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Revision as of 19:07, 6 March 2009
The following is a list of people from the former city of Königsberg (Królewiec), (Duchy of Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia, Germany) which was renamed to Kaliningrad, (Soviet Union) in 1946.
Writers
- Caspar Schütz (ca. 1540 Eisleben - 1594 Danzig) Prussian Historian at Königsberg and Danzig
- Martynas Mažvydas (1510–1563), priest, writer, translator
- Karl Gottfried Hagen 1749-1829 chemist
- Ernst August Hagen (son of Karl Gottfried Hagen) 1797-1880 art historian, author, novelist (August Hagen: Norika)
- Johann Georg Hamann (1730–1788), philosopher
- E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822), author
- Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), philosopher
- Max Toeppen (1822- 1893), historian
- Siegfried von der Trenck author
- Fanny Lewald (1811–1889), feminist and author
- Abraham Mapu (1808–1867), Hebrew novelist
- Friedrich Radszuweit (1876-1932), author and publisher
- Agnes Miegel (1879–1964), author
- Max Colpet (1905-1998) popular song lyrics
- Leah Goldberg (1911–1970), Israeli poet
- Leah Rabin (née Schlossberg) (1928–2000), author and wife of Yitzhak Rabin
Scientists
- Christian Goldbach (1690–1764), mathematician
- Karl Gottfried Hagen (1749-1829), (father of Ernst August Hagen) chemist, opened first German chemistry lab at Königsberg's Albertina University
- Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig Hagen (1797–1884), physicist
- Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824–1887), physicist
- Karl Rudolf König (1832–1901), physicist
- Otto Wallach (1847–1931), chemist
- David Hilbert (1862–1943), mathematician
- Arnold Sommerfeld (1868–1951), physicist
- Friedrich Adolf Paneth (1887–1958), chemist
- Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899 - 1986), biochemist
Others
- Stanislovas Rapalionis (1485-1545), at Albertina first translator of the Bible into Lithuanian
- Abraomas Kulvietis (1509–1545), religious reformer at Albertina
- Friedrich von der Trenck 1726-1794 Prussian officer and adventurer
- Johann Friedrich Steenke († 1818) maritime trader, founded sea rescue mission
- Georg Steenke (1801-1867), Baurat, canal builder
- Johann Jacoby. politician 1805-1877
- Carl Otto Nicolai (1810-1849), composer, conductor
- Eduard von Simson (1810-1899), jurist and politician
- Hermann August Hagen 1817-1893 Cambridge, USA, German entomologist
- Emil Hundrieser 1846-1911 sculptor
- Pavel Pabst (1854–1897), pianist/composer and professor at the Moscow Conservatory
- Heinz Tiessen conponist
- Bruno Möhring (1863-1929 Berlin), architect, city planner
- Erich von Drygalski (1865-1949), explorer
- Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945), painter and sculptor
- Eugen Sandow (1867–1925), first modern bodybuilder
- Otto Braun, 1872-1955, statesmen, politician
- Bruno Taut architect
- Max Taut architect
- Carl Friedrich Goerdeler 1884-1945, politician
- Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), political theorist
- Josef Hirsch Dunner (1913-2007), Chief Rabbi of East Prussia
- Michael Wieck (born 1928), musician and author
- Thomas Eichelbaum (born 1931), former Chief Justice of New Zealand
- Heinrich August Winkler (born 1938), historian
- Veruschka von Lehndorff, born 1939
- Heinrich Thieslauk Anti-Nazi fighter