Science and Philosophy
Further information: 17th century philosophy and Prussian Academy of Sciences Further information: Age of Reason, Pietism, and Sturm und Drang- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486–1535)
- Paracelsus (1493–1541)
- Georg Pictorius (c. 1500-1569)
- Johann Weyer (1516–1588)
- Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1525–1609)
- Jan Baptist van Helmont (1577–1644)
- Franz Kessler (1580–1650)
- Otto von Guericke (1602–1686)
- Adrian von Mynsicht (1603–1638)
- Johann Friedrich Schweitzer (1625–1709)
- Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716)
- Christian Thomasius (1655–1728)
- Christian Wolff (1679–1754)
- Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694–1768)
- Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700–1766)
- Leonhard Euler (1707–1783)
- Christian August Crusius (1715–1775)
- Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723–1790)
- Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
- Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728–1777)
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781)
- Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786)
- Johann Georg Hamann (1730–1788)
- Johannes Nikolaus Tetens (1736–1807)
- Thomas Abbt (1738–1766)
- Johann Augustus Eberhard (1739–1809)
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743–1819)
- Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744–1803)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
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