Most of the brighter stars were assigned their first systematic names by the German astronomer Johann Bayer in 1603, in his star atlas Uranometria ( named after Urania, the Greek Muse of Astronomy, along with Uranus, the Greek god of the sky and heavens ).

They were depicted by Johann Bayer in his star atlas Uranometria of 1603.

The stars of the main asterism within a constellation are usually given Greek letters in their order of brightness, the so-called Bayer designation introduced by Johann Bayer in 1603.

Johann Bayer was the first uranographer to put Chamaeleon in a celestial atlas.

Johann Bayer ( 1572 – March 7, 1625 ) was a German lawyer and uranographer ( celestial cartographer ).

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Indeed, in 1603 Johann Bayer gave three of these clusters designations as if they were single stars.

* 1660 – Johann Kuhnau, German composer, organist and harpsichordist ( d. 1722 )

* 1730 – Johann Georg Hamann, German philosopher ( d. 1788 )

* 1648 – Johann Michael Bach, German composer ( d. 1694 )

As a music scholar and organist, he studied the music of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach and influenced the Organ reform movement ( Orgelbewegung ).

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany | German artist known for his works of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, visual arts, and science.

* 1761 – Johann Matthias Gesner, German scholar ( b. 1691 )

* 1697 – Johann Gottlieb Görner, German composer and organist ( d. 1778 )

Alcott also wrote a series patterned after the work of German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe which were eventually published in the Transcendentalists ' journal, The Dial.

* 1736 – Johann Christoph Kellner, German organist and composer ( d. 1803 )

* 1647 – Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer ( d. 1719 )

* 1744 – Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer ( d. 1803 )

* 1719 – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet ( d. 1803 )

* 1749 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist ( d. 1832 )

* 1683 – Johann David Heinichen, German composer and theorist ( d. 1729 )

* 1637 – Johann Gerhard, German church leader and theologian ( b. 1582 )

* 1719 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German mineralogist and geologist ( d. 1767 )

* 1825 – Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician ( b. 1765 )

* 1666 – Johann Heinrich Buttstett, German organist and composer ( d. 1727 )

Anthony ( Dresden, 27 December 1755 – Dresden, 6 June 1836 ), also known by his German name Anton ( full name: Anton Clemens Theodor Maria Joseph Johann Evangelista Johann Nepomuk Franz Xavier Aloys Januar ), was a King of Saxony ( 1827 – 1836 ) from the House of Wettin.

Eventually it was discovered that metallic zinc could be alloyed with copper to make brass ; a process known as speltering and by 1657 the German chemist Johann Glauber had recognised that calamine was " nothing else but unmeltable zinc " and that zinc was a " half ripe metal.

* Johann Sebastian Bach, the German composer

Scholars of ballads are often divided into two camps, the ‘ communalists ’ who, following the line established by the German scholar Johann Gottfried Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ) and the Brothers Grimm, argue that ballads arose by a combined communal effort and did not have a single author, and ‘ individualists ’, following the thinking of English collector Cecil Sharp, who assert that there was a single original author.

" The German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote: " With the exception of Shakespeare and Spinoza, I know no one among the no longer living who has influenced me more strongly.