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	This list includes people who were born in or lived in ] before 1945. For a list of famous residents after 1945, see ]

			This list includes people who were born in or lived in ] before 1945. For a list of famous residents after 1945, see ].
	* ] - discoverer of ].
			], 1915]]
	* ] - 19th-century ].
			], 1939]]
	* ] - philosopher and journalist.
			], 1879]]
	* ] — architect, designer of '']''.
			], 1945]]
	* ] - ] clergyman, religious leader in the resistance movement against ].
			], 1860]]
	* ] - entrepreneur.
			], 1941]]
	* ] - philosopher.
			], 1900]]
	* ] - biologist
			], ca.1938-1939]]
	* ] - mathematician
			] in Wroclaw]]
	* ] - ].
			* ] (1864–1915) a psychiatrist and neuropathologist, discovered ]
	* ] - sociologist
			* ] (1634–1691), German physician and botanist.<ref>{{Cite EB1911\|wstitle= Amman, Paul \|volume= 1 \| page = 859 \|short= 1}}</ref>
	* ] - botanist.
			* ] (1902–1992) a German-Austrian Jewish émigré, philosopher, essayist and journalist.
	* ] — neuro-surgeon.
			* ] (1818–1879) a German ].
	* ] - virologist
			* ] (1904–1964), a Serbian painter and academic.
	* ] - rabbi and founder of ]
			* ] (1915–2002), an Australian economist
	* ] - mathematician, one of the founders of ]
			* ] (1828–1897), a German ] and ]
	* ] - lutheran theologian, Protestant reformer of Breslau and Silesia
			* ] (1517–1568), a Lutheran theologian and Protestant reformer.<ref>{{Cite EB1911\|wstitle= Aurifaber \|volume= 2 \| pages = 925–926; see para 2 \|quote=2. Joannes (Vratislaviensis; 1517–1568), the younger brother of Andreas.....\|short= 1}}</ref>
	* ] - mathematician (topology)
			* ] (1885–1970), a German writer and ].
	* ] - Baroque poet
			* ] (1906–1999), a German stage, film and opera director
	* ] - poet and actor
			* ] (1912–1945), a German jazz and light music reedist and bandleader.<ref name=grove>Rainer E. Lotz, "Erhard Bauschke". '']''. 2nd edition, ed. ].</ref>
	* ] - biologist.
			* ] (1870–1947), a German architect and urban planner, designed the ]
	* ] - theatre critic and essayist
			* ] (1906–1945), ] clergyman, leader of the resistance against ]
	* ] - New Testament scholar and philologist
			* ] (1882–1970), a German physicist and mathematician, developed ]
	* ] - a person suspected of starting the ]
			* ] (1804–1854), a German businessman who made ]s
	* ] - Physicist - Invented transmission of photographs by facsimile and wireless.
			* ] (1874–1945), a German philosopher, main interests: ] & ]
	* ] - Architect and town planner.
			* ] (c1655-1697), painter and apothecary
	* ] - physicist
			* ] (1828–1898), a biologist, a founder of modern ] and ].
	* ] - political activist
			* ] (1888–1972), a German American mathematician, wrote '']''
	* ] (* 1885) - conductor
			* ] (1927–2015), a German journalist.
	* ] - architect
			* ] (1862–1950), an American conductor and composer.
	* ] - architect
			* ] (1926–2019), an American diplomat, the United States ambassador to five nations.
	* ] - poet and diplomat
			* ] (1811–1906), a Polish beekeeper, discovered ] in bees.
	* ] - socialist politician and reformer
			* ] (1848–1918), a Prussian '']'' during ].
	* ] - artist
			* ] (1897–1990), a German/British sociologist, worked on civilizing/decivilizing processes.
	* ] - economist and socialist theorist
			* ] (1797-1885), a Prussian '']''
	* ] - Physicist
			* ] (1873–1942}, a German botanist.
	* ] - Cardinal priest and archbishop of Cologne
			* ] (1919–2011), a scholar, author, lecturer and guest professor re. Christian ethics.<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=65FVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9D8NAAAAIBAJ&pg=1151,1241931&dq=george-forell+carver&hl=en\|title=The danger of thinking we are really holy\|date=19 March 1983\|work=]\|accessdate=25 February 2011}}</ref>
	* ] - artist
			* ] (1873–1941) a German neurologist and neurosurgeon
	* ] - surgeon, contributed to development of modern surgery
			* ] (1910–1999) a biochemist, researched viruses.
	* ] - soprano opera singer
			* ] (1801–1875), rabbi and founder of ]
	* ] - printer, lithographer and publisher
			* ] (1929–2008), Australian ] and protein ]
	* ] - WWI flying ace
			* ] (1764–1832), a German diplomat and writer.<ref>{{Cite EB1911\|wstitle= Gentz, Friedrich von \|volume= 11 \|last= Phillips \|first= Walter Alison \|author-link= Walter Alison Phillips \| pages = 606–607 \|short= 1}}</ref>
	* ] - botanist
			* ] (1942–2020), a German politician and ]
	* ] - theological professor and dissenter to the ]
			* ] (1823–1909), a German poet, dramatist, literary critic and literary historian. <ref>{{Cite EB1911\|wstitle= Gottschall, Rudolf von \|volume= 12 \| page = 279 \|short= 1}}</ref>
	* ] - theologian and philosopher
			* ] (1868–1942), mathematician, one of the founders of ]
	* ] - 17th century religious poet
			* ] (1516–1574) a German cartographer, created the first map of ]
	* ] - philosopher and Roman Catholic martyr
			* Sir ] (1850–1934) a British baritone, pianist, conductor and composer.<ref>{{Cite EB1911\|wstitle= Henschel, George \|volume= 13 \| page = 302 \|short= 1}}</ref>
	* ] - historian
			* ] (1490–1547), Lutheran theologian, Protestant reformer of Breslau and Silesia
	* ] - inspector general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
			* ] (1616–1679) a German poet of the ] era
	* ] - chess player
			* ] (1784–1853), a German general and nobleman.
	* ] - war hero and language teacher
			* ] (1798–1880), German poet and actor.<ref>{{Cite EB1911\|wstitle= Holtei, Karl Eduard von \|volume= 13 \| pages = 619–620 \|short= 1}}</ref>
	* ] - philosopher
			* ] (1927–2011), a British scholar of English Literature
	* ] (1706-1751) publisher of a German encyclopedia, the Zedler's Grosses Universal-Lexicon
			* ] (1894–1971), a German mathematician who worked on ] and ].
			* ] (1924–2006), a German–American academic professor of biology in the US.
			* ] (1818–1897), a German mineralogist.<ref>{{Cite EB1911\|wstitle= Kenngott, Gustav Adolph \|volume= 15 \| page = 732 \|short= 1}}</ref>
			* ] (1867–1948), theatre critic and essayist
			* ] (1824–1887), a German physicist, dealt with electrical circuits and spectroscopy
			* ] (1888–1948), a German Lutheran theologian and lexicographer of biblical languages.
			* ] (1885–1973), orchestral conductor and composer
			* ] (1799–1853), a German poet and painter.<ref>{{Cite EB1911\|wstitle= Kopisch, August \|volume= 15 \| page = 897 \|short= 1}}</ref>
			* ] (1873–1939), a Polish activist, journalist and politician.
			* ] (1870–1945), physicist, invented transmission of photographs by facsimile and wireless
			* ] (1891–1978), a German architect and urban planner, proponent of ]
			* ] (1782–1869), a Prussian architect whose specialty was theatres.
			* ] (1732–1808), a Prussian master builder and royal architect.
			* ] (1825–1864), a Prussian-German jurist, philosopher and socialist.<ref>{{Cite EB1911\|wstitle= Lassalle, Ferdinand \|volume= 16 \|last= Kirkup \|first= Thomas \| pages = 235–236 \|short= 1}}</ref>
			* ] (1808–1880), a German historical and landscape painter.
			* ] (1703 in Trzebnica – 1768), Queen consort of France.<ref>{{Cite EB1911\|wstitle= Marie Leszczynska \|volume= 17 \| page = 713 \|short= 1}}</ref>
			* ] (1635–1683), a Baroque Silesian playwright, lawyer, diplomat and poet
			* ] (1904–1964), an Austrian-Hungarian and American actor.
			* ] (1839–1923), a German chemist.<ref>{{Cite EB1911\|wstitle= Lunge, Georg \|volume= 17 \| page = 126 \|short= 1}}</ref>
			* ] (1914–2005), a Swedish economist and socialist theorist
			* ] (1933–2017), Cardinal priest and archbishop of ]
			* ] (1815–1905), a German Realist artist noted for drawings, etchings and paintings.<ref>{{Cite EB1911\|wstitle= Menzel, Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von \|volume= 18 \| pages = 146–147 \|short= 1}}</ref>
			* ] (1850-1905), surgeon, contributed to development of modern surgery
			* ] (1904–1957), a German composer and Kapellmeister.
			* ] (born 1938), a German operatic soprano.
			* ] (1854–1925), a composer, pianist and teacher of Polish-Jewish descent.<ref>{{Cite EB1911\|wstitle= Moszkowski, Moritz \|volume= 18 \| page = 904 \|short= 1}}</ref>
			* ] (1855–1916), a German admiral, commander of High Seas Fleet
			* ] (1824–1909), printer, lithographer and publisher
			* ] (1892 - ?), author
			* ] (born 1931), mathematician and computer scientist
			* ] (1892–1918), World War I flying ace (the "Red Baron")
			* ] (1830–1898) a German forester, ornithologist, hunter and writer.
			* ] (1813-1881), German painter
			* ] (1915–1942), German-born French cartoonist
			* ] (1832–1897), a German botanist.<ref>{{Cite EB1911\|wstitle= Sachs, Julius von \|volume= 23 \| page = \|short= 1}}</ref>
			* ] (1783–1843), theological professor and dissenter to the ]
			* ] (1768–1834) a Reformed theologian, philosopher and biblical scholar
			* ] (1833–1902), a German feminist, educator, journalist and women's rights activist.
			* ] (1879–1952), a German operatic coloratura soprano
			* ] (ca.1624–1677), a German Catholic priest, physician, mystic and religious poet.
			* ] (1895–1987), biochemist
			* ] (1891–1942), philosopher and Roman Catholic martyr
			* ] (1928–2009) an American music critic and author
			* ] (1926–2016), American historian of German & Jewish history and historiography.
			* ] (1730–1794), Inspector General of the Continental Army during the ]
			* ] (1862–1934), chess player
			* ] ((1804–1874), theologian and Church historian of the ]
			* ] (1799–1877), a German Protestant theologian, pastor and historian.<ref>{{Cite EB1911\|wstitle= Tholuck, Friedrich August Gottreu \|volume= 26 \| page = 862 \|short= 1}}</ref>
			* ] (1914–2005), war hero and language teacher.
			* ] ( 1908–1975), German-Jewish journalist and NS collaborator.<ref>Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Record cards from Personal Cards (1939–1994)</ref>
			* ] (1534–1583) a German Reformed theologian and Protestant reformer.<ref>{{Cite EB1911\|wstitle= Ursinus, Zacharias \|volume= 27 \| page = 803 \|short= 1}}</ref>
			* ] (1679–1754), a German philosopher.<ref>{{Cite EB1911\|wstitle= Wolff, Christian \|volume= 28 \|last= Pringle-Pattison \|first= Andrew Seth \|author-link= Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison \| page = 774 \|short= 1}}</ref>
			* ] (1819–1870) a German Protestant theologian.<ref>{{Cite EB1911\|wstitle= Wuttke, Karl Friedrich Adolf \|volume= 28 \| page = 861 \|short= 1}}</ref>
			* ] (1706–1751), publisher of a German encyclopedia, the ''Grosses Universal-Lexicon''.<ref>{{Cite EB1911\|wstitle= Encyclopaedia \|volume= 26 \| pages = 369–382;see page 374, para 3\|quote= One of the largest .....completed by Johann Heinrich Zedler, a bookseller of Leipzig, who was born at Breslau 7th January 1706...\|short= 1}}</ref>

	=== Nobel laureates ===		== Nobel laureates ==
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	<small>''listed by year of award'' </small>		<small>''listed by year of award'' </small>
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			==References==
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Latest revision as of 19:30, 6 September 2024

This list includes people who were born in or lived in Breslau before 1945. For a list of famous residents after 1945, see List of notable people from Wrocław.

Plaque in honour of Christian Wolff in Wroclaw

Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915) a psychiatrist and neuropathologist, discovered Alzheimer's disease
Paul Amman (1634–1691), German physician and botanist.
Günther Anders (1902–1992) a German-Austrian Jewish émigré, philosopher, essayist and journalist.
Adolf Anderssen (1818–1879) a German chess master.
Đorđe Andrejević-Kun (1904–1964), a Serbian painter and academic.
Heinz Arndt (1915–2002), an Australian economist
Leopold Auerbach (1828–1897), a German anatomist and neuropathologist
Joannes Aurifaber Vratislaviensis (1517–1568), a Lutheran theologian and Protestant reformer.
Bertha Badt-Strauss (1885–1970), a German writer and Zionist.
Boleslaw Barlog (1906–1999), a German stage, film and opera director
Erhard Bauschke (1912–1945), a German jazz and light music reedist and bandleader.
Max Berg (1870–1947), a German architect and urban planner, designed the Centennial Hall
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), Lutheran clergyman, leader of the resistance against Nazism
Max Born (1882–1970), a German physicist and mathematician, developed quantum mechanics
August Borsig (1804–1854), a German businessman who made steam engines
Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945), a German philosopher, main interests: Epistemology & aesthetics
Hendrik Claudius (c1655-1697), painter and apothecary
Ferdinand Cohn (1828–1898), a biologist, a founder of modern bacteriology and microbiology.
Richard Courant (1888–1972), a German American mathematician, wrote What Is Mathematics?
Harri Czepuck (1927–2015), a German journalist.
Walter Damrosch (1862–1950), an American conductor and composer.
John Gunther Dean (1926–2019), an American diplomat, the United States ambassador to five nations.
Johann Dzierzon (1811–1906), a Polish beekeeper, discovered parthenogenesis in bees.
Hermann von Eichhorn (1848–1918), a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall during WWI.
Norbert Elias (1897–1990), a German/British sociologist, worked on civilizing/decivilizing processes.
Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein (1797-1885), a Prussian General der Infanterie
Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde (1873–1942}, a German botanist.
George Forell (1919–2011), a scholar, author, lecturer and guest professor re. Christian ethics.
Otfrid Förster (1873–1941) a German neurologist and neurosurgeon
Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat (1910–1999) a biochemist, researched viruses.
Zecharias Frankel (1801–1875), rabbi and founder of Conservative Judaism
Hans Freeman (1929–2008), Australian bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer
Friedrich von Gentz (1764–1832), a German diplomat and writer.
Alfred Gomolka (1942–2020), a German politician and MEP
Rudolf von Gottschall (1823–1909), a German poet, dramatist, literary critic and literary historian.
Felix Hausdorff (1868–1942), mathematician, one of the founders of algebraic topology
Martin Helwig (1516–1574) a German cartographer, created the first map of Silesia
Sir George Henschel (1850–1934) a British baritone, pianist, conductor and composer.
Johann Heß (1490–1547), Lutheran theologian, Protestant reformer of Breslau and Silesia
Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau (1616–1679) a German poet of the Baroque era
August, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen (1784–1853), a German general and nobleman.
Karl von Holtei (1798–1880), German poet and actor.
E. A. J. Honigmann (1927–2011), a British scholar of English Literature
Heinz Hopf (1894–1971), a German mathematician who worked on topology and geometry.
Vernon Ingram (1924–2006), a German–American academic professor of biology in the US.
Gustav Adolph Kenngott (1818–1897), a German mineralogist.
Alfred Kerr (1867–1948), theatre critic and essayist
Gustav Kirchhoff (1824–1887), a German physicist, dealt with electrical circuits and spectroscopy
Gerhard Kittel (1888–1948), a German Lutheran theologian and lexicographer of biblical languages.
Otto Klemperer (1885–1973), orchestral conductor and composer
August Kopisch (1799–1853), a German poet and painter.
Wojciech Korfanty (1873–1939), a Polish activist, journalist and politician.
Arthur Korn (1870–1945), physicist, invented transmission of photographs by facsimile and wireless
Arthur Korn (1891–1978), a German architect and urban planner, proponent of modernism
Carl Ferdinand Langhans (1782–1869), a Prussian architect whose specialty was theatres.
Carl Gotthard Langhans (1732–1808), a Prussian master builder and royal architect.
Ferdinand Lassalle (1825–1864), a Prussian-German jurist, philosopher and socialist.
Carl Friedrich Lessing (1808–1880), a German historical and landscape painter.
Marie Leszczyńska (1703 in Trzebnica – 1768), Queen consort of France.
Daniel Casper von Lohenstein (1635–1683), a Baroque Silesian playwright, lawyer, diplomat and poet
Peter Lorre (1904–1964), an Austrian-Hungarian and American actor.
Georg Lunge (1839–1923), a German chemist.
Rudolf Meidner (1914–2005), a Swedish economist and socialist theorist
Joachim Meisner (1933–2017), Cardinal priest and archbishop of Cologne
Adolph Menzel (1815–1905), a German Realist artist noted for drawings, etchings and paintings.
Jan Mikulicz-Radecki (1850-1905), surgeon, contributed to development of modern surgery
Richard Mohaupt (1904–1957), a German composer and Kapellmeister.
Edda Moser (born 1938), a German operatic soprano.
Moritz Moszkowski (1854–1925), a composer, pianist and teacher of Polish-Jewish descent.
Hugo von Pohl (1855–1916), a German admiral, commander of High Seas Fleet
Louis Prang (1824–1909), printer, lithographer and publisher
Y. Michel Rabbinowicz (1892 - ?), author
Michael Oser Rabin (born 1931), mathematician and computer scientist
Manfred von Richthofen (1892–1918), World War I flying ace (the "Red Baron")
Oskar von Riesenthal (1830–1898) a German forester, ornithologist, hunter and writer.
Ludwig Rosenfelder (1813-1881), German painter
Horst Rosenthal (1915–1942), German-born French cartoonist
Julius von Sachs (1832–1897), a German botanist.
Johann Gottfried Scheibel (1783–1843), theological professor and dissenter to the Prussian Union
Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834) a Reformed theologian, philosopher and biblical scholar
Auguste Schmidt (1833–1902), a German feminist, educator, journalist and women's rights activist.
Margarethe Siems (1879–1952), a German operatic coloratura soprano
Angelus Silesius (ca.1624–1677), a German Catholic priest, physician, mystic and religious poet.
Karl Slotta (1895–1987), biochemist
Edith Stein (1891–1942), philosopher and Roman Catholic martyr
Michael Steinberg (1928–2009) an American music critic and author
Fritz Stern (1926–2016), American historian of German & Jewish history and historiography.
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730–1794), Inspector General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
Siegbert Tarrasch (1862–1934), chess player
Augustin Theiner ((1804–1874), theologian and Church historian of the Vatican Apostolic Archive
August Tholuck (1799–1877), a German Protestant theologian, pastor and historian.
Michel Thomas (1914–2005), war hero and language teacher.
Heinz Henry Todtmann ( 1908–1975), German-Jewish journalist and NS collaborator.
Zacharias Ursinus (1534–1583) a German Reformed theologian and Protestant reformer.
Christian Wolff (1679–1754), a German philosopher.
Adolf Wuttke (1819–1870) a German Protestant theologian.
Johann Heinrich Zedler (1706–1751), publisher of a German encyclopedia, the Grosses Universal-Lexicon.

Nobel laureates

listed by year of award

References

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"Aurifaber" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 925–926, see para 2. 2. Joannes (Vratislaviensis; 1517–1568), the younger brother of Andreas.....
Rainer E. Lotz, "Erhard Bauschke". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.
"The danger of thinking we are really holy". Leader-Post. 19 March 1983. Retrieved 25 February 2011.
Phillips, Walter Alison (1911). "Gentz, Friedrich von" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). pp. 606–607.
"Gottschall, Rudolf von" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 279.
"Henschel, George" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 302.
"Holtei, Karl Eduard von" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 619–620.
"Kenngott, Gustav Adolph" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 732.
"Kopisch, August" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 897.
Kirkup, Thomas (1911). "Lassalle, Ferdinand" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). pp. 235–236.
"Marie Leszczynska" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 713.
"Lunge, Georg" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 126.
"Menzel, Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 146–147.
"Moszkowski, Moritz" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 904.
"Sachs, Julius von" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). 1911.
"Tholuck, Friedrich August Gottreu" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 862.
Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Record cards from Personal Cards (1939–1994)
"Ursinus, Zacharias" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 803.
Pringle-Pattison, Andrew Seth (1911). "Wolff, Christian" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). p. 774.
"Wuttke, Karl Friedrich Adolf" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 861.
"Encyclopaedia" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 369–382, see page 374, para 3. One of the largest .....completed by Johann Heinrich Zedler, a bookseller of Leipzig, who was born at Breslau 7th January 1706...

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