All articles starting with F

Franz Rosenthal

Franz Rosenthal (1914–2003) was a German-born American Arabist and Islamicist who taught at Yale and produced the first complete English translation of Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah and the monograph Knowledge Triumphant.

Franz Schaefer

Franz Schaefer, born 1961 in Aschaffenburg, Germany, is a pediatric nephrologist who heads the pediatric nephrology division at Heidelberg University Hospital and led the ESCAPE Trial.

Franz Schmidt (executioner)

Franz Schmidt, or Meister Frantz (1554/1555–1634), executioner of Nuremberg 1578–1617, kept a unique diary recording 361 executions and 345 minor punishments, later edited by Keller and translated by Harrington.

Franz Schrader

Franz Schrader (1891–1962) was a German-born American cytologist at Columbia University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1951, known for work on chromosomes and mitosis.

Franz Schubert

Franz Schubert (1797–1828), Austrian composer of the Lied and over 600 songs plus symphonies, sonatas, and chamber music; Viennese Biedermeier figure known in life mainly for songs, later ranked with Beethoven.

Franz Stahl

Franz Stahl (Franz Kenneth Stahl, born 1962) is an American guitarist from Bailey's Crossroads, Virginia: founding guitarist of DC hardcore band Scream, member of Wool, and Foo Fighters lead guitarist 1997–1999, later rejoining Scream for DC Special (2023).

Franz Stangl

Franz Paul Stangl was an Austrian SS officer and police official who served as the first commandant of Sobibor and second commandant of Treblinka in occupied Poland.

Franz Stephan Rautenstrauch

Franz Stephan Rautenstrauch (1734–1785) was a Bohemian Benedictine abbot of Břevnov-Broumov and adviser to Joseph II who reformed clerical education in the Habsburg monarchy, a key figure of Josephinism.

Franz Stigler

Franz Stigler (Ludwig Franz Stigler, 1915–2008) was a German Luftwaffe flying ace credited with 28 victories who in 1943 spared and escorted the crippled American bomber Ye Olde Pub to safety.

Franz Theodor Csokor

Franz Theodor Csokor (1885–1969) was an Austrian dramatist and novelist, considered the leading representative of Austrian expressionist drama, and led the Austrian PEN Club from 1947 to 1969.

Franz Tiburtius Geiger

Franz Tiburtius Geiger, baptized Johann Nepomuk (1755–1843), was a German-born Catholic theologian and church historian who spread ultramontanism in Switzerland and lost his Lucerne professorship in 1819.

Franz Volhard

Franz Volhard (1872–1950) was a German internist regarded as a father of modern nephrology and hypertension research, who replaced Bright's disease with a three-part classification of kidney disease and introduced salt restriction.

Franz von Bayern

Franz von Bayern (born 1933), Duke of Bavaria, head of the House of Wittelsbach since 1996, great-grandson of King Ludwig III; contemporary art collector whose 1984 gift to the Wittelsbacher Ausgleichsfonds anchors the Pinakothek der Moderne.

Franz von Leydig

Franz von Leydig (1821–1908) was a German zoologist and comparative anatomist, born in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, who discovered the testosterone-producing Leydig cells of the testis in 1850.

Franz von Papen

Franz von Papen (1879–1969), German aristocrat, Centre Party politician, cavalry officer, and diplomat; Reich Chancellor June–November 1932, Hitler's vice-chancellor in 1933, ambassador to Austria and Turkey, acquitted at Nuremberg.

Franz von Werra

Franz Xaver Freiherr von Werra (1914–1941), Swiss-born Luftwaffe ace captured in the Battle of Britain, escaped Canadian captivity, reached the neutral United States, and returned to Germany in April 1941.

Franz Wegner

Franz Wegner, born 1940 in Dessau, is a German theoretical physicist, professor emeritus at Heidelberg University, known for Ising lattice gauge theory, finite-size scaling, and Anderson localization.

Oct 21, 2026

Franz Wembacher

Franz Wembacher (born 1958, Bischofswiesen) is a West German luger who won the 1984 Sarajevo Olympic men's doubles gold with Hans Stanggassinger, West Germany's first Olympic luge title, plus World and European medals.

Franz Werfel

Franz Werfel (1890–1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet, a leading figure of German expressionism known for The Forty Days of Musa Dagh and The Song of Bernadette.

Franz Wilhelm Dibelius

Franz Wilhelm Dibelius (1847–1924) was a German Lutheran theologian, church historian, and clergyman who served in Dresden for 50 years and was the last Saxon Oberhofprediger.

Franz Wilhelm, Count von Wartenberg

Franz Wilhelm, Count von Wartenberg (1593–1661) was a German prince-bishop who held Osnabrück, Minden, Verden, and Regensburg, led the Catholic party at the Peace of Westphalia, and became a cardinal in 1660.

Franz X. Kärtner

Franz X. Kärtner, also published as Franz Kärtner, is a German physicist who leads the Ultrafast Optics and X-rays group at DESY's Center for Free-Electron Laser Science in Hamburg.

Franz Xaver Dieringer

Franz Xaver Dieringer (1811–1876) was a German Catholic dogmatic theologian of the Tübingen tradition and professor of theology at the University of Bonn from 1843 to 1871.

Oct 22, 2026

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783) was a German-Austrian sculptor active in Vienna and Pressburg, best known for the Character Heads, about 69 busts with extreme facial expressions made from 1770.

Franz Xaver von Baader

Franz Xaver von Baader (1765–1841) was a Munich-born physician, mining engineer, and religious philosopher who, as professor at the University of Munich from 1826, led the German Catholic revival.

Franz Xaver Wernz

Franz Xaver Wernz was a German Jesuit canonist who taught canon law in Rome and served as the twenty-fifth Superior General of the Society of Jesus from 1906 to 1914.

Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart

Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (1791–1844), also called Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Jr., was the composer's youngest son, a pianist and composer active in Lemberg and Vienna, with two piano concertos and about 125 works.

Sep 19, 2026

Franz-Josef Feilmeier

Franz-Josef Feilmeier is a German entrepreneur who founded the battery-storage manufacturer FENECON in Deggendorf in 2011 and won the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2023 award.

Oct 21, 2026

Franz-Josef Kemper

Franz-Josef Kemper (born 1945, Hopsten) is a German former middle-distance runner, 1966 European 800 m silver medallist, 1000 m world record holder (2:16.2), and fourth-place finisher at the 1972 Munich Olympics, later a Rhineland-Palatinate sports official.