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Benedict XVI
265 th pope of the Catholic Church (2005–2013)
Erich Maria Remarque
German-born novelist (1898–1970)
Heinrich Böll
German writer (1917–1985)
Hildegard of Bingen
German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891–1942)
Thomas à Kempis
German canon regular
Friedrich Schlegel
German poet, critic and scholar, editor
Max Scheler
German philosopher (1874-1928)
Alfred Döblin
German expressionist novelist (1878–1957)
Otto of Greece
King of Greece (1832-1862)
Clemens Brentano
German poet and novelist (1778–1842)
Franz Brentano
German philosopher and psychologist as well as refounder of the theory of intentionality (1838–1917)
Sebastian Brant
German humanist and satirist
Angelus Silesius
German writer
Johann Reuchlin
German humanist and scholar of Greek and Hebrew (1455-1522)
Hugo Ball
German author, poet and one of the leading Dada artists (1886–1927)
Walter Kasper
cardinal and bishop of the Catholic Church
Karl Rahner
German Catholic theologian (1904–1984)
Romano Guardini
German Catholic philosopher (1885–1968)
Henry Suso
German Dominican friar and mystic
Anne Catherine Emmerich
German Augustinian canoness, mystic, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist (1774-1824)
Byung-Chul Han
German philosopher of South Korean origin
Albertus de Saxonia
German theologian and philosopher (c.1320-1390)
Gertrud von Le Fort
German writer of novels, poems and essays (1876-1971)
Ignaz von Döllinger
German Catholic priest, theologian and historian (1799–1890)
Joseph Görres
German writer and journalist (1776-1848)
Dietrich von Hildebrand
German Catholic philosopher and theologian (1889–1977)
Alfred Delp
German Jesuit priest, and philosopher of the German Resistance (1907-1945)
Robert Spaemann
German philosopher (1927–2018)
Adam Müller
German publicist, literary critic, political economist, and theorist of the state
Josef Pieper
German philosopher (1904-1997)
Elisabeth Langgässer
German lyricist, prosaist, and short story writer (1899-1950)
Nicholas Rescher
American philosopher
Vittorio Hösle
German philosopher
Hubert Jedin
German theologian and historian (1900-1980)
Max Picard
Swiss writer (1888-1965)
Karl Adam
German theologian (1876-1966)
Paul Ludwig Landsberg
German-Jewish philosopher (1901-1944)
Reinhard Sorge
German poet (1892-1916)
Konrad of Megenberg
14th-century German scholar and writer
Robert Leiber
German Roman Catholic priest, theologian and papal adviser (1887–1967)
Heinrich Pesch
German economist (1854-1926)
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German theologian
Hermann Busenbaum
German Jesuit casuist
Louis de Wohl
German–Hungarian writer and astrologer (1903–1961)
Joseph Kleutgen
German philosopher and theologian (1811–1883)
Christina Ebner
Dominican nun, mystic and writer
Ludwig Ott
German theologian and historian (1906–1985)
Alois Grimm
German priest who was executed because his resistance to the Nazi régime in Germany (1886-1944)
Heinrich Mertens
German politician (1906-1968)
Johann Heynlin
German humanist
Christa Meves
German psychologist, writer and psychotherapist
Lanspergius
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Philipp Wasserburg
German author (1827-1897)
Wacker von Wackenfels
Roman Catholic philosopher
Friedrich Justus Knecht
German priest
Gerhard Schneemann
German theologian
Clement Schrader
German theologian