Born in Marburg

Marburg

Seat of Landkreis Marburg-Biedenkopf and city in Hesse, Germany

Marburg as a birthplace has produced a number of famous personalities of various fields (e.g. German politician, German sculptor, German sociologist): Ingrid Arndt-Brauer, Adolf von Hildebrand, Peter Weingart and some more.

Celebrities from Marburg

Where is Marburg located? Marburg: Current Local Time

Celebrities from Marburg

Ingrid Arndt-Brauer

German politician

*March 20th, 1961

Adolf von Hildebrand

German sculptor

*October 6th, 1847 †January 18th, 1921, Munich

Peter Weingart

German sociologist

*June 5th, 1941

Lucas Schäfer

German rower

*August 15th, 1994

Claudia Wurzel

Italian rower

*May 1st, 1987

Lena Gercke

German model

*February 29th, 1988

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Hans-Georg Gadamer

German philosopher (1900–2002)

*February 11th, 1900 †March 13th, 2002, Heidelberg

Christian Händle

German rower

*May 13th, 1965

Margot Käßmann

German theologist and writer

*June 3rd, 1958

Willi Weitzel

German television presenter, author and journalist

*December 13th, 1972

Dorian M. Goldfeld

American mathematician

*January 21st, 1947

Hans Mommsen

German historian

*November 5th, 1930 †November 5th, 2015, Tutzing

Claus Arndt

German politician and jurist (1927-2014)

*April 16th, 1927 †February 10th, 2014, Hamburg

Victor Hüter

German gynaecologist and university teacher (1832-1897)

*October 16th, 1832 †November 12th, 1897, Göttingen

Mario Wirz

German writer (1956-2013)

*December 3rd, 1956 †May 30th, 2013, Berlin

Otto John

German resistance member (1909-1997)

*March 19th, 1909 †March 26th, 1997, Innsbruck

Jana Forkel

*October 7th, 1988

Otta Wenskus

German-born Austrian classical philologist

*May 29th, 1955

Christiane Klopsch

German athletics competitor

*August 21st, 1990

Johannes Kempf

*October 18th, 1592 †June 25th, 1635

Hans Gerhard Schwick

German art collector

*April 5th, 1928 †May 10th, 2015, Berlin

Claus Bantzer

German composer

*October 10th, 1942

Dirk Spaniel

German politician

*November 3rd, 1971

Jens Asendorpf

German author

*October 26th, 1950

Reinhard Hauff

German film director and screenwriter

*May 23rd, 1939

Nina Kronjäger

German actress

*February 26th, 1967

Christoph Bantzer

German actor

*January 4th, 1936

Lukas Wenig

German darts player

*September 18th, 1994

Christian Buse

German actor

*November 19th, 1959

Arnold Jacobshagen

German musicologist

*December 30th, 1965

Klaus Zaczyk

German footballer

*May 25th, 1945

Bernd Asmus

German composer and university lecturer

*March 22nd, 1959

Ludwig Schick

Catholic archbishop

*September 22nd, 1949

Svenja Weidemann

German tennis player

*September 22nd, 1980

Jochem Ziegert

German footballer

*July 25th, 1954

Leander Lichti

German actor

*November 11th, 1976

Holger Schwiers

German actor and voice actor

*April 13th, 1947

Judith Affeld

German association football player

*June 20th, 1978

Matthias Matschke

German actor

*January 1st, 1968

Til Bettenstaedt

German footballer

*January 20th, 1976

Sina Mainitz

German journalist

*May 11th, 1977

Lothar Determann

German attorney at law

*March 4th, 1969

Thomas Hünig

German university teacher

*March 4th, 1950

Wolfgang F. Rothe

Catholic priest

*July 16th, 1967

Sanam Afrashteh

German actress and singer

*January 1st, 1976

Henning Harnisch

German basketball player

*April 15th, 1968

Gabriele Becker

German athletics competitor

*August 17th, 1975

Linda Marlen Runge

German actress

*March 11th, 1986

Roland Suso Richter

Film director

*January 7th, 1961

Dirk Wolf

German association football player

*August 4th, 1972

Fritz Külz

German pharmacologist

*March 4th, 1887 †November 3rd, 1949, Frankfurt

Ernst Günther Schenck

German SS surgeon; Inspector for troop food supply in OKH and SS; Police Food Inspector (Nazi Germany)

*October 3rd, 1904 †December 21st, 1998, Aachen

Georg Friedrich Creuzer

Philologist and archaeologist

*March 10th, 1771 †February 6th, 1858, Heidelberg

Richard Wachsmuth

German physicist

*March 21st, 1868 †January 1st, 1941, Icking

Friedrich Ahlfeld

German engineer and geologist (1892-1982)

*October 6th, 1892 †January 9th, 1982, Cochabamba

Elisabeth of Hesse, Hereditary Princess of Saxony

Saxon princess

*March 6th, 1502 †December 6th, 1557, Schmalkalden

Georg von Rauch

German anarchist (1947-1971)

*May 12th, 1947 †December 4th, 1971, Berlin

Philipp Ludwig Hanneken

German theologian (1637-1706)

*June 5th, 1637 †January 16th, 1706, Lutherstadt Wittenberg

Buschi Niebergall

German musician (1938-1990)

*July 18th, 1938 †January 9th, 1990, Frankfurt

Philip I

Landgrave of Hesse

*November 13th, 1504 †March 31st, 1567, Kassel

Christoph Andreas Leonhard Creuzer

German theologian

*November 20th, 1768 †March 3rd, 1844, Marburg

Ernst von Harnack

German politician and resistance fighter (1888-1945)

*July 15th, 1888 †March 5th, 1945, Plötzensee Prison

Nicolaus Hunnius

German theologian

*July 11th, 1585 †April 12th, 1643, Lübeck

Reinhard Christoph Ungewitter

German theologian

*January 25th, 1715 †December 31st, 1784, Kassel

Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse

First Landgrave of Hesse

*June 24th, 1244 †December 21st, 1308, Marburg

Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess of Brabant

German noble (1224-1275)

*March 20th, 1224 †May 29th, 1275, Marburg

Adam Lonitzer

German physician and botanist (1528-1586)

*October 10th, 1528 †May 29th, 1586, Frankfurt

Johann Nikolaus Seip

German theologian (1724-1789)

*December 20th, 1724 †September 24th, 1789, Marburg

Philipp Matthaeus

Botanist (1621-1700)

*December 11th, 1621 †December 29th, 1700, Franeker

Arthur Henkel

German philologist and germanist (1915-2005)

*March 12th, 1915 †October 4th, 2005, Heidelberg

Christoph Matthäus

German historian

*November 29th, 1608 †June 11th, 1647, Harderwijk

Johann Christian Zimmermann

German mineralogist and mathematician (1786-1853)

*April 25th, 1788 †September 29th, 1853, Clausthal

Friedrich von Thiersch

German architect (1852-1921)

*April 18th, 1852 †December 23rd, 1921, Munich

Nikolaus Wilhelm Schröder

German librarian

*August 22nd, 1721 †May 30th, 1798, Groningen

Agnes of Hesse

German noblewoman, by marriage Electress consort of Saxony

*May 31st, 1527 †November 4th, 1555, Weimar

Nicolaus Christoph Lyncker

German jurist

*April 2nd, 1643 †May 28th, 1726, Vienna

Wolfgang Mommsen

German historian (1930-2004)

*November 5th, 1930 †August 11th, 2004, Heringsdorf

Jan Diesselhorst

German cellist (1954–2009)

*March 18th, 1954 †February 5th, 2009, Berlin

Nikolaus Wilhelm Goddaeus

German civil servant (1646-1719)

*March 21st, 1646 †April 2nd, 1719, Kassel

Anton Bauer

German jurist (1772-1843)

*August 16th, 1772 †June 1st, 1843, Göttingen

Karl Knies

German economist and university lecturer (1821-1898)

*March 29th, 1821 †August 3rd, 1898, Heidelberg

Edmund Ernst Stengel

German medievalist

*December 24th, 1879 †October 4th, 1968, Marburg

Karl Wilhelm von Kopp

German politician (1770-1844)

*December 24th, 1770 †March 6th, 1844, Darmstadt

Johann Engelhard Steuber

German theologian

*March 16th, 1693 †December 6th, 1747, Rinteln

Heinrich Johann Otto König

German jurist and professor (1748-1820)

*January 1st, 1748 †January 1st, 1820, Halle (Saale)

Carl Robert

German classical philologist and archaeologist

*March 8th, 1850 †January 17th, 1922, Halle (Saale)

Otto Ubbelohde

German artist (1867-1922)

*January 5th, 1867 †May 8th, 1922, Gossfelden

Ludwig von Sybel

German archaeologist

*July 1st, 1846 †April 5th, 1929, Marburg

Wilhelm Georg Ritter

German painter (1850–1926)

*February 18th, 1850 †June 16th, 1926, Moritzburg

Marie Veit

German theologian

*August 18th, 1921 †February 14th, 2004, Cologne

Carl Justi

German art historian

*August 2nd, 1832 †December 9th, 1912, Bonn

Philip II, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels

German noble

*January 1st, 1541 †January 1st, 1583, Rheinfels Castle

Johann Wilhelm Schröder

German orientalist

*June 15th, 1726 †March 8th, 1793, Marburg

Georg Gaßmann

German politician (1910-1987)

*May 28th, 1910 †August 5th, 1987, Marburg

Anna Sophia II, Abbess of Quedlinburg

Abbesses of Quedlinburg (1638-1683)

*December 17th, 1638 †December 13th, 1683, Quedlinburg Abbey

Uta Schmidt

Gerhard Roth

German neurobiologist

*August 15th, 1942 †April 25th, 2023

Haidi Streletz

German politician, dentist and painter (1931-2010)

*September 24th, 1931 †June 16th, 2010

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