Category
page 119th-century German writers
Friedrich Engels
German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
Rosa Luxemburg
Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
Max Weber
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)
Heinrich Heine
German poet, writer and literary critic (1797–1856)
Hermann Hesse
Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)
Theodor Mommsen
German classical scholar and historian (1817–1903)
Albert Schweitzer
French-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher (1875-1965)
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
German philosopher (1762–1814)
Clara Zetkin
Communist activist, and advocate for women's rights (1857–1933)
Carl von Clausewitz
German-Prussian general and military theorist
Johann Gottfried Herder
German philosopher, theologian, poet (1744–1803)
Edmund Husserl
German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology (*1859 – †1938)
Gottlob Frege
German philosopher, logician, and mathematician (1848–1925)
Emanuel Lasker
former World Chess champion (1868–1941)
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785–1863)
Heinrich Mann
German writer (1871–1950)
Rudolf Virchow
German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician (1821-1902)
Leopold von Ranke
German historian and founder of modern source-based history (1795-1886)
Adelbert von Chamisso
German poet and botanist (1781–1838)
Karl Kautsky
Czech-Austrian Marxist theorist (1854–1938)
Friedrich Schleiermacher
German theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar (1768-1834)
Ludwig Achim von Arnim
German poet and novelist
Wilhelm Grimm
German author, philologist, collector of fairy tales and legends (1786–1859)
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist (1752 – 1840)
August von Kotzebue
German dramatist and writer (1761–1819)
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
British-German racialist philosopher (1855–1927)
Johann Gustav Droysen
German historian (1808–1884)
Christiaan Hendrik Persoon
German mycologist (1761-1836)
Richard Avenarius
German philosopher (1843-1896)
Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, and nobleman (1840–1902)
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
German philosopher (1743-1819)
Hermann Lotze
German philosopher (1817-1881)
Alois Senefelder
German actor and inventor of lithography (1771-1834)
Carl Ludwig Willdenow
German botanist (1765-1812)
Julius Wellhausen
German theologian and orientalist (1844–1918)
Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim
Saxon anatomist, entomologist and paleontologist
Eugen Dühring
German antisemitic philosopher and economist (1833-1921)
Ernst Curtius
German archaeologist and historian (1814–1896)
Philipp Mainländer
German poet and philosopher (1841–1876)
Heinrich von Treitschke
Historian, political writer (1834-1896)
Rahel Varnhagen
German writer
Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach
German legal scholar (1775-1833)
Friedrich Albert Lange
German philosopher and sociologist (1828-1875)
Kurt Sprengel
German botanist (1766–1833)
Hans Delbrück
German historian (1848-1929)
Franz Xaver von Baader
German philosopher and theologian (1765-1841)
Jacob Hübner
German entomologist (1761–1826)
Otto Ludwig
German dramatist (1813-1865)
Sophie von La Roche
German novelist, editor
Kuno Fischer
German philosopher (1824–1907)
Lily Braun
German writer, editor (1865–1916)
Theodor Lessing
German philosopher (1872–1933)
Georg Bühler
German Indologist (1837–1898)
Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau
German nobleman, landscape artist and travel writer (1785-1871)
Karl Gützlaff
German missionary in China (1803-1851)
Felix Dahn
German lawyer, writer and historian (1834–1912)
Julius Oppert
Franco-German Assyriologist
Arnold Ruge
German philosopher and political writer (1802–1880)
Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm
German dramatist and playwright (1723-1807)