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Johann Heinrich Kurtz
Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1809–1890) was a Baltic German Lutheran exegete and church historian, professor at the University of Dorpat for twenty-one years and author of widely translated textbooks.
Johann Heinrich Louis Krüger
Johann Heinrich Louis Krüger (1857–1923) was a German geodesist and mathematician whose 1912 monograph turned Gauss's ellipsoidal mapping into the practical Gauss–Krüger projection, the basis of UTM.
Johann Heinrich von Frankenberg
Johann Heinrich von Frankenberg (1726–1804) was a Silesian-born cardinal and Archbishop of Mechelen, primate of the Austrian Netherlands, known for resisting Emperor Joseph II's church reforms.
Johann Heinrich Voß Prize
The Johann Heinrich Voß Prize is an annual German translation prize, awarded since 1958 by the German Academy for Language and Literature and funded by the state of Hesse.
Johann Hermann Janssens
Johann Hermann Janssens (1783–1853) was a Belgian Roman Catholic theologian and professor at Liège and Louvain whose Latin textbook Hermeneutica Sacra reached a nineteenth edition by 1897.
Johann Hinrich Wichern
Johann Hinrich Wichern (1808–1881) was a Hamburg Protestant theologian who founded the Rauhe Haus, launched the Protestant social welfare movement behind today's Diakonie, and invented the Advent wreath.
Johann Hoffmann (neurologist)
Johann Hoffmann (1857–1919) was a German neurologist who spent his career at Heidelberg and is known for Werdnig–Hoffmann disease, Hoffmann's syndrome, and the finger-flexion Hoffmann sign.
Johann Honter
Johann Honter, Latinized Honterus, was a Transylvanian Saxon humanist and Lutheran reformer of Brașov who reorganized the town school and printed the first map of Transylvania.
Johann I Joseph of Liechtenstein
Johann I Joseph (1760–1836), Prince of Liechtenstein 1805–1836 and Austrian field marshal; negotiated the Peace of Pressburg, brought Liechtenstein into the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806, gaining sovereignty, and granted its 1818 constitution.
Johann II of Liechtenstein
Johann II of Liechtenstein, also known as Johann the Good, was the Prince of Liechtenstein from 1858 to 1929. He granted the 1921 constitution that remains in force today.
Johann Jahn
Johann Jahn (1750–1816) was a German Roman Catholic theologian and Orientalist who held the chair of oriental languages and biblical archaeology at the University of Vienna from 1789 to 1806.
Johann Jakob Breitinger
Johann Jakob Breitinger (1575–1645) was a Swiss Reformed theologian who served as Antistes, chief minister of the Zurich church, from 1613 until his death, and oversaw a 1629 revision of the Zurich Bible's New Testament.
Johann Jakob Griesbach
Johann Jakob Griesbach (1745–1812) was a German Protestant New Testament scholar at Jena whose Greek New Testament first broke from the Textus receptus on manuscript evidence.
Johann Jakob Kneucker
Johann Jakob Kneucker (1840–1909) was a German Protestant theologian and liberal Baden pastor who combined parish ministry with a Heidelberg professorship in Old Testament and Semitic languages, writing Das Buch Baruch (1879).
Johann Jakob Wettstein
Johann Jakob Wettstein, also spelled Wetstein, was a Swiss New Testament scholar and textual critic who published a major Greek New Testament in 1751–1752 and pioneered manuscript notation.
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Jóhann Jóhannsson (1969–2018) was an Icelandic composer and musician who fused classical, ambient, and electronic elements to create his unique compositional sound. He won a Golden Globe.
Johann Joseph Görres
Johann Joseph Görres (1776–1848) was a German publicist, professor, and scholar of mysticism who founded the Rheinischer Merkur in 1814 and championed political Catholicism in Germany.
Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger
Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger (1799–1890) was a Bavarian Catholic priest and church historian at the University of Munich who led German opposition to papal infallibility and was excommunicated in 1871.
Johann Kaemingk
Johann Kaemingk is a Dutch options trader who founded the market-making firm Optiver in Amsterdam in 1986 and led it as chief executive until 2013.
Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler
Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler (1792–1854) was a German Protestant church historian, professor at Bonn and then Göttingen, whose Textbook of Church History, from 1824, built history around extracts from original sources.
Johann Karl Seidemann
Johann Karl Seidemann (1807–1879) was a Saxon Lutheran pastor and church historian at Eschdorf, regarded as the founder of modern Luther research for his work on Luther's letters.
Johann Karl Thilo
Johann Karl Thilo (1794–1853) was a German Protestant theologian and professor of theology at the University of Halle, best known for his 1832 collection of the New Testament apocrypha.
Johann Konrad Dippel
Johann Konrad Dippel, also known as Johann Conrad Dippel or Christianus Democritus, was a German theologian, physician, and chymist who wrote over seventy works from Castle Frankenstein.
Johann Konrad Wilhelm Loehe
Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe (1808–1872) was a Bavarian Lutheran pastor who served Neuendettelsau from 1837 until his death, founding a deaconess institution and sending missionaries who shaped American Lutheranism.
Johann Lorentz von Mosheim
Johann Lorentz von Mosheim was a German Lutheran theologian and church historian who taught at Helmstedt and ended his career as chancellor of the University of Göttingen.
Johann Loserth
Johann Loserth (1846–1936) was an Austrian Protestant historian whose 1884 monograph Hus und Wiclif showed how closely Jan Hus's doctrine depended on John Wyclif's writings.
Johann Ludwig Krapf
Johann Ludwig Krapf (1810–1881) was a German Lutheran missionary on the East African coast from 1844 who compiled the first systematic Swahili grammar and dictionary.
Johann Marbach
Johann Marbach (1521–1581) was a Lutheran theologian born in Lindau who, as pastor and professor in Strasbourg, made the Augsburg Confession that city's sole confession.
Johann Martin Schleyer
Johann Martin Schleyer (1831–1912) was a German Catholic priest in Baden who created Volapük, published in 1879, the first constructed international language to win a worldwide speaker movement.
Johann Monheim
Johann Monheim (c. 1509–1564) was a German humanist schoolmaster and rector of the Düsseldorf gymnasium, whose 1560 catechism provoked the first noteworthy Jesuit polemic against Protestantism in Germany.