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

Anne Frank
Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim. She gained worldwide notability posthumously for keeping a diary documenting her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands. In the diary, she regularly described her family's everyday life in their hiding place in an Amsterdam attic from 1942 until their arrest in 1944.
Erich Fromm
German sociologist and psychoanalyst (1900–1980)

Erik Erikson
American German-born psychoanalyst & essayist
Ludwig Börne
German writer

Friedrich Carl von Savigny
German jurist (1779-1861)

Ruth Westheimer
German-American sex therapist

Friedrich Maximilian Klinger
German dramatist and novelist (1752-1831)

Siegfried Kracauer
German writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist (1889-1966)

Heinrich Hoffmann
German psychiatrist and children's writer
Bertha Pappenheim
Austrian feminist (1859–1936)
Rainer Zitelmann
German historian, author, management consultant and real estate expert

Leo Löwenthal
German sociologist (1900–1993)
Johann Georg von Hahn
Austrian diplomat and linguist (1811–1869)
Wolfdietrich Schnurre
German writer (1920–1989)
Ludwig Fulda
German writer (1862–1939)
Jakob Arjouni
German author, born 1964 (1964–2013)
Karl Binding
German jurist (1841-1920)
Gabrielle Wittkop
French writer and novelist (1920–2002)
Johann Friedrich Böhmer
German historian, librarian and diplomatics (1795–1863)
Zsuzsa Bánk
German writer
Katharina Hacker
German writer
Alfred Grosser
Writer, sociologist and political scientist (1925–2024)
Joseph Aschbach
German historian (1801–1882)
Hermann Dessau
German ancient historian and epigrapher (1856–1931)

Johann Philipp Gabler
German theologian
Georg Kloss
German historian of Freemasonry
George Cecil Ives
German-born English writer (1867-1950)
Philipp Karl Buttmann
German philologist
Derrick Borte
American film director
Helene Adler
German author
Ernst Ludwig von Leutsch
German classical philologist (1808-1887)
Klaus Emmerich
Austrian journalist (1928–2021)
Nahum Norbert Glatzer
Jewish literary scholar, theologian, and editor
Ludwig Elster
German economist and professor (1856-1935)
K. H. Scheer
German writer (1928–1991)
Karl Ludwig Schmidt
German theologian (1891–1956)

Alexander Riese
German historian (1840–1924)
Veit Valentin
German historian and archivist (1885–1947)
Frederick Mayer
philosopher and educator (1921–2006)
Ulrich Schindel
German classical philologist
Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach
German politician, traveler and book collector (1683-1734)
Karl Heinrich Menges
German linguist (1908–1999)

Inka Parei
German writer
Jeanette Wohl
friend and correspondent of Ludwig Börne (1783-1861)
Laureen Nussbaum
Jewish German linguistics professor, Holocaust survivor (born 1927)
Christian Brentano
German writer (1784-1851)

Dieter Schenk
German police officer, criminologist and author (born 1937)
Hans Domizlaff
German illustrator (1892–1971)
Mordechai Breuer
German historian (1918-2007)
Dave Grossman
American author and law enforcement trainer
Michael Horovitz
English poet, artist and translator (1935-2021)

Richard Plant
Emigre professor of German and author (1910–1998)
Hans Leybold
German poet (1892–1914)
Ernst Wülcker
German non-fiction writer
Thomas Jeier
writer
Alfred Maximilien Bonnet
German Latinist classical scholar
Hans Krieger
German writer (1933–2023)
Dirk Bernard Joseph Schouten
Dutch economist
Richard Paul Wülker
German anglicist (1845-1910)