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Joh. Enschedé
Koninklijke Joh. Enschedé is a printer of security documents based in Haarlem, the Netherlands. Haarlem For almost 300 years the company has been located at the Klokhuisplein near the Grote Markt in the innercity of Haarlem. In the 1980s it moved to a larger location in the Waarderpolder out..
Johan
Johan may refer to: John as a common nameJohan (band), a Dutch pop-groupJohan Cruijff, a famous soccer playerJohan Anderson, Swedish gameproducer This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wi..
Johana, Toyama
Jōhana (城端町; -machi) was a town located in Higashitonami District, Toyama, Japan. On November 1, 2004, Johana joined 7 other villages and towns to create the city of Nanto, Toyama. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 9,658 and a density of 148.52 persons per km². The to..
Johanan ben Nappaha
Johanan ben Nappaha was a follower of Judah ha-Nasi, and believed it to be his duty to carry on the writing of the Jerusalem Talmud. He started a school in Tiberias, and did something that was quite controversial at the time by letting anybody into his school if they wanted to learn. He was a pract..
Johanes Franzen
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Johanes Maliza
Johanes Maliza (born September 10, 1981 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American soccer midfielder who, as of 2004, plays for the Puerto Rico Islanders of the USL First Division. Maliza played his college soccer at Stanford from 1999 to 2002 along with Roger Levesque and Todd Dunivant. He was drafted ..
Johann's Pinyon
Johann's Pinyon (Pinus johannis) is a pine in the pinyon pine group, native to North America. The range extends from southeast Arizona and southwest New Mexico, United States, south in Mexico along the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Sierra Madre Oriental to southern Zacatecas and San Luis Potosí..
Johanna
Johanna may refer to, Lake Johanna Township, MinnesotaJohanna, Victoria, surf beach and holiday spot127 Johanna, asteroid See also, Johannes, Johanna is the femine form of that name This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an ..
Johanna, Victoria
Johanna ([38°45′S 143°23′E][Johanna page] at Geoscience Australia) is a small town on the coast of Victoria, Australia located west of Cape Otway in the Colac Otway Shire. The surf at Johanna is quite highly regarded. It's only a long stretch of beach breaks, or beach and..
Johanna Allston
Johanna (Hanny) Allston Johanna Allston, or Hanny Allston as many know her, is the 2006 Junior World orienteering champion for the long distance event. She won by an almost unprecedented margin of 4 minutes and 38 seconds. She is the first Australian woman orienteer ever to win a gold medal at a Wo..
Johanna Bischitz von Heves
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Johanna Budwig
Johanna Budwig (died in 2003) was a German chemist who believed that cancer is easily treatable through a specially-designed diet. Dr. Max Gerson has also studied, applied and written about having success treating cancer through her diet and other methods. The so-called Budwig Diet is based aroun..
Johanna Fateman
--> --> Johanna Fateman is a writer, zine editor and musician who performs with the feminist post-punk rock band Le Tigre. Fateman (left) on the cover of This Island Fateman first met bandmate Kathleen Hanna at a performance of Hanna's band Bikini Kill where Fateman gave Hanna a copy of ..
Johanna Gadski
Johanna Gadski (born Anklam, Prussia 15 June 1872 - died Berlin, 22 February 1932) was a German opera singer. After receiving her musical education at Stettin, she made her debut in New York, taking the role of Brünnhilde in Wagner's opera. She was popular as a singer in England, having sung at ..
Johanna Griggs
--> Women's Swimming Bronze medal 1990Auckland Swimming Women's 100m backstroke Johanna Griggs (born October 1973) is a former swimmer and current television presenter from Australia. Griggs represented Australia at the Auckland Commonwealth Games winning a bronze medal in the 100m b..
Johanna Hiedler
Johanna Pölzl born Hiedler (January 19, 1830 − February 8, 1906), was the maternal grandmother of Adolf Hitler. Johanna was born and lived her entire life in the village of Spital. On September 5, 1848, Johanna married Johann Baptist Pölzl, a farmer and son of Johann Pölzl and Juliana (Walli) ..
Johanna Kinkel
Johanna Kinkel (born 8 July 1810 in Bonn; died 15 November 1858 in London) was a German composer, writer, and revolutionary. Her second marriage was to the German poet Gottfried Kinkel. Following the 1848 Revolutions she was forced to abandon Germany and flee to London. She was found dead in her g..
Johanna Kirchner
Johanna "Hanna" Kirchner (24 April 1889 in Frankfurt am Main – 9 June 1944 in Berlin; née Johanna Stunz) was a German opponent of the Nazi régime. --> Johanna Stunz came from a social-democratic family. Her grandfather was one of Frankfurt's first social-democratic aldermen. At 14, she join..
Johanna Langefeld
Johanna Langefeld (March 5, 1900 - January 26, 1974) was a female supervisor at two concentration camps during the Nazi Regime. Born on in Kupferdreh (now Essen, Germany), Johanna Langefeld later married and had a son. As her husband was killed on the Russian front, she volunteered to be a camp gua..
Johanna Lindsey
Johanna Lindsey (born 1952 in Germany) is one of the most popular writers of Historical Romances worldwide. All of her books reached the New York Times bestsellerlist, many even made #1. Life and Work Johanna Lindsey was born in Germany, where her father, a soldier in the U.S. Army, was stationed...
Johanna Nichols
Linguist Johanna Nichols is a professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at University of California, Berkeley. [link] Her research interests include the Slavic languages, the linguistic prehistory of northern Eurasia, language typology, ancient linguistic prehistory, ..
Johanna Pena-Alvarez
Johanna Pena-Alvarez is a professional female boxer. Born on January 6th 1983 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Pena-Alvarez is a world class flyweight (112 pounds). Pena-Alvarez made her pro debut at the age of seventeen, on June 29 2000, winning a 2nd round TKO over Natali Lara. She won her se..
Johanna Persson
Johanna Persson (born December 25, 1978) is a female badminton player from Sweden. Persson competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in mixed doubles with partner Fredrik Bergström. They defeated Mike Beres and Jody Patrick of Canada in the first round and Sudket Prapakamol and Saralee Th..
Johanna Quandt
--> Johanna Quandt (born 1929) is a billionaire. She is the widow of industrialist Herbert Quandt, who resurrected BMW from bankruptcy. She was born Johanna Bruhn in 1929. She became a secretary in Herbert's office in the 1950s and eventually became his personal assistant. She married Herbert ..
Johanna Rosaly
Johanna Rosaly (born January 13, 1948) is a Puerto Rican actress and singer. She was born in the San Juan area known as Santurce, which was also the birthplace to such other famous Puerto Rican entertainers as Andy Montañez and Cano Estremera. At the age of eight, she began to take acting class wi..
Johanna Schaller-Klier
Johanna Schaller-Klier (born 13 September 1952 in Artern) is a retired hurdler and Olympic gold medallist. Achievements Year Tournament Venue Result Extra 1976 Olympic Games Montreal, Canada 2nd 1978 European Indoor Championships Milan, Italy 1st European Championships Prague, Czechos..
Johanna Schneller
Johanna Schneller is an American-born Canadian film journalist and television personality. A freelance celebrity interviewer for such publications as Vanity Fair, GQ, Chatelaine and Toronto Life, she is also the film columnist for The Globe and Mail, and is the host of TVOntario's weekly Saturday N..
Johanna Schopenhauer
Johanna Schopenhauer (July 9, 1766 – April 17, 1838) was a German author and the mother of Arthur Schopenhauer. Biography Johanna Schopenhauer was born in Danzig. She became an author and wrote about her life in her native city. After the annexation of her city by Prussia in 1793, she and her hu..
Johanna Senfter
Johanna Senfter (* 27 November 1879 in Oppenheim; † 11 August 1961 in Oppenheim ) was a German composer. From 1885 Johanna Senfter studied composition under Knorr, violin under Rebner, piano under Friedberg and organ at the Konservatorium in Frankfurt am Main. This gave her a considerable amount..
Johanna Sinisalo
Johanna Sinisalo (born 1958) is a Finnish science fiction and fantasy writer. She studied comparative literature and drama, amongst other subjects, at the University of Tampere. Professionally she worked in the advertising business, rising to the level of marketing designer. Dominating the burgeoni..
Johanna Sjöberg
Johanna Sjöberg (born on March 8, 1978 in Bromölla) is a former international topswimmer from Sweden, who won her first medal in 1997 by the European Swimming Championships in Sevilla: a bronze on the 100 Butterfly. External link [Profile on FINA-website] ..
Johanna Spyri
Johanna Spyri Johanna Spyri (June 12, 1827 - July 7, 1901) was an author of children's stories, and is best known for Heidi. Born Johanna Louise Heusser in the rural area of Hirzel, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers in the area around Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later..
Johanna ter Steege
Johanna ter Steege (born May 10, 1961) is a Dutch actress. She won the European Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her movie debut in The Vanishing (1988) [link]. Among her other films are Robert Altman's Vincent & Theo (1990), István Szabó's Meeting Venus (1991), Bernard Rose's..
Johanna Toffanello
Johanna Toffanello is an amateur comedian from Fredericton New Brunswick. Born and raised in the small mining town of Timmins, Ontario, Toffanello (known better by her stage name "Toff-Bag") first got her start in stand-up while living in residence at the University of New Brunswick. Encouraged by..
Johanna van der Merwe
Johanna Cornelia van der Merwe (7 March 1825 - 15 January 1888) was a Voortrekker heroine who survived an impi attack on her trekking party at the Boesmans and Bloukrans Rivers on 17 February 1838, despite suffering more than twenty assegai wounds. She later married Hendrik Frederik Delport with w..
Johanna Wagner (ship)
The Johanna Wagner was a Prussian barque of 600 tons, commanded by Captain Kempe. She was bound from Batavia to Amsterdam with a cargo of tobacco, sugar, coffee, India rubber, gall-nuts, gum damar and tin. Wrecked at Strandfontein near Muizenberg, South Africa, on July 15, 1862. No lives were los..
Johanna Zorn
Johanna Zorn is founder and executive director of the Third Coast International Audio Festival from Chicago Public Radio. From 1991 through 2001, she was the executive producer of Chicago Matters, Johanna started active at Chicago Public Radio as an intern in 1980, and was engaged as an aid produce..
Johannelunds Teologiska Högskola
Johannelunds teologiska högskola is a theological seminary, located in Uppsala, Sweden. It was founded in 1862, and from 1863 to 1968, the seminary was located in Bromma, near Stockholm. Since 1970, it has had its home in Uppsala and offers its education in cooperation with Uppsala University. Toda..
Johannes
Johannes is a Latin form of the name "John". The origin of Johannes is the Greek name Ιωαννης (Ioannes), itself derived from the Hebrew name Yochanan meaning "YAHWEH is gracious". Common German variants for Johannes are Johann, Hanse (diminutized to Hänsel, known from "Hänsel und Gretel",..
Johannesberg
Johannesberg is a municipality in the district of Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, Germany. ..
Johannesburg
[Featured articles   ] Johannesburg (In detail) (In detail) City motto: Unity in Development Province Gauteng Mayor Amos Masondo Area  - % water 1,644 km² 0.00% Density Ranked 95th 3,225,812 1,962/km² Established 1886 Time zo..
Johannesburg, California
Johannesburg is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California, in a mining district of the Rand Mountains. The terminus of the Randsburg Railway was here from 1897 to 1933. The population was 176 at the 2000 census. Johannesburg is divided from the neighboring community of Randsburg b..
Johannesburg Declaration
Declaration of the World Summit on Sustainable Development WSSD otherwise known as Earth Summit 2002. It builds on early declarations made at Stockholm in 1972, and Rio 1992. While committing the nations of the world to Sustainable Development, it also includes substantial mention of multilateralism..
Johannesburg freeways
The M2 in the afternoon as it passes through the Central Business District. Johannesburg is heavily dependent upon freeways for transportation around the city due to its location 1500 metres above sea level, far from the coast or any major bodies of water. There are 10 freeways in the Greater ..
Johannesburg International Airport
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Johannesburg level crossing accident
In the Johannesburg level crossing collision of April 2005, a bus and a freight train collided north of the city of Johannesburg, South Africa killing at least nine people and injuring 60 others. The cause of the collision near Johannesburg was still being investigated, but it appears that the bus ..
Johannesburg Mountain
Johannesburg Mountain is one of the most famous peaks in the North Cascades of the US state of Washington. Though not one of the [top 100 peaks] in the state by elevation, nor one of the [top peaks] as ranked by topographic prominence, Johannesburg is notable for its large, ste..
Johannesburg North, Gauteng
Johannesburg North is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region 1. Location It is divided in two by the Witkoppen Road and is situated halfway between Fourways Mall/Monte Casino and Northgate Shopping Centre on the northern outskirts of Randburg. History The suburb was larg..
Johannesburg Regiment
The Johannesburg Regiment is an infantry regiment of the South African Army. As a reserve unit, it has a status roughly equivalent to that of a British Territorial Army or United States Army National Guard unit. History The regiment was formed in 1960, when the South African Army was reorganised f..
Johannesburg Renewable Energy Coalition
The Johannesburg Renewable Energy Coalition, also known as JREC, is the group of countries supporting the Declaration on The Way Forward on Renewable Energy[link] (also known as the JREC Declaration), made at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, in Sep..
Johannesburg Ring Road
The Johannesburg Ring Road. The Johannesburg Ring Road is one of Africa's most famous beltways. It is made up of a subset of the freeways that circle the city of Johannesburg, South Africa and services the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Area. Construction on the Ring Road began in the lat..
Johannesburg Securities Exchange
The Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE) is the largest stock exchange in Africa and one of the ten largest in the world. It is situated at the corner of Maude Street and Gwen Lane in Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa. In 2003 the JSE had an estimated 472 listed companies and a market capitalisa..
Johannesburg South, Gauteng
Johannesburg South is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. ..
Johannesburg South Africa Temple
The Johannesburg South Africa Temple is the 36th operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mormon Church leaders announced the building of a Temple in Parktown, Johannesburg, South Africa in April 1981. Groundbreaking took place on November 27, 1982. Enormous effort put i..
Johannesburg Stadium
Johannesburg Stadium is a stadium in the Doornfontein suburb of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa. It was originally built as an athletics stadium and is now the home of one of South Africa's most famous football sides, the Orlando Pirates. The stadium was built beneath a sweeping roof a..
Johannesburg Zoo
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. The Johannesburg Zoo is a zoo in Johannesburg, South Africa. Established in 1904, it has traditionally been own..
Johannesson v. West St. Paul
Johannesson v. Rural Municipality West St. Paul [1952] 1 S.C.R. 297 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on the federal juridiction over aeronautics. This was also the first Supreme Court case to analyse the peace, order and good government provision of the Constitution and was the..
Johannes (archbishop of Uppsala)
Johannes was the second Archbishop of Uppsala, Sweden. His shortlived reign was between 1185 and 1187. His name is sometimes spelled as Johan, the Swedish form of Johannes, but since the Swedish language had yet to be established it is of little importance. About Johannes little is known. Only a fe..
Johannes Aal
Johannes Aal (born around 1500 in Bremgarten, died May 28 1553 in Solothurn) was a Swiss theologian, composer and dramaturg. Aal was pastor in Bremgarten until 1529, then Leutpriester in Baden until 1536. In the monastery of Solothurn, he became preacher and choir leader in 1538. From 1544 to 1551,..
Johannes Abel
Johannes Abel born 1756 in Frederick County, Maryland was a Revolutionary War soldier who was hanged for the beating death of his wife, Magdalena Ditlo. ..
Johannes Abezier
Johannes Abezier (born in Toruń around 1380 - died after 1424) was a provost and bishop of the Teutonic Knights in Frombork and Ermland. He acquired his baccalaureate in Prague in 1393, and his magister in 1401. Later he acted as Doctor Decretorum and Auditor Rotae. In 1411, he became provost in ..
Johannes Acronius
Johannes Acronius (died 1627) was a German Reformed theologian. He is less known by scientific works, than by his part in the quarrel between Arminians (Remonstrants) and Contra-Remonstrants. He was the son of the Frisian preacher Bernard Acronius, and was taught by Zacharias Ursinus and Franciscu..
Johannes Acronius Frisius
Johannes Acronius (or Atrocianus) Frisius (1520, Akkrum, Frisia - 18 October 1564) was a Dutch doctor and mathematician of the 16th century. He was named after his city of birth, Akkrum in West Frisia. From 1547 he worked as professor of mathematics in Basel, then after 1549 as professor of logic, ..
Johannes Agricola
Johannes Agricola (originally Schneider, then Schnitter) (April 20, 1494 [[Citing sources citation needed]] - September 22, 1566) was a German Protestant reformer. Agricola was born at Eisleben, whence he is sometimes called Magister Islebius. He studied at Wittenberg, wher..
Johannes Albrecht Bernhard Dorn
Johannes Albrecht Bernhard Dorn, also cited as Boris Andreevich Dorn (born April 29, 1805 in Scheierfeld, Saxe-Coburg, Germany; died May 19, 1881 in St. Petersburg, Russia) was a German orientalist. Dorn specialized in the history and languages of Iran, Russia, and Afghanistan. External links ..
Johannes Althusius
Johannes Althusius (1557-1638) was a Calvinist philosopher and theologian. He is most famous for his 1603 work, Politica Methodicae Digesta, Atque Exemplis Sacris et Profanis Illustrata (Politics Methodically Digested, Illustrated with Sacred and Profane Examples); revised editions were published i..
Johannes Ambundii
Johannes Ambundii de Swan, also written as Abundi, Ambundij, Habundi, Habendi, Habindi, Almanni and ~ von Schwan (first records 1384 - died 16 June 1424) was ... Ambundii is probably born in the area of Szczecin (German:Stettin). He studied at the Juristical University of Prague and graduated in 13..
Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger
Fibiger won a Nobel Prize in 1926 Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger (April 23, 1867 – January 30, 1928) was a Danish scientist who won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Fibiger had claimed to find an organism he called Spiroptera carcinoma that caused cancer in mice and rats. ..
Johannes Antonius Farina
Johannes Antonius Farina (Giovanni Antonio Farina) (January 11, 1803 - March 4, 1888) was the son of Pedro and Francisca Bellame and was born in Gambellara, Vincenza province, Italy. He studied at the seminary in Vicenza, and taught there while still a student before he was finally ordained on Janua..
Johannes Antonsson
Johannes Antonsson (1921 - August 25, 1995) was a Swedish politician for the Centre Party. A member of Riksdag|Riksdagen from 1958 to 1979, he was interior minister from 1976 to 1978, and governor of the province of Halland from 1979 to 1986. He also served as vice-chairman of the Centre Party from ..
Johannes Aventinus
Johannes Aventinus Johannes Aventinus (1477–1534) was a Bavarian historian and philologist. His real name was Johann Georg Turmair, and "Aventinus" is a latinization of his birthplace, Abensberg. He was in communication with Philipp Melanchthon and Martin Luther. Ludwig I of Bavaria had A..
Johannes Baader
Johannes Baader (June 22, 1875 – January 15, 1955), originally trained as an architect, was a writer and artist associated with Dada in Berlin. He was born in Stuttgart, Germany, and died in Schloss Adeldorf, Lower Bavaria. The son of a metalworker for the royal buildings in Stuttgart, Johan..
Johannes Baptista Sproll
Johannes Baptista Sproll (October 2, 1870-March 4, 1949) was a German Bishop and prominent opponent of the Nazi regime. Sproll was born in Schweinhausen, near Biberach, the son of a street mender, Josef Sproll, and his wife, Anna Maria née Freuer. He attended the Latin school in Biberach and the..
Johannes Baumann
Johannes Baumann (November 27, 1874 - September 8, 1953) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1934-1940). He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on March 22, 1934 and handed over office on December 31, 1940. He was affiliated to the Free Democratic Party. ..
Johannes Birringer
Johannes Birringer is an independent media choreographer and artistic director of AlienNation Co., a multimedia ensemble that has collaborated on various site-specific and cross-cultural performance and installation projects since 1993. After directing international workshops on dance and technology..
Johannes Blaskowitz
Johannes Blaskowitz (10 July 1883 - 5 February 1948) was a German general during World War II. Contents 1 Biography1.1 Early years1.2 Poland 19391.3 French Campaign 1940 and the occupation of France1.4 Campaign in the West 1944-51.5 Post war Biography Early yea..
Johannes Blokland
Johannes Blokland (born 5 March 1943 in Oegstgeest, South Holland) is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the ChristenUnie-SGP, treasurer of the Independence and Democracy group, and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Publ..
Johannes Bobrowski
Johannes Bobrowski (born April 9, 1917 in Tilsit, present day Russia – died September 2, 1965 in East Berlin) was an important German lyricist, narrative writer, adaptor and essayist. Contents 1 Life2 Literary works3 Films4 Opera5 Prizes6 External link Life In 192..
Johannes Bob van Benthem
Johannes Bob van Benthem was the first president of the European Patent Office. He was president from November 1, 1977 to April 30, 1985. External links [Romuald Singer Memorial Lecture] held by Johannes Bob van Benthem at the Patent Forum 1992 in Munich, Germany |- style="text-align: c..
Johannes Brahms
Brahms redirects to here. For the author of this name, see William B. Brahms. Johannes Brahms. Johannes Brahms (May 7, 1833 – April 3, 1897) was a German composer of Romantic music, who lived mostly in Vienna, Austria. Contents 1 Life2 Works3 Influences on Brahms4&nbs..
Johannes Brahms in film and popular culture
As with all of the celebrated composers of classical music, Johannes Brahms and his works have appeared widely in film and popular culture. The following is a list of such appearances. Brahms figures prominently in the 1947 fictionalized biography Song of Love, which focuses mainly on the love sto..
Johannes Brassart
Johannes Brassart (also Jean Brasart) (c.1400 – before October 22, 1455) was a Burgundian composer of the early Renaissance. Of his output, only sacred vocal music has survived, and it typifies early 15th century practice. Contents 1 Life2 Music and influence3 References and..
Johannes Brenz
Johannes Brenz, 17. century etching Johannes Brenz (1499-1570) was a German church reformer. He was the reformer of Württemberg, and one of the authors of the Württemberg Confession, as well as a catechism extensively used. Early Life Johann Brenz was born June 24, 1499 in Weil der Stadt,..
Johannes Broene
Johannes Broene was an academic and twice served as president of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was born in Muskegon, Michigan and his father was a minister of the Christian Reformed Church. Broene attended the University of Michigan and Valparaiso University, from which he graduate ..
Johannes Brost
Johannes Brost (born September 25, 1946) is a Swedish actor. He grew up in the Skåne province in southern Sweden. His mother, the actress Gudrun Brost worked at the Malmö City Theater. He followed his mother’s footsteps and became a stage actor, working both in Malmö and Stockholm, and later s..
Johannes Brøndsted
Johannes Brøndsted, Danish archaeologist and prehistorian. 1890: born Jutland1920: doctorate: relations between Anglo-Saxon and Nordic art in Viking times1922 & 1923: with E. Dyggve, excavated early Christian monuments in Dalmatia; published account as Recherches à Salone (1928)1941-1951: Profess..
Johannes Bugenhagen
Johannes Bugenhagen (24 June 1485 in Wollin, Pomerania—20 April 1558 in Wittenberg, Saxony), also called Doktor Pomeranus by Martin Luther, introduced the Reformation in Pomerania and Denmark in the 16th century. Biography Bugenhagen was born in Eastern Pomerania in 1485. After his studies a..
Johannes Bündgens
Johannes Bündgens (born April 2 1956 in Eschweiler) is auxiliary bishop of Aachen. Born in Eschweiler, he applied to become a priest after graduation in school in 1974. After studying theology and philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he was ordained as priest on October 10 19..
Johannes Bureus
Johannes Thomae Bureus Agrivillensis (Johan Bure) (1568–1652) was a Runic scholar and interested in the [Rosicrucian] manifestoes. He combined his runic and esoteric interests in his own runic system, which he called the "Adalruna". He was royal librarian and tutor and advisor of K..
Johannes Busch
Johannes or Jan Busch (1399 - c. 1480) was a major reformer and provost of the Augustinian monastic order. He was born in Zwolle. He spent most of the last 40 years of his life visiting and inspecting monasteries and convents. He also wrote some substantial surviving works. He died at Hildesheim. ..
Johannes Buxtorf
Johannes Buxtorf (1564-1629) was a celebrated Hebraist, born in Westphalia, member of a family of Orientalists; professor of Hebrew for thirty-nine years at Basel and was known by the title, "Master of the Rabbis". External links See also Buxtorf This article incorporates text from the public doma..
Johannes Campanus
For other people named Johannes Campanus, see Campanus. Johannes Campanus (in Italian, Giovanni Campano; also known as Campanus of Novara or similar) (1220-1296) was an Italian astrologer, astronomer, and mathematician who devised a house system for the horoscope which bears his name. This house s..
Johannes Camphuys
Johannes Camphuys (Haarlem, 18 July, 1634 - Batavia (Jakarta), 18 July, 1695) was the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1684 to 1691. He is commemorated in the name of a street in the Lombok neighbourhood of Utrecht. Also in the name of a street in the Bezuidenhoutquarter of The Hague...
Johannes Canuti Lenaeus
Johannes Canuti Lenaeus (November 29, 1573 – April 23, 1669) was professor at Uppsala University and Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden from 1657 to his death. After severel years of studies, mainly in Germany at university in Rostock and Wittenberg, he was appointed professor of l..
Johannes Cardinal Bessarion
Basilius Bessarion Basilius Bessarion (c. 1403-1472), mistakenly known also as Johannes Bessarion due to an erroneous interpretation of Gregory Mamme, was a Roman Catholic Cardinal-Bishop and the titular Patriarch of Constantinople. He was one of the illustrious Greek scholars who contributed ..
Johannes Cardinal Willebrands
Johannes Cardinal Willebrands (born 4 September 1909) is a Dutch prelate, the president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity. He was born in Bovenkarspel, in the diocese of Haarlem (the Netherlands) and ordained priest on 26 May 1934. After having studied in Rome,..
Johannes Carsten Hauch
Johannes Carsten Hauch (May 12, 1790 - March 4, 1872), Danish poet, was born of Danish parents residing at Frederikshald in Norway. In 1802 he lost his mother, and in 1803 returned with his father to Denmark. In 1807 he fought as a volunteer against the English invasion. He entered the university o..
Johannes Cesaris
Johannes Cesaris (fl. 1406 – 1417) was a French composer of the late Medieval era and early Renaissance. He was one of the composers of the transitional style between the two epochs, and was active at the Burgundian court in the early 15th century. Little is known about his life, excepting t..
Johannes Ciconia
Johannes Ciconia (circa 1335 or circa 1370 – between June 10 and July 12, 1412) was a late Medieval composer and music theorist. He has possibly been conflated with his father of the same name in some biographical accounts, hence the uncertainty over his date of birth. All the composer's works..
Johannes Clauberg
Johannes Clauberg Johannes Clauberg (born 24th February 1622 in Solingen/Germany - died 31st January 1665 in Duisburg) was a German theologian and philosopher. Clauberg was the founding Rector of the first Duisburg University, where he taught from 1655 to 1665. He was much influenced by the ra..
Johannes Cocceius
Woodcut of Johannes Cocceius Johannes Cocceius (1603 - November 4, 1669), Dutch theologian, was born at Bremen. After studying at Hamburg and Franeker, where Sixtinus Amama was one of his teachers, he became in 1630 professor of biblical philology at the Gymnasium illustre in his native town..
Johannes Cotto
Johannes Cotto (John Cotton, Johannes Afflighemensis) (fl. c. 1100) was a music theorist, possibly of English origin, most likely working in southern Germany or Switzerland. He wrote one of the most influential treatises on music of the Middle Ages, one which included unusually precise directions f..
Johannes Crellius
Johannes Crellius (1590 – 1633), also known as Hans Krell and Jan Crell, was a Polish–German theologian. Crellius was one of the chief theologians of the Polish brethren, and the author of Ad librum Hugonis Grotii quem de satisfactione Christi... (1623), De Deo et eius attributis... (16..
Johannes Crüger
Born in Guben in 1598. A child prodigy who was engaged as a young man as tutor to the children of the von Blumenthal Family in Berlin (one of whom, Joachim Friedrich, became in effect the Great Elector's prime minister). He became director of music at the Nikolaikirche, and composed two famous melod..
Johannes Cuspinian
Johannes Cuspinian was a distinguished humanist and statesman, born at Schweinfurt, Lower Franconia, in 1473; died at Vienna, 19 April, 1529. Early Life In 1490 he matriculated at the University of Leipzig, went to the University of Vienna (1493) to continue his humanistic studies, and in 1494 en..
Johannes Cuspinianus
Johannes Cuspinianus (born Johan Spießhaymer or Speißheimer) (December 1473-April 19, 1529) was an Austrian humanist, scientist, diplomat, and historian. Born in Spießheim, near Schweinfurt in Franconia, of which Cuspinianus is a Latinization, he studied in Leipzig and Würzburg. He went to ..
Johannes Daniel Falk
Johannes Daniel Falk (28 October 1768 - 14 February 1826) was a German poet. He was born 1768 in Gdańsk (known in other foreign languages as: Kashubian: Gduńsk, German: Danzig, Latin: Gedania), Danzig), Poland. In 1816 he wrote the German text O du fröliche.. to the melody of one of the most po..
Johannes Dantiscus
Poeta Laureatus Johannes Dantiscus, also Johann(es) von Höfen or Johann(es) Flachsbinder, Polish: , was born 1 October 1485 in Danzig (Gdańsk) and died 27 October 1548 in Heilsberg. His family's name was von Höfen, while Flachsbinder is an occupational name derived from his grandfather's..
Johannes de Bado Aureo
The identity of the heraldic writer Johannes de Bado Aureo is a matter of dispute. ("Vado Aureo" is a Latinized form of Guildford, in Surrey.) His work, Tractatus de armis, written at the behest of the late Anne of Bohemia (died 1394), consort of Richard II, appeared first in a Latin manuscript (con..
Johannes de Garlandia
There were at least two medieval scholars named Johannes de Garlandia (or John of Garlande, Jean de Garlande): Johannes de Garlandia (philologist) (fl. c. 1205 - 1255)Johannes de Garlandia (music theorist) (fl. c. 1270 – 1320) ..
Johannes de Garlandia (music theorist)
''This page is about the music theorist. For the grammarian see Johannes de Garlandia (philologist). Johannes de Garlandia (Johannes Gallicus) (fl. c. 1270 – 1320) was a French music theorist of the late ars antiqua period of medieval music. He is known for his work on the first treatise to ..
Johannes de Garlandia (philologist)
''This page is about the grammarian. For the musicologist see Johannes de Garlandia (music theorist). Johannes de Garlandia (fl. c. 1205 - 1255) was a philologist and university teacher. Said to be of English origin and to have studied at Oxford, he later studied at the medieval University of Paris..
Johannes de Grocheio
Johannes de Grocheio (Grocheo) (ca. 1255-ca.1320) was a Parisian musical theorist of the early fourteenth century. His French name was Jean de Grouchy, but he is more commonly known by his Latinized name. A Master of Arts, he is the author of the treatise Ars musicae ("The art of music") (ca. 1300..
Johannes de Jong
Johannes Cardinal de Jong (Ameland, 10 September 1885 - Amersfoort 8 September 1955) was a Dutch clergyman. Born in Nes, a village on the island of Ameland and when was nineteen years old entered in the seminary of Rijsenburg and in 15 August 1908 was ordained Priest. From 1908 to 1912 he attended..
Johannes de Sacrobosco
For the crater, see Sacrobosco (crater). Johannes de Sacrobosco or Sacro Bosco (John of Holywood, c. 1195 - 1256) was an English scholar, astronomer, and astrologer who taught at the University of Paris and wrote the authoritative mediaeval astronomy text Tractatus de Sphaera. Although described..
Johannes de Thurocz
Ján z Turca or Ján/Johannes de Turocz (Hungarian: Thuróczy János; German: Johannes de Thurocz, contemporary spelling: ...de Thwrocz) (c. 1435, Pýr (today part of Šipice, Slovakia) - 1488/1489), a Slovak educated person in the Kingdom of Hungary, is the author of a chronicle entitled Chronicle ..
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
van der Waals Johannes Diderik van der Waals (November 23, 1837 – March 8, 1923) was a Dutch scientist famous "for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids", for which he won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1910. Van der Waals was the first to realize the necessity of takin..
Johannes Dieckmann
Johannes Dieckmann (Fischerhude, 19 January 1893 - Berlin, 22 February 1969) held the office of State President of East Germany on an acting basis in 1949 and again in 1960. Dieckmann, the son of a Protestant Minister studied economics and philosophy in Berlin, Giessen, Göttingen and Freiburg. He ..
Johannes Dumichen
Johannes Dumichen (1833-1894), German Egyptologist, was born near Glogau in 1833. He studied philology and theology in Berlin and Breslau. Subsequently he became a pupil of Karl Lepsius and Heinrich Brugsch, and devoted himself to the study of Egyptian inscriptions. He travelled widely in Egypt, and..
Johannes Enzenhofer
Johannes Enzenhofer (born October 4, 1965) is an athlete from Austria. He competes in triathlon. Enzenhofer competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took twenty-ninth place with a total time of 1:51:02.48. ..
Johannes Ewald
Johannes Ewald Johannes Ewald (1743 - 1781) was a Danish national dramatist and poet. Biography Ewald, normally regarded the most important Danish poet of the 2nd half of the 18th Century, led a short and troublesome life marked by alcoholism and diseases. The son of a Copenhagen pietist vic..
Johannes Falke
Johannes, or 'Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Falke (20 April 1823 - 2 March 1876) was a German historian. He was born at Ratzeburg. Entering the university of Erlangen in 1843, he soon began to devote his attention to the history of the German language and literature, and in 1848 went to Munich, where h..
Johannes Fedé
Johannes Fedé (also Jean Sohier) (c.1415 – ?1477) was a French composer of the early Renaissance. While he was mentioned by Eloy d'Amerval as one of the greatest composers of the age, and resident in Paradise, relatively few of his works have survived. He was a contemporary of Johannes Ockeghem..
Johannes Finkel
Johannes Finkel is a Swiss maker of bows for violins, violas, cellos, and basses. He is considered one of the most important contemporary bow makers. The Finkel workshop is located in Brienz, Switzerland. Finkel is a fourth generation bow maker. His great-grandfather Ewald Weidhaas, was a craftsm..
Johannes Franz Hartmann
Johannes Franz Hartmann (January 11, 1865 - September 13, 1936) was a German physicist and astronomer. See also Hartmann (crater) External link [Hartmann, Johannes Franz] ..
Johannes Friedrich
Johannes Friedrich (1893 – 1972), was a German hittitologist who published the Hethitisches Elementarbuch (1940), and the Kurzgefasstes Hethitisches Wörterbuch (1966). See also List of linguists ..
Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch
Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch (January 9, 1823 - February 23, 1908), German surgeon, was born at Tönning, in Schleswig-Holstein. He studied at Kiel and Göttingen, and in 1846 became BRK von Langenbeck's assistant at the Kiel surgical hospital. He served in the Schleswig-Holstein War of 18..
Johannes Friessner
Johannes Friessner (March 22, 1892-June 26, 1971) was a German general during World War II. Born in Chemnitz, Saxony, Friessner enlisted in the German army in 1911 and, after seeing extensive duty during World War I, served in the Reichswehr following the war. After his promotion to Generalmajor..
Johannes Fritsch
Johannes Fritsch (born July 27, 1941) is a German composer, founder of the Feedback Verlag in Cologne (Köln). He was an instructor to Juan Maria Solare, Josef Rebbe and many other composers & improvisators. Johannes Fritsch played the viola in the Ensemble for Intuitive Music of Karlheinz Stockhau..
Johannes Geldenhuys
General Johannes ('Jannie') Geldenhuys SSA SD SOE SM (born 1935) was a South African military commander. He joined the South African Army as an infantryman in 1954. He commanded South West Africa Command from 1977 to 1980 and was briefly the first GOC South West Africa Terrritory Force in 1980 b..
Johannes Georg Bednorz
Johannes Georg Bednorz (born May 16, 1950) is a German physicist who, along with Karl Alex Müller, was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint discovery of superconductivity in certain substances at temperatures higher than had previously been thought attainable. Bednorz was born ..
Johannes Gerard van Dillen
Johannes Gerard van Dillen (Amsterdam 20 September 1883 – Amsterdam 26 December 1969) was a Dutch economic historian. J. G. van Dillen completed gymnasium in Amsterdam and matriculated in the University of Amsterdam, where he completed his doctorate in 1914. He was a privaat-docent in econom..
Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom
Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom (15 July 1893 - 24 August 1958) was Prime Minister of South Africa from 30 November 1954 to 24 August 1958. He was born on the family farm in Klipfontein. He trained as a lawyer. In 1929 he became the Member of Parliament for Waterberg. On 30 November 1954, he was elect..
Johannes Goropius Becanus
Johannes Goropius Becanus (1519-1572) was a Dutch physician, linguist, and humanist. Born Jan Gerartsen in the town of Gorp, situated in the municipality of Hilvarenbeek (hence the Latinized surname Goropius Becanus), he studied medicine in Leuven, and became physician to two sisters of Charles V:..
Johannes Gossner
Johannes Evangelista Gossner (14 September 1773 - 20 March 1858), German divine and philanthropist, was born at Hausen near Augsburg. He was educated at the university of Dillingen. Here like Martin Boos and others he came under the spell of the Evangelical movement promoted by Johann Michael Saile..
Johannes Govertus de Man
Johannes Govertus de Man (Middelburg, May 2, 1850 - Middelburg, January 9, 1930) was a Dutch biologist. He was assistant curator at the Rijksmuseum te Natuurlijke Historie (Dutch for national natural history museum) in Leiden, where he specialised in free-living nematodes and decapod crustaceans, al..
Johannes Grenzfurthner
Johannes Grenzfurthner, leading a fake demonstration in Munich in 2003 Johannes Grenzfurthner (* June 13 1975, Vienna) is artist, writer, curator, director. He attended many international symposia and published numerous essays and articles on contemporary art, science and philosophy. He writ..
Johannes Grubenmann
Johannes Grubenmann (June 15, 1707 - June 10, 1771) was a member of the Swiss family Grubenmann who were famous as joiners and civil engineers in the eighteenth century. See main article: Hans Ulrich and Johannes Grubenmann. ..
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
The Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz is an institute of higher education in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany. With approximately 35,000 students (2005) in about 150 schools and clinics, it is among the top ten largest universities in Germany. Starting on January 1, 2005, the university was..
Johannes H. Berg Jr.
Johannes H. Berg Jr. (23 September 1956 – 29 April 2004), Norwegian science fiction & fantasy fandom enthusiast, club founder, convention organiser, fanzine writer, and J.R.R. Tolkien book translator. Berg, from Oslo, Norway, was a cornerstone of the Norwegian science fiction and fantasy fand..
Johannes Hanssen
Johannes Hanssen (Ullensaker, near Oslo, 2 December 1874– Oslo, 25 November 1967) was a Norwegian bandmaster, composer and teacher. He was bandmaster of the Oslo Military Band from 1926 to 1934 and again from 1945 to 1946. Hanssen received the King's Order of Merit in Gold and King Haakon VII..
Johannes Hardenbergh
Major Johannes Hardenbergh, (1670–1745) also known as Sir Johannes Hardenbergh, born in Albany, New York, was High Sheriff of Ulster County in 1690. He served as a Major in the Ulster County Regiment, and was knighted by Queen Anne, on the recommendation of the Duke of Marlborough, for gallant..
Johannes Heesters
Johannes Heesters (born December 5, 1903) is a Dutch actor, singer, and entertainer who can look back on an 85-year career, almost exclusively in the German-speaking world. As of 2006, aged 102, Heesters holds the record of being the oldest performer worldwide who is still active, both on the sta..
Johannes Heinrich August Ebrard
Johannes Heinrich August Ebrard (January 18, 1818-July 23, 1888), German theologian, was born at Erlangen. He was educated in his native town and at Berlin, and after teaching in a private family became Privatdozent at Erlangen (1841) and then professor of theology at Zürich (1844). In 1847 he was..
Johannes Henricus Gerardus Jansen
Johannes Henricus Gerardus Jansen (9 May 1868 - 6 February 1936) was a former Archbishop of Utrecht and Roman Catholic Primate of the Netherlands. He was born in Leeuwarden, in the Dutch province of Friesland. On 11 April 1930 he was named Archbishop of Utrecht and then consecrated by Lorenzo Schio..
Johannes Hentschel
Johannes Hentschel (born 10 May 1908 in Berlin) was a German master electro-mechanic for Adolf Hitler's apartments in the Old Chancellery. He was hired on 4 July 1934, and was responsible for the machine room in the Führerbunker during the last days of World War II. He was one of the last people re..
Johannes Hermanus Barend Koekkoek
Johannes Hermanus Barend Koekkoek (1840-1912) was a Dutch artist. He was the son of artist Barend Cornelis Koekkoek. ..
Johannes Herman Frederik Umbgrove
Johannes Herman Frederik Umbgrove (February 5 1899 Hulsberg (Limburg) - June 14 1954 Wassenaar), called in short Jan Umbgrove, was a Dutch geologist and Earth scientist. Umbgrove studied geology at Leiden University, he finished his studies in 1926. He then became employed as a paleontologist for t..
Johannes Hevelius
Johannes Hevelius Johannes Hevelius (Latin), also called Johann Hewelke or Johannes Hewel (in German), or Jan Heweliusz (in Polish), (born January 28 1611 – died January 28 1687), was a councillor and mayor in Danzig (Gdańsk). As an astronomer he gained the reputation of "the founder of l..
Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger
Johann(es) Hieronymus Kapsberger (also: Giovanni Girolamo or Giovanni Geronimo Kapsberger), (1580 - 1651) was a German-Italian virtuoso performer and composer of lute, theorbo and chitarrone music during the early Baroque period. Reputedly born in Venice, son of a German gentleman, he became well-re..
Johannes Hoffmann
Johannes Hoffmann may also refer to a minister-president of Saarland. Johannes Hoffmann (July 3, 1867 – december 15, 1930) was a Bavarian Minister-President and member of the SPD. Born in Ilbesheim, near Landau, he was a Protestant and in 1908, he was elected member of the Landtag. During t..
Johannes Honter
Johannes Honterus Johannes Honter (also known as Johann Hynter; Latinized as Johann Honterus or Ioannes Honterus; Romanian sources may credit him as Ioan, Hungarian ones as János;1498—January 23, 1549) was a Transylvanian humanist and theologian of Saxon origin. Honter is best known fo..
Johannes II, Prince of Liechtenstein
Johann II (5 October 1840 – 11 February 1929) was the prince of Liechtenstein between 1858 and 1929. This makes his among the longest reigns in European royal history. He was the son of Alois II of Liechtenstein and his wife Countess Franziska Kinsky. He was considered to be rather unso..
Johannes Itten
Johannes Itten (November 11, 1888 - May 27, 1967) was a Swiss painter, designer teacher, writer and theorist associated with the Bauhaus school. Life and Work Born in Südern-Linden, Switzerland, he had a Friedrich Froebel influenced education and was initially a teacher where he was exposed to th..
Johannes Ittmann
Johannes Ittmann (26 January 1885 – 15 June 1963) was a German Protestant missionary in Cameroon between 1911 and 1940. He was born in Groß-Umstadt, Hesse, Germany and died in in Gambach, Hesse, Germany. He did extensive ethnological and anthropological work in the Southwest Province, an ..
Johannes Jacobus Poortman
Johannes Jacobus Poortman (Rotterdam April 26, 1896 – The Hague December 21, 1970), studied philosophy and psychology at Groningen University under Professor Gerardus Heymans. In 1919 he received his Master of Arts; many years later he would also earn a Ph.D.. He was also a theosophist. Poor..
Johannes Jacobus Smith
Johannes Jacobus Smith (Antwerp 1867 - Oegstgeest 1947) (sometimes written as Joannes Jacobus Smith) was a Dutch botanist who, between years 1905 to 1924, crossed the islands of the Dutch East Indies (mainly Java), collecting specimens of plants and describing and cataloguing the flora of these isla..
Johannes Janssen
Johannes Janssen (April 10, 1829 - December 24, 1891), German historian, was born at Xanten, and was educated as a Roman Catholic at Münster, Leuven, Bonn and Berlin, afterwards becoming a teacher of history at Frankfurt-am-Main. He was ordained priest in 1860; became a member of the Prussian Cham..
Johannes Junius
Johannes Junius (1573- August 6, 1628) was the Burgomeister of Bamberg, famous today for his letter written to his daughter from jail while he awaited execution for witchcraft. Junius became Burgomeister in 1608 and remained in that position until his arrest, which came shortly after his wife had b..
Johannes Käbin
Johannes Käbin (born 24 September 1905 – died 26 October 1999) was a Soviet politician who led the Estonian Communist Party from 1950 to 1978. A relative moderate, he was an ethnic Estonian but was raised in Russia. Heads of State of Estonia ..
Johannes Keizer
--> Johannes Keizer works at the Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, where he is responsible for scientific documentation and related activities, such as the international cooperative information network, AGRIS. Dr Keizer's group has launched various initiatives over rece..
Johannes Kelpius
Johannes Kelpius (1673-1708), a German Pietist, mystic, musician, and writer, interested in the occult, botany, and astronomy, came to believe with his followers in the "Society of the Woman in the Wilderness" that the end of the world would occur in 1694. This belief, based on an elaborate interpre..
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler Johannes Kepler (December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630), a key figure in the scientific revolution, was a German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and an early writer of science fiction stories. He is best known for his laws of planetary motion, based on his works A..
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU Linz, or just JKU -- the full German name is Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, the short version is Universität Linz, University of Linz in English; its Latin name is alma mater Kepleriana) is an institution of higher education in Linz, the capital of U..
Johannes Kerkorrel
Johannes Kerkorrel (27 March 1960–12 November 2002, born Ralph John Rabie) was an Afrikaner singer-songwriter, journalist and playwright from South Africa. Born in Johannesburg, Rabie worked as a journalist on the Afrikaans-language weekly newspaper Rapport. In 1986, as apartheid reached its ..
Johannes Khuen
Johannes Khuen (or Johannes Kuen, 1606 - 1675), priest, poet, and composer, was one of the leading literary figures of the early Baroque in Bavaria. Khuen, who was born in Moosach and studied with the Munich Jesuits in the early 1620s, spent his entire career in the Bavarian capital as a chaplain to..
Johannes Kleiman
Johannes Kleiman Johannes Kleiman (August 17, 1896 - January 28, 1959) was one of the Dutch citizens who helped hide Anne Frank and her family during the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands. Kleiman was born in Koog aan de Zaan in the Netherlands and met Otto Frank in 1923, when he was trying ..
Johannes Knolleisen
Johannes Knolleisen was born in Allenstein (East Prussia) in the 15th century. In 1489, Dr. Johannes Knolleisen was canon in Merseburg. He had received his magister degree of theology from the university of Leipzig. Knolleisen and Lucas David supported students from their home town Allenstein, to h..
Johannes Kornfeld
Poster for MS Tanzwerk Johannes Kornfeld is a living artist focusing on classical fine art nude b/w photography. Johannes Kornfeld lives and works in Heidelberg, in the southern part of Germany. Besides presenting his work in local galleries and on art exhibitions, he maintains an online ga..
Johannes Koskinen
Johannes Koskinen (born December 19, 1954) is a member of the Parliament of Finland and former Minister of Justice (1999-2005). He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP) and a former member of Hämeenlinna city council (1989-2004). |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Johannes Kotze
Johannes KotzeSouth Africa (RSA) Batting style Right-hand bat Bowling type Right-arm fast Tests First-class Matches 3 72 '''Runs scored 2 688 Batting average 0.40 8.59 100s/50s -/- -/1 Top score 2 60 Balls bowled 413 12480 Wickets 6 348 Bo..
Johannes Kreisler
Johannes Kreisler is the name of a character in three novels by E.T.A. Hoffmann: Kreisleriana (1813), Johannes Kreisler, des Kapellmeisters Musikalische Leiden (1815), Lebensansichten des Katers Murr nebst Fragmentarischer Biographie des Kapellmeisters Johannes Kreisler in Zufälligen Makulaturblät..
Johannes Kretz
Johannes Kretz (* 8th May 1968 in Vienna) is an Austrian composer and teacher for computer music and music theory. He lives and works in Vienna and created various compositions in the fields of new music, among those: music theatre, orchestra works, chamber music, sacred music and works with elect..
Johannes Krüüz
Johannes Krüüz (sometimes spelled Johnnes Krüüz) is the name of a scientist believed by some to have escaped from Germany during or just before World War II. He is the focus of a recent conspiracy theory asserting that his research not only lead to the creation of the atomic bomb but also is at ..
Johannes Lecküchner
Johannes Lecküchner (ca. 1430s–1482) was a 15th century priest and fencer of the area of Nuremberg. He was inscribed at the University of Leipzig in 1455 and receives the title of bacalaureus in 1457. He was consecrated as acolyte in 1459, and as priest at some point before 1478. He was emplo..
Johannes Lepsius
Johannes Lepsius (1858, Potsdam, Germany - 1926, Meran-Merano, Italy) was a German Protestant missionary with a special interest in trying to prevent the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. ..
Johannes Lichtenauer
sitting fencing master, probably representing Liechtenauer, fol. 2v of von Danzig's fechtbuch (1452) Johannes Lichtenauer (also spelled Liechtenauer) was a 14th century German fencing master. He was likely born in the early to mid 1300s, possibly in Lichtenau, Mittelfranken (Franconia). What l..
Johannes Linnankoski
Johannes Linnankoski (originally Vihtori Peltonen, October 18 1869 – August 10 1913) was a Finnish author. His most famous work is the sensual Laulu tulipunaisesta kukasta. His primary themes were exploring guilt, punishment and redemption as moral questions. His books have been made into num..
Johannes Linstead
Johannes Linstead is a noted classical guitarist and instrumentalist. His recordings of world music have all charted on Billboard Magazine. Biography (Taken from http://www.johanneslinstead.com) From winning two "Best World Album" awards to having three top-ten charting albums, to top radio airpla..
Johannes Lupi
Johannes Lupi (c.1506 – December 20, 1539) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. A representative of the generation after Josquin, he was a minor but skilled composer of polyphony who was mainly active in Cambrai. Life His birthplace is unknown, but he served in Cambrai as a cho..
Johannes Maccovius
Johannes Maccovius, also known as Jan Makowsky, was a Polish Reformed theologian. He was born at Lobzenica, Poland in 1588 and died at Franeker, the Netherlands on June 24, 1644. After visiting various universities as the tutor of young Polish nobles, and holding disputations with Jesuits and Soci..
Johannes Magnus
Johannes Magnus, (before 1530 Johannes Magni, a Latin translation of his birth name Johannes Store) was born March 19, 1488 in Linköping, Sweden and died March 22, 1544 in Rome, and was the son of Måns Petersson Store and Kristina Magnus. He was the last Catholic Archbishop in Sweden, and also ..
Johannes Mario Simmel
Johannes Mario Simmel (born April 7, 1924) is an Austrian writer. He was born in Vienna and grew up in Austria and England. He was trained as a chemical engineer and worked in research from 1943 to the end of World War II. After the end of the war, he worked as a translator for the American militar..
Johannes Martini
Johannes Martini (c.1440–late 1497 or early 1498) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. Contents 1 Life2 Music and influence3 References and further reading4 External links Life He was born in Brabant around 1440, but information about his early life is s..
Johannes Martinus Burgers
Johannes Martinus Burgers (Arnhem, Netherlands, January 13, 1895 – Washington D.C., June 7, 1981) was a Dutch physicist and the brother of the physicist W.G. Burgers. Burgers studied in Leiden under Paul Ehrenfest, where he obtained his PhD in 1918. He is credited to be the father of Burgers' ..
Johannes Matelart
Johannes Matelart (also Matelart, Matellarto, Matelarte and other variations; first name sometimes Ioanne or Jean) (before 1538 – June 7, 1607) was a Flemish composer of the late Renaissance, active in Flanders, Bonn, and Rome. Details of his life are relatively sparse. He came from west Flander..
Johannes Max Proskauer
Johannes Max Proskauer (December 5, 1923 – December 20, 1970) was born in Göttingen, Germany. He received his doctorate in botany from the University of London in 1964. In 1948, Proskauer moved to Berkeley, California, where he became an instructor in botany at the University of California, ..
Johannes Messenius
Johannes Messenius was a Swedish historian, dramatist and university professor. He was born in 1579, in the village of Freberga, in Stenby parish in Östergötland and died in Uleåborg in 1636. Contents 1 Childhood2 Seeking a position3 Back in Sweden4 Professorship5 Co..
Johannes Meursius
Johannes Meursius (van Meurs) (February 9, 1579–September 20, 1639), Dutch classical scholar and antiquary, was born at Loosduinen, near the Hague. He was extremely precocious, and at the age of sixteen produced a commentary on the Cassandra of Lycophron. In 1610 he was appointed professor of..
Johannes Modise
Johannes "Joe" Modise (May 23 1929 - November 26 2001) was a South African political figure. He helped to found Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of the African National Congress, and served as South Africa's first black Defense Minister from 1994 to 1999. As a truck driver from Alexandra, Gaute..
Johannes Müller
Johannes Müller may refer to the following people: Johannes Peter Müller (1801-1858), German physiologist, comparative anatomist, and ichthyologistJohannes Müller Argoviensis (1828-1896), Swiss botanistJohannes von Müller (1752-1809), Swiss historianRegiomontanus (1436-1476), German mathematicia..
Johannes Müller Argoviensis
The title of this article contains the character ü. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Johannes Mueller Argoviensis. Johannes Müller Argoviensis was the name used by the Swiss botanist Johann Müller (b. 9 May 1828 in Teufental, Aargau, d. 28 January 1896 in Gen..
Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted
Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted born in Varde (February 22, 1879 - December 17, 1947) was a Danish physical chemist. He received a degree in chemical engineering in 1899 and his Ph. D. in 1908 from the University of Copenhagen. He was immediately appointed professor of inorganic and physical chemistry..
Johannes Nikolaus Tetens
Johannes Nikolaus Tetens (16 September 1736 - 17 August 1807) was a German philosopher, statistician and scientist. He has been called 'the German Hume', on the basis of a comparison of his major work Philosophische Versuche über die menschliche Natur und ihre Entwickelung (1777) with David Hume..
Johannes Nucius
Johannes Nucius (also Nux, Nucis) (c.1556 – March 25, 1620) was a German composer and music theorist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. Although isolated from most of the major centers of musical activity, he was a polished composer in the style of Lassus and penned an extremely ..
Johannes O.
Johannes Franciscus Alphonsus Marinus O. was a Dutch murderer. O. was born in October 1916 in Surabaya, Dutch East Indies. In 1936, he moved to the Netherlands. There he studied medicine and married Arnolda van Eyl, a teacher's daughter. During his wife's vacation in 1951, O. had an affair with the..
Johannes Ockeghem
Ockeghem (with glasses) and his singers Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1410, Saint-Ghislain, Belgium – February 6, 1497, Tours, France) was the leading composer of the second generation of the Franco-Flemish School. Ockeghem is often considered the most important composer between Dufay and Josqui..
Johannes Oecolampadius
Johannes Oecolampadius Johannes Œcolampadius or Œkolampad (1482 - November 24 1531) was a German religious reformer, whose real name was Hussgen or Heussgen (changed to Hausschein and then into the Greek equivalent, which is derived from oikos, "house," and lâmpada, "lamp"). He was born i..
Johannes Oporinus
Johannes Oporinus (German: Herbster or Herbst) (25 January 1507 in Basel – 6 July 1568 in Basel) was a Classic philologist from Basel, where, in 1537, he became Professor in Greek He made a Latin version of Gesta Danorum in 1534, titled Saxonis Grammatici Danorum Historiae Libri XVI. ..
Johannes Passion
Johannes Passion (English: St. John Passion) is a musical composition by Johann Sebastian Bach. Originally meant to be performed for the first time in the St. Thomas’s church in Leipzig, the St. John Passion was first performed in 1724 in the St. Nicholas’s church. It is shorter than the St. Ma..
Johannes Paul Thilman
Johannes Paul Thilman (January 11, 1906 - January 29, 1973) was a German Composer Life Thilman, who actually wanted to become a teacher, encountered music at the age of 18 and taught himself initially. After a private lesson with Paul Hindemith and Hermann Scherchen, he attended the Leipzig Conser..
Johannes Peter Müller
Johannes Peter Müller (July 14, 1801, Koblenz – April 28, 1858, Berlin), was a German physiologist, comparative anatomist, and ichthyologist not only known for his discoveries but also for his ability to synthesize knowledge. J.P.Müller Life In 1819 he entered Bonn University, where ..
Johannes Petreius
Johann(es) Petreius (died 1550) was a German printer in Nuremberg. Works Michael Stifel, Arithmetica Integra. Johann Petreius, Nürnberg, 1544Nicolaus Copernicus, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, Libri VI"[link], Nuremberg, Johann Petreius, 1543Girolamo Cardano, Artis Magnae sive de ..
Johannes Pfefferkorn
Johannes (Josef) Pfefferkorn (1469–1523) was a German Christian theologian and writer who converted from Judaism. Pfefferkorn actively preached against the Jews and attempted to destroy the Talmud. Contents 1 Writings2 Works3 See also4 External links Born a Jew in Mora..
Johannes Plavius
Johannes Plavius (b. ca. 1600) was a German poet. Plavius may have been born in Plauen (Latinized as Plavia), from which his surname was derived. Some scholars believe, however, that Plavius was born in Danzig (Gdańsk). Linguistic characteristics in his works, however, suggest a Central German o..
Johannes Plendl
Johannes "Hans" Plendl (1900 – 1992), German radar pioneer, was the scientist who made possible the early German bombing successes in World War II. Plendl was born in 1900 in Munich, German Empire and began his career as a radio and beam engineer for Telefunken corporation. His early resea..
Johannes Popitz
Johannes Popitz (born 2 December 1884 in Leipzig; died 2 February 1945 in Berlin) was a Prussian finance minister and an opponent of the Third Reich. Contents 1 Life2 Works by Popitz3 Works about Popitz4 Sources Life As a pharmacist's son, Popitz studied political science..
Johannes Postmus
Dr. Johannes Postmus was the second Governor of the South African Reserve Bank. His term of office was from 1 January 1932 until 30 June 1945. He was succeeded by Dr. Gerhardus Petrus Christiaan de Kock. ..
Johannes Prioris
Johannes Prioris (c.1460 – c.1514) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the first composers to write a polyphonic setting of the Requiem mass. He may have been born in Brabant. Very little is known about his life, except what can be inferred by the distribution of..
Johannes Pullois
Johannes Pullois (numerous variant spellings of his name include Pillays, Pilloys, Pylois, Pyloys, Pyllois, Puilloys, Puylloys, Puyllois) (died August 23, 1478) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, active in both the Low Countries and Italy. He was one of the early generation of compos..
Johannes R. Becher
Johannes Robert Becher (b May 22 1891 in Munich; d October 11 1958 in Berlin) was a German politician and poet. Johannes R. Becher was the son of judge Heinrich Becher. He studied medicine and philosophy in Munich. He left his studies and became an expressionist writer. He was also engaged in many ..
Johannes Rau
Johannes Rau (January 16, 1931 – January 27, 2006) was the President of Germany from July 1, 1999 until June 30, 2004. Contents 1 Education and work2 Political biography3 Motto and maxim4 Prizes and medals5 Private life6 See also7 External links Education a..
Johannes Regis
Johannes Regis (Jehan Leroy) (c.1425 – c.1496) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was a well-known composer at the close of the 15th century, was a principal contributor to the Chigi Codex, and was secretary to Guillaume Dufay. Life Nothing is known about his life until 14..
Johannes Rietstap
Johannes Baptista Rietstap (12 May 1828–24 December 1891) was a Dutch heraldist and genealogist. He is most well-known for his publication of the Armorial Général. This monumental work contains the blazons of the coats of arms of more than 130,000 European families. It is still one of the ..
Johannes Rosinus
Johannes Rosinus (Johann Roszfeld) (ca. 1550-1626) was the German author of a work on Roman antiquities called Antiquitatum romanarum corpus absolutissimum, which first appeared at Basel in 1585. He studied at Jena, and became sub-rector of a school at Regensburg. He also served as minister of a L..
Johannes Rudbeckius
Johannes Rudbeckius or Johannes Rudbeck (1581-1646), bishop at Västerås, Sweden, from 1619 until his death, and personal chaplain to King Gustavus II Adolphus ("the Great"). In 1623 he founded the first gymnasium, a school of secondary education, in Västerås. With his second wife Magdalena Hisin..
Johannes Rydberg
Janne Rydberg Johannes Robert Rydberg, (‘Janne’ to his friends), (November 8, 1854 - December 28, 1919), was a Swedish physicist mainly known for devising the Rydberg formula, in 1888, which is used to predict the wavelengths of photons (of light and other electromagnetic radiation) emitte..
Johannes Schefferus
Johannes Schefferus (February 2, 1621 - March 26, 1679) was born in Strassburg, the present Strasbourg, in present-day France (at that time it was part of the Holy Roman Empire, and outside of France). Schefferus came from a patrician Strassburg family (Scheffer), studied at university there and b..
Johannes Scherr
Johannes Scherr (October 3, 1817 - November 21, 1886), German man of letters and novelist, was born at Hohenrechberg in the kingdom of Württemberg. After studying philosophy and history at the university of Tübingen (1837-1840), he became master in a school conducted by his brother Thomas in Wint..
Johannes Schimpelsberger
Johannes Schimpelsberger. Artist which deals with food art ([schauns]). First created as a orange as symbol for sweet and tasty feelings, then changed to a onion which is the contrary of this, having a strong and mouthtaking flavour. You can change the language to switch to an apple. And i..
Johannes Schmidt
Johannes Schmidt may refer to: Johannes Schmidt (linguist) (1843–1901)Johannes Schmidt (biologist), Danish ..
Johannes Schmidt (linguist)
Johannes Schmidt (July 29, 1843 – July 4, 1901) was a German linguist. He developed the Wellentheorie (wave theory) of language development. Johannes Schmidt was born in Prenzlau (Kingdom of Prussia). He was a pupil of August Schleicher and studied philology (historical linguistics), specializin..
Johannes Schneider
Johannes Schneider (1890 - April 25, 1955) or Hannes Schneider was an Austrian Ski instructor of the first half of the twentieth century. He was born in the town of Stuben am Arlberg in Austria as a son of a cheese maker. In 1907 he became a ski guide at the Hotel Post in St. Anton, Austria whe..
Johannes Schöner
Johannes Schöner (January 16,1477 – January 16,1547) (aka, Johann Schönner, Johann Müller “Regiomontano”, Johan Werner, Jean Schönner) was a German astronomer and cartographer. He owned his own printing company and published many maps and globes. The very first printed globe of the..
Johannes Schöner globe
German astronomer and cartographer Johannes Schöner (1477-1547) made some of the oldest globes. The Johannes Schöner Globe (1515) was made in 1515. Referring to globes of the world, Rafael Candel Vila, Professor of Cosmological Science and engineer at the University of Strasbourg [Enciclo..
Johannes Scotus
Johannes Scotus (also Johannes Skotus) (approx. 990 AD - November 10, 1066) was the Bishop of Mecklenburg. He was killed in 1066 during a Wendish rebellion against Christianity, when he was sacrificed to Radegast. This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can ..
Johannes Scotus Eriugena
Eriugena commemorated on a Irish banknote, issued 1976-1993 Johannes Scotus Eriugena (ca. 815–877) (also Johannes Scotus Erigena, Johannes Scottus Eriugena, John the Scot), was an Irish theologian, Neoplatonist philosopher, and poet. He is known for having translated and made commentari..
Johannes Secundus
Johannes Secundus (also Janus Secundus) (15 November, 1511 – 25 September, 1536) was a Neo-Latin poet of Dutch nationality. Born Jan Everaerts in The Hague. His father, Nicolaes Everaerts was a famous jurist and friend of Erasmus. In 1528 his family moved to Mechlin, where Secundus wrote his..
Johannes Semper
Johannes Semper Johannes Semper (near Viljandi, 10 March [O.S. 22 March] 1892 - Tallinn, February 2 1970) was an Estonian writer and translator. A student and later a prominent scholar at the University of Tartu, he was briefly nominated as Minister for Education of the Estonian SS..
Johannes Sikkar
Johannes Sikkar (October 15, 1897 - August 22, 1960) was first head of the Estonian government in exile as Acting Prime Minister. Sikkar served in Estonian Liberation War against Soviet Russia on armoured train as a voluntary and an officer, him was granted a farm, which he held until 1944. He fini..
Johannes Skraastad
Johannes Skraastad (1648 – 1700) was a Norwegian artist from Vang. He carved a number of well-known altar pieces and pulpits, many of which can still be seen today. Skraastad is best known for carving the altar pieces in Våler, Øvre Rendal, Folldal, Elverum, Veldre, Tomter, and Hof as well as th..
Johannes Sleidanus
Johannes Sleidanus Johannes Sleidanus (1506 - 1556) was a German historian, the annalist of the Reformation. He was born at Schleiden near Aix-la-Chapelle. He studied ancient languages and literatures at Liège and Cologne, and law and jurisprudence at Paris and Orléans. Whilst among the hu..
Johannes Sløk
Danish philosopher Professor and founder of "The Institute of History of Ideas" in Aarhus. Johannes Sløk (Born April 27 1916, Dead June 30 2001) have wrote about Søren Kierkegaard, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, William Shakespeare, Giordano Bruno Theater of the Absurd and have also a large codex ..
Johannes Stabius
Johannes Stabius (Johann Stab) (died 1522) was an Austrian cartographer of Vienna who developed, around 1500, the heart-shape (cordiform) projection map later developed further by Johannes Werner. It is called the Werner map projection, but also the Stabius-Werner or the Stab-Werner projection. ..
Johannes Stadius
For the crater, see Stadius (crater). Johannes Stadius or Estadius (Flemish, Jan Van Ostaeyen; French, Jean Stade) (ca. May 1, 1527-June 17, 1579) was a Flemish astronomer, astrologer, and mathematician. Born Jan Van Ostaeyen in the town of Loenhout (thus Leonnouthesius is sometimes appended to hi..
Johannes Stark
Johannes Stark in 1919 Johannes Stark (April 15, 1874 – June 21, 1957) was a prominent 20th century physicist, and a Physics Nobel Prize laureate. Born in Schickenhof, Bavaria, Stark was educated at the Bayreuth Gymnasium (grammar school) and later in Regensburg. His collegiate educatio..
Johannes Steele
Johannes Steele was a German-born journalist and radio commentator who is alleged to have had a covert relationship with Soviet intelligence during World War II. A deciphered Venona cable of Soviet intelligence traffic from July 1944, reveals Steele telling Vladimir Pravdin of the New York KGB that..
Johannes Steen
Johannes Steen Johannes Wilhelm Christian Steen (July 22, 1827 - April 1, 1906) was a Norwegian politician. He was Prime Minister of Norway from 1891 to 1893 and from 1898 to 1902. |- style="text-align: center;" |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Johannes Steinhoff
Johannes Steinhoff (September 15, 1913 - February 21, 1994) was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace of World War II and a senior West German air force officer after the war . He was one of very few Luftwaffe pilots who survived to fly operationally through the whole of the war period 1939-45. He was one..
Johannes Steuchius
Johannes Steuchius (January 3, 1676 – June 21, 1742) was Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden from 1730 to his death. His family name was ennobled in 1719 to Steuch. He was the son of the previous archbishop Mathias Steuchius. Before he became archbishop, he was a professor of logi..
Johannes Stöffler
Johannes Stöffler Johannes Stöffler (December 10, 1452 – February 16, 1531) was a German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments and professor at the University of Tübingen. His name is also sometimes written Stöfler. The lunar crater "Stöf..
Johannes Stricker
Johannes Paulus Stricker was a theologian and biblical scholar. He was the uncle, by marriage, of Vincent van Gogh, and tutored the young Vincent in theology and biblical criticism. He attended the University of Leiden where he worked with J. F. van Oordt, a key figure in the new Groningen theology..
Johannes Sturm
Johannes (or Jean) Sturm (1507 - 1589) was a German educator. He was born in Schleiden and studied at the University of Louvain and the Collège de France in Paris. He was called to Strasbourg (then ruled by the unrelated Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck) in 1537, and in 1538 he set up the Gymnase Prote..
Johannes Tauler
Johannes Tauler (c. 1300 - 15 June 1361) was a German mystic theologian. He was born about the year 1300 in Strasbourg, and was educated at the Dominican order convent in that city, where Meister Eckhart, who greatly influenced him, was professor of theology (1312 - 1320) in the monastery school. F..
Johannes Theodor Baargeld
Johannes Theodor Baargeld, pseudonym of Alfred Emanuel Ferdinand Grünwald (October 9 1892 - August 16 or 17, 1927), was a German painter and poet who, together with Max Ernst, founded the Cologne Dada group. He was born in Stettin, Germany, which is now Szczecin, Poland. Baargeld was the editor o..
Johannes Thiele
''For the 19th century chemist by the same name, see Johannes Thiele (chemist). Johannes Thiele (1860 - 1935) was a German zoologist specialized in malacology. His Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde (English edition published by the Smithsonian under the title Handbook of Systematic Malacolo..
Johannes Thiele (chemist)
Friedrich Karl Johannes Thiele (May 13 1865 – April 17 1918) was a german chemist and a prominent professor at several universities in Munich and Strasbourg, he discovered many laboratory techniques related to isolation of organic compounds. In 1917 he invented a device for melting point deter..
Johannes Tinctoris
Johannes Tinctoris (c.1435–1511) was a Flemish composer and music theorist of the Renaissance. He is known to have studied in Orleans, and to have been master of the choir there; he also may have been director of choirboys at Chartres. Because he was employed at Cambrai Cathedral for four mo..
Johannes Trithemius
Polygraphia (1518) — the first printed book on cryptography. Johannes Trithemius (1 February 1462 - 13 December 1516) was born Johann Heidenberg. The name by which he is more commonly known is derived from his native town of Trittenheim on the Mosel in Germany. He studied at the Univer..
Johannes Ullrich
Johannes Ullrich is the founder of DShield. DShield is now part of the SANS Internet Storm Center which he leads since it got created from Incidents.org and DShield back in 2001. In 2005, he was named one of the 50 most powerful people in Networking by Network World Magazine. Johannes grew up in G..
Johannes Valentinus Andreae
Johannes Valentinus Andreae (1586-1654), a.k.a. Johannes Valentinus Andreä or Johann Valentin Andreae, was a German theologian, who claimed to be the author of the Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz anno 1459 (1616, Strasbourg, the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz) one of the three..
Johannes van den Bosch
Johannes Graaf van den Bosch (February 2, 1780-January 28, 1844) was a Dutch Lieutenant General and politician. Contents 1 Biography2 Titles3 See also4 References5 External links Biography Born at at Herwynen bei Bommel in Geldern (now in Germany), van den Bosch arrive..
Johannes van den Broek
Johannes Hendrik van den Broek, (October 4, 1898 - September 6, 1978) was a Dutch architect influential in the rebuilding of Rotterdam after World War II. From 1948 onward, worked with Jacob B. Bakema in the architectural firm Van den Broek and Bakema. They collaborated to design landmarks and nei..
Johannes van den Driesche
Johannes van den Driesche [or Drusius] (June 28, 1550 - February, 1616), Protestant divine, distinguished specially as an Orientalist and exegete, was born at Oudenarde, in Flanders. Being designed for the church, he studied Greek and Latin at Ghent, and philosophy at Louvain; but his fath..
Johannes van der Beeck
Johannes Symonsz van der Beeck (1589 - 1644), also known as Torrentius, was a Dutch painter. He was born in Amsterdam, but later moved to Haarlem. His many indiscretions and rumored membership of the Rosicrucian order led to his arrest, torture and sentencing in 1627. Although he was sentenced to 2..
Johannes van der Corput
Johannes Gualtherus van der Corput (Rotterdam, September 4, 1890 - Amsterdam, September 16, 1975) was a Dutch mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He was appointed professor at the University of Groningen in 1923, and at the University of Amsterdam in 1946. He was one of t..
Johannes van der Merwe
Johannes van der Merwe (born February 5, 1980) was a Namibian cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler. Born in Windhoek, the young batsman played in several youth one-day internationals during the Under-19 World Cups of 1997/98 and 1999/2000, his first match coming ..
Johannes van der Wath
Johannes van der WathSouth Africa (RSA) Batting style Right-hand bat Bowling type Right-arm medium-fast Tests ODIs Matches - 7 '''Runs scored - 80 Batting average - 20.00 100s/50s - -/- Top score - 37* ..
Johannes van Keulen
Johannes van Keulen (1654-1715) was a 17th century Dutch cartographer. He published the influential nautical atlas the Zee-Atlas and the pilot guide Zee-Fakkel (Sea-Torch). In 1678/79 Johannes van Keulen established himself in Amsterdam and in 1680 he obtained a patent from the States of Holland an..
Johannes Van Rensburg
Johannes Frederik Janse Van Rensburg (known as Hans) (September 24, 1898-September 25, 1966) was a South African leader of the Ossewabrandwag. He was born and died in Cape Town and was a descendant of the Loyalist Johannes Frederik Janse Van Rensburg. He received his MA in German at the University..
Johannes Vares
Johannes Vares (12 January 1890 (O.S. 31 December 1891 ) - November 29, 1946) was an Estonian poet, doctor, and politician. Vares was born in Heimtali, current Viljandi County, and educated at Pärnu Gymnasium. He later studied medicine at the University of Kiev, in present day Ukraine. Vares ser..
Johannes Vastovius
Johannes Vastovius (active in the early 17th century, but his years of birth or death are unknown) was a Swedish priest and writer in the late reformation period. Vastovius was a convert to Roman Catholicism and one of the followers of Polish-Swedish king Sigismund III Vasa. He became protonotarius..
Johannes Vermeer
This article is about the Dutch painter. For other meanings, see Vermeer (disambiguation). Milkmaid (1658-1660) Johannes Vermeer or Jan Vermeer (October 31, 1632 - buried on December 15, 1675) was a Dutch painter who lived and worked in Delft. He has also referred to as Vermeer of Delft or Jo..
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, in Denmark always called Johannes V. Jensen, (January 20, 1873 – November 25, 1950) was a Danish author, often considered the first great Danish writer of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944. One of his sisters, Thit Jensen, was also ..
Johannes Virolainen
Johannes Virolainen (January 31 1914 - December 11 2000) was a Finnish politician. He was a Member of Parliament in 1945-1983 and 1987-1991, Prime Minister in 1964-1966 and Speaker of the Parliament in 1966-1968 and 1979-1983. He presented the Centre Party of Finland. Virolainen was born near Vii..
Johannes Vodnianus Campanus
For other people named Johannes Campanus, see Campanus. Johannes Vodnianus Campanus (Jan Vodňanský Campanus; also Jan z Vodňan, Jan Campanus-Vodňanský, Jan Kampánus Vodňanský, Ionnes Campanus Vodnianus) (December 27, 1572-December 13, 1622) was a Czech humanist, composer, pedagogue, poet, a..
Johannes Voggenhuber
Johannes Voggenhuber Johannes Voggenhuber (born 5 June 1950 in Salzburg) is an Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Austrian Green Party, which is part of the European Greens. From 1982 to 1987, he was member of the city council in Salzburg. From 1988 to 1992, he ..
Johannes von Baysen
Johann von Baysen (born around 1380; died 9 November 1459 at Marienburg) was a Prussian Knight and statesman. He died as Governor of Prussia at Marienburg Castle. The Baysen family was as a part of the Flemming family which came in 13th century from Lübeck or its vicinity. They named themselves af..
Johannes von Minckwitz
Johannes von Minckwitz (April 11, 1843 – May 20, 1920) was a German chess player and author. External links [] at ChessGames.com ..
Johannes von Müller
Johannes von Müller (January 3, 1752 - May 29, 1809), Swiss historian, was born at Neunkirch, near Schaffhausen, where his father was pastor. In 1760 the family removed to Schaffhausen. In his youth his maternal grandfather, Schoop (d. 1757), roused in him an interest in the history of his country..
Johannes von Rönge
Johannes von Rönge (16 October 1813, Bischofswalde, now Biskupnica - 26 October 1887, Vienna) was an early builder of the Christian denomination of New Catholics. Johannes von Rönge was originally a Catholic priest in Silesia and a member of the Frankfurt Parliament. He was outraged by the Bisho..
Johannes von Tepl
Johannes von Tepl (c. 1350 – c. 1415), also known as Johannes von Saaz, was a Bohemian writer of German language, one of the earliest known writers of prose in Early New High German (or late Middle German — depending on the criteria). Not much is known about him; historians presume that..
Johannes von Wildeshausen
Johannes von Wildeshausen (also called Johannes Teutonicus), master general of the Dominican order, born around 1180 in Wildeshausen and died 4 november 1252 in Strasbourg. It is still of Saint Dominic taken up to Bologna in the medals its. Since 1224 it accompanied the papal Legates by Germany, it ..
Johannes Werner
Johannes Werner (1466 – 1528), a parish priest in Nuremberg, refined and promoted the Werner map projection, a cordiform (heart-shape) projection map that had been developed by Johannes Stabius (Stab) of Vienna around 1500. After its introduction by Werner in his 1514 book, Nova translatio ..
Johannes Widmann
Johannes Widmann, a German mathematician, invented the addition (+) and the subtraction (-) signs in 1489. ..
Johannes Wiedewelt
Johannes Wiedewelt, (July 1, 1731-December 17, 1802), Danish neoclassical sculptor, was born in Copenhagen to royal sculptor to the Danish Court, Just Wiedewelt, and his wife Birgitte Lauridsdatter. Following in his father’s footsteps, he too became a royal sculptor introducing neoclassical ideal..
Johannes Wilsing
Johannes Wilsing (September 8, 1856–December 23, 1943) was a German astronomer. He was born in Berlin, where he was educated in addition to Göttingen. In 1880 he was was awarded his Ph.D. from Humboldt-Universität of Berlin with a dissertation titled, Über den Einfluss von Luftdruck und W..
Johannes Winding Harbitz
Johannes Winding Harbitz (1831-1917) was a Norwegian member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm 1893-1894, Minister of Defense 1894-1895, and Minister of Auditing 1895. ..
Johannes Winkler
Johannes Winkler (May 29 1897 - December 27 1947) was a German rocket pioneer who launched the first liquid-fuelled rocket in Europe, the HW-I on March 14, 1931. Winkler was born in Karlsruhe. In 1915 he joined the German army and was wounded in action the following year, leading to a lengthy ..
Johannes Wohnseifer
Johannes Wohnseifer (born 1967 in Cologne) is a German painter. He currently lives and works in Cologne. External links [The Saatchi Gallery; About Johannes Wohnseifer and his art]Additional information on Johannes Wohnseifer including artworks, text panels, articles, and full biography ..
Johannes Wolfgang Willy Friedlieb Heuer
Johannes Wolfgang Willy Friedlieb Heuer (1910 - 14 September 1993) was born in Kiel and started his working life in Hamburg, Germany. He arrived in Cape Town, South Africa by ship with his wife and two children in 1953. He was the founder of a family business now known as [Musikhaus W. Heuer�..
Johannes Zukertort
Zukertort, early 1880s Johannes Hermann Zukertort (7 September 1842 Lublin – 20 June 1888 London) was a leading Polish-Jewish chess master. Life In 1861, he enrolled at the University of Breslau to study medicine, but he never qualified. However, in Breslau he met the leading chess pla..
Johannes Zumpe
Johannes Zumpe (pronounced zumpy) was a maker of the first square pianos, a form of small rectangular piano with a compass of about five octaves. The pianos sounded like mellow harpsichords, and had a damper stop in the left cheek of the case. The action of these little instruments is known as the "..
Johannes Zwijsen
Johannes Zwijsen (28 August 1794 - 16 October 1877) was the first Archbishop of Utrecht after the re-establishment of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in the Netherlands. He was born in Tilburg and ordained priest on 19 January 1817. Later on he was consecrated, in 17 April 1842, Titular bishop of Gerr..
Johanne Bégin
Johanne Bégin, born October 21, 1971 in Vanier, Quebec, is a Canadian water polo player. Bégin was a member of the fifth-placed women's water polo team at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and of the bronze-medal-winning team at the 2001 world championships in Fukuoka, Japan. ..
Johanne Deschamps
Johanne Deschamps Johanne Deschamps (born April 2, 1959 in Saint-Jovite, Quebec) is a Canadian politician. She served as a councillor in Val-Barrette, Quebec from 1994 to 2004 and was Commissionor of the school board in Pierre-Neveu, Quebec from 1998 to 2004. After that, she was elected as a B..
Johanne James
Johanne James is the drummer for British progressive metal band Threshold. He joined the band officially, replacing Mark Heaney, in 2001, to record the album Hypothetical, after having toured with the band in support of the albums Extinct Instinct and Clone. He now fronts the three-piece band Kyrb ..
Johanne Luise Heiberg
Johanne Luise Heiberg (née Pätges) (22 November 1812 – 21 December 1890) was one of the greatest Danish actresses of the 19th century. She is most famous for her work at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, where she achieved great success. Like Hans Christian Andersen she originally belonged ..
Johanne Samarasekera
Johanne SamarasekeraUnited Arab Emirates (UAE) Batting style Right-handed batsman Bowling type Right-arm medium-fast Tests ODIs Matches - 7 '''Runs scored - 124 Batting average - 31.00 100s/50s - 0/0 Top score - 47* ..
Johanngeorgenstadt
Johanngeorgenstadt is a town in the Aue-Schwarzenberg district, in Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the Ore Mountains, on the border with the Czech Republic, 17 km south of Aue, and 27 km northwest of Karlovy Vary. ..
Johannine literature
Johannine literature is the collection of New Testament works that are attached by tradition to the person of John the Evangelist. The collection is usually considered to include: The Gospel of JohnThe First Epistle of JohnThe Second Epistle of JohnThe Third Epistle of JohnThe Book of RevelationThe ..
Johannisberg
Johannisberg is a village in Hesse, Germany. It is part of the city of Geisenheim in the Rheingau, on the right bank of the Rhine, 6 m. S. of Rüdesheim by railway. The place is mainly celebrated for the beautiful castle which crowns a hill overlooking the Rhine valley, and is surrounded by vineya..
Johannish Church
redirect [[Template:Unreferenced]]The Johannish Church is a small religious sect based out of Germany, although it is considered to be a cult by many. It has a few thousand adherants. ..
Johannisthal Air Disaster
The Johannisthal Air Disaster involved one of the first multiple fatality air disasters in history. It involved a Zeppelin L-2 airship and resulted in the death of all 28 passengers and crew on board. On October 17, 1913 at approximately 10:30am local time, hydrogen gas which was being vented was s..
Johannisthal Air Field
The Johannisthal Air Field, located 10 miles southeast of Berlin, was Germany's first airfield. It opened on 26 September 1909, a few weeks after the world's first airfield at Reims, France. Known as the birthplace of heavier-than-air flight in Germany, Johannistal was Berlin's primary airport unti..
Johannite
The Johannites are a sect of Gnostics who reject Jesus Christ, and instead posit that the true savior of the world (sent to fulfill Old Testament prophecy) was in fact John the Baptist, as he was performing baptisms before Jesus' birth. Some descendants of the original adherents to this doctrine ar..
Johanniter Order
Badge of the Johanniter Order. The Johanniter Order (German: ), officially the Brandenburg Bailiwick of the Knights' Order of the Hospital of St John in Jerusalem (Balley Brandenburg des Ritterlichen Ordens Sankt Johannis vom Spital zu Jerusalem), is a German Protestant branch of the Knights..
Johanns Face Records
Johann's Face Records (aka JFR) is a Chicago-based record company which was started by Marc Ruvolo and Gar Brandt in 1989. Ruvolo had been working at Roadkill Records and was looking to start a label with his friend Brandt. The label has released material from a number of bands such as: Alkaline Tri..
Johann Abraham Peter Schulz
Johann Abraham Peter Schulz (March 31, 1747, in Lüneburg-June 10, 1800 in Schwedt) was a German musician and composer. Today he is best known as the composer of the melody for Matthias Claudius' Poem "Der Mond ist aufgegangen", as well as of the Christmas carols "Ihr Kinderlein kommet" and "Alle..
Johann Ackermann
Johann Ackermann was a Bohemian author of the 15th century. He lived around 1429 in Sacz, Bohemia. He wrote a dispute between Death and a man, who just lost his young wife to the former. This writing is conserved in various old handwritings and prints. He reveals his name Johann in an acrostic at ..
Johann Adam Ackermann
Johann Adam Ackermann (1780, Mainz - 1853, Frankfurt am Main) was a German landscape painter of the early 19th century. He first lived in Mainz and moved to Frankfurt in 1804. Johann Ackermann was known primarily for his winter landscapes and watercolours. He is the brother of Georg Friedrich Ack..
Johann Adam Andreas of Liechtenstein
Johann Adam Andreas or Hans-Adam I (1657-1712) was the third Prince of Liechtenstein. In 1699 he acquired the domain of Schellenberg, and in 1712 the county of Vaduz. These two domains would later form the present principality of Liechtenstein. Johann never took up an office at the Imperial c..
Johann Adam Möhler
Johann Adam Möhler (May 6, 1796 - April 12, 1838), was a German theologian. He was born at Igersheim in Württemberg, and after studying philosophy and theology in the lyceum at Ellwangen, entered the University of Tübingen in 1817. Ordained to the priesthood in 1819, he was appointed to a curacy..
Johann Adam Reincken
Johann Adam Reincken (Jan Adams Reinken) (April 27, 1623 - November 24, 1722) was a distinguished North German organist who was remarkable for his longevity, encompassing style, and his influence on young organists such as Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1654 Reincken went to study with Heinrich Scheide..
Johann Adam Schall von Bell
Portrait of Adam Schall Johann Adam Schall von Bell (Chinese: 湯若望) (1591 - 15 August 1666) was a German Jesuit missionary to China. Born of noble parents in Cologne, Germany, he joined the Society of Jesus in Rome in 1611. In 1618 he left for China, reaching Macao in 1619. Apart from s..
Johann Adam Steinmetz
Johann Adam Steinmetz (September 24, 1689 in Großkniegnitz; † July 10 1762 in Prester) was Lutheran theologian, Pietist, educationalist and one of the most significant revivalists in 18th century Europe. After studies he worked as a pastor in Töppliwoda and later (1720-1730) he served to the c..
Johann Adolph Hasse
Johann Adolph Hasse. Johann Adolph Hasse (March 25, 1699 - December 23, 1783) was a German composer. Hasse was born at Bergedorf near Hamburg and received his first musical education from his father. Being possessed of a fine tenor voice, he chose a theatrical career and joined the operatic t..
Johann Aegidus Bach
Johann Aegidus Bach (1645–1716) was the father of the composer Johann Bernhard Bach, and organist and municipal orchestra director of Erfurt, Germany. He was Johann Sebastian Bach's uncle. External link [List of members of the Bach family] ..
Johann Agricola
Johann Agricola may refer to: Johann Friedrich Agricola (1720–1774), German composerJohann Agricola (theologian) (1492–1566) ..
Johann Agricola (theologian)
Redirect [[Template:Merge]]Johann Agricola (1492 [[Citing sources citation needed]] -1566) was a German theologian, follower and friend of Luther, who became his antagonist in the matter of the binding obligation of the law on Christians. Agricola, who was from Luther's home ..
Johann Albert Fabricius
Johann Albert Fabricius Johann Albert Fabricius (November 11, 1668 - April 30, 1736), was a German classical scholar and bibliographer. He was born at Leipzig. His father, Werner Fabricius, director of music in the church of St. Paul at Leipzig, was the author of several works, the most impor..
Johann Albrecht Adelgrief
Johann Albrecht Adelgrief was a German prophet, born in the environs of Elbing. He was the son of a Protestant minister, and well skilled in the ancient languages. He pretended that seven angels had come down from heaven and given him the commission to banish evil from the world, and to scourge the..
Johann Albrecht Bengel
Johann Albrecht Bengel (June 24, 1687 - 1752), Lutheran divine and scholar, was born at Winnenden in Württemberg. His father died in 1693, and Bengel was educated by a friend, who became a master in the gymnasium at Stuttgart. In 1703 Bengel left Stuttgart and entered the university as student at ..
Johann Albrecht Widmannstetter
Johann Albrecht Widmannstetter (* 1506 in Nellingen/Blaubeuren near Ulm, † March 28, 1557 in Regensburg), also called Widmestadius or Albert Widmannstadt, was a German humanist, orientalist, philologist, and theologian. Widmannstetter studied law, theology and oriental languages in Tübingen. Aft..
Johann Alexander Brassicanus
Johann Alexander Brassicanus was a German Catholic humanist, author and prominent professor. Biography He was born probably at Cannstatt, 1500, as a member of an ancient family of Constance, named Köl or Köll, latinized Brassicanus (both meaning 'cabbage'), his father being Johannes Brassicanus, ..
Johann Amadeus Francis de Paula, Baron of Thugut
Johann Amadeus Franz de Paula Thugut (1736 – May 28, 1818) was an Austrian diplomatist born at Linz on the 24th of May 1736. His origin and name have been the subject of legends more or less malicious and probably the inventions of enemies. It has been said that the correct form of his name ..
Johann Ambrosius Bach
Johann Ambrosius Bach (February 24, 1645 – 24 February, 1695) was a German musician. The son of Johann Christoph Bach (1613–1661), Ambrosius was born in Erfurt, Germany as the twin brother of Johann Christoph Bach (1645-1693). Ambrosius was employed as a violinist in Erfurt, then fro..
Johann Amerbach
Johann Amerbach ( approx. * 1440 in Amorbach, Germany; † 25. Dec. 1513 in Basel, Switzerland) was a celebrated printer in Basel in the 15th century. He was the first artist to use the Roman type instead of Gothic and Italian; he spared no expense in his art. ..
Johann Andreas Eisenmenger
Johann Andreas Eisenmenger, Anti-Jewish author; born in Mannheim, 1654; died in Heidelberg December 20 1704. Contents 1 Studies Rabbinical Literature2 His ''Entdecktes Judenthum''3 Bibliography4 References5 External links Studies Rabbinical Literature The son of an offic..
Johann Andreas Herbst
Johann Andreas Herbst (baptized June 9, 1588–January 24, 1666) was a German composer and music theorist of the early Baroque era. He was a contemporary of Michael Praetorius and Heinrich Schütz, and like them, assisted in importing the grand Venetian style and the other features of the early..
Johann Andreas Naumann
Johann Andreas Naumann (1744 - 1826) was a German farmer and an amateur naturalist. He was the father of Johann Friedrich Naumann. Naumann wrote an important book on the birds of Germany, Naturgeschichte der Vogel Deutschlands (1804). His name has been commemorated in the latin names of the follow..
Johann Andreas Schmeller
Johann Andreas Schmeller (6 August 1785 Tirschenreuth - 27 September 1852 in Munich) was a German scholar. He was known as a Germanist, and researcher of the Bavarian dialect. His Bayerischen Wörterbuchs appeared in four volumes from 1827 to 1837. He was also the compiler of the Carmina Burana, w..
Johann Andreas Stein
Johann Andreas Stein, (1728–1792), German maker of keyboard instruments and a friend of Mozart. External links [Photos of A. Stein in the fortepiano - Photoarchive] ..
Johann Andreas Wagner
Johann Andreas Wagner (1797 – 1861) was a German palaeontologist, zoologist and archaeologist. Wagner was a professor at the University of Munich, and curator of the Zoologische Staatssammlung (State Zoology Collection). He was the author of Die Geographische Verbreitung der Säugethiere Dar..
Johann Anton Friedrich Fleischmann
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Johann Anton Güldenstädt
The title of this article contains the character ü and ä. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Johann Anton Gueldenstaedt. Johann Anton Güldenstädt (April 26, 1745 – March 23, 1781) was a Baltic German naturalist and explorer in Russian service. Güldenst..
Johann Arndt
Johann Arndt (1555–1621), German Lutheran theologian, was born at Ballenstedt, in Anhalt, and studied in several universities. He was at Helmstedt in 1576; at Wittenberg in 1577. At Wittenberg the crypto-Calvinist controversy was then at its height, and he took the side of Melanchthon and the..
Johann Augustanus Faber
John Augustanus Faber was a Swiss theologian, born in Fribourg, around 1470. He entered the Dominican Order, probably at Augsburg, Germany, where he passed the greater part of his religious life, hence his name Augustanus. He obtained the degrees of Master and Doctor of Divinity, and in 1511 was ma..
Johann Augustus Eberhard
Johann Augustus Eberhard (1739–January 6, 1809) was a German theologian and "popular philosopher". Contents 1 Life and career2 Theological and philosophical work2.1 Theology2.2 Philosophy2.3 Works3 Sources Life and career Eberhard was born at Halberstadt in Lo..
Johann August Apel
Johann August Apel (september 17, 1771 – August 9, 1816) was a German writer and jurist. Apel was born in Leipzig. His tale Die Jägerbraut formed the basis for the libretto of Der Freischütz. Works Die Aitolier (1806)Das Gespensterbuch (1810)Kalliroe (1806)Metrik (1814-1816)Polyidos (18..
Johann August Ernesti
Johann August Ernesti Johann August Ernesti (August 4, 1707 – September 11, 1781), was a German theologian and philologist. He was born at Tennstadt in Thuringia, where his father was pastor, besides being superintendent of the electoral dioceses of Thuringia, Salz and Sangerhausen. At..
Johann August Georg Edmund Mojsisovics von Mojsvar
Johann August Georg Edmund Mojsisovics von Mojsvar (1839–1907), Austro-Hungarian geologist and palaeontologist, son of the surgeon Georg Mojsisovics von Mojsvar (1799-1860), was born at Vienna on the 18th of October 1839. He studied law in Vienna University, taking his doctor's degree in 1864,..
Johann August Nahl
Johann August Nahl (* 22 August 1710 in Berlin; † 22 October 1781 in Kassel) was a German sculptor and stuccist. He was first taught by his father Johann Samuel Nahl (1664–1727), who had been court sculptor of Frederic I since 1704. At the age of 18, Nahl undertook a journey via Sigmaringen ..
Johann August Nauck
Johann August Nauck Johann August Nauck (September 18, 1822 – August 3, 1892), was a German classical scholar and critic born at Auerstadt in Prussian Saxony. After studying at Halle and holding educational posts in Berlin, he migrated in 1859 to St Petersburg, where he became a profess..
Johann Bachstrom
Johann Friedrich Bachstrom, (24 December, 1688 - ? 1742) was a Dutch writer, scientist and Lutheran theologian who lived in Leyden. Sometimes spelt Bachstroem or Bachstrohm. He gave an early opinion on the use of fresh fruit and vegetables to cure scurvy. He was born in Rawicz (Poland) and died at N..
Johann Baptista Ruffini
Johann Baptista Ruffini (born in 1672 in Meran (Merano); died June 16, 1749 in Munich) was an important salt trader in Bavaria. He was married to Maria Johann Unertl (1689-1768), a sister of the Privy Council Chancellor and Conference Minister Franz Xaver Josef Freiherr von Unertl and niece of th..
Johann Baptist Alzog
Johann Baptist Alzog (8 June, 1808- 1 March, 1878), German theologian and Catholic church historian. He was born at Ohlau, in Silesia. He studied at Breslau and Bonn and was ordained priest at Cologne in 1834. In the following year he accepted the chairs of exegesis and church history at the semi..
Johann Baptist Cramer
Johann Baptist Cramer (February 24, 1771, Mannheim - April 16, 1858, London), was an English musician of German extraction. He was the son of Wilhelm Cramer (1743-1799), a famous London violinist and musical conductor, one of a numerous family who were identified with the progress of music during th..
Johann Baptist Cysat
Johann Baptist Cysat (Latinized as Cysatus; in French, Jean-Baptiste Cysat) (ca. 1587-March 17, 1657) was a Swiss Jesuit mathematician and astronomer, after whom Cysatus crater, on the Moon, is named. Born in Lucerne, the eighth of 14 children, his father, Renward (or Rennward) Cysat (1545-1614)..
Johann Baptist Gänsbacher
Johann Baptist Gänsbacher (1778 - 1844), Austrian musical composer, was born in 1778 at Sterzing in Tirol. His father, a schoolmaster and teacher of music, undertook his son's early education, which the boy continued under various masters until 1802, when he became the pupil of the celebrated Abbé..
Johann Baptist Georg Neruda
Relative to other composers of the Classical music era Johann Baptist Georg Neruda is little known, and his dates of birth and death (given as c1707 and c1780 by the Grove Dictionary) are only approximations. He was born in Bohemia, now part of Czechoslovakia, to a well-respected musical family. A..
Johann Baptist Metz
Johann Baptist Metz (born 1928) is a Catholic theologian. A student of Karl Rahner, he is at the center of a school of political theology that is strongly influenced by Liberation Theology. He is one of the most influential post-Vatican II German theologians. ..
Johann Baptist Vanhal
Johann Baptist Vanhal (Jan Křtitel Vaňhal) also spelled Wanhal or Wanhall (May 12,1739 - August 20, 1813) was a composer. Born in Nechanice, Bohemia to a Czech peasant family, Vanhal received his early training from a local musician. From these humble beginnings he was able to earn a living as a ..
Johann Baptist von Keller
Johann Baptist von Keller (May 16, 1774-October 17, 1845) was a German Catholic priest from Salem. He served as the first Bishop of Rottenburg. Keller was consecrated a priest in 1797 and was called to Württemberg in 1808. In 1816, he was made Auxiliary Bishop of Augsburg and Titular Bishop of Eva..
Johann Baptist von Spix
Johann Baptist von Spix. Johann Baptist von Spix (February 9, 1781 - March 14, 1826) was a German naturalist. Spix was born in Höchstadt. In 1817 he travelled to Brazil with Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, returning in 1820 with specimens of 6,500 plants, 2,700 insects, 85 mammals, 350 b..
Johann Bauer
Johann Hermann Bauer (June 30, 1861 – April 5, 1891), was a chess player. He is known mainly for losing to Emanuel Lasker as a result of a brilliant double-bishop sacrifice. Bauer was born in Prague in what was then the Austrian Empire. He died of tuberculosis at the age of 29. See also Las..
Johann Bauhin
Jean Bauhin. Johann Bauhin, or Jean Bauhin (1541-1613) was a Swiss botanist. He studied botany at Tübingen under Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566). He then travelled with Conrad Gessner, after which he started a practise of medicine at Basel, where he was elected Professor of Rhetoric in 1566. Four ..
Johann Bayer
Johann Bayer (1572 – March 7, 1625) was a German astronomer and lawyer. He was born in Rain, Bavaria in 1572. He began his study of philosophy in Ingolstadt in 1592, and moved later to Augsburg to begin work as a lawyer. He grew interested in astronomy during his time in Augsburg. He ultimatel..
Johann Beckmann
Johann Beckmann Johann Beckmann (1739-1811) was a German scientific author and coiner of the word technology, to mean the science of trades. He was the first man to teach technology and write about it as an academic subject. He was born on June 4 1739 at Hoya in Hanover, where his father was..
Johann Benedict Listing
Johann Benedict Listing (born July 25, 1808, died December 24 1882) was a German mathematician, born in Frankfurt, Germany, and died in Göttingen, Germany. In 1847, he wrote a famous article on Topology, although he had introduced the term in correspondence some years earlier. He (independently)..
Johann Beringer
Professor Johann Bartholomew Adam Beringer of the faculty of medicine of Würtzburg was the victim of a famous early 18th century hoax, perpetuated on him by his colleagues J. Ignatz Roderick, professor of geography and mathematics, and Johann Georg von Eckhart, privy counsellor and university l..
Johann Bernhard Bach
Johann Bernhard Bach (1676 - 1749), was a German composer, and cousin of J. S. Bach. He was born in Erfurt, and his early musical education was by his father, Johann Aegidus Bach. He took up his position as organist in Erfurt in 1695, and then took a similar position in Magdeburg. He replaced Johann..
Johann Bernhard Basedow
Johann Bernhard Basedow (September 11, 1723, Hamburg–July 25, 1790, Magdeburg) was a German educational reformer. He was born as the son of a hairdresser. He was educated at the Johanneum in that town, where he came under the influence of the rationalist H.S. Reimarus (1694-1768), author of t..
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Minaret-like columns in front of Karlskirche are presumed to reflect Islamic influences brought to Central Europe during the Turkish invasion. Fischer von Erlach links here. For other uses, see Fischer von Erlach (disambiguation). Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (20 July 1656 - 5 April 1723..
Johann Bernhard Staudt
Johann Bernhard Staudt (October 23, 1654 - November 6, 1712), was an Austrian Jesuit composer. Staudt was born in Vienna. His best-known work is the chamber opera, Patientis Christ Memoria ("Memory of the Suffering of Christ"), composed in 1685. The work had lain unperformed for over three centur..
Johann Bernhard von Rechberg und Rothenlöwen
Johann Bernhard Graf von Rechberg und Rothenlöwen (1806-1899), Austrian statesman, was the second son of the Bavarian statesman Count Aloys von Rechberg und Rothenlöwen (1766-1849). Johann Bernhard was destined for the Bavarian public service, his elder brother being a hereditary member of the Upp..
Johann Bernoulli
Johann Bernoulli Johann Bernoulli (Basel, July 27, 1667 - January 1, 1748) was a Swiss mathematician. He was the brother of Jakob Bernoulli, and the father of Daniel Bernoulli and Nicolaus II Bernoulli. He is also known as Jean or John Bernoulli. He educated the great mathematician Leonhard E..
Johann Bessler
Johann Ernst Elias Bessler (1680 - November 30, 1745) was born in Zittau, Germany. He is also known as Orffyre, a ROT13 encryption of "Bessler", and Orffyreus, a latinized version. Bessler demonstrated a series of claimed perpetual motion machines. Contents 1 Life and career2 Evaluation..
Johann Blumhardt
Johann Christoph Blumhardt (1805-1880) was a German Lutheran theologian and the father of Christoph Blumhardt. Today these individuals are often treated as one in thought. He is best known for the exorcism of Gottliebin Dittus that took place in Mölttligen. Johann Blumhardt's life post-exorcism ..
Johann Bodmer
Johann Bodmer may be: Johann Georg Bodmer (1786-1864), inventorJohann Caspar Bodmer (1776-1827), brother of the formerJohann Jakob Bodmer (1698-1783), author and critic This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you t..
Johann Bogermann
Johann or Johannes Bogermann (born 1576 in Uplewert (Ostfriesland); died September 11, 1637 in Franeker) was a Dutch divine. He was the son of a preacher. Since 1591, he studied in Franeker, Heidelberg, Geneva, Zürich, Lausanne, Oxford and Cambridge. In 1599, he became pastor in Sneek, 1603 in Enk..
Johann Böhm
Johann Böhm (January 20 1895, České Budějovice - November 27 1952, Prague) was Czech/Austrian chemist. Böhm studied at German polytechnic in Prague, worked with Fritz Haber in Berlin, then at university in Freiberg. Since 1934 professor of physical chemistry at the polytechnic in Prague. After..
Johann Burchard
Contents 1 Early Life2 Roman Career3 Historical Importance4 Bibliography Early Life Johann Burchard was born c. 1450 at Niederhaslach, near Strasburg. Of humble origins, he was educated by the collegial chapter of St. Florent in Niederhasler and eventually became secretary t..
Johann Büttikofer
Dr. Johann Büttikofer (1850-1927) was a Swiss zoologist. Büttikofer was born in Ranflüh im Emmenthal and studied biology at Berne. In 1879 he joined the staff of the Royal Zoological Museum in Leiden, becoming curator between 1884 and 1897. He made two trips to Liberia, the first was from 1879 t..
Johann Campanus
For other people named Johannes Campanus, see Campanus. Johann Campanus (Johannes Campanus) was an Belgian Anabaptist religious reformer of the sixteenth century. In his Autobiographical Letter to Johann Campanus (1531), a public Latin epistle, Sebastian Franck exhorted Campanus to maintain freedo..
Johann Carl Fuhlrott
Johann Carl Fuhlrott was born December 31 1803 in Leinefelde, Germany, and died October 17 1877 in Elberfeld, (Wuppertal). He is famous for the discovery of the Neanderthal man. Fuhlrott After studying mathematics and natural sciences at the University in Bonn, Fuhlrott became a teacher at t..
Johann Carl Gottfried Löwe
Johann Carl Gottfried Löwe (November 30, 1796 - April 20, 1869), usually written Loewe in English, was a German composer, baritone singer and conductor. In his lifetime, his songs were well enough known for some to call him the "Schubert of North Germany", and Hugo Wolf came to admire his work. He ..
Johann Carolus
Johann Carolus was the publisher of the first newspaper in print, called Relations. This paper was published in Strasbourg, which is now in France but then an imperial free city in the Holy Roman Empire. In 2005, the World Association of Newspapers accepted evidence that Carolus's newspaper was pr..
Johann Casimir of Simmern
Johann Casimir, (March 7, 1543 – January 16, 1592), born in Simmern, currently in Rhineland-Palatinate, was the third son of Frederic III (Friedrich), Count Palatine of the Rhine, and was a member of the Simmern middle electoral line of The House of Wittelsbach. On 26 November, 1568 Johann Ca..
Johann Caspar Aiblinger
Johann Caspar Aiblinger was a composer, born 23 February, 1779, at Wasserburg, Bavaria; died at Munich, 6 May 1867. In his eleventh year he commenced his studies at Tegernsee Abbey, where he was instructed in piano and organ-playing. Four years later he entered the gymnasium at Munich, where he stu..
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (some authorities use the spelling Johann Kasper Ferdinand Fischer) (died 1746) was a German Baroque composer. Johann Nikolaus Forkel ranked Fischer as one of the best composers for keyboard of his day, however, partly due to the rarity of surviving copies of his musi..
Johann Caspar Füssli
Johann Caspar Füssli (3 January 1706 in Zurich - 6 May 1782 in Zurich) was a Swiss portraitist painter and writer. He is the son of Hans Rudolf Füssli (11 February 1680, † 1761), painter, and Elisabeth Schärer.He married Elisabeth WaserHe is the father of:* Hans Rudolf Füssli,* Johann Heinric..
Johann Caspar von Orelli
Portrait by Ludwig Wegner Johann Caspar von Orelli (February 13, 1787–January 6, 1849), was a Swiss classical scholar. He was born at Zürich of a distinguished Italian family which had taken refuge in Switzerland at the time of the Protestant Reformation. His cousin, Johann Conrad Ore..
Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg
Johann Centurius von Hoffmannsegg (August 23, 1766 - December 13, 1849) was a German botanist, entomologist and ornithologist. Hoffmannsegg was born at Dresden and studied at Leipzig and Göttingen. He travelled through Europe acquiring vast collections of plants and animals. He visited Hungary, ..
Johann Chapuis
Johann Chapuis, born January 15, 1975 in Besançon, France is a French defender currently playing for Niort. His previous clubs include AS Nancy Lorraine, Louhans-Cuiseaux, FC Rouen and ASOA Valence. ..
Johann Christian August Heyse
Johann Christian August Heyse (1764-1829) was a German grammarian and lexicographer, born at Nordhausen and educated at Göttingen. He taught at Oldenburg, Nordhausen, and Magdeburg. He wrote: Allgemeines Fremdwörterbuch (seventeenth edition, 1892)Deutsche Schulgrammatik, under the ..
Johann Christian Bach
Johann Christian Bach, painted in London by Thomas Gainsborough, 1776 ( Museo Civico, Bologna) Johann Christian Bach (September 5, 1735 – January 1, 1782) was a composer of the Classical era. Contents 1 Life2 Evaluation3 Acclamation4 Miscellaneous5 Further re..
Johann Christian Brand
redirect [[Template:Importance]] Sandpit, 1744. Johann Christian Brand (March 6, 1722 – 1795) was an Austrian painter. Wikimedia Commons has media related to: [media] ..
Johann Christian Buxbaum
Johann Christian Buxbaum (no later than October 5, 1693 in Merseburg — July 7, 1730 in Wermsdorf, Saxony) was a German physician, botanist and traveller. He studied medicine at the Universities of Leipzig, Wittenberg, Jena, and Leyden. In 1721 he was invited by Peter the Great, tsar of Russia, ..
Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber
Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739 – 1810) was a German naturalist. In 1774 Schreber began writing a multi-volume set of books entitled Die Säugethiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen, which focused on the mammals of the world. Many of the animals included were..
Johann Christian Felix Bähr
Johann Christian Felix Baehr (1798-1872), German philologist, was born at Darmstadt on the 13th of June 1798. He studied at the university of Heidelberg where he was appointed professor of classical philology in 1823, chief librarian in 1832, and on the retirement of G. F. Creuzer became director of..
Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner
Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner (2 March 1759 in Oberschönau – 28 May 1833 in Uppsala) was a German-born Swedish composer. Hæffner received his first musical education with the Schmalkalden organist Johann Gottfried Vierling. He studied in Leipzig from 1776, and worked as a conductor in..
Johann Christian Gottlieb Ackermann
Johann Christian Gottlieb Ackermann (17 February 1756, Zeulenroda - 9 March 1801) was a German doctor. Attending the University of Jena at only fifteen years old, Johann found a teacher in Ernst Gottfried Baldinger. The two relocated to Göttingen where he studied, apart from medicine, the classica..
Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti
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Johann Christian Günther
Johann Christian Günther (1695-1723), German poet, was born at Striegau in Lower Silesia on April 8, 1695. After attending the gymnasium at Schweidnitz, he was sent in 1715 by his father, a country doctor, to study medicine at Wittenberg; but he was idle and dissipated, had no taste for the profess..
Johann Christian Josef Abs
Johann Christian Josef Abs (26 August 1781, Wippenfürth - 15 April 1823, Königsberg) was a German teacher. In the year 1799 Abs gave his vow in the Franciscan monastery of Hamm and adopted the name of Theodosius. In 1806 he became head of the claustral school of Halberstadt. In this school, he a..
Johann Christian Konrad von Hofmann
Johann Christian Konrad von Hofmann (December 21, 1810 - December 20, 1877), Lutheran theologian and historian, was born at Nuremberg, and studied theology and history at the university of Erlangen. In 1829 he went to Berlin, where Schleiermacher, Hengstenberg, Neander, Ranke and Raumer were among ..
Johann Christian Ludwig Abeille
Johann Christian Ludwig (Louis) Abeille (born February 20 1761 in Bayreuth, died 2 March 1838 in Stuttgart) was a German pianist and composer. His father was baronial valet in Bayreuth. He was educated at the Karlsschule in Stuttgart where his teachers were Antonio Boroni, Ferdinando Mazzanti and ..
Johann Christian Ludwig Hellwig
Johann Christian Ludwig Hellwig (November 8, 1743, Garz, Rügen - October 10, 1831) was a German entomologist. After studies of mathematics and natural history at the university of Frankfurt, he became, in 1766, adviser to prince Wilhelm Adolf von Braunschweig at the time of his voyage in the south..
Johann Christian Poggendorff
Johann Christian Poggendorff. Johann Christian Poggendorff (December 29, 1796 - January 24, 1877), German physicist, was born in Hamburg. Contents 1 Introduction2 Biography3 Illusion4 External links5 Publications6 References7 External artricles Introducti..
Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben
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Johann Christian Reil
Johann Christian Reil (1759-1813) was a German physician, anatomist and physiologist. Medical conditions and anatomical features named after him include Reil's finger, the Islands of Reil in the cerebral cortex, and Beau-Reil cross furrows on the fingernails. In 1795 Reil founded Archiv für die..
Johann Christian Siebenkees
Johann gandu Christian Siebenkees (1753–1841) was a German jurist, poet, and writer. He was a cousin of the philosopher Johann Philipp Siebenkees. ..
Johann Christian Wilhelm Augusti
Johann Christian Wilhelm Augusti (1772 - 1841) was a German theologian. Born at Eschenberga, near Gotha, Augusti was of Jewish descent, his grandfather having been a converted rabbi. He was educated at the gymnasium of Gotha and the University of Jena. At Jena he studied oriental languages, of whi..
Johann Christoph Adelung
Johann Christoph Adelung (8 August 1732 – 10 September 1806) was a German grammarian and philologist. He was born at Spantekow, in Pomerania, and educated at the public schools of Anklam and Klosterbergen, and the university of Halle. In 1759 he was appointed professor at the gymnasium of Erfurt,..
Johann Christoph Bach
Please note: there were two people called Johann Christoph Bach. This article refers to JS Bach's first cousin once removed. The other (1645-1693) was the twin brother of JS Bach's father[link][link][link] (and therefore his uncle). Johann Christoph Bach (December 6, 1..
Johann Christoph Brotze
Johann Christoph Brotze (Johans Kristofs Broce in Latvian) (born 1742 in Görlitz, died 1823) was a famous German pedagogue and ethnographer. Brotze studied theology and philosophy at the universities of Leipzig and Wittenberg, and was also skilled at technical drawing. He went to Riga (now in Latv..
Johann Christoph Denner
Johann Christoph Denner (August 13, 1655–April 20,1707), was a famous woodwind instrument maker of the Baroque era, to whom the invention of the clarinet in 1690 is attributed. Denner was born in Leipzig. The clarinet evolved from an earlier instrument called the chalumeau. With the help of..
Johann Christoph Döderlein
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Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
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Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug
Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug was a German entomologist born 5 May 1775 in Berlin and died 3 February in the same city. He described the butterflies of Upper Egypt and Arabia in Symbolæ Physicæ (Berlin, 1829-1845). He was professor of medicine and entomology in the Humboldt-Universitat (Univer..
Johann Christoph Gottsched
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Johann Christoph Pepusch
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Johann Cochlaeus
Johann Cochlaeus (1479 - January 10, 1552) was a German humanist and controversialist. Originally Johann Dobneck, he was born of poor parents at Wendelstein (near Nuremberg), from which he obtained the punning surname Cochlaeus (spiral), for which he occasionally substituted Wendelstinus. Educated..
Johann Conrad Ammann
Johann Conrad Ammann (December 24, 1724, Schaffhausen – October 11, 1811, Schaffhausen) was a Swiss physician, naturalist, and collector. After graduating at Leiden in 1749 he began to practise at Schaffhausen. He was particularly noted for his collection of fossils. He is often confused ..
Johann Conrad Dippel
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Johann Cornies
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Johann Crüger
Johann Crüger (April 9, 1598 – February 23, 1662) was a German composer of well-known hymns. Crüger was born near Guben as the son of an innkeeper. He studied at the Lateinschule in Guben until 1613, after which he traveled to Sorau and Breslau and finally to Regensburg, where he received h..
Johann Daniel Titius
Johann Daniel Titius. Johann Daniel Titius (January 2 1729 – December 11 1796) was a German astronomer and a professor at Wittenberg. He is best known for formulating the Titius-Bode law, and for using this rule to predict the existence of a celestial object at 2.8 AU from the sun. His ..
Johann David Heinichen
Johann David Heinichen (April 17, 1683 - July 16, 1729) was a German Baroque composer and music theorist who brought the musical genius of Venice to the court of Augustus the Strong in Dresden. Although Heinichen's music is original, rhythmically exuberant and imaginative, it was inexplicably little..
Johann David Köhler
Johann David Köhler might be considered a great grandfather of information science and a grandfather of library science. Köhler was born in Colditz in 1684 and died in Göttingen, Germany in 1755. He was a professor of logic and history at universities in Altdorf and later Göttingen and served br..
Johann David Michaelis
Johann David Michaelis (1717-1791), German biblical scholar and teacher, was a member of a family which had the chief part in maintaining that solid discipline in Hebrew and the cognate languages which distinguished the University of Halle in the period of Pietism. Johann Heinrich Michaelis (1668-1..
Johann David Passavant
Johann David Passavant was born in 1787 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He was a curator and artist. His interest in the arts was evidence by an early correspondence with the artist Franz Pforr (1788-1812). He moved to Paris in 1809 to further his business interests. He returned to Frankfurt in 1824 ..
Johann David Schoepf
Johann David Schoepff. Johann David Schoepf (March 8, 1752 - September 10, 1800) was a German physician, botanist and zoologist. He was born in Bayreuth, and travelled to New York in 1777 as the chief surgeon of the Hessian troops fighting for King George III of the United Kingdom. He retu..
Johann David Wyss
Johann David Wyss (Bern, March 4, 1743 - 1818) was a Swiss author, best remembered for his book The Swiss Family Robinson (1812), based on the Robinson Crusoe adventure by Daniel Defoe. The book was edited by his son, Johann Rudolf Wyss, a scholar who wrote the Swiss national anthem. Electronic boo..
Johann Deisenhofer
Johann Deisenhofer (born September 30, 1943) is a German biochemist who, along with Hartmut Michel and Robert Huber, received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1988 for their determination of the structure of a membrane-bound complex of proteins and co-factors that is essential to photosynthesis. De..
Johann de Kalb
 An engraving showing the wounded Baron de Kalb DeKalb head in Decatur, GA Johann Henry Jules Alexandre von Robaii, Baron de Kalb (born Johann Kalb) (1721-1780) was a German soldier and volunteer who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutiona..
Johann Dick
Johann Dick (23 March 1927–September 18 1986) was a citizen of West Germany shot on Czechoslovakian border by soldiers from Czechoslovakian Border Guard (Pohraniční stráž). Johann Dick, living in Bavaria, was a former soldier. Tourist tours around Bavarian border were his hobby during retirem..
Johann Dietenberger
Johann Dietenberger (c. 1475 – September 4, 1537) was a German theologian, born at Frankfurt-am-Main who died at Mainz. He was educated in his native city, joined the Dominican Order, and soon distinguished himself by his attainments, both religious and intellectual. On 3 June, 1511, he regi..
Johann Döderlein
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Johann Dominicus Fiorillo
Johann Dominicus Fiorillo (October 13, 1748 – September 10, 1821) was a German painter and historian of art. Johann Dominicus Fiorillo was born at Hamburg on the 13th of October 1748. He received his first instructions in art at an academy of painting at Bayreuth; and in 1761, to continue his..
Johann Dzierzon
Johann Dzierzon (1811-1906) was a German apiculturist. He was born at Lobkowitz, Upper Silesia, studied theology at Breslau, and was pastor at Karlsmarkt from 1835 to 1869, after which time he devoted himself to the study of apiculture, a subject to which he had for many years given considerable..
Johann Eberlin von Günzburg
Johann Eberlin von Günzburg (b. c1470 in Kleinkötz near Günzburg in Bavaria; d. 1533 in Lautershausen) was a German theologian who became prominent as the author of reformist flysheets and pamphlets. Life Eberlin studied theology in Ingolstadt and qualified in 1490 in Basle as Master of Arts. I..
Johann Eccard
Johann Eccard (1553-1611) was a German composer of church music born at Mühlhausen in Thuringia, Germany. At the age of eighteen he went to Munich, where he became the pupil of Orlando Lasso. In his company Eccard is said to have visited Paris, but in 1574 we find him again at Mühlhausen, where h..
Johann Eck
Johann Eck (November 13, 1486 – February 13, 1543) was a 16th century theologian and defender of Catholicism during the Protestant Reformation. It was Eck who argued that the beliefs of Martin Luther and Jan Hus were similar. Johann Eck Contents 1 Education, Post at Ingolstadt ..
Johann Eduard Erdmann
Johann Eduard Erdmann (June 13, 1805 - June 12, 1892), German philosophical writer, was born at Wolmar (now Valmiera, Latvia). He studied theology at Dorpat (Tartu) and afterwards at Berlin, where he fell under the influence of Hegel. From 1829 to 1832 he was a minister of religion in his native to..
Johann Elert Bode
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Johann Elias Schlegel
Johann Elias Schlegel (January 28, 1719 Meissen - August 13, 1749), was a German critic and dramatic poet. He was educated at Schulpforta and at the University of Leipzig, where he studied law. In 1743 he became private secretary to his relative, von Spener, the Saxon ambassador at the Danish court..
Johann Ernst, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Johann Ernst, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld was born on 22 August, 1658. He was a son of Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Altenburg and Elisabeth Sophie, Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg. He became Duke in 1680 and remained so until his death. Family His first marriage was to Sophia Hedwig von Sachsen-Mers..
Johann Ernst Eberlin
Johann Ernst Eberlin, (March 27 1702 – June 19 1762). German composer and organist whose works bridge the baroque and classical eras. Eberlin was born in Jettingen, Bavaria, educated in Augsburg and Salzburg, Austria, and died in Salzburg. He was a prolific composer, chiefly of church organ a..
Johann Ernst Hanxleden
Johann Ernst Hanxleden (b. at Ostercappeln, near Osnabrück, in Hanover, Germany, 1681; d. at Palayur, in Trichur, Kerala, 20 March, 1732), known as Arnos Paathiri [Padre Ernst] in Kerala, was a Malayalam/Sanskrit poet, grammarian, lexicographer, and philologist. In addition to his mother t..
Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch
Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch (1725 - 1778) was a German theologian. The son of the theologian Johann Georg Walch, he studied Semitic languages at Jena, and also natural science and mathematics. In 1749 he published Einleitung in die Harmonie der Evangelien, and in 1750 was appointed professor extra..
Johann Evangelist Haydn
Johann Evangelist Haydn (1743 — May 10, 1805), was a tenor of the classical era; the younger brother of the composers Joseph Haydn and Michael Haydn. He sang for a long time in the chapel of Joseph Haydn's patron, Prince Esterházy. "Hansl" Haydn, as he was known to his brothers, was apparen..
Johann Faber
Johann Faber (1478 - 1541) was a Catholic theologian. He was born in Leutkirch, Swabia and studied theology and canon law at Tübingen and Freiburg in the Breisgau region and was made doctor of sacred theology in Freiburg He subsequently became, (in succession) Minister of Lindau, LeutkirchVicar-..
Johann Faber of Heilbronn
Johann Faber of Heilbronn (1504 - 27 February, 1558) was a controversial Sixteenth century Catholic preacher. He was born in Heilbronn in Wittenberg, and at the age of sixteen he entered the Dominican Order and made his ecclesiastical studies in the convent at Wimpfen. Little is known about his ear..
Johann Fischart
Johann Fischart. Johann Fischart (c. 1545-1591) was a German satirist and publicist. Biography Fischart was born, probably, at Strasbourg (but according to some accounts at Mainz), in or about the year 1545, and was educated at Worms in the house of Kaspar Scheid, whom in the preface to his ..
Johann Fischer von Waldheim
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Johann Franz Buddeus
Johann Franz Buddeus (1667 - 1729), German Lutheran divine, was born at Anklam, a town of Pomerania, where his father was pastor. He studied with great distinction at Greifswald and at Wittenberg, and having made a special study of languages, theology and history, was appointed professor of Greek a..
Johann Franz Encke
Johann Franz Encke (September 23, 1791 – August 26, 1865) was a German astronomer, born in Hamburg. He is sometimes confused with Karl Ludwig Hencke, another German astronomer. Encke studied mathematics and astronomy from 1811 at the University of Göttingen under Carl Friedrich Gauss; but ..
Johann Freiherr von Appel
Johann Freiherr von Appel (also Baron Johann von Appel), (1826 – 1906) was an Austrian administrator. He was the Austrian governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1882 and 1903. Notes Note regarding personal names: Freiherr is a title, translated as Baron, not a first or middle name. The fe..
Johann Freinsheim
Johann Freinsheim (1608-1660), also known under the latinized form of the name, Johannes Freinsheimius, was a German classical scholar and critic, Freinsheim was born at Ulm on the 16th of November 1608, and after studying at the universities of Marburg, Giessen and Strassburg, he visited France, ..
Johann Friedrich
For the Electors of Saxony called Johann Friedrich, see John Frederick. Johann Friedrich (May 5, 1836–1917), German theologian, was born at Poxdorf in Upper Franconia, and was educated at Bamberg and at the University of Munich, where in 1865 be was appointed professor extraordinary of theolo..
Johann Friedrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
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Johann Friedrich Abegg
Johann Friedrich Abegg (November 30, 1765 in Roxheim near Kreuznach - December 16, 1840 in Heidelberg) was a German theologian. He was the brother of many siblings in a family of preachers, and was adopted in 1786 as candidate for the preacher office in the Electorate of Palatinate. He visited the ..
Johann Friedrich Adam
Johann Friedrich Adam, later called Michael Friedrich Adams was a late 18th century botanist from St. Petersburg, Russia. He studied from 1795-1796 in the medical school of St. Petersburg. In the years 1800-1802 he traveled across Transcaucasia in the entourage of Count Apollo Mussin-Pushkin (1760-..
Johann Friedrich Agricola
This article is about the 18th century German composer. For other people with the same name, see Agricola (disambiguation). Johann Friedrich Agricola (January 4, 1720 – December 2, 1774) was a German composer, organist, singer, teacher and writer on music. He sometimes wrote under the pseudon..
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (May 11, 1752 - January 22, 1840) was a German physiologist and anthropologist. He was born at Gotha, studied medicine at Jena and graduated in 1775 with his MD thesis De generis humani varietate nativa (On the Natural Varieties of Mankin..
Johann Friedrich Böhmer
Johann Friedrich Böhmer (April 22, 1795 - October 22, 1863), German historian, son of Karl Ludwig Böhmer (d. 1817), was born at Frankfurt-am-Main. Educated at the universities of Heidelberg and Göttingen, he showed an interest in art and visited Italy; but returning to Frankfurt he turned his at..
Johann Friedrich Böttger
Johann Friedrich Böttger (born February 4, 1682 in Schleiz; died March 13, 1719 in Dresden) was a German alchemist. He was generally acknowledged as the inventor of European porcelain although more recent sources ascribe this to Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus. Böttger is still credited with..
Johann Friedrich Cotta
Johann Friedrich Freiherr von Cotta Johann Friedrich Freiherr von Cotta (* April 27, 1764 in Stuttgart - † December 29, 1832 in Stuttgart) was a German publisher, industrial pioneer and politician. In 1798 he founded the Allgemeine Zeitung, a popular daily political journal in the first par..
Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach
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Johann Friedrich Dübner
Johann Friedrich Dübner (December 20, 1802-December 13, 1867), German classical scholar (naturalized a Frenchman), was born in Horselgau, near Gotha. After studying at the University of Göttingen he returned to Gotha, where from 1827 to 1832 he held a post (inspector coenobii) in connection with ..
Johann Friedrich Endersch
Johann Friedrich Endersch (Polish: ; 25 October 1705 – 1769) was a German cartographer and mathematician. Endersch was born in Dörnfeld in Thuringia, but lived most of his life in Elbing (Elbląg) in the Polish province of Royal Prussia. In 1755 he completed for Prince-Bishop Adam Stanisław Gra..
Johann Friedrich Fasch
Johann Friedrich Fasch (April 15, 1688 – December 5, 1758) was a German composer. He was born in Buttelstädt, was a choirboy in Weissenfels and studied under Johann Kuhnau at the Thomasschule in Leipzig (he later founded a Collegium Musicum in the city). He then travelled throughout Germany,..
Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller
Johann Burgmüller (1806-1874) was born on December 4 in Regensburg, Germany. Also known as Friedrich Burgmüller, both his father, August, and his brother, Norbert, were composers. His father, a musical theater director in Weimar and other Sothern German Centers. In 1836, Johann moved to Paris wher..
Johann Friedrich Gmelin
J. F. Gmelin Johann Friedrich Gmelin (August 8, 1748–November 1, 1804) was a German naturalist, botanist and entomologist. He graduated with an M.D. from the University of Tübingen in 1769. Gmelin was appointed professor of medicine in Tübingen in 1772, and in 1775 accepted the chair of m..
Johann Friedrich Gronovius
Johann Friedrich Gronovius Johann Friedrich Gronovius (the latinized form of Gronov) (September 8, 1611 - December 28, 1671), born in Hamburg, was a German classical scholar and critic. Born in Hamburg, he studied at several universities and travelled in England, France and Italy. In 1643, he..
Johann Friedrich Herbart
Johann Friedrich Herbart Johann Friedrich Herbart (May 4, 1776 - August 11, 1841), was a German philosopher, psychologist, and founder of pedagogy as an academic discipline. Herbart is now remembered amongst the post-Kantian philosophers mostly as making the greatest contrast to Hegel; this i..
Johann Friedrich Höger
Chilehaus in Hamburg by Fritz Höger Johann Friedrich (Fritz) Höger (1877 - 1949) was one of Adolf Hitler's architects. See also Wikimedia Commons has media related to: [media] Nazi architecture ..
Johann Friedrich Horner
Johann Friedrich Horner (27 March, 1831 - 20 December, 1886) was an ophthalmologist based at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Horner's syndrome, a disorder of the sympathetic nervous system is named after him following his description of the condition in 1869. References [Whonamedit.co..
Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt
Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (October 25 1825 – February 7 1884) was a German astronomer. When he was 14, he came into the possession of a copy of Selenotopographische Fragmente by Johann Hieronymus Schröter, and this influenced a lifelong interest in selenography, the study of the Moon. ..
Johann Friedrich Karl Keil
Johann Friedrich Karl Keil or Carl Friedrich Keil (1807-1888) was a conservative German Lutheran Old Testament commentator. He was born at Lauterbach near Ölsnitz, Saxony, and died at Rätz, Saxony. He is best known for his contributions to the Keil & Delitzsch commentaries, written with Franz Del..
Johann Friedrich Klotzsch
Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (1805 – 1860) was a German pharmacist and botanist. His principal work was in the field of mycology, with the study and description of many species of mushroom. In taxonomy, his name is abridged to Klotzsch. Selected works Mykologische Berichtigungen zu der nachgelassen..
Johann Friedrich Krummnow
This article or section contains inappropriate . References cited may not support the claims of the text. Please [WikiProject Fact and Reference Checkimprove] the article or discuss the issue on the [[Wikipedia talk:|talk page]]. Johann Friedrich Krummnow arrived in Port Adelaide, Austral..
Johann Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann
Johann Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann (February 22, 1782 - December 26, 1859), German mineralogist, was born at Hanover. He was educated at Göttingen, where he obtained the degree of Ph.D. After making a geological tour in Denmark, Norway and Sweden in 1807, he was two years later placed qt the head of..
Johann Friedrich Naumann
Johann Friedrich Naumann (February 14, 1780 – August 15, 1857) 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). The Lesser Kestr..
Johann Friedrich Overbeck
Self-portrait with family, c. 1820, Behnhaus. Johann Friedrich Overbeck (4 July 1789 – 1869), was a German painter and member of the Nazarene movement. Biography Born in Lubeck, his ancestors for three generations had been Protestant pastors; his father [Christian Adolph Overbeck&#..
Johann Friedrich Pfaff
Johann Friedrich Pfaff (sometimes spelled Friederich) was born in Stuttgart on December 22, 1765, and died in Halle on April 21, 1825. Pfaff 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 diffe..
Johann Friedrich Reichardt
This article has been translated from the German Wikipedia article. Johann Friedrich Reichardt -- (b. November 25, 1752 in Königsberg in Prussia; d. June 27, 1814 in Giebichenstein near Halle) was a German composer, author and music critic. Biography Reichardt was the son of the city musician J..
Johann Friedrich Struensee
Johann Friedrich Struensee By Jens Juel, 1771, Collection of Bomann Museum, Celle, Germany. Count Johann Friedrich von Struensee, (August 5, 1737-April 28, 1772) was a German doctor, born in Halle. He became royal physician to the schizophrenic King Christian VII of Denmark and a minister in..
Johann Friedrich Unger
See also Unger, Ungar: Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Unger (1753, Berlin - December 26, 1808, Berlin) was a German printer and publisher (Holzschneider, Drucker, Typograph). He was a son of the printer Johann Georg Unger (October 26, 1715, Goes bei Pirna - August 15, 1788, Berlin). On 1793, he invent..
Johann Friedrich von Brandt
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Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz
Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz (1 November 1793 - 19 May 1831) was an Estonian physician, botanist, zoologist and entomologist. Eschscholtz was a Baltic German. Tartu (then Dorpat) is now in Estonia (but then belonged to the Russian Empire). Eschscholtz studied medicine at the local University of Tar..
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst
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Johann Froben
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Johann Fust
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Johann Fux
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Johann Gambolputty
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Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg
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Johann George Moeresius
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Johann George Tromlitz
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Johann Georg Abicht
Johann Georg Abicht Picture from ev. Predigerseminar the Lutherstadt Wittenberg Johann Georg Abicht (1672, Königssee - 1740) was a German Lutheran theologian. After finishing his studies at the universities of Jena and Leipzig, Abicht became in 1702 teacher of oriental languages at the latt..
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger
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Johann Georg August Galletti
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Johann Georg Baiter
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Johann Georg Christian Lehmann
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Johann Georg Faust
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Johann Georg Gichtel
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Johann Georg Gmelin
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Johann Georg Graevius
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Johann Georg Grasel
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Johann Georg Hagen
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Johann Georg Halske
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Johann Georg Hamann
Johann Georg Hamann (August 27, 1730 - June 21, 1788) was a German Pietist Protestant, thinker, and friend of the philosopher Immanuel Kant. His distrust of reason led him to conclude that a childlike faith in God was the only solution to the vexing problems of philosophy. Also known by the epithet ..
Johann Georg Hiedler
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Johann Georg Jacobi
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Johann Georg Krünitz
This article is currently being translated from DE. Johann Georg Krünitz (* March 20 1728, † December 20 1796 in Berlin) was a noted German encyclopedist who started the 242-volume Oekonomische Encyklopädie and during his lifetime managed to complete its first 72 volumes. Contents 1 ..
Johann Georg Ludwig Hesekiel
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Johann Georg Palitzsch
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Johann Georg Pisendel
Johann Georg Pisendel (December 26, 1687 - November 25, 1755) 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. Pisendel was born in Cadolzburg, a small town near Nuremberg, where his father ..
Johann Georg Reiffenstuel
Johann Georg Reiffenstuel (1641 - 1703) was a Canon law expert. He was born in in Kaltenbrunn, Bavaria, and died in Freising, Bavaria. He was a member of the Franciscan (Reformed) Order, and was chosen definitor of his province. He taught philosophy at Freising, Landshut, and Munich, and Canon law..
Johann Georg Repsold
Johann Georg Repsold (September 19 1770 – January 14 1830) was a German astronomer. He joined the fire brigade of Hamburg in 1799. In 1802 he began building a private observatory, and collaborated in astronomical observations with Heinrich Christian Schumacher. However the observatory was d..
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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Johann Georg Sulzer
Johann Georg Sulzer (1720 - 1779) was a German professor of Mathematics, 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 happened to put the tip of his tongue between pieces of two di..
Johann Georg Tralles
Johann George Tralles (October 15, 1763 – November 19, 1822) was a German mathematician and physicist. He was born in Hamburg, Germany, and was educated at the University of Göttingen beginning in 1782. He became a professor at the University of Bern in 1785. In 1810 he became a professor of..
Johann Georg Veit Engelhardt
Johann Georg Veit Engelhardt (November 12, 1791 - September 13, 1855), a German theologian, was born at Neustadt-on-the-Aisch. He and was educated at Erlangen, where he afterwards taught in the gymnasium (1817), and became professor of theology in the university (1821). His two great works were a ..
Johann Georg von Eckhart
You may be looking for the composer Johann Eccard. Johann Georg von Eckhart (7 September1664 - 9 February1730) was a German historian. Johann Georg Eccard was born at Duingen in the principality of Kalenberg in 1664. After a good preparatory training at Schulpforta he went to Leipzig, where at fir..
Johann Georg von Hahn
Johann Georg von Hahn (born 11 July 1811 in Frankfurt am Main; died 23 September 1869 in Jena) was an Austrian diplomat, philologist and specialist in Albanian history, language and culture. In 1847, Hahn was named Austrian consul in Ioannina. He was transferred to Syros in 1851, and from 1869 was ..
Johann Georg Wagler
Johann Georg Wagler. Johann Georg Wagler (March 28, 1800 - August 23, 1832) 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 ..
Johann Georg Walch
Johann Georg Walch (June 17, 1693 - January 13, 1775), was a German theologian. He was born at Meiningen, where his father, Georg Walch, was general superintendent. He studied at Leipzig and Jena, amongst his teachers being JF Buddeus, whose only daughter he married. He published in 1716 a work, H..
Johann Gerhard
Johann Gerhard (October 17, 1582 – August 10, 1637), was a Lutheran church leader. He was born in Quedlinburg. At the age of fourteen, during a dangerous illness, he came under the personal influence of Johann Arndt, author of Das wahre Christenthum, and resolved to study for the church. He ente..
Johann Gerhard König
The title of this article contains the character ö. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Johann Gerhard Koenig. Johann Gerhard König (1728-1785) was a botanist and physician born in 1728 in Ungerhof, in Polish Livland. He was a private pupil of Carolus Linnaeus in..
Johann Gerhard Oncken
Johann Gerhard Oncken Johann Gerhard Oncken (1800-1884) was a pioneer German Baptist preacher, variously referred to as the "Father of Continental Baptists", the "Father of German Baptists" and the "Apostle of European Baptists". Oncken, Gottfried Wilhelm Lehmann (1799-1882), and Julius Wilhel..
Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach
Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach (1715–1739) was the fourth son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach. Born in Weimar, he was educated in Leipzig. He first served as organist in Mühlhausen in 1735 and later served in Sangerhausen. In 1738, he abandoned a career in music in order to st..
Johann Gottfried Ebel
Johann Gottfried Ebel (1764-1830), the author of the first real guide-book to Switzerland, was born at Zullichau (Prussia). He became a medical man, visited Switzerland for the first time in 1790, and became so enamoured of it that he spent three years exploring the country and collecting all kinds..
Johann Gottfried Eckard
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Johann Gottfried Eichhorn
Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (October 16, 1752 - June 27, 1827), was a German theologian. He was born at Dörrenzimmern, in the principality of Hohenlohe-Oehringen. He was educated at the state school in Weikersheim, where his father was superintendent, at the gymnasium at Heilbronn and at the Univer..
Johann Gottfried Flügel
Johann Gottfried Flügel (November 22, 1788 - June 24, 1855), German lexicographer, was born at Barby near Magdeburg. He was originally a merchant's clerk, but emigrating to the United States in 1810, he made a special study of the English language, and returning to Germany in 1819, was in 1824 app..
Johann Gottfried Galle
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Johann Gottfried Gruber
Johann Gottfried Gruber (November 29, 1774 - August 7, 1851) was a German critic and literary historian. Biography Gruber was born at Naumburg on the Saale. He received his education at the town school of Naumburg and the university of Leipzig, after which he resided successively at Göttingen, L..
Johann Gottfried Herder
Johann Gottfried Herder Johann Gottfried von Herder (August 25, 1744 – December 18, 1803), German poet, critic, theologian, and philosopher, is best known for his influence on authors such as Goethe and the role he played in the development of the larger cultural movement known as roman..
Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann
Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann (November 28, 1772 - December 31, 1848), German classical scholar and philologist, was born at Leipzig. Entering the university of his native city at the age of fourteen, Hermann at first studied law, which he soon abandoned for th..
Johann Gottfried Koehler
Johann Gottfried Koehler (December 15, 1745 - September 19, 1801) was a German astronomer who discovered a number of nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies. Koehler is best remembered for his discovery of Open Cluster M67, Elliptical Galaxy M59, and Elliptical Galaxy M60. The latter two were discover..
Johann Gottfried Müthel
Johann Gottfried Müthel (January 17, 1728 – July 14, 1788) was a German composer and noted keyboard virtuoso. Along with C.P.E. Bach, he represented the Sturm und Drang style of composition. He was the first to use the term fortepiano in a published work, in the title of his Duetto für 2 Cl..
Johann Gottfried Piefke
Johann Gottfried Piefke (pronounced "peefke") (* September 9, 1817 in Schwerin an der Warthe; † January 25, 1884 in Frankfurt (Oder)) was a German conductor, Kapellmeister and composer of military music. His famous marches include "Preußens Gloria" ("Prussia's Glory") and the "Königgrätzer Mars..
Johann Gottfried Schadow
Johann Gottfried Schadow (*May 20 1764, †January 27 1850), sculptor, was born and died in Berlin, where his father was a poor tailor. Grave of Schadow in Berlin His first teacher was an inferior sculptor, Tassaert, patronized by Frederick the Great; the master offered his daughter in marriag..
Johann Gottfried Schweighauser
Johann Gottfried Schweighauser (1776–1844), son of the classicist Johann Schweighauser was also a distinguished scholar and archaeologist, joint-author with M. Golbéry of Antiquités de l'Alsace (1828). Schweighauser's first important work was his edition of Appian (1785), with Latin transla..
Johann Gottfried Seume
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Johann Gottfried Stallbaum
Johann Gottfried Stallbaum (September 25, 1793 - January 24, 1861), German classical scholar, was born at Zaasch, near Delitzsch in Saxony. From 1820 until his death Stallbaum was connected with the Thomasschule at Leipzig, from 1835 as rector. In 1840 he was also appointed extraordinary professor ..
Johann Gottfried Steffan
Johann Gottfried Steffan (December 13, 1815 in Wädenswil/Switzerland – June 16, 1905 in Munich/Germany) was one of the most important Swiss landscapists of the 19th century. After his apprenticeship as lithograph in his home town, Steffan travelled to Munich in 1833 in order to receive a fur..
Johann Gottfried Walther
Johann Gottfried Walther (September 18, 1684 – March 23, 1748) was a German music theorist, organist, composer, and lexicographer of the Baroque era. Not only was his life almost exactly contemporaneous to that of Johann Sebastian Bach, he was the famous composer's cousin. Walther was most f..
Johann Gottfried Zinn
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Johann Gottlieb Buhle
Johann Gottlieb Buhle (1763-1821), German scholar and philosopher, was born at Brunswick and educated at Göttingen. He became professor of philosophy at Göttingen, Moscow (in 1840), and Brunswick. Of his numerous publications, the most important are the Handbuch der Geschichte der Philosophie (8 v..
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (May 19, 1762 – January 27, 1814) was a German philosopher. He is called by some the father of German nationalism and also of German anti-semitism[link]. His significance in the history of Western philosophy relates to being one of the leading progenitors of Germ..
Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger
Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger (15 June, 1765 – 19 April, 1831) was born at Simmozheim, Württemberg. He studied at the University of Tübingen. In 1798, he was appointed professor of mathematics and astronomy at the University. He published: Anleitung zur geographischen Or..
Johann Gottlieb Georgi
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Johann Gottlieb Goldberg
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (baptised 14 March 1727 – 13 April 1756) was a German virtuoso harpsichordist, organist, and composer of the late Baroque and early Classical period. He is most famous for lending his name, as the probable original performer, to the renowned Goldberg Variations of J.S. Bac..
Johann Gottlieb Graun
Johann Gottlieb Graun (October 27, 1703 - October 28, 1771) was a German Baroque/Classical era composer and violinist Biography Johann Gottlied Graun was born in Wahrenbrück. His brother Carl Heinreich was also a composer and singer. He studied with J.G. Pisendel in Dresden, and Giuseppe Tartini ..
Johann Gottlieb Heineccius
Johann Gottlieb Heineccius (September 11, 1681 - August 31, 1741), German jurist, was born on at Eisenberg, Altenburg. He studied theology at Leipzig, and law at Halle; and at the latter university he was appointed in 1713 professor of philosophy, and in 1718 professor of jurisprudence. He subseque..
Johann Gottlieb Kugelann
Johann Gottlieb Kugelann (2 January, 1753 in Königsberg - 8 September 1815 in Ostróda, Prussia) was a German entomologist. A pharmacist by profession, Kugelann worked on Coleoptera. He published (with Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger ) in 1798 Verzeichniss der Käfer Preussens at Halle, Saxony-Anhalt..
Johann Gottlieb Nörremberg
Johann Gottlieb Nörremberg (1787 - 1862) was a German physicist who worked on the polarisation of light. In 1833, he became professor of mathematics, physics and astronomy at the University of Tübingen where he worked on surveying and the development of optical instruments. External links [..
Johann Gottlob Lehmann
Johann Gottlob Lehmann (4 August 1719 – 22 January 1767) was a German mineralogist and geologist noted for the development of stratigraphy. He attended the University of Wittenberg, from which he received an M.D. in 1741, and then established a practice in Dresden. Living in Saxony, he develo..
Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost
Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost (November 27, 1715 - December 2, 1794) was a German doctor and theologian who first described the scientific phenomenon eponymously named the Leidenfrost effect. Contents 1 Personal life and career2 The Leidenfrost Effect3 References4 External links ..
Johann Gottlob Schneider
Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (January 18, 1750–January 12, 1822) was a German classicist and naturalist. Schneider was born at Koilmen in Saxony. In 1774, on the recommendation of Christian Gottlob Heine, he became secretary to the famous Strassburg scholar Richard François Brunck, and ..
Johann Graf von Aldringen
Johann Reichsgraf von Aldringen (sometimes spelled von Altringer), (1588 – June 22, 1634), Austrian soldier, was born at Diedenhofen (Thionville) in Lorraine. After travelling as page to a nobleman in France, Italy and the Netherlands, he went to the University of Paris. In 1606 he entered t..
Johann Gustav Droysen
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Johann Gutenberg
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Johann Gutenburg Gymnasium
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Johann Gutenburg massacre
The Johann Gutenburg massacre occurred on April 26 2002 in Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany. 16 people were killed before the perpetrator committed suicide. Most of the victims were teachers. Contents 1 Perpetrator and Firearms2 April 26: Shooting at Gutenberg Gymnasium3 Second Shooter?4..
Johann Halbig
Johann Halbig (1814-82) was a German sculptor. He was born at Donnersdorf in Lower Franconia and was educated at the Polytechnic School and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 1845 he was appointed professor of sculpture in the Polytechnic Institute, Munich, in which city is a great part..
Johann Hari
Johann Hari (born 1979) is a British journalist and writer. Since 2003 he has been a columnist for The Independent, on Wednesdays and Fridays, and his work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Le Monde and Ha'aretz. Since September 2005 he has also written a weekly column ..
Johann Heinrich Abicht
Johann Heinrich Abicht (4 May 1762, Volkstedt near Rudolstadt - 28 April 1816, Wilna) was a German philosopher. Johann's grandfather was teacher and organist in Wilmersdorf, Gehren, and his father a teacher in Volkstedt. Johann Abicht himself finished the college in Rudolstadt and visited the unive..
Johann Heinrich Achterfeldt
Johann Heinrich Achterfeldt (1788-1877) was a german theologian. Born at Wesel on the 17th of June, 1788, he died at Bonn on the 11th of May, 1877. He was appointed professor of theology at Bonn in 1826 and in 1832 he founded with his colleague, Joseph Braun the "Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Ka..
Johann Heinrich Acker
Johann Heinrich Acker (12 August 1647 – 21 September 1719) was a German writer. He sometimes wrote under the name of Melissander. He was taught in his native city of Naumburg and at the regional school of Pforta (Schulpforta). Beginning in 1669, he studied in Jena where he became magister an..
Johann Heinrich Alsted
Johann Heinrich Alsted (March 1588 - November 9, 1638) was a German Protestant divine. He was some time professor of philosophy and theology at Herborn, in Nassau, and afterwards at Weissenburg (present Alba Iulia) in Transylvania, where he remained till his death in 1638. He was a prolific writer,..
Johann Heinrich Alting
Johann Heinrich Alting (1583 - 1644), German divine, was born at Emden, where his father, Menso Alting (1541-1612), was minister. Johann studied with great success at the universities of Groningen and Herborn. In 1608 he was appointed tutor of Frederick, afterwards elector-palatine, at Heidelberg, ..
Johann Heinrich Blasius
Relief of Johann Heinrich Blasius in the Botanical Garden Braunschweig Johann Heinrich Blasius (October 7, 1809 – May 26, 1870) was a German ornithologist. In 1836 he was director of a museum in Brunswick. He was the author of Fauna der Wirbelthiere Deutschlands (1857) and Die wirbelthie..
Johann Heinrich Bleuler
Johann Heinrich Bleuler (1758 - 1823) was a Swiss painter. ..
Johann Heinrich Christian Rinck
Johann Heinrich Christian Rinck (February 18, 1770 – July 23, 1846) was an German composer and organist of the late classical era. Rinck was born in Thüringen, Germany and died in Darmstadt, aged 76. ..
Johann Heinrich Diemer
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Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link
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Johann Heinrich Gottlob Justi
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Johann Heinrich Heidegger
Johann Heinrich Heidegger (July 1, 1633 - July 18, 1698), Swiss theologian, was born at Barentschweil, in the canton of Zürich. He studied at Marburg and at Heidelberg, where he became the friend of J. F. Fabricius, and was appointed professor extraordinarius of Hebrew and later of philosophy. In ..
Johann Heinrich Hottinger
Johann Heinrich Hottinger (March 10, 1620 - June 5, 1667) was a Swiss philologist and theologian. Hottinger studied at Geneva, Groningen and Leiden. After visiting France and England he was appointed professor of church history in his native town of Zürich in 1642. The chair of Hebrew at the Carol..
Johann Heinrich Joseph Düntzer
Johann Heinrich Joseph Düntzer (July 12, 1813 - December 16, 1901), German philologist and historian of literature, was born at Cologne. After studying philology and especially ancient classics and Sanskrit at Bonn and Berlin (1830-1835), he took the degree of doctor of philosophy and established ..
Johann Heinrich Jung
Johann Heinrich Jung (12 September 1740 - 2 April 1817), best known by his assumed name of Heinrich Stilling was a German author. He was born in the village of Grund near Hilchenbach in Westphalia. His father, Wilhelm Jung, schoolmaster and tailor, was the son of Eberhard Jung, charcoal-burner, and..
Johann Heinrich Kaltenbach
Johann Heinrich Kaltenbach (1807 Köln -1876 – Aachen) , was a German entomologist mainly intersted in pest species. He was a teacher in Aachen. Important Works Die deutschen Phytophagen aus der Klasse der Insekten. Fortsetzung. Alphabetisches Verzeichniss der deutschen Pflanzengattungen (Buchsta..
Johann Heinrich Kurtz
Johann Heinrich Kurtz (December 13th 1809, Montjoie near Aix la Chapelle - April 26th 1890, Marburg) was a German Lutheran theologian, educated at Halle and Bonn. Abandoning the idea of a commercial career, he gave himself to the study of theology and became religious instructor at the gymnasium of ..
Johann Heinrich Lambert
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Johann Heinrich Merck
Johann Heinrich Merck (April 11, 1741 - June 27, 1791), German author and critic, was born at Darmstadt, a few days after the death of his father, a chemist. He studied law at Giessen, and in 1767 was given an appointment in the paymaster's department at Darmstadt, and a year later himself became p..
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (January 12, 1746 – February 17, 1827) was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi He was born in Zürich. His father died when he was young, and he was brought up by his mother. At the University of Zürich he was associated w..
Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey
Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey (1711-1797), Franco-German author, was born of French parentage at Berlin on the 31st of May 1711. He was educated for the ministry, and at the age of twenty became pastor of the French church at Brandenburg. Having in 1736 accepted the invitation of a congregation in..
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer
Johann Heinrich von Schmelzer (1623 – 1688) was an Austrian composer and violinist of the Baroque era. He worked in Vienna and died in Prague, aged 65. Some works Lamento sopra la morte di Fredinado III 1657"Duodena selactarum sonatarum" 1659"Sacroprofanus Concentus" 1662"Sonatae unarum fidi..
Johann Heinrich Schultz
Johann Heinrich Schultz is credited with the discovery that certain silver salts, most notably silver chloride and silver nitrate, darken in the presence of light. In an experiment conducted in 1724 he determined that a mixture of silver and chalk reflects less light than untarnished silver. Though ..
Johann Heinrich Sulzer
Johann Heinrich Sulzer (1735 - 1813) was a Swiss entomologist. Sulzer was a resident of Winterthur. He was the author of Die Kennzeichen der Insekten, nach Anleitung des Königl (1761) and Abgekurzte Geschichte der Insecten nach dern Linnaeischen System (1776), two of the first books on insects to ..
Johann Heinrich Tischbein
Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder, called the Kasseler, (October 3, 1722 in Haina – August 22 1789 in Kassel), was one of the most respected European painters in the 18th century and the important member of the Tischbein dynasty of German painters that covered four generations. His genre was..
Johann Heinrich van Ess
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Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff
Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff (November 14, 1862 – October 6, 1939) was the German ambassador to America from 1908 to 1917. He was born in London and represented Germany in London and Cairo. He was called home to Germany on July 7, 1914, but ..
Johann Heinrich von Dannecker
Johann Heinrich von Dannecker (born October 15, 1758 in Waldenbuch near Stuttgart; died December 8, 1841 in Stuttgart) was a German sculptor. The third of five children of Georg Dannecker (1718-1786), a coachman of Karl Eugen. In 1764, the family moved to Ludwigsburg. From 1772 to 1780, he was educ..
Johann Heinrich von Mädler
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Johann Heinrich von Thünen
Johann Heinrich von Thünen (24 June 1783 - 22 September 1850) "ranks alongside Marx as the greatest economist of the nineteeth century" (Fernand Braudel). Von Thünen was a Mecklenburg (north German) landowner, who in the first volume of his treatise, The Isolated State (1826), developed the first ..
Johann Heinrich Voß
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Johann Heinrich Westphal
Johann Heinrich Westphal (January 31 1794 – 1831) was a German astronomer. Not to be confused with J. G. Westphal, who discovered the lost periodic comet 20D/Westphal in 1852. He was born in Schwerin. His professional career was spent mostly in Italy. He translated Giuseppe Piazzi's Lezioni ..
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein
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Johann Heinrich Zedler
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Johann Hermann
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Johann Hermann Bass
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Johann Heynlin
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Johann Heyss
redirect [[Template:Not verified]] Johann Heyss is a Brazilian musician and writer. His albums include "Look Carefully", "The Blue Sea" and the new album "Psychosamba" due to release in 2006. Johann sings in Portuguese and English and his music is a blend of electronica, world music, experimental a..
Johann Hieronymus Schröter
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Johann Hiller
Johann Adam Hiller (December 25, 1728 – June 16, 1804) was a German composer regarded as the creator of the Singspiel comic opera form. He was born in Wendisch-Ossig near Görlitz, and died in Leipzig. Works Der lustige Schuster (1766)Lisuart und Dariolette (1766)Lottchen am Hofe (1767)Die ..
Johann Hinkel
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Johann Holetschek
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Johann Homann
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Johann Hommel
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Johann Hurlinger
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Johann Ignaz von Felbiger
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Johann I Josef, Prince of Liechtenstein
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Johann Jacoby
Johann Jacoby (May 1st 1805, Königsberg - March 6th 1877, Königsberg) was a Prussian politician. He was bred to medicine, but best known as a politician in a liberal interest, which involved him in prosecutions. Jacoby was imprisoned for protesting against the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine; he wa..
Johann Jacob Dillenius
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Johann Jacob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Johann Jacob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot was a naturalist and traveller. He studied medicine and natural science at..
Johann Jacob Löwenthal
Johann Jacob Löwenthal was a Hungarian chess-master. He was born in July of 1810 in Budapest and died at St. Leonards-on-Sea, England on July 20 1876. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native city, and received a civil appointment under the administration of Louis Kossuth. On the downfall of ..
Johann Jacob Roemer
Johann Jacob Roemer (1763 – 1819) was a physician and professor of botany in Zurich, Switzerland. He was also an entomologist. With Austrian botanist Joseph August Schultes, he published the 16th edition of Carolus Linnaeus' Systema Vegetabilium. Roemer's Genera insectorum is a most attractiv..
Johann Jahn
Johann Jahn, (June 18th 1750, Tasswitz, Moravia - August 16th 1816) was a German Orientalist. He studied philosophy at Olmutz, and in 1772 began his theological studies at the Premonstratensian convent of Bruck, near Znaim. Having been ordained in 1775, he for a short time held a cure at Misslitz, b..
Johann Jakob Bachofen
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Johann Jakob Balmer
Johann Jakob Balmer (May 1 1825 – March 12 1898) was a Swiss mathematician and an honorary physicist. He was born in Lausen, Switzerland, the son of a Chief Justice also named Johann Jakob Balmer. His mother was Elizabeth Rolle Balmer, and he was the oldest son. During his schooling he excell..
Johann Jakob Bodmer
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Johann Jakob Brucker
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Johann Jakob Engel
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Johann Jakob Froberger
Johann Jakob Froberger (May 18, 1616 – May 7, 1667) was a German Baroque composer, keyboard virtuoso, and organist. He was very well known during his lifetime and modern scholars consider him to be one of the most important keyboard composers before Johann Sebastian Bach. Contents 1 Li..
Johann Jakob Griesbach
Johann Jakob Griesbach (January 4, 1745 - March 24, 1812), German biblical critic, was born at Butzbach, a small town in the state of Hesse, where his father, Konrad Kaspar (1705-1777), was pastor. Griesbach's fame rests upon his work in New Testament criticism, in which he inaugurated a new epoch. ..
Johann Jakob Grynaeus
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Johann Jakob Heckel
Johann Jakob Heckel (January 23, 1790 - March 1, 1857) was an Austrian taxidermist, zoologist, and ichthyologist. Though not a formally trained zoologist he worked his way up through the ranks to eventually become the director of the Fish Collection at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna. Not a ..
Johann Jakob Herzog
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Johann Jakob Hottinger
Johann Jakob Hottinger (1652 – 1735), was the son of the Swiss philologist and theologian Johann Heinrich Hottinger. He became professor of theology at Zürich in 1698, and was the author of a work against Roman Catholicism, Helvetische Kirchengeschichte (4 vols, 1698–1729). ..
Johann Jakob Kaup
Johann Jakob Kaup. Johann Jakob Kaup (April 10, 1803 - July 4, 1873) was a German naturalist. He was born at Darmstadt. After studying at Göttingen and Heidelberg he spent two years at Leiden, where his attention was specially devoted to the amphibians and fishes. He then returned to Darmsta..
Johann Jakob Moser
Johann Jakob Moser (1701 - 1785) was a German jurist. ..
Johann Jakob Nöggerath
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Johann Jakob Reiske
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Johann Jakob Scherer
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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (August 2, 1672 – June 23, 1733) was a Swiss scholar born at Zürich. The son of the senior town physician (or Archiater) of Zürich, he received his education in that place, and in 1692 went to the University of Altdorf near Nuremberg, being intended for the medical p..
Johann Jakob von Tschudi
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Johann Jakob Wettstein
Johann Jakob Wettstein (also Wetstein) (March 5, 1693 - March 23, 1754), was a Swiss theologian, best known as a New Testament critic. Biography Johann Jakob Wittstein was born at Basel. Among his tutors in theology was Samuel Werenfels (1657-1740), an influential anticipator of modern scienti..
Johann Jakob Wilhelm Heinse
Wilhelm Heinse (Johann Jakob) Wilhelm Heinse (February 16, 1749 - June 22, 1803), German author, was born at Langewiesen near Ilmenau in Thuringia. After attending the gymnasium at Schleusingen he studied law at Jena and Erfurt. In Erfurt he became acquainted with Wieland and through him with..
Johann Janssen
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Johann Joachim Eschenburg
Johann Joachim Eschenburg (December 7, 1743 - February 29, 1820), was a German critic and literary historian. He was born and educated at Hamburg, going on to study at the University of Leipzig and University of Göttingen. In 1767 he was appointed tutor, and subsequently professor, at the Collegiu..
Johann Joachim Quantz
Johann Joachim Quantz Johann Joachim Quantz (January 30, 1697–July 12, 1773) was a German flutist, flute maker and composer. He was born in Oberscheden, near Göttingen, Germany, and died in Potsdam. Quantz began his musical studies as a child with his uncle (his father - a blacksmith..
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Johann Joachim Winckelmann (9 December 1717 - June 8, 1768) was German art historian and archaeologist. He is famous for founding the "Greek revival", an art movement based on Greek art that influence the rise of the neoclassical movement during the late 18th century. Winckelmann was also one o..
Johann Josef Loschmidt
Jan or Johann Josef Loschmidt (March 15 1821 - July 8 1895) who referred to himself mostly as Josef Loschmidt (omitting his first name), was a notable Austrian scientist with groundbreaking work in the fields of chemistry and physics (thermodynamics, optics, electrodynamics). Born in Počerny near ..
Johann Joseph Couven
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Johann Joseph Gassner
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Johann Joseph Hoffmann
Johann Joseph Hoffmann (February 16, 1805 – January 23, 1878), German scholar, was born at Würzburg. After studying at Würzburg he went on the stage in 1825; but owing to an accidental meeting with the German traveller, Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866), in July 1830, his interest was d..
Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger
Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger or von Doelinger (February 28, 1799 - January 14, 1890) was a German theologian and church historian. Born at Bamberg, Bavaria, he came of an intellectual family, his grandfather and father having both been eminent physicians and professors of medical science; his..
Johann Joseph von Görres
Johann Joseph von Görres (January 25, 1776 - January 29, 1848), was a German writer. He was born at Koblenz. His father was moderately well off, and sent his son to a Latin college under the direction of the Roman Catholic clergy. The sympathies of the young Görres were from the first strongly..
Johann Julius Hecker
Johann Julius Hecker (1707-68) was a German educator, born at Werden, Prussia. He introduced the prototypical Realschule, Oekonomisch-mathematische, in 1747. History books Fr. Ranke, Johann Julius Hecker, (Berlin, 1861) . ..
Johann Julius Walbaum
Johann Julius Walbaum (1724 – 1799), a native of Lübeck, Germany was a physician, naturalist and taxonomist. He was the first to describe many previously unknown species from remote parts of the globe, such as the Great Barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda), the Chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) fro..
Johann K. Petursson
Johann K. Petursson, was born in Dalvik, Iceland in 1913 and was known as "The Viking Giant." Throughout his sideshow career he often dressed up in a suit and top hat, or his more famous Viking costume. While exhibiting himself in Sarasota, Florida he often claimed to have stood 8 ft 8 inches tall, ..
Johann Karl August Musaus
Johann Karl August Musaus (1735-1787), German author, was born on the 29th of March 1735 at Jena, studied theology at the university, and would have become the pastor of a parish but for the resistance of some peasants, who objected that he had been known to dance. In 1760 to 1762 he published in ..
Johann Karl Burckhardt
Johann Karl Burckhardt (April 30, 1773–June 22, 1825) was a German-born astronomer and mathematician who later became a naturalized French citizen. He was born in Leipzig, where he studied mathematics and astronomy. Later he became an assistant at the Gotha Observatory and studied under Franz..
Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz
Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz (April 23, 1805 - July 14, 1879), German philosopher, was born at Magdeburg. He read philosophy at Berlin, Halle and Heidelberg, devoting himself mainly to the doctrines of Hegel and Schleiermacher. After holding the chair of philosophy at Halle for two years, he be..
Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner
Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834–1882) was a German astrophysicist who studied optical illusions. He invented the Zollner illusion where lines that are parallel appear diagonal. Zöllner crater on the moon is named in his honor. ..
Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler
Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler, KH (March 3, 1792-July 8, 1854), was a Protestant German church historian. Biography He was born at Petershagen, near Minden, where his father, Georg Christof Friedrich, was preacher. In his tenth year he entered the orphanage at Halle, from which he duly passed to the ..
Johann Karl Rodbertus
Johann Karl Rodbertus, c. 1850 Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805-1875), also known as Karl Rodbertus-Jagetzow, was a German economist and socialist. He defended the labor theory of value (LTV) as well as the view, as an inference from that, that interest or profit is theft. Rodbertus stated the LTV..
Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger
Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (November 19, 1775 - May 1813) was a German entomologist and zoologist. Illiger was the son of a merchant in Brunswick. He studied under the entomologist Johann Hellwig, and later worked on the zoological collections of Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg. Illiger was professo..
Johann Karl Wilhelm Vatke
Johann Karl Wilhelm Vatke (March 14, 1806 - April 18, 1882), German Protestant theologian, was born at Behndorf, near Magdeburg. After acting as Privatdozent in Berlin, he was appointed in 1837 professor extraordinarius. Vatke was one of the founders of the newer Hexateuch criticism. In the same ye..
Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée
Johann Kaspar (Jean-Gaspard) Reichsgraf Basselet von La Rosée (April 30, 1710, Arlon, Province of Luxembourg, Belgium - April 12, 1795 in Munich) was a leading Bavarian general. Pushing his career in the army of his new fatherland Bavaria, his positions included electorial Privy Councillor, Lieute..
Johann Kaspar Bluntschli
Johann Kaspar Bluntschli (Zurich, March 7, 1808 – October 21, 1881 in Karlsruhe) was a Swiss jurist and politician, the son of a soap and candle manufacturer. From school he passed into the Politische Institut (a seminary of law and political science) in his native town, and proceeding thence ..
Johann Kaspar Füssli
Johann Kaspar Füssli (9 March 1743 in Zurich - 4 May 1786 in Winterthur) was a Swiss painter, entomologist and publisher. He is the son of Johann Caspar Füssli (3 January 1706 - 6 May 1782) and Anna Elisabeth Waser.He is the brother of Henry Fuseli (Johann Heinrich Füssli), (3 December 1745 in Z..
Johann Kaspar Kerll
Portrait of Johann Kaspar Kerll, made around 1685-1688 during his stay in Munich. Johann Kaspar Kerll (April 9, 1627 – February 13, 1693) was a German baroque composer and organist. Although he was one of the most acclaimed composers of his time, known both as a gifted composer and an o..
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Mertz
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Johann Kaspar Zeuß
Johann Kaspar Zeuß (22 July 1806–10 November 1856) was a German historian and Celtic philologist. He was born at Kronach, in Upper Franconia and died there at the age of fifty. He was the founder of Celtic philology, an eminent philologist, and studied at the gymnasium of Bamberg. His parents wi..
Johann Kiefuss
Johann Kiefuss was a German inventor. He is sometimes credited with inventing the wheellock in Nuremberg in 1517. However, it is unlikely he was the actual inventor. The only traceable records of a Johann Kiefuss relate to a gun maker living in Nuremberg about 100 years later, so the misapprehension..
Johann Kies
Johann Kies (September 14, 1713—July 29, 1781) was a German astronomer and mathematician. Born in Tübingen, Kies worked in Berlin in 1751 alongside Jérôme Lalande in order to make observations on the lunar parallax in concert with those of Nicolas Louis de Lacaille at the Cape of Good Hope. ..
Johann Kirnberger
Johann Philipp Kirnberger (1721-1783) was a musician, composer (primarily of fugues), and music theorist. A pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach, he became a violinist at the court of Frederick II of Prussia in 1751. He was the music director to the Prussian Princess Anna Amalia from 1758 until his death...
Johann Klaj
Johann Klaj (latinized Clajus) (1616 - 1656), German poet, was born at Meissen in Saxony. After studying theology at Wittenberg he went to Nuremberg as a "candidate for holy orders," and there, in conjunction with Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, founded in 1644 the literary society known as the Pegnitz ..
Johann Knüpfer
Johann Knüpfer (1866-??) was a schizophrenic outsider artist and one of the "schizophrenic masters" profiled by Hans Prinzhorn in his field-defining work Artistry of the Mentally Ill. Knüpfer was a baker's apprentice for three years as a youth before moving to a large city where he worked in a ce..
Johann Konrad Ammann
Johann Konrad Ammann (1669 - 1724) was a Swiss physician and instructor of the non-verbal deaf persons. He is often confounded with Johann Conrad Ammann, born 1724 and died 1811 in Schaffhausen. Johann Konrad Ammann was born at Schaffhausen, Switzerland. After graduating at Basel in 1687 he began ..
Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe
Photograph of Wilhelm Loehe Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe (often rendered 'Loehe') was a pastor of the Lutheran Church and is often regarded as being a founder of the deaconess movement in Lutheransim and a founding sponsor of the Missouri Synod. He is commemorated by the ELCA and the LCMS on J..
Johann Kraus
Johann Kraus is a fictional character featured in the Hellboy comic books published by Dark Horse Comics, and is also the subject of other Dark Horse comics. He is a disembodied ectoplasmic spirit with psychic abilities who maintains a tangible form via a containment suit. Without the suit, his bo..
Johann Krieger
Johann Philipp Krieger (1649 – 1725). German Baroque composer, who although is not prominent, contributed quality music (such as keyboard music, trio sonatas, and operas) to the 17th and 18th century musical world. Early years As a young boy he studied with Drechsel and Joachim G. Schütz in Nur..
Johann Kuhnau
Johann Kuhnau Johann Kuhnau (Geising, 1660 - Leipzig, 1722) was a German composer, organist and harpsichordist. He preceded Bach as the cantor of the Thomaskirche (St Thomas Church) in Leipzig. There Kuhnau taught Johann David Heinichen and Christoph Graupner, both of whom were to become comp..
Johann Lafer
Johann Lafer (born September 27, 1957 in Graz, Styria, Austria) is an Austrian chef. Johann Lafer became well-known through his televised cooking show and his numerous cookbooks. His television show is self-produced. He is a regular guest of the television host Johannes B. Kerner on whose show he..
Johann Lamont
Johann Lamont (born 11 July 1957) is a Labour member of the Scottish Parliament. She first became active in the University of Glasgow Labour Club, and in 1977 took part in the unsuccessful campign to elect Hortensia Allende (widow of Salvador Allende) as Rector of Glasgow University. She spent a y..
Johann Leonhard Hug
Johann Leonhard Hug (June 1, 1765 - March 11, 1846), German Roman Catholic theologian, was born at Constance. In 1783 he entered the university of Freiburg, where he became a pupil in the seminary for the training of priests, and soon distinguished himself in classical and Oriental philology as wel..
Johann Leonhard Rost
Johann Leonhard Rost (1688–1727) was a German astronomer and author. He wrote under the alias Meletaon. Rost crater on the Moon was named after him. Bibliography Meletaon, "Schau-Platz der gelährten und galanten Welt", 1711.Meletaon, "Die Unglückseelige Atalanta", 1717.Rost, J. L., "Atlas..
Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Hereditary Prince Johann Leopold (Wilhelm Albert Ferdinand Victor) of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (2 August, 1906 - 4 May, 1972) was the eldest son of Carl Eduard, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein. From his birth until his father's abdication, he was kno..
Johann Leopold Theodor Friedrich Zincken
Johann Leopold Theodor Friedrich Zincken (1770 - 1856) was a German entomologist. ..
Johann Leusden
Johann Leusden (sometimes also called Jan, John, or Johannes Leusden) (April 26, 1624 - September 30, 1699) was a Dutch Calvinist theologian and orientalist. He studied in Utrecht and Amsterdam and was a Professor of Hebrew in Utrecht. Leusden was one of the most prominent Bible experts of his tim..
Johann Liss
A game of mora, c. 1622. Johann Liss (c. 1597 in Oldenburg, Schleswig-Holstein – 1631 in Verona) was a leading German painter of the 17th century, second only to Adam Elsheimer. After an initial education in Schleswig-Holstein he continued his studies in the Netherlands, visiting Amste..
Johann Lonfat
Johann Lonfat (born 11 September, 1973 in Martigny) is a Swiss football player. He played mostly for FC Sion and Servette Geneva. He now plays for FC Sochaux in France. He played for Switzerland national football team and was a participant at the 2004 UEFA European Championship. ..
Johann Lorenz von Mosheim
Johann Lorenz von Mosheim Johann Lorenz von Mosheim (October 9 1693 – September 9, 1755), German Lutheran divine and Church historian, was born at Lubeck on the 9th of October, 1693 or 1694. After studying at the gymnasium of his native place, he entered the University of Kiel (1716), w..
Johann Louw
Johann Louw (born 12 April 1979) is an South African cricketer. Louw was born in Cape Town, Cape Province. He is a right-arm fast medium bowler who has represented Griqualand West, Eastern Province, Northamptonshire, Dolphins, Eagles and Middlesex. He is a noted one-day cricketer with the ability t..
Johann Löwenthal
Johann Löwenthal Johann Jacob Löwenthal (July 15, 1810 – July 24, 1876) was a 19th century professional chess master. He was born in Budapest, the son of a merchant. In his visit to New Orleans, Löwenthal played Paul Morphy on two separate occasions, losing a total of three games st..
Johann Ludwig Aberli
Wimmis (engraving, around 1783) Johann Ludwig Aberli (1723, Winterthur – 17 October 1786, Bern) was a Swiss painter and etcher. He is primarily known for his landscapes of Switzerland, first etched in contours then painted or colorized. This style is later to be known as the Aberli mann..
Johann Ludwig Bach
Johann Ludwig Bach (born February 4, 1677, buried May 1, 1731) was a composer and violinist. He was born in Thal. At the age of 22 he moved to Meiningen eventually being appointed cantor there, and later Kapellmeister. He wrote a large amount of music and regularly oversaw performances, both at Mei..
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt
Johann Ludwig (aka John Lewis) Burckhardt (November 24, 1784 - October 15, 1817), Swiss traveller and orientalist, was born in Lausanne. After studying in Leipzig and at the University of Göttingen he visited England in the summer of 1806, carrying a letter of introduction from the naturalist Joha..
Johann Ludwig Christian Gravenhorst
Johann Ludwig Christian Carl Gravenhorst (1777-1857) was a German zoologist and entomologist, born on November 14, 1777 in Brunswick. He died on January 14, 1857 in Breslau (today Wroclaw in Poland). Johann Gravenhorst’s early interest in insects was encouraged by two of his professors, both ..
Johann Ludwig Krapf
Johann Ludwig Krapf (born January 11 1810 in Tübingen-Derendingen; died November 26 1881 in Korntal-Münchingen) was a German missionary in East Africa, an explorer, linguist, and traveler. Krapf was born into a Lutheran family of farmers in southwest Germany. From his school days onward he devel..
Johann Ludwig Krebs
Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713–1780) was a Baroque period musician and composer primarily for organ. Life Krebs was born in 1713 in Weimar, Germany to Johann Tobias Krebs, a well known organist. J. Tobias had at least three sons who were considered musically talented, and J. Ludwig was sent to Lei..
Johann Lukas Schönlein
Johann Lukas Schönlein (november 30, 1793 - January 23, 1864) was a German professor of medicine, born in Bamberg. He studied medicine at Landshut, Jena, Göttingen, and Würzburg. After teaching at Würzburg and Zurich, he was called to Berlin in 1839, where he taught therapeutics and pa..
Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt
Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt (born in Genoa, 1668, died in Vienna, 1745) was an Italian-trained Austrian architect who designed many stately buildings and churches. Among his greatest designs were the two Belvedere palaces, and Pommersfelden castle. Hildebrandt was the son of an Italian mother a..
Johann Maier
Johann Maier (born 23 June 1906 in Berghofen, today part of Aham, Lower Bavaria; died 24 April 1945 in Regensburg) was from 1939 until his death a preacher at Regensburg Cathedral. On 22 April 1945, Reich Defence Commissar Ludwig Ruckdeschel took city defence to the extreme in Regensburg when Unite..
Johann Maria Farina
Johann Maria Farina Johann Maria Farina (1685 - 1766) - also known as Giovanni Maria Farina - was the Cologne perfume maker primarily responsible for establishing Eau-de-Cologne as a brand. At the beginning of the 18th century, Johann Maria Farina, the Italian perfume maker, created a new fr..
Johann Maria Philipp Frimont
Johann Maria Philipp Frimont, Count of Palota, Prince of Antrodocco (1759-1831), Austrian general, entered the Austrian cavalry as a trooper in 1776, won his commission in the War of the Bavarian Succession, and took part in the Turkish wars and in the early campaigns against the French Revolutionar..
Johann Martin Abele
Johann Martin Abele (31 March 1753, Darmstadt - 3 September 1805, Ulm) was a German publisher. He acquired his doctorate in law from the university of Göttingen and began to hold lectures there. In 1779 he was offered the position of town syndic in Kempten. He held different positions in civil ser..
Johann Martin Lappenberg
Johann Martin Lappenberg (July 30, 1794 - November 28, 1865), was a German historian. Biography He was born at Hamburg, where his father, Valentin Anton Lappenberg (1759-1819), held an official position. He studied medicine, and afterwards history, at the University of Edinburgh. He continued to st..
Johann Martin Schleyer
Johann Martin Schleyer Johann Martin Schleyer (July 18, 1831 - August 16, 1912), German Catholic priest who invented the constructed language Volapük. He was born in Oberlauda (Baden). According to his own report, the idea of an international language arose out of a conversation he had wi..
Johann Matthäus Bechstein
Johann Matthäus Bechstein (July 11, 1757 - February 23, 1822) was a German naturalist, forester, and ornithologist. Bechstein was born in Waltershausen in the district of Gotha in Thuringia. He later became the director of the forestry school at Meiningen in the neighbouring district of Schmalkald..
Johann Mattheson
Johann Mattheson (September 28, 1681 – April 17, 1764) was a German composer, writer, lexicographer, diplomat and music theorist. Johann Mattheson Mattheson was born and died in Hamburg. He was a close friend of George Frideric Handel, although he nearly killed him in a sudden quarrel, ..
Johann Matthias Gesner
Frontispiece of Gesners Novus Linguae Et Eruditionis Romanae Thesaurus, 1747 Johann Matthias Gesner (9 April 1691 - 3 August 1761), was a German classical scholar and schoolmaster. He was born at Roth an der Rednitz near Ansbach. He studied at the University of Jena, and in 1714 published a w..
Johann Matthias Hase
Johann Matthias (Matyhias) Hase (Haas, Haase) (Latinized as Johannes Hasius) (1684—1742) was a German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer. Hase taught at Leipzig and Augsburg. In 1720, he became professor of mathematics at the University of Wittenberg. Hase made maps for the publishin..
Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg
Reichsgraff Marshal Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg was a distinguished aristocrat (imperial count) and general of Austrian descent who served in the Saxon and Venetian armies in the early 1700's. His most notable battles were the Battle of Fraustadt and the 1716 Siege of Corfu in the service ..
Johann Melchior Dinglinger
Johann Melchior Dinglinger (26 December 1664, Biberach an der Riß–6 March 1731, Dresden) was one of Europe's greatest goldsmiths, whose major works for the elector of Saxony, Augustus the Strong, survived in the Grünes Gewölbe (the "Green Vaults"), DresdenReopened in September 2004 in the..
Johann Melchior Kambly
Johann Melchior Kambly (born 1718, died 1783) was a German sculptor who took part in the development of the architectural style of Frederician Rococo. He worked predominantly as a royal architect in Potsdam and contributed to, among others, Sanssouci Palace, the New Palace, the Chinese House and the..
Johann Michael Ackner
For other people named Ackner, see Ackner. Johann Michael Ackner (January 25, 1782 - August 12, 1862) was a Transylvanian archaeologist and nature researcher. Biography A Saxon born in Schäßburg/Sighişoara, a town in the Habsburg province of Transylvania, Johann Ackner first visited the colleg..
Johann Michael Bach
Johann Michael Bach (August 9, 1648 - May, 1694) was a German composer of the Baroque period. He was the brother of Johann Christoph Bach, as well as uncle and father in law of Johann Sebastian Bach (he was the father of J.S. Bach's first wife Maria Barbara Bach). Johann Michael was born at Arnsta..
Johann Michael Fischer
Johann Michael Fischer (* 1692 in Burglengenfeld/Upper Palatinate, † 1766 in Munich) was a German architect in the late Baroque period. He is a major representative of south German Baroque architects. He studied in Bohemia and then combined Bohemian elements with Bavarian baroque traditians. He o..
Johann Michael Heineccius
Johann Michael Heineccius (1674 - 1722), was a well-known Dutch preacher and theologian, the brother of Johann Gottlieb Heineccius. He was born in Eisenberg, Germany. He was made pastor at the Liebfrauenkirche (now known as the Marktkirche), Halle, where his role was to supervise the music at the l..
Johann Michael Moscherosch
Johann Michael Moscherosch (1601-1669), German satirist and moralist, was born at Willstädt, on the Upper Rhine near Strasbourg, on the 5th of March 1601. His bitterly brilliant but partisan writings graphically describe life in a Germany ravaged by the Thirty Years' War (1618–48). His satires, w..
Johann Michael Raich
Johann Michael Raich (Ottobeuren in Bavaria, 17 January1832- Mainz, 28 March1907) was a Catholic theologian. Raich pursued his gymnasial studies under the Benedictines at St. Stephen's at Augsburg, and studied philosophy and theology at the Collegium Germanicum at Rome (1852-5). On 29 May, 1858, he..
Johann Michael Rottmayr
Johann Michael Rottmayr Johann Michael Rottmayr (December 11 1656 in Laufen an der Salzach, Austria; † October 25 1730) was an Austrian painter. He was the first notable baroque painter north of Italy. He received his education from Karl Loth in Venice. From 1689 onwards he worked in Salzb..
Johann Michael Vogl
Johann Michael Vogl (August 10, 1768–November 19, 1840) was an Austrian baritone singer and composer. Though famous in his day, he is remembered mainly for his close professional relationship and friendship with Franz Schubert. Vogl was an orphan, but a local choirmaster noticed his voice and..
Johann Moritz Rugendas
Costumes in Rio, 1823 Slave hunter, 1823 Indians in a farm, 1824 Johann Moritz Rugendas (b. March 29, 1802, Augsburg, Germany; d. May 29, 1858), Weilheim, Germany), was a German painter, famous for his works depicting landscapes and ethnographic information in several countrie..
Johann Most
--> Johann Most (born 1846 in Augsburg, Germany; died 1906 in Cincinnati, Ohio) was a German Anarchist during the late 1800s. He is most well-known for popularizing the strategy of "propaganda of the deed," which promoted the decisive action of individuals to inspire further action by others. He sa..
Johann Mouse
Johann Mouse is a one-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Tom and Jerry series, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on March 21 1953 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. It was produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with musical supervision by Scott Bradle..
Johann Mühlegg
Johann Mühlegg (born August 8, 1970) is a German-born top level cross-country skier who has competed in international competitions first representing Germany and then Spain, after becoming a Spanish citizen in 1999. He was excluded and disqualified from the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake Cit..
Johann Müller
Johann or Johannes Müller can refer to: Johannes Müller von Königsberg, alias Regiomontanus (1436-1476)the botanist Johann Müller, who called himself Johannes Müller Argoviensis (1828-1896)the German physiologist Johannes Peter Müller (1801-1858)This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation ..
Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn
Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn (September 5, 1711, Berlin - October 7. 1756, Berlin) was a German physician. His name is some times miss-spelled ''J. Nathaniel L.. See also Crypts of Lieberkühn (Lieberkühn('s) gland, [Lieberkühn'sche Krypten])List of human anatomical parts named after p..
Johann Natterer
Johann Natterer Johann Natterer (November 9, 1787 - June 17, 1843) was an Austrian naturalist and explorer. In 1817 Emperor Franz I financed an expedition to Brazil on the occasion of the wedding of his daughter Archduchess Leopoldina to the Portuguese crown prince, Dom Pedro of Alcantara (wh..
Johann Nelböck
A former student of Moritz Schlick, the founder of a group of philosophers and scientists known as the Vienna Circle, Johann Nelböck fatally wounded Schlick in the chest on the center staircase of the University of Vienna, June 22, 1936. Schlick had failed Nelböck in his class and later slept with..
Johann Nepomuk David
Johann Nepomuk David (November 30 1895 – December 22 1977) was an Austrian symphonist who wrote a number of orchestral works including eight symphonies (of which the fifth has been recorded, as have some other works including a disc of organ music,) several concerti including an organ concerto..
Johann Nepomuk Hiedler
Johann Nepomuk Hiedler, also known as Johann Nepomuk Hüttler (March 19, 1807 – September 17, 1888), was a maternal great-grandfather and possibly also the paternal grandfather of Adolf Hitler. Johann Nepomuk was named after a Czech Saint Johann von Nepomuk. Some view this name as evidence t..
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser (June 19, 1806 – March 11, 1875) was a Viennese physician and magician best known for his clever conjuring inventions and refined sleight of hand skills. Hofzinser is called the Father of Card-Magic by the most prominent representatives of modern card-artistry; magici..
Johann Nepomuk Huber
Johann Nepomuk Huber (August 18, 1830 - March 20, 1879), was a German philosophical and theological writer, and a leader of the "Old Catholic Church". Life He was born at Munich. Originally destined for the priesthood, he studied theology from childhood. The writings of Spinoza and Lorenz Oken at..
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Johann Nepomuk Hummel Johann Nepomuk Hummel or Jan Nepomuk Hummel (14 November 1778 – 17 October 1837) was a composer and virtuoso pianist of Austrian origin who was born in Bratislava (present-day Slovakia). His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical er..
Johann Nepomuk Karl of Liechtenstein
Josef Nepomuk Karl (1724–1748) was a prince of Liechtenstein between 1732 and 1748. He was the son of Johann Josef Anton. When his father died Josef Nepomuk Karl was only eight and his relative Josef Wenzel ruled as regent. Josef Nepomuk Karl came of age in 1745 and thus took control of ..
Johann Nepomuk Krieger
Johann Nepomuk Krieger (1865–1902) was a draftsman and selenographer. Krieger crater on the Moon was named in his honor. Krieger was born in Bavaria, the son of a master brewer. At an early age he gained an interest in astronomy. He only received school education up to the age of 15, when he ..
Johann Nepomuk Mälzel
Johann Nepomuk Mälzel (August 15, 1772 - July 21, 1838) was an inventor, engineer, and showman, best known for manufacturing a metronome and several music automatons, and displaying a fraudulent chess machine. Mälzel was born in Regensburg (Germany) as the son of an organ builder. He rece..
Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs
Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs (1774 – 1856) was a German chemist and mineralogist He was born at Mattenzell, near Dennberg in the Bavarian Forest, on the 15th of May 1774. In 1807 he became professor of chemistry and mineralogy at the university of Landshut, and in 1823 conservator of the mineralogica..
Johann Nepomuk von Laicharting
Johann Nepomuk von Laicharting was an Austrian entomologist. He was born in Innsbruck on 4 February 1754 and died in the same city on 7 May 1797 He was Professor of Natural Science (Naturgeschichte) in Innsbruck. He described new species and genera,of Coleoptera in Verzeichniss und Beschre..
Johann Nestroy
Der Talisman, 1840 Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy (born December 7, 1801 at Vienna, Austria; died May 25, 1862 at Graz, Austria) was an opera singer, actor and, primarily, a playwright. After a career as an opera singer in several European cities from 1822 to 1831, Nestroy returned ..
Johann Nicolaus Bach
Johann Nicolaus Bach (or Johann Nikolaus Bach) (1669 - 1753) was a German composer of the Baroque period. Johann Nicolaus was the eldest son of Johann Christoph Bach and the second cousin of Johann Sebastian Bach. He was educated at the University of Jena, where he would later become organist. In..
Johann Nikolaus Forkel
Johann Nikolaus Forkel (February 22, 1749–March 20, 1818), was a German musician, musicologist and music theorist. He was born at Meeder in Coburg. He was the son of a cobbler, and received early musical training, especially in keyboard playing, from Johann Heinrich Schulthesius, who was th..
Johann Nikolaus Götz
Johann Nikolaus Götz (July 9, 1721 – November 4, 1781), German poet, was born at Worms. He studied theology at Halle (1739-1742), where he became intimate with the poets Johann WL Gleim and Johann Peter Uz, acted for some years as military chaplain, and afterwards filled various other eccles..
Johann Nikolaus Hanff
Johann Nikolaus Hanff (1665-1712) was a North German organist and composer . Hanff was born in Wechmar in Thuringia and worked in Eutin, Hamburg and Schleswig. While in Hamburg, Hanff taught piano and composition to the young Johann Mattheson for four years. Mattheson was to become a composer, mus..
Johann Nikolaus von Dreyse
Johann Nikolaus von Dreyse (November 20, 1787 - December 9, 1867) was a German firearms inventor and manufacturer born in Sömmerda, Germany, the son of a locksmith. He is most famous for producing the "Needle gun" in 1836, which was eventually adopted by the Prussian army for service in 1841 as the..
Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim
Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim (January 27, 1701 - September 2, 1790) was a German historian and theologian. Born in Trier, he belonged to a noble family which had been for many generations connected with the court and diocese of the archbishop-elect on, his father, Kaspar von Hontheim, being receive..
Johann Nikolaus Weislinger
Polemical writer, born at Puttlingen in German Lorraine, 1691; died at Kappel-Rodeck in Baden, 29 August, 1755. Life After attending the Jesuit high-school at Strasburg, he became a private tutor in 1711. Form 1713 he studied philosophy at the University of Heidelberg, then took up theology and pr..
Johann of Isenberg-Limburg
Johann of Isenberg-Limburg, count of Limburg (born before 1246, died before 1277), son of Dietrich I of Isenberg. He married Agnes von Wildenberg; they had isssue: Dietrich II, count of Isenberg-Limburg (died ca. 1303). Friedrich, a canon in Cologne (died 1321); Mechtild, married Egbert von Almelo...
Johann of Limburg
Johann of Limburg, count of Limburg, gt von Stirum (died before 1364), son of Dietrich II of Isenberg-Limburg. He married (1st) Uda von Ravensberg and (2nd) Margareta von Ahaus, and had issue: Dietrich III of Limburg, count of Limburg zu Stirum (fl 1347/91); Johann, a canon at Mühlheim an der Ruh..
Johann Olav Koss
Johann Olav Koss (born 29 October 1968 in Drammen, Norway) is a former speed skater, considered to be one of the best in history. Contents 1 Short biography2 Medals3 World records4 Personal records5 References6 See also Short biography Johann Olav Koss became the ..
Johann Otto von Spreckelsen
Johann Otto von Spreckelsen (May 4, 1929--March 16, 1987) was a Danish architect. He studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen, and later served as director up to his death. He directed the creation of several modern churches in Denmark, especially [da] near Copenhagen (..
Johann Pachelbel
Johann Pachelbel [paˈxɛlbəl] (baptized September 1, 1653 – March 3, 1706) was an acclaimed Baroque composer, organist and teacher who brought the south German organ tradition to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the developmen..
Johann Palisa
Asteroids discovered: 122 136 Austria March 18 1874 137 Meliboea April 21 1874 140 Siwa October 13 1874 142 Polana January 28 1875 143 Adria February 23 1875 151 Abundantia November 1 1875 153 Hilda November 2 1875 155 Scylla November 8 1875 156 Xanthippe Novembe..
Johann Parler
Johann Parler (Czech: Jan Parléř, born about 1359 in Prague, died 1405 or 1406) was a Bohemian architect of German origin. Johann Parler comes from a family Parler, whose members were architects in whole Europe. He was a son of the famous Gothic architect Peter Parler, who built the Saint Vitus..
Johann Patkul
Johann Reinhold Patkul (July 27, 1660 – October 10, 1707) was a Livonian politician and agitator of Baltic German extraction. He was born in prison at Stockholm, where his father was imprisoned under suspicion of treason. He entered the Swedish army at an early age and was already a captain..
Johann Paul Schor
The Austrian Johann Paul Schor (Innsbruck 1615–Rome 1674), known in Rome as "Giovanni Paolo Tedesco," became the preeminent designer of decorative arts in Baroque Rome, providing drawings for state beds, fireworks, coaches, silver, textiles and even banquet setpieces executed in sugar. He wa..
Johann Peter Alexander Wagner
Johann Peter Alexander Wagner (26 February 17301–7 January 1809) was a German rococo sculptor. He was born in Obertheres, Unterfranken, Bavaria, Germany and was initially trained by his father, Johann Thomas Wagner. He moved to Vienna in 1747 and worked under several commissioners including an..
Johann Peter Eckermann
Johann Peter Eckermann Johann Peter Eckermann (September 21, 1792 - December 3, 1854), German poet and author, best known owing to his association with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, was born at Winsen in Hanover, of humble parentage, and was brought up in penury and privation. After serving as..
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet. Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (February 13, 1805 - May 5, 1859) was a German mathematician credited with the modern "formal" definition of a function. His family hailed from the town of Richelet in Belgium, from which his surname "Lejeune Dirichlet" ("l..
Johann Peter Hebel
Johann Peter Hebel was a German short story writer and dialectal poet, most famous for his collection of alemannic tales Schatzkästlein des rheinischen Hausfreundes (Treasure chest of the family friend by the Rhine). Life Hebel's father, a weaver and batman who loved learning, died when Hebel ..
Johann Peter Heuschkel
Johann Peter Heuschkel (January 4, 1773 - December 5, 1853), was a German composer. Heuschkel was the teacher of Carl Maria von Weber. ..
Johann Peter Klassen
Johann Peter Klassen (1889-1947) was a German-Canadian poet and writer who wrote primarily in the German language. Bibliography Nohoaksel (1946)Roggenbrot (1946)Der Zwillingsbruder von "Meine Garbe" (1946)Aehrenlese (1944)Brocken (1932)Dunkle Tage (1924)Kruemlein (1924)Wegeblumen (c.1924) Reference..
Johann Peter Lange
Johann Peter Lange (April 10, 1802 - July 9, 1884), was a German Protestant theologian of peasant origin and was born at Sonneborn near Elberfeld. He studied theology at Bonn (from 1822) under KI Nitzsch and GCF Lücke, held several pastorates, and eventually (1854) settled at Bonn as professor of ..
Johann Peter Melchior
Johann Peter Melchior (October 12, 1742, Lindorf - June 13, 1825 Nymphenburg) was a German porcelain modeller. Melchior was interested in art from an early age and was apprenticed to a sculptor in Düsseldorf. He made a name for him self in the procelain trade and was named Modellmeister at the ac..
Johann Peter Salomon
Johann Peter Salomon Johann Peter Salomon (baptized February 20, 1745, died November 28, 1815) was a violinist, composer, conductor and musical impresario. He was born in Bonn, and played the violin in the court orchestra there before becoming concert master of the orchestra of Prince Heinri..
Johann Peter Spaeth
Johann Peter Spaeth, Moses Germanus or Moses Ashkenazi (1st half of the 17 c., Venice - April 27, 1701, Amsterdam) was a German convert to Judaism. Contents 1 Leaves Catholicism for Lutheranism2 Renounces Christianity for Judaism3 Literary works4 Bibliography Leaves Catholici..
Johann Pfaff
Johann Pfaff may be Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematicianJohann Wilhelm Pfaff, his younger brother and also a mathematician This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change th..
Johann Pfeffinger
Johann Pfeffinger (27 December 1493, Wasserburg am Inn – 1 January 1573, in Leipzig) was a significant Evangelist theologian and Protestant Reformer. Devoting himself to the religious life, he became an acolyte at Salzburg in 1515, and soon afterward was made subdeacon and deacon. Receiving..
Johann Philipp Abelin
Johann Philipp Abelin was German chronicler whose career straddled the 16th and 17th centuries. He was born, probably, at Strasbourg, and died there between 1634 and 1637. He wrote numerous histories under the pseudonyms of Abeleus, Philipp Arlanibäus, Johann Ludwig Gottfried and Gotofredus. He w..
Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler
Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler (1771 - December 8, 1813) was a Dutch naturalist. Leisler named a number of birds, including the Temminck's Stint which he named after his friend Coenraad Jacob Temminck. He is commemorated in Leisler's Bat Nyctalus leisleri, first described by Heinrich Kuhl. His da..
Johann Philipp Baratier
Johann Philipp Baratier, attended by Athena, goddess of wisdom Johann Philipp Baratier (January 10, 1721, Schwabach near Nuremberg – October 5, 1740) was a German scholar who in a very short life published eleven works and authored a great quantity of unpublished manuscript. Baratier's ea..
Johann Philipp Gabler
Johann Philipp Gabler (June 4, 1753 - February 17, 1826), was a German Protestant Christian theologian of the school of Johann Jakob Griesbach and Johann Gottfried Eichhorn. Gabler was born at Frankfurt-am-Main. In 1772 he entered the University of Jena as a theological student. In 1776 he was on ..
Johann Philipp Kirnberger temperament
Kirnberger temperament is an irregular temperament which was developed in the second half of the eighteenth century by Johann Kirnberger. Kirnberger was a student of Johann Sebastian Bach, and it is rumored that they had many disagreements concerning tuning systems at the time. Eventually, they went..
Johann Philipp Neumann
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Johann Philipp Palm
Johann Philipp Palm (17 November, 1768–26 August, 1806), German bookseller, a victim of the tyranny of Napoleon I of France over the former Holy Roman Empire. He was born at Schorndorf, in Württemberg. Having been apprenticed to his uncle, the publisher Johann Jakob Palm (1750-1826), in Erla..
Johann Philipp Reis
Johann Philipp Reis (January 7, 1834 – January 24, 1874), was born in Gelnhausen, Germany, as son to a poor Portuguese-Jewish baker. He was self-taught scientist and inventor who constructed one of the first working telephones. (See Reis' telephone). Contents 1 Early life and education..
Johann Philipp Siebenkees
Professor Johann Philipp Siebenkees (1759–1796) was a German philosopher. Siebenkees studied theology, philosophy, and philology at University of Altdorf. In 1791 he became associate professor of philosophy there, and a full professor of languages in 1795. He also taught archeology. Johann P..
Johann Philipp von Stadion
Johann Philipp Karl Joseph Stadion, Graf von Warthausen (June 18, 1763 – May 15, 1824). Born in Mainz, he was a statesman, foreign minister, and diplomat who served the Habsburg empire during the Napoleonic Wars. He was also founder of the Austrian National Bank. Johann Philip was Count of Stadi..
Johann Philipp von Wurzelbauer
Johann Philipp von Wurzelbauer (also spelled Wurzelbaur, Wurzelbau, Wurtzelbaur, Wurtzelbau) (1651-1725) was a German astronomer. Biography A native of Nuremberg, Wurzelbauer was a merchant who became an astronomer. As a youth, he was keenly interested in mathematics and astronomy but had bee..
Johann Plenge
Johann Plenge (June 7, 1874 - 11 September, 1963) was a German Hegelian sociologist. He was professor of political economy at the University of Munster. In his book 1789 and 1914 he contrasted the 'Ideas of 1789' (liberty) and the 'Ideas of 1914' (organisation). Plenge argued: "under the necessity o..
Johann Puch
Johann Puch (Slovenian: Janez Puh) (b. June 27 1862 in Juršinci, close to Ptuj - d. July 19 1914 in Zagreb), was a Slovene inventor, mechanic who went on to become a very significant vehicle producer in Europe. He completed special training as a locksmith - his only formal education - and lived an..
Johann Radon
Johann Radon (December 16, 1887–May 25, 1956) was a mathematician born in Litoměřice in Bohemia (now Czech Republic). He wrote a doctoral dissertation on calculus of variations in 1910, at the University of Vienna. He is known for a number of lasting contributions. These include his part i..
Johann Reichhart
Johann Baptist ReichhartGerould, p. 242, erroneously spelt Reichart (29 April 1893 – 26 April 1972) was a German executioner. He kept detailed records of his work, and at 3,165 executions Dachs, p. 8he is considered to be possibly the most prolific executioner of modern times. Biography Joha..
Johann Reinhold Forster
Johann Reinhold Forster Johann Reinhold Forster (October 22, 1729 - December 9, 1798) was a German naturalist of Scottish descent. Forster made contributions to the early ornithology of Europe and North America. He is best known as the naturalist on James Cook's second Pacific voyage, when h..
Johann Reuchlin
Johann Reuchlin Johann Reuchlin (January 29, 1455 - 1522) was a German humanist and Hebrew scholar. Contents 1 Early life2 Teaching and writing career3 Hebrew studies and Reuchlin's advocacy4 References Early life He was born at Pforzheim in the Black Forest, where his ..
Johann Rickmers
Johann Rickmers ( May 7, 1881 - November 9, 1923) was a retired cavalry captain, who served in World War One, and was an early member of the Nazi Party. He believed that Adolf Hitler was the only one to restore Germany's military to strength. In the attempt to overthrow the Bavaria and Munich goven..
Johann Rosenmüller
Johann Rosenmüller ((1619–1684) was a German Baroque composer who played a part in transmitting Italian musical styles to the north. Rosenmüller studied at the University of Leipzig, graduating in 1640. He served as organist of the Nikolai Church from 1651, and had been assured of advanceme..
Johann Ruchrat von Wesel
Johann Ruchrat von Wesel (died 1481), German theologian, was born at Oberwesel early in the 15th century. He appears to have been one of the leaders of the humanist movement in Germany, and to have had some intercourse and sympathy with the leaders of the Hussites in Bohemia. Erfurt was in his day..
Johann Rudolf Glauber
Johann Rudolf Glauber Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604-March 10 1670), a German-Dutch alchemist and chemist. Born in Karlstadt am Main, he received no formal education and later he moved to the Netherlands and settled in Amsterdam (1655). He might be regarded as a forerunner of contemporary chem..
Johann Rudolf Wyss
Johann Rudolf Wyss (March 4, 1782 - March 21, 1830) was a Swiss author, writer & folklorist. He wrote the words to the former Swiss national anthem Rufst du, mein Vaterland in 1811. He also edited the novel The Swiss Family Robinson, written by his father Johann David Wyss, in 1814. ..
Johann Rudolph Schellenberg
Johann Rudolph Schellenberg (January 4, 1740–1806, Basel) was a Swiss Artist , writer , botanist and entomologist. He illustrated many botanical and entomological works including Johann Heinrich Sulzer’s Die Kennzeichen der Insekten, nach Anleitung des Königl. Schwed. Ritters und Leibarzt..
Johann Rupert
Johann Peter Rupert (1 June 1950 - ) is the eldest son of the late Afrikaans South African business tycoon Anton Rupert and the chairman of the Swiss-based luxury-goods company Richemont as well as of the South Africa-based companies VenFin and Remgro. He grew up and still lives in the South Africa..
Johann Salomo Semler
Johann Salomo Semler (December 18, 1725–March 14, 1791), was a German church historian and biblical commentator. He was born at Saalfeld in Thuringia, the son of a poor clergyman. He grew up in pietistic surroundings, which powerfullv influenced him his life through, though he never became a..
Johann Samuel Ersch
Johann Samuel Ersch (June 23, 1766 - January 16, 1828) was a German bibliographer, generally regarded as the founder of German bibliography. He was born at Großglogau (now Głogów), in Silesia. In 1785 he entered the University of Halle with the view of studying theology; but soon became more in..
Johann Schein
Johann Schein Johann Hermann Schein (January 20, 1586 – November 19, 1630) was a German composer of the early Baroque era. He was born in Grünhain and died in Leipzig. He was one of the first to import the early Italian stylistic innovations into German music, and was one of the most ..
Johann Schiltberger
Johann (Hans) Schiltberger (May 9, 1381-1440) was a German traveller and writer. He was born of a noble family, probably at Hollern near Lohof halfway between Munich and Freising. Travels Johann joined the suite of Lienhart Richartinger in 1394, and he then went off to fight under Sigismund, king o..
Johann Schliemann Spector
Dr. Johann Spector is a present day Earth scientist in the Worlds of Ultima computer games The Savage Empire and Martian Dreams. Spector is transported to Eodon Valley, and later accompanies the Avatar to Mars. He makes his first appearance in The Savage Empire where he has been corrupted by the ..
Johann Schobert
Johann Schobert (around 1720 – August 28, 1767) was a German composer and clavichordist. His place of birth is not known. Most likely he was either from Silesia, as suggested by Friedrich Melchoir von Grimm, or he was from Nuremberg, as claimed by Christian Schubart in his autobiography. Hi..
Johann Schröder
Johann Schröder (1600-1664) was a German physician and pharmacologist who was the first person to recognise that arsenic was an element. In 1649, he produced the elemental form of arsenic by heating its oxide, and published two methods for its preparation. ..
Johann Schweighauser
Johann Schweighauser (June 25, 1742 – January 19, 1830), was a German classical scholar. He was born at Strasbourg. From an early age his favourite subjects were philosophy (especially Scottish moral philosophy as represented by John Hutchinson and Adam Ferguson) and Oriental languages; G..
Johann Sebastian Bach
"Bach" redirects here. For , see . Johann Sebastian Bach (pronounced [ˈyohan zɛˈbastjan ˈbax]) (21 March 1685 O.S. – 28 July 1750 N.S.) was a prolific German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and solo instruments drew together the strands ..
Johann Sebastian Bork
Johann Sebastian Bork (comic character alter-ego of music composer/performer Verne Langdon). Bork came as a result of Langdon's Vampyre At The Harpsichord (1973) harpsichord spook music recording session when Capitol Records engineer Jay Rannellucci asked Verne to play a honky-tonk song on the clas..
Johann Siegfried Hufnagel
Johann Siegfried Hufnagel (17 October 1724, Falkenwalde, Prenzlau district, Brandenburg – 23 February 1795, Langenfeld, Sternberg district) was a German parson and entomologist (lepidopterist). Contents 1 Life2 Achievement and Impact3 Publications4 Biographical Sources Life..
Johann Silberschlag
Johann Esaias Silberschlag (1721 – 1791), was born in Aschersleben, Germany. He was a theologian and natural scientist. In 1760, he became an external member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin, Privy Councillor in the newly founded Office for Public Works, Section of Mechanical Engineering and H..
Johann Simon Hermstedt
Johann Simon Hermstedt (29 December 1778 - 10 August 1846) was one of the most famous German clarinettists of the early 19th century. He served as court clarinettist to Duke Günther I of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, and taught the Duke to play the clarinet. All four of Louis Spohr's clarinet concerto..
Johann Smith
Johann Smith (born April 25, 1987 in Connecticut, USA) is an American youth international striker who plays football for Bolton Wanderers in the FA Premier League. Hailing from Bloomfield, Connecticut, Smith attended the Watkinson School; he played varsity soccer all four years, garnering All-State..
Johann Spurzheim
Johann G. Spurzheim Johann Gaspar Spurzheim (1776-1832) was a German physician who became one of the chief proponents of phrenology, a branch of the neurosciences created approximately in 1800 by Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828). Spurzheim was born near Trier, Germany in December 3rd, 1776, and ..
Johann Staden
Johann Staden (baptized July 2, 1581 – November 15, 1634) was a German Baroque organist and composer. He is best known for establishing the so-called Nuremberg school. Life He was the son of Hans Staden and Elisabeth Löbelle. The exact date of his birth is unknown; it is believed that he w..
Johann Stamitz
Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz (Czech: Jan Václav Stamic) (June 19, 1717 – March 27, 1757) was a Czech composer and violinist. Johann was the father of Carl Stamitz and Anton Stamitz, also composers. Contents 1 Early life and education2 Violinist3 Founder ..
Johann Strauss
Johann Strauss is the name of three famous Austrian composers: Johann Strauss I (1804-1849), composer, popularizer of the waltzJohann Strauss II (1825-1899), composer, son of Johann I, known as the "Waltz King"Johann Strauss III (1866-1939), composer, son of Eduard Strauss See also: Strauss This i..
Johann Strauss I
Johann Strauss I (German: Johann Strauß (Vater), "Johann Strauss (father)"; in English also known as Johann Strauss Sr.; born in Vienna, March 14, 1804 – September 25, 1849) was an Austrian composer known particularly for his waltzes and for popularizing it alongside Josef Lanner thereby (w..
Johann Strauss II
Johann Strauss II The Waltz King coming to life in the Stadtpark, Vienna Johann Strauss II (German: Johann Strauß (Sohn), "Johann Strauss (son)"; in English also Johann Strauss the Younger, Johann Strauss Jr., Johann Sebastian Strauss) (October 25, 1825 – June 3, 1899) was an Aust..
Johann Strauss III
Johann Strauss III (1866-1939) was an Austrian composer, son of Eduard Strauss and grandson of Johann Strauss I. He was unofficially entrusted with the task of upholding his family's tradition after the disbandment of the Strauss Orchestra by his father in 1901. His talents were not fully realised d..
Johann Stumpf
The battle of Morat, part of an engraving from the Stumpf Chronik Johann Stumpf (1500-1578) was an early writer on the history and topography of Switzerland. He was born at Bruchsal (near Karlsruhe), and was educated there and at Strasbourg and Heidelberg. In 1520 he became a cleric or chapla..
Johann Tetzel
Johann Tetzel. Johann Tetzel (1465- August 11, 1519) was a German Dominican friar who is perhaps best known for selling indulgences during the 16th century. In 1517, Tetzel was trying to raise money for the ongoing construction of St. Peter's Basilica and it is believed that Martin Luther was ..
Johann Theodor de Bry
Johann Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) was a Flemish-born engraver, draftsman and book editor and publisher who became famous for his depictions of early European expeditions to Americas. His name has also been written as Dietrich de Bry, Theodoor de Bry and Dirk de Bry. Johann Theodor de Bry was born 1..
Johann Tillmann
Johann Tillmann (1921-) was a German Naval Officer who served in the Second World War Johann was born in Danzig, East Prussia, Germany in 1921. He was an avid sailor and as a young man sailed small craft on the Baltic Sea, off the coast of Germany. He enlisted in the German Navy in the Second Wo..
Johann Tobias Bürg
Johann Tobias Bürg (December 24, 1766—November 15, 1835)[#endnote_dreschler] was an Austrian astronomer. Born in Vienna, Bürg worked as a professor and astronomer in Klagenfurt, in Carinthia. He subsequently worked as astronomical assistant at the observatory at Vienna from 1792 unt..
Johann Tobias Krebs
Johann Tobias Krebs (b. July 7, 1690 near Weimar, d. February 11,1762, near Weimar) was a German organist and composer. He is known as student of Johann Gottfried Walther and Johann Sebastian Bach. He is believed to be the composer of the Eight Short Preludes and Fugues previously attributed to J.S..
Johann Ulrich von Cramer
Johann Ulrich von Cramer (8 November, 1706 - 18 June, 1772) was an eminent German judge, legal scholar, and Enlightenment philosopher. Cramer was the most important representative of Wolffianism in the area of law; he was first a university professor at the University of Marburg and then one of th..
Johann Uz
Johann Peter Uz (October 3, 1720 – May 12, 1796), German poet, was born at Ansbach. He studied law in 1739-43 at the university of Halle, where he associated with the poets Johann Gleim and Johann Nikolaus Götz, and in conjunction with the latter translated the odes of Anacreon (1746). In 1..
Johann Valentin Meder
Meder, Johann Valentin. Born Wasungen, nr Meiningen, baptised 3 May 1649; Died Riga, July 1719. German composer, organist and singer. General Biography He came from a musical family, his father and four brothers all being organists or Kantors. He studied theology at Leipzig in 1669 and then at J..
Johann van Beethoven
Johann van Beethoven (1740-1792) was Ludwig van Beethoven's father. Born 14th November 1740, Johann was a descendant of a Flemish/Dutch family of musicians and instrument makers from former Brabant (presumably the Mechelen-Leuven area), he was the son of Louis van Beethoven (born in Mechelen, 1714, ..
Johann van der Smut
Johann van der Smut (a.k.a. "Goldmember") is a fictional villain in the third film of the Austin Powers trilogy, Austin Powers in Goldmember. He is played by Mike Myers. Dutch-born van der Smut lost his genitals in an unfortunate smelting accident in the 1970s and has since been known as "Goldmembe..
Johann van Waveren Hudde
Johann van Waveren Hudde (April 23, 1628 - April 15, 1704) was a mathematician. He was born and died in Amsterdam, Netherlands. External link John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson. [] at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. ..
Johann Vogel
Johann Vogel (born March 8, 1977 in Geneva) is a Swiss footballer. He currently plays for AC Milan, and is the captain of the Switzerland national football team. Vogel joined Swiss amateur club FC Meyrin in his youth but made the cut into professional football by joining Grasshopper. He was hande..
Johann Voldemar Jannsen
Johann Voldemar Jannsen Johann Voldemar Jannsen (May 16, 1819 Vana-Vändra - July 13, 1890, Tartu) was an Estonian journalist and poet. He wrote the words of the Estonian national anthem, Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm, and was the father of the poet Lydia Koidula. As the leader of the choral soc..
Johann von Aldringer
Johnann von Aldringer (Altringer, Aldringen), (1588-1634), Austrian soldier, was born at Diedenhofen (Thionville) in Lorraine. After travelling as page to a nobleman in France, Italy, and the Netherlands, he went to the University of Paris. In 1606 he entered the service of Spain, in which he remai..
Johann von Hoverbeck
Johann von Hoverbeck was an envoy of Brandenburg-Prussia in Poland from 1631 to 1682. One of the architects and co-signer of the Treaty of Wehlau in 1657. ..