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Friedrich Philippi (Semitic scholar)
Friedrich Philippi (Friedrich Wilhelm Martin Philippi, 1843–1905) was a German Semitic scholar, professor of Oriental languages at the University of Rostock from 1879 until his death.
Friedrich Prym
Friedrich Prym was a German mathematician who held the Chair of Mathematics at Würzburg from 1869 to 1909 and is remembered for the Prym formula and Prym variety.
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803–1882) was an Estonian writer, physician, and folklorist, author of the national epic Kalevipoeg and a central figure of the Estonian national awakening.
Friedrich Reinitzer
Friedrich Reinitzer (1857–1927) was an Austrian botanist and chemist in Prague and Graz whose 1888 observation of cholesteryl benzoate's double melting point founded the field of liquid crystals.
Friedrich Ritter (physician)
Friedrich Ritter (1886–1934), German physician and psychosomatic specialist from Berlin, settled Floreana in the Galápagos with Dore Strauch in 1929; his Nietzschean utopia ended in the unsolved 1934 Galápagos Affair and his death, presumably botulism.
Friedrich Robert Helmert
Friedrich Robert Helmert (1843–1917) was a German geodesist who founded modern geodesy as a unified discipline, led the Prussian Geodetic Institute, and wrote the standard geodesy treatise of 1880 and 1884.
Friedrich Rückert
Friedrich Rückert, pseudonym Freimund Reinmar, was a German poet and professor of Oriental languages whose verse translations of the Quran and Persian poets founded German Oriental studies.
Friedrich Rudolf Hasse
Friedrich Rudolf Hasse (1808–1862) was a German Protestant theologian and church historian who taught at Berlin, Greifswald, and Bonn and wrote a noted two-volume study of Anselm of Canterbury.
Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), German poet, dramatist, historian, and aesthetic philosopher; co-founder of Weimar Classicism with Goethe; author of Die Räuber, Wallenstein, Wilhelm Tell, and An die Freude.
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834) was a German Reformed theologian and philosopher, called the father of theological liberalism, who taught at the University of Berlin from 1810.
Friedrich Schmidt (geologist)
Friedrich Schmidt, also known as Carl Friedrich Schmidt or Fyodor Bogdanovich Schmidt, was a Baltic German geologist and paleontologist considered the founder of Estonian geology.
Friedrich Schottky
Friedrich Hermann Schottky (1851–1935) was a German mathematician who worked on Abelian and automorphic functions, known for Schottky groups, Schottky's theorem, and the Schottky problem of characterizing Jacobian varieties.
Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze
Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze (1885–1969) was a German Protestant theologian, social pedagogue, and pacifist who founded Germany's first settlement in east Berlin in 1911 and led the ecumenical peace movement.
Friedrich Sigmund Merkel
Friedrich Sigmund Merkel (1845–1919) was a German anatomist and histopathologist who in 1875 first described the touch cells of the skin, now called Merkel cells; the skin cancer Merkel cell carcinoma also bears his name.
Friedrich Staphylus
Friedrich Staphylus, originally named Stapellage, was a German theologian who studied under Luther at Wittenberg, then converted to Catholicism at Breslau in 1552 and argued against his former teachers.
Friedrich Trechsel
Friedrich Trechsel (1805–1885) was a Swiss Reformed theologian and church historian, pastor at Vechigen and the Bern Münster, who wrote the first connected history of Reformation Antitrinitarians.
Friedrich Tuch
Friedrich Tuch (1806–1867) was a German Lutheran theologian and Orientalist who held Leipzig's Old Testament chair from 1841 and wrote the leading 1838 Genesis commentary, championing the supplement hypothesis.
Friedrich von Hefner-Alteneck
Friedrich von Hefner-Alteneck (1845–1904) was a German engineer at Siemens & Halske who invented the drum armature in 1872 and the Hefner lamp, Germany's light standard.
Friedrich von Spee
Friedrich von Spee (1591–1635) was a German Jesuit priest, moral theology professor, and poet whose anonymous Cautio Criminalis of 1631 attacked torture in witch trials.
Friedrich Voss
Friedrich Voss was a German civil engineer, born in Calvörde, best known for the Rendsburg High Bridge of 1913 and the canal bridges at Holtenau and Hochdonn.
Friedrich W. Mohr
Friedrich W. Mohr, in full Friedrich Wilhelm Mohr, is a German cardiac surgeon who led the SYNTAX trial and directed cardiac surgery at the Leipzig Heart Center from 1994 to 2017.
Friedrich Wichmann
Friedrich Wichmann (Friedrich-Wilhelm Otto Wichmann, 1901-1974) was a German sprinter of Eintracht Frankfurt, 1929 German 200 m champion, member of the 41.0 s world-record 4x100 m relay of 1928, and a physician; distinct from a same-named youth athlete born 2012.
Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf Baethgen
Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf Baethgen (1849–1905) was a German Lutheran theologian, Old Testament scholar, and Semitic philologist who held professorships at Kiel, Greifswald, and Berlin and wrote a major commentary on the Psalms.
Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander
Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander (1799–1875) was a German astronomer and director of the Bonn Observatory, best known for the Bonner Durchmusterung, a survey of 324,198 stars.
Friedrich Wilhelm Bernhard Bornemann
Friedrich Wilhelm Bernhard Bornemann (1858–1946) was a German evangelical pastor and reform theologian, pastor of St. Nikolai in Frankfurt am Main from 1902 to 1931 and a moderate representative of Kulturprotestantismus.
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, known as Wilhelm Bessel, was a self-taught German astronomer who in 1838 made the first accepted measurement of stellar distance, the parallax of 61 Cygni.
Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster
Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster (1869–1966) was a German philosopher, pedagogue, and pacifist who held the chair of pedagogy and philosophy at Munich from 1914 to 1920.
Friedrich Wilhelm Franz Nippold
Friedrich Wilhelm Franz Nippold (1838–1918) was a German Protestant church historian who held chairs at Bern and Jena, wrote the first biography of Richard Rothe, and co-founded the Evangelischer Bund.
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854) was a German philosopher of German Idealism, known for his Naturphilosophie and his influence on Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Marx.
Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger
Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger (Wilhelm Kritzinger), 1890-1947, German jurist and State Secretary of the Reich Chancellery; Wannsee Conference attendee representing Hans Lammers, questioned at Nuremberg, died before prosecution.