19th-century German male writers

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)

German philosopher (1844-1900)

German philosopher (1724-1804)

German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)

German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)

German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian (1759–1805)

German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)

German poet, writer and literary critic (1797–1856)

Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)

German composer, pianist and critic (1810–1856)

two German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers, folklorists and authors

German classical scholar and historian (1817–1903)

German dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912 (1862-1946)

French-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher (1875-1965)

Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801), better known by his pen name Novalis (; ), was a German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and mystic. He is regarded as an influential figure of Jena Romanticism.

German mathematician, inventor of set theory (1845–1918)

German physicist (1857–1894)

German-Prussian general and military theorist

German philosopher and anthropologist (1804–1872)

German writer (1830–1914)

German philosopher, theologian, poet (1744–1803)

German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology (*1859 – †1938)

German poet

German philosopher, logician, and mathematician (1848–1925)

German philosopher (1806-1856)

former World Chess champion (1868–1941)

German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer (1777–1811)

German writer (1871–1950)

German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785–1863)

German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician (1821-1902)

German novelist and poet (1819–1898)

German sociologist, philosopher, and critic (1858–1918)

German businessman and archaeologist (1822–1890)

German Romantic writer (1763-1825)

German poet, critic and scholar, editor

German historian and founder of modern source-based history (1795-1886)

German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose (1813–1837)

German philosopher (1874-1928)

German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823–1900)

German Field Marshal (1800–1891)

German poet and botanist (1781–1838)

Czech-Austrian Marxist theorist (1854–1938)

German painter, poet and cartoonist (1832–1908)

German theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar (1768-1834)

German poet and dramatist (1813-1863)

German poet and novelist

German poet, translator, critic, and writer (1767–1845)

German sociologist, economist and philosopher (1855–1936)

German poet and novelist (1802–1827)

German poet and novelist (1788-1857)

German writer (1817–1888)

German poet and politician (1787–1862)

German author, philologist, collector of fairy tales and legends (1786–1859)

German philosopher, psychologist, and founder of pedagogy as an academic discipline (1776-1841)

German writer

German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages (1788–1866)

German poet and novelist (1778–1842)

German historian, psychologist, sociologist, student of hermeneutics, and philosopher (1833–1911)

German playwright (1864-1918)

German chess champion, after Paul Morphy (1858-1860), second unofficial world chess champion (1851-1858, 1860-1865, 1867-1871), chess publicist