Prize)	Germany Nazi Germany	1942-06-12		Stuttgart		Q77081
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard	German biologist (1995 Nobel Prize)	Germany	1942-10-20		Magdeburg		Q77174
Robert Weinberg	American biologist	United States of America	1942-11-11		Pittsburgh		Q701506
Eric F. Wieschaus	American geneticist	United States of America	1947-06-08		South Bend		Q301438

botanist

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Heinrich Friedrich Link	German naturalist and botanist	Germany Holy Roman Empire Kingdom of Hanover	1767-02-02	1851-01-01	Hildesheim	Berlin	Q215466
Robert Brown	Scottish botanist (1773-1858), discoverer of the cell nucleus and of Brownian Motion	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1773-12-21	1858-06-10	Montrose	London	Q155764
David Brewster	British astronomer and mathematician (1781–1868)	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom	1781-12-11	1868-02-10	Jedburgh	Melrose	Q168468
Johann Lukas Schönlein	German naturalist and professor of medicine (1793–1864)	Kingdom of Bavaria	1793-11-30	1864-01-23	Bamberg	Bamberg	Q61678
Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold	German physiologist and zoologist (1804-1885)	Kingdom of Bavaria	1804-02-16	1885-04-07	Würzburg	Munich	Q64262
Stephan Endlicher	Austrian botanist, linguist and numismatist (1804–1849)	Austrian Empire	1804-06-24	1849-03-28	Bratislava	Vienna	Q78605
Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle	Swiss scientist (1806-1893)	France Republic of Geneva Switzerland	1806-10-27	1893-04-04	Paris	Geneva	Q123807
Giuseppe Giovanni Antonio Meneghini	Italian scientist (1811-1889)	Kingdom of Italy	1811-07-30	1889-01-29	Padua Italy	Pisa	Q560042
Japetus Steenstrup	Danish zoologist (1813-1897)	Kingdom of Denmark	1813-03-08	1897-06-20	Vang	Copenhagen	Q701104
Jacob Georg Agardh	Swedish botanist, phycologist, and taxonomist (1813-1901)	Sweden	1813-12-08	1901-01-17	Lund Cathedral parish	Lund Cathedral parish	Q520594
Joseph Dalton Hooker	British botanist, lichenologist, and surgeon (1817–1911)	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1817-06-30	1911-12-10 1911	Halesworth	Sunningdale	Q157501
Simon Schwendener	Swiss botanist and university teacher (1829-1919)	Switzerland	1829-02-10	1919-05-27	Buchs	Berlin	Q115641
Wilhelm Pfeffer	German botanist (1845–1920)	Kingdom of Prussia	1845-03-09	1920-01-31	Grebenstein	Leipzig	Q62767
Otto Renner	German botanist, geneticist and university teacher (1883-1960)	Germany	1883-04-25 1883	1960-07-08 1960	Neu-Ulm	Munich	Q70672

chemist

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Jöns Jacob Berzelius	Swedish chemist (1779–1848)	Sweden	1779-08-20	1848-08-07	Väfversunda	Adolf Fredriks parish	Q151911
Eilhard Mitscherlich	German chemist	Grand Duchy of Oldenburg	1794-01-07 1794	1863-08-28 1863	Oldenburg	Berlin	Q62518
Heinrich Rose	German chemist	Kingdom of Prussia	1795-08-06	1864-01-27	Berlin	Berlin	Q77286
Jean-Baptiste Dumas	French chemist (1800–1884)	France	1800-07-14	1884-04-11	Alès	Cannes	Q164824
Friedrich Wöhler	German chemist (1800-1882)	Kingdom of Prussia Electorate of Hesse Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel German Empire	1800-07-31	1882-09-23	Eschersheim	Göttingen	Q58575
Jean-Baptiste Boussingault	French chemist who made significant contributions to agricultural science, petroleum science and metallurgy	France	1801-02-01	1887-05-11	former 11th arrondissement of Paris	Paris	Q503318
Justus von Liebig	German chemist (1803-1873)	Grand Duchy of Hesse	1803-05-12	1873-04-18	Darmstadt	Munich	Q16571
Robert Bunsensen	German chemist (1811-1899)	Kingdom of Prussia	1811-03-30	1899-08-16	Göttingen	Heidelberg	Q71031
Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac	Swiss chemist (1817-1894)	Switzerland	1817-04-24 1817-04-28	1894-04-15	Geneva	Geneva	Q124045
August Wilhelm von Hofmann	German chemist (1818-1892)	Grand Duchy of Hesse	1818-04-08	1892-05-05	Giessen	Berlin	Q76360
Max Joseph von Pettenkofer	Bavarian chemist and hygienist (1818-1901)	Kingdom of Bavaria	1818-12-03	1901-02-10	Lichtenau	Munich	Q44993
Marcellin Berthelot	French chemist and politician (1827-1907)	France	1827-10-25	1907-03-18	former 7th arrondissement of Paris	Paris	Q18425
August Kekulé	German organic chemist	Kingdom of Prussia German Reich	1829-09-07	1896-07-13	Darmstadt	Bonn	Q76784
Adolf von Baeyer	German chemist (1835-1917)	German Empire	1835-10-31	1917-08-20	Berlin	Starnberg Munich	Q57078
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff	Dutch physical and organic chemist (1852-1911)	Kingdom of the Netherlands	1852-08-30 1852	1911-03-01	Rotterdam	Berlin	Q102822
William Ramsay	Scottish chemist	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1852-10-02	1916-07-23 1918-07-23	Glasgow	High Wycombe	Q950726
Walther Nernst	German physical chemist and physicist	Kingdom of Prussia Weimar Republic	1864-06-25	1941-11-18	Wąbrzeźno Briesen (Spreewald)	Bad Muskau	Q57125
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus	German chemist (1876-1959)	Germany	1876-12-25	1959-06-09	Berlin	Göttingen	Q77142
Heinrich Wieland	German Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1877-1957)	German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany West Germany	1877-06-04	1957-08-05	Pforzheim	Starnberg	Q76610
Otto Hahn	German chemist and physicist	West Germany German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany	1879-03-08	1968-07-28	Frankfurt	Göttingen	Q57065
George de Hevesy	Hungarian chemist (1885–1966)	Hungary Sweden	1885-08-01	1966-07-05	Budapest	Freiburg im Breisgau	Q76951
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen	Finnish chemist and professor	Finland	1895-01-15	1973-11-11	Helsinki	Helsinki	Q157239
Karl Ziegler	German chemist	Germany	1898-11-26	1973-08-12	Helsa	Mülheim an der Ruhr	Q76624
Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd	British biochemist (1907-1997)	United Kingdom	1907-10-02	1997-01-10	Glasgow	Cambridge	Q157242
Albert Eschenmoser	Swiss chemist	Switzerland	1925-08-05	2023-07-14	Erstfeld		Q116960
Manfred Eigen	German biophysical chemist (1927-2019)	Germany	1927-05-09	2019-02-06	Bochum	Göttingen	Q76600
Jean-Marie Lehn	French chemist	France	1939-09-30		Rosheim		Q107690

classical archaeologist

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Giuseppe Fiorelli	Italian classical archaeologist and numismatist (1823-1896)	Kingdom of Italy Kingdom of the Two Sicilies	1823-06-08	1896-01-28	Naples	Naples	Q18913
Ludwig Curtius	German classical archeologist	Germany	1874-12-13	1954-04-10	Augsburg	Rome	Q65617
Andreas Alföldi	Hungarian historian, epigraphist, numismatist, archaeologist (1895-1981)	Hungary	1895-08-27	1981-02-12	Pomáz	Princeton	Q287822

classical composer

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Franz Liszt	Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist (1811–1886)	Kingdom of Hungary Austrian Empire Austria-Hungary	1811-10-22	1886-07-31	Raiding	Bayreuth	Q41309
Niels Gade	Danish composer, conductor, violinist, organist and teacher (1817-1890)	Kingdom of Denmark	1817-02-22	1890-12-21	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	Q154632
Anton Rubinstein	Russian pianist, composer and conductor	Russian Empire	1829-11-16	1894-11-08 1894-11-20	Ofatinți	Petergof Saint Petersburg	Q87567
Wilhelm Furtwängler	German conductor and composer	Germany	1886-01-25	1954-11-30	Schöneberg	Baden-Baden	Q57285
Paul Hindemith	German composer (1895–1963)	Germany West Germany United States of America	1895-11-16	1963-12-28	Hanau	Frankfurt	Q57244

classical philologist

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann	German classical scholar and philologist	Kingdom of Saxony	1772-11-28	1848-12-31	Leipzig	Leipzig	Q77616
Carl Benedict Hase	French Hellenist	Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach France	1780-05-11	1864-03-21	Bad Sulza	Paris	Q70329
Augustus Meineke	German classical philologist (1790–1870)	Kingdom of Prussia	1790-12-08	1870-12-12	Soest	Berlin	Q77628
Georg Friedrich Schömann	German classical philologist		1793-06-28	1879-03-25	Stralsund	Greifswald	Q86755
Franz Bücheler	German classical philologist (1837-1908)	Kingdom of Prussia	1837-06-03	1908-05-03	Rheinberg	Bonn	Q72739
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff	German classical philologist (1848-1931)	Kingdom of Prussia Germany	1848-12-22	1931-09-25	Markowice, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship	Berlin	Q61863
Eduard Schwartz	German philologist	German Reich	1858-08-22	1940-02-13	Kiel	Munich	Q85818
Paul Maas	German classical scholar	Germany Kingdom of Prussia	1880-11-18	1964-07-15	Frankfurt	Oxford	Q113596
Ernst Buschor	German archaeologist and translator	Germany	1886-06-02	1961-12-11	Hürben	Munich	Q75744
Werner Jaeger	German-American classical philologist (1888-1961)	Germany United States of America	1888-07-30	1961-10-19	Lobberich	Cambridge	Q61882
Albin Lesky	Austrian classical philologist (1896-1981)	Austria	1896-07-07	1981-02-28	Graz	Innsbruck	Q85162
Maurice Bowra	English classical scholar, literary critic and academic (1898–1971)	United Kingdom	1898-04-08	1971-07-04	Jiujiang	Oxford	Q443786

composer

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Gaspare Spontini	Italian composer and conductor	Papal States First French Empire Kingdom of Prussia	1774-11-14	1851-01-24	Maiolati Spontini	Maiolati Spontini	Q168485
Daniel François Esprit Auber	French composer (1782-1871)	France	1782-01-29	1871-05-12	Caen	9th arrondissement of Paris	Q157672
Louis Spohr	German composer, violinist and conductor	Duchy of Brunswick	1784-04-05	1859-10-22	Brunswick	Kassel	Q57226
Giacomo Meyerbeer	German-French composer	Kingdom of Prussia	1791-09-05	1864-05-02	Tasdorf	Paris	Q105237
Gioachino Rossini	Italian opera composer (1792–1868)	Kingdom of Italy Papal States	1792-02-29	1868-11-13	Pesaro	Passy Paris	Q9726
Eduard Grell	German composer, conductor, choir director and music educator	Kingdom of Prussia	1800-11-06	1886-08-10	Berlin	Berlin	Q216224
Felix Mendelssohn	German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of Jewish descent	Kingdom of Saxony Hamburg	1809-02-03	1847-11-04	Hamburg	Leipzig	Q46096
Giuseppe Verdi	Italian opera composer (1813–1901)	Kingdom of Italy	1813-10-10	1901-01-27	Le Roncole	Milan	Q7317
François-Auguste Gevaert	Belgian composer	Belgium	1828-07-31	1908-12-24	Huysse-Lozère	City of Brussels	Q682376
Joseph Joachim	Hungarian violinist, composer, and teacher	Hungary	1831-06-28	1907-08-15	Kittsee	Berlin	Q159976
Johannes Brahms	German composer (1833–1897)	Hamburg	1833-05-07	1897-04-03	Hamburg	Vienna	Q7294
Camille Saint-Saëns	French composer, organist, conductor and pianist	France	1835-10-09	1921-12-16	11th arrondissement of Paris	Algiers	Q150445
Max Bruch	German romantic composer and conductor (1838-1920)	Germany	1838-01-06	1920-10-02	Cologne	Friedenau	Q106434
Richard Strauss	German composer and orchestra director (1864–1949)	Germany	1864-06-11	1949-09-08	Munich	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Q13894
Hans Pfitzner	German composer	Germany	1869-05-05	1949-05-22	Moscow	Salzburg	Q57358
Carl Orff	German composer (1895–1982)	German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany West Germany Germany	1895-07-10	1982-03-29	Munich	Munich	Q44086
Witold Lutosławski	Polish composer and conductor (1913-1994)	Poland	1913-01-25	1994-02-07	Warsaw	Warsaw	Q156472
György Ligeti	Hungarian composer (1923-2006)	Hungary Austria Romania	1923-05-28	2006-06-12 2006-06-11	Târnăveni	Vienna	Q154331
György Kurtág	Hungarian composer	Hungary Romania France	1926-02-19		Lugoj		Q48184
Sofiä Ğobäydullinä	Russian composer	Soviet Union Russia	1931-10-24		Chistopol’		Q165668
Aribert Reimann	German composer, pianist and accompanist	Germany	1936-03-04	2024-03-13	Berlin	Berlin	Q246758
Wolfgang Rihm	German composer and teacher (1952–2024)	Germany	1952-03-13	2024-07-27	Karlsruhe	Ettlingen	Q77031

conductor

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Otto Klemperer	German conductor and composer (1885–1973)	Germany Israel	1885-05-14	1973-07-06	Wrocław	Zürich	Q155136
Pierre Boulez	French composer, conductor and writer (1925–2016)	France	1925-03-26	2016-01-05	Montbrison	Baden-Baden	Q156193
Nikolaus Harnoncourt	Austrian conductor	Austria	1929-12-06	2016-03-05	Berlin	Sankt Georgen im Attergau	Q78526
Carlos Kleiber	German-born Austrian conductor	Germany	1930-07-03	2004-07-13	Berlin	Konjšica	Q160706
Heinz Holliger	Swiss oboist, composer and conductor	Switzerland	1939-05-21		Langenthal		Q123359
Gidon Kremer	Latvian violinist and conductor	Soviet Union Latvia Germany	1947-02-27		Riga		Q159915

copper engraver

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Auguste Gaspard Louis Desnoyers		French engraver (1779 - 1857)	France	1779-12-19	1857-02-16	Paris	Paris	Q319594
Eduard Mandel		German engraver	Kingdom of Prussia	1810-02-15	1882-10-20	Berlin	Berlin	Q119594

curator

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Richard Owen		English biologist and paleontologist (1804–1892)	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1804-07-20	1892-12-18	Lancaster	London	Q151556
Hendrik Lorentz		Dutch physicist (1853–1928)	Kingdom of the Netherlands	1853-07-18	1928-02-04	Arnhem	Haarlem	Q41688

diplomat

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Klemens von Metternich	Austrian diplomat and statesman	Holy Roman Empire Austrian Empire	1773-05-15	1859-06-11	Koblenz	Vienna	Q45662
Friedrich von Raumer	German historian (1781-1873)	Kingdom of Prussia	1781-05-14	1873-06-14	Wörlitz	Berlin	Q70855
George Bancroft	American historian, statesman, founder of United States Naval Academy (1800-1891)	United States of America	1800-10-03	1891-01-17	Worcester	Washington, D.C.	Q741482
Carl Jacob Burckhardt	Swiss diplomat and historian (1891-1974)	Switzerland	1891-09-10	1974-03-03	Basel	Vinzel	Q116244
George F. Kennan	American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian (1904-2005)	United States of America	1904-02-16	2005-03-17	Milwaukee	Princeton	Q156058

economist

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Vittorio Fossombroni	Italian mathematician, statesman, economist and engineer (1754-1844)	France	1754-09-15	1844-04-13	Arezzo	Florence	Q454758
Friedrich von Hermann	German economist and statistician (1795-1868)	Germany	1795-12-05	1868-11-23	Dinkelsbühl	Munich	Q91166
Gustav von Schmoller	German economist (1838–1917)	Kingdom of Prussia	1838-06-24	1917-06-27	Heilbronn	Bad Harzburg	Q62833
Georg Friedrich Knapp	German economist (1842-1926)	Germany	1842-03-07	1926-02-20	Giessen	Darmstadt	Q66332
Alfred Weber	German geographer and economist (1868–1958)	Germany	1868-07-30	1958-05-02	Erfurt	Heidelberg	Q76514
Luigi Einaudi	(1874-1961) President of Italy from 1948 to 1955	Italy Kingdom of Italy	1874-03-24	1961-10-30	Carrù	Rome	Q1242
Friedrich Hayek	Austrian and British economist	Austria United Kingdom	1899-05-08	1992-03-23	Vienna	Freiburg im Breisgau	Q1325
Herbert Giersch	German economist (1921-2010)	Germany	1921-05-11	2010-07-22	Dzierżoniów	Saarbrücken	Q91471
Robert Solow	American economist (1924～2023)	United States of America	1924-08-23	2023-12-21	Brooklyn	Lexington	Q157268
Reinhard Selten	German economist (1930-2016)	Germany	1930-10-05	2016-08-23	Wrocław	Poznań	Q12830

engineer

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Alexander Emanuel Agassiz		Swiss-American zoologist and engineer (1835-1910)	United States of America Switzerland	1835-12-17	1910-03-27	Neuchâtel	RMS Adriatic	Q122968
Carl von Linde		German engineer (1842-1934)	Germany	1842-06-11	1934-11-16	Berndorf	Munich	Q61864

engraver

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
François Forster		engraver (1790-1872)	France Switzerland	1790-08-22	1872-06-24	Le Locle	Paris	Q3084633
Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont		French engraver (1797-1892)	France	1797-06-13	1892-01-20	former 2nd arrondissement of Paris	Paris	Q320656

entomologist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Christian Leopold von Buch		German geologist (1774-1853)	Kingdom of Prussia	1774-04-26 1774-04-25	1853-03-04	Stolpe	Berlin	Q55021352
Rudolph Leuckart		German zoologist (1822-1898)	Duchy of Brunswick	1822-10-07	1898-02-06	Helmstedt	Leipzig	Q55064784

explorer

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Adam Johann von Krusenstern	Baltic German admiral and explorer in Russian service, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe	Russian Empire	1770-11-08 1770-11-06	1846-08-12	Hagudi manor	Kiltsi manor	Q160888
Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall	Austrian orientalist	Austria	1774-06-09	1856-11-23	Graz	Vienna	Q89546
Carl Ritter	German geographer (1779-1859)	Kingdom of Prussia	1779-08-07	1859-09-28	Quedlinburg	Berlin	Q29297
Karl Ernst von Baer	Baltic-German scientist (1792-1876)	Russian Empire	1792-02-17	1876-11-16	Piibe	Tartu	Q57190
Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky	Russian geographer, art collector and statistician	Russian Empire	1827-01-02	1914-02-26	Ryazanka, Lipetsk Oblast	Saint Petersburg	Q326010
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld	Finland Swedish baron, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer (1832–1901)	Sweden Grand Principality of Finland	1832-11-18	1901-08-12	Helsinki	Dalbyö gård	Q156749
Vasily Radlov	German-born Russian turkologist and ethnographer (1837-1918)	Kingdom of Prussia Russian Empire Russian Republic Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic	1837-01-05 1837-01-17	1918-05-12	Berlin	Saint Petersburg	Q302970
John Murray	Scottish oceanographer, marine biologist and limnologist (1841-1914)	Canada United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1841-03-03	1914-03-16	Ontario	Kirkliston	Q703564

film director

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Michael Haneke		Austrian film director and screenwriter	Austria	1942-03-23		Munich		Q84199
Wim Wenders		German filmmaker	Germany	1945-08-14		Düsseldorf		Q55411

geneticist

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Alfred Kühn	German zoologist and geneticist (1885-1968)	Germany West Germany	1885-04-22	1968-11-22	Baden-Baden	Tübingen	Q120183
Walter J. Gehring	Swiss scientist (1939-2014)	Switzerland	1939-03-20	2014-05-29	Zürich	Basel	Q118909
Svante Pääbo	Swedish geneticist (born 1955)	Sweden	1955-04-20		Oscar Parish Stockholm		Q170342

geologist

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Alexander von Humboldt	Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)	Kingdom of Prussia	1769-09-14	1859-05-06	Berlin	Berlin	Q6694
Charles Lyell	British geologist (1797–1875)	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1797-11-14	1875-02-11 1875-02-22	Angus	London	Q5333
Louis Agassiz	Swiss-American naturalist (1807–1873)	Switzerland United States of America	1807-05-28	1873-12-14	Môtiers	Cambridge	Q122972
Charles Darwin	English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1809-02-12	1882-04-19	The Mount	Down House	Q1035
Albrecht Penck	German geologist and geographer	Kingdom of Saxony German Empire Nazi Germany	1858-09-25	1945-03-07	Reudnitz	Prague	Q76756

hellenist

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Karl Reinhardt	German classical philologist (1886–1958)	Germany	1886-02-14	1958-01-09	Detmold	Frankfurt	Q85224
Bruno Snell	German classical philologist	Germany	1896-06-18	1986-10-31	Hildesheim	Hamburg	Q67515
Wolfgang Schadewaldt	German classical philologist, literary theorist and translator	Germany	1900-03-15	1974-11-10	Berlin	Tübingen	Q67526

historian

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Leopold von Ranke		German historian and founder of modern source-based history (1795-1886)	Kingdom of Prussia	1795-12-21 1795-12-20	1886-05-23	Wiehe	Berlin	Q77184
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay		British historian and politician (1800–1859)	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Kingdom of Great Britain	1800-10-25	1859-12-28 1859-12-27	Rothley Court	London Cambridge	Q315989
Heinrich von Sybel		German historian (1817-1895)	Kingdom of Prussia	1817-12-02	1895-08-01	Düsseldorf	Marburg	Q65600
Albrecht Weber		German indologist	Kingdom of Prussia	1825-02-17	1901-11-30	Wrocław	Berlin	Q72205
Heinrich Brunner		German historian (1840-1915)	Austria German Empire	1840-06-21	1915-08-11	Wels	Bad Kissingen	Q94701
Hugo von Freytag-Loringhoven		German historian and general	Germany	1855-05-26	1924-10-19	Copenhagen	Weimar	Q96676
Pieter Geyl		Dutch historian (1887-1966)	Kingdom of the Netherlands	1887-12-15	1966-12-31	Dordrecht	Utrecht	Q559235
Gyula Moravcsik		Professor of Byzantine languages (1892-1972)	Hungary	1892-01-29	1972-12-10	Budapest	Budapest	Q1179170
George Ostrogorsky	File:George Ostrogorsky.jpg	Russian Byzantinist (1902-1976)	Russian Empire Soviet Union Kingdom of Yugoslavia Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia	1902-01-19	1976-10-24	Saint Petersburg	Belgrade	Q311461
Ronald Syme		New Zealand born British historian and classicist (1903-1989)	United Kingdom New Zealand	1903-03-11	1989-09-04	Eltham	Oxford	Q707856
Bernhard Bischoff		German philologist and palaeographer (1906–1991)	Germany	1906-12-20	1991-09-17	Altendorf	Munich	Q107815
Theodor Schieder		German historian	Germany	1908-04-11	1984-10-08	Oettingen in Bayern	Cologne	Q84675
Fritz Stern		American historian	Germany United States of America	1926-02-02	2016-05-18	Wrocław	New York City	Q66375
Stig Strömholm		Swedish legal scholar and writer	Sweden	1931-09-16		Boden		Q446338
Anthony Grafton		American historian of early modern Europe	United States of America	1950-05-21		New Haven		Q555308
Jürgen Osterhammel		German historian	Germany	1952-06-01		Wipperfürth		Q92287

historian of Modern Age

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Heinrich von Treitschke	Historian, political writer (1834-1896)	Kingdom of Saxony	1834-09-15	1896-04-28	Dresden	Berlin	Q62400
George Peabody Gooch	British politician (1873-1968)	United Kingdom	1873-10-21	1968-08-31	London	London	Q334187
Gerhard Ritter	German historian (1888-1967)	Germany	1888-04-06	1967-07-01	Bad Sooden-Allendorf	Freiburg im Breisgau	Q72371
Hans Rothfels	German historian	Germany	1891-04-12	1976-06-22	Kassel	Tübingen	Q92317
Felix Gilbert	German-american historian (1905-1991)	Germany United States of America	1905-05-21	1991-02-14	Baden-Baden	Princeton	Q110691
Gordon A. Craig	American historian	United States of America United Kingdom Germany	1913-11-26	2005-10-30	Glasgow	Portola Valley	Q316202
Karl Dietrich Bracher	German historian and political scientist (1922-2016)	Germany	1922-03-13	2016-09-19	Stuttgart	Bonn	Q69799
James J. Sheehan	American historian	United States of America	1937-05-31		San Francisco		Q1680622

historian of classical antiquity

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Philipp August Böckh	German classical scholar and antiquarian (1785-1867)	Kingdom of Prussia	1785-11-24	1867-08-03	Karlsruhe	Berlin	Q63183
Theodor Mommsen	German classical scholar and historian (1817–1903)	Kingdom of Prussia Duchy of Schleswig	1817-11-30	1903-11-01	Garding	Charlottenburg	Q25351
Eduard Meyer	German historian (1855–1930)	Germany	1855-01-25	1930-08-31	Hamburg	Berlin	Q76894

historian of religion

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Christian Lobeck		German classical scholar (1781-1860)	Kingdom of Prussia	1781-06-05	1860-08-15	Naumburg	Königsberg	Q84734
André-Jean Festugière		(1898-1982) French historian of religion	France	1898-03-15	1982-08-13	8th arrondissement of Paris	Saint-Dizier	Q481307

journalist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Raymond Aron		French philosopher, sociologist, journalist, and political scientist (1905–1983)	France	1905-03-14	1983-10-17	6th arrondissement of Paris	4th arrondissement of Paris	Q160640
Claudio Magris		Italian scholar, translator and writer (1939)	Italy	1939-04-10		Trieste		Q274404

judge

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Karl Friedrich Eichhorn		German lawyer	Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach	1781-11-20	1854-07-04	Jena	Cologne	Q564888
Max Huber		Swiss lawyer, President of the International Committees of the Red Cross (1874-1960)	Switzerland	1874-12-28	1960-01-01	Zürich	Zürich	Q116882

jurist

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Friedrich Carl von Savigny	German jurist (1779-1861)	Kingdom of Prussia	1779-02-21	1861-10-25	Frankfurt	Berlin	Q76892
Jacob Grimm	German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785-1863)	Electorate of Hesse Kingdom of Prussia	1785-01-04	1863-09-20	Hanau	Berlin	Q6701
Otto von Gierke	German philosopher (1841–1921)	Kingdom of Prussia German Reich	1841-01-11	1921-10-10	Szczecin	Berlin	Q61652
Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker	German lawyer	Germany	1926-09-25	2024-04-22	Hamelin		Q109300
Christian Tomuschat	German jurist	Germany	1936-07-23		Szczecin		Q75712
Gerhard Casper	American academic administrator	United States of America Germany	1937-12-25		Hamburg		Q102196

legal historian

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Georg Waitz	German historian for history of law and medieval studies (1813-1886)	Kingdom of Prussia	1813-10-09 1813	1886-05-24 1886	Flensburg	Berlin	Q66936
Julius von Ficker	German historian (1826–1902)	Kingdom of Prussia Austrian Empire	1826-04-30	1902-07-10	Paderborn	Innsbruck	Q84991
Rudolph Sohm	German legal scholar	Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin	1841-10-29	1917-05-16	Rostock	Leipzig	Q78275
Stephan Kuttner	American legal scholar	Germany United States of America	1907-03-24	1996-08-12	Bonn	Berkeley	Q95496
Helmut Coing	German legal scholar	Germany	1912-02-28	2000-08-15	Celle	Kronberg im Taunus	Q112106
Michael Stolleis	German legal historian	Germany	1941-07-20	2021-03-18	Ludwigshafen	Frankfurt	Q1501879

lexicographer

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Elias Lönnrot	Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry (1802-1884)	Sweden Grand Principality of Finland	1802-04-09	1884-03-19	Sammatti	Sammatti	Q153159
William Dwight Whitney	American orientalist, linguist and lexicographer	United States of America	1827-02-09	1894-06-07	Northampton	New Haven	Q573847
Adolf Erman	German Egyptologist and lexicographer (1854-1937)	Kingdom of Prussia Weimar Republic	1854-10-31	1937-06-26	Berlin	Berlin	Q61421
Walther von Wartburg	Swiss philologist and lexicographer (1888–1971)	Switzerland	1888-05-18	1971-08-15	Riedholz	Basel	Q124348

librarian

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Friedrich Christoph Schlosser		German historian	Grand Duchy of Oldenburg	1776-11-17	1861-09-23	Jever	Heidelberg	Q67667
Léopold Victor Delisle		French bibliophile and historian (1826-1910)	France	1826-10-24	1910-07-22 1910-07-21	Valognes	Chantilly	Q481453

linguist

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
August Wilhelm Schlegel	German poet, translator, critic, and writer (1767–1845)	Kingdom of Hanover	1767-09-08	1845-05-12	Hanover	Bonn	Q57281
Jernej Kopitar	Slovenian philologist	Austrian Empire	1780-08-23	1844-08-11	Repnje	Vienna	Q84444
Vasily Zhukovsky	Russian poet (1783-1852)	Russian Empire	1783-01-29	1852-04-12	Mishenskoye (Belevsky district)	Baden-Baden	Q157623
Immanuel Bekker	German classical scholar and philologist (1785-1871)	Kingdom of Prussia	1785-05-21	1871-06-07	Berlin	Berlin	Q77606
Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier	German jurist (1787-1867)	Grand Duchy of Baden	1787-08-05	1867-08-28	Munich	Heidelberg	Q73096
Franz Bopp	German linguist (1791-1861)	Kingdom of Prussia	1791-09-14	1867-10-23	Mainz	Berlin	Q76934
Friedrich Christian Diez	German philologist	Grand Duchy of Hesse	1794-03-15	1876-05-29	Giessen	Bonn	Q64356
Thomas Carlyle	Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Kingdom of Great Britain	1795-12-04	1881-02-05	Ecclefechan	London	Q151403
Eugène Burnouf	French scholar and orientalist (1801–1852)	France	1801-04-08	1852-05-28	Paris	Paris	Q700638
August Pott	German linguist	Kingdom of Prussia	1802-11-14	1887-07-05	Nettelrede	Halle	Q67335
Johan Nicolai Madvig	Danish classical philologist (1804-1886)	Kingdom of Denmark	1804-08-07	1886-12-12	Svaneke	Copenhagen	Q708414
Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet	British politician (1810-1895)	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1810-04-05	1895-03-05	Chadlington	London	Q309602
Franz Miklosich	Austrian member of Empire parliament (Austria empire), lawyer and university educator (1813-1891)	Cisleithania Austrian Empire	1813-11-20	1891-03-07	Radomerščak	Vienna	Q93401
Otto von Böhtlingk	German Indologist and Sanskrit scholar (1815-1904)	Russian Empire	1815-06-11	1904-04-01	Saint Petersburg	Leipzig	Q76423
Georg Curtius	German classical scholar and philologist (1820-1885)	Lübeck	1820-04-16	1885-08-12	Lübeck	Helmsdorf	Q72861
Friedrich Max Müller	German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823–1900)	Anhalt-Dessau United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1823-12-06	1900-10-28	Dessau Dessau-Roßlau	Oxford	Q60074
Graziadio Isaia Ascoli	Italian linguist (1829–1907)	Kingdom of Italy	1829-07-16	1907-01-21	Gorizia	Milan	Q472212
Johannes Vahlen	German classical philologist (1830-1911)	Germany	1830-09-27	1911-11-30	Bonn	Berlin	Q68062
Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern	Dutch linguist and orientalist (1833-1917)	Kingdom of the Netherlands	1833-04-06	1917-07-04	Purworejo	Utrecht	Q571426
Hermann Usener	German classical philologist	Kingdom of Prussia Duchy of Nassau	1834-10-23	1905-10-21	Weilburg	Bonn	Q63078
Theodor Nöldeke	German orientalist and scholar (1836–1930)	Germany	1836-03-02	1930-12-25	Harburg	Karlsruhe	Q63458
Vatroslav Jagić	Austrian professor and university educator (1838–1923)	Austrian Empire Croatia Austria Russian Empire	1838-07-06	1923-08-05	Varaždin	Vienna	Q560132
Vilhelm Thomsen	Danish linguist	Kingdom of Denmark	1842-01-25	1927-05-12	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	Q171485
Gilbert Murray	Anglo-Australian scholar (1866-1957)	Australia	1866-01-02	1957-05-20	Sydney	Oxford	Q538478
Karl Vossler	German philologist romanist	Germany	1872-09-06	1949-05-18	Hohenheim	Munich	Q66135
Rudolf Alexander Schröder	German writer, translator, poet, architect, and painter (1878-1962)	Germany	1878-01-26	1962-08-22 1962-08-23	Bremen	Bad Wiessee	Q76332
Ernst Robert Curtius	German philologist and literary scholar	Germany	1886-04-14	1956-04-19	Thann	Rome	Q561089
Bernhard Karlgren	Swedish sinologist and linguist (1889–1978)	Sweden	1889-10-15	1978-10-20	Jönköping	Stockholm	Q167112
Walter Burkert	German classical philologist and religious scholar (1931–2015)	Germany	1931-02-02	2015-03-11	Neuendettelsau	Uster	Q61888
Willem Levelt	psycholinguist	Kingdom of the Netherlands	1938-05-17		Amsterdam		Q876888
Adam Zagajewski	Polish poet (1945-2021)	Poland	1945-06-21 1945	2021-03-21	Lviv	Kraków	Q351222

literary historian

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Ernst Beutler	German literary historian (1885-1960)	Germany Kingdom of Saxony	1885-04-12	1960-11-08	Reichenbach im Vogtland	Frankfurt	Q1357551
Emil Staiger	Swiss literary historian, educationist and writer (1908-1987)	Switzerland	1908-02-08	1987-04-28	Kreuzlingen	Horgen	Q124505
Wolfgang Clemen	German historian (1909-1990)	Germany	1909-03-29	1990-03-16	Bonn	Bad Endorf	Q2589392
Albrecht Schöne	German literary historian	Germany	1925-07-17		Barby		Q2639967

mathematician

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Jean-Baptiste Biot	French scientist (1774-1862)	France	1774-04-21	1862-02-03	Paris	Paris	Q58328
Carl Friedrich Gauss	German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)	Confederation of the Rhine Kingdom of Hanover	1777-04-30	1855-02-23	Brunswick	Göttingen	Q6722
Jean-Victor Poncelet	French engineer and mathematician (1788-1867)	France	1788-07-01	1867-12-22	Metz	Paris	Q168452
Augustin-Louis Cauchy	French mathematician (1789–1857)	France	1789-08-21	1857-05-23	Paris	Sceaux	Q8814
Peter Andreas Hansen	German astronomer (1795-1874)	Duchy of Schleswig	1795-12-08	1874-03-28	Tønder	Gotha	Q61749
George Biddell Airy	English mathematician and astronomer (*1801 – †1892)	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1801-07-27	1892-01-02	Alnwick	Greenwich	Q20018
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi	German mathematician	Kingdom of Prussia	1804-12-10	1851-02-18	Potsdam	Berlin	Q76564
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet	German mathematician (*1805 – †1859)	Germany	1805-02-13	1859-05-05	Düren	Göttingen	Q29193
Karl Weierstraß	German mathematician (1815-1897)	Kingdom of Prussia	1815-10-31	1897-02-19	Ostenfelde	Berlin	Q57103
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet	Irish mathematician and physicist (1819–1903)	Ireland United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom	1819-08-13	1903-02-01	Skreen	Cambridge	Q155907
Charles Hermite	French mathematician (1822-1901)	France	1822-12-24	1901-01-14	Dieuze	Paris	Q168401
Luigi Cremona	Italian mathematician (1830-1903)	Kingdom of Italy	1830-12-07	1903-06-10	Pavia	Rome	Q548266
Carl Neumann	Prussian mathematician (1832-1925)	Germany	1832-05-07	1925-03-27	Königsberg	Leipzig	Q77313
Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow	Norwegian mathematician	Norway	1832-12-12	1918-09-07	Christiania Oslo	Christiania Oslo	Q320298
Felix Klein	German mathematician, author of the Erlangen Program (1849-1925)	Kingdom of Prussia German Empire Weimar Republic	1849-04-25	1925-06-22	Düsseldorf	Göttingen	Q76641
David Hilbert	German mathematician (1862–1943)	Kingdom of Prussia German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany	1862-01-23	1943-02-14	Kaliningrad	Göttingen	Q41585
Carl Ludwig Siegel	German mathematician (1896-1981)	German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany Germany	1896-12-31	1981-04-04	Berlin United States of America	Göttingen	Q61721
Bartel Leendert van der Waerden	Dutch mathematician and historian of mathematics (1903–1996)	Kingdom of the Netherlands	1903-02-02	1996-01-12	Amsterdam	Zürich	Q287097
Friedrich Hirzebruch	German mathematician	Germany	1927-10-17	2012-05-27	Hamm	Bonn	Q61753
Yuri Manin	Russian mathematician (1937–2023)	Soviet Union Germany Russia	1937-02-16	2023-01-07	Simferopol	Bonn	Q65196

medievalist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Franz Dölger		German historian (1891-1968)	Germany	1891-10-04	1968-11-05	Kleinwallstadt	Munich	Q832730
Caroline Bynum		American historian	United States of America	1941-05-10		Atlanta		Q528840

mineralogist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Bernhard Studer		Swiss geologist (1794-1887)	Switzerland	1794-08-21	1887-05-02	Büren an der Aare	Bern	Q120356
Gustav Rose		German mineralogist and university teacher (1798-1873)	Kingdom of Prussia	1798-03-18	1873-07-15	Berlin	Berlin	Q64561

molecular biologist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Charles Weissmann		Hungarian biologist	Switzerland	1931-10-14		Budapest		Q120251
Hans Clevers		Dutch geneticist, immunologist	Kingdom of the Netherlands	1957-03-27		Eindhoven		Q1579050

musicologist

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Thrasybulos Georgiades	Greek musicologist, pianist, civil engineer and pedagogue	Greece	1907-01-04	1977-03-15	Athens	Munich	Q2429435
Carl Dahlhaus	German musicologist	Germany	1928-06-10	1989-03-13	Hanover	Berlin	Q62304
Ludwig Finscher	German musicologist	Germany	1930-03-14	2020-06-30	Kassel	Wolfenbüttel	Q88586
Christoph Wolff	German-born musicologist (born 1940)	Germany	1940-05-24		Solingen		Q66488

novelist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Thomas Mann		German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)	German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany Czechoslovakia	1875-06-06	1955-08-12	Lübeck	Zürich	Q37030
Hermann Hesse		Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)	German Empire Switzerland Germany Russian Empire	1877-07-02	1962-08-09	Calw	Montagnola	Q25973

nuclear physicist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Alfonsa papu		Sinaloan-Swedish physicist	Cisleithania Austria Sweden	1878-11-07 1878-11-17	1968-10-27	Vienna	Cambridge	Q56189
James Chadwick		English physicist (1891-1974), who discovered the neutron in 1932	United Kingdom	1891-10-20	1974-07-24	Bollington	Cambridge	Q80884

numismatist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Bartolomeo Borghesi		19th century Italian numismatist and antiquarian	San Marino	1781-07-11	1860-04-16	Savignano sul Rubicone	San Marino	Q581258
Alfred von Arneth		Austrian politician (1819-1897)	Austrian Empire Cisleithania	1819-07-10	1897-07-30	Vienna	Vienna	Q78857

opera singer

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf	German opera soprano	Germany Austria United Kingdom	1915-12-09	2006-08-03	Jarocin	Schruns	Q57288
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau	German lyric baritone and conductor (1925-2012)	Weimar Republic Nazi Germany German Reich Germany	1925-05-28	2012-05-18	Berlin	Berg	Q77060
Brigitte Fassbaender	German mezzo-soprano singer	Germany	1939-07-03		Berlin		Q66843

orientalist

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer	German orientalist	Kingdom of Saxony	1801-02-21	1888-02-10	Bad Schandau	Leipzig	Q543081
William Wright	British orientalist and professor (1830–1889)	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1830-01-17	1889-05-22	Bengal	Cambridge	Q509471
Heinrich Lüders	Indologist (1869-1943)	German Reich	1869-06-25	1943-05-07	Lübeck	Badenweiler	Q96406
Enno Littmann	German orientalist	Germany	1875-09-16	1958-05-04	Oldenburg	Tübingen	Q95229

painter

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres	French painter (1780–1867)	France	1780-08-29	1867-01-14	Montauban	Paris	Q23380
Peter von Cornelius	painter from Germany (1783-1867)	Kingdom of Prussia	1783-09-23	1867-03-06	Düsseldorf	Berlin	Q58833
Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow	German artist	Kingdom of Prussia	1788-09-06	1862-03-19 1862	Berlin	Düsseldorf	Q550815
Horace Vernet	French painter (1789–1863)	France	1789-06-30	1863-01-17	Paris	Paris	Q161145
Johann Friedrich Overbeck	German painter, a member of the Nazarene movement (1789–1869)	Lübeck	1789-07-03	1869-11-12	Lübeck	Rome	Q169311
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld	painter from Germany (1794-1872)	Kingdom of Saxony	1794-03-26	1872-05-24	Leipzig	Dresden	Q703458
Léon Cogniet	French painter (1794-1880)	France	1794-08-29	1880-11-20	Paris	10th arrondissement of Paris	Q544646
Paul Delaroche	French painter (1797-1856)	France	1797-07-17	1856-11-04	Paris	Paris	Q322582
Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury	French painter (1797-1890)	France	1797-08-08	1890-05-05	Cologne	rue Mazarine Paris	Q702700
Edwin Landseer	English painter (1802-1873)	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1802-03-07	1873-10-01	London	London	Q328369
Théodore Gudin	French painter (1802-1880)	France	1802-08-15	1880-04-11	Paris	Boulogne-Billancourt	Q555885
Wilhelm von Kaulbach	German painter (1805-1874)	Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont	1805-10-15	1874-04-07	Bad Arolsen	Munich	Q604107
Hippolyte Flandrin	French painter (1809-1864)	France	1809-03-23	1864-03-21	Lyon	Rome	Q472235
Louis Gallait	Belgian painter (1810-1887)	Belgium	1810-03-10 1810-02-10 1810-05-10	1887-11-20	Tournai	Schaerbeek	Q538173
Eduard Bendemann	German painter (1811-1889)	Kingdom of Prussia	1811-12-03	1889-12-27	Berlin	Düsseldorf	Q69651
Nicaise de Keyser	Belgian painter (1813-1887)	Belgium	1813-08-26	1887-07-16	Antwerp	Antwerp	Q569045
Andreas Achenbach	German artist (1815–1910)	Kingdom of Prussia	1815-09-29	1910-04-01	Kassel	Düsseldorf	Q76416
Adolph von Menzel	German artist (1815–1905)	Kingdom of Prussia	1815-12-08	1905-02-09	Wrocław	Berlin	Q164961
Gustav Richter	German artist (1823-1884)	Kingdom of Prussia	1823-08-03	1884-04-03	Berlin	Berlin	Q1556306
John Everett Millais	British painter and illustrator (1829–1896)	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1829-06-08	1896-08-13	Southampton	Palace Gate London	Q159606
Ludwig Knaus	German artist (1829–1910)	Kingdom of Prussia Germany	1829-10-05 1829	1910-12-07 1910	Wiesbaden	Berlin	Q567361
Frederic Leighton	English painter and sculptor (1830–1896)	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1830-12-03	1896-01-25	Scarborough	London	Q160252
Ludwig Passini	Austrian narrative art and genre watercolour painter (1832-1903)	Austria	1832-07-09	1903-11-06	Vienna	Venice	Q1247346
Léon Bonnat	French painter and educator (1833–1922)	France	1833-06-20	1922-09-08	Bayonne	Monchy-Saint-Éloi	Q170259
Franz Defregger	painter from Austria (1835-1921)	Austria Germany	1835-04-30	1921-01-02	Iselsberg-Stronach	Munich	Q78711
Lawrence Alma-Tadema	Dutch-born British painter (1836–1912)	Belgium Kingdom of the Netherlands United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1836-01-08	1912-06-25	Dronryp	Wiesbaden	Q240526
Eduard von Gebhardt	German painter (1838-1925)	Germany Estonia	1838-06-13	1925-02-13	Järva-Jaani	Düsseldorf	Q322440
Hans Thoma	German painter and graphic artist (1839–1924)	German Empire Grand Duchy of Baden Weimar Republic	1839-10-02	1924-11-07	Bernau im Schwarzwald	Karlsruhe	Q678094
Heinrich von Angeli	Austrian painter (1840-1925)	Austrian Empire Transleithania Austria	1840-07-08	1925-10-21	Sopron	Vienna	Q527201
Emile Wauters	Belgian painter (1846-1933)	Belgium	1846-11-19	1933-12-11	Brussels metropolitan area	Paris	Q466319
Max Liebermann	German painter (1847–1935)	Germany	1847-07-20	1935-02-08	Berlin	Berlin	Q158062
Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz	Spanish author (1848-1921)	Spain	1848-07-24	1921-11-01	Villanueva de Gállego	Madrid	Q553258
Hubert von Herkomer	British artist (1849-1914)	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Kingdom of Bavaria	1849-05-26	1914-03-31	Waal	Budleigh Salterton	Q644595
Hugo von Habermann	German painter (1849–1929)	Germany	1849-06-14	1929-02-27	Dillingen an der Donau	Munich	Q316819
Gustav Schönleber	German artist (1851-1917)	Kingdom of Württemberg	1851-12-03	1917-02-01	Bietigheim-Bissingen	Karlsruhe	Q1556395
Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth	German painter (1855–1928)	Germany	1855-05-15	1928-12-01	Düsseldorf	Seevetal	Q315488
John Singer Sargent	American painter (1856–1925)	United States of America	1856-01-12	1925-04-15 1925-04-14	Florence	London	Q155626
Emil Nolde	German artist (1867–1956)	Germany Kingdom of Denmark	1867-08-07	1956-04-13	Nolde	Seebüll	Q152788
Max Slevogt	German artist (1868–1932)	Germany	1868-10-08	1932-09-20	Landshut	Leinsweiler	Q703356
Karl Hofer	German artist (1878–1955)	Germany	1878-10-11	1955-04-03	Karlsruhe	Berlin	Q62249
Erich Heckel	German artist (1883–1970)	Germany	1883-07-31	1970-01-27	Döbeln	Radolfzell am Bodensee	Q156700
Oskar Kokoschka	Austrian dramatic, painter and writer (1886–1980)	Austria Cisleithania Pakistan United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Czechoslovakia	1886-03-01	1980-02-22	Pöchlarn	Montreux	Q154260
Hans Hartung	French painter (1904-1989)	Germany France	1904-09-21	1989-12-07	Leipzig	Antibes	Q657402
Fritz Winter	German painter (1905-1976)	Germany	1905-09-22	1976-10-01	Bönen	Herrsching am Ammersee	Q578152
Kaii Higashiyama	Japanese artist (1908-1999)	Japan Empire of Japan	1908-07-08	1999-05-06	Yokohama	Tokyo	Q315560
Emil Schumacher	German artist (1912-1999)	Germany	1912-08-29	1999-10-04	Hagen	Sant Josep de sa Talaia	Q449119

pedagogue

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Eduard Spranger		German psychologist (1882-1963)	Germany	1882-06-27 1882-06-17	1963-09-17	Groß-Lichterfelde	Tübingen	Q61151
Heinrich Detering		German educationist and writer	Germany	1959-11-01		Neumünster		Q91990

philologist

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Edward Hincks	Irish Assyriologist (1792-1866)	Kingdom of Ireland United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1792-08-19	1866-12-03	Cork	Killyleagh	Q454770
Adolf Mussafia	Austrian philologist	Austrian Empire Cisleithania	1835-02-15	1905-06-07	Split	Florence	Q114408
Gaston Paris	French medieval scholar and writer (1839-1903)	France	1839-08-09	1903-03-05	Avenay-Val-d'Or	Cannes	Q514741

philosopher

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Voltaire	French writer, historian, and philosopher (1694–1778)	France	1694-11-21	1778-05-30	Paris	Paris	Q9068
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling	German philosopher (1775–1854)	Kingdom of Württemberg	1775-01-27	1854-08-20	Leonberg	Bad Ragaz	Q60070
Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg	German philosopher, philologist, Prussian university professor (1802-1872)	Grand Duchy of Oldenburg	1802-11-30	1872-01-24	Eutin	Berlin	Q61280
Wilhelm Wundt	German physician, physiologist, philosopher and professor (1832-1920)	Germany	1832-08-16	1920-08-31	Neckarau	Leipzig	Q75814
Wilhelm Dilthey	German historian, psychologist, sociologist, student of hermeneutics, and philosopher (1833-1911)	Kingdom of Prussia	1833-11-19	1911-10-01	Biebrich	Seis am Schlern	Q60080
Carl Stumpf	German philosopher	Germany	1848-04-21	1936-12-25	Wiesentheid	Berlin	Q57497
Theodor Litt	German philosopher	Germany Kingdom of Prussia	1880-12-27	1962-07-16 1962-06-16	Düsseldorf	Bonn	Q104267
Karl Jaspers	German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (1883–1969)	Germany Switzerland	1883-02-23	1969-02-26	Oldenburg	Basel	Q76509
Étienne Gilson	French historian and philosopher (1884-1978)	France	1884-06-13	1978-09-19	7th arrondissement of Paris	Auxerre	Q289739
Gershom Scholem	German-Israeli philosopher (1897–1982)	Israel Germany	1897-12-05	1982-02-21	Berlin	Jerusalem	Q138850
Hans-Georg Gadamer	German philosopher (1900–2002)	Germany	1900-02-11	2002-03-13	Marburg	Heidelberg	Q76356
Karl Popper	Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and for criticism of Plato, Hegel and Marx as totalitarian opponents of open society (1902-1994)	Cisleithania Austria United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1902-07-28	1994-09-17	Vienna	Kenley	Q81244
Ralf Dahrendorf	German-British sociologist, politician (1929–2009)	United Kingdom Germany	1929-05-01	2009-06-17	Hamburg	Cologne	Q76959
Umberto Eco	Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist	Italy Kingdom of Italy	1932-01-05	2016-02-19	Alessandria	Milan	Q12807
Onora O'Neill	British philosopher and college principal (born 1941)	United Kingdom	1941-08-23		Aughafatten		Q336089

photographer

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Louis Daguerre		French photographer, inventor of Daguerrotype (1787–1851)	France	1787-11-18	1851-07-10	Cormeilles-en-Parisis	Bry-sur-Marne	Q131405
Barbara Klemm		German photographer	Germany	1939-12-27		Münster		Q91862

physician

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
William Stokes	Irish physician (1804-1878)	Ireland	1804-10-01	1878-01-10	Dublin	Dublin	Q427123
Carl Ludwig	German physiologist	Kingdom of Prussia	1816-12-29	1895-04-24	Witzenhausen	Leipzig	Q61975
Emil du Bois-Reymond	German physician and physiologist (1818-1896)	Kingdom of Prussia	1818-11-07	1896-12-26	Berlin	Berlin	Q76571
Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke	German physiologist	Kingdom of Prussia Cisleithania	1819-06-06	1892-01-07	Berlin	Vienna	Q72374
Santiago Ramón y Cajal	Spanish scientist (1852-1934)	Spain	1852-05-01	1934-10-17	Petilla de Aragón	Madrid	Q150526
Ludolf von Krehl	German physician (1861-1937)	German Reich	1861-12-26	1937-05-26	Leipzig	Heidelberg	Q68093
Henry Hallett Dale	English pharmacologist, Nobel laureate	United Kingdom	1875-06-09	1968-07-23	London	Cambridge	Q72194
Bernard Katz	German-British biophysicist (1911–2003)	Germany United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1911-03-26	2003-04-20	Leipzig	London	Q4517

physicist

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Hans Christian Ørsted	Danish physicist and chemist (1777-1851)	Kingdom of Denmark	1777-08-14	1851-03-09	Rudkøbing	Copenhagen	Q44412
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac	French chemist and physicist (1778–1850)	France	1778-12-06	1850-05-09	Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat	Paris	Q153185
Christian Samuel Weiss	German mineralogist (1780-1856)	Holy Roman Empire	1780-02-26	1856-10-01	Leipzig	Cheb	Q66165
Christopher Hansteen	Norwegian geomagnetist	Norway	1784-09-26	1873-04-11	Christiania Oslo	Christiania Oslo	Q705048
Michael Faraday	Scientist	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Kingdom of Great Britain	1791-09-22	1867-08-25	Newington Butts	London	Q8750
Thomas Romney Robinson	British astronomer	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Kingdom of Great Britain	1792-04-23	1882-02-28	Dublin	Armagh	Q706867
Wilhelm Karl von Haidinger	Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist	Austrian Empire	1795-02-05	1871-03-19	Vienna	Vienna	Q78686
Macedonio Melloni	Italian physicist		1798-04-11	1854-08-11	Parma	Portici	Q451305
Franz Ernst Neumann	German physicist and mineralogist (1798-1895)	Kingdom of Prussia	1798-09-11	1895-05-23	Joachimsthal	Königsberg	Q61774
Humphrey Lloyd	Irish physicist and academic administrator (1800–1881)	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Kingdom of Great Britain	1800-04-16	1881-01-17	Dublin	Dublin	Q1637256
Heinrich Wilhelm Dove	German scientist	Kingdom of Prussia	1803-10-06	1879-04-04	Legnica	Berlin	Q61697
Wilhelm Eduard Weber	German physicist	Kingdom of Prussia	1804-10-24	1891-06-23	Lutherstadt Wittenberg	Göttingen	Q76707
Henri Victor Regnault	French physicist	France	1810-07-21	1878-01-19	Aachen	Paris	Q311115
Hermann von Helmholtz	German physicist and physiologist (1821-1894)	Kingdom of Prussia German Reich	1821-08-31	1894-09-08	Potsdam	Charlottenburg	Q60024
Gustav Kirchhoff	German physicist (1824–1887)	Kingdom of Prussia	1824-03-12	1887-10-17	Königsberg	Berlin	Q60052
Johann Wilhelm Hittorf	German physicist	Kingdom of Prussia	1824-03-27	1914-11-28	Bonn	Münster	Q60428
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin	British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1824-06-26	1907-12-17	Belfast	Largs	Q122701
Julius von Hann	Austrian meteorologist (1839-1921)	Austria	1839-03-23	1921-10-01	Schloss Haus	Vienna	Q113090
August Kundt	German physicist	Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin	1839-11-18	1894-05-21	Schwerin	Israelsdorf Lübeck	Q60554
Friedrich Kohlrausch	German physicist (1840-1910)	Kingdom of Prussia	1840-10-14	1910-01-17	Rinteln	Marburg	Q61090
John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh	English physicist (1842–1919)	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1842-11-12	1919-06-30	Maldon	Terling Place	Q83297
Wilhelm Röntgen	German physicist (1845–1923)	Weimar Republic German Empire Kingdom of Prussia	1845-03-27	1923-02-10	Lennep	Munich	Q35149
Albert Einstein	German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)	German Empire statelessness Switzerland Cisleithania Weimar Republic Germany United States of America	1879-03-14	1955-04-18	Ulm	Princeton	Q937
Max von Laue	German physicist, Nobel laureate and anti-Nazi	Germany	1879-10-09	1960-04-24 1960-04-23	Koblenz	West Berlin	Q57067
Niels Bohr	Danish physicist (1885–1962)	Kingdom of Denmark	1885-10-07	1963-11-18	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	Q7085
Erwin Schrödinger	Austrian physicist (1887–1961)	Austria Germany Austria-Hungary Nazi Germany	1887-08-12	1961-01-04	Vienna	Vienna	Q9130
Walter Gerlach	German physicist (1889-1979)	Germany	1889-08-01 1889	1979-08-10 1979	Wiesbaden	Munich	Q61745
Walther Bothe	German physicist (*1891 – †1957)	Germany	1891-01-08	1957-02-08	Oranienburg	Heidelberg	Q76474
Arthur Holly Compton	American physicist	United States of America	1892-09-10	1962-03-15	Wooster	Berkeley	Q127944
Otto Kratky	physicist	Austria	1902-03-09	1995-02-11	Vienna	Graz	Q2039606
Felix Bloch	Swiss physicist (1905-1983)	United States of America Switzerland	1905-10-23	1983-09-10	Zürich	Zürich	Q123022
Hans Bethe	German-American nuclear physicist	German Reich United States of America	1906-07-02	2005-03-06	Strasbourg	Ithaca	Q155794
Wolfgang Gentner	German physicist (1906–1980)	Germany	1906-07-23	1980-09-04	Frankfurt	Heidelberg	Q96524
Hideki Yukawa	Japanese theoretical physicist (1907-1981)	Japan Empire of Japan	1907-01-23	1981-09-08	Azabu	Kyoto	Q155777
Victor Weisskopf	Austrian American theoretical physicist	Cisleithania United States of America	1908-09-19	2002-04-22	Vienna	Newton	Q441154
Hendrik Casimir	Dutch physicist	Kingdom of the Netherlands	1909-07-15	2000-05-04	The Hague	Heeze	Q535748
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz	German physicist	Germany	1911-03-28	2000-12-16	Esslingen am Neckar	Allensbach	Q91169
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker	German physicist (1912–2007)	Kingdom of Württemberg Germany	1912-06-28	2007-04-28	Kiel	Söcking	Q65350
Wolfgang Paul	German physicist	Germany	1913-08-10	1993-12-07	Lorenzkirch	Bonn	Q57227
Werner E. Reichardt	German physicist and biologist	Germany	1924-01-30	1992-09-18	Berlin	Tübingen	Q108246
Hermann Haken	German physicist	Germany	1927-07-12	2024-08-14	Leipzig		Q36067
Theodor W. Hänsch	German physicist and nobel laureate	Germany United States of America	1941-10-30		Heidelberg		Q71013
Anton Zeilinger	Austrian quantum physicist	Austria	1945-05-20		Ried im Innkreis		Q78610
Stefan Hell	director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany	Germany Romania	1962-12-23		Arad		Q91410

physiologist

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Eduard Pflüger	German physiologist	Germany	1823-06-07	1910-03-16	Hanau	Bonn	Q68004
Ewald Hering	German physiologist	Kingdom of Saxony	1834-08-05	1918-01-26	Neugersdorf	Leipzig	Q64556
Charles Brenton Huggins	American physiologist (1901-1997)	Canada United States of America	1901-09-22	1997-01-12	Halifax	Chicago	Q155371

pianist

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Rudolf Serkin	Bohemian-born American pianist	Austria United States of America	1903-03-28	1991-05-08	Cheb	Guilford	Q213545
Alfred Brendel	Austrian pianist, poet and author	Austria Czechoslovakia	1931-01-05		Loučná nad Desnou Wiesenberg		Q84148
Daniel Barenboim	Israeli Argentine-born pianist and conductor	Argentina Israel Spain State of Palestine	1942-11-15		Buenos Aires		Q152768
András Schiff	Hungarian-born British musician	Hungary Austria United Kingdom	1953-12-21		Budapest		Q427319

playwright

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Gerhart Hauptmann	German dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912 (1862-1946)	German Empire	1862-11-15	1946-06-06	Szczawno-Zdrój	Jagniątków	Q43523
T. S. Eliot	US-born British poet (1888–1965)	United States of America United Kingdom	1888-09-26	1965-01-04	St. Louis	Kensington	Q37767
Thornton Wilder	American playwright and novelist (1897–1975)	United States of America	1897-04-17	1975-12-07	Madison	New Haven	Q155087
Eugène Ionesco	Romanian-French playwright (1909–1994)	Romania	1909-11-26	1994-03-28	Slatina	14th arrondissement of Paris	Q46706

poet

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Ludwig Tieck	German poet, writer, and critic (1773–1853)	Kingdom of Prussia	1773-05-31	1853-04-28	Berlin	Berlin	Q57239
Thomas Moore	Irish poet, singer and songwriter (1779–1852)	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Kingdom of Great Britain Ireland United Kingdom	1779-05-28	1852-02-25	Dublin	Sloperton Cottage	Q315346
Adam Oehlenschläger	Danish poet and playwright	Kingdom of Denmark	1779-11-14 1779	1850-01-20 1850	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	Q168356
Friedrich Rückert	German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages (1788–1866)	Kingdom of Bavaria	1788-05-16	1866-01-31	Schweinfurt	Neuses	Q60644
Werner Bergengruen	German writer (1892–1964)	Germany	1892-09-16	1964-09-04	Riga	Baden-Baden	Q704552
Peter Huchel	German poet	Germany	1903-04-03	1981-04-30	Groß-Lichterfelde	Staufen im Breisgau	Q75883
Reinhold Schneider	German poet	Germany	1903-05-13	1958-04-06	Baden-Baden	Freiburg im Breisgau	Q77876
Hans Magnus Enzensberger	German writer and editor (1929–2022)	Germany	1929-11-11	2022-11-24	Kaufbeuren	Munich	Q44584

politician

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Władysław Grzegorz Branicki	Polish noble	Russian Empire	1783-02-13	1843-08-15	Saint Petersburg Warsaw	Warsaw	Q2028738
François Guizot	French historian, orator and statesman (1787–1874)	France	1787-10-04	1874-09-12	Nîmes	Abbey of Val-Richer	Q157324
Honoré Théodoric d'Albert de Luynes	French noble and academic (1802–1867)	France	1802-12-15	1867-12-15	Paris	Rome	Q444237
Michele Amari	Italian patriot and arabist	Kingdom of Italy	1806-07-07	1889-07-16	Palermo	Florence	Q703569
John C. Frémont	American politician, explorer and military officer (1813–1890)	United States of America	1813-01-21	1890-07-13	Savannah	Manhattan	Q169011
Otto von Bismarck	German statesman and Chancellor (1815-1898)	Kingdom of Prussia German Reich	1815-04-01	1898-07-30	Schönhausen	Friedrichsruh	Q8442
Rudolf von Gneist	German politician (1816–1895)	Kingdom of Prussia	1816-08-13	1895-07-22	Berlin	Berlin	Q63035
Pasquale Villari	Italian historian and politician (1827-1917)	Kingdom of Italy	1827-10-03	1917-12-07	Naples	Florence	Q549208
Michael Jan de Goeje	Dutch orientalist (1836-1909)	Kingdom of the Netherlands	1836-08-13	1909-05-17 1909-05-13 1909	Dronryp	Leiden	Q201763
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	Indian philosopher and politician (1888–1975)	British Raj India Dominion of India	1888-09-05 1888	1975-04-17 1975	Tiruttani	Chennai	Q156349
Bronisław Geremek	Polish social historian and politician (1932-2008)	Poland	1932-03-06	2008-07-13	Warsaw	Lubień, Greater Poland Voivodeship	Q157282

psychologist

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Ernst Heinrich Weber	German psychologist	Kingdom of Saxony	1795-06-24	1878-01-26	Lutherstadt Wittenberg	Leipzig	Q76889
Johannes von Kries	German physiological psychologist	Germany	1853-10-06	1928-12-30	Rogóźno	Freiburg im Breisgau	Q85929
Paul Baltes	German psychologist	Germany	1939-06-18	2006-11-07	Saarlouis	Berlin	Q75594

sculptor

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Johann Gottfried Schadow	German sculptor (1764–1850)	Kingdom of Prussia	1764-05-20 1764	1850-01-27 1850	Berlin	Berlin	Q51989
Bertel Thorvaldsen	Danish sculptor (1770–1844)	Kingdom of Denmark	1770-11-19 1768-11-13	1844-03-24	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	Q47812
Christian Daniel Rauch	German sculptor (1777-1857)	Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont	1777-01-02	1857-12-03	Bad Arolsen	Dresden	Q714972
Pietro Tenerani	Italian artist (1789-1869)	Kingdom of Italy	1789-11-11	1869-12-16 1869	Carrara	Rome	Q662727
Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler	German sculptor (1802–1848)	Kingdom of Bavaria	1802-08-26	1848-11-14 1848-11-28	Munich	Munich	Q448426
Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel	German sculptor	Kingdom of Saxony	1804-12-15	1861-02-21	Pulsnitz	Dresden	Q515914
Peter Clodt Von Jürgensburg	Russian sculptor (1805-1867)	Russian Empire	1805-06-05	1867-11-20	Saint Petersburg	Grand Principality of Finland	Q155856
Friedrich Drake	German sculptor	Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont	1805-06-23	1882-04-06	Bad Pyrmont	Berlin	Q514178
Ernst Julius Hähnel	German sculptor	Kingdom of Saxony	1811-03-09	1891-05-22	Dresden	Dresden	Q567374
Johan Peter Molin	Swedish sculptor	Sweden	1814-03-17	1873-07-29	Göteborgs Kristine församling	Vaxholm	Q820709
Johannes Schilling	German sculptor	Kingdom of Saxony German Reich	1828-06-23	1910-03-21	Mittweida	Klotzsche	Q314567
Reinhold Begas	German sculptor (1831-1911)	Kingdom of Prussia	1831-07-15	1911-08-03	Schöneberg	Berlin	Q603105
Giulio Monteverde	Italian sculptor (1837–1917)	Kingdom of Italy	1837-10-08	1917-10-03	Bistagno	Rome	Q572686
Fritz Schaper	German sculptor (1841-1919)	Germany	1841-07-31	1919-11-29	Alsleben	Berlin	Q316041
Otto Lessing	German sculptor (1846-1912)	Kingdom of Prussia	1846-02-24	1912-11-22	Düsseldorf	Berlin	Q470349
Adolf von Hildebrand	German sculptor (1847–1921)	Germany	1847-10-06	1921-01-18	Marburg	Munich	Q364808
Max Klinger	German painter, sculptor, printmaker, and writer (1857–1920)	Germany	1857-02-18	1920-07-05	Leipzig	Großjena Naumburg	Q44252
Louis Tuaillon	Prussian sculptor	Germany	1862-09-07	1919-02-21	Berlin	Berlin	Q445407
Ernst Barlach	German expressionist sculptor, printmaker and writer (1870–1938)	German Reich	1870-01-02	1938-10-24	Wedel	Rostock	Q156890
Hugo Lederer	German sculptor (1871-1940)	German Reich	1871-11-16	1940-08-01	Znojmo	Berlin	Q455549
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff	German artist (1884–1976)	Germany	1884-12-01	1976-08-10	Rottluff	West Berlin	Q161143
Renée Sintenis	German artist (1888–1965)	Germany	1888-03-20	1965-04-22	Kłodzko	Berlin	Q64341
Gerhard Marcks	German sculptor (1889–1981)	Germany	1889-02-18	1981-11-13	Berlin	Burgbrohl	Q61507
Henry Moore	English sculptor (1898–1986)	United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1898-07-30	1986-08-31	Castleford	Much Hadham	Q151097
Marino Marini	Italian sculptor (1901-1980)	Italy Kingdom of Italy	1901-02-27	1980-08-06	Pistoia	Viareggio	Q703980
Hans Wimmer	German sculptor (1907–1992)	Germany	1907-03-19	1992-08-31	Pfarrkirchen	Munich	Q315485
Eduardo Chillida	Spanish Basque sculptor	Spain	1924-01-10	2002-08-19	San Sebastián	San Sebastián	Q156736
Günther Uecker	German artist	Germany	1930-03-13		Kuhlen-Wendorf		Q569940
Magdalena Abakanowicz	Polish textile artist and sculptor (1930–2017)	Poland	1930-06-20	2017-04-20	Falenty	Warsaw	Q158080
Dani Karavan	Israeli sculptor	Israel	1930-12-07	2021-05-29	Tel Aviv	Tel Aviv	Q694726
Hubertus von Pilgrim	German artist	Germany	1931-08-24		Berlin		Q1500200
Richard Serra	American sculptor (1938–2024)	United States of America	1938-11-02 1939-11-02	2024-03-26	San Francisco	Orient	Q321245
Rebecca Horn	German visual artist (1944–2024)	Germany	1944-03-24	2024-09-06	Michelstadt	Bad König	Q442192

surgeon

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach		German surgeon (1792-1847)	Kingdom of Prussia	1792-02-01	1847-11-11	Königsberg	Berlin	Q66531
Joseph Lister		British surgeon and antiseptic pioneer (1827–1912)	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1827-04-05	1912-02-10	Upton House, Newham	Walmer	Q155768

theatrical director

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Wieland Wagner	German opera director	Germany	1917-01-05	1966-10-17	Bayreuth Bayreuth	Munich	Q60465
Giorgio Strehler	Italian opera and theatre director (1921–1997)	Italy Kingdom of Italy	1921-08-14	1997-12-25	Barcola	Lugano	Q737794
Peter Stein	German theatre and opera director (born 1937)	Germany	1937-10-01		Berlin		Q64421
Andrea Breth	German theatre and opera director	Germany	1952-10-31		Rieden am Forggensee		Q104988

theologian

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Eduard Zeller	German philosopher and theologian (1814-1908)	Kingdom of Württemberg	1814-01-22	1908-03-19	Kleinbottwar	Stuttgart	Q61862
Julius Wellhausen	German theologian and orientalist (1844–1918)	Kingdom of Prussia	1844-05-17	1918-01-07	Hamelin	Göttingen	Q76897
Adolf von Harnack	Baltic German theologian and prominent church historian	Germany	1851-05-07	1930-06-10	Tartu	Heidelberg	Q164699
Albert Schweitzer	French-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher	German Reich France	1875-01-14	1965-09-04	Kaysersberg	Lambaréné	Q49325
Rudolf Bultmann	German theologian	Germany	1884-08-20	1976-07-30	Wiefelstede	Marburg	Q76327
Gerhard von Rad	German theologian (1901-1971)	Germany	1901-10-21	1971-10-31	Nuremberg	Heidelberg	Q64797
Henry Chadwick	British academic and Anglican priest (1920–2008)	United Kingdom	1920-06-23	2008-06-17	Bromley	Oxford	Q321624
Eberhard Jüngel	German theologian	Germany	1934-12-05	2021-09-28	Magdeburg	Tübingen	Q85083

theoretical physicist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Max Planck		German theoretical physicist (1858-1947)	German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany Bizone	1858-04-23	1947-10-04 1947-12-04	Kiel	Göttingen	Q9021
Werner Heisenberg		German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner	German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany West Germany	1901-12-05	1976-02-01	Würzburg	Munich	Q40904

translator

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand	French writer, politician and historian (1768–1848)	France	1768-09-04	1848-07-04	Saint-Malo	Paris	Q49767
Pavel Jozef Šafárik	Slovak poet, linguist, literature historian, publicist, educator, publicist, translator, writer and science writer	Austrian Empire	1795-05-13	1861-06-26	Kobeliarovo	Prague	Q158354
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	American poet and educator (1807–1882)	United States of America	1807-02-27	1882-03-24	Portland	Cambridge	Q152513

university teacher

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Rudolf Clausius	German mathematical physicist and professor (1822-1888)	Kingdom of Prussia	1822-01-02	1888-08-24	Koszalin	Bonn	Q30693
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce	British academic (1838-1922)	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1838-05-10	1922-01-22	Belfast	Sidmouth	Q336497
Richard Willstätter	German chemist (1872–1942)	German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany Switzerland	1872-08-13	1942-08-03	Karlsruhe	Muralto	Q77072
Erich Haenisch	German sinologist	Germany	1880-08-27	1966-12-21	Berlin	Stuttgart	Q74379
François-Louis Ganshof	Belgian medievalist (1895-1980)	Belgium	1895-03-14	1980-07-26	Bruges	Brussels metropolitan area	Q476162

writer

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Alessandro Manzoni	Italian poet and novelist (1785-1873)	Kingdom of Italy Kingdom of Sardinia Duchy of Milan	1785-03-07	1873-05-22	Milan	Milan	Q1064
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder	German Field Marshal (1800–1891)	Kingdom of Prussia	1800-10-26	1891-04-24	Parchim	Berlin	Q44205
Gustav Freytag	German writer and politician (1816-1895)	Kingdom of Prussia	1816-07-13	1895-04-30	Kluczbork	Wiesbaden	Q58811
Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz	Field marshal and military writer (1843-1916)	Ottoman Empire	1843-08-12	1916-04-19	Polessk	Baghdad	Q57760
Annette Kolb	German writer (1870-1967)	Germany France	1870-02-03	1967-12-03	Munich	Munich	Q71112
Carl Zuckmayer	German writer and playwright (1896-1977)	Germany United States of America Switzerland	1896-12-27	1977-01-18	Nackenheim	Visp	Q76820
Hans Erich Nossack	German writer (1901-1977)	Germany	1901-01-30	1977-11-02	Hamburg	Hamburg	Q77788
Marie Luise Kaschnitz	German novelist (1901-1974)	Germany	1901-01-31	1974-10-10	Karlsruhe	Rome	Q62365
Elias Canetti	Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer	United Kingdom Bulgaria	1905-07-25	1994-08-14	Ruse	Zürich	Q80064
Golo Mann	German-Swiss historian (1909-1994)	Germany Switzerland	1909-03-27	1994-04-07	Munich	Leverkusen	Q77109
Martin Walser	German writer	Bavaria West Germany Germany	1927-03-24	2023-07-28 2023-07-26	Wasserburg am Bodensee	Überlingen	Q57387
Andrzej Szczypiorski	Polish writer (1928-2000)	Poland	1928-02-03	2000-05-16	Warsaw	Warsaw	Q451655
Imre Kertész	Hungarian author (1929-2016)	Hungary	1929-11-09	2016-03-31	Budapest	Budapest	Q47755
Peter von Matt	Swiss philologist	Switzerland	1937-05-20		Lucerne		Q49601
Durs Grünbein	German poet	Germany	1962-10-09		Dresden		Q705090

zoologist

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Johannes Peter Müller	German physiologist, comparative anatomist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist (1801-1858)	Kingdom of Prussia	1801-07-14	1858-04-28	Koblenz	Berlin	Q57992
Sven Ludvig Lovén	Swedish zoologist	Sweden	1809-01-06	1895-09-03	Maria Magdalena parish	Solna	Q557375
Albert von Kölliker	Swiss anatomist, physiologist (1817–1905)	Switzerland	1817-07-06	1905-11-02	Zürich	Würzburg	Q123528
Alexander Kovalevsky	Russian zoologist (1840-1901)	Russian Empire	1840-11-19	1901-11-22	Vārkava Daugavpils	Saint Petersburg	Q560321
Max Hartmann	German zoologist (1876-1962)	Germany	1876-07-07	1962-10-11	Lauterecken	Weiler-Simmerberg	Q112507

Misc

name	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Christian Lassen	Norwegian-German orientalist (1800-1876)	Kingdom of Prussia Norway	1800-10-22	1876-05-08	Bergen	Bonn	Q84861
Johann I of Saxony	king of Saxony (1801-1873)	Kingdom of Saxony	1801-12-12	1873-10-29	Dresden	Pillnitz	Q57538
Charles Wheatstone	British physicist (1802-1875)	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1802-02-06	1875-10-19	Gloucester	Paris	Q156942
Karl Friedrich Lessing	German historical and landscape painter (1808-1880)	Kingdom of Prussia	1808-02-15	1880-01-04 1880-06-05	Wrocław Wrocław Pracze	Karlsruhe	Q821537
Moriz Haupt	German philologist	Kingdom of Saxony	1808-07-27	1874-02-05	Zittau	Leipzig	Q71975
Werner von Siemens	German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist (1816-1892)	German Reich	1816-12-13	1892-12-06	Lenthe	Charlottenburg	Q58577
William Stubbs	British historian and Anglican bishop (1825–1901)	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1825-06-21	1901-04-22	Knaresborough	Cuddesdon	Q443648
Adolf Kirchhoff	German classical philologist and epigrapher (1826–1908)	Kingdom of Prussia	1826-01-06	1908-02-27	Berlin	Berlin	Q77629
Theodor von Sickel	Austrian historian (1826-1908)	Kingdom of Prussia	1826-12-18	1908-04-21	Aken (Elbe)	Merano	Q66729
William Henry Flower	English comparative anatomist, surgeon and museum curator (1831–1899)	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1831-11-30	1899-07-01	Stratford-upon-Avon	London	Q670054
Julius von Verdy du Vernois	German general (1832-1910)	Kingdom of Prussia	1832-07-19	1910-09-30	Kożuchów	Stockholm	Q69849
Ferdinand von Zeppelin	German general and airship pioneer (1838–1917)	Grand Duchy of Baden	1838-07-08	1917-03-08	Constance	Berlin	Q75780
Camillo Golgi	Italian physician, pathologist, scientist, and Nobel laureate (1843-1926)	Kingdom of Italy Austrian Empire Kingdom of Sardinia	1843-07-07	1926-01-21	Corteno Golgi	Pavia	Q150630
Hermann Diels	German classical scholar (1848–1922)	German Empire	1848-05-18	1922-06-04	Biebrich	Dahlem	Q61889
Hermann von Kuhl	German general and historian	Germany	1856-11-02	1958-11-04	Koblenz	Frankfurt	Q73419
Käthe Kollwitz	German printmaker and sculptor (1867–1945)	Weimar Republic German Empire	1867-07-08	1945-04-22	Königsberg	Moritzburg	Q142472
Hans Purrmann	German painter (1880-1966)	Germany	1880-04-10	1966-04-17	Speyer	Basel	Q655484
Albert Defant	Austrian meteorologist	Austria	1884-07-12	1974-12-24	Trento	Innsbruck	Q328439
Romano Guardini	German Catholic philosopher (1885–1968)	Germany	1885-02-17	1968-10-01	Verona	Munich	Q44872
Karl von Frisch	German-Austrian ethologist (1886-1982)	Austria	1886-11-20	1982-06-12	Vienna	Munich	Q60060
Fritz Kortner	Austrian actor and theatre director (1892-1970)	Austria Germany	1892-05-12	1970-07-22	Vienna	Munich	Q78919
Hans Kienle	German astrophysicist and astronomer	Germany	1895-10-22	1975-02-15	Kulmbach	Heidelberg	Q125716
Konrad Lorenz	Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973	Austria	1903-11-07	1989-02-27	Vienna	Vienna	Q78496
Karl Rahner	German Catholic theologian	Germany	1904-03-05	1984-03-30	Freiburg im Breisgau	Innsbruck	Q57317
Kurt Bittel	German prehistorian	Germany German Reich	1907-07-05	1991-01-30	Heidenheim an der Brenz	Heidenheim an der Brenz	Q99134
Walter Rossow	German landscape architect	Germany	1910-01-28	1992-01-02	Berlin	Berlin	Q1760476
Gerhard Meyer-Schwickerath	German scientist	Germany	1920-09-10	1992-02-20	Elberfeld	Essen	Q41643314
Jürgen Habermas	German sociologist and philosopher (born 1929)	Germany	1929-06-18		Gummersbach		Q76357
Eric Kandel	American neuropsychiatrist	United States of America Austria	1929-11-07		Vienna		Q155529
Niklaus Wirth	Swiss computer scientist (1934–2024)	Switzerland	1934-02-15	2024-01-01	Winterthur	Zürich	Q92604
Jutta Lampe	German actress (1937-2020)	Germany	1937-12-13	2020-12-03	Flensburg	Berlin	Q92449
Pina Bausch	German dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and ballet director	Germany	1940-07-27	2009-06-30	Solingen	Wuppertal	Q155538
Rolf M. Zinkernagel	Swiss immunologist	Switzerland	1944-01-06		Riehen		Q116064
Erwin Neher	German biophysicist	Nazi Germany Germany	1944-03-20		Landsberg am Lech		Q77126
Karl Schlögel	German historian of Eastern Europe	Germany	1948-03-07		Hawangen		Q89173
Lorraine Daston	American historian of science	United States of America	1951-06-09		East Lansing		Q529094
Emmanuelle Charpentier	French microbiologist and biochemist	France	1968-12-11		Juvisy-sur-Orge		Q17280087

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