List of Famous people named Karl

Name Karl is among the most common names in Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Shortened forms: Charles. Similar names: Charles, Karla, Karlie, Kaarlo, Karle, Karly, Kaarle. Here are some famous Karls:

Karl Ewald Hasse

First Name Karl
Last Name Hasse
Born on June 23, 1810
Died on September 26, 1902 (aged 92)
Born in Germany, Saxony

Karl Ewald Hasse was a German physician and professor of special pathology, born in Dresden. He was the son of historian Friedrich Christian August Hasse (1773–1848).

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Karl Fedorovich Kessler

First Name Karl
Last Name Kessler
Born on November 19, 1815
Died on March 15, 1881 (aged 65)

Karl Fedorovich Kessler was a German-Russian zoologist and author of zoological taxa signed Kessler, who was mostly active in Kiev, Ukraine and conducted most of his studies of birds in Ukrainian regions of the Russian Empire - Kiev Governorate, Volyn Governorate, Kherson Governorate, Poltava Governorate and Bessarabia. He also studied the fish of the Dniester, Dnieper, and Southern Bug rivers, and on the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea.

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Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann

First Name Karl
Last Name Dobermann
Born on January 2, 1834
Died on June 9, 1894 (aged 60)
Born in Germany, Thuringia

Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann was the first breeder of Doberman Pinscher. He started the creation of this dog breed in the town of Apolda, in the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach around 1890, following the Franco-Prussian War.

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Karl Immanuel Nitzsch

First Name Karl
Last Name Nitzsch
Born on September 21, 1787
Died on August 21, 1868 (aged 80)
Born in Germany, Saxony

Karl Immanuel Nitzsch, was a German Lutheran church leader. He was the father of theologian Friedrich August Nitzsch.

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Karl Bogislaus Reichert

First Name Karl
Last Name Reichert
Born on December 20, 1811
Died on December 21, 1883 (aged 72)

Karl Bogislaus Reichert was a German anatomist, embryologist and histologist.

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Karl Bücher

First Name Karl
Last Name Bücher
Born on February 16, 1847
Died on November 12, 1930 (aged 83)
Born in Germany, Hesse

Karl Wilhelm Bücher was a German economist, one of the founders of non-market economics, and the founder of journalism as an academic discipline.

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Karl Buresch

First Name Karl
Last Name Buresch
Born on October 12, 1878
Died on September 16, 1936 (aged 57)

Karl Buresch was a lawyer, Christian-Social politician and Chancellor of Austria during the First Republic.

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Karl von Hasenauer

First Name Karl
Last Name Hasenauer
Born on July 20, 1833
Died on January 4, 1894 (aged 60)
Born in Austria

Baron Karl von Hasenauer was an important Austrian architect and key representative of the Historismus school.

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Karl Schapper

First Name Karl
Last Name Schapper
Born on December 30, 1812
Died on April 28, 1870 (aged 57)

Karl Friedrich Schapper was a German socialist and labour leader. He was one of the pioneers of the labour movement in Germany and an early associate of Wilhelm Weitling and Karl Marx.

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Karl Franz Neander von Petersheide

First Name Karl
Last Name Petersheide
Born on June 6, 1626
Died on February 5, 1693 (aged 66)
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