List of people from Königsberg explained

The following is a list of people associated with the former city of Königsberg (Duchy of Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia, Germany) which was renamed to Kaliningrad, Soviet Union in 1946.

Writing and public thinking

• Stanislovas Rapalionis (14851545), at Königsberg Albertina University first translator of the Bible into Lithuanian
• Abraomas Kulvietis (15091545), religious reformer at Königsberg Albertina University
• Stanisław Murzynowski (15271553), Polish writer, translator and a Lutheran activist during the Protestant Reformation.
• Caspar Schütz (1540 Eisleben 1594 Danzig), historian at Königsberg and Danzig, interest in the history of Prussia.
• Martynas Mažvydas (15101563), priest, writer and translator
• Jan Kochanowski (1530 in Sycyna – 1584) Polish poet, attended the University of Königsberg after 1547^[1]
• Simon Dach (1605 in Memel – 1659) a lyrical poet and hymnwriter^[2]
• Frederick I of Prussia (16571713), Elector of Brandenburg & Duke of Prussia^[3]
• John Ernest Grabe (1666–1711) an Anglican divine^[4]
• Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700–1766) philosopher, author and critic of the Age of Enlightenment^[5]
• Immanuel Kant (17241804), philosopher^[6]
• Johann Georg Hamann (17301788), philosopher^{[7] [8]}
• Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Elder (1741–1796) a satirical and humorous writer^[9]
• Zacharias Werner (1768–1823) a poet, dramatist and preacher^[10]
• E. T. A. Hoffmann (17761822), author^[11]
• Karl Lehrs (1802–1878) a classical scholar^[12]
• Karl Rosenkranz (1805–1879) a philosopher and pedagogue^[13]
• Wincenty Pol (1807 in Lublin – 1872) Polish poet; was interned in Königsberg after the fall of the November Uprising in Russian partition of Poland.
• Abraham Mapu (18081867), Hebrew novelist^[14]
• Ferdinand Nesselmann (1811 Fürstenau1881 Königsberg), mathematician, historian, orientalist and philologist
• Fanny Lewald (18111889), feminist and author^[15]
• Theodor Goldstücker (1821–1872) a German Sanskrit scholar^[16]
• August Wilhelm Zumpt (18151877) a German classical scholar^[17]
• Bernhard Weiss (1827–1918) a Protestant New Testament scholar^[18]
• Emma Goldman (18691940), author and political theorist
• Friedrich Radszuweit (18761932), author and publisher
• Agnes Miegel (18791964), author
• Walter Liebenthal (18861982), sinologist and philosopher
• Hannah Arendt (19061975), political theorist and philosopher
• Leah Goldberg (19111970), Israeli poet
• Annemarie Bostroem (1922-2015), author
• Hans-Joachim Newiger, (1925–2011), philologist
• Leah Rabin (née Schloßberg) (19282000), author and wife of Yitzhak Rabin

Scientists

• Johann Christoph Bohl (1703–1785), physician, professor, and sponsor of Kant
• Johann Bartsch (17091738), physician, botanist, and collaborator with Carl Linnaeus
• Karl Gottfried Hagen (17491829), chemist, opened first German chemistry lab at Königsberg's Albertina University
• Friedrich Bessel (1784–1846) an astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geodesist^[19]
• Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach (1792–1847), surgeon^[20]
• Gotthilf Hagen (17971884), physicist, contributed to fluid dynamics
• Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (17991878) a German-Austrian pharmacist and botanist
• Adolph Eduard Grube (18121880), zoologist
• Hermann August Hagen (18171893) Cambridge, U.S., German entomologist
• Gustav Kirchhoff (18241887), physicist and spectroscopist^[21]
• Karl Rudolf König (18321901), physicist^[22]
• Franz Ernst Christian Neumann (18341918), pathologist
• Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer (18461906), botanist
• Otto Wallach (18471931), chemist, recipient of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Hermann Eichhorst (18491921), physician
• Emanuel Kayser (18451927) geologist and palaeontologist^[23]
• Ernst Bessel Hagen (1851–1923), physicist
• Erich von Drygalski (18651949) geographer, geophysicist and polar scientist
• Siegfried Passarge (18661958), geographer
• Max Wien (18661938), physicist
• Arnold Sommerfeld (18681951), physicist, pioneered atomic and quantum physics
• Friedrich Adolf Paneth (18871958), chemist
• Fritz Albert Lipmann (18991986), biochemist, shared the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Arno Motulsky (1923-2018) medical geneticist

Mathematicians

• Christian Goldbach (16901764), mathematician, developed Goldbach's conjecture
• Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (18041851), mathematician, worked on elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations
• Otto Hesse (18111874), mathematician, worked on algebraic invariants
• Carl Neumann (18321925), mathematician, worked on the Dirichlet principle
• Rudolf Lipschitz (18321903), mathematician, named the Lipschitz continuity condition
• Alfred Clebsch (18331872), mathematician, contributed to algebraic geometry
• Ludwig Scheeffer (18591885), mathematician, contributed to calculus
• Kurt Hensel (18611941) mathematician, introduced p-adic number
• David Hilbert (18621943), mathematician, developed invariant theory
• Hermann Minkowski (18641909), mathematician, developed the geometry of numbers

Arts and music

• Anton Möller (15631611), painter active mostly in Danzig (Gdańsk)
• August Kohn (17321801/2), violinist and composer active at the courts in Berlin
• Otto Nicolai (18101849), composer and conductor^[24]
• Rudolf Siemering (18351905) German sculptor^[25]
• Hermann Goetz (1840–1876) a composer of the 1872 opera Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung.^[26]
• Pavel Pabst (18541897), pianist/composer and professor at the Moscow Conservatory
• Käthe Kollwitz (18671945), painter and sculptor
• Ernst Behmer (18751938) a prolific German stage and film actor^[27]
• Werner Funck (18811951), actor, singer, and film director^[28]
• Harry Liedtke (18821945), actor
• Heinz Tiessen (18871971), composer
• Emy von Stetten (1898–1980), soprano
• Max Colpet (19051998), popular song lyricist^[29]
• Michael Wieck (19282021), musician and author
• Veruschka von Lehndorff (born 1939), model, actress and artist^[30]
• Eberhard Feltz (born 1937), German classical violinist
• Wilfried Gruhn (born 1939), German violinist, musicologist, music educator and emeritus professor

Military

• Erhard Ernst von Röder (1665–1743), Prussian field marshal
  • Peter August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (16971775) Field Marshal in the Russian Imperial Army Friedrich von der Trenck (17261794), Prussian officer and adventurer^[31]
• Leopold von Rauch (1787-1860), Prussiand general
• Prince Albert of Prussia (18091872) Generaloberst
• Max von der Goltz (1838-1906), Prussian admiral
• Ernst von Below (1863-1955), German general
• Hans Feige, (18801953), Wehrmacht general
  • Oskar von Hindenburg (18831960) a German Generalleutnant Wolff von Stutterheim (18931940) a German Generalmajor
• Werner Ostendorff (19031945), German SS Major General (Gruppenführer) of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich
• Gerhard Barkhorn (19191983), second-highest-ranking Luftwaffe fighter ace (301 victories).

Politicians

• Johann Jacoby (18051877), politician
• Eduard von Simson (18101899), jurist and politician^[32]
• Otto Stellter (1823-1894), politician, member of German Reichstag
• Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg (1847–1921) diplomat and close friend of Wilhelm II^[33]
• Robert Rasch (1852–1938), a German settler in Nauru & first resident Administrator
• Otto Braun, (18721955), statesman and politician, Minister President of Prussia
• Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (18841945), a monarchist conservative politician
• Wilhelm von Gayl (18791945), politician of the German National People's Party
• Karl-Hermann Flach (19291973) journalist at the Frankfurter Rundschau and FDP politician

Sport

• Eugen Sandow (18671925), first modern bodybuilder^[34]
• Lilli Henoch (18991942), world record holder in the discus, shot put, and 4 × 100 meters relay, shot as a Jew by a Nazi Einsatzgruppen death squad
• brothers Kraft Schepke (born 1934) & Frank Schepke (19352017) German Olympic rowers

Others

• brothers Bruno Taut (18801938) & Max Taut (18841967), architects
• Moshe Smoira (18881961), first President of the Supreme Court of Israel
• Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld (18921929) aviator, made the first east-west transatlantic flight in 1928
• Rabbi Josef Hirsch Dunner (19132007), Chief Rabbi of East Prussia 1936-1938
• Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits (19211999) Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, from 1967 to 1991
• Ulrich Schnaft (born 1923) Waffen-SS man in WWII, emigrated to Israel where he spied for Egypt
• Gerda Munsinger (19291998) an East German prostitute and alleged Soviet spy
• Thomas Eichelbaum (19312018), former Chief Justice of New Zealand
• Heinrich August Winkler (born 1938), historian, academic and author
• Reinhard Bonnke (19402019), televangelist, missionary in Africa from 1967
• Heinrich Wilhelm Nehrenheim (18751939), military and provincial official in the Landeshaus Königsberg, married to Olga Wagner

See also

• List of Poles from Königsberg

Notes and References

1. Kochanowski, Jan . x.
2. Dach, Simon . 7 . 726 . 1.
3. Frederick I. of Prussia . 11 . 52 . x.
4. Grabe, John Ernest . 12 . 306 - 307 . 1.
5. Gottsched, Johann Christoph . 12 . 279 - 280 . 1.
6. Kant, Immanuel . 15 . 662 - 672 . x.
7. Hamann, Johann Georg . x.
8. Hamann, Johann Georg . 12 . 869 . 1.
9. Hippel, Theodor Gottlieb von . 13 . 517 . 1.
10. Werner, Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias . 28 . 523 - 524 . 1.
11. Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm . 13 . x.
12. Lehrs, Karl . 16 . 384 . 1.
13. Rosenkranz, Johann Karl Friedrich . 23 . 218 . 1.
14. Mapu, Abraham . 17 . x.
15. Lewald, Fanny . 16 . 519 . x.
16. Goldstücker, Theodor . 12 . 218 . 1.
17. Zumpt . 28 . 1056 . x.
18. Weiss, Bernhard . 28 . 499 . 1.
19. Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm . 3 . 822 . 1.
20. Diefenbach, Johann Friedrich. Johann Friedrich Diefenbach . x.
21. Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert. 15. 827. x.
22. König, Karl Rudolph. 15. x.
23. Kayser, Friedrich Heinrich Emanuel . 15 . 703 . x.
24. Nicolaï, Otto . 19 . 662 . x.
25. Siemering, Rudolph. Rudolph Siemering . x.
26. Goetz, Hermann . 12 . 189 - 190 . 1.
27. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0066941/ IMDb Database
28. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0298605/ IMDb Database
29. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0464378/ IMDb Database
30. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0902610/ IMDb Database
31. Trenck, Franz, Freiherr von der . 27 . 245 - 246; see page 246 . His cousin, Friedrich, Freiherr von der Trenck (1726-1794), the writer of the celebrated autobiography..... 1.
32. Simson, Martin Eduard von . 25 . Ashworth . Philip Arthur . Philip Arthur Ashworth. 136 - 137 . x.
33. Eulenburg, Philipp, Prince . x.
34. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0762186/ IMDb Database