Franz Schreker was an Austrian composer, conductor, librettist, teacher and administrator. Primarily a composer of operas, Schreker developed a style characterized by aesthetic plurality, timbral experimentation, strategies of extended tonality and conception of total music theatre into the narrative of 20th-century music.
Wilhelm von Christ was a German classical scholar.
Paul Hinschius, German jurist, was the son of Franz Sales August Hinschius (1807–1877), and was born in Berlin.
Moritz Steinschneider was a Moravian bibliographer and Orientalist. He received his early instruction in Hebrew from his father, Jacob Steinschneider, who was not only an expert Talmudist, but was also well versed in secular science. The house of the elder Steinschneider was the rendezvous of a few progressive Hebraists, among whom was his brother-in-law, the physician and writer Gideon Brecher.
Hermann Wilhelm Ebel was a German philologist.
Levin Goldschmidt was a German jurist, judge and academic. He was a Judge at the Reichsoberhandelsgericht and a professor at the University of Berlin. Between 1875 and 1877 he also served as a member of the German Parliament.
Rudolf von Raumer was a German philologist and linguist, known for his extensive research of the German language. He was the son of geologist Karl Georg von Raumer.
David Cassel was a German historian and Jewish theologian.
Julius Rodenberg was a German Jewish poet and author.
The Imperial Austrian Order of Franz Joseph was founded by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria on 2 December 1849, on the first anniversary of his accession to the imperial throne.
Franz Mone was a historian and archaeologist.
The Mendelssohn family are the descendants of Mendel of Dessau. The German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and his brother Saul were the first to adopt the surname Mendelssohn. The family includes his grandson, the composer Felix Mendelssohn and his granddaughter, the composer Fanny Mendelssohn.
Hermann Gerhardt Karl Oncken was a German historian and political writer. He was one of the most notable historians of pre-Nazi Germany.
Julius Fürst, born Joseph Alsari, was a Jewish German orientalist and the son of noted maggid, teacher, and Hebrew grammarian Jacob Alsari. Fürst was a distinguished scholar of Semitic languages and literature. During his years as professor in the department of oriental languages and literature at the University of Leipzig (1864–1873), he wrote many works on literary history and linguistics.
Otto Roquette was a German author.
Franz Xaver von Wegele was a German historian, largely known for his studies on the history of Thuringia, Franconia and the University of Würzburg.
Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer was a German historian. He was the father of mineralogist Otto Erdmannsdörffer.
Martin Krause was a German mathematician, specializing in analysis.
Solomon Pappenheim, also known by the acronym Rashap, was a German Maskil, linguist, and poet. He is best known for his three-part study of Hebrew synonyms entitled Yeri'ot Shelomoh.
Carl Gehrts, also Karl Gehrts, complete name Karl Heinrich Julius Gehrts was a German painter, illustrator and academic scholar. As a professor, he taught at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
