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<html> <head> <title>University of K鰊igsberg</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> University of Königsberg EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION Founded 1544 by Albert, Duke of Prussia, in K鰊igsberg (now Kaliningrad). Location: <a href="/geo/353/000101050/" class=proflink>Kaliningrad, Russia</a> Founding Date: 1544STUDENTS <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_student"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/763/000096475/">Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Mar-1799</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Feb-1875</tt></td> <td>Durchmusterung</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/735/000087474/">David Hilbert</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jan-1862</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Feb-1943</tt></td> <td>Hilbert Space</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/805/000103496/">E. T. A. Hoffmann</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jan-1776</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jun-1822</tt></td> <td>Das Fr鋟lein van Scuderi</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/530/000097239/">Gustav Robert Kirchhoff</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Mar-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Oct-1887</tt></td> <td>Theory of spectrum analysis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/291/000094009/">Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jan-1751</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-May-1792</tt></td> <td>Sturm und Drang movement</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/375/000083126/">Willy Ley</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Oct-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-May-1969</tt></td> <td>The Conquest of Space</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/625/000129238/">Fritz Lipmann</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jun-1899</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jul-1986</tt></td> <td>Carbohydrate oxidation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/862/000171349/">Hermann Minkowski</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jun-1864</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jan-1909</tt></td> <td>Minkowski space</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/867/000171354/">Oskar Minkowski</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jan-1858</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jul-1931</tt></td> <td>Linked pancreas to diabetes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/823/000095538/">Emin Pasha</a></td> <td><center>Explorer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Mar-1840</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Oct-1892</tt></td> <td>German colonial traveller in Africa</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/112/000099812/">Arnold Sommerfeld</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Dec-1868</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Apr-1951</tt></td> <td>Fine-structure constant</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/445/000072229/">Hermann von Helmholtz</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Aug-1821</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Sep-1894</tt></td> <td>Law of Conservation of Energy</td> </tr> </table> TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_teacher"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/026/000100723/">Karl Ernst von Baer</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Feb-1792</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Nov-1876</tt></td> <td>De Ovi Mammalium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/735/000087474/">David Hilbert</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jan-1862</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Feb-1943</tt></td> <td>Hilbert Space</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/920/000093641/">Karl Gustav Jacobi</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Dec-1804</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Feb-1851</tt></td> <td>Investigated elliptical functions</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/757/000091484/">Konrad Lorenz</a></td> <td><center>Zoologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Nov-1903</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Feb-1989</tt></td> <td>Founder of modern ethology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/862/000171349/">Hermann Minkowski</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jun-1864</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jan-1909</tt></td> <td>Minkowski space</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=79398" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2016 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/208/000001205/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/208/1205/s1205.jpg" width=128> Web Applications Circle</a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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