The following is a list of people associated with the former city of Königsberg (Duchy of Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia, Germany) which was renamed to Kaliningrad, Soviet Union in 1946.
Writing and public thinking
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- Stanislovas Rapalionis (1485–1545), at Königsberg Albertina University first translator of the Bible into Lithuanian
- Abraomas Kulvietis (1509–1545), religious reformer at Königsberg Albertina University
- Stanisław Murzynowski (c.1527–1553), Polish writer, translator and a Lutheran activist during the Protestant Reformation.
- Caspar Schütz (c.1540 Eisleben – 1594 Danzig), historian at Königsberg and Danzig, interest in the history of Prussia.
- Martynas Mažvydas (1510–1563), priest, writer and translator
- Jan Kochanowski (1530 in Sycyna – 1584) Polish poet, attended the University of Königsberg after 1547[1]
- Simon Dach (1605 in Memel – 1659) a lyrical poet and hymnwriter[2]
- Frederick I of Prussia (1657–1713), Elector of Brandenburg & Duke of Prussia[3]
- John Ernest Grabe (1666–1711) an Anglican divine[4]
- Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700–1766) philosopher, author and critic of the Age of Enlightenment[5]
- Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), philosopher[6]
- Johann Georg Hamann (1730–1788), philosopher[7][8]
- Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Elder (1741–1796) a satirical and humorous writer[9]
- Zacharias Werner (1768–1823) a poet, dramatist and preacher[10]
- E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822), author[11]
- Karl Lehrs (1802–1878) a classical scholar[12]
- Karl Rosenkranz (1805–1879) a philosopher and pedagogue[13]
- Wincenty Pol (1807 in Lublin – 1872) Polish poet; was interned in Königsberg after the fall of the November Uprising in Russian partition of Poland.
- Abraham Mapu (1808–1867), Hebrew novelist[14]
- Ferdinand Nesselmann (1811 Fürstenau – 1881 Königsberg), mathematician, historian, orientalist and philologist
- Fanny Lewald (1811–1889), feminist and author[15]
- Theodor Goldstücker (1821–1872) a German Sanskrit scholar[16]
- August Wilhelm Zumpt (1815–1877) a German classical scholar[17]
- Bernhard Weiss (1827–1918) a Protestant New Testament scholar[18]
- Emma Goldman (1869–1940), author and political theorist
- Friedrich Radszuweit (1876–1932), author and publisher
- Agnes Miegel (1879–1964), author
- Walter Liebenthal (1886–1982), sinologist and philosopher
- Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), political theorist and philosopher
- Leah Goldberg (1911–1970), Israeli poet
- Annemarie Bostroem (1922-2015), author
- Hans-Joachim Newiger, (1925–2011), philologist
- Leah Rabin (née Schloßberg) (1928–2000), author and wife of Yitzhak Rabin
Scientists
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- Johann Christoph Bohl (1703–1785), physician, professor, and sponsor of Kant
- Johann Bartsch (1709–1738), physician, botanist, and collaborator with Carl Linnaeus
- Karl Gottfried Hagen (1749–1829), chemist, opened first German chemistry lab at Königsberg's Albertina University
- Friedrich Bessel (1784–1846) an astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geodesist[19]
- Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach (1792–1847), surgeon[20]
- Gotthilf Hagen (1797–1884), physicist, contributed to fluid dynamics
- Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (1799–1878) a German-Austrian pharmacist and botanist
- Adolph Eduard Grube (1812–1880), zoologist
- Hermann August Hagen (1817–1893) Cambridge, U.S., German entomologist
- Gustav Kirchhoff (1824–1887), physicist and spectroscopist[21]
- Karl Rudolf König (1832–1901), physicist[22]
- Franz Ernst Christian Neumann (1834–1918), pathologist
- Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer (1846–1906), botanist
- Otto Wallach (1847–1931), chemist, recipient of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Hermann Eichhorst (1849–1921), physician
- Emanuel Kayser (1845–1927) geologist and palaeontologist[23]
- Ernst Bessel Hagen (1851–1923), physicist
- Erich von Drygalski (1865–1949) geographer, geophysicist and polar scientist
- Siegfried Passarge (1866–1958), geographer
- Max Wien (1866–1938), physicist
- Arnold Sommerfeld (1868–1951), physicist, pioneered atomic and quantum physics
- Friedrich Adolf Paneth (1887–1958), chemist
- Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899–1986), biochemist, shared the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Arno Motulsky (1923-2018) medical geneticist
Mathematicians
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- Christian Goldbach (1690–1764), mathematician, developed Goldbach's conjecture
- Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804–1851), mathematician, worked on elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations
- Otto Hesse (1811–1874), mathematician, worked on algebraic invariants
- Carl Neumann (1832–1925), mathematician, worked on the Dirichlet principle
- Rudolf Lipschitz (1832–1903), mathematician, named the Lipschitz continuity condition
- Alfred Clebsch (1833–1872), mathematician, contributed to algebraic geometry
- Ludwig Scheeffer (1859–1885), mathematician, contributed to calculus
- Kurt Hensel (1861–1941) mathematician, introduced p-adic number
- David Hilbert (1862–1943), mathematician, developed invariant theory
- Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909), mathematician, developed the geometry of numbers
Arts and music
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- Anton Möller (c.1563–1611), painter active mostly in Danzig (Gdańsk)
- August Kohn (1732–c.1801/2), violinist and composer active at the courts in Berlin
- Otto Nicolai (1810–1849), composer and conductor[24]
- Rudolf Siemering (1835–1905) German sculptor[25]
- Hermann Goetz (1840–1876) a composer of the 1872 opera Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung.[26]
- Pavel Pabst (1854–1897), pianist/composer and professor at the Moscow Conservatory
- Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), painter and sculptor
- Ernst Behmer (1875–1938) a prolific German stage and film actor[27]
- Werner Funck (1881–1951), actor, singer, and film director[28]
- Harry Liedtke (1882–1945), actor
- Heinz Tiessen (1887–1971), composer
- Emy von Stetten (1898–1980), soprano
- Max Colpet (1905–1998), popular song lyricist[29]
- Michael Wieck (1928–2021), musician and author
- Veruschka von Lehndorff (born 1939), model, actress and artist[30]
- Eberhard Feltz (born 1937), German classical violinist
- Wilfried Gruhn (born 1939), German violinist, musicologist, music educator and emeritus professor
Military
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- Erhard Ernst von Röder (1665–1743), Prussian field marshal
- Peter August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1697–1775) Field Marshal in the Russian Imperial Army
- Friedrich von der Trenck (1726–1794), Prussian officer and adventurer[31]
- Leopold von Rauch (1787-1860), Prussiand general
- Prince Albert of Prussia (1809–1872) Generaloberst
- Max von der Goltz (1838-1906), Prussian admiral
- Ernst von Below (1863-1955), German general
- Hans Feige, (1880–1953), Wehrmacht general
- Oskar von Hindenburg (1883–1960) a German Generalleutnant
- Wolff von Stutterheim (1893–1940) a German Generalmajor
- Werner Ostendorff (1903–1945), German SS Major General (Gruppenführer) of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich
- Gerhard Barkhorn (1919–1983), second-highest-ranking Luftwaffe fighter ace (301 victories).
Politicians
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- Johann Jacoby (1805–1877), politician
- Eduard von Simson (1810–1899), jurist and politician[32]
- Otto Stellter (1823-1894), politician, member of German Reichstag
- Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg (1847–1921) diplomat and close friend of Wilhelm II[33]
- Robert Rasch (1852–1938), a German settler in Nauru & first resident Administrator
- Otto Braun, (1872–1955), statesman and politician, Minister President of Prussia
- Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884–1945), a monarchist conservative politician
- Wilhelm von Gayl (1879–1945), politician of the German National People's Party
- Karl-Hermann Flach (1929–1973) journalist at the Frankfurter Rundschau and FDP politician
Sport
edit- Eugen Sandow (1867–1925), first modern bodybuilder[34]
- Lilli Henoch (1899–1942), world record holder in the discus, shot put, and 4 × 100 meters relay, shot as a Jew by a Nazi Einsatzgruppen death squad
- brothers Kraft Schepke (born 1934) & Frank Schepke (1935–2017) German Olympic rowers
Others
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- brothers Bruno Taut (1880–1938) & Max Taut (1884–1967), architects
- Moshe Smoira (1888–1961), first President of the Supreme Court of Israel
- Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld (1892–1929) aviator, made the first east-west transatlantic flight in 1928
- Rabbi Josef Hirsch Dunner (1913–2007), Chief Rabbi of East Prussia 1936-1938
- Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits (1921–1999) Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, from 1967 to 1991
- Ulrich Schnaft (born 1923) Waffen-SS man in WWII, emigrated to Israel where he spied for Egypt
- Gerda Munsinger (1929–1998) an East German prostitute and alleged Soviet spy
- Thomas Eichelbaum (1931–2018), former Chief Justice of New Zealand
- Heinrich August Winkler (born 1938), historian, academic and author
- Reinhard Bonnke (1940–2019), televangelist, missionary in Africa from 1967
- Heinrich Wilhelm Nehrenheim (1875–1939), military and provincial official in the Landeshaus Königsberg, married to Olga Wagner
See also
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