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Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus, marble bust by an unknown artist; in the Capitoline Museum, Rome
Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus
Roman commander [38 bc–9 bc]
Konrad Henlein.
Konrad Henlein
Sudeten-German politician
Adolf Ludwig Follen
German poet
Maroboduus
king of Marcomanni
Alfred Rosenberg
Alfred Rosenberg
German Nazi leader
Beatus Rhenanus
German humanist and author
Arthur Moeller van den Bruck
German author
Dahn
Felix Dahn
German historian
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Tacitus
Tacitus
Roman historian
Wilhelm Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist