Jena
Jena ranks 861st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Kaduna, Dalian, and Nishinomiya. Memorable people born in Jena include Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Otto Günsche, and John B. Goodenough. Memorable people who died in Jena include Ernst Haeckel, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, and Carl Zeiss. Jena has been the birth place of many politicians and soccer players and the death place of many physicists and composers. Jena is located in Germany.
Jena is a city in Germany and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a population of about 110,000. Jena is a centre of education and research; the university was founded in 1558 and had 18,000 students in 2017 and the Ernst-Abbe-Fachhochschule Jena counts another 5,000 students. Furthermore, there are many institutes of the leading German research societies. Read more on Wikipedia
Between 1735 and 1991, Jena was the birth place of 15 globally memorable people, including Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Otto Günsche, and John B. Goodenough. Additionaly, 24 globally memorable people have passed away in Jena including Ernst Haeckel, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, and Carl Zeiss. Interestingly, more notably known people have passed away in Jena than were born there.
People Born in Jena
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Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld
1911 - 2004
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 1
Otto Günsche
1917 - 2003
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 2
John B. Goodenough
1922 - 2023
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 3
Hugo Schmeisser
1884 - 1953
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 4
Walter Eucken
1891 - 1950
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 5
Johann Karl August Musäus
1735 - 1787
HPI: 54.15
Rank: 6
Robert Enke
1977 - 2009
HPI: 54.03
Rank: 7
Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach
1800 - 1834
HPI: 53.55
Rank: 8
Wilhelm Roux
1850 - 1924
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 9
Sahra Wagenknecht
1969 - Present
HPI: 48.38
Rank: 10
Immanuel Hermann Fichte
1796 - 1879
HPI: 48.38
Rank: 11
Bernd Schneider
1973 - Present
HPI: 47.65
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Born in Jena
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Ernst Haeckel
1834 - 1919
HPI: 75.41
Rank: 1
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
1846 - 1926
HPI: 71.73
Rank: 2
Carl Zeiss
1816 - 1888
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 3
Ernst Abbe
1840 - 1905
HPI: 66.92
Rank: 4
Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner
1780 - 1849
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 5
August Schleicher
1821 - 1868
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 6
Carl Stamitz
1745 - 1801
HPI: 61.32
Rank: 7
Johanna Schopenhauer
1766 - 1838
HPI: 58.18
Rank: 8
Hans Berger
1873 - 1941
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 9
Michael Stifel
1487 - 1567
HPI: 56.94
Rank: 10
Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach
1715 - 1739
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 11
Hermann Abendroth
1883 - 1956
HPI: 54.40
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Deceased in Jena
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Johann Christian Günther
1695 - 1723
HPI: 49.56
Rank: 17
Johann Nicolaus Bach
1669 - 1753
HPI: 48.46
Rank: 19
Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Jena
1638 - 1678
HPI: 47.25
Rank: 22
Georg Buschner
1925 - 2007
HPI: 45.85
Rank: 24
Most individuals born in present day Jena were politicians (2), soccer players (2), biologists (2), athletes (2), and military personnels (1), while most who died were physicists (3), composers (3), writers (3), biologists (2), and philosophers (2).
Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Jena, including Robert Enke and Bernd Schneider. Whereas, throughout history, politicians have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Jena, including Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld and Sahra Wagenknecht.
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 11 globally memorable people born in Jena since 1700.
