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German-Jewish philosopher. Coming out of the Marburg tradition of neo-Kantianism, he developed a phi

German-Jewish philosopher. Coming out of the Marburg tradition of neo-Kantianism, he developed a philosophy of culture as a theory of symbols founded in a phenomenology of knowledge. His son, Heinz Cassirer, was also a Kantian scholar.

Was a German statistician and economist, famous for the Engel curve and the Engel's law.Immediately

Was a German statistician and economist, famous for the Engel curve and the Engel's law.Immediately after the revolution of 1848, he was attached to the royal commission in Saxony appointed to determine the relations between trade and labor. In 1850, he w

Swedish actuary, founder of mathematical risk theory and managing director of several insurance comp

Swedish actuary, founder of mathematical risk theory and managing director of several insurance companies.According to Harald Cramér, "Filip Lundberg's works on risk theory were all written at a time when no general theory of stochastic processes existed,

Was a German mathematician, whose work has major implications for the foundations of mathematics and

Was a German mathematician, whose work has major implications for the foundations of mathematics and hence on philosophy.

Was a German jurist and politician for the Social Democratic Party of Germany. During World War I, h

Was a German jurist and politician for the Social Democratic Party of Germany. During World War I, he was a proponent of the Burgfrieden. Heilman gained a seat in the Reichstag in the German federal election, 1928. Only a few months after the Machtergreif

Was a Swedish engineer, scientist, and mathematician.Weibull came from a family that had immigrated

Was a Swedish engineer, scientist, and mathematician.Weibull came from a family that had immigrated to Sweden in the 18th century from Schleswig-Holstein, a region at the border between Denmark and Germany. He was a cousin of the historian brothers Laurit

Was a notable Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist, who spent the last part of his career (1948–

Was a notable Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist, who spent the last part of his career (1948–1981) at the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland.

Was a German jurist. His wife was Anna Landsberg (1878 - 1938), and son was Dr. Paul Ludwig Landsber

Was a German jurist. His wife was Anna Landsberg (1878 - 1938), and son was Dr. Paul Ludwig Landsberg (1901 - 1944).

Was Professor ordinarius of economics and statistics or State Sciences and cameralistics in Basel, R

Was Professor ordinarius of economics and statistics or State Sciences and cameralistics in Basel, Riga, Dorpat (now Tartu), Karlsruhe, and finally for 26 years in Gießen. Laspeyres was the scion of a Huguenot family of originally Gascon descent which had

Was an American linguist of Austrian origins whose main interest lay in the Italic and Romance langu

Was an American linguist of Austrian origins whose main interest lay in the Italic and Romance languages.Born and educated in Vienna, he left after the Anschluss and moved to the United States. He spent most of his career (1948 to 1986) at the University of Michigan.

Was a Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist and eugenicist. Rüdin was born in St. Gallen, Switzerland. He

Was a Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist and eugenicist. Rüdin was born in St. Gallen, Switzerland. He is known as one of the fathers[original research?] of racial hygiene.Ernst Rüdin was the director of the one of the first eugenics research institutes, known as the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Genealogy in Munich, Germany.[citation needed] He also headed the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research[citation needed] in Frankfurt and the German Society for Rassenhygiene (Race-hygiene)[citation needed] and was one of the first members of the organization who attempted to "educate" the public on the "dangers" of hereditary defectives and the value of the Nordic race as "culture creators.[citation needed]"

Was a German mathematician mainly known for his work on algebraic logic. He is a major figure in the

Was a German mathematician mainly known for his work on algebraic logic. He is a major figure in the history of mathematical logic (a term he may have invented), by virtue of summarizing and extending the work of George Boole, Augustus De Morgan, Hugh Mac

German Marxist philosopher.loch was influenced by both Hegel and Marx.

German Marxist philosopher.loch was influenced by both Hegel and Marx.

Was a Danish botanist and phycologist, mainly working on diatoms.

Was a Danish botanist and phycologist, mainly working on diatoms.

Was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tr

Was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, historian of science, and naturalist. His work contributed to the conceptual revolution that led to the modern evolutionary synthesis of Mendelian genetics, systematics, and Darwinian evolution, and to the development of the biological species concept.

Was a German jurist. He studied Law at the Universities of Leipzig, Heidelberg, Bonn. In 1873 he got

Was a German jurist. He studied Law at the Universities of Leipzig, Heidelberg, Bonn. In 1873 he got his dissertation at the university of Leipzig with the topic "Begriff und Wesen der juristischen Person" ("concept and constitution of a legal person"). L

Was a German geneticist and botanist. Baur worked primarily on plant genetics. He was director of th

Was a German geneticist and botanist. Baur worked primarily on plant genetics. He was director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Research research (since 1938 Erwin Baur-Institute). Baur is considered to be the father of plant virology. He discovered the inheritance of plasmids.In 1908 Baur demonstrated a lethal gene in the Antirrhinum plant. In 1909 working on the chloroplast genes in Pelarganium (geraniums) he showed that they violated four of Mendel's five laws. Baur stated that

Was a German astronomer, a pupil of Felix Klein. He was born in Biebrich, Germany. Freundlich was a

Was a German astronomer, a pupil of Felix Klein. He was born in Biebrich, Germany. Freundlich was a working associate of Albert Einstein and introduced experiments for which the general theory of relativity could be tested by astronomical observations based on the gravitational redshift.After finishing his thesis with Felix Klein at the University of Göttingen in 1910, he became assistant at the Observatory in Berlin, where he became associated with Einstein. During a solar eclipse expedition in 1914 to verify general relativity World War I broke out and he was interned in Russia. After the war, he was engaged in construction of a solar observatory in Potsdam, the Einsteinturm, and he was director of the Einstein-Institut. In 1933 he left Germany and was appointed professor at the University of Istanbul,

Was a Professor of Mathematics at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He was a pioneer in the fie

Was a Professor of Mathematics at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He was a pioneer in the field of applied mathematics: non-wave replicating linear systems. He was also a distinguished author, having written the textbook Advanced Engineering Mathem

Was a German ornithologist.Stresemann was one of the outstanding ornithologists of the 20th century.

Was a German ornithologist.Stresemann was one of the outstanding ornithologists of the 20th century. From 1921 onwards he was in charge of the bird department of the Berlin Zoological Museum, and encouraged a number of young German scientists, including Ernst Mayr and Bernhard Rensch.Stresemann was the long-standing editor of the Journal für Ornithologie. His major publication was the volume Aves (1927 - 1934) in the German Handbook of Zoology. He also wrote Entwicklung der Ornithologie (1951), a review of the development of ornithology from Aristotle to the present, translated into English in 1975.

Was a humanist and philologist from the Low Countries.In 1597 he travelled to Italy, and lived in in

Was a humanist and philologist from the Low Countries.In 1597 he travelled to Italy, and lived in intimacy with the learned men of that country, especially Cardinal Federigo Borromeo, through whom he was appointed professor of Latin at the Palatine School of Milan from 1600 to 1606. Then the States of Brabant offered him the chair left vacant by Lipsius at Leuven.

A Finnish philosopher who is currently professor of applied philosophy at Helsinki University of Tec

A Finnish philosopher who is currently professor of applied philosophy at Helsinki University of Technology and co-director of the Systems Intelligence Research Group.Saarinen completed his Ph.D. degree in 1978 at the University of Helsinki, where he has since held docentship. His extrovert public persona - he became known as the punk doctor - was reflected in his lectures at the university, which drew increasingly large audiences until the late 1990s. Nowadays his lectures at Helsinki University of Technology draw full lecture halls year after year.

Was an early English female geologist, the second daughter of Thomas Benett and great-granddaughter

Was an early English female geologist, the second daughter of Thomas Benett and great-granddaughter of a former Archbishop of Canterbury.Later she resided at Norton House, near Warminster, in Wiltshire, and for more than a quarter of a century devoted herself to collecting and studying the fossils of her native county. Her speciality was in the Middle Cretaceous Upper Greenland in the Vale of Wardour and was well known for her collection of Tisbury Coral. She wrote and privately published a monograph, A Catalogue of the Organic Remains of the County of Wiltshire (1831). Her fossil collection is currently housed at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.

Was an Austrian legal scholar and sociologist.He was born in Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi in Ukraine),

Was an Austrian legal scholar and sociologist.He was born in Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi in Ukraine), which was at that time part of the Bukovina province of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Ehrlich studied law in Vienna, where he taught and practised as a lawyer before returning to Czernowitz to teach at the University there, a bastion of Germanic culture at the eastern edge of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He remained at the University for the rest of his teaching career and was Rector in 1906-7. During the turmoil of World War I, when Czernowitz was occupied several times by Russian forces, he moved to Switzerland. After the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the ceding of the Bukovina to Romania, Ehrlich planned to return to Czernowitz, where he would have been required to teach in Romanian, but he died of diabetes in Vienna in 1922.

Was a German philosopher. Husserl's assistant, he was a representative of phenomenological idealism

Was a German philosopher. Husserl's assistant, he was a representative of phenomenological idealism and later a follower of Martin Heidegger. He approached the problem of Being as a manifestation of the cosmic movement with Man being a participant in this