A polymath is an individual whose knowledge spans a substantial number of subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems.
Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Müller was a German lyric poet, best known as the author of Die schöne Müllerin (1823) and Winterreise (1828). These would later be the source of inspiration for two song cycles composed by Franz Schubert.
Johann Ludwig Uhland was a German poet, philologist and literary historian.
Ferdinand Ludwig Adam von Saar was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet.
Johann Georg von Eckhart was a German historian and linguist.
Johann Wilhelm of Jülich-Cleves-Berg was the last Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg.
August Becker was a German landscape painter; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.
Ferdinand Franz Wallraf was a German botanist, mathematician, theologian, art collector and Roman Catholic priest. His collection formed the founding nucleus of the Wallraf–Richartz Museum.
Gottfried Wilhelm Sacer was a German jurist, poet, satirist and Protestant hymn writer. He worked as an advocate at the court of Wolfenbüttel. Johann Sebastian Bach used a stanza from his hymn "Gott fähret auf gen Himmel" to conclude his Ascension Oratorio. Another hymn, Jesu, meines Glaubens Zier, appears in the 1736 Schemelli Gesangbuch in a setting attributed to Bach.
Caspar Ziegler, also Kaspar Ziegler, was a German jurist, poet, hymnwriter and composer. He was the Rektor of the University of Wittenberg.
Johann Balthasar König was a German Baroque composer, especially of hymn melodies, having published a hymnal with 1,913 melodies. He was the church musician at Frankfurt's main Protestant church, the Katharinenkirche, and the town's Kapellmeister. He was also closely associated with Georg Philipp Telemann.
Carl Ernst Christoph Hess, or Carl Ernst Heß was a German copper engraver and painter.
Maria Karoline Herder was a German editor who collected and published the works of her famous husband, philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder.
Johann Theodor Mosewius also Johann Theodor Mosevius was a German operatic bass, choirmaster and music director of the University of Wroclaw.
Christian Johann Christoph Schreiber was a German theologian, philologist, philosopher, and poet. He was also the Superintendent of the dioceses of Lengsfeld and Dermbach. He was connected in friendship or correspondence to writers and philosophers of his time, and published poetry, sermons, historical and philosophical works.
Johann Daniel Overbeck was an evangelical theologian and Rector at the Katharineum.
Wolfgang von Wurzbach was an Austrian Romance language scholar, literary scholar, and collector.
Johann Friedrich Ahlfeld was a German Lutheran theologian and preacher.
Traugott Maximilian Eberwein, was a German composer and conductor, who is attributed with the start of early musical history in Rudolstadt.
Leona Riemann is a German writer, author, and publisher.
