Berlin
Germany
Capital of Prussian ambition and later of a unified Germany. A city that experienced the extremes of modern history: imperial grandeur, Nazi tyranny, Cold War division, and reunification.
The atlas connects 12 figures with Berlin. The earliest born is Johann Sebastian Bach (1685); the last to die is Dwight D. Eisenhower (1969).
By era
- Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment (~1600-1800): 4 figures
- Age of Revolution (~1750-1850): 3 figures
- Industrial & Victorian Age (~1800-1910): 2 figures
- The Modern Era (~1880-1965): 3 figures
Associated figures, by birth year
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Supreme Master of Western Music
- Voltaire (1694-1778), Champion of Reason and Civil Liberties
- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), Architect of Critical Philosophy
- Catherine the Great (1729-1796), Empress Who Made Russia a European Power
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Germany's Greatest Writer
- Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), The Father of Ecology
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), The Titan of Music
- Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), The Iron Chancellor
- Karl Marx (1818-1883), The Architect of Revolution
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955), The Architect of Relativity
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), The Supreme Commander
- Anne Frank (1929-1945), The Voice of the Holocaust
Cities that share figures with Berlin
Other cities in the atlas tied to at least one of the same people, most shared first.
- London (4 shared figures: Voltaire, Karl Marx, Albert Einstein, Dwight D. Eisenhower)
- Paris (4 shared figures: Voltaire, Alexander von Humboldt, Karl Marx, Dwight D. Eisenhower)
- Washington, D.C. (2 shared figures: Albert Einstein, Dwight D. Eisenhower)
- Amsterdam (1 shared figure: Anne Frank)
- Geneva (1 shared figure: Voltaire)
- New York City (1 shared figure: Albert Einstein)
- Rome (1 shared figure: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
- St. Petersburg (1 shared figure: Catherine the Great)
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