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| * ] – discoverer of ] | * ] – discoverer of ] | ||
| * ] (1634–1691), German physician and botanist.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Amman, Paul |volume= 1 | page = 859 |short= 1}}</ref> | |||
| * ] – philosopher and journalist | * ] – philosopher and journalist | ||
| * ] – 19th-century ] | * ] – 19th-century ] | ||
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| * ] – Australian economist | * ] – Australian economist | ||
| * ] - anatomist and neuropathologist | * ] - anatomist and neuropathologist | ||
| * ] (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> | |||
| * ] – writer | * ] – writer | ||
| * ] – stage and film director | * ] – stage and film director | ||
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| * ] – biochemist | * ] – biochemist | ||
| * ] – politician (SPD) | * ] – politician (SPD) | ||
| * ] (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> | |||
| * ] – mathematician, one of the founders of ] | * ] – mathematician, one of the founders of ] | ||
| * ] – cartographer, created the first map of ] | * ] – cartographer, created the first map of ] | ||
| * ] |
* Sir ] (1850–1934) a British baritone, pianist, conductor and composer.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Henschel, George |volume= 13 | page = 302 |short= 1}}</ref> | ||
| * ] – Lutheran theologian, Protestant reformer of Breslau and Silesia | * ] – Lutheran theologian, Protestant reformer of Breslau and Silesia | ||
| * ] – ] poet | * ] – ] poet | ||
| * ] - general | * ] - general | ||
| * ] |
* ] (1798–1880), German poet and actor.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Holtei, Karl Eduard von |volume= 13 | pages = 619–620 |short= 1}}</ref> | ||
| * ] – Professor of English Literature | * ] – Professor of English Literature | ||
| * ] – mathematician (topologist) | * ] – mathematician (topologist) | ||
| * ] – biologist | * ] – biologist | ||
| * ] (1818–1897) a German mineralogist.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Kenngott, Gustav Adolph |volume= 15 | page = 732 |short= 1}}</ref> | |||
| * ] – theatre critic and essayist | * ] – theatre critic and essayist | ||
| * ] – physicist | * ] – physicist | ||
| * ] – New Testament scholar and philologist | * ] – New Testament scholar and philologist | ||
| * ] (1885–1973) – conductor | * ] (1885–1973) – conductor | ||
| * ] (1799–1853) a German poet and painter.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Kopisch, August |volume= 15 | page = 897 |short= 1}}</ref> | |||
| * ] – political activist | * ] – political activist | ||
| * ] – physicist, invented transmission of photographs by facsimile and wireless | * ] – physicist, invented transmission of photographs by facsimile and wireless | ||
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| * ] – socialist politician and reformer | * ] – socialist politician and reformer | ||
| * ] – artist | * ] – artist | ||
| * ] (1703 in Trzebnica – 1768), Queen consort of France.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Marie Leszczynska |volume= 17 | page = 713 |short= 1}}</ref> | |||
| * ] – poet and diplomat | * ] – poet and diplomat | ||
| * ] – actor | * ] – actor | ||
| * ] (1839–1923) a German chemist.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Lunge, Georg |volume= 17 | page = 126 |short= 1}}</ref> | |||
| * ] – economist and socialist theorist | * ] – economist and socialist theorist | ||
| * ] – Cardinal priest and archbishop of ] | * ] – 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> | |||
| * ] – artist | |||
| * ] – surgeon, contributed to development of modern surgery | * ] – surgeon, contributed to development of modern surgery | ||
| * ] – German-American composer and Kapellmeister | * ] – German-American composer and Kapellmeister | ||
| * ] – soprano opera singer | * ] – soprano opera singer | ||
| * ] (1854–1925) a German composer, pianist and teacher of Polish-Jewish descent.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Moszkowski, Moritz |volume= 18 | page = 904 |short= 1}}</ref> | |||
| * ] (born 1949) – Israeli pop singer and composer | * ] (born 1949) – Israeli pop singer and composer | ||
| * ] – German admiral, commander of High Seas Fleet | * ] – German admiral, commander of High Seas Fleet | ||
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| * ] (1813-1881) - German painter | * ] (1813-1881) - German painter | ||
| * ] (1915–1942) – German-born French cartoonist | * ] (1915–1942) – German-born French cartoonist | ||
| * ] |
* ] (1832–1897) a German botanist.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Sachs, Julius von |volume= 23 | page = |short= 1}}</ref> | ||
| * ] – theological professor and dissenter to the ] | * ] – theological professor and dissenter to the ] | ||
| * ] – theologian and philosopher | * ] – theologian and philosopher | ||
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| * ] – chess player | * ] – chess player | ||
| * ] – theologian and Church historian, Prefect of the ] | * ] – theologian and Church historian, Prefect of the ] | ||
| * ] – war hero and language teacher. |
* ] – war hero and language teacher. | ||
| * ] (1534–1583) a German Reformed theologian and Protestant reformer.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Ursinus, Zacharias |volume= 27 | page = 803 |short= 1}}</ref> | |||
| * ] – philosopher | |||
| * ] (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 '' | * ] (1706–1751) – publisher of a German encyclopedia, the ''Grosses Universal-Lexicon '' | ||
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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.
- Alois Alzheimer – discoverer of Alzheimer's disease
- Paul Amman (1634–1691), German physician and botanist.
- Günther Anders – philosopher and journalist
- Adolf Anderssen – 19th-century chess master
- Đorđe Andrejević-Kun – painter
- Heinz Arndt – Australian economist
- Leopold Auerbach - anatomist and neuropathologist
- Joannes Aurifaber Vratislaviensis (1517–1568), a Lutheran theologian and Protestant reformer.
- Bertha Badt-Strauss – writer
- Boleslaw Barlog – stage and film director
- Erhard Bauschke (1912–1945), was a German jazz and light music reedist and bandleader
- Max Berg – architect, designer of Centennial Hall
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer – Lutheran clergyman, religious leader in the resistance movement against Nazism
- Max Born – physicist
- August Borsig – entrepreneur
- Ernst Cassirer – philosopher
- Ferdinand Cohn – biologist
- Louis M. Cohn – suspected of starting the Great Chicago Fire
- Richard Courant – mathematician
- Harri Czepuck - journalist
- Walter Damrosch – conductor
- Jan Dzierżon – apiarist
- Hermann von Eichhorn - Prussian field marshal
- Norbert Elias – sociologist
- Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein (1797-1885), Prussian general
- Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde – botanist
- George Wolfgang Forell (1919–2011) was a world-renowned scholar, author, lecturer and guest professor
- Otfrid Förster — neurosurgeon
- Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat – virologist
- Zecharias Frankel – rabbi and founder of Conservative Judaism
- Hans Freeman – biochemist
- Alfred Gomolka – politician (SPD)
- Rudolf von Gottschall (1823–1909), a German poet, dramatist, literary critic and literary historian.
- Felix Hausdorff – mathematician, one of the founders of algebraic topology
- Martin Helwig – cartographer, created the first map of Silesia
- Sir George Henschel (1850–1934) a British baritone, pianist, conductor and composer.
- Johann Heß – Lutheran theologian, Protestant reformer of Breslau and Silesia
- Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau – Baroque poet
- August zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen - general
- Karl von Holtei (1798–1880), German poet and actor.
- E. A. J. Honigmann – Professor of English Literature
- Heinz Hopf – mathematician (topologist)
- Vernon Ingram – biologist
- Gustav Adolph Kenngott (1818–1897) a German mineralogist.
- Alfred Kerr – theatre critic and essayist
- Gustav Robert Kirchhoff – physicist
- Gerhard Kittel – New Testament scholar and philologist
- Otto Klemperer (1885–1973) – conductor
- August Kopisch (1799–1853) a German poet and painter.
- Wojciech Korfanty – political activist
- Arthur Korn – physicist, invented transmission of photographs by facsimile and wireless
- Arthur Korn – architect and town planner
- Carl Ferdinand Langhans – architect
- Carl Gotthard Langhans – architect
- Ferdinand Lassalle – socialist politician and reformer
- Carl Friedrich Lessing – artist
- Marie Leszczyńska (1703 in Trzebnica – 1768), Queen consort of France.
- Daniel Casper von Lohenstein – poet and diplomat
- Peter Lorre – actor
- Georg Lunge (1839–1923) a German chemist.
- Rudolf Meidner – economist and socialist theorist
- Joachim Meisner – Cardinal priest and archbishop of Cologne
- Adolph Menzel (1815–1905) a German Realist artist noted for drawings, etchings and paintings.
- Jan Mikulicz-Radecki – surgeon, contributed to development of modern surgery
- Richard Mohaupt – German-American composer and Kapellmeister
- Edda Moser – soprano opera singer
- Moritz Moszkowski (1854–1925) a German composer, pianist and teacher of Polish-Jewish descent.
- Svika Pick (born 1949) – Israeli pop singer and composer
- Hugo von Pohl – German admiral, commander of High Seas Fleet
- Louis Prang – printer, lithographer and publisher
- Michael Oser Rabin – mathematician and computer scientist
- Manfred von Richthofen – World War I flying ace (the "Red Baron")
- Oskar von Riesenthal – ornithologist, forester, author
- 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 – theological professor and dissenter to the Prussian Union
- Friedrich Schleiermacher – theologian and philosopher
- Auguste Schmidt, educationist and feminist
- Margarethe Siems – operatic soprano
- Angelus Silesius – 17th-century religious poet
- Edith Stein – philosopher and Roman Catholic martyr
- Michael Steinberg – music critic
- Fritz Stern – historian
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben – Inspector General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
- Siegbert Tarrasch – chess player
- Augustin Theiner – theologian and Church historian, Prefect of the Vatican Secret Archives
- Michel Thomas – war hero and language teacher.
- 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
- Theodor Mommsen (1902)
- Philipp Lenard (1905)
- Eduard Buchner (1907)
- Paul Ehrlich (1908)
- Gerhart Hauptmann (1912)
- Fritz Haber (1918)
- Friedrich Bergius (1931)
- Erwin Schrödinger (1933)
- Otto Stern (1943)
- Max Born (1954)
- Reinhard Selten (1994)
References
- "Amman, Paul" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 859.
- "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.
- "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.
- "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.
- "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.