Historical figures in Berlin
The atlas holds 83 people and 155 moments here, from 1698 to 2020. The most recorded lives are Rosa Luxemburg, Adolf Hitler and Marlene Dietrich. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Educators, across the Space Age and the Interwar Period.
Notable people
Abebe Bikila
in 1962
1 moment here
Ethiopian marathon runner and Imperial Guard officer who won Olympic marathon gold in Rome in 1960 and Tokyo in 1964, both in world-record time.…
Ada Yonath
in 1979
1 moment here
Israeli crystallographer whose work on ribosome structure and function earned her a share of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.…
Adolf Hitler
from 1932 to 1945
7 moments here
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who led the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), became German…
Albert Einstein
in 1914
1 moment here
German-born theoretical physicist who transformed modern physics through special and general relativity, foundational work on quantum theory, and…
Alexei Navalny
in 2020
2 moments here
Russian opposition leader, anti-corruption activist, politician, and political prisoner. This chronology records supported locations of his birth,…
Alfred Hitchcock
in 1925
1 moment here
English filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980), known as the “Master of Suspense,” worked in British cinema before relocating to Hollywood in 1939.…
Anatole France
in 1913
1 moment here
French poet, journalist, novelist, public intellectual, Académie française member, and 1921 Nobel laureate in Literature.…
Arthur Schopenhauer
from 1811 to 1825
3 moments here
German philosopher and writer, born in Danzig and dead in Frankfurt am Main. His documented movements included childhood residences in Hamburg and Le…
Benigno Aquino III
in 2014
1 moment here
Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III, known as Noynoy Aquino or PNoy, was a Filipino politician who served as president of the Philippines from 2010…
Benito Mussolini
in 1937
1 moment here
Italian journalist, Fascist leader, and dictator of Italy from 1922 until his removal in 1943.…
Bertrand Russell
in 1950
1 moment here
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, was an English philosopher, mathematician, logician, writer, and public campaigner.…
Carl Friedrich Gauss
in 1828
1 moment here
German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist. Gauss was born in Brunswick, studied there and at Göttingen, worked privately in…
Carlos Fuentes
in 2005
1 moment here
Carlos Fuentes Macías was a Mexican novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and diplomat. Born in Panama City to a Mexican diplomat, he spent…
Charlie Chaplin
from 1921 to 1931
2 moments here
English actor, comedian, director, writer, producer and composer whose screen persona, the Tramp, became an international icon.…
Chinghiz Aitmatov
in 1994
1 moment here
Kyrgyz author, public intellectual, and diplomat who wrote in Kyrgyz and Russian. His documented life connects his native Sheker and Soviet-era…
Claude Simon
in 1937
1 moment here
French novelist, painter, photographer, viticulturist, Resistance participant, and 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.…
Claudia Cardinale
from 1975 to 2002
2 moments here
Italian-Tunisian actress whose career ranged from postwar Tunis through Italian, French, British, American, and international cinema, as well as…
Dalida
in 1959
1 moment here
Dalida, born Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti, was an Egyptian-born Italian-French singer, actress and model.…
David Hilbert
from 1886 to 1888
2 moments here
German mathematician and philosopher of mathematics whose career began in Königsberg and was centered at the University of Göttingen from 1895 until…
Diego Rivera
in 1956
1 moment here
Mexican painter and muralist Diego Rivera was a central figure in Mexican muralism. His documented movements include study in Mexico and Europe, work…
Édith Piaf
in 1943
1 moment here
French singer and lyricist Édith Giovanna Gassion, known as Édith Piaf, rose from street performance in Paris to international prominence in chanson…
Erwin Schrödinger
in 1927
1 moment here
Austrian-Irish theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate whose work on wave mechanics and the Schrödinger equation became foundational to quantum…
Frank Lloyd Wright
in 1909
1 moment here
American architect, designer, writer, and educator whose career spanned more than seven decades.…
Franz Kafka
from 1910 to 1924
6 moments here
German-language Jewish Czech writer whose fiction transformed modern literature. Born and educated in Prague, Kafka trained as a lawyer and worked…
Moments
- 1698 Extended periods in Berlin Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- 1702 Residence at Lützenburg and Berlin Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- 1704 Arrival at Lützenburg Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- 1706 Berlin residence Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- 1711 Final Berlin sojourn Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- 1718 Traveled to Berlin for a harpsichord Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1740 Visits Frederick in Berlin Voltaire
- 1741 Arrival in Berlin Leonhard Euler
- 1741 Stayed at the Stahl residence in Berlin Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1750 Occupies rooms at Charlottenburg Palace Voltaire
- 1753 Family home in Charlottenburg Leonhard Euler
- 1789 Arrives in Berlin Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 1789 Performs at the Prussian royal palace Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 1796 Improvised at the Berlin Singakademie Ludwig van Beethoven
- 1797 Arrival at Prussian post John Quincy Adams
- 1811 Enrollment at the University of Berlin Arthur Schopenhauer
- 1818 Moved to Berlin Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- 1820 Berlin test lecture and teaching appointment Arthur Schopenhauer
- 1821 Studies in Berlin Heinrich Heine
- 1825 Return to Berlin for a second academic attempt Arthur Schopenhauer
- 1828 Berlin scientific congress Carl Friedrich Gauss
- 1828 First documented Berlin visit Frédéric Chopin
- 1829 Return visit to Berlin Frédéric Chopin
- 1829 Move to Berlin Heinrich Heine
- 1831 Lodgings in Kreuzberg Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- 1831 Death in Berlin Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- 1833 Continued studies in Berlin Otto von Bismarck
- 1836 Begins studies in Berlin Karl Marx
- 1837 Convalesces and studies Hegel in Stralau Karl Marx
- 1841 Prussian artillery service Friedrich Engels
- 1841 First Berlin stay at Jägerstraße lodgings Søren Kierkegaard
- 1843 Second Berlin stay Søren Kierkegaard
- 1845 Third Berlin stay Søren Kierkegaard
- 1846 Sits for portrait in Berlin Hans Christian Andersen
- 1846 Fourth Berlin stay Søren Kierkegaard
- 1848 Revolutionary crisis visit to Berlin Otto von Bismarck
- 1854 Arrival in Berlin George Eliot
- 1861 First foreign journey: Berlin Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- 1862 Visited Berlin on his first European tour Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- 1862 Blood and Iron speech Otto von Bismarck
- 1866 Assassination attempt in Berlin Otto von Bismarck
- 1867 Stayed in Berlin with Anna Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- 1869 Family relocation to Charlottenburg Max Weber
- 1870 Schooling in Charlottenburg Max Weber
- 1874 Passed through Berlin en route to treatment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- 1874 Stops in Berlin after Karlsbad Karl Marx
- 1877 Year of study in Berlin Max Planck
- 1878 Hosted Congress of Berlin Otto von Bismarck
- 1882 Meiningen Court Orchestra tour Johannes Brahms
- 1884 Berlin Conference plenipotentiary Otto von Bismarck