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    Jean-Georges Kastner, born 9 March 1810 in Strasbourg, died 19 December 1867 in Paris, was a composer and musicologist. Kastner's parents were Johann Georg Kastner...
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    Brandes, Farkas Bolyai (father of János Bolyai), and Georg Klügel. Kästner died in 1800 in Göttingen. Kästner became most well known for his poems, which appeared...
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    Emil Erich Kästner (German: [ˈʔeːʁɪç ˈkɛstnɐ] ; 23 February 1899 – 29 July 1974) was a German writer, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily...
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    University of Göttingen (founded 1737) under Abraham Gotthelf Kästner and later also with Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. After graduating in 1773, Mayer worked...
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    comedy Die Mitschuldigen. The inn Auerbachs Keller and its legend of Johann Georg Faust's 1525 barrel ride impressed him so much that Auerbachs Keller...
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    Johann Friedrich Gmelin (8 August 1748 – 1 November 1804) was a German naturalist, chemist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist. Johann...
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    PMID 13086258 Gresky, W (1978), "2 letters by the Bernese Professor Johann Georg Tralles to Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1786)", Gesnerus, vol. 35, no. 1–2, pp...
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    Hirschely and Carl Kastner. He was born on 9 November 1674 in Bílina. Since 1699, he lived in Prague, where he studied under Johann Rudolf Byss, who came...
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    October 1791 Bartels studied mathematics under Johann Friedrich Pfaff in Helmstedt and Abraham Gotthelf Kästner in Göttingen. In the winter semester of 1793/1794...
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  • Immermann Hans Irrigmann Johann Georg Jacobi Ernst Jandl Elfriede Jelinek Albrecht von Johansdorf Ernst Jünger Friedrich Georg Jünger Georg Kaiser Franz Xaver...
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    1994 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: Vorlesungen zur Naturlehre. Ediert nach G. Chr. Lichtenbergs annotierten Handexemplar der 4. Auflage von Johann Christian...
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  • undergraduate. Le Van Thiem — Mathematics Otto Toeplitz — Mathematics Johann Georg Tralles — Mathematics Alan Turing — Computer Science Otto Wallach — Chemistry...
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    interested in science through attending lectures by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and Abraham Gotthelf Kästner. Benzenberg obtained a PhD from the University...
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    Karl Georg Büchner (17 October 1813 – 19 February 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement...
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    Georg Trakl (3 February 1887 – 3 November 1914) was an Austrian poet and the brother of the pianist Grete Trakl. He is considered one of the most important...
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  • Sturm und Drang (category Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
    company in 1777. The philosopher Johann Georg Hamann is associated with Sturm und Drang; other significant figures were Johann Anton Leisewitz, Jakob Michael...
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    scientists to predict geomagnetic effects in the future. Instrument maker Johann Georg Repsold in Hamburg asked Gauss in 1807 for help to construct an achromatic...
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    parallelarum demonstrandi recensio, published in 1763 with Abraham Gotthelf Kästner as doctoral advisor, was a study of 30 attempted proofs of the parallel...
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    Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (UK: /ˈhɜːldərliːn/, US: /ˈhʌl-/; German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈhœldɐliːn] ; 20 March 1770 – 7 June 1843) was a German poet...
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    Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (German: [ˈjoːhan ˈkʁɪstɔf ˈfʁiːdʁɪç fɔn ˈʃɪlɐ], short: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʃɪlɐ] ; 10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805) was...
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    the University of Göttingen along with Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Johann Beckmann, and Abraham Gotthelf Kästner. In 1797 he became lecturer (Privatdozent)...
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    aesthetic movements. The philosopher Johann Georg Hamann is considered to be the ideologue of Sturm und Drang, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a notable...
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    Jean Paul (German: [ʒɑ̃ paʊl] ; born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, 21 March 1763 – 14 November 1825) was a German Romantic writer, best known for his...
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    Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (German: [ˈɡeːɐ̯.haʁt ˈhaʊ̯ptˌman] ; 15 November 1862 – 6 June 1946) was a German dramatist and novelist. He is counted...
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  • Winfried Georg Sebald (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001), known as W. G. Sebald or (as he preferred) Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic. At the...
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    Elzer as Friedrich the Wise Werner Schott as Johann the Steadfast Ferdinand von Alten as Miltitz Bruno Kastner as Ulrich von Hutten Leopold von Ledebur as...
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  • botanist, microbiologist Johann Bayer (1572–1625), astronomer Henning Behrens (born 1940), economist and political scientist Georg Bednorz (born 1950), physicist...
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  • Brunswick-Lüneburg August Buchner Johann Franz Buddeus Johann Christian Buxbaum Joachim Camerarius Johann Heinrich Callenberg Georg Cantor Martin Chemnitz Johannes...
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    Kinder; Leben des Galilei; Kalendergeschichten (selections); Poems Erich Kästner: Gedichte Anna Seghers: Das siebte Kreuz; Der Ausflug der toten Mädchen...
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    René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), known as Rainer Maria Rilke (German: [ˈʁaɪnɐ maˈʁiːa ˈʁɪlkə]), was an...
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