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German pedagogues

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Albert SchäffleAuthor · BooksAlbert Eberhard Friedrich Schäffle (24 February 183125 December 1903) was a German sociologist, political economist, and newspaper editor.
Armin KnabPerson · Music memorabiliaIllustration — A bust of Armin Knab from the Armin Knab Gymnasium in Kitzingen
Christoph DemantiusPerson · Music memorabiliaJohann Christoph Demantius (15 December 1567 – 20 April 1643) was a German composer, music theorist, writer and poet.
Edith HamiltonAuthor · BooksEdith Hamilton (August 12, 1867 – May 31, 1963) was an American educator and internationally known author who was one of the most renowned classicists of her era in the United States.
Erich BöhlkePerson · Music memorabiliaErich Böhlke (9 September 1895 – 19 April 1979) was a German conductor and composer.
Erika RosenbergAuthor · BooksErika Rosenberg (born 24 June 1951) is an Argentine author, interpreter and journalist. She wrote a biography of Emilie Schindler.
Ernst KrieckAuthor · BooksIllustration — Krieck in 1930
Eugen PetersenAuthor · BooksEugen Adolf Hermann Petersen (16 August 1836 in Heiligenhafen – 14 December 1919 in Hamburg) was a German classical archaeologist and philologist.
Friedrich SpeePerson · Music memorabiliaFriedrich Spee (also Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld; February 25, 1591 – August 7, 1635) was a German Jesuit priest, professor, and poet, most well known as a forceful opponent of witch…
Gershom ScholemAuthor · BooksGershom Scholem (5 December 1897 – 21 February 1982) was a German philosopher and historian.
Hilde SchrammAuthor · BooksHilde Schramm (Speer; born 17 April 1936) is a German politician for Alliance 90/The Greens.
Hugo LeichtentrittPerson · Music memorabiliaHugo Leichtentritt (1 January 1874, Pleschen, Pleszew, nearby Posen, Province of Posen13 November 1951, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a German-Jewish musicologist and composer who spent…
Jakob WimpfelingAuthor · BooksJakob Wimpfeling (25 July 1450 – 17 November 1528) was an Alsatian Renaissance humanist and theologian.
Johann HübnerAuthor · BooksJohann Hübner (17 March 1668 – 21 May 1731) was a German geographer and scholar, who taught by the question and answer method.
Johann Michael MoscheroschAuthor · BooksJohann Michael Moscherosch (7 March 1601 – 4 April 1669), German statesman, satirist, and educator, was born in Willstätt, on the Upper Rhine near Strassburg.
Karl HaushoferAuthor · BooksKarl Ernst Haushofer (27 August 1869 – 10 March 1946) was a German general, professor, geographer, and diplomat.
Kurt WeillPerson · Music memorabiliaKurt Julian Weill (German: [vaɪl]; March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950) was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United…
Lea AckermannAuthor · BooksLea Ackermann (2 February 1937 – 31 October 2023) was a German Catholic nun of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa, an activist fighting sex tourism and forced prostitution, first…
Max TautDesigner · DesignMax Taut (15 May 1884 – 26 February 1967) was a German architect.
Maxim VengerovPerson · Music memorabiliaMaxim Alexandrovich Vengerov (born 20 August 1974) is a Soviet-born Israeli violinist, violist, and conductor. Classic FM has called him "one of the greatest violinists in the world".
Melchior AdamAuthor · BooksMelchior Adam (c. 1575 – 26 December 1622) was a German Calvinist literary historian.
Minna CauerAuthor · BooksWilhelmine Theodore Marie Cauer, née Schelle, usually known as Minna Cauer (1 November 1841 in Freyenstein – 3 August 1922 in Berlin), was a German pedagogue, activist in the so-called…
Otto LohsePerson · Music memorabiliaOtto Lohse (21 September 1859 – 5 May 1925) was a German conductor and composer.
Otto Wilhelm ThoméIllustrator · IllustrationOtto Wilhelm Thomé (1840–1925) was a German botanist and botanical artist from Cologne, best known for his compendium of botanical illustrations Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der…
Rudolf KehrerPerson · Music memorabiliaRudolf Kehrer (10 July 192329 October 2013) was a Soviet and Russian classical pianist.
Samuel HeinickePerson · Music memorabiliaSamuel Heinicke (10 April 1727 – 30 April 1790), the originator in Germany of systematic education for the deaf, was born in Nautschütz, near Zschorgula in the Electorate of Saxony.
Walter GropiusDesigner · DesignWalter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of…

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