Wilhelm Schickard

Wilhelm Schickard

male, deceased (1635)
Wilhelm Schickard (April 22 1592 - October 23 1635) was a German polymath who built the first computer in 1623. Schickard was born in Herrenberg....
Friedrich Miescher

Friedrich Miescher

male, deceased (1895)
Johan Friedrich Miescher was a Swiss biologist. He isolated various phosphate-rich chemicals, which he called "nuclein" (now nucleic acids), from...
Alois Alzheimer

Alois Alzheimer

male, deceased (1915)
Aloysius "Alois" Alzheimer was a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist and a colleague of Emil Kraepelin. Alzheimer is credited with the first...
Ernst Bloch

Ernst Bloch

male, deceased (1977)
Ernst Simon Bloch (July 8, 1885 - August 4, 1977) was a German Marxist philosopher and atheist theologian. He was born in Ludwigshafen, the son of...
Ludwig Uhland

Ludwig Uhland

male, deceased (1862)
Johann Ludwig Uhland, was a German poet. He was born in Tübingen, and studied jurisprudence at the university there, but also took an interest in m...
Michael Maestlin

Michael Maestlin

male, deceased (1631)
Michael Maestlin (30 September, 1550- 20 October, 1631) was a German astronomer and mathematician. Born in Göppingen, Germany, Maestlin studied t...
Albrecht Ritschl

Albrecht Ritschl

male, deceased (1889)
Albrecht Ritschl (March 25, 1822 - March 20, 1889) was a German theologian.
Walter Bauer

Walter Bauer

male, deceased (1960)
Walter Bauer (August 8, 1877 - November 17, 1960) was a scholar of the development of the early Christian churches.
Romano Guardini

Romano Guardini

male, deceased (1968)
Romano Guardini was a Catholic priest, author, and academic. Born in Verona, Italy in 1885, Guardini moved to Germany at the age of one and lived...
Ralf Dahrendorf

Ralf Dahrendorf

male, 80 years old
Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, KBE, (born May 1, 1929) is a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and politician....