List of personalities of the city of Jena

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This list contains personalities born in Jena as well as those who had their sphere of activity in Jena without having been born there. The first section is sorted chronologically according to the year of birth and death and also alphabetically according to the year of birth of the living. The second section is sorted alphabetically. The list does not claim to be complete.

Personalities born in Jena

By 1700

1701 to 1800

1801 to 1850

1851 to 1900

1901 to 1977

Living personalities

Personalities who have worked on site

  • Ernst Abbe , born January 23, 1840 in Eisenach; † January 14, 1905 in Jena, astronomer, mathematician, physicist, optician, entrepreneur and social reformer
  • Rosemarie Albrecht , born March 19, 1915 in Kobe, Japan; † 7 January 2008 Jena, ear, nose and throat doctor at the Department of Otolaryngology at Jena, on the list of most wanted Nazi war criminals of the Simon Wiesenthal Center was
  • Felix Auerbach , born November 12, 1856 in Breslau; † February 26, 1933 in Jena, physicist, professor and patron of the arts
  • Bernhard Averbeck , born July 2, 1874 in Bremen; † October 17, 1930 in Jena-Göschwitz, cement manufacturer, President of the German Cement Association (DZB)
  • Johann Nikolaus Bach , October 10, 1669 in Eisenach; † November 4, 1753 in Jena, organist and composer (Jenaer Bachstrasse is named after him and not after his cousin Johann Sebastian Bach )
  • Hans Berger , born May 21, 1873 in Neuses near Coburg; † June 1, 1941 in Jena, discoverer of the electroencephalogram (EEG)
  • Wolfgang Biermann , born November 29, 1927 in Leipzig; † July 18, 2001 in Völklingen, member of the central committee of the SED, general director of the "Carl Zeiss" combine
  • Otto Binswanger , born October 14, 1852 in Scherzingen; † July 15, 1929 in Kreuzlingen, Swiss psychiatrist and neurologist
  • Hans Boegehold , born July 28, 1876 in Niederstüter; † May 14, 1965 in Jena, mathematician
  • Alfred Brehm , born February 2, 1829 in Unterrenthendorf; † November 11, 1884 in Renthendorf, zoologist and writer
  • Georg Buschner , born December 26, 1925 in Gera; † February 12, 2007 in Jena, GDR national football player and national coach from 1970 to 1981
  • Gottfried Cundisius , born September 11, 1599 in Radeberg; † July 25, 1651 in Jena, Lutheran theologian
  • Siegfried Czapski , born May 28, 1861 in Koźmin, Province of Posen; † June 29, 1907 in Jena, physicist
  • Eugen Diederichs , born June 22, 1867 in Löbitz; † September 10, 1930 in Jena, publisher
  • Matthias Domaschk , born June 12, 1957 in Görlitz; † April 12, 1981 in Gera, GDR civil rights activist
  • Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner , born December 13, 1780 in Hof; † March 24, 1849 in Jena, chemist
  • Johann Gottlieb Fichte , born May 19, 1762 in Rammenau near Bischofswerda; † January 27, 1814 in Berlin, philosopher
  • Gustav Fischer , born December 23, 1845 in Altona; † July 22, 1910 in Jena, bookseller and publisher
  • Samuel Fischer , born November 25, 1547 in Sankt Joachimsthal; † June 22nd, 1600 in Jena, pastor, superintendent and professor
  • Gottlob Frege , born November 8, 1848 in Wismar; † July 26, 1925 in Bad Kleinen, mathematician, logician and philosopher
  • Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann , born September 14, 1765 in Züllichau; † June 12, 1837 in Jena, publisher
  • Jürgen Fuchs , born December 19, 1950 in Reichenbach in Vogtland; † May 9, 1999 in Berlin, writer, psychologist and GDR civil rights activist
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , born August 28, 1749 in Frankfurt am Main; † March 22, 1832 in Weimar, poet, natural scientist, art theorist and statesman
  • Johann Jakob Griesbach , born January 4, 1745 in Butzbach; † March 12, 1812 in Jena, professor for the New Testament in Jena
  • Georg Grosch , born June 10, 1895 in Graefenthal; † February 25, 1987 in Jena, music educator, composer
  • Uwe Grüning , born January 16, 1942 in Pabianice near Łódź, Poland, writer and politician (CDU), former MdL Saxony, media councilor
  • Johann Christian Günther , born April 8, 1695 in Striegau; † March 15, 1723 in Jena, poet
  • Ernst Haeckel , born February 16, 1834 in Potsdam; † August 9, 1919 in Jena, biologist and philosopher
  • Hartmut Haupt , born February 20, 1932 in Bonn; † May 20, 2019 in Jena, organist, organ expert and non-fiction author
  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , born August 27, 1770 in Stuttgart; † November 14, 1831 in Berlin, philosopher, taught from 1801 to 1807 at the University of Jena and wrote his " Phenomenology of Mind " there
  • Emma Heintz , * 1889; † October 2, 1947, founder of welfare in Jena
  • Johann Friedrich Herbart , born May 4, 1776 in Oldenburg (Oldenburg); † August 14, 1841 in Göttingen, philosopher, psychologist, educator (" Herbartianer ")
  • Richard Hodgson , born September 24, 1855 in Melbourne; † December 20, 1905 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Australian parapsychologist
  • Friedrich Hölderlin , * 1770 in Lauffen am Neckar; † 1843 in Tübingen, poet, studied theology in Jena
  • Ricarda Huch , born July 18, 1864 in Braunschweig; † November 17, 1947 in Schönberg im Taunus, now part of Kronberg, writer
  • Gerhard Hund , born February 4, 1932 in Leipzig, mathematician and computer scientist, lived in Jena from 1946 to 1951.
  • Yusuf Ibrahim , born May 27, 1877 in Cairo; † February 3, 1953 in Jena, important pediatrician, head of the children's hospital "Jussuf Ibrahim"; after his passive attitude towards euthanasia "life not worth living" became known during the Nazi era, his name was deleted from the appearance of the city in 2000 (street, kindergarten, clinic)
  • Stefan Kaufmann , * 1953 in Frankfurt am Main, President of the Thuringian Constitutional Court and the Thuringian Higher Regional Court, initiator of the Association for the Promotion of the Historical Library of the Higher Regional Court, honorary doctorate from Jena University
  • Dietrich Georg von Kieser , born August 24, 1779 in Harburg / Elbe; † October 11, 1862 in Jena, professor at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena , physician and psychiatrist
  • Karl Ludwig von Knebel , born November 30, 1744 at Wallerstein Castle near Nördlingen; † February 23, 1834 in Jena, Goethe's "Urfreund"
  • Klaus Kübel , born Feb. 11, 1941; † December 1, 2008 in Jena, until 2007 Chancellor of the Friedrich Schiller University
  • Erich Kuithan , born October 24, 1875 in Bielefeld; † December 30, 1917 in Jena, expressionist painter (paintings in FSU and Volkshaus, street)
  • Johann Georg Lenz , born April 2, 1748 in Schleusingen; † February 28, 1832 in Jena, mineralogist, mountain burr and professor of mineralogy at the University of Jena, founder of the "Mineralogical Society" in Jena
  • Curt Letsche , born October 12, 1912 in Zurich, † February 17, 2010 in Jena, writer, lived and worked in Jena from 1971 until his death
  • Johann Jakob Lungershausen , born October 25 [1] 1665 in Dorndorf; † 1729 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia, was a preacher and consistorial councilor in Jena as well as a professor at the university
  • Sophie Mereau , born March 27, 1770 in Altenburg; † October 31, 1806 in Heidelberg; Born in Schubart, remarried Brentano, writer, wife of Clemens Brentano
  • Heinrich Metzmacher * August 18, 1898; † March 30, 1992, architect, headed the structural development of the Zeiss works from 1934 to 1969
  • Esther Morales-Cañadas , born February 25, 1951 in Seville; Spanish harpsichord virtuoso and musicologist
  • Novalis , born May 2, 1772 on the family estate Oberwiederstedt; † March 25, 1801 in Weißenfels, poet
  • Peter Petersen , born June 26, 1884 in Großenwiehe near Flensburg; † March 21, 1952 in Jena, was a reform pedagogue at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  • Julius Pierstorff , born March 9, 1851 in Lübeck, † January 16, 1926 in Jena, national economist
  • Erich Preiser , born August 29, 1900 in Gera; † August 16, 1967 in Munich, was Professor of Economics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena
  • Godhard Prüssing , born July 25, 1828 in Bad Segeberg; † October 9, 1903 in Jena, cement manufacturer
  • Max Reger , born March 19, 1873 in Brand (Upper Palatinate); † May 11, 1916 in Leipzig, composer, organist, pianist and conductor
  • Adolf Reichwein , born October 3, 1898 in Bad Ems; † October 20, 1944 in Berlin (executed) resistance fighter and reform pedagogue , 1st director of the adult education center, workers' training home
  • Wilhelm Rein , born August 10, 1847 in Eisenach; † February 19, 1929 in Jena, teacher
  • Nikolaus von Reusner , born February 2, 1545 in Löwenberg, Silesia; † April 12, 1602 in Jena, legal scholar
  • Eduard Rosenthal , born September 6, 1853 in Würzburg; † June 25, 1926 in Jena; Lawyer, university professor and politician ( NLP , DDP ); Draft constitution for Thuringia
  • Johann Baptist Schad , born November 30, 1758 in Mürsbach; † January 13, 1834 in Jena; Order name: Roman, Benedictine in the Benedictine monastery Banz , convert and professor in Kharkiv
  • Gertrud Schäfer , born July 24, 1897 in Roda; † June 26, 1987 in Jena, one of the first female pastors
  • Stephan Schambach , born August 1, 1970 in Erfurt, entrepreneur and pioneer of e-commerce
  • Caroline Schelling , born September 2, 1763 in Göttingen; † September 7, 1809 in Maulbronn; born Michaelis, used Böhmer, Gesch. Schlegel, married. Schelling, writer
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling , born January 27, 1775 in Leonberg; † August 20, 1854 in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland, philosopher
  • Friedrich Schiller , born November 10, 1759 in Marbach am Neckar; † May 9, 1805 in Weimar, poet and writer
  • Hans Schlag , * 1890; † 1970, architect (together with Johannes Schreiter in the architecture office "Schreiter und Schlag": Planetarium , Optical Museum , St. Michael Church )
  • August Wilhelm Schlegel , born September 8, 1767 in Hanover; † May 12, 1845 in Bonn, philosopher, linguist
  • Dorothea Schlegel , born October 24, 1764 in Berlin; † August 3, 1839 in Frankfurt am Main; born Brendel Mendelssohn, writer
  • Friedrich Schlegel , born March 10, 1772 in Hanover; † January 11, 1829 in Dresden, cultural philosopher, critic, literary historian and translator
  • August Schleicher , born February 19, 1821 in Meiningen; † December 6, 1868 in Jena, linguist
  • Matthias Jacob Schleiden , born April 5, 1804 in Hamburg; † June 23, 1881 in Frankfurt am Main, botanist
  • Johanna Schopenhauer , born July 9, 1766 in Danzig; † April 16, 1838 in Jena, writer, mother of the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Otto Schott , born December 17, 1851 in Witten an der Ruhr; † August 27, 1935 in Jena, chemist and glass technician
  • Johannes Schreiter , * 1872; † 1957, architect (together with Hans Schlag in the architecture office "Schreiter und Schlag": Planetarium , Optical Museum , St. Michael Church )
  • Bernhard Sigmund von Schultze-Jena , born December 29, 1827 in Freiburg im Breisgau; † April 17, 1919 in Jena, doctor, reformer of obstetrics and founder of modern gynecology
  • Ferdinand Selle , born June 28, 1862 in Kunzendorf (Upper Silesia); † February 9, 1915 in Winzerla near Jena, porcelain manufacturer (Burgau)
  • Lothar Späth , born November 16, 1937 in Sigmaringen † March 18 in Stuttgart, former Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg, later head of Jenoptik , redesigner of Jena after the fall of the Wall
  • Karl Volkmar Stoy , born January 22, 1815 in Pegau; † January 23, 1885 in Jena, teacher and one of the most important exponents of Herbartianism
  • Lulu von Strauss and Torney , born September 20, 1873 in Bückeburg, Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe, today Lower Saxony; † June 19, 1956 in Jena, writer
  • Ludwig Tieck , born May 31, 1773 in Berlin; † April 28, 1853 in Berlin, poet, writer, editor and translator
  • Johannes Trüper , born February 2, 1855; † 1921 in Jena, educator, discoverer of curative education , rural education home on the Sophienhöhe in Jena
  • Johann Bernhard Vermehren , born June 6, 1777 in Lübeck; † November 29, 1803 in Jena; Romantic, private lecturer in philosophy at the university
  • Lukas Weischner , * 1550/55 in Erfurt; † 1609 in Jena; also: Lucas Weyschner or Weschener, bookbinder and librarian
  • Caroline von Wolzog , born February 3, 1763 in Rudolstadt; † January 11, 1847 in Jena; born von Lengefeld, writer, sister-in-law of Friedrich Schiller
  • Carl Zeiss , born September 11, 1816 in Weimar; † December 3, 1888 in Jena, mechanic and entrepreneur
  • Lothar Zitzmann , born February 14, 1924 in Kahla; † January 19, 1977 in Halle (Saale), painter; was u. a. worked at the University of Jena from 1948 to 1951

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