Jena
Jena ranks 856th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Halmstad, Brasília, and Smolensk. Memorable people born in Jena include Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Otto Günsche, and Hugo Schmeisser. Memorable people who died in Jena include Ernst Haeckel, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, and Carl Zeiss. Jena has been the birth place of many athletes, and politicians and the death place of many physicists, and chemists. 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
People
Between 1735 and 1991, Jena was the birth place of 17 globally memorable people, including Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Otto Günsche, and Hugo Schmeisser. Additionaly, 25 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
POLITICIAN
1911 - 2004
HPI: 67.66
Rank: 1
Otto Günsche
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1917 - 2003
HPI: 64.91
Rank: 2
Hugo Schmeisser
INVENTOR
1884 - 1953
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 3
John B. Goodenough
PHYSICIST
1922 - 2023
HPI: 59.13
Rank: 4
Robert Enke
SOCCER PLAYER
1977 - 2009
HPI: 57.36
Rank: 5
Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach
MATHEMATICIAN
1800 - 1834
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 6
Walter Eucken
ECONOMIST
1891 - 1950
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 7
Sahra Wagenknecht
POLITICIAN
1969 - Present
HPI: 55.19
Rank: 8
Johann Karl August Musäus
WRITER
1735 - 1787
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 9
August Batsch
BIOLOGIST
1761 - 1802
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 10
Wilhelm Roux
BIOLOGIST
1850 - 1924
HPI: 52.20
Rank: 11
Bernd Schneider
SOCCER PLAYER
1973 - Present
HPI: 50.38
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Born in Jena
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Beate Koch
ATHLETE
1967 - Present
HPI: 42.36
Rank: 15
Bärbel Struppert
ATHLETE
1950 - Present
HPI: 39.42
Rank: 16
People Deceased in Jena
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Ernst Haeckel
BIOLOGIST
1834 - 1919
HPI: 75.12
Rank: 1
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
PHILOSOPHER
1846 - 1926
HPI: 73.16
Rank: 2
Carl Zeiss
PHYSICIST
1816 - 1888
HPI: 69.56
Rank: 3
Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner
CHEMIST
1780 - 1849
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 4
Ernst Abbe
PHYSICIST
1840 - 1905
HPI: 67.25
Rank: 5
August Schleicher
LINGUIST
1821 - 1868
HPI: 65.68
Rank: 6
Johanna Schopenhauer
WRITER
1766 - 1838
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 7
Carl Stamitz
COMPOSER
1745 - 1801
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 8
Ruth Fuchs
POLITICIAN
1946 - 2023
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 9
Hans Berger
PHYSICIAN
1873 - 1941
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 10
Michael Stifel
MATHEMATICIAN
1487 - 1567
HPI: 57.88
Rank: 11
Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach
MUSICIAN
1715 - 1739
HPI: 56.12
Rank: 12
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Occupations
Most individuals born in present day Jena were athletes (4), politicians (2), soccer players (2), biologists (2), and military personnels (1), while most who died were physicists (3), chemists (3), writers (3), composers (3), and biologists (2).
Occupational Trends
Over the past 100 years, athletes have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Jena, including Ingrid Auerswald, Beate Koch, and Bärbel Struppert. Whereas, throughout history, athletes have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Jena, including Ingrid Auerswald, Beate Koch, and Bärbel Struppert.
Places
Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 11 globally memorable people born in Jena since 1700.
