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Johann Nepomucene Brischar
Johann Nepomucene Brischar (1819–1897) was a German Catholic church historian and parish priest of Bühl in Württemberg who continued Stolberg's Geschichte der Religion Jesu Christi.
Johann Nestroy
Johann Nestroy (1801–1862) was an Austrian actor, singer, and comic playwright who dominated the Viennese stage for decades; his farce Lumpazivagabundus (1833) is his most performed work.
Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim
Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, who wrote as Justinus Febronius, was a German canon lawyer and auxiliary bishop of Trier whose 1763 De statu ecclesiae founded Febronianism.
Johann Nikuradse
Johann Nikuradse was a fluid dynamicist who took his doctorate under Ludwig Prandtl at Göttingen in 1923; his 1932–1933 pipe-friction experiments became the classical dataset of rough-wall turbulence.
Johann Offner
Johann Offner is an Austrian family-business executive who leads the Johann Offner group in Wolfsberg, Carinthia, an eighth-generation firm founded in 1755 with over 700 employees.
Johann Offner Unternehmensgruppe
Johann Offner Unternehmensgruppe is an eighth-generation family-owned industrial group in Wolfsberg, Austria, founded in 1755, combining Europe's largest long-handle tool factories with a sawmill and KLH cross-laminated timber.
Johann Olav Koss
Johann Olav Koss, Norwegian speed skater (born 1968, Drammen), won four Olympic golds including 1,500/5,000/10,000 m with world records at Lillehammer 1994, then founded Right To Play.
Johann Pachelbel
Johann Pachelbel (baptized 1653, Nuremberg; died 1706) was a German Baroque composer and organist of the south German tradition, teacher of Johann Christoph Bach, known for organ chorales, Hexachordum Apollinis, and the Canon in D.
Johann Peter Hebel
Johann Peter Hebel (1760–1826) was a German-language author, Protestant theologian, and schoolman best known for the Alemannic dialect poems Allemannische Gedichte and his popular calendar stories.
Johann Pfeffinger
Johann Pfeffinger (1493–1573) was a German Lutheran theologian and Saxon Reformer who became Leipzig's first superintendent and a theology professor, and whose writings helped spark the adiaphoristic and synergistic controversies.
Johann Philipp Gabler
Johann Philipp Gabler (1753–1826) was a German Protestant theologian and philosopher, professor at Altdorf and Jena, whose 1787 address founded biblical theology as a discipline.
Johann Pistorius
Johann Pistorius, called Pistorius Niddanus after his birthplace Nidda, was a German physician, historian, and theologian who converted from Lutheranism to Catholicism in 1588 and became confessor to Emperor Rudolf II.
Johann Porst
Johann Porst (1668–1728) was a German Lutheran pastor, Pietist, and hymnologist in Berlin, editor of the hymnal "der alte Porst", the Brandenburg church's standard songbook for over 150 years.
Johann Radon
Johann Radon (1887–1956) was an Austrian mathematician known for the Radon transform, which underlies computed tomography, and the Radon–Nikodym theorem, a cornerstone of measure theory and probability.
Johann Reinhard Hedinger
Johann Reinhard Hedinger (1664–1704) was a Württemberg Lutheran theologian and court preacher to Duke Eberhard Ludwig who brought biblical Pietism to Württemberg; his 1701 liturgical draft shaped the Württemberg confirmation rite of 1723.
Johann Rump
Johann Rump, who published novels under the pseudonym Nathanael Jünger, was a German Lutheran pastor and writer whose pastorates ran from Thuringia and Bremen to Berlin and Potsdam between 1899 and 1937.
Johann Rupert
Johann Rupert is a South African businessman who chairs Richemont, the Swiss luxury group behind Cartier and Montblanc, which he founded in 1988, and Remgro.
Johann Rurer
Johann Rurer, also spelled Rürer (c. 1480 – 1542), was a German Protestant reformer who served as the first evangelical pastor of Ansbach from 1523.
Johann S. de Bono
Johann S. de Bono, also known as Johann de Bono, is a British medical oncologist and Regius Professor of Cancer Research who led pivotal trials of abiraterone, enzalutamide, and olaparib.
Johann Saathoff
Johann Saathoff is a German politician of the SPD who has served as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development since 2025.
Johann Salomo Semler
Johann Salomo Semler (1725–1791) was a German Lutheran theologian and Biblical critic, professor at Halle from 1753, who pioneered the historical study of the Bible and distinguished Scripture from the word of God.
Johann Schwarzhuber
Johann Schwarzhuber (1904–1947), SS-Obersturmführer and Schutzhaftlagerführer of the Auschwitz-Birkenau men's camp and later Ravensbrück; trained typesetter from Tutzing, tried by a British military court and executed at Hameln in 1947.
Johann Schwebel
Johann Schwebel, who styled himself Schweblin (c. 1490 – 1540), was a Lutheran reformer who served Pfalz-Zweibrücken as court preacher from 1523 and superintendent from 1533.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Baroque composer and organist born in Eisenach, died in Leipzig; Thomaskantor 1723–1750, composer of the Brandenburg Concertos, Mass in B minor, Well-Tempered Clavier, and 300+ cantatas, subject of major 19th-century revival.
Johann Sebastian von Drey
Johann Sebastian von Drey (1777–1853) was a German Catholic theologian and professor at Tübingen who founded the Catholic Tübingen school, known for fundamental theology and apologetics.
Johann Simon Haspinger
Johann Simon Haspinger, in religion Joachim Haspinger and nicknamed Rotbart, was a Tyrolean Capuchin priest who fought as a commander in the 1809 Tyrolean uprising beside Andreas Hofer.
Johann Strauss I
Johann Strauss I (1804-1849), Viennese composer and violinist, co-developer of the Viennese waltz with Lanner, founder of the Strauss dynasty, composer of the Radetzky March, father of the Waltz King.
Johann Strauss II
Johann Strauss II (1825–1899), the Austrian "Waltz King" and son of Johann Strauss I, wrote about 500 works including the Blue Danube Waltz and Die Fledermaus, and shaped the Viennese waltz and operetta.
Johann Strauss Orchestra
Johann Strauss Orchestra names several ensembles: the original Strauss family orchestra (1825-1901), the Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra founded 1966 with 42 musicians, and André Rieu's Dutch Johann Strauss Orchestra formed 1987 in Maastricht.
Johann Tetzel
Johann Tetzel (1465–1519) was a German Dominican friar and doctor of theology whose preaching of the St Peter's plenary indulgence in 1515–1517 brought him into confrontation with Martin Luther.