* He is a great admirer of the philosopher Karl Popper, and contributed a foreword to the 1982 Festschrift in Popper's honor.

Col. Friedrich Franz Karl Hecker, whose farm was near Summerfield, Illinois in adjacent St Clair County, was known to and well respected by the town's inhabitants, and they decided to honor him by naming the town after him.

In 1852 John James and Gustav Theissen, who helped settle Sisterdale, platted the townsite, renamed it in honor of German author Karl Ludwig Börne, with the Anglicized spelling of Boerne.

On January 10th, 2012, the NRAO announced the Very Large Array ( VLA ) would be renamed to the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array in honor of Karl Janksy's contribution to Radio Astronomy.

In Soviet times, the theater was renamed in honor of Karl Marx, but now carries the name of Ivan Slonov ( 1882 – 1945 ), an actor, theatrical director and educator, born in the city.

The Schwarzschild solution is named in honor of Karl Schwarzschild, who found the exact solution in 1916, a little more than a month after the publication of Einstein's theory of general relativity.

* 1976 – Fort Dodge Band Shell renovated and named in honor of Karl King

On November 12, 2005, the United States House of Representatives authorized the United States Postal Service to rename the Los Angeles Barrington Postal Station as the Karl Malden Postal Station in honor of Malden's achievements.

At length, in 1830, Rauch began, along with the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the models for a colossal equestrian monument at Berlin to honor King Frederick II of Prussia ( Frederick the Great ).

The asteroid 768 Struveana was named in honor of Otto Wilhelm, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm and Karl Hermann Struve ; and a lunar crater was named for another 3 astronomers of the Struve family: Friedrich Georg Wilhelm, Otto Wilhelm and Otto.

In West Germany, the " Karl-May-Festspiele " or Karl-May-Spiele in Bad Segeberg were started as early as 1950 and then expanded to further places like Lennestadt-Elspe in honor of Karl May or, rather, of his Apache hero, Winnetou.

But as King, Karl Franz must honor the betrothal to Margaret (" Gavotte ").

In 1925, Karl Mundt and Bruno E. Jacob founded the National Forensic League, a high school honor society promoting speech and debate activities.

Karl Mundt's personal papers are archived at Dakota State University in Madison, where the campus library was named in his honor in 1969.

The Karl E. Mundt National Wildlife Refuge in South Dakota was named in his honor when it was established in 1974.

The Karl E. Mundt Foundation, established in Mundt's honor in 1963, awards prizes for essays and oratorical contests, sponsors seminars and public lectures, and helps support the annual Karl E. Mundt Debate Tournament and Karl E. Mundt Dakota Invitational Oral Interpretation Contest in South Dakota.

The school was dedicated November 9, 1898 with Karl G. Maeser as guest of honor.

This was replaced in 1842 by a new bridge designed by Giovanni Picco, an Italian architect from Villach, and named the Hospital Bridge (), officially Franz's Bridge, () in honor of Archduke Franz Karl of Austria.

This was used to acquire the Karl D. Gregory Cooperative House, named in his honor.

Originally, the name Karl der Große ( Charlemagne ) was used for some time in 1943, but French volunteers in the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS used Charlemagne ( 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne ( 1st French )), so the honor title Frundsberg was chosen, which refers to 16th Century German landsknecht commander Georg von Frundsberg.

Notably, the singular Iberian Ribbed Newt was named Pleurodeles waltl in honor of the young Waltl by his colleague Karl Michahelles in 1830.

The lake was named Lake Rudolf ( in honor of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria ) by Count Sámuel Teleki de Szék and his second-in-command Lieutenant Ludwig Ritter Von Höhnel, a Hungarian and an Austrian, 6 March 1888.

A local area Catholic high school, Cardinal Ritter High School is named in his honor.

Cardinal Ritter College Prep High School in St. Louis is named in his honor.

Ritter argued that Germans needed a positive view of their past, but warned against the appeal of " false concepts of honor and national power ".

Wehler accepted this honor with some reluctance as previous German historians so honored have included Leopold von Ranke, Gerhard Ritter and Friedrich Meinecke, none of whom Wehler considers proper historians.

U. S. Figure Skating President F. Ritter Shumway, in office less than two months at the time of the accident, established the USFS Memorial Fund in honor of the crash victims.

The dispute on the priority of the discovery occurred shortly after, with Urbain and von Welsbach accusing each other of publishing results influenced by the published research of the other ; the naming honor went to Urbain as he published his results earlier.

Its name is in honor of Baron von Steuben, a German general who fought on the American side in the American Revolutionary War, though it is not pronounced the same.

The Zabrze commune was renamed Hindenburg in 1915 in honor of Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg.

In 1991, the University of Oldenburg was renamed Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg in his honor.

The International League for Human Rights ( ILHR ) awards an annual Carl von Ossietzky Medal " to honor citizens or initiatives that promote basic human rights.

It was created in 1857 and is named in honor of Alexander von Humboldt.

The town was renamed Humboldt in 1905 to honor Baron Alexander von Humboldt, who had visited New Spain early in the 19th century and predicted that greater riches would be found to the north ( interpreted by early twentieth century promoters as the Bradshaw Mountains region ).

The fort was renamed in 1791 to Fort Steuben in honor of Baron von Steuben.

It was built on the site of Fort Steuben which was erected in 1786 – 1787 and named in honor of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben.

The community was named in honor of Otto von Bismarck, a 19th century German chancellor.

It was named in honor of von Neumann, short for John v. Neumann Numerical Integrator and Automatic Computer.

Eben Norton Horsford, a student of Justus von Liebig, who began his studies on baking powder in 1856, eventually developed a variety he named in honor of Count Rumford.

* Von Steuben Day, holiday in Baron von Steuben's honor

Instead, Prussia awarded von Richthofen a slightly less prestigious honor, the Order of the Red Eagle, 3rd Class with Crown and Swords.

This was still a high honor, as the 3rd Class was normally awarded to colonels and lieutenant colonels, and von Richthofen's award was one of only two of the 3rd Class with Crown and Swords during World War I.

Later recipients included Thomas Babington Macaulay ( 1853 ), John C. Frémont ( 1860 ), Theodor Mommsen ( 1868 ), Charles Darwin ( 1868 ), Thomas Carlyle ( 1874 ) ( who never accepted any other honor ), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( 1875 ), William Thomson, Lord Kelvin ( 1884 ), Heinrich von Treitschke ( 1887 ), Johannes Brahms ( 1887 ), Giuseppe Verdi ( 1887 ), William Henry Flower ( 1899 ), Camille Saint-Saëns ( 1901 ), Luigi Cremona ( 1903 ), John Singer Sargent ( 1908 ), Ferdinand von Zeppelin ( 1910 ), Otto Lessing ( sculptor ) ( 1911 ), Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen ( 1911 ), Sir William Ramsay ( 1911 ), Max Planck ( 1915 ), and Rudolph Sohm ( 1916 ).

Since this time, the factor causing the long bleeding time was called " von Willebrand factor " in honor of Dr. Erick von Willebrand.

This name was in honor of von Colmer — Meyenburg, who was extremely influential in the building of the railway, which was beneficial to the town's economy.

Johann Georg von Eckhart ( 1664-1730 ) in De orgine Germanorum ( p. 398 ) writes: “ The common people of the Saxons honor Frau Freke, who bestows on them gifts, the same whom the nobles amongst the Saxons reckon as Holda .” In Westphalia, the name of an old convent, Freckenhorst, Frickenhorst points to a sacred hurst or grove of Frecka ( feminine ), or of Fricko ( masculine ) compare Frœcinghyrst.

While exiting a showing of Der müde Tod as a guest of honor in 1954, von Harbou fell to the ground and developed a hip injury ; on July 1, 1954 she died in the hospital at the age of sixty-five.

In recognition of his achievements, the Berlin Geographical Society presented him with the Ferdinand von Richthofen Medal in 1933 ; the same honor was also awarded to Erich von Drygalski for his Gauss Expedition to the Antarctic ; and to Alfred Philippson for his research on the Aegean Region.