Image: Grabplatte Johann Wauer Hochkirch. jpg | Lengthy epitaph for Johann Wauer a ( German pastor ), died 1728, concluding with a short Biblical quotation

* 1600 – Caspar Hennenberger, German Lutheran pastor, historian and cartographer ( b. 1529 )

* 1525 – Insurgent peasants led by Anabaptist pastor Thomas Muentzer were defeated at the Battle of Frankenhausen, ending the German Peasants ' War in the Holy Roman Empire.

* December 6 – Anton Praetorius, German pastor ( b. 1560 )

* May 15 – Insurgent peasants led by Anabaptist pastor Thomas Muentzer were defeated at the Battle of Frankenhausen, ending the German Peasants ' War in the Holy Roman Empire.

* May 27 – Thomas Muentzer, German pastor and rebel leader ( b. 1489 )

** Thomas Muentzer, German pastor and rebel leader ( d. 1525 )

In 1765, the Russian tsarina Catherine II gave the pastor an assignment to travel in Russia on a research journey and investigate the situation of a German colony on the Volga River.

* Hermann Maas, German pastor and opponent of Nazism

Karl Friedrich Bahrdt ( August 25, 1741 – April 23, 1792 ), German theologian and adventurer, was born at Bischofswerda, Upper Lusatia, where his father, afterwards professor, canon and general superintendent at Leipzig, was pastor.

In 1868, Dr. Jeremiah Ingold, pastor of the German Reformed Grace Charge, established Hickory's first school, the Free Academy.

In the 19th-century German Kingdom of Saxony, Lutheran pastor Martin Stephan and many of his followers found themselves increasingly at odds with the rationalism, Christian ecumenism and Prussian Union ( Evangelical Christian Church ) forcible unionism of established Lutheranism.

Johann Jakob Griesbach ( January 4, 1745 – March 24, 1812 ), German biblical textual critic, was born at Butzbach, a small town in the state of Hesse-Darmstadt, where his father, Konrad Kaspar ( 1705 – 1777 ), was pastor.

Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller ( 14 January 1892 – 6 March 1984 ) was a German anti-Nazi theologian " Niemöller, ( Friedrich Gustav Emil ) Martin " < cite > The New Encyclopædia Britannica </ cite > ( Chicago: University of Chicago, 1993 ), 8: 698 .</ ref > and Lutheran pastor.

“ First they came …” is a famous statement attributed to pastor Martin Niemöller ( 1892 – 1984 ) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group.

Martin Niemöller was a German pastor and theologian born in Lippstadt, Germany, in 1892.

It was named after Joachim Neander, a 17th-century German pastor.

The original lyrics had been written in 1850 by Swiss pastor Jakob Josef Jauch ( 1802 – 1859 ), in a time when the Principality of Liechtenstein, which is considered the last remnant of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, was a member of the German Confederation.

His father was a German Evangelical pastor ; his denomination was the American branch of the established Prussian Church Union in Germany.

As America entered the World War in 1917, Niebuhr was the unknown pastor of a small German-speaking congregation in Detroit ( it stopped using German in 1919 ).

His father, Bruno Nakszynski, a German of Polish descent, was a failed opera singer turned pharmacist ; his mother, Susanne ( née Lutze ), was a nurse and the daughter of a local pastor.

Henry Melchior Muhlenberg ( an anglicanization of Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg ) ( September 6, 1711 – October 7, 1787 ), was a German Lutheran pastor sent to North America as a missionary, requested by Pennsylvania colonists.

His grandfather, Johan Andrew Welhaven ( 1748 – 1811 ) was a teacher and later assistant to the pastor at St Mary's Church ( Mariakirken ), which served the city's German community.

On the recommendation of a pastor based in Brussels, who wanted to be of help, Belgium was chosen, where they could also study German, and music.

* 1777 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician ( d. 1855 )

* 1874 – Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1940 )

* 1779 – Carl Ritter, German geographer ( d. 1859 )

* 1794 – Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist ( d. 1868 )

* 1885 – Carl Goßler, German rower ( d. 1914 )

Armida was translated into German and widely performed, especially in the northern German states, where it helped to establish Salieri's reputation as an important and innovative modern composer It would also be the first opera to receive a serious preparation in a piano and vocal reduction by Carl Friedrich Cramer in 1783.

Carl Maria von Weber, a relative of Mozart by marriage whom Wagner has characterized as the most German of German composers, is said to have refused to join Ludlams-Höhle, a social club of which Salieri was a member and avoided having anything to do with him.

The name " alkaloids " () was introduced in 1819 by the German chemist Carl F. W.

* 1985 – Carl Schmitt, German philosopher and theorist ( b. 1888 )

After Heine's German birthplace of Düsseldorf had rejected, allegedly for anti-Semitic motives, a centennial monument to the radical German-Jewish poet ( 1797 – 1856 ), his incensed German-American admirers, including Carl Schurz, started a movement to place one instead in Midtown Manhattan, at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street.

Although the term “ biochemistry ” seems to have been first used in 1882, it is generally accepted that the formal coinage of biochemistry occurred in 1903 by Carl Neuberg, a German chemist.

German strategist Carl von Clausewitz stated that " the employment of battles ... to achieve the object of war " was the essence of strategy.

German military history had previously been influenced by Carl von Clausewitz, Alfred von Schlieffen and von Moltke the Elder, who were proponents of maneuver, mass, and envelopment.

Bunge & Born was founded in 1884 by Ernesto Bunge, a German Argentine whose uncle, Carl Bunge, had been Consul General in Argentina for both the Netherlands and Prussia, and his brother-in-law, Jorge Born, who had recently arrived from Antwerp.

Clausewitz's Christian names are sometimes given in non-German sources as " Carl Philipp Gottlieb " or " Carl Maria ", because of reliance on mistaken source material, conflation with his wife's name, Marie, or mistaken assumptions about German orthography.

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (;, ) ( 30 April 177723 February 1855 ) was a German mathematician and physical scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy and optics.

Carl Friedrich Michael Meinhof ( July 23, 1857 – February 11, 1944 ) was a German linguist and one of the first linguists to study African languages.

Carl Meinhof was the great-uncle ( the brother of the grandfather ) of Ulrike Meinhof, a founding member of the German Red Army Faction ( RAF ), a left-wing militant group, which operated in West Germany in 1970s and 1980s.

Though Adolf Hitler succeeded in garnering the support of many German industrialists, prominent traditionalists openly and secretly opposed his policies of euthanasia, genocide, and attacks on organized religion, including Claus von Stauffenberg, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Henning von Tresckow, Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen, and the monarchist Carl Friedrich Goerdeler.

The CGS system goes back to a proposal in 1832 by the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss.

J. S. Bach's son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was a great proponent of the instrument, and most of his German contemporaries regarded it as a central keyboard instrument, for performing, teaching, composing and practicing.

* 1872 – Carl Lehle, German rower ( d. 1930 )