Category
page 118th-century German writers
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
German philosopher (1762–1814)
Johann Gottfried Herder
German philosopher, theologian, poet (1744–1803)
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Swedish German chemist who discovered oxygen
Friedrich Schleiermacher
German theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar (1768-1834)
Moses Mendelssohn
German-Jewish philosopher and theologian (1729–1786)
Christian Wolff
German philosopher (1679–1754)
August Wilhelm Schlegel
German poet, translator, critic, and writer (1767–1845)
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
Georg Forster
German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary (1754-1794)
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist (1752 – 1840)
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)
Carl Ludwig Willdenow
German botanist (1765-1812)
Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Duchess of Orléans
German princess; wife of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans
Philipp Jakob Spener
German lutheran theologian, founder of pietism (1635-1705)
Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim
Saxon anatomist, entomologist and paleontologist
Adolph Freiherr Knigge
German writer and leading Illuminati member (1752–1796)
Georg Ernst Stahl
German physician and chemist (1659-1734)
Johann Mattheson
German composer and theorist (1681-1764)
Marcus Elieser Bloch
German physician and zoologist (1723–1799)
Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1709-1758)
Johann Gottfried Seume
German writer (1763-1810)
Kurt Sprengel
German botanist (1766–1833)
Jacob Hübner
German entomologist (1761–1826)
Sophie von La Roche
German novelist, editor
Johanna Schopenhauer
German writer (1766-1838)
Johann Karl August Musäus
German writer (1735-1787)
Friedrich Hoffmann
German physician and chemist (1660–1742)
Christoph von Schmid
German priest, writer and educator (1768–1854)
Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm
German dramatist and playwright (1723-1807)
Christoph Friedrich Nicolai
German writer (1733-1811)
Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost
German physician
Justine Siegemund
German midwife who wrote a book on midwifery
Caroline Schelling
German writer and translator
Karl Julius Weber
German writer (1767-1832)
Johann Baptist Allgaier
Austrian chess player
Georg Friedrich Treitschke
German librettist and lepidopterist
Therese Huber
German author
Charlotte von Kalb
German writer (1761-1843)
Cornelia Schlosser
German author of letters and sister of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1750-1777)
Johann Heinrich Zedler
German bookseller and publisher (1706-1751)
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus
German physician and botanist (1652-1723)
Gottlieb Rabener
German writer (1714-1771)
Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz
Prussian historian
Christoph Meiners
German philosopher and historian
Moritz August von Thümmel
German writer and noble (1738-1817)
Elisa von der Recke
German poet (1754-1833)
Amalia von Helvig
German artist, writer and Salonist
Dorothea von Rodde-Schlözer
German scholar
Jacob Georg Christian Adler
German Lutheran theologian
Theophilus Siegfried Bayer
German sinologist
Georg Christoph Eimmart
engraver (1638–1705)
Heinrich Gottfried von Mattuschka
German botanist (1734-1779)
Eusebius Amort
German Roman Catholic theologian (1692–1775)
Justus Henning Böhmer
German jurist (1674-1749)
Christian David
German religious servant, missionary and carpenter
Ludwig Robert
German dramatist
Caroline von Briest
German writer (1773-1831)