American electrical engineer, most noted as a co-founder of leading FPGA (field-programmable gate array) producer Xilinx, an American technology company, primarily a supplier of programmable…
German film actress. She appeared in 80 films between 1921 and 1983. She died 12 April 1987. Link to Wikipedia biography (German)
German Expressionist dramatist, poet, and novelist. A general’s son, he was an officer in the German army until 1912, when he left to pursue his…
German anatomist, famous for consolidating the neuron theory of organization of the nervous system and for naming the chromosome. He is also remembered in two…
German film director, producer, screenwriter and author of several books including an autobiography. He served until 1944 as a tank driver in Hitler’s army, was…
German poet, hymnist and writer, also known as Filip Cösius or Caesius. Some of his works are published under his pen name Ritterhold von Blauen.…
Austrian statesman and chancellor who struggled to prevent the Nazi takeover of Austria (March 1938). As an Innsbruck lawyer of monarchist political sympathies attached to…
German poet and novelist whose immensely popular humorous epic poem Der Trompeter von Säckingen (1854; “The Trumpeter of Säckingen”) and historical novel Ekkehard (1855) appealed…
American-British astrologer who writes for the British papers, a column and Sunday supplements. After the death of Patric Walker, she took over some of his…
German writer. Von Stach wrote plays, novels, fairy tales, and lyric poetry. Her most famous work, a Christmas play, Das Christ-Elflein (The Christmas Elf), dates…
German symbolist/Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver, and architect. Stuck first became well known by cartoons for Fliegende Blätter, and vignette designs for programmes and book…
American jazz drummer who worked for Woody Herman in 1967 and 1969, then with Stan Kenton from 1970 to 1972. Von Ohlen led the Blue…
German scholar, polymath, historian and magistrate. He edited significant cultural journals. He also corresponded with Leonard Euler. Von Murr reproduced in 1790 the book published…
German writer, traveller and garden designer. He owned a vast estate astride what is now the German-Polish border. After touring English gardens in 1816 be…
German poet and dramatist. Platen made the acquaintance of many of the leading writers of the time, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He became a…
German poet and Nazi activist. On March 16, 1945 Munchausen ended his life by suicide. The motive for this was, in addition to Germany’s foreseeable…
Painter of the so-called Idealist school in Germany. In 1853 Marées went to Berlin, where he studied for two years. For the next eight years…
German electrical engineer who fostered the electric-power industry in Germany and founded the Deutsches Museum of science and technology in Munich. Miller studied at the…
Austrian statesman, minister of foreign affairs (1809–48), and a champion of conservatism, who helped form the victorious alliance against Napoleon I and who restored Austria…
German zoologist. In 1892 Maria von Linden was the first female student at the University of Tübingen and in 1895 she was the first woman…
German journalist, radio and television presenter. DeutschJournalistin und Radio- und Fernsehmoderatorin. Bekannt wurde sie vor allem durch die Moderation der Kochsendung Kochduell auf dem Sender…
Carl-Gustaf von Mannerheim – Human Design Profile Carl-Gustaf von Mannerheim: Finnish Military Leader and Manifestor Carl-Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, born on April 6, 1867, in Askainen,…
German-born foundress of the Sisters of Christian Charity, a Roman Catholic order of nuns. She died 30 April 1881 Link to Wikipedia biography
German engineer and inventor. Linde invented the first portable compressor refrigerator, a methyl ether refrigeration machine, in 1873, and three years later he designed a…
A friend and the last love of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. She first met Goethe in 1821 at Marienbad and again at Carlsbad in 1822…
German Field Marshal during World War II. Hitler was not fond of von Leeb because of the general’s anti-Nazi attitudes, and retired von Leeb in…
German painter whose powerful characterizations made him the favoured portraitist of late 19th-century Germany. In 1857 Lenbach became a pupil of Karl von Piloty, with…
Lieutenant colonel commanding Germany’s small African force during World War I, who became a determined and resourceful guerrilla leader hoping to influence the war in…
Swedish count of Brandenburgian extraction and a soldier. He was allegedly the lover of Sophia Dorothea, Princess of Celle, the wife of Duke George Louis…
German-Swedish officer, the son of Conrad Christoff Königsmarck (1634–1673) and Maria Christina Wrangel. He died on 28 August 1686 in Romania. Link to Wikipedia biography…
German playwright widely influential in popularizing poetic drama, into which he instilled melodramatic sensationalism and sentimental philosophizing. Kotzebue’s first comedy gave him entrée into court…
Aurora von Königsmarck Biography | Human Design Perspective Aurora von Königsmarck: A Life Defined by Nobility and Human Design Introduction to Aurora von Königsmarck Aurora…
Swedish noblewoman, known as a dilettante artist (painter), amateur actor, and poet. She was the daughter of Conrad Christoff Königsmarck (1634–1673) and Maria Christina Wrangel.…
German writer and storyteller. She lived in the Ottoman Empire for 20 years, and as the daughter of a Prussian officer serving at the Sultan’s…
German painter, noted mainly as a muralist, but also as a book illustrator. His murals decorate buildings in Munich. He is associated with the Düsseldorf…
German theologian, politician and social reformer who was considered by some to have been Germany’s outstanding 19th-century Roman Catholic bishop. His social teachings became influential…
German writer. Before she became famous as a writer and narrator of Turkish fairy tales, she had already published stories, essays, translations, novels and a…
Half-sister of Heinrich von Kleist. She was the second daughter of Joachim Friedrich von Kleist (1728-1788) and his first wife Karoline Luise, born of Wulffen…
German sculptor. He spent a significant amount of time in Munich after 1889, executing a monumental fountain there, the Wittelsbacher Brunnen. He is known for…
German painter and a professor at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf. His brother is the painter Arthur Kampf. He died 13 April 1933.
German admiral in the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine). Franz von Hipper joined the German Navy in 1881 as an officer cadet. He commanded several…
German satirical and humorous writer. He never married. Died 23 April 1796. Link to Wikipedia biography
Austrian poet, novelist, librettist, dramatist, and essayist. He made his reputation with his lyrical poems and plays and became internationally famous for his collaboration with…
German actress, author and film director of Prussian aristocratic origin. Despite her privileged childhood, von Harbou had the desire to earn a living on her…
American actress, best known for co-starring in the Woody Allen film Irrational Man. She is the daughter of Bette Midler and her husband, Martin Von…
Swedish poet and novelist, a laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1916. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1912. His…
German poet. Karoline was described as beautiful, gentle and shy. She and her friend discussed society’s discrimination against women. One way to escape such limitations…
Norwegian ceramist who was a teacher at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry from 1943 to 1975, and head teacher from 1976.…