List of people from Breslau

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
Günther Anders – philosopher and journalist
Adolf Anderssen – 19th-century chess master
Đorđe Andrejević-Kun – painter
Heinz Arndt – Australian economist
Leopold Auerbach - anatomist and neuropathologist
Bertha Badt-Strauss – writer
Boleslaw Barlog – stage and film director
Erhard Bauschke (1912–1945), was a German jazz and light music reedist and bandleader[1]
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[2]
Otfrid Förster — neurosurgeon
Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat – virologist
Zecharias Frankel – rabbi and founder of Conservative Judaism
Hans Freeman – biochemist
Alfred Gomolka – politician (SPD)
Felix Hausdorff – mathematician, one of the founders of algebraic topology
Martin Helwig – cartographer, created the first map of Silesia
George Henschel – conductor and singer
Johann Heß – Lutheran theologian, Protestant reformer of Breslau and Silesia
Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau – Baroque poet
August zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen - general
Karl Eduard von Holtei – poet and actor
E. A. J. Honigmann – Professor of English Literature
Heinz Hopf – mathematician (topologist)
Vernon Ingram – biologist
Alfred Kerr – theatre critic and essayist
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff – physicist
Gerhard Kittel – New Testament scholar and philologist
Otto Klemperer (1885–1973) – conductor
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
Daniel Casper von Lohenstein – poet and diplomat
Peter Lorre – actor
Rudolf Meidner – economist and socialist theorist
Joachim Meisner – Cardinal priest and archbishop of Cologne
Adolph von Menzel – artist
Jan Mikulicz-Radecki – surgeon, contributed to development of modern surgery
Richard Mohaupt – German-American composer and Kapellmeister
Edda Moser – soprano opera singer
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
Horst Rosenthal (1915–1942) – German-born French cartoonist
Julius von Sachs – 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.
Christian Wolff – philosopher
Johann Heinrich Zedler (1706–1751) – publisher of a German encyclopedia, the Grosses Universal-Lexicon

Nobel laureates

listed by year of award

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References

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.

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[grove-1] Rainer E. Lotz, "Erhard Bauschke". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.

[2] "The danger of thinking we are really holy". Leader-Post. 19 March 1983. Retrieved 25 February 2011.