Famous People with Name Christoph

Christoph Schaffrath            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Christoph Schaffrath: He is best known as a musician and composer of classical western music of the late Baroque to Classical transition era.

Christoph Willibald Ritter Von Gluck            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Christoph Willibald Ritter Von Gluck: was a composer of the 18th century, most noted for his operatic works. After many years at the Habsburg court at Vienna, Gluck brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years. With a series of radical new works in the 1760s, among them Orfeo ed Euridice and Alceste, he broke the stranglehold that Metastasian opera seria had enjoyed for much of the century.

Christoph Theinert,            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Christoph Theinert,: Having studied with Antonio Janigro, Antonio Meneses, Anner Bylsma and Hidemi Suzuki, he developed special interest in early music interpretation on period instruments. Founder of the group German Baroque, he performed with Taka Kitazato, Hidemi Suzuki, C

Christoph Leitgeb            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Christoph Leitgeb: is an Austrian football player currently playing in the Austrian Bundesliga for Red Bull Salzburg.Leitgeb began his career in the youth squad of Sturm Graz spending two years there before moving into the first squad during the 2005/06 season

Christoph Arnold            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Christoph Arnold: was a German amateur astronomer.Arnold was a farmer by profession. Interested in astronomy, he spotted the great comet of 1683, eight days before Hevelius did. He also observed the great comet of 1686. In 1686, Kirch went to Leipzig. There, he observed the great comet of 1686, together with Gottfried Kirch. There, Kirch met his second wife, Maria Margarethe Winckelmann (1670-1720), who had actually learned astronomy from Arnold.Arnold observed the transit of Mercury in front of the sun on October 13, 1690. For this work, he received some money and a tax exemption from the town of Leipzig. He was the author of Göttliche Gnadenzeichen, in einem Sonnenwunder vor Augen gestellt (Leipzig, 1692) which contains an account of the transit of Mercury in 1690.