Harnack (family)

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Harnack is a German family whose members included theologians, writers, artists, politicians, scientists, mathematicians, lawyers and filmmakers.

Theodosius Harnack (1817-1889), German theologian
- Anna Harnack (1849–1868)
- Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930), German theologian and church historian
  - Anna Frucht, b. (von) Harnack (1881–1965)
  - Agnes von Zahn-Harnack (1884–1950), German writer and women's rights activist
  - Ernst von Harnack (1888–1945), German politician and resistance fighter ("July 20")
    - Gustav-Adolf von Harnack (1917-2010), German pediatrician
  - Elisabet von Harnack (1892–1976), German social worker
  - Axel von Harnack (1895–1974), German historian and philologist
- Axel Harnack (mathematician) ( Carl Gustav Axel Harnack ; 1851–1888), German mathematician
- Erich Harnack (1852–1915), professor of pharmacology and physiological chemistry at the University of Halle
- Otto Harnack (1857–1914), literary historian, historian and Goethe researcher , married to Clara Harnack (1877–1962), German painter and teacher
  - Arvid Harnack (1901–1942), German lawyer, economist and resistance fighter, married to Mildred Harnack (1902–1943), US-American-German literary scholar, translator and resistance fighter (both "Rote Kapelle")
  - Falk Harnack (1913–1991), German director and resistance fighter ("White Rose")

The Harnack House in Berlin-Dahlem, which is now used as a conference venue for the Max Planck Society , and the Harnack Medal , a science award from the Max Planck Society , are named after Adolf von Harnack .