- Timo Hildebrand
Timo Hildebrand (born April 5, 1979 in Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) is a goalkeeper, who currently plays for the Spanish club Valencia CF in La Liga, and the German national football squad. He has a reputation for impressive reflexes and substantial ability in 1-on-1 situations. Hildebrand holds a Bundesliga record for keeping a clean sheet for 884 consecutive minutes in 2003/2004. - Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor
Conrad II (c. 990-June 4, 1039) was the son of a mid-level nobleman in Franconia, Count Henry of Speyer and Adelheid of Alsace, who inherited the titles the Salian Count of Speyer and of Worms as an infant when Henry died at age twenty. From his power base in Worms and Speyer as he matured he came to be well known by many noblemen in The Germanies, and when the Saxon line died off and the elected monarchy for the Eastern German realm was up for grabs, … - Rudi Stephan
Rudi Stephan (July 29 1887 Worms, Germany - September 29 1915), was a German composer of great promise who shortly before World War I was considered one of the leading talents among his generation. Stephan was a pupil of Bernhard Sekles in Frankfurt and of Heinrich Schwartz and Rudolf Louis in Munich, where he settled after completing his studies in 1908. - Jovinus
Jovinus was a Gallo-Roman senator and claimed to be Roman Emperor (411 - 413). Following the defeat of the usurper known with the name of Constantine III, Jovinus was proclaimed emperor at Mainz in 411, a puppet supported by Gundahar, king of the Burgundians, and Goar, king of the Alans. Jovinus kept his position in Gaul for two years, long enough to issue coinage that showed him wearing the imperial diadem. - Curtis Bernhardt
Curtis Bernhardt (April 15, 1899 - February 22, 1981) was a German film director born in Worms, Germany. Some of his American films were called "woman's films" including the Joan Crawford film "Possessed" (1947). Bernhardt trained as an actor in Germany, and performed on the stage, before starting as a film director in 1926. Other films include "A Stolen Life" (1946) and "Sirocco" in 1951 starring Humphrey Bogart. - Samuel Adler
Samuel Adler (b. Worms, Germany, December 3, 1809; d. New York City, June 9, 1891) was a leading German-American Reform rabbi, Talmudist, and author. He was also the father of Felix Adler, the well-known founder of the Society for Ethical Culture. Adler received his early religious education from his father Isaac, who was one of the associate rabbis in Worms and instructed him in Hebrew and the Biblical and Rabbinic literature of the Jews. - Hanya Holm
Hanya Holm (3 March 1893, Worms, Germany - 3 November 1992, New York City) was the professional name of Johanna Eckert, dancer, choreographer, and teacher. Holm was one of the pioneers of modern dance. Born in Worms, Germany, Holms was a student and assistant of Mary Wigman and instructor at the Wigman School in Dresden. Holm founded the New York Wigman School of Dance in 1931 (which became the Hanya Holm Studio in 1936) introducing the Wigman technique, … - Yaakov ben Yakar
Yaakov ben Yakar (990 - 1064) was a German Talmudist. He flourished in the first half of the 11th century. He was a pupil of Gershom ben Judah in Mainz, and is especially known as the teacher of Rashi, who characterizes him as "Mori HaZaken" (my teacher the elder). Yaakov was one of the leading Talmudic authorities of his time. In some cases Rashi disagrees with the opinions of his teacher Yaakov. - Altmann Of Passau
Altmann of Passau, often called Saint or Blessed Altmann (born about 1015; died 8 August 1091) was a founder of monasteries and Bishop of Passau. He is venerated as a saint, but not officially canonised. He was born between 1013 and 1020 in Westphalia to a family of the greater nobility of Saxony. He was educated at the cathedral school at Paderborn, of which he later became director. - Yair Bacharach
Rabbi Yair Chayim Bacharach was a German rabbi, initially in Koblenz and remainder of his life in Worms and Metz. His grandmother Chava was a granddaughter of the Maharal of Prague, and his father and grandfather had served as rabbis of Metz. - Hugo Sinzheimer
Hugo Sinzheimer (12 April 1875 in Worms, Germany-16 September 1945 in Bloemendaal-Overveen, the Netherlands) was a German legal scholar. Sinzheimer was one of the first academics specializing in labour law; he published an introduction to this field ("Der korporative Arbeitsnormenvertrag") in 1907. He was one of the members of the Constitutional Convention of 1919, which promulgated the Weimar Constitution. - Pope Adrian III
Pope Adrian III (also known as Hadrian III) was Pope from May 17, 884 to September, 885. He was born at Rome. He died in September, 885, at Modena, on a journey to Worms, in modern Germany. His brief pontificate came during troubled times. He died en route to a diet at Worms, Germany, after being summoned by the Frankish King Charles III, The Fat, to settle the succession to the empire and discuss the rising Saracen power. - Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaqi, better known by the acronym Rashi, (February 22, 1040 - July 13, 1105), was a rabbi from France, famed as the author of the first comprehensive commentaries on the Talmud, Torah and Tanakh. Acclaimed for his ability to present the basic meaning of the text in a concise yet lucid fashion, Rashi appeals to both learned scholars and beginning students, and his works remain a centerpiece of contemporary Jewish study. - Rupert Of Salzburg
Rupert of Salzburg (also Ruprecht, Hrodperht, Hrodpreht, Roudbertus, Rudbertus, Robert) (660? - 710) is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church and a founder of the Austrian city of Salzburg. He was a contemporary of Childebert III, king of the Franks. - Karin Beier
Karin Beier is a German theatre director. Beier was born in Cologne, Germany, after studying English studies in Cologne, Karin Beier moved into theatre. She established an English language theatre, and staged Shakespeare plays in their source language. Theatres began to grow in popularity, and she became the director of the Düsseldorf Theatre. Here she was able to display her first professional theatre production. - Johann Nikolaus Götz
Johann Nikolaus Götz, 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 ecclesiastical offices. He died at Winterburg http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterburg on the 4th of November 1781. The writings of Götz consist of a number of short lyrics and several translations, … - Andreas Cellarius
Andreas Cellarius (c. 1596 Neuhausen, - 1665, Hoorn) was a Dutch-German cartographer, best known for his "Harmonia Macrocosmica" of 1660, a major star atlas, published by Johannes Janssonius in Amsterdam. He was born in Neuhausen near Worms, Germany, and was educated in Heidelberg. The protestant Cellarius may have left Heidelberg at the onset of the Thirty Years' War in 1618 or in 1622 when the city came in Catholic hands. - Williram
Williram (d. January 3, 1085) was a German scholar of Christian scripture from near Worms. He is best known for having translated and paraphrased the Song of Songs. Williram studied under Lanfranc and also at the University of Paris. He served as scholastic of the chathedral chapter of Bamberg, before retiring to a monastery in Fulda. Soon after, Henry III summoned him to the famous Benedictine abbey of Ebersberg, … - Saint Erentrude
Saint Erentrude, or Erentraud, (?–710) is a virgin saint of the Roman Catholic Church and is the niece of Saint Rupert of Salzburg. Her date and place of birth are unknown but it may be surmised that she was born in present-day Germany or Austria, in the latter-part of the 7th century. She followed her uncle from Worms to Salzburg and was there placed by him as abbess over a convent and orphan home. She died on 30 June 710 – the same year as Saint Rupert. - Samson Wertheimer
Samson Wertheimer (January 17, 1658, Worms - August 6, 1724, Vienna) was chief rabbi of Hungary and Moravia, and rabbi of Eisenstadt. He was also an Austrian financier, court Jew and Shtadlan to Austrian Emperor Leopold I. - Albert I of Germany I of Germany
Albrecht I of Habsburg (July 1255 - May 1, 1308), sometimes named as Albert I, was King of Germany, Duke of Austria, and eldest son of German King Rudolph I of Habsburg and Gertrude of Hohenburg. The founder of the great house of Habsburg was invested with the duchies of Austria and Styria, together with his brother Rudolph II, in 1282. In 1283 his father entrusted him with their sole government, and he appears to have ruled them with conspicuous success. - 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 at Nuremberg from the humanist Heinrich Grieninger, he entered the University of Cologne in 1504. - Friedrich von Spee
Friedrich von Spee (February 25, 1591 - August 7, 1635) was a German Jesuit and poet, most noted as an opponent of trials for witchcraft. Spee was the first person in his time who spoke strongly and with arguments against torture in general. He may be considered the first who ever gave good arguments why torture is not a way of obtaining "truth" from someone undergoing "painful" questioning. He was born at Kaiserswerth on the Rhine. - Duke Frederick Of Saxony
Duke Frederick of Saxony (26 October 1473 - 14 December 1510), also known as Friedrich von Sachsen or Friedrich von Wettin, was the 36th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, serving from 1498-1510. He was the third (and youngest surviving) son of Albert, Duke of Saxony, and Zedena of Bohemia, daughter of George of Podebrady. The Teutonic Knights had been in a long power struggle with Poland over Prussia. - Pier Paolo Vergerio
Pier ("also:" Pietro) Paolo Vergerio (1498-October 4 1565), was an Italian Reformer. He was born at Capodistria (Koper), then part of the Venetian Republic and studied jurisprudence in Padua, where he delivered lectures in 1522; he also practised law in Verona, Padua, and Venice. In 1526 he married Diana Contarini, whose early death was at least a partial cause of his entering upon an ecclesiastical career. - Adam Philippe Comte de Custine
Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general. Born in Metz, he began his military career in the Seven Years' War. He next served with distinction against the English in the War of American Independence. In 1789 he was elected to the states-general by the "bailliage" of Metz. In October 1791 he again joined the army, with the rank of lieutenant-general and became popular with the soldiers, amongst whom he was known as "général moustache". - Conrad I, Duke of Carinthia
Conrad I (c.975 - 12 or 15 December 1011), of the Salian Dynasty, was the duke of Carinthia from 1004. He was the third son Duke Otto I and thus brother of both Henry of Speyer, father of the Emperor Conrad II, and Bruno, who was pope as Gregory V. He outlived both those elder brothers and his father. Along with his father, he was a candidate in the royal German election of 1002. In that year or thereabouts, Conrad married Matilda (c.988 - 29 July 1031 or 1032), … - Otto Of Bamberg
Otto of Bamberg was a medieval German bishop who, as papal legate, converted much of Pomerania to Christianity. Otto was born into a noble family in Mistelbach, Swabia. Serving initially in the household of Duke Władysław I Herman of Polonia, he entered the service of Emperor Henry III in 1090 and was appointed Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire in 1101. In 1102, the emperor appointed and invested him as bishop of Bamberg in Franconia (now Bavaria), … - Solomon Loeb
Solomon Loeb (1828-1903) was an American banker, who was born in Germany. Loeb came to the United States from Worms, in the present day Germany, in 1849. He settled in Cincinnati and became wealthy as a dry-goods merchant. He moved in 1865 to New York City and with Abraham Kuhn started the banking house of Kuhn, Loeb and Co.. After his retirement, most of his financial interests were taken over by his son, James Loeb. - Eucharius Rösslin
Eucharius Rösslin (Roslin, Rößlin), sometimes known as Eucharius Rhodion was a German physician who authored a book about childbirth called "Der Rosengarten" ("The Rose Garden") in 1513, which became a standard medical text for midwives. He was an apothecary at Freiburg before being elected physician to city of Frankfurt on Main in 1506. He served as physician to the city of Worms in the service of Katherine, wife of Henry IV, … - William I, Bishop of Utrecht
William I was bishop of Utrecht between 1054 and 1076. He was a typical representative of the German imperial system in which bishops (who couldn't inherite their lands) were the main officials of the empire. He was a loyal follower of king Henry IV of Germany. William was appointed when a war was going on against the county of West Frisia (later known as Holland), which was rebelling against imperial authority. - Baruch ben Isaac
Baruch ben Isaac (fl.1200) was a Tosafist and codifier who was born at Worms, but lived at Regensburg; he is sometimes called after the one and sometimes after the other city. A pupil of the great Tosafist Isaac ben Samuel of Dampierre, Baruch wrote Tosafot to several treatises (e.g., Nashim, Nazir, Shabbat, Hullin); nearly all those extant on the order Zevahim are his. A. Epstein believes that the commentary on the Sifra contained in the Munich MS. No. - Johannes Sleidanus
Johannes Sleidanus 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 humanists of Liège, he had adopted Protestant opinions, and entering the service of Cardinal du Bellay, … - Werner Daehn
Werner Daehn, born 1967 in Worms am Rhein, Germany, is a German/international actor, who has worked with Vin Diesel and Samuel L. Jackson in "xXx", with Jason Priestley in "Colditz" an ITV1 2005 miniseries, with Bill Pullman in "Revelations" and with Steven Seagal in "Shadow Man". - Conrad Duke of Thuringia
Conrad (died 27 February 906), called the Old or the Elder, was the Duke of Thuringia from 892 until his death. He was the namesake of the Conradiner family and son of Udo of Neustria. He was the count of the Oberlahngau (886), Hessengau (897), Gotzfeldgau (903), Wetterau (905), and Wormsgau (906). He united all of Hesse under his political control and thus bequeathed to his heirs what would be the Duchy of Franconia. - Louis IV, Elector Palatine
Louis IV, Count Palatine of the Rhine (1 January 1424, Heidelberg - 13 August 1449, Worms) was an Elector Palatine of the Rhine from the House of Wittelsbach in 1436 - 1449. Louis IV was the son of Louis III, Elector Palatine and his second wife Matilda of Savoy. His mother was a fourth-generation of Thomas of Piedmont (1248 - 1282), the eldest son of Thomas II of Savoy. From the death of Louis III in 1436 until 1442, Louis IV ruled under guardianship of his uncle, … - William de Croÿ
William de Croÿ, Lord of Chièvres, later Duke of Sora and Arce, Baron of Roccaguglielma (all three in Kingdom of Naples, now in Frosinone province), 1st count of Beaumont, 1st Marquess of Aerschot, Lord of Temse; (Born 1458 - Died the night of 27-28 May 1521, in Worms) was the chief tutor and First Chamberlain to Charles V. William was the second son of Philippe de Croÿ, Lord of Aerschot and Jacoba of Luxembourg. - Hans Christoph Ernst von Gagern
Hans Christoph Ernst, Baron von Gagern, German statesman and political writer, was born at Kleinniedesheim, near Worms, on the 25th of January 1766. After studying law at the universities of Leipzig and Göttingen, he entered the service of the Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, whom in 1791 he represented at the imperial diet. He was afterwards appointed the prince's envoy at Paris, where he remained until the decree of Napoleon, … - Jacob Joshua Falk
Jacob Joshua Falk (also: Yaakov Yehoshua ben Tzvi Hirsch, or Yaakov Yehoshua Falk - see Note on the name "Joshua Falk".) 1680 - January 16, 1756) was a Polish and German rabbi and Talmudist. - Conrad II, Duke of Carinthia
Conrad II (probably 1003-20 July 1039), called the Younger, was the Salian duke of Carinthia from 1035. His father, Conrad I died in 1011 when he was a minor. Adalbero of Eppenstein was given the duchy of Carinthia. Instead Conrad became count in Nahegau, Speyergau, and Wormsgau. In 1024, as his father and grandfather in 1002, Conrad was a candidate for the German kingship after the death of the Emperor Henry II. It was his cousin, another Conrad II, …
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