- 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), … - Ulrich Of Bamberg
Ulrich of Bamberg was a priest and chronicler who lived in Bamberg around 1100. Born Udalricus Babenbergensis, he was a cleric of the cathedral church of Bamberg, of whom nothing more is known than that he lived about 1100 at Bamberg. He is probably identical with the priest of Bamberg of the same name (d. 7 July, 1127), who is often mentioned in official documents and who bestowed large benefits on the monastery of Michelsberg. - Tobias Bamberg
Tobias "Theo" Leendert Bamberg (1875 - 1963), was a professional magician. Born in Holland, Bamberg performed under the name "Okito" which was an anagram of Tokio. As a young boy, Bamberg nearly drowned while ice skating. The accident left him almost completely deaf and as a result he performed entirely in pantomime. In 1893, Bamberg created his first Japanese-style act in Berlin at the young age of eighteen. - Johann Friedrich
Johann Friedrich (May 5, 1836-1917), German theologian, was born at Poxdorf in Upper Franconia, and was educated at Bamberg and at the University of Munich, where in 1865 be was appointed professor extraordinary of theology. In 1869 he went to the Vatican Council as secretary to Cardinal Hohenlohe, and took an active part in opposing the dogma of papal infallibility, notably by supplying the opposition bishops with historical and theological material. - Thomas Gottschalk
Thomas Gottschalk (born May 18, 1950) is a famous German TV host. He is best-known for hosting the popular show "Wetten, dass..?", which he has led to a huge success in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol. Gottschalk was born in the small Bavarian city of Bamberg as the son of a lawyer. After attending the "Humanistisches Gymnasium" (Humanistic gymnasium) in Kulmbach, he studied history and Germanistics (German language and literature), … - Vincent Yarbrough
Vincent Raymond Yarbrough (born March 21 1981 in Cleveland, Tennessee) is an American professional basketball player, formerly in the NBA, now playing in Europe. The 6' 7" forward out of the University of Tennessee was selected as the fourth pick of the second round (32nd overall) of the 2002 NBA Draft by the Denver Nuggets. He played 59 games with them during 2002-03, averaging 6.8 points, 2.7 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game. - Franz Ludwig von Erthal
Franz Ludwig von Erthal was the prince-bishop of Würzburg and Bamberg from 1779 until his death. * Catholic Encyclopedia - Arthur Abraham
Arthur Abraham (born Avetik Abrahamyan in Yerevan, Armenia) is a professional boxer and the current IBF champion of the middleweight division. He won the vacant title on December 10, 2005, in Leipzig, Germany, beating Kingsley Ikeke, via 5-round knock-out. On September 23, 2006, Abraham won a decision against Edison Miranda despite having his jaw broken in two places. - Dietrich Dörner
Prof. Dr. Dietrich Dörner is professor and dean for General and Theoretical Psychology at the Institute of Theoretical Psychology at the Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg, Germany. In 1986, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research. Famous publications are "The logic of failure", (ISBN 0201479486, … - Johannes Junius
Johannes Junius (1573- August 6, 1628) was the Burgomeister of Bamberg, famous today for his letter written to his daughter from jail while he awaited execution for witchcraft. Junius became Burgomeister in 1608 and remained in that position until his arrest, which came shortly after his wife had been executed on similar charges. He was implicated in witchcraft by other victims of the witch craze (which was particularly pronounced in Bamberg, … - Hugo von Trimberg
Hugo von Trimberg (born circa 1230/1235 in Wern(a), now either Ober- or Niederwerrn near Schweinfurt - died after 1313 in Bamberg-Theuerstadt) was a German Catholic didactic author of the Middle Ages. Around 1260 he came to the religious foundation of St. Gangolf in the Bamberg suburb of Theuerstadt, where surviving documents mention him as a teacher. He later became Rector, which he remained until 1300 or so. He was noted in his own day, … - Karlheinz Deschner
Karl Heinrich Leopold Deschner was born on May 23, 1924, in Bamberg, Germany. His father Karl, forester and fish farmer, Roman Catholic, grew up in extreme poverty. His mother, Margareta Karoline, née Reischböck, Protestant, grew up on the estates of her father in Franconia and Lower Bavaria. She converted later to Catholicism. Karlheinz Deschner, the eldest of three children, attended elementary school in Trossenfurt (Steigerwald) from 1929 to 1933. - Johann Dientzenhofer
Johann Dientzenhofer (* May 25, 1663 in St. Margarethen (Bavaria), county Rosenheim; † July 20, 1726 in Bamberg) was a builder and architect during the baroque period in Germany. Johann was a member of the famous Dientzenhofer family of German architects, who were among the leading builders in the Bohemian and German Baroque which included his brothers Georg Dientzenhofer (1643–1689), Wolfgang Dientzenhofer (1648–1706), … - Albrecht Pfister
Albrecht Pfister was a German printer and woodcut artist from Bamberg. He is believed to have been the first to print illustrated books. Pfister served as secretary to Georg I von Schaumberg, later chosen as prince-bishop of Bamberg in 1459. Pfister originally created woodcuts, but became the first to establish a printing office outside of Mentz. It is said that his career began in 1461 in Bamberg when Gutenberg's types were transferred to him, but this much is suspicious. - Franz Schmidt
Franz Schmidt, also known as Meister Franz, was executioner in the region of Bamberg from 1573 to April 1578, and from 1 May 1578 till the end of 1617 executioner of Nuremberg. In 1617, he resigned from his post. This removed from him the social stigma of being “unehrlich” ("dishonest" or "disrespectable") which applied at that time to executioners, prostitutes, and beggars (but also to millers, shepherds, and actors), … - Amber Michaels
Amber Michaels (born November 17, 1968 in Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany) is an American pornographic actress and fetish model. Michaels was adopted by an American family and was raised in Miami, Florida. Unlike many adult film stars, Michaels waited quite some time before she decided to enter the adult entertainment business; she was almost 30 when she made her first adult film. In 1998, she began performing in pro/am videos and soon graduated to "mainstream" porn. - Martin Meichelbeck
Martin Meichelbeck is a German footballer. - Günter Bentele
Günter Bentele is professor of Public Relations at the University of Leipzig. Between 1989 and 1994 he taught at the Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg. - Joachim Camerarius
Joachim Camerarius (April 12, 1500 - April 17, 1574), German classical scholar, was born at Bamberg, Bavaria. His family name was Liebhard, but he was generally called Kammermeister, previous members of his family having held the office of chamberlain ("camerarius") to the bishops of Bamberg. He studied at Leipzig, Erfurt and Wittenberg, where he became intimate with Melanchthon. For some years he was teacher of history and Greek at the gymnasium in Nuremberg. - Adam Harrington
Adam Harrington (born July 5 1980, in Bernardston, Massachusetts) is an American professional basketball player. He played collegiately at Auburn University and North Carolina State University. He split the 2002-03 National Basketball Association season with the Denver Nuggets and the Dallas Mavericks. He is currently playing for Bamberg, in Germany. - Johann Lukas Schönlein
Johann Lukas Schönlein was a German professor of medicine, born in Bamberg. He studied medicine at Landshut, Jena, Göttingen, and Würzburg. After teaching at Würzburg and Zurich, he was called to Berlin in 1839, where he taught therapeutics and pathology. He served as physician to Frederick William IV. He was one of the first German medical professors to lecture in the native tongue instead of Latin. - Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg
Elisabeth Magdalena (Nina) Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg was the wife of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, the leader of the failed plot to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944. She was born as Freiin von Lerchenfeld in Kowno, Russian Empire (now Kaunas, Lithuania), to General Consul Gustav Freiherr von Lerchenfeld (1871-1944) and the Baltic-German noblewoman Anna Freiin von Stackelberg (1880-1945). - Louise Welsh
Louise Welsh is an author of short stories and novels in Glasgow, Scotland. Welsh studied history at Glasgow University and traded in second-hand books for several years before publishing her first novel. Louise Welsh's debut novel "The Cutting Room" (2002) was nominated for several literary awards including the 2003 Orange Prize for Fiction. - Christopher Clavius
Christopher Clavius, (March 25, 1538 - February 12, 1612) was a German Jesuit mathematician and astronomer who was the main architect of the modern Gregorian calendar. In his last years he was probably the most respected astronomer in Europe and his textbooks were used for astronomical education for over fifty years in Europe and even in more remote lands (on account of being used by missionaries). - Ulrich Boner
Ulrich Boner, or Bonerius, (fl. early 14th century), was a German-speaking Swiss writer of fable. He was born in Bern, descended of an old Bernese family, and, as far as can be ascertained, took clerical orders and became a monk; yet as it appears that he subsequently married, it is certain that he received the tonsure only, and was thus entitled to the benefit of the "clerici uxoriati", who, on divesting themselves of the clerical garb, … - Heinrich Finck
Heinrich Finck (c. 1444 - c. 1519) was a German composer. He was probably born at Bamberg, but nothing is certainly known either of the place or date of his birth. Between 1492 and 1506 he was a musician in, and later possibly conductor of the court orchestra of successive kings of Poland at Warsaw. He held the post of conductor at Stuttgart from 1510 till about 1519, in which year he probably died. His works, mostly part songs and other vocal compositions, … - 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, … - August von Wassermann
August Paul von Wassermann was a German bacteriologist. Born in Bamberg, he studied at several universities throughout Germany, and in 1890 began to work under Robert Koch at the Institute for Infectious Diseases at the Charité in Berlin. He developed a complement fixation test for the diagnosis of syphilis in 1906, just one year after the causative organism had been identified. He became head of the department of therapeautics and serum research in 1907. - Derrick Zimmerman
Derrick Dewayne Zimmerman (born December 2 1981 in Monroe, Louisiana) is an American professional basketball player who most recentley played with. He played collegiately at Mississippi State University. He was selected 40th overall in the 2003 NBA Draft by the Golden State Warriors, and played two games with the NBA's New Jersey Nets during the 2005-06 season. He played in the NBA D-League for the Columbus Riverdragons (2004-05) and Austin Toros (2005-06). - Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal
Friedrich Karl Joseph Reichsfreiherr von Erthal was electoral prince and archbishop of Mainz from 1774-07-18 to 1802-07-04, shortly before the end of the archbishopric in the "Reichsdeputationshauptschluss". Erthal was born in Lohr am Main, Bavaria. His younger brother, Franz Ludwig von Erthal, was the prince-bishop of Würzburg and Bamberg. - Joseph Wolff
Joseph Wolff, Jewish Christian missionary, was born at Weilersbach, near Bamberg, Germany. His father became rabbi at Württemberg in 1806, and sent his son to the Protestant lyceum at Stuttgart. He was converted to Christianity through reading the books of Johann Michael von Sailer, bishop of Regensburg, and was baptized in 1812 by the Benedictine abbot of Emaus, near Prague. - Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor
Henry VI (November 1165 - 28 September 1197) was King of Germany from 1190 to 1197, Holy Roman Emperor from 1191 to 1197 and King of Sicily from 1194 to 1197. - Johann Kaspar Zeuß
Johann Kaspar Zeuß was a German historian and founder of Celtic philology. - Karl Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel
"Karl Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel" (14 September 1779, Bautzen-29 July 1819, Bamberg was a German writer. He studied medicine in Leipzig and Jena, then philosophy. From 1805 he lived in Dresden. He contributed heavily to Heinrich von Kleist's journal "Phöbus" throughout 1808, and from 1809 he was the editor of the "Fränkischen Merkur" in Bamberg. Many of his works appeared under pseudonyms such as "Theophrast" and "Ysthamarus". - Hermann Tietz
Hermann Tietz was a German merchant of Jewish origin. Tietz was born on April 29, 1837 in Birnbaum an der Warthe near Posen (today Międzychód, Poland) and died on May 3, 1907 in Berlin). He was buried in the Weißensee Cemetery. Tietz was the first to carry out the idea of the department store in Germany and founded the chain store later known as "Hertie". In 1882, the first department store of Tietz was opened in Gera (Thuringia, Germany) by his nephew Oskar Tietz. - Jakob Ayrer
Jakob Ayrer (ca. 1543-March 26, 1605) was a German playwright and author of "Fastnachtsspiele" (carnival or Shrovetide plays). Little is known of Ayrer's living circumstances. He lived as an ironmonger in Nuremberg, probably studying theology and law in Bamberg before returning in 1593 to Nuremberg, where he was Imperial notary and legal prosecutor. Ayrer was the last significant composer of "Fastnachtsspiele" and a very prolific author: of his 106 plays, … - Friedrich Bürklein
Georg Friedrich Christian Bürklein was a German architect and a pupil of Friedrich von Gärtner. His first important work was the construction of the town hall in Fürth (1840-50) which is influenced by the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. Bürklein created also the Central Station in Munich (1847 -1849) with its steel construction and the stations of Augsburg, Bamberg, Ansbach, Neu-Ulm, Hof, Nördlingen, Rosenheim, Würzburg, Nuremberg and Bad Kissingen. - Karl von Abel
Karl von Abel was a Bavarian statesman. Born in Wetzlar, Abel was the son of a procurator at the superior Court of Justice. He studied law in Gießen from 1806-1809, and became a civil servant of Bavaria in 1810. In 1817 he was appointed city and police commissar in Bamberg, in 1819, Governmental Councillor in Munich, and in 1827 promoted to Senior Legal Secretary. In the Diet of 1831 he gave a speech in favour of freedom of the press and against censorship. - Franz von Rinecker
Franz von Rinecker was a German pharmacologist who was a native of Schesslitz from the district of Bamberg. He studied medicine at Munich and Würzburg, earning his medical degree in 1834. In 1838 he became professor of pharmacology at the University of Würzburg. Some of his more well known students and assistants were Emil Kraepelin, Franz von Leydig, Ernst Haeckel and Carl Gerhardt, who later succeeded Rinecker at the department of pediatrics. - Johannes Schöner
Johannes Schöner (aka, Johann Schönner, Jean Schönner, Johann Schoenerus) was a German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, cartographer and editor. In 1494, he began to study theology, mathematics and medicine at Erfurt. He was ordained priest in 1500. In Nürnberg, he learned observing astronomy with Bernard Walther. Until 1525, he hold several positions in churches at and near Bamberg.
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