Johann Gustav Bernhard Droysen was a German historian. His history of Alexander the Great was the first work representing a new school of German historical thought that idealized power held by so-called "great" men.
Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf is the fourth borough of Berlin, formed in an administrative reform with effect from 1 January 2001, by merging the former boroughs of Charlottenburg and Wilmersdorf.
Lothar de Maizière is a German former Christian Democratic politician. In 1990, he served as the head of the first and only democratically elected government of East Germany, holding this office during the final months before German reunification. Subsequently he briefly served as a minister in the new government of the unified Federal Republic of Germany until his past as a Stasi informant was revealed.
The Französisches Gymnasium is a francophone gymnasium in Berlin, Germany. Traditionally, it is widely regarded as an elite high school. It is also the oldest public school in Berlin. Its creation was ordered by Frederick William of Brandenburg.
Hermann Bonitz, German scholar, was born at Langensalza in Prussian Saxony.
Johann Crüger was a German composer of well-known hymns. He was also the editor of the most widely used Lutheran hymnal of the 17th century, Praxis pietatis melica.
Klosterstraße is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the U2 in the centrally located Mitte district. The eponymous street is named after the Graues Kloster, a medieval Franciscan abbey, which later housed the Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster.
Sigismund Streit was an Electorate of Brandenburg merchant and art patron of the 18th century in Venice.
Thekla Carola Wied is a German actress educated in West Berlin at the Evangelisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster. Her father was a teacher for Latin. After abitur she studied from 1965 till 1967 acting at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. In 1989 she starred in Rivalen der Rennbahn.
Johann Joachim Bellermann was a German Hebraist and professor of theology at Berlin University. He was one of the earliest students of Hebrew epigraphy.
(Henri) James Simon was a German-Jewish entrepreneur, art collector, philanthropist and patron of the arts during the Wilhelmine period. He donated most of his significant collections to the Berlin State Museums, including the famous Nefertiti bust.
Schmargendorf is a south-western locality (Ortsteil) of Berlin in the district (Bezirk) of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Until 2001 it was part of the former district of Wilmersdorf.
Samuel Rodigast was a German teacher and hymnwriter. He is remembered as the author of the hymn "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan".
The Franziskaner-Klosterkirche was a church in the Klosterstraße in the Mitte district of Berlin, Germany, founded in 1250 and now in ruins. The church was once the church of the Graues Kloster.
Eugen Ludwig Bormann was a German-Austrian historian, known for his work in the field of Latin epigraphy.
Karl von Jan was a German classical philologist and musicologist.
Gustav Eduard Engel was a German tenor, music theorician, Music educator and music journalist.
The Köllnische Gymnasium was the first Berlin Realgymnasium. The school building was constructed in 1868 at the corner of Insel-/Wallstraße in the Berlin suburb of Neu-Kölln according to plans by the city building councilor Adolf Gerstenberg. Today, the Fanny Hensel Music School is located in the heritage-protected building complex.
Ernst Ferdinand August was a German Physicist and Meteorologist. He developed and improved a number of physics related devices, among them the Psychrometer, which was named after him
