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Karl Gjellerup

Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857–1919) was a Danish poet and novelist who wrote his major works in German, settled in Dresden, and shared the 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature with Henrik Pontoppidan.

Sep 21, 2026

Karl Glazebrook, born 1965, is a British-born observational astronomer at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, known for establishing massive galaxies existed three billion years after the Big Bang.

Karl Gordon Henize

Karl Gordon Henize (1926–1993) was an American astronomer who compiled catalogs of southern-hemisphere emission-line stars and nebulae and flew on the 1985 Spacelab 2 shuttle mission.

Karl Gottfried Paul Döhle

Karl Gottfried Paul Döhle (1855–1928) was a German pathologist and bacteriologist at the University of Kiel who described Döhle bodies in 1911 and gave his name to Heller–Döhle aortitis.

Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider

Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider (1776–1848) was a German Lutheran theologian and dogmatician, general superintendent of Gotha from 1816, known for his Handbuch der Dogmatik and for founding the Corpus Reformatorum.

Karl Graul

Karl Graul (1814–1864) was a German Lutheran theologian who directed the Leipzig Mission from 1844 to 1860 and published foundational Tamil grammars and translations from South India.

Karl Gustaf Staaf

Karl Gustaf Staaf (1881–1953), Swedish all-around athlete of Djurgårdens IF; won tug-of-war gold for the Danish/Swedish mixed team at Paris 1900, Sweden's first Olympic gold, and placed seventh in the pole vault.

Karl Gustaf Vingqvist

Karl Gustaf Vingqvist, Swedish artistic gymnast (1883-1967), born Tived, died Lund; won 1908 London Olympic gold in the men's team gymnastics event with Sweden, scoring 438 points, for Stockholms GF.

Karl Guthe Jansky

Karl Guthe Jansky (1905–1950) was an American radio engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories who in 1931–32 discovered radio waves from the Milky Way, founding radio astronomy.

Karl H. Beyer Jr.

Karl H. Beyer Jr. (1914–1996) was an American pharmacologist who led the Merck Sharp & Dohme team that discovered probenecid and the thiazide diuretics, winning the 1974 Lasker Award.

Karl H. Norris

Karl H. Norris, also known as Karl Howard Norris, was an American agricultural engineer at the USDA who founded near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980.

Sep 21, 2026

Karl H. Weisgraber

Karl H. Weisgraber is a lipoprotein biochemist who defined the structure-function relationships of apolipoprotein E, whose E4 form is a major genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease.

Karl Habel

Karl Habel (1908–1981) was an American virologist and immunologist who spent nearly 30 years at the National Institutes of Health, developed an improved killed rabies vaccine, and was first to cultivate mumps virus in eggs.

Oct 20, 2026

Karl Hähnel

Karl Hähnel (Karl Mieczysław Hähnel, 1892–1966), German race walker for Schwarz-Weiß Erfurt; fourth in the 50 km walk at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, nine-time German 50 km champion, 1924 50 km world record holder.

Karl Hanke

Karl Hanke (1903–1945) was a Nazi official, Gauleiter of Lower Silesia who oversaw the defense of Breslau, and the last Reichsführer-SS named in Hitler's 1945 testament.

Karl Hans Riehm

Karl-Hans Riehm, West German hammer thrower born 1951 in Konz; 1984 Olympic silver (77.98 m), world records 78.50 (1975) and 80.32 (1978), ten national titles.

Karl Haushofer

Karl Haushofer (1869–1946) was a Bavarian general and geographer, founder of the Zeitschrift für Geopolitik and leading figure of German Geopolitik; he introduced Lebensraum concepts later adopted by the Nazis, was a marginal figure in the regime, imprisoned in Dachau in 1944, and died by suicide in 1946.

Karl Hein

Karl Hein (1908–1982), German hammer thrower, SV St. Georg Hamburg; 1936 Berlin Olympic champion with 56.49 m, 1938 European champion in Paris, and 1938 world record holder with 58.24 m.

Karl Heinrich August von Burger

Karl Heinrich August von Burger (1805–1884) was a German Lutheran theologian and church administrator in Munich, senior consistorial councilor of the Bavarian church from 1855 to 1883.

Karl Heinrich Graf

Karl Heinrich Graf (1815–1869) was a German Protestant theologian and Orientalist whose late dating of the Priestly code, developed in his 1866 work, became the Graf-Wellhausen hypothesis.

Karl Heinrich Joachim Meinhold

Karl Heinrich Joachim Meinhold (1813–1888) was a German Lutheran theologian who served as cathedral pastor and superintendent in Cammin, Pomerania, and led confessional Lutheranism in the Prussian province.

Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky

Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky (1690–1774) was a Silesian-born German Lutheran Pietist devotional writer and hymn poet, best known for Güldenes Schatz-Kästlein der Kinder Gottes, which reached its 63rd edition by 1924.

Karl Heinrich Waggerl

Karl Heinrich Waggerl (1897–1973) was an Austrian writer and former schoolteacher whose rural novels, including Brot (1930), sold over 7 million copies in 12 languages.

Oct 20, 2026

Karl Heinz Bußert

Karl-Heinz Bußert (born 1955) is a German rower of SG Dynamo Potsdam who won Olympic quadruple sculls gold for East Germany at Montreal 1976 as a replacement and five World Championship titles, 1977-1982.

Karl Heinz Danielowski

Karl-Heinz Danielowski (born 31 March 1940, Sülldorf) is an East German rowing coxswain, ASK Vorwärts Rostock, who won gold in the men's eight at the 1976 Montreal Olympics and earlier placed seventh in coxed pairs (1964) and eights (1968).

Karl Heinz Henrichs

Karl-Heinz Henrichs (1942-2008), West German track cyclist; Olympic team pursuit gold at Tokyo 1964 and silver at Mexico City 1968 after a disqualification controversy; also world champion 1964.

Karl Heinz Hopp

Karl-Heinz Hopp (1936–2007), West German rower, won gold in the men's eights at the 1960 Rome Olympics with the Ratzeburg crew, took three European titles, later competed in modern pentathlon and worked as a veterinarian.

Karl Heinz Prudohl

Karl-Heinz Prudöhl (Karl Heins Prudohl), born 1944, East German rower; won gold in the coxed eight at the 1976 Montréal Olympics, plus 1975 world and 1973 European titles.

Oct 20, 2026

Karl Heinz Radschinsky

Karl-Heinz Radschinsky (born 1953) is a German weightlifter who won the men's middleweight gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles with a 340.0 kg total.