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Februar Geburtstage (Birthdays)

1Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929)

Dichter und Schriftsteller / Austrian poet and author, whose greatest work was Tor and Tod (Death and the fool); who along with the composer Richard Strauß and the actor and director Max Reinhardt, helped start the Salzburger Sommerfestspiele

3Johann Gutenberg (circa 1397-1468)

Erfinder / inventor of moveable-type for the printing press from the city of Mainz

3Felix Mendelssohn-Batholdy (1809-1847)

Musiker und Komponist / musician and composer, who wrote overtures to Shakespeare’s works, oratories, and chamber music

3Hugo Junkers (1859-1935)

Flugzeugskonstrukteur / airplane builder, who was a pioneer in the German aviation field, built his innovative airplane, and built the first plane to cross the Atlantic Ocean from east to west

4Friedrich Ebert (1871-1925)

Staatsmann und Politiker / statesman and politician, who was the first President of the Weimar Republic, the government in Germany after World War One

10Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

Dichter, Dramatiker, Regisseur und Philosoph / poet, dramatist, director, and philosopher, whose most famous work was The Three-Penny Opera

16Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560)

Theologe, Professor, Philosoph / a theologian, teacher, philosopher, who was a German reformer, a collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, an intellectual leader of the Luthern Reformation, and an influential designer of educational systems

19Nikolaus Copernikus (1473-1543)

Astronom / astronomer, who established his own system of the world and set up the early stages of astronomy

22Arthur Schopenauer (1788-1860)

Philosoph / philosopher, who was known as the philosopher of pessimism; and whose main work is called die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (World as Will and Representation)

22Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894)

Physiker / physicist, who discovered electromagnetic waves, which were named after him and whose discovery led to the development of the modern radio

23Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)

Musiker und Komponist / a German-born musician and composer, who lived most of his life in England, and whose most famous work appears every year at Christmas time: Hallelujah Chor, which is part of the opera Der Messias

24Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859)

Sprachforscher / linguist, who was one of two brothers who collected fairy tales (Es war einmal … / Once upon a time…/) and published them in books; also wrote dictionaries and grammar books

25Karl May (1842-1912)

Schriftsteller / writer, who was the best selling writer of all time and who wrote mainly wild west books set in the American West, similar books set in the Orient and Middle East, and books set in his native Germany

25Gert Fröbe (1913-1988)

Schauspieler / actor, who made more than 100 films and whose most famous film was Goldfinger, of the James Bond series

26Levi Strauss (1829-1902)

Einwanderer und Unternehmer / German-Jewish immigrant to the United States and entrepreneur, who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans in San Francisco, California