List of people from Königsberg

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.

Writers

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
Johann Georg Hamann (1730–1788), philosopher
E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822), author
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), philosopher
Wincenty Pol (1807 in Lublin – 1872) Polish poet; was interned in Königsberg after the fall of the November Uprising in Russian partition of Poland.
Ferdinand Nesselmann (1811 Fürstenau – 1881 Königsberg), mathematician, historian, orientalist and philologist
Fanny Lewald (1811–1889), feminist and author
Abraham Mapu (1808–1867), Hebrew novelist
Friedrich Radszuweit (1876–1932), author and publisher
Agnes Miegel (1879–1964), author
Leah Goldberg (1911–1970), Israeli poet
Hans-Joachim Newiger, (1925–2011), philologist
Leah Rabin (née Schloßberg) (1928–2000), author and wife of Yitzhak Rabin

Scientists

Christian Goldbach (1690–1764), mathematician
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
Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig Hagen (1797–1884), physicist
Ludwig Otto Hesse (1811–1874), mathematician
Adolph Eduard Grube (1812–1880), zoologist
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824–1887), physicist
Karl Rudolf König (1832–1901), physicist
Carl Neumann (1832–1925), mathematician
Rudolf Lipschitz (1832–1903), mathematician
Alfred Clebsch (1833–1872), mathematician
Franz Ernst Christian Neumann (1834–1918), pathologist
Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer (1846–1906), botanist
Otto Wallach (1847–1931), chemist
David Hilbert (1862–1943), mathematician
Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909), mathematician
Siegfried Passarge (1866–1958), geographer
Arnold Sommerfeld (1868–1951), physicist
Friedrich Adolf Paneth (1887–1958), chemist
Hermann Eichhorst (1849–1921), physician
Max Wien (1866–1938), physicist
Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899–1986), biochemist

Arts and Music

Anton Möller (c.1563–1611), painter active mostly in Danzig (Gdańsk)
August Kohn (1732–c.1801/2), violinist and composer active at the royal and margravial courts in Berlin
Carl Otto Nicolai (1810–1849), composer and conductor
Pavel Pabst (1854–1897), pianist/composer and professor at the Moscow Conservatory
Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), painter and sculptor
Heinz Tiessen (1887–1971), composer
Max Colpet (1905–1998), popular song lyricist
Michael Wieck (born 1928), musician and author
Witta Pohl (1937–2011), German actress
Veruschka von Lehndorff (born 1939), model, actress and artist
Fritz Albert Lieven (1906–1971) actor

Military

Christian Ludwig von Kalckstein (1630–1672), Prussian count, colonel and politician assassinated for alleged treason
Erhard Ernst von Röder (1665–1743), Prussian field marshal
Friedrich von der Trenck (1726–1794), Prussian officer and adventurer
Hans Feige, (1880–1953), Wehrmacht general
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

Johann Jacoby (1805–1877), politician
Eduard von Simson (1810–1899), jurist and politician
Otto Braun, (1872–1955), statesman and politician
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884–1945), politician
Wilhelm von Gayl (1879–1945), politician

Others

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
Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach (1792–1847), surgeon
Hermann August Hagen (1817–1893) Cambridge, U.S., German entomologist
Philipp Friedrich Alexander, Fürst zu Eulenburg (1847–1921)
Walter Liebenthal (1886–1982), sinologist and philosopher
Erich von Drygalski (1865–1949), explorer
Eugen Sandow (1867–1925), first modern bodybuilder
Bruno Taut (1880–1938), architect
Max Taut (1884–1967), architect
Moshe Smoira (1888–1961), first President of the Supreme Court of Israel
Lilli Henoch (1899–1942), world record holder in the discus, shot put, and 4 × 100 meters relay, killed by the Nazis
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), political theorist
Rabbi Josef Hirsch Dunner (1913–2007), Chief Rabbi of East Prussia 1936-1938
Thomas Eichelbaum (1931–2018), former Chief Justice of New Zealand
Heinrich August Winkler (born 1938), historian
Reinhard Bonnke (1940–2019), televangelist
Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld (1892–1929), aviation pioneer and initiator of the first east-west transatlantic flight in 1928.

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