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 ".

* 1766 – Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter and printmaker ( d. 1853 )

* 1770 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher ( d. 1831 )

* 1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.

* 1832 – Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist ( d. 1920 )

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

Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe ( September 27, 1818 – November 25, 1884 ) was a German chemist.

* Wilhelm Biltz ( 1877 – 1943 ), German chemist and scientific editor

In 1865, the German painter, author and caricaturist Wilhelm Busch created the strip Max and Moritz, about two trouble-making boys, which had a direct influence on the American comic strip.

* 1980 – Manuel Wilhelm, German rugby player

* 1776 – Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German physicist ( d. 1810 )

Kaiser Wilhelm II and German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel were known for keeping dachshunds.

* Diest, Wilhelm, and E. J. Feuchtwanger, " The Military Collapse of the German Empire: the Reality Behind the Stab-in-the-Back Myth ," War in History, April 1996, Vol.

* 1819 – Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer ( d. 1870 )

In 1877, German physiologist Wilhelm Kühne ( 1837 – 1900 ) first used the term enzyme, which comes from Greek ενζυμον, " in leaven ", to describe this process.

In 1801, the German physicist Johann Wilhelm Ritter made the discovery of ultraviolet by noting that the rays from a prism darkened silver chloride preparations more quickly than violet light.

Wilhelm II, German Emperor.

During the Siege of Paris in 1871, the North German Confederation, supported by its allies from southern Germany, formed the German Empire with the proclamation of the Prussian king Wilhelm I as German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, to the humiliation of the French, who ceased to resist only days later.

* 1895 – Wilhelm Burgdorf, German officer ( d. 1945 )

* 1786 – Wilhelm Grimm, German philologist and folklorist ( d. 1859 )

* 1817 – Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician ( d. 1880 )

* 1834 – Wilhelm von Scherff, German general and military writer ( d. 1911 )

* 1859 – Wilhelm Cohn, German chess master ( d. 1913 )

Wilhelm II initially supported the Nazi Party, and his four sons of the exiled German royal family, including Prince Eitel Friedrich and Prince Oskar, became members of the Nazi Party, in hopes that in exchange for their support, the Nazis would permit the restoration of the monarchy.