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Gustav Hirschfeld (4 November 1847, Pyritz – 10 April 1895, Wiesbaden) was a German classical archaeologist. He was the great-uncle of Walter Benjamin. [1]
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Gustav Hirschfeld (4 November 1847, Pyritz – 10 April 1895, Wiesbaden) was a German classical archaeologist. He was the great-uncle of Walter Benjamin. [1]
Born into a Jewish merchant family, [2] he studied in Tübingen, Leipzig and Berlin and from 1870 stayed in Greece, Italy and Asia Minor as a stipendary of the German Archaeological Institute. From 1875 to 1877 he led the German excavations at Olympia, for which he was appointed extraordinary professor (1878) then ordinary professor (1880) at the University of Königsberg.
Caspar Rudolph Ritter von Jhering was a German jurist. He is best known for his 1872 book Der Kampf ums Recht, as a legal scholar, and as the founder of a modern sociological and historical school of law.
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.
Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt was a German historian.
Theodosius Andreas Harnack was a Baltic German theologian.
Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann was a German physicist and scientific author.
Heinrich Gustav Magnus was a notable German experimental scientist. His training was mostly in chemistry but his later research was mostly in physics. He spent the great bulk of his career at the University of Berlin, where he is remembered for his laboratory teaching as much as for his original research. He did not use his first given name, and was known throughout his life as Gustav Magnus.
Ernst Curtius was a German archaeologist and historian.
Emil Gustav Hirsch was a Luxembourgish-born Jewish American biblical scholar, Reform rabbi, and contributing editor to numerous articles of The Jewish Encyclopedia (1906).
Anton Heinrich Springer was a German art historian and writer.
Oscar Blumenthal or Oskar Blumenthal was a German playwright and drama critic.
Benedict Friedlaender was a German Jewish sexologist, sociologist, economist, volcanologist, and physicist.
Gustav Jacob Born (1851–1900) was a German histologist and author. He was the father of Max Born.
Otto Hirschfeld was a German epigraphist and professor of ancient history who was a native of Königsberg.
Theodor Gustav Pauli was a German art historian and museum director in Bremen and Hamburg.
Gustav Groß (1856–1935) was a national liberal German Bohemian politician.
Adolf Birch-Hirschfeld was a German medievalist and Romance scholar. He was a brother of pathologist Felix Victor Birch-Hirschfeld.
Hartwig HirschfeldMRAS was a Prussian-born British Orientalist, bibliographer, and educator. His particular scholarly interest lay in Arabic Jewish literature and in the relationship between Jewish and Arab cultures. He is best known for his editions of Judah Halevi's Kuzari—which he published in its original Judeo-Arabic and in Hebrew, German and English translations—and his studies on the Cairo Geniza.
Franz Gustav Arndt was a German landscape and genre painter.
Ulla Wolff-Frankfurter, also known by the pen names Ulla Frank and Ulrich Frank, was a German Jewish playwright, novelist, and journalist.
Eduard Jacobson was a German dramatist and physician.
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