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
Stanislovas Rapalionis (14851545), at Königsberg Albertina University first translator of the Bible into Lithuanian Abraomas Kulvietis (15091545), religious reformer at Königsberg Albertina University Stanisław Murzynowski (15271553), Polish writer, translator and a Lutheran activist during the Protestant Reformation. Caspar Schütz (1540 Eisleben 1594 Danzig), historian at Königsberg and Danzig, interest in the history of Prussia. Martynas Mažvydas (15101563), priest, writer and translator Jan Kochanowski (1530 in Sycyna – 1584) Polish poet, attended the University of Königsberg after 1547 Simon Dach (1605 in Memel – 1659) a lyrical poet and hymnwriter Frederick I of Prussia (16571713), Elector of Brandenburg & Duke of Prussia John Ernest Grabe (1666–1711) an Anglican divine Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700–1766) philosopher, author and critic of the Age of Enlightenment Immanuel Kant (17241804), philosopher Johann Georg Hamann (17301788), philosopher Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Elder (1741–1796) a satirical and humorous writer Zacharias Werner (1768–1823) a poet, dramatist and preacher E. T. A. Hoffmann (17761822), author Karl Lehrs (1802–1878) a classical scholar Karl Rosenkranz (1805–1879) a philosopher and pedagogue 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 (18081867), Hebrew novelist Ferdinand Nesselmann (1811 Fürstenau1881 Königsberg), mathematician, historian, orientalist and philologist Fanny Lewald (18111889), feminist and author Theodor Goldstücker (1821–1872) a German Sanskrit scholar August Wilhelm Zumpt (18151877) a German classical scholar Bernhard Weiss (1827–1918) a Protestant New Testament scholar Emma Goldman (18691940), author and political theorist Friedrich Radszuweit (18761932), author and publisher Agnes Miegel (18791964), author Walter Liebenthal (18861982), sinologist and philosopher Hannah Arendt (19061975), political theorist and philosopher Leah Goldberg (19111970), Israeli poet Annemarie Bostroem (1922–2015), author Hans-Joachim Newiger, (1925–2011), philologist Leah Rabin (née Schloßberg) (19282000), author and wife of Yitzhak Rabin
Scientists
Johann Christoph Bohl (1703–1785), physician, professor, and sponsor of Kant Johann Bartsch (17091738), physician, botanist, and collaborator with Carl Linnaeus Karl Gottfried Hagen (17491829), chemist, opened first German chemistry lab at Königsberg's Albertina University Friedrich Bessel (1784–1846), astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geodesist Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach (1792–1847), surgeon Gotthilf Hagen (17971884), physicist, contributed to fluid dynamics Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (17991878), German-Austrian pharmacist and botanist Adolph Eduard Grube (18121880), zoologist Hermann August Hagen (18171893) Cambridge, U.S., German entomologist Gustav Kirchhoff (18241887), physicist and spectroscopist Karl Rudolf König (18321901), physicist Franz Ernst Christian Neumann (18341918), pathologist Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer (18461906), botanist Otto Wallach (18471931), chemist, recipient of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Hermann Eichhorst (18491921), physician Emanuel Kayser (18451927) geologist and palaeontologist Ernst Bessel Hagen (1851–1923), physicist Erich von Drygalski (18651949) geographer, geophysicist and polar scientist Siegfried Passarge (18661958), geographer Max Wien (18661938), physicist Arnold Sommerfeld (18681951), physicist, pioneered atomic and quantum physics Friedrich Adolf Paneth (18871958), chemist Fritz Albert Lipmann (18991986), biochemist, shared the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Rudolf Kaufmann (1909–c. 1941), palaeontologist and geologist, Arno Motulsky (1923–2018), medical geneticist
Mathematicians
Christian Goldbach (16901764), mathematician, developed Goldbach's conjecture Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (18041851), mathematician, worked on elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations Otto Hesse (18111874), mathematician, worked on algebraic invariants Carl Neumann (18321925), mathematician, worked on the Dirichlet principle Rudolf Lipschitz (18321903), mathematician, named the Lipschitz continuity condition Alfred Clebsch (18331872), mathematician, contributed to algebraic geometry Ludwig Scheeffer (18591885), mathematician, contributed to calculus Kurt Hensel (18611941), mathematician, introduced p-adic number David Hilbert (18621943), mathematician, developed invariant theory Hermann Minkowski (18641909), mathematician, developed the geometry of numbers Jürgen Moser (1928–1999), contributed to celestial mechanics, dynamical systems, functional analysis
Arts and music
Anton Möller (15631611), painter active mostly in Danzig (Gdańsk) August Kohn (17321801/2), violinist and composer active at the courts in Berlin Christian Wilhelm Podbielski (1741–1792), organist and composer Otto Nicolai (18101849), composer and conductor Rudolf Siemering (18351905) German sculptor Hermann Goetz (1840–1876) a composer of the 1872 opera Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung. Pavel Pabst (18541897), pianist/composer and professor at the Moscow Conservatory Käthe Kollwitz (18671945), painter and sculptor Ernst Behmer (18751938) a prolific German stage and film actor IMDb Database retrieved 01 May 2021 Werner Funck (18811951), actor, singer, and film director IMDb Database retrieved 01 May 2021 Harry Liedtke (18821945), actor Heinz Tiessen (18871971), composer Emy von Stetten (1898–1980), soprano Max Colpet (19051998), popular song lyricist IMDb Database retrieved 12 September 2020 Michael Wieck (19282021), musician and author Veruschka von Lehndorff (born 1939), model, actress and artist IMDb Database retrieved 12 September 2020 Eberhard Feltz (born 1937), German classical violinist Wilfried Gruhn (born 1939), German violinist, musicologist, music educator and emeritus professor
Military
Erhard Ernst von Röder (1665–1743), Prussian field marshal Alexander von Dönhoff (1683–1742), Prussian lieutenant-general and confidant of King Friedrich Wilhelm I Peter August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (16971775) Field Marshal in the Russian Imperial Army Friedrich von der Trenck (17261794), Prussian officer and adventurer Leopold von Rauch (1787–1860), Prussian general Prince Albert of Prussia (18091872) Generaloberst Karl von Wrangel (1812–1899), Prussian General of the Infantry in the First Schleswig War Max von der Goltz (1838–1906), Prussian admiral Ernst von Below (1863–1955), German general Hans Feige, (18801953), Wehrmacht general Heinrich zu Dohna-Schlobitten, (18821944), major general in the resistance and sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof Oskar von Hindenburg (18831960) a German Generalleutnant Wolff von Stutterheim (18931940) a German Generalmajor Werner Ostendorff (19031945), German SS Major General (Gruppenführer) of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich Heinrich Gerlach (19081991), German soldier in the 14th Panzer Division and author of The Forsaken Army Gerhard Barkhorn (19191983), second-highest-ranking Luftwaffe fighter ace (301 victories). Gideon Eilat (1924–2015), Israeli commander of the third battalion of the Yiftach Brigade during the 1947–1949 Palestine war
Politicians
Johann Jacoby (18051877), politician Eduard von Simson (18101899), jurist and politician Otto Stellter (1823–1894), politician, member of German Reichstag Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg (1847–1921) diplomat and close friend of Wilhelm II Robert Rasch (1852–1938), a German settler in Nauru & first resident Administrator Otto Braun, (18721955), statesman and politician, Minister President of Prussia Wilhelm von Gayl (18791945), politician of the German National People's Party Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (18841945), a monarchist conservative politician Waldemar Magunia (1902–1974), Nazi Party politician and SA officer Karl-Hermann Flach (19291973) journalist at the Frankfurter Rundschau and FDP politician Christean Wagner (1943–2025), German politician
Sport Eugen Sandow (18671925), first modern bodybuilder IMDb Database retrieved 30 April 2021 Lilli Henoch (18991942), 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 (19342023) & Frank Schepke (19352017) German Olympic rowers
Others
brothers Bruno Taut (18801938) & Max Taut (18841967), architects Moshe Smoira (18881961), first President of the Supreme Court of Israel Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld (18921929) aviator, made the first east-west transatlantic flight in 1928 Rabbi Josef Hirsch Dunner (19132007), Chief Rabbi of East Prussia 1936–1938 Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits (19211999) 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 (19291998) an East German prostitute and alleged Soviet spy Thomas Eichelbaum (19312018), former Chief Justice of New Zealand Heinrich August Winkler (born 1938), historian, academic and author Reinhard Bonnke (19402019), televangelist, missionary in Africa from 1967
See also List of Poles from Königsberg
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