- Emmeram Of Regensburg
Saint Emmeram of Regensburg (also "Emmeramus", "Emmeran", "Emeran", "Heimrammi", "Haimeran", or "Heimeran") was born in Poitiers and was a Christian bishop and a martyr. He died died circa 652 and is buried in St. Emmeram's in Regensburg, Germany. His feast day in the Catholic calendar of saints is 22 September. - Judah Ben Samuel Of Regensburg
Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg (12th - 13th centuries), also called He-Hasid or 'the Pious' in Hebrew, was the initiator of the Chassidei Ashkenaz, a movement of Jewish mysticism in Germany. This movement is considered different from kabbalistic mysticism because it emphasises specific prayer and moral conduct. Judah settled in Regensburg in 1195. He wrote "Sefer Hasidim" (Book of the Pious) and "Sefer Hakavod" (Book of Glory), … - Bertold Of Regensburg
Bertold of Regensburg (c. 1220-1272), the greatest German preacher of the later Middle Ages, was a native of Regensburg, and entered the Franciscan monastery there. He was a member of the Franciscan community founded at Regensburg in 1226. His novitiate was passed under the guidance of David of Augsburg; and by 1246 he is found in a position of responsibility. By 1250 at the latest, he had begun his career as an itinerant preacher, first in Bavaria, … - Wolfgang Of Regensburg
Wolfgang of Regensburg or Saint Wolfgang (c. 934 - October 31, 994) was bishop of Regensburg in Bavaria from Christmas 972 until his death. He is a saint of the Roman Catholic church (canonized in 1052). He is regarded as one of the three great German saints of the 10th century, the other two being Saint Ulrich and Saint Conrad of Constance. - Hans Schaidinger
Hans Schaidinger (b. 1949 in Freilassing),(CSU), mayor of Regensburg since 1996. He studied Economics (exam 1977), is married with two children. Schaidinger entered service for the city of Regensburg in 1978 and was working in the ares of economy support and city development. From 1991 to 1996 he was working for the DIBAG Industriebau AG in Munich. In 1996 he was elected mayor of Regensburg. - Johann Maier
Johann Maier (born 23 June 1906 in Berghofen, today part of Aham, Lower Bavaria; died 24 April 1945 in Regensburg) was from 1939 until his death a preacher at Regensburg Cathedral. On 22 April 1945, Reich Defence Commissar Ludwig Ruckdeschel took city defence to the extreme in Regensburg when United States Army tanks had already reached the Danube. The next day, an excited crowd of people gathered at the Moltkeplatz – nowadays known as Dachauplatz. - Andrea Maria Schenkel
Andrea Maria Schenkel is a German writer. She published her debut novel "Tannöd" in 2006. Based on the Hinterkaifeck murder in the 1920s, Schenkel’s fictional account takes place in the 1950s. She describes, in ghastly and suspenseful detail, how a small Bavarian village, called Tannöd, became the unlikely site of a horrific crime. In her novel, a whole family - the farmer, his wife and children, the maidservants and farm labors - are all killed in one night. - Leo von Klenze
Leo von Klenze was a German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer. Court architect of Bavarian King Ludwig I, Leo von Klenze was one of the most prominent representatives of Greek revival style. Von Klenze studied architecture in Berlin and Paris. Between 1808 and 1813 he was a court architect of Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia. - Johannes Stark
Johannes Stark (April 15, 1874 - June 21, 1957) was a prominent 20th century physicist, and a Physics Nobel Prize laureate. Born in Schickenhof, Bavaria, (now Zwettl), Stark was educated at the Bayreuth Gymnasium (grammar school) and later in Regensburg. His collegiate education began at the University of Munich, where he studied physics, mathematics, chemistry, and crystallography. His tenure at that college began in 1894; he graduated in 1897, … - Martin Kreuzer
Martin Kreuzer (born 1962, Regensburg, Germany), is a German Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess and a Mathematics professor. Kreuzer did his undergraduate studies in Mathematics at the University of Regensburg, located on the Danube River in Bavaria. He moved to the United States and completed his doctorate at Brandeis University in Boston. Next came a post-doctoral fellowship at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, from 1989 to 1991, … - Matthias Flacius
Matthias Flacius Illyricus, where his feud with Melanchthon was patched up. On May 7, 1557 he was appointed professor of New Testament theology at Jena but was soon involved in controversy with his colleague Strigel on the synergistic question (relating to the function of the will in conversion). Affirming the natural inability of man, he adopted a heterodox position consonant with the Manichaean view of sin, as not an accident of human nature, … - Honorius Augustodunensis
Honorius Augustodunensis (Commonly known as Honorius of Autun; died c. 1151) was a very popular 12th century Christian theologian who wrote prolifically on many subjects. He wrote in a non-scholastic manner, with a lively style, and his works were approachable for the lay community in general. He was, therefore, something of a popularizer of clerical learning. Very little is known of his life. - Karl Adam
Karl Adam was a German Catholic theologian of the early 20th century. Adam was born in Bavaria in 1876. He attended the Philosophical and Theological Seminary at Regensburg and was ordained in 1900. Adam spent the next two years doing parish work. Adam received his doctorate at the University of Munich in 1904. In 1915, he became a professor of theology in Munich. - Thomas Dietz
Thomas Dietz (born May 19, 1982) is a professional juggler from Regensburg, Germany. He is recognized as one of the greatest technical jugglers in the world. He holds various unofficial juggling records and also the world record for juggling a five club cascade for 53 minutes and 21 seconds. However, he gained most of his popularity through several juggling videos featuring his highly technical tricks including siteswap variations, pirouettes, … - Hemma
Emma of Altdorf, also known as Hemma (808-31 January 876) was the wife of Louis the German, and Queen consort of Eastern Francia. Her father was Welf, Count of Altorf; her mother was Heilwig of Saxony (born c.775, died after 833), the daughter of Count Isanbart. Her sister was Judith (sometimes called "of Bavaria"), who was the second wife of Emperor Louis the Pious, and by marriage Queen and Empress of the Franks. - Emanuel Schikaneder
Emanuel Schikaneder, born Johann Joseph Schikaneder, was a German impresario, dramatist, actor, and singer. He is famous as the librettist of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera "Die Zauberflöte" (The Magic Flute). - Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht is a German-born American literary theorist and currently the Albert Guérard Professor in Literature in the Departments of Comparative Literature, of French and Italian, at Stanford University. Born in 1948 in Würzburg, Germany, Gumbrecht received his academic education in Paris, Munich, Regensburg, Salamanca, Pavia and Konstanz, receiving his Ph.D. at the University of Konstanz in 1971 where he was also an assistant professor from 1971 to 1974. - Franz Xaver Haberl
Franz Xaver Haberl (Oberellenbach, Lower Bavaria, 12 April 1840 - Ratisbon, 5 September 1910) was a German musicologist, friend of Liszt and Singenberger, cleric, and student of Proske. He made his classical and theological studies at Passau, Bavaria, where he was ordained priest, 12 August, 1862. Showing decided aptitude for music, be was given every opportunity for study of the art, and was entrusted with the direction of music in the seminary. - Karl Ludwig Sand
Karl Ludwig Sand (Wunsiedel, then in Prussia, October 5, 1795 - Mannheim, May 20, 1820) was a German university student and member of a liberal Burschenschaft (student association). He was executed in 1820 for the murder of the conservative dramatist August von Kotzebue the previous year in Mannheim. As a result of his execution, Sand became a martyr in the eyes of many German nationalists seeking the creation of a united German national state. - Sebastian Gatzka
Sebastian Gatzka is a German sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. At the 2000 World Junior Championships Gatzka won a silver medal in 4x400 m relay with Christian Duma, Steffen Hönig and Bastian Swillims. Gatzka travelled to the 2004 Summer Olympics as a reserve team member, but did not make an Olympic start. At the 2005 European Indoor Championships he won a bronze medal in 400 m and came in fourth with the German 4x400 m relay team. - Alexander Braun
Alexander Carl Heinrich Braun was a German botanist from Regensburg, Bavaria. He studied botany in Heidelberg, Paris and Munich. In 1833 he began teaching botany at the Polytechnic School of Karlsruhe, and stayed there until 1846. Afterwards he was a professor of botany in Freiburg (1846), Gießen (1850) and at the University of Berlin (1851), where he remained until 1877. While in Berlin, he was also director of the Berlin Botanical Garden. - Peter Radtke
Doctor Peter Radtke (born 1943) is a German actor and playwright who has osteogenesis imperfecta. He is the author of many scientific publications on disability issues and has a PhD in Romance languages. From 1957 to 1961 Peter Radtke completed training as an interpreter of English, French, and Spanish at a private foreign language school in Regensburg. - Willi Weber
Willi Weber, German, born on the March 11,1942 in Regensburg, Germany, is the manager of seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher and, until November 2005, of his brother Ralf Schumacher. He also manages German race drivers Timo Scheider and Nico Hülkenberg. Willi Weber made himself a name in the motorsport World for discovering and promoting talents like the Schumacher brothers and for being a shrewd negotiator. - Marianus Scotus
Marianus Scotus, chronicler (who must be distinguished from his namesake Marianus Scotus, d. 1088, abbot of St Peter's, Regensburg), was an Irishman by birth, and called Máel Brigte, or "Devotee of St. Brigid". He was educated by a certain Tigernach, and having become a monk he crossed over to the continent of Europe in 1056, and his subsequent life was passed in the abbeys of St Martin at Cologne and of Fulda, and at Mainz. - Otto Gessler
Otto Karl Gessler (February 6 1875 – March 24 1955) was a German politician during the Weimar Republic. From 1910 until 1914 he was mayor of Regensburg and from 1913 to 1919 mayor of Nuremberg. He served in Weimar cabinets from 1919 until 1928, usually as Minister of Defence. - Alois Riegl
Alois Riegl (14th January 1858 in Linz - 17th June 1905 in Vienna) was an Austrian art historian, and is considered a member of the Vienna School of Art History. He was one of the major figures in the establishment of art-history as a self-sufficient academic discipline, and one of the most influential practitioners of formalism. - Odile
Saint Odile (or Odilia) (Obernai, Dept. Bas-Rhin, c. 662 - c. 720 at Mount Ste. Odile) was the daughter of Etichon (Athich), Duke of Alsace. She was born blind. As her father did not want her because she was a girl, her mother Bethswinda had her brought to Palma (perhaps present day Baume-les-Dames in Burgundy) where she was raised. When she was twelve, the itinerant bishop Erhard of Regensburg was led, by an angel it was said, … - Johann Crüger
Johann Crüger was a German composer of well-known hymns. Crüger was born in Groß Breesen near Guben as the son of an innkeeper. He studied at the Lateinschule in Guben until 1613, after which he traveled to Sorau and Breslau and finally to Regensburg, where he received his first musical training from Paulus Homberger. In 1615 he traveled to Berlin, where he studied theology at the gymnasium "Zum Grauen Kloster". - Georg von Frundsberg
Georg von Frundsberg (September 24, 1473 - August 20 1528) was a South German knight and Landsknecht leader in the service of the Imperial Habsburg dynasty of Austria. Frundsberg was born to Ulrich von Frundsberg and his wife Barbara von Rechberg at Mindelheim, into an old line of southern Tyrolean knights who settled in Upper Swabia. He fought for the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I against the Swiss in the Swabian War of 1499, … - Johann Joseph Gassner
Johann Joseph Gassner was a noted exorcist. While a Catholic priest at Klösterle he gained a wide celebrity by professing to "cast out devils" and to work cures on the sick by means simply of prayer; he was deposed as an impostor, but the bishop of Regensburg, who believed in his honesty, bestowed upon him the cure of Pondorf. *Gassner at the Catholic Encyclopedia *Gassner biography (German) - Johann Nepomuk Mälzel
Johann Nepomuk Mälzel was an inventor, engineer, and showman, best known for manufacturing a metronome and several music automatons, and displaying a fraudulent chess machine. - David Of Augsburg
David of Augsburg, was a medieval German mystic, and a Franciscan friar. It is believed that he probably joined the Franciscan Order at Regensburg, where he filled the position of master of novices and wrote his acclaimed "Formula Novitiorum". *Christian mystics - Gerhard Aigner
Gerhard Aigner (born 1 September 1943 in Regensburg) * Gerhard Aigner became in 1989 General Secretary of UEFA * The position of the General Secretary was renamed to Chief Executive in 1999. He retired from the post at the end of 2003. - Nicolaus Gallus
Nicolaus Gallus (b. at Köthen (19 m. n. of Halle), Anhalt, 1516; d. at Bad Liebenzell (20 m. w. of Stuttgart), Württemberg, June, 1570), was leader of the Lutheran Reformation in Regensburg. At Wittenberg, where he became a student in 1530 and received the master's degree in 1537, he won the commendation of Melanchthon. In 1543 Luther sent Hieronymus Nopus as preacher to Regensburg at the request of the city council and with him went Gallus, … - Franz Gürtner
Franz Gürtner was a German Minister of Justice in Adolf Hitler's cabinet, responsible for coordinating jurisprudence in the Third Reich. Detesting the cruel ways of the Gestapo and SA in dealing with prisoners-of-war, he protested unsuccessfully to Hitler, but nevertheless stayed on in the cabinet, hoping to reform the establishment from within. - Franz Xaver Schwarz
Franz Xaver Schwarz was a German politician who served as Reichsschatzmeister (National Treasurer) of the Nazi Party during most of the Party's existence. A picture is available at: http://www.bundesarchiv.de/aktuelles/aus_dem_archiv/galerie/00067/index.html?index=0&id=1&nr=5 Born in Günzburg, Schwarz was only one of four people to have held the rank of "SS-Oberstgruppenführer" and, of the four, … - Judith Of Bavaria
Judith (b. 925; d. June 29 soon after 985), was Duchess of Bavaria. She was the eldest daughter of Arnulf the Bad of Bavaria and Judith of Friuli. She was the wife of Henry I of Bavaria, and through this marriage the Duchy of Bavaria entered the growing Kingdom of Germany. Their son was Henry the Wrangler for whom she acted as regent after Henry's death in 955. She has made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and afterwards retired to a convent. - 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. - Franz Matt
Franz Matt (1860-1929) was the only member of the Bavarian State cabinet not present at the Beer Hall Putsch. At the time of the putsch, he was having dinner with Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, the Archbishop of Munich and the Papal Nuncio, Monsignor Eugenio Pacelli, the future pope Pius XII. When informed of the coup, he organized a government-in-exile at Regensburg and called on the police, military, and other public servants to support the government, … - Gregor Aichinger
Gregor Aichinger, (c. 1565-1628) was a German composer. He was organist to the Fugger family of Augsburg in 1584. In 1599 he went for a two year visit to Rome for musical, rather than religious reasons, although he had taken religious orders before his appointment under the Fugger. Proske, in the preface to vol. 2 of his "Musica Divina", calls him a priest of Regensburg, and is inclined to give him the palm for the devout and ingenuous mastery of his style.
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