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    Wilhelm Carl Grimm (also Karl; 24 February 1786 – 16 December 1859) was a German author and anthropologist. He was the younger brother of Jacob Grimm...
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    Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm (4 January 1785 – 20 September 1863), also known as Ludwig Karl, was a German author, linguist, philologist, jurist, and folklorist...
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    Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (Russian: Василий Яковлевич Струве, trans. Vasily Yakovlevich Struve; 15 April 1793 – 23 November [O.S. 11 November] 1864)...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel or Froebel (German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈʔaʊɡʊst ˈfʁøːbl̩] ; 21 April 1782 – 21 June 1852) was a German pedagogue, a student...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger (14 April 1890 – 25 April 1947) was a German lawyer who became the State Secretary in the Reich Chancellery under Reichsminister...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (German: [ˈbɛsl̩]; 22 July 1784 – 17 March 1846) was a German astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geodesist. He was the...
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    Brothers Grimm (German: die Brüder Grimm or die Gebrüder Grimm), Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were German academics who together collected and...
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    Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the...
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    Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (German: [ˈaːdɔlf fɔn ˈbaɪɐ] ; 31 October 1835 – 20 August 1917) was a German chemist who synthesised indigo...
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    University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (German: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn), is a public research...
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    by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humboldt, Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher as the University...
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  • R S T U V W X Y Z See also Ilka Agricola Rudolf Ahlswede Wilhelm Ahrens Oskar Anderson Karl Apfelbacher Philipp Apian Petrus Apianus Michael Artin Günter...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈjoːzɛf ˈʃɛlɪŋ]; 27 January 1775 – 20 August 1854), later (after 1812) von Schelling,...
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    Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht (German: [ˈliːpknɛçt] ; 13 August 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a German socialist and anti-militarist. A member of...
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    psychologist, sociologist, and hermeneutic philosopher, who held Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Chair in Philosophy at the University of Berlin. As a polymathic...
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  • classical philologist. He studied under Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Jacobs and Johann Kaspar Friedrich Manso at the gymnasium in Gotha. From 1791 he studied...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm Meves (April 14, 1814 – April 9, 1891) was a German naturalist, ornithologist and entomologist. He worked as a curator of birds at the...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Seydlitz (3 February 1721 – 8 November 1773) was a Prussian officer, lieutenant general, and among the greatest of the...
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    (1766–1847), William had 13 children: Wilhelm Friedrich von Hessenstein (23 June 1789 – 26 April 1790), died in infancy Wilhelm Karl von Hessenstein (19 May 1790...
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  • Friedrich Wilhelm Gottlieb Theophil Rostkovius (1770–1848) was a German physician, mycologist and botanist. In 1801, he received his doctorate from the...
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    Sincerité, from November 17, 1705; and from 1712 to 12/18/1726. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (5/12/1712 – 8/3/1757), revived...
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  • (1662–1736), architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841), architect and painter Johann Conrad Schlaun (1695–1773)...
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    were Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (1773–1798), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854), Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834), Karl Wilhelm Friedrich...
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    Johann Christoph Friedrich, respectively. Anna Philippine Friederike (1755–1804), sister of Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst, married Wilhelm Ernst Colson, a lieutenant...
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  • Bodländer Hanns-Peter Boehm Johann Böhm Horst Böhme Wilhelm Boland Werner von Bolton Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Hans-Joachim Born Carl Bosch Rudolf Christian...
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    Karl Friedrich I of Münsterberg-Oels (also: Karl Friedrich I of Poděbrady; German: Karl Friedrich I. von Oels und Münsterberg or Karl Friedrich I. von...
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    Karl Friedrich May (/maɪ/ MY, German: [kaʁl ˈmaɪ] ; 25 February 1842 – 30 March 1912) was a German author. He is best known for his novels of travels...
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    Augustin-Louis Cauchy Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Jacobi logarithm Last geometric statement of Jacobi List of things named after Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi Niels Henrik...
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    (1870–1943), Communist resistance Walter Bohne (1903–1944), Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group Wilhelm Boller [de] (1904–1943), Rote Hilfe Eugen Bolz (1881–1945), Zentrumspartei...
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