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Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
Gerhart Hauptmann
German dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912 (1862-1946)
Ernst Haeckel
German zoologist (1834-1919)
Gottlob Frege
German philosopher, logician, and mathematician (1848–1925)
Ernst Abbe
German physicist (1840-1905)
Rudolf Carnap
German philosopher and logician (1891–1970)
Christa Wolf
German novelist and essayist (1929–2011)
Herbert Kroemer
German-American physics (1928–2024)
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
German poet, writer and linguist
Carl Zeiss
German optical physicist (1816–1888)
Christian Wolff
German philosopher (1679–1754)
Ferdinand Tönnies
German sociologist, economist and philosopher (1855–1936)
Johann Friedrich Herbart
German philosopher, psychologist, and founder of pedagogy as an academic discipline (1776-1841)
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
German philosopher (b. 1714)
Friedrich Ratzel
German geographer and ethnographer (1844–1904)
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
Friedrich Carl von Savigny
German jurist (1779-1861)
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist (1752 – 1840)
Axel Oxenstierna
Swedish statesman (1583-1654)
Matthias Claudius
German poet (1740-1815)
Jan Baudouin de Courtenay
Polish linguist and slavist (1845-1929)
Roland Freisler
German jurist and politician (1893–1945)
Samuel von Pufendorf
German philosopher (1632–1694)
Georgios Papanikolaou
Greek pathologist (1883-1962)
Friedrich Hund
German physicist (1896-1997)
Johann Matthäus Bechstein
German naturalist, forester, ornithologist, entomologist, and herpetologist (1757-1822)
Johann Wilhelm Ritter
German chemist, physicist and philosopher
Adolf Bastian
German anthropologist (1826–1905)
Douglas Sirk
German film director (1897–1987)
Karl Gutzkow
German writer (1811-1878)
Hinrich Lichtenstein
German physician, explorer, botanist and zoologist (1780-1857)
Georg Ernst Stahl
German physician and chemist (1659-1734)
Walter Eucken
German economist (1891–1950)
Karl Korsch
German politician (1886-1961)
Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch
German philosopher and biologist (1867 - 1941)
Lorenz von Stein
German legal scholar (1815-1890)
Christian Ludwig Brehm
German pastor and ornithologist (1787-1864)
Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach
German legal scholar (1775-1833)
August Leskien
German linguist (1840–1916)
Karl Christian Friedrich Krause
German philosopher
Margaret Mahler
Hungarian born American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (1897-1985)
Hermann Samuel Reimarus
German philosopher
Christoph Cellarius
German classical scholar
Georg Böhm
German composer and organist
John Scott Haldane
British physiologist (1860–1936)
Franz Aepinus
German-Russian mathematician (1724-1802)
Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
German physician (1762–1836)
Hans Berger
German neurologist (1873–1941)
Johann Karl August Musäus
German writer (1735-1787)
Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
German botanist, embryologist and natural philosopher (1776-1858)
Friedrich Hoffmann
German physician and chemist (1660–1742)
Arnold Ruge
German philosopher and political writer (1802–1880)
Rudolf Brandt
German civil servant and SS officer, convicted war criminal (1909–1948)
Georg Wilhelm Richmann
Baltic German physicist (1711-1753)
Heinrich Rudolf Schinz
Swiss zoologist (1777–1861)
Johannes Schmidt
German linguist (1843–1901)
Gottfried Kirch
German astronomer
Wilhelm Heinrich Solf
German politician (1862-1936)
Cuno Hoffmeister
German astronomer (1892–1968)