German Famous Names Starting with Letter J

Was a Bavarian Lieutenant General and Acting War Minister from January 28 until June 9, 1839. He wa

Was a Bavarian Lieutenant General and Acting War Minister from January 28 until June 9, 1839. He was the brother of Franz Xaver von Hertling.One year later, while acting as war minister under Ludwig I of Bavaria he became Lieutenant General and responsib

Was a German scientist and editor.Naumann is regarded as the founder of scientific ornithology in Eu

Was a German scientist and editor.Naumann is regarded as the founder of scientific ornithology in Europe. He published The Natural History of German Birds (1820-1844) and The Eggs of German Birds (1818-1828).

Was a German mathematician and architect. He attended an academy for Silesian nobility in Legnica. I

Was a German mathematician and architect. He attended an academy for Silesian nobility in Legnica. In 1717, he was appointed as the court controller for the sons of the Duke of Haugwitz. He died on September 17, 1749, in Göttingen.[1]

Was a German mathematician. He was described as one of Germany's most eminent mathematicians during

Was a German mathematician. He was described as one of Germany's most eminent mathematicians during the 19th century. He studied integral calculus, and is noted for his work on partial differential equations of the first order (Pfaffian systems as they ar

Was a German composer, writer and music critic. Reichardt was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, to

Was a German composer, writer and music critic. Reichardt was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, to lutenist and Stadtmusiker Johann Reichardt (1720–1780). Johann Friedrich began his musical training, in violin, keyboard, and lute, as a child. He was a student of Timofey Belogradsky, who in turn was a student of Sylvius Leopold Weiss. When Reichardt was ten years old, his father took the choir in which he sang, the "Wunderknaben", on a concert tour in East Prussia.

Was a German Protestant theologian.[1] He was considered one of the more prominent German theologica

Was a German Protestant theologian.[1] He was considered one of the more prominent German theological scholars of his time.[2] In Easter 1785, he became an assistant professor of theology at the University of Göttingen. He obtained a doctoral degree on 2 April 1791 in Göttingen. In 1794 he took the position of the fourth professor of theology at the University of Wittenberg, with the associated positions of provost of the Wittenberg Castle Church and assessor at Wittenberg consistory. He was rector of Wittenberg University in the winter semesters 1798, 1804 and 1808.

Is a former German football manager.

Is a former German football manager.

Was a German composer, organist, theorist, and Protestant church musician. In 1671 his first book of

Was a German composer, organist, theorist, and Protestant church musician. In 1671 his first book of arias was published, Neues Zehn Geistlicher Arien; all copies of this work are now lost, though a fragment survives. He, like his father, also became a city councilman in Mühlhausen. In 1680 he was named poet laureate by Emperor Leopold I.

Was an Austrian musician who was born at Klosterneuburg, near Vienna.He originally studied music at

Was an Austrian musician who was born at Klosterneuburg, near Vienna.He originally studied music at Melk Abbey and philosophy at a Benedictine seminary in Vienna and became one of the most learned and skillful contrapuntists of his age. After being employed as organist at Raab in 1755 and Maria Taferl in 1757, he was appointed Thurnermeister back at Melk Abbey. In 1772 he was appointed organist to the court of Vienna, and in 1792 Kapellmeister of St. Stephen's Cathedral.

Was a Thuringian tailor and labour activist. He was a member of the League of the Just and later of

Was a Thuringian tailor and labour activist. He was a member of the League of the Just and later of the League of Communists and the International Workingmen's Association. Here he served jointly with Marx on General Council for a number of years. Followi

Was a German naturalist, botanist and geographer.He was a gifted child and graduated with a medical

Was a German naturalist, botanist and geographer.He was a gifted child and graduated with a medical degree at the age of 18. In 1730 he travelled to St Petersburg to lecture at the university, and in the following year was appointed professor of chemistry and natural history. At his suggestion, Johann Amman left Hans Sloane in London to take up a post in St Petersburg. The final two volumes of Johann Christian Buxbaum's (1693-1730) Centuria were published posthumously by Gmelin.[1]From 1733 to 1743 Gmelin made a journey of scientific exploration through Siberia. He described the position of the Yenisey river as a boundary between Europe and Asia and participated in measuring the lowest temperature ever recorded at Yeniseysk

Was an important German philosopher, a main proponent of the Sturm und Drang movement, and associate

Was an important German philosopher, a main proponent of the Sturm und Drang movement, and associated by historian of ideas Isaiah Berlin with the Counter-Enlightenment. He was Pietist Lutheran, and a friend (while being an intellectual opponent) of the p

Was a German composer.

Was a German composer.

Was a composer, conductor, teacher, and violinist. He is best known today as the father and teacher

Was a composer, conductor, teacher, and violinist. He is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule.

Was a German astronomer who became famous for discovering the Comet Halley on Christmas Day 1758.Gro

Was a German astronomer who became famous for discovering the Comet Halley on Christmas Day 1758.Growing up to a succesfull farmer under the strict regime of his stepfather, he learned in his spare time as much he could secretly out of some affordable books. Some fundamental contemporary astronomy delivered the book "Vorhof der Sternwissenschaft" by Christian Pescheck. He learned Latin and when he was 21 he inherited the farm and could manage to develope his own botanic garden, library, laboratory and museum. He found the right persons supporting him even upto the later King. But the wars between Prussia and Austria also disturbed his ambitions.

Was a German Baroque musician, violinist and composer who, for many years, led the Court Orchestra i

Was a German Baroque musician, violinist and composer who, for many years, led the Court Orchestra in Dresden, then the finest instrumental ensemble in Europe. On the way to Leipzig, he met Johann Sebastian Bach at Weimar and, once in Leipzig, was introduced to Georg Philipp Telemann. Pisendel was an enthusiastic member of the student Collegium musicum founded by Telemann and they became close friends. In 1711, after a performance at Darmstadt, Pisendel was offered a place in the court orchestra there, but declined.

Was a Swiss professor of Mathematics, who later on moved on to the field of electricity. He was a Wo

Was a Swiss professor of Mathematics, who later on moved on to the field of electricity. He was a Wolffian philosopher and director of the philosophical section of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. Sulzer is best known as the subject of an anecdote in the history of the development of the battery. In 1752, Sulzer happened to put the tip of his tongue between pieces of two different metals whose edges were in contact. He exclaimed, "a pungent sensation, reminds me of the taste of green vitriol when I placed my tongue between these metals." He thought the metals set up a vibratory motion in their particles which excited the nerves of taste. The event became known as the "battery tongue test": - the saliva serves as the electrolyte carrying the current between two metallic electrodes.

Was a German herpetologist.Wagler was assistant to Johann Baptist von Spix, and became Director of t

Was a German herpetologist.Wagler was assistant to Johann Baptist von Spix, and became Director of the Zoological Museum at the University of Munich after Spix's death in 1826. He worked on the extensive collections brought back from Brazil, and wrote Monographia Psittacorum (1832), which included descriptions of the blue macaws.

Was a Saxon Field Marshal and Governor of Dresden.He was an illegitimate son of August the Strong, K

Was a Saxon Field Marshal and Governor of Dresden.He was an illegitimate son of August the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, and Ursula Katharina of Altenbockum, by marriage Princess Lubomirska and later created Princess of Tesch

Was a German mathematician and physicist.In 1798 he served as the Swiss representative to the French

Was a German mathematician and physicist.In 1798 he served as the Swiss representative to the French metric convocation, and was a member of its committee on weights and measures. An iron "committee" meter, a duplicate of the prototype archive meter, was then given as a gift to Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler. From 1803 until 1805 these two men worked together on a topological survey of the Canton of Bern.He was the inventor of the alcoholmeter, a device for measuring the amount of alcohol in a liquid.

Was a flautist, flute maker and composer.

Was a flautist, flute maker and composer.

Was a German Orientalist who was a native of Kröpelin. He studied Oriental languages and theology a

Was a German Orientalist who was a native of Kröpelin. He studied Oriental languages and theology at the Universities of Göttingen and Bonn, graduating from the latter in 1838. After a study trip to Leiden and Paris, in 1839 he became a lecturer at Bonn i

Was a German Protestant theologian of Enlightenment and early orientalist. In 1775 he was made profe

Was a German Protestant theologian of Enlightenment and early orientalist. In 1775 he was made professor of Oriental languages at the Faculty of Theology at Jena University. His published habilitation lecture was about "monetary matters of the early Arabs

Was a German astronomer at the Berlin Observatory who, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis

Was a German astronomer at the Berlin Observatory who, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune, and know what he was looking at (September 23, 1846). He used the calculations of Urbain Le Verrier to know where to look.Galle studied at the University of Berlin from 1830-33. He had started to work as an assistant to Johann Franz Encke in 1835 immediately following the completion of the Berlin observatory. In 1851 he moved to Breslau (Wroclaw) to become professor of astronomy and the director of the local observatory.

Was a German poet.Changing his religious opinions, he abandoned theology and delivered lectures on t

Was a German poet.Changing his religious opinions, he abandoned theology and delivered lectures on the history of art, in which he had become interested on a journey to Italy in 1837. In 1846 he was appointed extraordinary professor of the history of art