List of people from Breslau
This list includes people who were born in or lived in Breslau before 1945. For a list of famous residents after 1945, see List of notable people from Wrocław.
- Alois Alzheimer - discoverer of Alzheimer's disease
- Günther Anders - philosopher and journalist
- Adolf Anderssen - 19th-century chess master
- Đorđe Andrejević-Kun - painter
- Heinz Arndt - Australian economist
- Bertha Badt-Strauss - writer
- Boleslaw Barlog - stage and film director
- Erhard Bauschke (1912-1945), was a German jazz and light music reedist and bandleader[1]
- Max Berg - architect, designer of Centennial Hall
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Lutheran clergyman, religious leader in the resistance movement against Nazism
- Max Born - physicist
- August Borsig - entrepreneur
- Ernst Cassirer - philosopher
- Ferdinand Cohn - biologist
- Louis M. Cohn - suspected of starting the Great Chicago Fire
- Richard Courant - mathematician
- Walter Damrosch - conductor
- Jan Dzierżon - apiarist
- Norbert Elias - sociologist
- Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde - botanist
- George Wolfgang Forell (1919-2011) was a world-renowned scholar, author, lecturer and guest professor[2]
- Otfrid Förster — neurosurgeon
- Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat - virologist
- Zecharias Frankel - rabbi and founder of Conservative Judaism
- Hans Freeman - biochemist
- Felix Hausdorff - mathematician, one of the founders of algebraic topology
- Martin Helwig - cartographer, created the first map of Silesia
- George Henschel - conductor and singer
- Johann Heß - Lutheran theologian, Protestant reformer of Breslau and Silesia
- Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau - Baroque poet
- Karl Eduard von Holtei - poet and actor
- E. A. J. Honigmann - Professor of English Literature
- Heinz Hopf - mathematician (topologist)
- Vernon Ingram - biologist
- Alfred Kerr - theatre critic and essayist
- Gustav Robert Kirchhoff - physicist
- Gerhard Kittel - New Testament scholar and philologist
- Otto Klemperer (1885-1973) - conductor
- Wojciech Korfanty - political activist
- Arthur Korn - physicist, invented transmission of photographs by facsimile and wireless
- Arthur Korn - architect and town planner
- Carl Ferdinand Langhans - architect
- Carl Gotthard Langhans - architect
- Ferdinand Lassalle - socialist politician and reformer
- Carl Friedrich Lessing - artist
- Daniel Casper von Lohenstein - poet and diplomat
- Peter Lorre - actor
- Rudolf Meidner - economist and socialist theorist
- Joachim Meisner - Cardinal priest and archbishop of Cologne
- Adolph von Menzel - artist
- Jan Mikulicz-Radecki - surgeon, contributed to development of modern surgery
- Richard Mohaupt - German-American composer and Kapellmeister
- Edda Moser - soprano opera singer
- Svika Pick (born 1949) - Israeli pop singer and composer
- Hugo von Pohl - German admiral, commander of High Seas Fleet
- Louis Prang - printer, lithographer and publisher
- Manfred von Richthofen - World War I flying ace (the "Red Baron")
- Oskar von Riesenthal - ornithologist, forester, author
- Julius von Sachs - botanist
- Johann Gottfried Scheibel - theological professor and dissenter to the Prussian Union
- Friedrich Schleiermacher - theologian and philosopher
- Auguste Schmidt, educationist and feminist
- Margarethe Siems - operatic soprano
- Angelus Silesius - 17th-century religious poet
- Edith Stein - philosopher and Roman Catholic martyr
- Michael Steinberg - music critic
- Fritz Stern - historian
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben - Inspector General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
- Siegbert Tarrasch - chess player
- Augustin Theiner - theologian and Church historian, Prefect of the Vatican Secret Archives
- Michel Thomas - war hero and language teacher.
- Christian Wolff - philosopher
- Johann Heinrich Zedler (1706–1751) - publisher of a German encyclopedia, the Grosses Universal-Lexicon
Nobel laureates
listed by year of award
- Theodor Mommsen (1902)
- Philipp Lenard (1905)
- Eduard Buchner (1907)
- Paul Ehrlich (1908)
- Gerhart Hauptmann (1912)
- Fritz Haber (1918)
- Friedrich Bergius (1931)
- Erwin Schrödinger (1933)
- Otto Stern (1943)
- Max Born (1954)
- Reinhard Selten (1994)
References
- ^ Rainer E. Lotz, "Erhard Bauschke". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.
- ^ "The danger of thinking we are really holy". Leader-Post. 19 March 1983. Retrieved 25 February 2011.