September 13, 1819
September 13, 1872
Death of Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach in Rechenberg, Germany. Feuerbach was a philosopher who had far reaching influence on the thought of the 19th and 20th centuries. He developed a view of the essence or religion as anthropological.
September 13, 1874
Birth of Arnold Schönberg in Vienna, Austria. Schönberg was the composer who developed the 12 tone scale. Alban Berg and Anton Webern are two of his students. In 1933 the rising Nazi powers dismissed him from his position at the Academy of the Arts in Berlin and he fled to the United States where he became a professor at USC and UCLA in California.
September 13, 1887
Birth of Leopold Ruzicka in Vukovar, Austria-Hungary (now in Croatia). Ruzicka became a Swiss citizen and a professor of chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. He won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1939 for his research on ringed molecules and terpenes. He was also the discoverer of the molecular structure of testosterone and was able to synthesize it.
September 13, 1942
German forces attack Stalingrad. (World War II).
September 13, 1955