Julius Plücker was a German mathematician and physicist. He made fundamental contributions to the field of analytical geometry and was a pioneer in the investigations of cathode rays that led eventually to the discovery of the electron. He also vastly extended the study of Lamé curves.
Marius Sophus Lie was a Norwegian mathematician. He largely created the theory of continuous symmetry and applied it to the study of geometry and differential equations.
Georg Simmel was a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic.
Friedrich Freiherr von Wieser was an early economist of the Austrian School of economics. Born in Vienna, the son of Privy Councillor Leopold von Wieser, a high official in the war ministry, he first trained in sociology and law. In 1872, the year he took his degree, he encountered Austrian-school founder Carl Menger's Grundsätze and switched his interest to economic theory. Wieser held posts at the universities of Vienna and Prague until succeeding Menger in Vienna in 1903, where along with his brother-in-law Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk he shaped the next generation of Austrian economists including Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek and Joseph Schumpeter in the late 1890s and early 20th century. He was the Austrian Minister of Commerce from August 30, 1917, to November 11, 1918.
Werner Sombart was a German economist, historian and sociologist the head of the "Youngest Historical School" and one of the leading Continental European social scientists during the first quarter of the 20th century. The term late capitalism is accredited to him. The concept of creative destruction associated with capitalism is also of his coinage. His magnum opus was Der moderne Kapitalismus. It was published in 3 volumes from 1902 through 1927. In Kapitalismus he described four stages in the development of capitalism from its earliest iteration as it evolved out of feudalism, which he called proto-capitalism to early, high and, finally, late capitalism —Spätkapitalismus— in the post World War I period.
Georg Friedrich Puchta was an important German Legal scholar.
Georg Gustav Fülleborn was a German philosopher, philologist and miscellaneous writer.
Georg Friedrich Treitschke was a German librettist, translator and lepidopterist. He was born in Leipzig and died in Vienna.
Prince Georg Friedrich of Waldeck was a German and Dutch Field Marshal and, for the last three years of his life, Grand Master of the Order of Saint John.
Georg Lasson was a German Protestant theologian, and a son of Adolf Lasson. He was a co-editor of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Sämtliche Werke in the Meiner edition. Although the result is not always praised today, his edition is useful to researches as he had access to manuscripts that have since been lost.
Oskar Kraus was a Czech philosopher and jurist.
Christian Gottlieb Jöcher was a German academic, librarian and lexicographer.
Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Rosen was a German (Lippe/Prussian) orientalist and diplomat.
Elisabeth Eleonore Anna Justine Heuss-Knapp was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), social reformer, author and wife of German president Theodor Heuss. She was the founder of the Müttergenesungswerk charitable organisation officially called Elly Heuss-Knapp Foundation in her honour.
Eberhard Fraas was a German scientist, geologist and paleontologist. He worked as a curator at the Stuttgarter Naturaliensammlung and discovered the dinosaurs of the Tendaguru formation in then German East Africa. The dinosaur Efraasia is named after him.
Eduard Müller was a German educator and philologist.
Johannes Max Brückner was a German geometer, known for his collection of polyhedral models.
Karl Gustav Reuschle was a German mathematician, geographer and educator.
Johannes Knoblauch was a German mathematician.
Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn was a German art historian and collector, as well as an amateur engraver. He also served as a diplomat. His elder brother, Friedrich, was a well known poet.
