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