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Born c.1530 • Germany
Died c.1594 • Prague • Czech Republic
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
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Vannoccio Biringuccio
Italian metallurgist
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Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Paracelsus
Paracelsus
German-Swiss physician
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Johannes Müller
German physiologist
Athanasius Kircher
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit priest and scholar
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Curt Sachs
German musicologist
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Johann Gottfried Walther
German composer
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
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Robert Eitner
German musicologist
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Hugo Riemann
German musicologist
Mattheson, detail of an engraving by J.J. Haid after a painting by J.S. Wahl
Johann Mattheson
German musician and writer
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George Engelmann
German botanist and physician
Dillenius, detail from an engraving by James Heath after an original portrait by an unknown artist
Johann Jakob Dillenius
German botanist
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Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus
German publisher
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Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt
German crystallographer
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Friedrich Konrad Beilstein
Russian chemist
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Carl Wagner
German chemist and metallurgist
Bergmann, Ernst von
Ernst von Bergmann
German surgeon
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician