Martin Waldseemüller

male
Martin Waldseemüller was a German cartographer. He was born in Freiburg im Breisgau (his mother was from Radolfzell) and studied at the University o...

Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli

male, deceased (1891)
Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli was a Swiss botanist. He discovered what would later become known as chromosomes and apparently discouraged Gregor Mendel f...
Gustav Mie

Gustav Mie

male, deceased (1957)
Gustav Adolf Feodor Wilhelm Ludwig Mie was a German physicist. From 1886 he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Rostock. Beside...
Wilhelm Hennis

Wilhelm Hennis

male, 86 years old
Wilhelm Hennis (February 18 1923 in Hildesheim) is a German political scientist. In 1960, he became Professor at the Padagogical College of...
Julius Leber

Julius Leber

male, deceased (1945)
Julius Leber was a German politician and a member of the German Resistance against the Nazi régime Leber was born in Biesheim, Alsace, out of w...
Ludwig Aschoff

Ludwig Aschoff

male, deceased (1942)
Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff was a German physician and pathologist. He is considered to be one of the most influential pathologists of the early...
Julius von Sachs

Julius von Sachs

male, deceased (1897)
Julius von Sachs, German botanist, was born in Breslau, Silesia. At an early age he showed a taste for natural history, and on leaving school he...
Raymond Geuss

Raymond Geuss

male, 63 years old
Raymond Geuss (born 1946), a Reader in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, is a leading political philosopher and one of the...
Heinrich Mussinghoff

Heinrich Mussinghoff

male, 69 years old
Dr. Heinrich Mussinghoff is the Roman Catholic Bishop of Aachen, Germany. Born in Osterwick (now Rosendahl) in northwestern Westphalia, he studied...