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The following is a list of people associated with the former city of
Königsberg (
Duchy of Prussia,
Kingdom of Prussia,
Germany) which was renamed to
Kaliningrad, Soviet Union in 1946.
Writing and public thinking
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Stanislovas Rapalionis (1485–1545), at
Königsberg Albertina University first translator of the Bible into Lithuanian
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Abraomas Kulvietis (1509–1545), religious reformer at
Königsberg Albertina University
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Stanisław Murzynowski (c.1527–1553),
Polish writer, translator and a
Lutheran activist during the
Protestant Reformation.
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Caspar Schütz (c.1540
Eisleben – 1594
Danzig), historian at
Königsberg and
Danzig, interest in the history of
Prussia.
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Martynas Mažvydas (1510–1563), priest, writer and translator
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Jan Kochanowski (1530 in
Sycyna – 1584) Polish poet, attended the
University of Königsberg after 1547
[1]
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Simon Dach (1605 in Memel – 1659) a lyrical poet and hymnwriter.
[2]
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Frederick I of Prussia (1657–1713), Elector of Brandenburg & Duke of Prussia
[3]
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John Ernest Grabe (1666–1711) an Anglican divine.
[4]
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Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700–1766) philosopher, author and critic of the
Age of Enlightenment.
[5]
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Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), philosopher
[6]
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Johann Georg Hamann (1730–1788), philosopher
[7]
[8]
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Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Elder (1741–1796) a satirical and humorous writer.
[9]
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Zacharias Werner (1768–1823) a poet, dramatist and preacher.
[10]
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E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822), author
[11]
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Karl Lehrs (1802–1878) a classical scholar.
[12]
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Karl Rosenkranz (1805–1879) a philosopher and pedagogue.
[13]
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Wincenty Pol (1807 in Lublin – 1872) Polish poet; was interned in Königsberg after the fall of the
November Uprising in
Russian partition of Poland.
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Abraham Mapu (1808–1867), Hebrew novelist
[14]
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Ferdinand Nesselmann (1811 Fürstenau – 1881 Königsberg), mathematician, historian, orientalist and philologist
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Fanny Lewald (1811–1889), feminist and author
[15]
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Theodor Goldstücker (1821–1872) a German Sanskrit scholar.
[16]
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August Wilhelm Zumpt (1815–1877) a German classical scholar
[17]
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Bernhard Weiss (1827–1918) a Protestant New Testament scholar.
[18]
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Emma Goldman (1869–1940), author and political theorist
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Friedrich Radszuweit (1876–1932), author and publisher
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Agnes Miegel (1879–1964), author
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Walter Liebenthal (1886–1982), sinologist and philosopher
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Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), political theorist and philosopher
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Leah Goldberg (1911–1970), Israeli poet
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Annemarie Bostroem (1922-2015), author
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Hans-Joachim Newiger, (1925–2011), philologist
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Leah Rabin (née Schloßberg) (1928–2000), author and wife of
Yitzhak Rabin
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Johann Bartsch (1709–1738), physician, botanist, and collaborator with
Carl Linnaeus
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Johann Christoph Bohl (1703–1785), physician, professor, and sponsor of
Kant
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Friedrich Bessel (1784–1846) an astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and
geodesist.
[19]
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Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach (1792–1847), surgeon
[20]
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Karl Gottfried Hagen (1749–1829), chemist, opened first German chemistry lab at Königsberg's
Albertina University
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Gotthilf Hagen (1797–1884), physicist, contributed to
fluid dynamics
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Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (1799–1878) a German-Austrian pharmacist and botanist
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Adolph Eduard Grube (1812–1880), zoologist
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Hermann August Hagen (1817–1893)
Cambridge, U.S., German entomologist
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Erich von Drygalski (1865–1949) geographer, geophysicist and polar scientist
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Hermann Eichhorst (1849–1921), physician
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Emanuel Kayser (1845–1927) geologist and palaeontologist
[21]
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Gustav Kirchhoff (1824–1887), physicist and
spectroscopist
[22]
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Karl Rudolf König (1832–1901), physicist
[23]
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Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899–1986), biochemist, shared the 1953
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Arno Motulsky 1923-2018. medical geneticist
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Franz Ernst Christian Neumann (1834–1918), pathologist
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Friedrich Adolf Paneth (1887–1958), chemist
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Siegfried Passarge (1866–1958), geographer
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Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer (1846–1906), botanist
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Arnold Sommerfeld (1868–1951), physicist, pioneered atomic and quantum physics
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Otto Wallach (1847–1931), chemist, recipient of the 1910
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Max Wien (1866–1938), physicist
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Christian Goldbach (1690–1764), mathematician, developed
Goldbach's conjecture
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Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804–1851), mathematician, worked on
elliptic functions,
dynamics,
differential equations
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Otto Hesse (1811–1874), mathematician, worked on
algebraic invariants
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Carl Neumann (1832–1925), mathematician, worked on the
Dirichlet principle
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Rudolf Lipschitz (1832–1903), mathematician, named the
Lipschitz continuity condition
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Alfred Clebsch (1833–1872), mathematician, contributed to
algebraic geometry
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Ludwig Scheeffer (1859–1885), mathematician, contributed to
calculus
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Kurt Hensel (1861–1941) mathematician, introduced
p-adic number
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David Hilbert (1862–1943), mathematician, developed
invariant theory
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Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909), mathematician, developed the
geometry of numbers
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Anton Möller (c.1563–1611), painter active mostly in Danzig (
Gdańsk)
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August Kohn (1732–c.1801/2), violinist and composer active at the courts in Berlin
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Otto Nicolai (1810–1849), composer and conductor
[24]
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Rudolf Siemering (1835–1905) German sculptor
[25]
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Hermann Goetz (1840–1876) a composer of the 1872 opera
Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung.
[26]
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Pavel Pabst (1854–1897), pianist/composer and professor at the
Moscow Conservatory
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Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), painter and sculptor
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Ernst Behmer (1875–1938) a prolific German stage and film actor
[27]
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Werner Funck (1881–1951), actor, singer, and film director
[28]
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Harry Liedtke (1882–1945), actor
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Heinz Tiessen (1887–1971), composer
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Emy von Stetten (1898–1980), soprano
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Max Colpet (1905–1998), popular song lyricist
[29]
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Michael Wieck (1928–2021), musician and author
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Veruschka von Lehndorff (born 1939), model, actress and artist
[30]
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Eberhard Feltz (born 1937), German classical violinist
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Wilfried Gruhn (born 1939), German violinist, musicologist, music educator and emeritus professor
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Erhard Ernst von Röder (1665–1743), Prussian field marshal
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Peter August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1697–1775) Field Marshal in the
Russian Imperial Army
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Friedrich von der Trenck (1726–1794), Prussian officer and adventurer.
[31]
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Leopold von Rauch (1787-1860), Prussiand general
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Prince Albert of Prussia (1809–1872)
Generaloberst
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Max von der Goltz (1838-1906), Prussian admiral
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Ernst von Below (1863-1955), German general
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Hans Feige, (1880–1953), Wehrmacht general
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Oskar von Hindenburg (1883–1960) a German
Generalleutnant
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Wolff von Stutterheim (1893–1940) a German
Generalmajor
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Werner Ostendorff (1903–1945), German
SS Major General (
Gruppenführer) of the
2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich
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Gerhard Barkhorn (1919–1983), second-highest-ranking Luftwaffe fighter ace (301 victories).
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Johann Jacoby (1805–1877), politician
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Eduard von Simson (1810–1899), jurist and politician
[32]
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Otto Stellter (1823-1894), politician, member of German Reichstag
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Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg (1847–1921) diplomat and close friend of Wilhelm II
[33]
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Robert Rasch (1852–1938), a German settler in
Nauru & first resident
Administrator
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Otto Braun, (1872–1955), statesman and politician,
Minister President of Prussia
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Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884–1945), a monarchist conservative politician
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Wilhelm von Gayl (1879–1945), politician of the
German National People's Party
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Karl-Hermann Flach (1929–1973) journalist at the
Frankfurter Rundschau and FDP politician
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Bruno Taut (1880–1938) &
Max Taut (1884–1967), architects
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Moshe Smoira (1888–1961), first President of the
Supreme Court of Israel
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Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld (1892–1929) aviator, made the first east-west transatlantic flight in 1928
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Josef Hirsch Dunner (1913–2007),
Chief Rabbi of
East Prussia 1936-1938
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Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits (1921–1999)
Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, from 1967 to 1991
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Ulrich Schnaft (born 1923) Waffen-SS man in WWII, emigrated to Israel where he spied for Egypt
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Gerda Munsinger (1929–1998) an East German prostitute and alleged Soviet spy
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Thomas Eichelbaum (1931–2018), former
Chief Justice of New Zealand
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Heinrich August Winkler (born 1938), historian, academic and author
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Reinhard Bonnke (1940–2019), televangelist, missionary in Africa from 1967
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Heinrich Wilhelm Nehrenheim (1875–1939), military and provincial official in the Landeshaus Königsberg, married to Olga Wagner
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"Kochanowski, Jan" .
New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
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