List of people from Breslau explained

This list includes people who were born in or lived in Breslau before 1945. For a list of famous residents after 1945, see List of notable people from Wrocław.

• Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915) a psychiatrist and neuropathologist, discovered Alzheimer's disease
• Paul Amman (1634–1691), German physician and botanist.^[1]
• Günther Anders (1902–1992) a German-Austrian Jewish émigré, philosopher, essayist and journalist.
• Adolf Anderssen (1818–1879) a German chess master.
• Đorđe Andrejević-Kun (1904–1964), a Serbian painter and academic.
• Heinz Arndt (1915–2002), an Australian economist
• Leopold Auerbach (1828–1897), a German anatomist and neuropathologist
• Joannes Aurifaber Vratislaviensis (1517–1568), a Lutheran theologian and Protestant reformer.^[2]
• Bertha Badt-Strauss (1885–1970), a German writer and Zionist.
• Boleslaw Barlog (1906–1999), a German stage, film and opera director
• Erhard Bauschke (1912–1945), a German jazz and light music reedist and bandleader.^[3]
• Max Berg (1870–1947), a German architect and urban planner, designed the Centennial Hall
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), Lutheran clergyman, leader of the resistance against Nazism
• Max Born (1882–1970), a German physicist and mathematician, developed quantum mechanics
• August Borsig (1804–1854), a German businessman who made steam engines
  • Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945), a German philosopher, main interests: Epistemology & aesthetics Hendrik Claudius (c1655-1697), painter and apothecary
• Ferdinand Cohn (1828–1898), a biologist, a founder of modern bacteriology and microbiology.
• Richard Courant (1888–1972), a German American mathematician, wrote What Is Mathematics?
• Harri Czepuck (1927–2015), a German journalist.
• Walter Damrosch (1862–1950), an American conductor and composer.
• John Gunther Dean (1926–2019), an American diplomat, the United States ambassador to five nations.
• Johann Dzierzon (1811–1906), a Polish beekeeper, discovered parthenogenesis in bees.
• Hermann von Eichhorn (1848–1918), a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall during WWI.
• Norbert Elias (1897–1990), a German/British sociologist, worked on civilizing/decivilizing processes.
• Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein (1797-1885), a Prussian General der Infanterie
• Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde (1873–1942}, a German botanist.
• George Forell (1919–2011), a scholar, author, lecturer and guest professor re. Christian ethics.^[4]
• Otfrid Förster (1873–1941) a German neurologist and neurosurgeon
• Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat (1910–1999) a biochemist, researched viruses.
• Zecharias Frankel (1801–1875), rabbi and founder of Conservative Judaism
• Hans Freeman (1929–2008), Australian bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer
• Friedrich von Gentz (1764–1832), a German diplomat and writer.^[5]
• Alfred Gomolka (1942–2020), a German politician and MEP
• Rudolf von Gottschall (1823–1909), a German poet, dramatist, literary critic and literary historian. ^[6]
• Felix Hausdorff (1868–1942), mathematician, one of the founders of algebraic topology
• Martin Helwig (1516–1574) a German cartographer, created the first map of Silesia
• Sir George Henschel (1850–1934) a British baritone, pianist, conductor and composer.^[7]
• Johann Heß (1490–1547), Lutheran theologian, Protestant reformer of Breslau and Silesia
• Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau (1616–1679) a German poet of the Baroque era
• August, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen (1784–1853), a German general and nobleman.
• Karl von Holtei (1798–1880), German poet and actor.^[8]
• E. A. J. Honigmann (1927–2011), a British scholar of English Literature
• Heinz Hopf (1894–1971), a German mathematician who worked on topology and geometry.
• Vernon Ingram (1924–2006), a German–American academic professor of biology in the US.
• Gustav Adolph Kenngott (1818–1897), a German mineralogist.^[9]
• Alfred Kerr (1867–1948), theatre critic and essayist
• Gustav Kirchhoff (1824–1887), a German physicist, dealt with electrical circuits and spectroscopy
• Gerhard Kittel (1888–1948), a German Lutheran theologian and lexicographer of biblical languages.
• Otto Klemperer (1885–1973), orchestral conductor and composer
• August Kopisch (1799–1853), a German poet and painter.^[10]
• Wojciech Korfanty (1873–1939), a Polish activist, journalist and politician.
• Arthur Korn (1870–1945), physicist, invented transmission of photographs by facsimile and wireless
• Arthur Korn (1891–1978), a German architect and urban planner, proponent of modernism
• Carl Ferdinand Langhans (1782–1869), a Prussian architect whose specialty was theatres.
• Carl Gotthard Langhans (1732–1808), a Prussian master builder and royal architect.
• Ferdinand Lassalle (1825–1864), a Prussian-German jurist, philosopher and socialist.^[11]
• Carl Friedrich Lessing (1808–1880), a German historical and landscape painter.
• Marie Leszczyńska (1703 in Trzebnica – 1768), Queen consort of France.^[12]
• Daniel Casper von Lohenstein (1635–1683), a Baroque Silesian playwright, lawyer, diplomat and poet
• Peter Lorre (1904–1964), an Austrian-Hungarian and American actor.
• Georg Lunge (1839–1923), a German chemist.^[13]
• Rudolf Meidner (1914–2005), a Swedish economist and socialist theorist
• Joachim Meisner (1933–2017), Cardinal priest and archbishop of Cologne
• Adolph Menzel (1815–1905), a German Realist artist noted for drawings, etchings and paintings.^[14]
• Jan Mikulicz-Radecki (1850-1905), surgeon, contributed to development of modern surgery
• Richard Mohaupt (1904–1957), a German composer and Kapellmeister.
• Edda Moser (born 1938), a German operatic soprano.
• Moritz Moszkowski (1854–1925), a composer, pianist and teacher of Polish-Jewish descent.^[15]
• Hugo von Pohl (1855–1916), a German admiral, commander of High Seas Fleet
• Louis Prang (1824–1909), printer, lithographer and publisher
• Y. Michel Rabbinowicz (1892 - ?), author
• Michael Oser Rabin (born 1931), mathematician and computer scientist
• Manfred von Richthofen (1892–1918), World War I flying ace (the "Red Baron")
• Oskar von Riesenthal (1830–1898) a German forester, ornithologist, hunter and writer.
• Ludwig Rosenfelder (1813-1881), German painter
• Horst Rosenthal (1915–1942), German-born French cartoonist
• Julius von Sachs (1832–1897), a German botanist.^[16]
• Johann Gottfried Scheibel (1783–1843), theological professor and dissenter to the Prussian Union
• Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834) a Reformed theologian, philosopher and biblical scholar
• Auguste Schmidt (1833–1902), a German feminist, educator, journalist and women's rights activist.
• Margarethe Siems (1879–1952), a German operatic coloratura soprano
• Angelus Silesius (ca.1624–1677), a German Catholic priest, physician, mystic and religious poet.
• Karl Slotta (1895–1987), biochemist
• Edith Stein (1891–1942), philosopher and Roman Catholic martyr
• Michael Steinberg (1928–2009) an American music critic and author
• Fritz Stern (1926–2016), American historian of German & Jewish history and historiography.
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730–1794), Inspector General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
• Siegbert Tarrasch (1862–1934), chess player
• Augustin Theiner ((1804–1874), theologian and Church historian of the Vatican Apostolic Archive
• August Tholuck (1799–1877), a German Protestant theologian, pastor and historian.^[17]
• Michel Thomas (1914–2005), war hero and language teacher.
• Zacharias Ursinus (1534–1583) a German Reformed theologian and Protestant reformer.^[18]
• Christian Wolff (1679–1754), a German philosopher.^[19]
• Adolf Wuttke (1819–1870) a German Protestant theologian.^[20]
• Johann Heinrich Zedler (1706–1751), publisher of a German encyclopedia, the Grosses Universal-Lexicon.^[21]

Nobel laureates

listed by year of award

• Theodor Mommsen (1902)
• Philipp Lenard (1905)
• Eduard Buchner (1907)
• Paul Ehrlich (1908)
• Gerhart Hauptmann (1912)
• Fritz Haber (1918)
• Friedrich Bergius (1931)
• Erwin Schrödinger (1933)
• Otto Stern (1943)
• Max Born (1954)
• Reinhard Selten (1994)

Notes and References

1. Amman, Paul . 1 . 859 . 1.
2. Aurifaber . 2 . 925 - 926; see para 2 . 2. Joannes (Vratislaviensis; 1517–1568), the younger brother of Andreas...... 1.
3. Rainer E. Lotz, "Erhard Bauschke". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.
4. News: The danger of thinking we are really holy. 19 March 1983. Leader-Post. 25 February 2011.
5. Gentz, Friedrich von . 11 . Phillips . Walter Alison . Walter Alison Phillips . 606 - 607 . 1.
6. Gottschall, Rudolf von . 12 . 279 . 1.
7. Henschel, George . 13 . 302 . 1.
8. Holtei, Karl Eduard von . 13 . 619 - 620 . 1.
9. Kenngott, Gustav Adolph . 15 . 732 . 1.
10. Kopisch, August . 15 . 897 . 1.
11. Lassalle, Ferdinand . 16 . Kirkup . Thomas . 235 - 236 . 1.
12. Marie Leszczynska . 17 . 713 . 1.
13. Lunge, Georg . 17 . 126 . 1.
14. Menzel, Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von . 18 . 146 - 147 . 1.
15. Moszkowski, Moritz . 18 . 904 . 1.
16. Sachs, Julius von . 23 . 1.
17. Tholuck, Friedrich August Gottreu . 26 . 862 . 1.
18. Ursinus, Zacharias . 27 . 803 . 1.
19. Wolff, Christian . 28 . Pringle-Pattison . Andrew Seth . Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison . 774 . 1.
20. Wuttke, Karl Friedrich Adolf . 28 . 861 . 1.
21. Encyclopaedia . 26 . 369 - 382;see page 374, para 3. One of the largest .....completed by Johann Heinrich Zedler, a bookseller of Leipzig, who was born at Breslau 7th January 1706.... 1.