List of people from Königsberg

List of people from Königsberg

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
*Johann Georg Hamann (1730–1788), philosopher
*E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822), author
*Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), philosopher
*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
*Leah Goldberg (1911–1970), Israeli poet
*Leah Rabin ("née" Schlossberg) (1928–2000), author and wife of Yitzhak Rabin

Scientists

*Christian Goldbach (1690–1764), mathematician
*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

* Otto Braun, politician
* Johann Jacoby. politician
* Veruschka von Lehndorff
* Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, politician
*Stanislovas Rapalionis (1485-1545), at Albertina first translator of the Bible into Lithuanian
*Abraomas Kulvietis (1509–1545), religious reformer at Albertina
*Johann Friedrich Steenke († 1818) maritime trader, founded sea rescue mission
*Georg Steenke (1801-1867), canal builder
*Carl Otto Nicolai (1810-1849), composer, conductor
*Eduard von Simson (1810-1899), jurist and politician
*Pavel Pabst (1854–1897), pianist/composer and professor at the Moscow Conservatory
*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
*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


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