page_title: List of people from Frankfurt
section_title: 18th century
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Frankfurt / Born in Frankfurt / 18th century
context_page_description: This list contains notable people both born in Frankfurt and residents of the city, ordered chronologically.
context_section_description: Alexander Ferdinand (1704–1773), 3rd Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Postmaster General of the Imperial Reichspost, and Head of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis
  Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis (1706–1756), Regent of Württemberg
  Johann Christian Senckenberg (1707–1772), physician, naturalist and collector
  Susanne von Klettenberg (1723–1774), abbess and writer
  Louis Eugene (1731–1795), Duke of Württemberg
  Katharina Elisabeth Goethe (1731-1808), mother of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  Karl Anselm (1733–1805), 4th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Postmaster General of the Imperial Reichspost, and Head of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis
  Johann Zoffany (1733–1810), neoclassical painter
  Georg Melchior Kraus (1737–1806), painter
  Nathan Adler (1741–1800), kabbalist and rabbi
  Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), banker and founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), writer and statesman
  Cornelia Schlosser (1750–1777), sister of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen (1751–1827), Princess of Saxe-Meiningen and Duchess consort of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
  Princess Louise of Saxe-Meiningen (1752–1805), Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen
  Abraham Bing (1752–1841), rabbi
  Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752–1831), dramatist and novelist
  Johann Philipp Gabler (1753–1826), Protestant Christian theologian
  Karl Wilhelm (1754–1782), Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
  Anton Dereser (1757–1827), Discalced Carmelite professor of hermeneutics and Oriental languages
  Georg I (1761–1803), Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
  Moses Sofer (1762–1839), rabbi
  Philipp Karl Buttmann (1764–1829), philologist of French Huguenot ancestry
  Margarethe Danzi (1768–1800), composer and soprano
  Johann Friedrich von Meyer (1772–1849), senator of Frankfurt
  Amschel Mayer von Rothschild (1773–1855), banker of the Rothschild family financial dynasty
  Salomon Rothschild (1774–1855), banker in the Austrian Empire and founder of the Austrian branch of the Mayer Amschel Rothschild family
  Elisabeth von Adlerflycht (1775–1846), painter
  Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777–1836), London-based banker and financier and one of five sons of the second generation of the Rothschild banking dynasty
  Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779–1861), jurist and historian
  Johann Friedrich Heinrich Schlosser (1780–1851), jurist, writer and translator
  Dorothea von Ertmann (1781–1849), pianist
  Jeanette Wohl (1783–1961), friend and correspondent of Ludwig Börne
  Christian Brentano (1784–1851), writer and Catholic publicist
  Bettina von Arnim (1785–1859), writer and novelist
  Ludwig Börne (1786–1837), political writer and satirist
  Johann David Passavant (1787–1861), painter, curator and artist
  Franz Pforr (1788–1812), painter
  Carl Mayer von Rothschild (1788–1855), banker in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and founder of the Rothschild banking family of Naples
  Jakob Alt (1789–1872), painter and lithographer
  James Mayer de Rothschild (1792–1868 ), banker and founder of the French branch of the Rothschild family
  Carl von Heyden (1793–1866), senator and entomologist
  Eduard Rüppell (1794–1884), naturalist and explorer
  August von Bethmann-Hollweg (1795–1877), jurist and politician
  Johann Friedrich Böhmer (1795–1863), historian
  Heinrich Christian Macklot (1799–1832), naturalist
  Ferdinand Fellner (1799–1859), painter
  Friedrich Wöhler (1800–1882), chemist
caption: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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