Famous People with Name Kurt

Kurt Otto Friedrichs            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Kurt Otto Friedrichs: was a noted German American mathematician. He was the co-founder of the Courant Institute at New York University and recipient of the National Medal of Science.[1] In 1931, Friedrichs became a full professor of mathematics at the Technische Hochschule in

Kurt Heinig            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Kurt Heinig: was a German lithograph, politician and journalist. After travelling through the USA he wrote about his experiences in Vorwärts and the Wettelbüne Mitte during the 1920s. Heinig meant that Germany should modernize itself through technological progress and

Kurt Grelling            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Kurt Grelling: was a logician, philosopher and member of the Berlin Circle. Shortly after his arrival in 1905 at University of Göttingen, Grelling began a collaboration with philosopher Leonard Nelson, with whom he tried to solve Russell's paradox, which had shaken the

Kurt Sternberg            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Kurt Sternberg: was a German philosopher and author. Sternberg, who was Jewish, fled to the Netherlands in 1939 to escape the National Socialists. He was nonetheless detained and sent to the Westerbork concentration camp and from there, to Auschwitz, where he perished in September 1942.

Kurt Hutton            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Kurt Hutton: was a German-born photographer who pioneered photojournalism in England. He then became one of the founding staff of the groundbreaking pictorial weekly news magazine Picture Post. One of his most famous images used there showed working-class girls enjoying themselves in Funfair, Southend, Essex (1938).[1]