Born in Altenburg
Altenburg
Town in Thuringia, Germany
Altenburg as a birthplace has produced a number of famous personalities of various fields (e.g. German linguist (1807-1874), German association football manager and former player, German chemist and botanist (1839-1900)): Hans Conon von der Gabelentz, Uwe Rösler, Gottlob Heinrich von Lindenau and some more.
Celebrities from AltenburgCelebrities from Altenburg
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Hans Conon von der Gabelentz
German linguist (1807-1874)
*October 13th, 1807 †September 3rd, 1874, Lemnitz
60 Otto Kersten
German chemist and botanist (1839-1900)
*December 23rd, 1839 †November 22nd, 1900, Altenburg
32 John Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar
German duke
*February 21st, 1594 †December 6th, 1626, Markt Sankt Martin,_by_German_School_of_1662.jpg "Frederick William III, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg")
14 Frederick William III, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
Last Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
*July 12th, 1657 †April 14th, 1672, Altenburg
73 Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha
Duke of Saxe-Gotha and Saxe-Altenburg (1601-1675)
*December 25th, 1601 †March 26th, 1675, Gotha
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Hermann Schlegel
German ornithologist and herpetologist (1804-1884)
*June 10th, 1804 †January 17th, 1884, Leiden
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Albert IV, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach
Duke of Saxe-Eisenach
*July 27th, 1599 †December 20th, 1644, Eisenach 30
Johanna Magdalena of Saxe-Altenburg
Duches of Saxe-Altenburg by births and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weissenfels-Querfurt
*January 14th, 1656 †January 22nd, 1686, Weißenfels 56
Heinrich August Pierer
German lexicographer and publisher
*February 26th, 1794 †May 12th, 1850, Altenburg 71
Hans Alfred Erbe
German jurist and lawyer (1823-1895)
*August 22nd, 1823 †January 3rd, 1895, New York City
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Johann Wilhelm Zinkeisen
German historian (1803-1863)
*April 12th, 1803 †January 5th, 1863, Berlin 68
Adolph Douai
American activist and newspaper editor
*February 22nd, 1819 †January 1st, 1888, Brooklyn 72
Joachim Büchner
Athletics competitor (1905-1978)
*April 8th, 1905 †February 22nd, 1978, Leverkusen 83
Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
German duke
*August 31st, 1871 †March 27th, 1955, Trockenborn-Wolfersdorf 26
Duke Frederick of Saxe-Weimar
German prince and colonel on the Protestant side in the Thirty Years' War
*March 1st, 1596 †August 29th, 1622, Fleurus 68
Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer
German historian of modern age
*January 24th, 1833 †March 1st, 1901, Heidelberg 59
Franz Schlegel
German physician, zoologist, director of the Zoological Garden Breslau (1822-1882)
*November 7th, 1822 †February 7th, 1882, Wrocław 73
Bernhard von Lindenau
German astronomer, lawyer and politician
*June 11th, 1780 †May 21st, 1854, Altenburg 66
Simon Paul Hilscher
Medicinae Dr. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 1704
*August 12th, 1682 †December 20th, 1748, Jena 28
John Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Weimar
Duke of Saxe-Weimar
*September 19th, 1600 †October 17th, 1628, Weimar 79
Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg
Duchess of Anhalt
*August 11th, 1873 †April 14th, 1953, Altenburg 80
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg
Wife of Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaevich of Russia (1830-1911)
*July 8th, 1830 †July 6th, 1911, Saint Petersburg 72
Theodor Gotthold Thienemann
German theologian (1754-1827)
*September 29th, 1754 †February 2nd, 1827, Rochlitz 66
Franz Hermann Reinhold von Frank
German theologian (1827-1894)
*May 2nd, 1827 †February 7th, 1894, Erlangen 60
Karl Christoph Förster
German theologian and writer
*April 11th, 1751 †November 8th, 1811, Langenleuba-Niederhain 86
Leopold Besser
German neurologist, psychiatrist and author as well as founder and director of a private psychiatric institution in Beuel-Pützchen near Bonn
*January 1st, 1820 †January 1st, 1906Birthdays of famous people
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