German Famous Names Starting with Letter J

A German biochemist who, along with Hartmut Michel and Robert Huber, received the Nobel Prize for Ch

A German biochemist who, along with Hartmut Michel and Robert Huber, received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1988 for their determination of the structure of a membrane-bound complex of proteins and co-factors that is essential to photosynthesis.

Is a fictitious artist and sewerage engineer, purportedly from Leipzig, Germany. He is the creation

Is a fictitious artist and sewerage engineer, purportedly from Leipzig, Germany. He is the creation of the American-born artist and writer Jeff Wassmann. According to his fictitious biography, Johann Dieter Wassmann was born in Leipzig, Germany, where he witnessed the industrial revolution rapidly alter the once agrarian, guild-based and perhaps idealised Electorate of Saxony. In portraying his character as fearful of a less humanitarian world, and unsure of the changing roles of science, medicine, religion, education, cosmology and time, the artist challenges the viewer to share in the conflicts and anxieties of this ubiquitous thinker.

Is a retired Austrian football player.A Rapid Wien fan by origin, Hansi Dihanich started his profess

Is a retired Austrian football player.A Rapid Wien fan by origin, Hansi Dihanich started his professional career at city rivals Austria Wien and played 8 seasons for them, split in two periods by a season at SS Wacker Innsbruck

16th century theologian and defender of Catholicism during the Protestant Reformation. It was Eck wh

16th century theologian and defender of Catholicism during the Protestant Reformation. It was Eck who argued that the beliefs of Martin Luther and Jan Hus were similar.

Was a German astronomer known for his reformulation and popularization of the Titius-Bode law as wel

Was a German astronomer known for his reformulation and popularization of the Titius-Bode law as well determination of the orbit of Uranus, for which he also suggested the name. He is also credited with the discovery of Bode's Galaxy (M81).he suffered from an eye disease which particularly damaged his right eye; he continued to have trouble with his eyes throughout his life.[1]Bode was the director of the Berlin Observatory, where he published the Uranographia in 1801, a celestial atlas that aimed both at scientific accuracy in showing the positions of stars and other astronomical objects, as well as the artistic interpretation of the stellar constellation figures. The Uranographia marks the climax of an epoch of artistic representation of the constellations. Later atlases showed fewer and fewer elaborate figures until they were no longer printed on such tables.

Was a German Baroque organist and composer. He was the most important composer of the Nuremberg scho

Was a German Baroque organist and composer. He was the most important composer of the Nuremberg school in the first half of the 17th century. Kindermann was born in Nuremberg and studied music from an early age; at 15 he already had a job performing at Sunday afternoon concerts at the Frauenkirche (he sang bass and played violin). His main teacher was Johann Staden. In 1634/35 the city officials granted Kindermann permission and money to travel to Italy to study new music. Nothing is known about his stay in Italy; he may have visited Venice like several other Nuremberg composers (Hans Leo Hassler, Johann Philipp Krieger). In January 1636 the city council ordered Kindermann back to take the position of second organist of Frauenkirche. In 1640 was employed as organist at Schwäbisch-Hall, but quit the same year to become organist of the Egidienkirche, the third most important position of its kind in Nuremberg after St. Sebald and St. Lorenz.

Was a German composer and organist whose works bridge the baroque and classical eras. He was a proli

Was a German composer and organist whose works bridge the baroque and classical eras. He was a prolific composer, chiefly of church organ and choral music.

Was a German composer. Germany to a French wig-maker. His first composition instruction began at age

Was a German composer. Germany to a French wig-maker. His first composition instruction began at age 15. Galliard studied composition under Farinelli, the director of music at the Court of Hanover, and Abbate Steffani. In addition to his composition ability, he was also a capable oboe and recorder player. Galliard made a step forward in his musical career when he performed one of his original compositions. This Sonata for oboe and two bassoons debuted at one Farinelli’s concerts. Galliard earned an esteemed seat in the chamber music of George, Prince of Denmark. Later, he moved to England where he would become the next chapel-master of Somerset House.

Was a tenor singer of the classical era; the younger brother of the composers Joseph Haydn and Micha

Was a tenor singer of the classical era; the younger brother of the composers Joseph Haydn and Michael Haydn. He was often called "Hansl", a diminutive form of "Johann".Johann was the eleventh child of Mathias Haydn and Anna Maria Koller Haydn (Joseph was second, and Michael sixth). His career training may have been mixed. According to Albert Christoph Dies, an early biographer of Joseph Haydn, Johann followed his older brothers in serving as a choirboy in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna.

Was a German mathematician. Faulhaber collaborated with Kepler and van Ceulen. He was a Rosicrucian,

Was a German mathematician. Faulhaber collaborated with Kepler and van Ceulen. He was a Rosicrucian, a brotherhood combining elements of mystical beliefs with an optimism about the ability of science to improve the human condition. He made a major impress

Was a German violinist, keyboardist and a composer of the baroque era. He wrote various collections

Was a German violinist, keyboardist and a composer of the baroque era. He wrote various collections of songs, the most important being a collection of fifty French songs (Musikalische Mayenlust aus 50 französischen Aires mit zwey Violinen und dem Generalbaß; 1681, Augsburg), his first work, and another collection of madrigals and German songs. He also wrote instrumental works. Fischer's works are listed by Ernst Ludwig Gerber in his Lexikon der Tonkünstler (v. II, p. 133).

Was an Austrian football player and coach.He played for FC Wien, SC Schwechat and Austria Wien.

Was an Austrian football player and coach.He played for FC Wien, SC Schwechat and Austria Wien.

Was a German astronomer, born in Hamburg. He is sometimes confused with Karl Ludwig Hencke, another

Was a German astronomer, born in Hamburg. He is sometimes confused with Karl Ludwig Hencke, another German astronomer.Encke studied mathematics and astronomy from 1811 at the University of Göttingen under Carl Friedrich Gauss; but he enlisted in the Hanseatic Legion for the campaign of 1813–1814, and became lieutenant of artillery in the Prussian army in 1815. Having returned to Göttingen in 1816, he was at once appointed by Bernhardt von Lindenau as his assistant in the observatory of Seeberg near Gotha.

Was a German composer, organist, singer, pedagogue, and writer on music. He sometimes wrote under th

Was a German composer, organist, singer, pedagogue, and writer on music. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Flavio Anicio Olibrio. He was soon generally recognized as one of the most skillful organists of his time. The success of his comic opera, Il Filosofo convinto in amore, performed at Potsdam in 1750, led to an appointment as court composer to Frederick the Great. In 1759, on the death of Carl Heinrich Graun, he was appointed conductor of the royal orchestra. He married the noted operatic soprano Benedetta Emilia Molteni, a marriage of which the king apparently disapproved. Agricola died in Berlin at 54.

Was a German composer and organist. He received his musical training in Leipzig from Werner Fabriciu

Was a German composer and organist. He received his musical training in Leipzig from Werner Fabricius and in Dresden from Vincenzo Albrici. Then he worked as an organist in Merseburg cathedral until his departure in 1698 caused by the paralysis of his right hand because of a stroke. His pupil Georg Friedrich Kauffmann succeeded him as a princely Saxon townsman and cathedral organist at the court of the Saxon duke and Merseburg cathedral.

Was a German serviceman, artist and historian. Johann Friedrich Anthing was born in 1753 in Gotha (S

Was a German serviceman, artist and historian. Johann Friedrich Anthing was born in 1753 in Gotha (Saxe-Coburg Duchy, then Thuringia). After theology studies in Iena, he travels across Europe, from courts to courts, as a silhouette drawer. He draws the portrait of princes, courtiers and famous personalities such as Goethe, while on his stay at Weimar's court (1789). Proposing his services in Saint-Petersburg from 1783, he draws members of the imperial family, as Grand Duke Paul Petrovitch (then Paul I of Russia) and his wife Maria Fedorovna

Was a German doctor and physiologist, one of the first to explore the study of mankind as an aspect

Was a German doctor and physiologist, one of the first to explore the study of mankind as an aspect of natural history, whose teachings in comparative anatomy were applied to classification of human races, of which he determined five.Johann Friedrich Blumenbach[1] was born at Gotha, studied medicine at Jena, and graduated in 1775 with his MD thesis De generis humani varietate nativa (On the Natural Varieties of Mankind, University of Göttingen, first published in 1776), which is considered one of the most influential works in the development of subsequent concepts of "human races."

Was a German composer and pupil of J.S. Bach. Doles was born in Steinbach-Hallenberg. He attended th

Was a German composer and pupil of J.S. Bach. Doles was born in Steinbach-Hallenberg. He attended the University of Leipzig. He was Kantor at the Leipzig Thomasschule, conducting the Thomanerchor from 1756 to 1789; in that year (1789) he directed the performance of Bach's motet Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied that reportedly made such a deep impression on Mozart. Doles wrote a manuscript treatise on singing which may preserve some elements of Bach's own methods.

Was a German cartographer and mathematician. Endersch also held the title of Royal Mathematician to

Was a German cartographer and mathematician. Endersch also held the title of Royal Mathematician to King Augustus III of Poland. In 1755 Endersch completed for Imperial Prince-Bishop Adam Stanislaw Grabowski (Celsissimo ac Reverendissimo S. Rom. Imp. Prin

Was a Baltic German physician, botanist, zoologist and entomologist.

Was a Baltic German physician, botanist, zoologist and entomologist.

Was a German violinist and composer. His works include cantatas, concertos, symphonies, and chamber

Was a German violinist and composer. His works include cantatas, concertos, symphonies, and chamber music. None of his pieces were printed in his lifetime, and a large number of his vocal works, including four operas, have been lost. However, he was held in high regard by his contemporaries (Johann Sebastian Bach made manuscript copies of a number of his pieces), and he is today considered an important link between the Baroque and Classical periods.

Was a German naturalist, botanist and entomologist.He studied medicine at University of Tübingen an

Was a German naturalist, botanist and entomologist.He studied medicine at University of Tübingen and graduated with an M.D. in 1769. He became an adjunct professor of medicine at University of Tübingen. In 1773 he became professor of philosophy and adjunct professor of medicine at University of Göttingen. He was promoted to full professor of medicine and professor of chemistry, botany and mineralogy in 1778. He died in 1804 in Göttingen.Johann Friedrich Gmelin published several textbooks in the fields of chemistry, pharmaceutical science, mineralogy and botany. He also published the 13th edition of Systema Naturae by Carolus Linnaeus in 1788.

Was a German architect from Bekenreihe near Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein. His best-known work is the

Was a German architect from Bekenreihe near Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein. His best-known work is the Brick Expressionist Chilehaus in Hamburg, constructed 1922-24 for saltpeter importer Henry B. Sloman. Höger constructed several other office buildings, a

Was a German conductor, composer, and administrator. He was one of the earliest to write music for t

Was a German conductor, composer, and administrator. He was one of the earliest to write music for two orchestras.[1] From 1750 to 1789 he worked at Steinfurt, occasionally touring throughout Europe and Russia. For the Steinfurt castle concert hall, he wrote lots of symphonies, some of which include horns with crook changes.[2] The vast majority of Klöffler's chamber music is for flute.[3]

Was a German pharmacist and botanist.His principal work was in the field of mycology, with the study

Was a German pharmacist and botanist.His principal work was in the field of mycology, with the study and description of many species of mushroom. In taxonomy, his name is abridged to Klotzsch.