wilhelm ii | (n) grandson of Queen Victoria and Kaiser of Germany from 1888 to 1918; he was vilified as causing World War I (1859-1941), Syn. Kaiser Bill, Kaiser Wilhelm |
apollinaire | (n) French poet; precursor of surrealism (1880-1918), Syn. Guillaume Apollinaire, Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki |
bessel | (n) German mathematician and astronomer who made accurate measurements of stellar distances and who predicted the existence on an 8th planet (1784-1846), Syn. Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel |
bunsen | (n) German chemist who with Kirchhoff pioneered spectrum analysis but is remembered mainly for his invention of the Bunsen burner (1811-1899), Syn. Robert Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Bunsen |
froebel | (n) German educator who founded the kindergarten system (1782-1852), Syn. Friedrich Froebel, Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel |
goring | (n) German politician in Nazi Germany who founded the Gestapo and mobilized Germany for war (1893-1946), Syn. Hermann Goring, Goering, Hermann Goering, Hermann Wilhelm Goring |
grass | (n) German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927), Syn. Gunter Wilhelm Grass, Gunter Grass |
grimm | (n) the younger of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories (1786-1859), Syn. Wilhelm Grimm, Wilhelm Karl Grimm |
hegel | (n) German philosopher whose three stage process of dialectical reasoning was adopted by Karl Marx (1770-1831), Syn. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
hoffmann | (n) German chemist (1818-1892), Syn. August Wilhelm von Hoffmann |
hoffmann | (n) German writer of fantastic tales (1776-1822), Syn. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann |
humboldt | (n) German philologist noted for his studies of the relation between language and culture (1767-1835), Syn. Baron Wilhelm von Humboldt, Baron Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt |
kleist | (n) German dramatist whose works concern people torn between reason and emotion (1777-1811), Syn. Heinrich von Kleist, Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist |
leibniz | (n) German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716), Syn. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz |
nietzsche | (n) influential German philosopher remembered for his concept of the superman and for his rejection of Christian values; considered, along with Kierkegaard, to be a founder of existentialism (1844-1900), Syn. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
opel | (n) German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948), Syn. Wilhelm von Opel |
ostwald | (n) German chemist (1853-1932), Syn. Wilhelm Ostwald |
reich | (n) Austrian born psychoanalyst who lived in the United States; advocated sexual freedom and believed that cosmic energy could be concentrated in a human being (1897-1957), Syn. Wilhelm Reich |
roentgen | (n) German physicist who discovered x-rays and developed roentgenography (1845-1923), Syn. Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen, Rontgen, Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen |
scheele | (n) Swedish chemist (born in Germany) who discovered oxygen before Priestley did (1742-1786), Syn. Karl Wilhelm Scheele, Karl Scheele |
siemens | (n) engineer who was a brother of Ernst Werner von Siemens and who moved to England (1823-1883), Syn. Karl Wilhelm Siemens, Sir Charles William Siemens |
steller | (n) German naturalist (1709-1746), Syn. Georg Wilhelm Steller |
steuben | (n) American Revolutionary leader (born in Prussia) who trained the troops under George Washington (1730-1794), Syn. Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben |
wagner | (n) German composer of operas and inventor of the musical drama in which drama and spectacle and music are fused (1813-1883), Syn. Wilhelm Richard Wagner, Richard Wagner |
weber | (n) German physicist and brother of E. H. Weber; noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1804-1891), Syn. Wilhelm Eduard Weber |
威廉 | [Wēi lián, ㄨㄟ ㄌㄧㄢˊ, 威 廉] William or Wilhelm (name) #17,123 [Add to Longdo] |
霍夫曼 | [Huò fū màn, ㄏㄨㄛˋ ㄈㄨ ㄇㄢˋ, 霍 夫 曼] Hofmann or Hoffman (name); August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892), German chemist; Dustin Hoffman (1937-), US film actor #48,369 [Add to Longdo] |
伦琴 | [lún qín, ㄌㄨㄣˊ ㄑㄧㄣˊ, 伦 琴 / 倫 琴] Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen or Roentgen (1845-1923) #101,151 [Add to Longdo] |
莱布尼兹 | [Lái bù ní zī, ㄌㄞˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄋㄧˊ ㄗ, 莱 布 尼 兹 / 萊 布 尼 茲] Leibnitz (name); Gottfriend Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716), German mathematician and philosopher, co-inventor of the calculus #140,663 [Add to Longdo] |
李卜克内西 | [Lǐ bo kè nèi xī, ㄌㄧˇ ㄅㄛ˙ ㄎㄜˋ ㄋㄟˋ ㄒㄧ, 李 卜 克 内 西 / 李 卜 克 內 西] Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826-1900), political activist and founding member of the German Socialist Party SPD #309,137 [Add to Longdo] |