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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
Anton Fugger
German merchant
Jakob Fugger II the Rich
German merchant
Reinhard Gehlen
German general
Rolf Hochhuth
German writer
Hans Eysenck
German-born British psychologist
August Boeckh
German scholar
Barthel Beham
German engraver
Johann Christoph Blumhardt
German theologian
Johann Heinrich Alsted
German logician
Johann Georg Cotta, Baron von Cottendorf
German publisher [1796–1863]
Bernard II
German duke
Johann Friedrich Cotta, Freiherr von Cottendorf
German publisher
Friedrich William Heinrich Benda
German musician
Pina Bausch
German ballet dancer and choreographer
Johann Georg Cotta
German publisher [1631–1692]
Oskar Minkowski
German physiologist
Marcel Schlumberger
German geophysicist
Henry Melchior Mühlenberg
American clergyman
Joseph Weizenbaum
American computer scientist
Peter Vischer, the Elder
German artist