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Was a German linguist active in the field of comparative linguistics, particularly relating to the B

Was a German linguist active in the field of comparative linguistics, particularly relating to the Baltic and Slavic languages.Leskien was born in Kiel. He studied philology at the universities of Kiel and Leipzig, receiving his doctorate from the latter in 1864. He taught Latin and Ancient Greek at the Thomasschule zu Leipzig from 1864-1866. In 1866 he began studying comparative linguistics under August Schleicher at the University of Jena. He completed his habilitation in 1867 and went on to lecture at the University of Göttingen. He was appointed as the außerordentlicher professor of comparative linguistics and Sanskrit at Jena in 1868. Two years later he was named as the außerordentlicher professor of Slavic philology at the University of Leipzig.

Was a German equestrian and Olympic champion.

Was a German equestrian and Olympic champion.

Was a German geographer widely acknowledged as the founder of rural settlement geography. Meitzen wa

Was a German geographer widely acknowledged as the founder of rural settlement geography. Meitzen was the Prussian special commissioner for land consolidation, concerned with redrawing property lines so as to reduce farm fragmentation.In this capacity, he traveled over much of the German countryside, becoming familiar with the agarian landscape. Not content to study only the field and cadastral patterns, he also gave detailed consideration to village types and folk architecture.He attended the first annual national meeting of German geographers in 1881 and read a paper on rural house types. Not an academician, Meitzen was nevertheless named honorary professor at the University of Berlin for many years.

Was a German chemist and discovered the Michaelis-Arbuzov reaction.Michaelis studied at the Universi

Was a German chemist and discovered the Michaelis-Arbuzov reaction.Michaelis studied at the University of Göttingen and University of Jena and became professor for chemistry at University of Karlsruhe in 1876, at the University of Aachen in 1880, and at the University of Rostock in 1890.

Was a German footballer.He came to Eintracht Frankfurt from VfB Friedberg. For the Eagles Möbs scor

Was a German footballer.He came to Eintracht Frankfurt from VfB Friedberg. For the Eagles Möbs scored loads of goals and reached with Eintracht the final rounds for the German championship in 1932 and 1933. In 1932 he lost with his club in the final match

Was a German composer and court organist in Dresden.[1] He was born and died in Dresden. The main so

Was a German composer and court organist in Dresden.[1] He was born and died in Dresden. The main source for Nörmiger's compositions is the manuscript Organ tabulature "Tabulaturbuch auff dem Instrumente", which he compiled for Sophie von Sachsen in 1598. He gives few indications as to his sources.

Was a German Olympic fencer.

Was a German Olympic fencer.

Was a German portrait and documentary photographer.He spent his military service (1897–99) as a ph

Was a German portrait and documentary photographer.He spent his military service (1897–99) as a photographer's assistant, and the next years wandering across Germany. In 1901, he started working for a photo studio in Linz, eventually becoming a partner (1902), and then its sole proprietor (1904). He left Linz at the end of 1909 and set up a new studio in Cologne.In the early 1920s, Sander joined the "Group of Progressive Artists" in Cologne and began plans to document contemporary society in a portrait series. In 1927, Sander and writer Ludwig Mathar travelled through Sardinia for three months, where he took around 500 photographs. However, a planned book detailing his travels was not completed.

Was a German linguist born in Meiningen (Duchy Saxe-Meiningen, southwest of Weimar in the Thuringian

Was a German linguist born in Meiningen (Duchy Saxe-Meiningen, southwest of Weimar in the Thuringian Forest). His great work was A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European Languages, in which he attempted to reconstruct the Proto-Indo-European language.August Schleicher began his career studying theology and Indo-European, especially Slavic languages. Influenced by Hegel, he formed the theory that a language is an organism, with periods of development, maturity, and decline. In 1850 Schleicher completed a monograph systematically describing the languages of Europe, Die Sprachen Europas in systematischer Übersicht (The languages of Europe in systematic perspective). He explicitly represented languages as perfectly natural organisms that could most conveniently be described using terms drawn from biology e.g., genus, species, and variety.

Was an enterprising German-American immigrant who set up a shop dealing in rubber products in Manhat

Was an enterprising German-American immigrant who set up a shop dealing in rubber products in Manhattan, New York CIty, USA. His original shop was located at 115 John Street. In 1845, he began supplying fittings and valves for rubber products made by the Goodyear Brothers, including air pillows and life preservers. Schrader was a maker of daguerreotype apparati. Shortly thereafter, he went into partnership with Christian Baecher, a brass turner and finisher.Around 1890, after reports of English cyclists' success using pneumatic tires, August Schrader saw the need for a bicycle tire valve. By 1891, he produced the Schrader valve, which was his most popular invention, and is still used today. August’s son, George, is generally credited with the experimental work that resulted in the valve's creation.

Was a scientist at the Technische Universität Dresden. Seebeck is primarily remembered for his work

Was a scientist at the Technische Universität Dresden. Seebeck is primarily remembered for his work on sound and hearing, in particular with experiments with an acoustic siren that demonstrated that the pitch of a tone did not depend on the tone having a fundamental frequency component of the pitch frequency. His observations and theories are now highly regarded,[1] but historically suffered in the battle with Ohm and Helmholtz, who took a Fourier analysis view of the sound of tones.

Is a former international Austrian footballer and football manager. He ist also known as Gustl Stare

Is a former international Austrian footballer and football manager. He ist also known as Gustl Starek and der Schwarze Gustl (German for "the black gustl").

Was a German Marxist activist and theoretician.Thalheimer was part of the local government in Württ

Was a German Marxist activist and theoretician.Thalheimer was part of the local government in Württemberg serving as Minister of Finance during the crisis of 1923. He and Heinrich Brandler were blamed for the consequences and summoned to Moscow in 1924. T

A German dramatis

A German dramatis

Was a German racing cyclist. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Gödrich competed in

Was a German racing cyclist. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Gödrich competed in the road race. He placed second in the 87 kilometre race from Athens to Marathon and back, finishing in 3:42:18 behind Aristidis Konstantinidis of Greece.

Was a German composer and music pedagogue. He worked as a professor of choral singing at the Cologne

Was a German composer and music pedagogue. He worked as a professor of choral singing at the Cologne Musikhochschule. Amongst his pupils were Theodor Schwake and Herbert Eimert. The "August von Othegraven Plakette" named after him is bestowed as a medal and badge in bronze, silver, and gold, for services to the cultural care and promotion of choral singing.

German biologist[2]. Ernst Mayr ranked him the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th

German biologist[2]. Ernst Mayr ranked him the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin.

S a German poet, translator, critic, and a foremost leader of German Romanticism.

S a German poet, translator, critic, and a foremost leader of German Romanticism.

Was an Austrian composer and music historian of Czech descent.He was born at Vysoké Mýto near Roky

Was an Austrian composer and music historian of Czech descent.He was born at Vysoké Mýto near Rokycany, Bohemia.[1] His father was a cultured man, and his mother was the sister of Raphael Georg Kiesewetter[2] (1773-1850), the musical archaeologist and collector. Ambros studied at the University of Prague[1] and was well-educated in music and the arts, which were his abiding passion. He was, however, destined for the law and an official career in the Austrian civil service, and he occupied various important posts under the ministry of justice, music being an avocation.

Was a German composer and organist. He is unrelated to the family of Johann Sebastian Bach. He studi

Was a German composer and organist. He is unrelated to the family of Johann Sebastian Bach. He studied with his father, Gottfried, as well as with Carl Friedrich Zelter and Ludwig Berger. In 1832, he succeeded Zelter as the director of the Royal Institute of Church Music in Berlin. He also taught at the Royal Academy of Arts. His compositions largely consist of sacred works and works for keyboard. He also wrote a pipe organ method and a hymnbook.

Was a German ornithologist.Blasius belonged to a family of scientists: his father was the ornitholog

Was a German ornithologist.Blasius belonged to a family of scientists: his father was the ornithologist Johann Heinrich Blasius and his brother was the ornithologist Rudolf Heinrich Paul Blasius (1842-1907).

Was a Baltic German publicist, estophile and linguist. In 1766–1767, he translated for Lühhike ö

Was a Baltic German publicist, estophile and linguist. In 1766–1767, he translated for Lühhike öppetus, the first Estonian language periodical publication, edited by Peter Ernst Wilde. In 1771, he published a medical textbook, Arsti ramat nende juhhatamis

Was a German naturalist. He wrote Beyträge zur Insektengeschichte Leipzig (Schwickert).Three volume

Was a German naturalist. He wrote Beyträge zur Insektengeschichte Leipzig (Schwickert).Three volumes 1781,1782,1783 and Neue Beyträge zur InsectenkundeLeipzig (Schwickert)1801.

Is a German Professor business administration and business information at the Saarland University,[1

Is a German Professor business administration and business information at the Saarland University,[1] and founder and director of IDS Scheer AG, a major IT service and software company. He is known for the development of the Architecture of Integrated Inf

Was a pioneering Austrian feminist and social reformer. Her politics were on the left wing of Austri

Was a pioneering Austrian feminist and social reformer. Her politics were on the left wing of Austrian feminism and she allied with proletarian organizations in campaigns around education and legal protection for working-class women. Her first public poli