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Karl Johann Philipp Spitta (1 August 1801 – 28 September 1859) was a German Protestant religious poet. Born in Hanover, he was educated at Göttingen, and...

Christian Daniel Rauch (2 January 1777 – 3 December 1857) was a German sculptor. He founded the Berlin school of sculpture, and was the foremost German...

Johann Lorenz von Mosheim or Johann Lorenz Mosheim (9 October 1693 – 9 September 1755) was a German Lutheran church historian. He was born at Lübeck on...

Marie-Paul-Hyacinthe Meyer (17 January 1840, Paris – 7 September 1917, Saint-Mandé), was a French philologist. Meyer was born in Paris and educated at...

Karl Joseph Simrock (28 August 1802 – 18 July 1876) was a German poet and writer. He is primarily known for his translation of Das Nibelungenlied into...

Samuel Holdheim (1806 – 22 August 1860) was a German rabbi and author, and one of the more extreme leaders of the early Reform Movement in Judaism. A pioneer...

Arthur von Ramberg (4 September 1819 – 5 February 1875) was an Austrian-born painter who worked in Germany. He was born in Vienna. He studied art at Hanover...

Auguste Jal (12 April 1795, in Lyon – 5 April 1873) was a French author who wrote on maritime archaeology and history. He was educated at the naval school...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nahkampfkanone I at the Panzermuseum Thun. The Nahkampfkanone 1 was an experimental Swiss tank destroyer that saw...

The West-Indisch Huis ("West India House") is the former headquarters of the Dutch West India Company in Amsterdam. In this building, the Dutch West India...

Erik Simon (born 21 August 1987 in Karl-Marx-Stadt) is a German ski jumper. He came in on 30th place in Kuopio 2009 as his best result in the World Cup...

Georg Philipp Rugendas (27 November 1666 – 1742) was a battle and military genre painter and engraver born in the Free Imperial City of Augsburg in what...

Rauhes Haus is a social service institution, founded in 1833 and located in Hamburg, Germany. It shelters and trains children, the mentally handicapped...

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...

Karl Heinrich Rau (23 November 1792 – 18 March 1870) was a German political economist. Rau was born at Erlangen, Bavaria. He studied from 1808 to 1812...

Baroness Bertha von Marenholtz-Bülow (born 5 March 1810 in Brunswick; died 9 January 1893 in Dresden) was a German noblewoman and educator noted for her...

Louis Braun (23 September 1836 – 18 February 1916) was a German painter, mostly of battle scenes. He was born at Schwäbisch Hall, Württemberg, and was...

Line 90 is a railway line connecting Luxembourg City to France. The terminus at the north end is Luxembourg railway station, whilst the terminals at the...

Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Oesterley (22 June 1805 – 29 March 1891) was a German painter and art historian. He is remembered largely for creating oil paintings...

Wolf Tegethoff (born 1953) is a German art historian, an expert on Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and currently, with Ulrich Pfisterer, director of the Zentralinstitut...