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German Lutherans
- Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant lived so rigidly that his neighbors in Königsberg were said to set their watches by his daily walks. He was born Emanuel on the 22nd of April…
- Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach entered the world on the 21st of March 1685 in Eisenach, a town within the duchy of Saxe-Eisenach.
- Caspar David FriedrichOn the 5th of September 1774, a boy named Caspar David Friedrich was born in Greifswald on the Baltic coast. He grew up as the sixth child among ten siblings…
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born on the 27th of August 1770 in Stuttgart, the capital of the Duchy of Württemberg.
- Johannes KeplerJohannes Kepler was born on the 27th of December 1571 in the Free Imperial City of Weil der Stadt. His birth came prematurely, and he claimed to have been…
- Werner HeisenbergWerner Karl Heisenberg was born on the 5th of December 1901 in Würzburg, Germany. His father Kaspar Ernst August Heisenberg taught classical languages and…
- Carl Friedrich GaussOn the 30th of April 1777, Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was born in Brunswick within the Duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.
- Edmund HusserlEdmund Husserl was born on the 8th of April 1859 in Proßnitz, a town in the Margraviate of Moravia within the Austrian Empire.
- Alexander von HumboldtOn the 14th of September 1769, a boy named Alexander von Humboldt drew his first breath in Berlin. His father held the rank of major in the Prussian Army and…
- Willy BrandtHerbert Ernst Karl Frahm was born on the 18th of December 1913 in the Free City of Lübeck. His mother Martha Luise Wilhelmine Frahm worked as a cashier for a…
- Paul von HindenburgPaul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg entered the world on the 2nd of October 1847 in Posen, Kingdom of Prussia.
- Albrecht DürerAlbrecht Dürer was born on the 21st of May 1471 in Nuremberg, Germany. His father, Albrecht Dürer the Elder, had moved from Hungary to become a successful…
- Paul HindemithPaul Hindemith was born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, on the 16th of November 1895. He grew up as the eldest child of Robert Hindemith and his wife Marie…