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page 118th-century German male writers
Q5879
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)
Friedrich Schiller
German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian (1759–1805)
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic (1729-1781)
Johann Gottfried Herder
German philosopher, theologian, poet (1744–1803)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
German scientist and satirist (1742-1799)
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Swedish German chemist who discovered oxygen
Jean Paul
German Romantic writer (1763-1825)
Samuel Hahnemann
German physician known for creating homeopathy
Friedrich Schleiermacher
German theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar (1768-1834)
Moses Mendelssohn
German-Jewish philosopher and theologian (1729–1786)
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
German art historian and archaeologist, and conservator of the Vatican Library (1717–1768)
Christoph Martin Wieland
German poet and writer (1733–1813)
Christian Wolff
German philosopher (1679–1754)
Johann Heinrich Lambert
German mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1728-1777)
August Wilhelm Schlegel
German poet, translator, critic, and writer (1767–1845)
Adam Weishaupt
German philosopher and founder of the Illuminati (1748–1830)
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
German philosopher (b. 1714)
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist (1752 – 1840)
Georg Forster
German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary (1754-1794)
August von Kotzebue
German dramatist and writer (1761–1819)
Gottfried August Bürger
German poet (1747-1794)
Johann Georg Hamann
German philosopher (1730-1788)
Johann Christoph Gottsched
German writer, dramaturge, linguist and literary theorist as well as professor of poetics, logic and metaphysics (1700–1766)
Christiaan Hendrik Persoon
German mycologist (1761-1836)
Nicolaus Zinzendorf
German protestant religious and social reformer, bishop of the Moravian Church (1700-1760)
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
German poet
Alois Senefelder
German actor and inventor of lithography (1771-1834)
Rudolf Erich Raspe
German author and scientist (1736–1794)
Carl Ludwig Willdenow
German botanist (1765-1812)
Philipp Jakob Spener
German lutheran theologian, founder of pietism (1635-1705)
Kristijonas Donelaitis
Prussian Lithuanian poet and Lutheran pastor (1714–1780)
Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim
Saxon anatomist, entomologist and paleontologist
Adolph Freiherr Knigge
German writer and leading Illuminati member (1752–1796)
Johann Peter Hebel
German short story writer and dialectal poet (1760–1826)
Georg Ernst Stahl
German physician and chemist (1659-1734)
Thomas Abbt
German philosopher, mathematician and writer (1738–1766)
Johann Mattheson
German composer and theorist (1681-1764)
Marcus Elieser Bloch
German physician and zoologist (1723–1799)
Johann Bernhard Basedow
German philosopher (1724–1790)
Karl Philipp Moritz
German author, editor and essayist
Anton Wilhelm Amo
Ghanaian-German philosopher
Abraham Gotthelf Kästner
German mathematician (1719–1800)
Kurt Sprengel
German botanist (1766–1833)
Jacob Hübner
German entomologist (1761–1826)
Christoph Cellarius
German classical scholar
Salomon Maimon
Lithuanian Jewish philosopher (1753–1800)
Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder
German writer
Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart
German poet (1739-1791)
August Hermann Francke
German Lutheran clergyman, philanthropist and Biblical scholar (1663-1727)
Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller
German zoologist (1725–1776)
Johann Karl August Musäus
German writer (1735-1787)
Friedrich Hoffmann
German physician and chemist (1660–1742)
Christoph Friedrich Nicolai
German writer (1733-1811)
Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm
German dramatist and playwright (1723-1807)
Ewald Christian von Kleist
German poet and noble (1715-1759)
Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg
German poet, translator, lawyer, and politician