| |  | Martin Luther was a German monk, theologian, and church reformer. Luther's theology challenged the authority of the papacy by emphasizing the Bible... |  | George Frideric Handel was a German-born British Baroque composer who was a leading composer of concerti grossi, operas and oratorios. Born in... |  | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher. His writing included critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and... |  | Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, born Otto Eduard Leopold of Bismarck-Schönhausen (A... |  | Georg Philipp Telemann (March 14, 1681 - June 25, 1767) was a German Baroque music composer, born in Magdeburg. Self-taught in music, he studied... |  | Johann Christoph Graupner (January 13 1683 in Kirchberg - March 10 1760 in Darmstadt) was a German harpsichordist and composer of high Baroque... |  | Moses Mendelssohn (September 6, 1729 - January 4, 1786) was a German Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the renaissance of European Jews, Haskalah,... |  | Anna Magdalena Bach (née Wilcken was the second wife of Johann Sebastian Bach. |  | Klaus Tennstedt (Merseburg, Germany, June 6, 1926 - January 11, 1998) was a German conductor. He studied violin and piano at the Leipzig... |  | Johann Joachim Winckelmann (December 9, 1717 - June 8, 1768) was German art historian and archaeologist. He was a pioneering Hellenist who first... | |
