Christoph Gottfried Bardili was a German philosopher and cousin of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling. He was critical of Kantian idealism and proposed his own system of philosophy known as rational realism, a view based purely upon "thinking as thinking".
Ernst Kuno Berthold Fischer was a German philosopher, a historian of philosophy and a critic.
Carl Eduard Sachau was a German orientalist. He taught Josef Horovitz and Eugen Mittwoch.
Christoph Meckel was a German author and graphic artist. He received awards for his works which connect illustrations with the written text, sometimes texts by others.
Bernhard Windscheid was a German jurist and a member of the pandectistic school of law thought.
Robert Spaemann was a German Catholic philosopher. He is considered a member of the Ritter School.
Hermann Ulrich Kantorowicz was a German jurist.
Berthold Wulf was a German priest, poet and philosopher.
Michael Creizenach was a German Jewish educator, mathematician, theologian, and proponent of the Reform movement.
Max Bense was a German philosopher, writer, and publicist, known for his work in philosophy of science, logic, aesthetics, and semiotics. His thoughts combine natural sciences, art, and philosophy under a collective perspective and follow a definition of reality, which – under the term existential rationalism – is able to remove the separation between humanities and natural sciences.
The Pope Benedict XVI bibliography contains a list of works by Pope Benedict XVI.
Joachim Illies was a German biologist, entomologist and author.
Andreas von Tuhr was a Russian-German jurist, whose work on the fundamental conceptions of private law within the civilian tradition has been of lasting significance.
Michael Vetter was a German composer, novelist, poet, performer, calligrapher, artist, and teacher.
Kurt Flasch is a German philosopher, who works mainly as a historian of medieval thought and of late antiquity. Flasch was professor at the Ruhr University Bochum. He was / is a member of several German and international Academies. In 2000, he was awarded the Sigmund Freud Prize by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung.
Volker Summer is a German author, anthropologist, and Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at University College London (UCL). His research focusses on the evolution of primate social and sexual behaviour, cognition, rituals, biodiversity conservation, animal rights and evolutionary ethics.
Salomo Friedlaender was a German-Jewish philosopher, poet, satirist and author of grotesque and fantastic literature. He published his literary work under the pseudonym Mynona, which is the German word for "anonymous" spelled backward. He is known for his philosophical ideas on dualism drawing on Immanuel Kant, and his avant garde poetry and fiction. Almost none of his work has been translated into English.
Elisabeth Johanna Amelia Caland was a German pianist, piano teacher and theorist of piano technique of Dutch origin.
Christian Maria Oskar Herwartz SJ, was a German Catholic priest. He was a member of the Society of Jesus, and was active as a worker-priest, author and blogger. After three years working in France, he lived from 1978 to 2016 with other Jesuits in a community he co-founded in Berlin that offered a place to stay for people in need. Herwartz is regarded as the founder of the Exerzitien auf der Straße movement, adapting the order's spiritual exercises to life among the masses. The community held regular peace prayers in Berlin until 2020.
Paula Freiin von Wächter-Spittler was a German painter.
