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Leipzig University alumni
- Friedrich NietzscheOn the 15th of October 1844, a boy named Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born in the small town of Röcken. He grew up near Leipzig within the Prussian…
- Richard WagnerWilhelm Richard Wagner was born on the 22nd of May 1813 in a building at number three, the Brühl, in Leipzig. His father Carl Friedrich Wagner died of…
- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe was born on the 28th of August 1749 in a large house on Großer Hirschgraben in Frankfurt. His father, Johann Caspar Goethe, had…
- Robert SchumannOn the 8th of June 1810, a local newspaper in Zwickau announced the birth of Robert Schumann to Herr August Schumann. He was the fifth and last child of an…
- Christian Gottlob HeyneChristian Gottlob Heyne was born on the 25th of September 1729 in Chemnitz, Saxony. His father worked as a poor weaver who had left Silesia to maintain his…
- Émile DurkheimDavid Émile Durkheim was born on the 15th of April 1858 in Épinal, Lorraine. He entered a long lineage of devout Alsatian Jews stretching back eight…
- Edmund HusserlEdmund Husserl was born on the 8th of April 1859 in Proßnitz, a town in the Margraviate of Moravia within the Austrian Empire.
- Edward TellerEde Teller was born on the 15th of January 1908, in Budapest, then part of Austria-Hungary. He grew up in a Jewish family where his father Miksa worked as an…
- Tycho BraheTyge Ottesen Brahe entered the world on the 14th of December 1546 at Knutstorp Castle, an ancestral seat located north of Svalöv in then Danish Scania.
- Otto JahnOtto Jahn stood in the lecture halls of Kiel on the 16th of June 1813 when his life began. He completed university studies at Christian-Albrechts-Universität…