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He is regarded as an original experimenter and is the developer of the magnetron and the Greinacher multiplier; Cockcroft-Walton-Generator in 1914. Brothers Grimm: Academic pioneers of philology, linguistics, and storytelling. Worked together on the most comprehensive dictionary of the German language Deutsches Wörterbuch.
German inventions and discoveries are ideas, objects, processes or techniques invented, innovated or discovered, partially or entirely, by Germans. Often, things discovered for the first time are also called inventions and in many cases, there is no clear line between the two. German-born Albert Einstein, world-famous physicist
Nicholas Mercator (1620-1687), mathematician, also known by his German name Kauffmann, was a 17th-century; Adam Olearius (1599-1671), geographer; Hennig Brand (1630-1682), He discovered the chemical element phosphorus. Johann Joachim Becher (1635-1682), alchemist, He developed the theory of phlogiston; David Origanus, astronomer
Sütterlin is based on older German handwriting, which is a handwriting form of the Blackletter scripts such as Fraktur and Schwabacher, the German print scripts used at the same time. It includes the long s (ſ) as well as several standard ligatures such as ff (f-f), ſt (ſ-t), st (s-t), and ß (ſ-z or ſ-s).
The common names Schmidt and Schmitz lead in the central German-speaking and eastern Low German-speaking areas. Meyer is particularly common in the Low German-speaking regions, especially in Lower Saxony (where it is more common than Müller). Bauer leads in eastern Upper German-speaking Bavaria. Rarer names tend to accumulate in the north and ...
Muslim Wolof mercenary in colonial Portuguese Guinea at the turn of the 20th century. Frederic Ives Lord: 1897–1967 1917–1919 1936–1945 Mexico United Kingdom White Army Spanish Republic: Royal Flying Corps flying ace during the First World War and Russian Civil War. He was also served as a military advisor to the Mexican air force during ...
Traditionally, there are dialectal differences between the regions of German-speaking Europe, especially visible in the forms of hypocorisms.These differences are still perceptible in the list of most popular names, even though they are marginalized by super-regional fashionable trends: As of 2012, the top ten given names of Baden-Württemberg (Southern Germany) and of Schleswig-Holstein ...
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:20th-century German Jews and Category:20th-century German LGBTQ people and Category:20th-century German women The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.