| | | Axel Honneth is a professor at the "Institut für Sozialforschung" (Institute for Social Research) in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany (the so-called F... | | Siegfried Lenz is a German writer who has written twelve novels and produced several collections of short stories, essays, and plays for radio and... | | Engelbert Humperdinck was a German composer, best known for his opera, "Hänsel und Gretel" (1893). Humperdinck was born at Siegburg, in the Rhine p... | | Otto Heinrich Frank (May 12, 1889 - August 19, 1980) was the father of Anne Frank. He inherited Anne Frank's manuscripts after her death, and... | | Mayer Amschel Rothschild (February 23, 1744 - September 19, 1812) was the founder of the Rothschild family banking empire that would become one of... | | Johannes Janssen, was German historian and born at Xanten. After graduating from the "Rektoratsschule" in Xanten he was educated as a Roman... | | Richard Tauber (16 May 1891 - 8 January 1948) was an Austrian tenor acclaimed as one of the greatest singers of the 20th century. Some critics... | | Margot Betti Frank (February 16, 1926 - late Feburary or early March, 1945) was the elder sister of Anne Frank, whose deportation order from the... | | Adam Elsheimer (1578 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany - 1610 in Rome, Italy) was an influential artist in the early 17th century. His paintings were... | | Nathan Mayer Rothschild was a London financier and one of the founders of the international Rothschild banking dynasty. He was born in the... | |