Throughout his life as a musician, Johann Sebastian Bach composed cantatas for both secular and sacred use. His church cantatas are cantatas which he composed for use in the Lutheran church, mainly intended for the occasions of the liturgical year.
Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen was a 17th-century German philologist.
Eucharius Gottlieb Rink was a German jurist, heraldist, numismatician, and imperial counsellor. His name may also be spelt as Rinck, Rinckius, or Rinkius. He was a member of the Rink von Dorstig family, which obtained a title of nobility in the 15th century.
Lorenz Christoph Mizler von Kolof was a German physician, historian, printer, mathematician, Baroque music composer, and precursor of the Enlightenment in Poland.
Johannes Praetorius or Johann Richter was a Bohemian German mathematician and astronomer.
Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36.1, is a secular cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig, most likely in 1725. There is evidence that the cantata was performed in April or May that year, and that it was re-staged six years later for the 40th birthday of Johann Matthias Gesner. Bach reused parts of the cantata in two other secular cantatas, and in a church cantata for the first Sunday in Advent, Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36.
Christian Frederick Matthaei, a Thuringian, palaeographer, classical philologist, professor first at Wittenberg and then at Moscow.
Johann Samuel Heinsius (1686–1750) was a German bookseller and publisher based in Leipzig, best known for the works he published in collaboration with Johann Heinrich Zedler.
Christian Wilhelm Franz Walch was a protestant German theologian and professor of theology from Göttingen. He authored numerous books.
Scherwenzel or Scharwenzel is an historical, south German, gambling game played with cards and named after the Unters or Jacks that had special privileges. It should not be confused with the north German card game of Scharwenzel, which is a relative of German Solo and in which the Jacks are permanent top trumps, below the black Queens and the trump 7.
August Friedrich Müller was a German legal scholar and logician.
Johann Jakob Schmauss was a German jurist, historian, and university professor.
Johann Sithmann (1602–1666) was a German jurist, Professor of Pedagogy at the University of Greifswald and author, known from the 1657 publication Idea Arboris Consanguinitatis & Affinitatis Theoreticae & Practicae, and other works.
August Ludwig Schott (1751–1787) was a German lawyer and professor.
Johann Andreas Michael Nagel was a German Hebrew scholar and Orientalist.
Johann Erhard Kapp was a German rhetorician and historian.
Eduard Wunder (1800–1869) was a German philologist, and from 1843 to 1866 Rector of the Fürstenschule Grimma in Saxony.
Johann Christoph Bohl or Bohlius or Bohle (1703–1785) was a German physician.
Johann Gottfried Teske was a Prussian physicist and philosopher who is best known for his collaboration with Immanuel Kant on his work De Igne.
