Editing Thuringia (section)

== Personalities ==

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| [[Georg Böhm]] (1661–1733), composer and organist of the Baroque period, born in [[Hohenkirchen, Thuringia|Hohenkirchen]]
| [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] (1685–1750), composer and musician of the Baroque period, born in [[Eisenach]]
| [[Franz Liszt]] (1811–1886), Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, teacher and Franciscan tertiary, lived in Weimar
| [[Richard Wagner]] (1813–1883), composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor, sojourns in Weimar and [[Eisenach]]
| [[Richard Strauss]] (1864–1949), composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, director of the Weimar Court Orchestra ({{lang|de|Hofkapellmeister}})
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Image:Johann Sebastian Bach.jpg|[[Johann Sebastian Bach]]
Image:FLiszt.jpg|[[Franz Liszt]]
Image:RichardWagner.jpg|[[Richard Wagner]]
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| [[Martin Luther]] (1483–1546), friar (Observant Augustinian), Catholic priest, professor of theology and seminal figure of the 16th-century movement in Christianity known later as the Protestant Reformation, educated in [[Lutherhaus Eisenach|Eisenach]], translation of the New Testament from Greek into German at [[Wartburg|Wartburg castle]]
| [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] (1749–1832), writer and statesman, went to live in Weimar
| [[Friedrich von Schiller]] (1759–1805), poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright; professor of history at the University of Jena before relocating to Weimar<gallery>
Image:Wartburg-Lutherstube.02.JPG|Chamber of [[Martin Luther]] at [[Wartburg|Wartburg castle]]
Image:Goethe (Stieler 1828).jpg|[[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] 
Image:Friedrich Schiller by Ludovike Simanowiz.jpg|[[Friedrich Schiller]]
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| [[Meister Eckhart]] O.P. ({{circa|1260|1328}}), theologian, philosopher and mystic, born near [[Gotha]]
| [[Lucas Cranach the Elder]] (1472–1553), Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving, lived his last years in Weimar
| [[Johann Gottfried von Herder]] (1744–1803), philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic, introduces the {{lang|de|[[Zeitgeist]]}} in {{lang|de|Kritische Wälder}} (1769), served as General Superintendent in Weimar
| [[Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland]] (1762–1836), physician, most eminent practical physician of his time in Germany, born in Langensalza
| [[Napoleon|Napoléon Bonaparte]] (1769–1821), French military and political leader, twin [[battle of Jena-Auerstedt]], 14 October 1806, met [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] at the governor's palace in [[Erfurt]] in the presence of [[Talleyrand]], 2 October 1808 ({{lang|fr|"Vous êtes un homme. Quel âge avez-vous ? – Soixante ans. – Vous êtes bien conservé. Vous avez écrit des tragédies ?"}}) ({{lang|fr|"Voilà un homme"}})
| [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]] (1770–1831), philosopher, author of [[the Phenomenology of Spirit]], extraordinary Professor at [[University of Jena]]
| [[Carl Zeiss]] (1816–1888), maker of optical instruments commonly known for the company he founded, [[Carl Zeiss AG|Carl Zeiss Jena]], born in Weimar
| [[Karl Marx]] (1818–1883), philosopher, economist, social scientist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist, PhD awarded by [[University of Jena]]
| [[August Schleicher]] (1821–1868), linguist, he attempted to reconstruct the Proto-Indo-European language
| [[Johannes Brahms]] (1833–1897), composer and pianist, frequent sojourns at [[Meiningen]]
| [[Ernst Haeckel]] (1834–1919), biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor, and artist, discovered, described, and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, coined many terms in biology, including anthropogeny, ecology, phylum, phylogeny, and stem cell, professor at [[University of Jena]]<gallery>
Image:Ernst Haeckel.jpg| [[Ernst Haeckel]]
Image:Max Weber 1894.jpg| [[Max Weber]]
Image:Carl Zeiss from Auerbach 1907.png| [[Carl Zeiss]]
Image:Friedrich Otto Schott.jpg| [[Otto Schott]]
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| [[Ernst Abbe]] (1840–1905), physicist, optical scientist, entrepreneur, and social reformer, laid the foundations of modern optics, co-owner of [[Carl Zeiss AG|Carl Zeiss Jena]], born in [[Eisenach]]
| [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]] (1844–1900), philologist, philosopher, cultural critic, poet and composer, lived his last years in Weimar
| [[Gottlob Frege]] (1848–1925), mathematician, logician, and philosopher, professor at [[University of Jena]]
| [[Otto Schott]] (1851–1935), chemist, glass technologist, and the inventor of borosilicate glass, founder of [[Schott AG|Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Genossen]]
| [[Rudolf Steiner]] (1861–1925), Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist, worked to establish various practical endeavors, including Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, and anthroposophical medicine, invited to work as an editor at the Goethe Matenadaran in Weimar
| [[Henry Van de Velde|Henry van de Velde]] (1863–1957), Belgian painter, architect and interior designer, established the [[Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School]], the predecessor of the [[Bauhaus]]
| [[Max Weber]] (1864–1920), sociologist, philosopher, and political economist, often cited as among the three founding creators of sociology, born in [[Erfurt]]
| [[Richard Strauss]] (1864–1949), leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, director of the Weimar Court Orchestra ({{lang|de|Hofkapellmeister}}) 1889–94
| [[Vassily Kandinsky]] (1866–1944), influential Russian painter and art theorist, credited with painting the first purely abstract works, [[Bauhaus]] master, Weimar
| [[Lyonel Feininger]] (1871–1956), German-American painter and leading exponent of Expressionism, also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist, [[Bauhaus]] master, Weimar
| [[Léon Blum]] (1872–1950), French politician, three times Prime Minister of France, imprisoned in [[Buchenwald]]
| [[Paul Klee]] (1879–1940), Swiss German painter; his highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism, [[Bauhaus]] master, Weimar
| [[Walter Gropius]] (1883–1969), architect, widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture, founder of the [[Bauhaus]], Weimar
| [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]] (1886–1969), German-American architect, widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture, joined the [[Bauhaus]], Weimar
| [[Jean Arp]] (1886–1966), German-French, or Alsatian, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist, studied at the [[Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School]], the predecessor of the [[Bauhaus]]
| [[Otto Dix]] (1891–1969), painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of Weimar society and the brutality of war, born in Untermhaus (today [[Gera]])
| [[Cuno Hoffmeister]] (1892–1968), German [[astronomer]], observer and discoverer of [[variable star]]s, [[comet]]s and [[minor planets]], founder of [[Sonneberg Observatory]].
| [[Werner Braune]] (1909–1951), Nazi SS officer, executed for war crimes
| [[Uziel Gal]] (1923–2002), Israeli gun designer, best remembered as the designer and namesake of the Uzi submachine gun, born in Weimar
| [[Jorge Semprún]] (1923–2011), Spanish writer and politician, deported to [[Buchenwald]], realization of {{lang|fr|italic=no|"Mère blafarde, tendre sœur"}} for the {{lang|de|italic=yes|Kunstfest}} art festival, Weimar, summer 1995
| [[Herbert Kroemer]] (1928-2024), German-American physicist, co-laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2000
| [[Marcel Kittel]] (born 1988 in [[Arnstadt]]), professional cyclist
| [[Michael Roth (cyberneticist)|Michael Roth]] (1936–2019), engineer
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