The Afroasiatic language family was originally referred to as " Hamito-Semitic ", a term introduced in the 1860s by the German scholar Karl Richard Lepsius.

* 1500 – Joachim Camerarius, German scholar ( d. 1574 )

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

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

* 1867 – Philipp August Böckh, German scholar and antiquarian ( b. 1785 )

In 1943 the German biblical scholar Martin Noth suggested that this history was composed by a single author / editor, living in the time of the Exile ( 6th century BCE ).

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 Achaemenid collection was enhanced with the addition of the Oxus Treasure in 1897, by acquisition from the German scholar Ernst Herzfeld, and then by the work of Sir Aurel Stein.

Lobegott Friedrich Constantin ( von ) Tischendorf ( January 18, 1815 – December 7, 1874 ) was a noted German Biblical scholar.

Key contributions were made by the Danish scholars Rasmus Rask and Karl Verner and the German scholar Jacob Grimm.

* 1532 – Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar ( d. 1576 )

German scholar Boris Barth, in contrast to Steigmann-Gall, implies that Doehring did not actually use the term, but spoke only of ' betrayal '.

Early 58 and early 55 both have some support, while German New Testament scholar Gerd Lüdemann argues for a date as early as 51 / 52 ( or 54 / 55 ) following on from Knox who proposed 53 / 54.

Dollfuss was concerned that with German National Socialist leader Adolf Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Austrian National Socialists ( DNSAP ) could gain a significant minority in future elections ( according to fascism scholar Stanley G. Payne, should elections have been held in 1933, the DNSAP could have mustered about 25 % of the votes-contemporary TIME analysts suggests a higher support of 50 %, with a 75 % approval rate in the Tyrol region bordering Nazi Germany ).

* 1639 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar ( d. 1691 )

* 1508 – Conrad Celtes, German humanist scholar ( b. 1459 )

Georgius Agricola ( 24 March 1494 – 21 November 1555 ) was a German scholar and scientist.

Gustav Radbruch ( 21 November 1878 – 23 November 1949 ) was a German legal scholar and politician.

* 1687 – Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar ( d. 1757 )

* 1768 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German scholar and archaeologist ( b. 1717 )

* 1721 – Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar ( d. 1740 )

* 1601 – Athanasius Kircher, German scholar ( d. 1680 )

The German Institute for Media and Communication Policy, founded in 2005 by media scholar Lutz Hachmeister, is one of the few independent research institutions that is dedicated to issues surrounding media and communications policies.

A former pupil of an eminent German scholar and educationist Valentin Friedland, Martin Helwig went on to study at the University of Wittenberg where as a student of Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon he earned the academic degree of Magister, in 1552 he became Rector of St. Maria Magdalena School in Breslau ( now Wrocław, in Poland ).

Martin Helwig's map went on to receive acclaim in a public writing by Caspar Peucer an eminent German scholar at the University of Wittenberg, his map was later also republished in several versions of Abraham Ortelius's pioneering world atlas " Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ".

* 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 )

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

* 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

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 ).

" 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.