Johann Gottfried Herder

Johann Gottfried Herder

male, deceased (1803)
Johann Gottfried von Herder (August 25, 1744 in Mohrungen, East Prussia - December 18, 1803 in Weimar) was a German philosopher, poet, and literary...
Theodor Mommsen

Theodor Mommsen

male, deceased (1903)
Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (November 30 1817-November 1, 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician,...

Hans von Marées

male, deceased (1887)
Hans von Marées was a German painter. He mainly painted country scenes in a realistic style. Von Marées was born in Elberfeld, Germany. At age 16...
Pierre Varignon

Pierre Varignon

male, deceased (1722)
Pierre Varignon was a French mathematician. Pierre Varignon was educated at the Jesuit College in Caen. After further studies at the University of...
Louis Lewandowski

Louis Lewandowski

male, deceased (1894)
Louis Lewandowski was a German composer of synagogal music. Lewandowski was born at Wreschen, province of Posen, Prussia (now Września in Poland). A...
Moritz Moszkowski

Moritz Moszkowski

male, deceased (1925)
Moritz Moszkowski was a Polish-Jewish composer, pianist and teacher. He studied in Dresden and later Berlin, under Theodor Kullak and others. He...
Anton Alexander von Werner

Anton Alexander von Werner

male, deceased (1915)
Anton Alexander von Werner, Prussian painter, was born at Frankfurt (Oder), on May 9, 1843. He began painting in 1857 as a student painter, then...
Peter Janssen

Peter Janssen

male, deceased (1908)
Peter Janssen was a German historical painter. He was born at Düsseldorf, son of the engraver Theodor Janssen (1817-94), by whom he was first i...
Władysław Czachórski

Władysław Czachórski

male, deceased (1911)
Władysław Czachórski was a Polish artist. In 1866 Czachorski went to the Warsaw Drawing School and had Rafał Hadziewicz as a peer. Then he spen...
Leonhard Euler

Leonhard Euler

male, deceased (1783)
Leonhard Euler , the most prolific mathematician of all time, wrote more than 500 books and papers during his lifetime about 800 pages per year...