List of Famous people named Friedrich
Friedrich Rückert
Friedrich Rückert was a German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages.
Friedrich Meyer-Oertel
Friedrich Meyer-Oertel was a German opera director. After positions at Staatstheater Mainz, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Opernhaus Wuppertal and Staatstheater Darmstadt, he was active as a freelance stage director.
Friedrich Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel was a German poet, literary critic, philosopher, philologist, and Indologist. With his older brother, August Wilhelm Schlegel, he was one of the main figures of Jena Romanticism.
Friedrich Eduard Bilz
Friedrich Eduard Bilz was a German naturopath who was a native of Arnsdorf in the Kingdom of Saxony.
Friedrich Traun
Friedrich Adolf Traun was a German athlete and tennis player. Born into a wealthy family, he participated in the 1896 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal in men's doubles. He committed suicide after being accused of fathering a child out of wedlock.
Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus
Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus was a German encyclopedia publisher and editor, famed for publishing the Conversations-Lexikon, which is now published as the Brockhaus encyclopedia.
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn was a German gymnastics educator and nationalist whose writing is credited with the founding of the German gymnastics (Turner) movement as well as influencing the German Campaign of 1813, during which a coalition of German states effectively ended the occupation of Napoleon's First French Empire. His admirers know him as Turnvater Jahn, roughly meaning "father of gymnastics" Jahn.
Friedrich Wilhelm Rüstow
Friedrich Wilhelm Rüstow was a Prussian-born Swiss soldier and military writer.
Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal
Friedrich Karl Joseph Reichsfreiherr von Erthal was prince-elector and archbishop of Mainz from 18 July 1774 to 4 July 1802, shortly before the end of the archbishopric in the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss.
Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkow
Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkow was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall and statesman.