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Also Known As Albrecht der Beherzte • Albert Animosus • Albert the Courageous
Born July 27, 1443 or July 31, 1443 • Saxony
Died September 12, 1500 • Emden
House / Dynasty Wettin dynasty
Hans Eysenck
German-born British psychologist
Rolf Hochhuth
German writer
Reinhard Gehlen
German general
Jakob Fugger II the Rich
German merchant
Anton Fugger
German merchant
Johann Heinrich Alsted
German logician
Johann Friedrich Cotta, Freiherr von Cottendorf
German publisher
Bernard II
German duke
Johann Christoph Blumhardt
German theologian
Pina Bausch
German ballet dancer and choreographer
Johann Georg Cotta
German publisher [1631–1692]
Johann Georg Cotta, Baron von Cottendorf
German publisher [1796–1863]
Friedrich William Heinrich Benda
German musician
August Boeckh
German scholar
Barthel Beham
German engraver
Henry Melchior Mühlenberg
American clergyman
Oskar Minkowski
German physiologist
Marcel Schlumberger
German geophysicist
Robert Wiene
German film director
Joseph Weizenbaum
American computer scientist