German Famous Names Starting with Letter J

Is a composer and poet, and runs the Surrism-Phonoethics netlabel. He is best known for his various

Is a composer and poet, and runs the Surrism-Phonoethics netlabel. He is best known for his various Dada and Surrealist inspired experimental music and spoken word projects - such as Undress Béton, André Pissoir and Dusk Euphoria. Additionally, together with Frater Surrallee, he works as Surrism on improvised music projects. Patterson's music has been played on numerous Community radio stations and Internet radio stations - including, Resonance FM,[1] WFMU,[2] NTNS Radio[3] by Mark Stolk and L'étranger, Radio Panik.[4] Since 2010, Patterson, together with Anthony Donovan (Murmurists)[5] and Adrian Beentjes (Zoologic),[6] has run the Classwar Karaoke[7][8] netlabel, which releases quarterly compilations of experimental music and short-films, by artists from around the world.

Is a German swimmer. She is trained by Jörg Hoffmann. In 2006, she took part in the European Short

Is a German swimmer. She is trained by Jörg Hoffmann. In 2006, she took part in the European Short Course Swimming Championships in Helsinki. She also represented Germany in the women's 400 metre and 800 metre freestyle swimming races at the 2008 Summer O

Is a German amateur boxer who has fought at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the men's welterweight divis

Is a German amateur boxer who has fought at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the men's welterweight division.

Is a German-American physicist.Steinberger was born in the city of Bad Kissingen in Bavaria, Germany

Is a German-American physicist.Steinberger was born in the city of Bad Kissingen in Bavaria, Germany, but left at the age of 13, due to the increasing anti-Semitism of the rising Nazi party. He moved to the United States, where he lived for many years, before moving to Switzerland to work at CERN. He gave his Nobel medal to New Trier High School of which he is an alumnus.

Was a German statesman, one of the preeminent promoters of the Protestant Reformation in Germany.

Was a German statesman, one of the preeminent promoters of the Protestant Reformation in Germany.

Was born in the Austrian (at that time) village of Ehingen, about 30 miles southwest of Ulm. He was

Was born in the Austrian (at that time) village of Ehingen, about 30 miles southwest of Ulm. He was a Jesuit priest and professor of theology, but is remembered mostly for his plays.[1] He was gifted at writing plays that began comically, with loud talk and clowning around, and then turning the tables on his characters, and switching to totally tragic circumstances. At the age of 22 he wrote his first play Cenodoxus, in Latin, a dramatization of the popular Legend of the Doctor of Paris, (the Faust theme). In the play, considered his most notable, a man dies and interrupts his own last rites to announce his own damnation. The play was performed in Augsburg on two consecutive days in July of 1602.

Was a German philosopher. Freudenthal received his education at the universities of Breslau and Göt

Was a German philosopher. Freudenthal received his education at the universities of Breslau and Göttingen, and at the rabbinical seminary of Breslau. After graduating from the University of Göttingen (1863) he became teacher of the Samson school in Wolfen

Was a prominent German writer on music (especially on music theory), composer, and jurist. His most

Was a prominent German writer on music (especially on music theory), composer, and jurist. His most important work is his Versuch einer geordneten Theorie der Tonsetzkunst (Theory of Musical Composition) (Mainz, B. Schott, 1817-21), which introduces several concepts that have since become important in the study of music theory. In this work Weber introduces the idea of Mehrdeutigkeit, that is, “multiple meaning” of individual tones and harmonies, based on their context in a piece of music.

Was a German entomologist.Hübner was the author of Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge (1796-1805

Was a German entomologist.Hübner was the author of Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge (1796-1805), a founding work of Entomology. He was one of the first specialists to work on the European Lepidoptera. He described very many new species, for example Se

Was a Baltic German Duke of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (1642–1682). Under his rule, the

Was a Baltic German Duke of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (1642–1682). Under his rule, the duchy was brought to its greatest peak in wealth and engaged in colonization. Kettler was born in Goldingen (Kuldiga). He was the son of Wilhelm Kettler and

German philologist, jurist and mythologist, was born at Hanau, in Hesse-Kassel.

German philologist, jurist and mythologist, was born at Hanau, in Hesse-Kassel.

Is a decathlete from Germany. He set his personal best in the event (8099 points) on 13 August 2007

Is a decathlete from Germany. He set his personal best in the event (8099 points) on 13 August 2007 at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand, earning him the gold medal.

Was a German Baroque composer and organist, and the son of Hieronymus Praetorius. His grandfather, t

Was a German Baroque composer and organist, and the son of Hieronymus Praetorius. His grandfather, the father of Hieronymus, Jacob Praetorius the elder (d.1586) was also a composer. As a student of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, he was one of the most important organists and most respected pedagogues of the north German tradition before Johann Sebastian Bach. From 1603 on he was organist at the Petrikirche in Hamburg. His most important pupil, Matthias Weckmann, studied with him from 1633 to 1636 and later joined him in Hamburg as organist at the Jakobikirche. His compositional style includes both traditional and progressive elements. His three surviving preludes show the kind of sectionalism and diversity of styles that would become one of the defining characteristics of the genre.

Was an itinerant scholar of geography and cartographer, who lived a wandering life in Europe. He stu

Was an itinerant scholar of geography and cartographer, who lived a wandering life in Europe. He studied at the University of Ingolstadt,[1] then spent some time at the court of Pope Leo X before he converted to Protestantism; subsequently his geographical works were placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. For a time he taught at Vienna; in his old age, 1545–49, he lived in the house of Wolfgang Salm, Bishop of Passau. His portrait by Wolf Huber (c. 1485-1553), executed about 1540, when he was about seventy years old, is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.[2

Is a former speed skater.Jacqueline Börner won her first international medal when she earned bronze

Is a former speed skater.Jacqueline Börner won her first international medal when she earned bronze at the 1987 European Allround Championships. Two years later, she won bronze again. A top skater in her own right, Börner often finished behind compatriots

Is a German television actor.

Is a German television actor.

Was a German-born American physiologist and biologist.In 1892 he was called to the University of Chi

Was a German-born American physiologist and biologist.In 1892 he was called to the University of Chicago as assistant professor of physiology and experimental biology, becoming associate professor in 1895, and professor of physiology in 1899. In 1902 he was called to fill a similar chair at the University of California.In 1910 Loeb moved to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York, where he headed a department created for him. He remained at Rockefeller (now Rockefeller University) until his death. Throughout most of these years Loeb spent his summers at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, performing experiments on various marine invertebrates. It was there that Jacques Loeb performed his most famous experiment

Was a German-born Jewish chess player and writer.He moved to England in the 1930s to escape Nazi per

Was a German-born Jewish chess player and writer.He moved to England in the 1930s to escape Nazi persecution and became the first British grandmaster in 1950. He was a dangerous attacker with a number of brilliant victories to his credit, e.g. against Frank Marshall (Monte Carlo 1903).

A French composer and cellist of the Romantic era and one of the originators of the operetta form. O

A French composer and cellist of the Romantic era and one of the originators of the operetta form. Of German-Jewish descent, he was one of the most influential composers of popular music in Europe in the 19th century, and many of his works remain in the repertory.

Is a German actor, musician, and member of the comedy ensemble Studio Braun.[1]

Is a German actor, musician, and member of the comedy ensemble Studio Braun.[1]

Was an Austrian chess master.In 1880, he tied for 5-6th in Graz (Adolf Schwarz, Johannes Minckwitz a

Was an Austrian chess master.In 1880, he tied for 5-6th in Graz (Adolf Schwarz, Johannes Minckwitz and Max Weiss won). In 1881, he tied for 7-8th in Berlin (2nd DSB-Kongress, Joseph Henry Blackburne won). In 1883, he took 9th in Nuremberg (3rd DSB-Kongres

Is a retired volleyball player from France, who played for the Men's National Team in the late 1990s

Is a retired volleyball player from France, who played for the Men's National Team in the late 1990s.

Is an Australian singer/songwriter and lead singer and guitarist of critically acclaimed Australian

Is an Australian singer/songwriter and lead singer and guitarist of critically acclaimed Australian music group Jaime Robbie Reyne & The Paradise Three. He has said that he is influenced by such folk, blues, country and rock musicians as The Band, Gram Parsons, Ry Cooder, Gillian Welch, Townes Van Zandt, Nirvana amongst many others. As the leader of the band, Jaime Robbie Reyne & The Paradise Three he plays Fender guitars, primarily a Fender Telecaster Deluxe, and sometimes he uses a Gibson SG.

Was a German organist, teacher, instrument maker, music historian, and music theorist. he later wrot

Was a German organist, teacher, instrument maker, music historian, and music theorist. he later wrote some books on the subject, most of which were destroyed, along with his house, in a fire in 1736. He returned to Erfurt in 1737 where he succeeded Johann Heinrich Buttstedt as organist of the Prediger church after the former's death, a post he retained for the rest of his life. He was also professor of languages at the Erfurt Gymnasium and taught, by his own estimate, 218 organ students and 284 language students between 1728 and 1762. He was also a maker of keyboard instruments, and completed sixteen of the same. He married Elisabeth Ritter in 1732, who was the daughter of the mayor of Gross-Wanzleben, near Magdeburg.