Kästner
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Kästner is a German
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German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
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- Abraham Gotthelf KästnerAbraham Gotthelf KästnerAbraham Gotthelf Kästner was a German mathematician and epigrammatist.He was known in his professional life for writing textbooks and compiling encyclopedias rather than for original research. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was one of his doctoral students, and admired the man greatly. He became...
, German mathematician- Kästner (crater)Kästner (crater)Kästner is a lunar crater that is located near the eastern limb of the Moon, to the southwest of the Mare Smythii. Just to the northwest of Kästner is the walled plain Gilbert. To the south is the prominent crater Ansgarius, and to the southwest lies La Pérouse.This formation belongs to the...
, a lunar crater
- Kästner (crater)
- Detlef KästnerDetlef KästnerDetlef Kästner is a retired boxer, who represented East Germany at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. There he won the bronze medal in the light middleweight division , after being defeated in the semifinals by eventual silver medalist Aleksandr Koshkyn of the USSR.- Olympic results...
(born 1958), German boxer - Erich KästnerErich KästnerEmil Erich Kästner was a German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known for his humorous, socially astute poetry and children's literature.-Dresden 1899–1919:...
(1899-1974), German author - Erich Kästner (camera designer)Erich Kästner (camera designer)Erich Kurt Kästner was an Academy Award-winning German movie camera designer. He was born in Jena.During his work for ARRI he invented the spinning mirror reflex shutter for movie cameras, which was first used in the Arriflex 35 in 1937. It allows the operator to have a viewfinder image equal to...
(1911-2005), German movie camera designer - Erich Kästner (World War I veteran)Erich Kästner (World War I veteran)Dr. Erich Kästner was the last documented World War I veteran who fought for the German Empire and the last who was born in Germany. Consequently he was the last Central Powers combatant of the Western Front. He was also the second oldest man in Germany...
(1900-2008), the last known German veteran of the First World War - Peter KaestnerPeter KaestnerPeter G. Kaestner is an American diplomat and amateur ornithologist currently serving as a senior inspector in the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. State Department. From 2006 to 2009 he was the consul general of the American Embassy in New Delhi, India. As consul general, he oversaw...
, American ornithologist