Famous People with Name Zahn

Peter Von Zahn            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Peter Von Zahn: was a German author, film maker, and journalist.Born in Chemnitz as a son of an officer, he grew up in Dresden and studied law, history, and philosophy. He was drafted at the beginning of World War II. After the war, he was one of the founders of the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR). For three years, he managed the NWDR Studio in Düsseldorf where he introduced anglo-saxon style journalism with self-critical irony.

Steven James Zahn            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Steven James Zahn: Zahn was born in Marshall, Minnesota, the son of Zelda Clair (née Gades), who worked for the YMCA, and Carleton Edward Zahn, a retired Lutheran pastor.[1][2] Zahn spent part of his childhood in Mankato, Minnesota, attending Kennedy Elementary School. Afte

Professor Joachim Zahn            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Professor Joachim Zahn: was the chairman of Daimler Benz AG between 1971 and 1979. Zahn was the youngest of four sons of a Wuppertal Lawyer. He himself studied law at Tübingen and later obtained a doctorate at Cologne based on a study on the limits of credit insurance. During th

Johannes Zahn            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Johannes Zahn: was a German theologian and musicologist best known for his opus Melodien der deutschen evangelischen Kirchenlieder, a critical anthology of almost 9000 hymn melodies developed and used in German Lutheran churches. Johannes Zahn dedicated himself particularly to the recovery and critical revision of melodies and hymns developed during and after the Reformation, which he started publishing in 1889, in Gütersloh. The classification system he developed is still used by hymnologists worldwide, in the form Zahn ###, where the number represents the location of the melody or hymn in Zahn's anthology[2].

Theodor Zahn            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Theodor Zahn: was a biblical scholar born in Rhineland, Prussia (now Germany). He was professor of Theology at Erlangen, and distinguished for his eminent scholarship in connection with the matter especially of the New Testament canon. He stood at the head of the conservative New Testament scholarship of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902, 1904 and 1908