WSilke M. Ackermann is a German museum curator and historian of science who is currently the Director of the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford University.
WHannah Arendt was a German-born American political theorist. Her many books and articles have had a lasting influence on political theory and philosophy. Arendt is widely considered one of the most important political thinkers of the 20th century.
WErna Auerbach was a German-born artist and art historian best known for her work on artists of the Tudor-era in England.
WMargarete Bieber was a Jewish German-American art historian, classical archaeologist and professor. She became the second woman university professor in Germany in 1919 when she took a position at the University of Giessen. She studied the theatre of ancient Greece and Rome as well as the sculpture and clothing in ancient Rome and Greece.
WCharlotte, Lady Blennerhassett was a German writer and biographer.
WKäthe Bosse-Griffiths was a German-born Egyptologist, who after moving to Wales, became a writer in the Welsh language.
WMercedes Bunz is Senior Lecturer in Digital Society at King's College London, and a German art historian, philosopher and journalist.
WVera von Falkenhausen is a German Byzantinist who lives and works in Italy.
WMarie Theres Fögen was a German jurist and historian. She taught Law at the University of Zurich and Harvard University and was Director of the Max Planck Institute for European History of Law in Frankfurt am Main.
WAnnelies Marie "Anne" Frank was a German-Dutch diarist of Jewish origin. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl, in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. It is one of the world's best known books and has been the basis for several plays and films.
WMiriam Gebhardt is a German historian and writer.
WJutta Götzmann is a German art historian. Since 2008, she has been the director of the Potsdam Museum.
WAntje (-Maria) von Graevenitz, born Ludwig is a German art historian, art critic, educator and author.
WChrista-Maria Lerm Hayes is a German-Irish art historian, who works as the Professor and Chair of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Amsterdam.
WRicarda Huch was a pioneering German intellectual. Trained as an historian, and the author of many works of European history, she also wrote novels, poems, and a play. Asteroid 879 Ricarda is named in her honour. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times.
WCaroline von Humboldt, née Carolina Friederica von Dacheröden, was a German salonnière and art historian.
WAnnette Imhausen is a German historian of mathematics known for her work on Ancient Egyptian mathematics. She is a professor in the Normative Orders Cluster of Excellence at Goethe University Frankfurt.
WAnnemarie Kleinert-Ludwig is a German Doctor of Philosophy who did research and taught history at the Free University of Berlin, Leibniz University Hannover, and the University of California, San Diego. Presently she works as a free-lance writer.
WSophie Lissitzky-Küppers (1891–1978), born Sophie Schneider, was a German art historian, patron of the avant-garde, author, and art collector.
WElisabeth Lemke was a German historian, researcher of folklore, botany and prehistory of Upper Prussia, poet and writer.
WKatharina Oguntoye is an Afro-German writer, historian, activist, and poet. She founded the nonprofit intercultural association Joliba in Germany and is perhaps best known for co-editing the book Farbe bekennen with May Ayim and Dagmar Schultz. The English translation of this book was entitled Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out. Oguntoye has played an important role in the Afro-German Movement.
WLotte Brand Philip was a German art historian, professor and expert on Netherlandish art, one of the most notable and incisive experts on 14th- and 15th-century art to have studied under Erwin Panofsky. Born a Christian of Jewish descent, she resisted state intimidation to leave Germany, only moving to the United States in 1941. She began her new life as a jewelry designer, before establishing a career as an art historian and writer, and taking professorship at a number of universities, including New York University and Queens College, Flushing. During her long career, Brand wrote highly regarded books and monographs on artists such as Jan van Eyck, Albrecht Dürer and Hieronymus Bosch, and in 1980 became emeritus at Queens. Brand Philip died on May 2, 1986 in New York City.
WSusanne Rode-Breymann is a German musicologist and since 2010 the president of the prestigious Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover in Hanover.
WAngela H. Rosenthal was an art historian at Dartmouth College and an expert on the art of Angelica Kauffman. Her masterwork was Angelica Kauffman: Art and sensibility, published by Yale University Press in 2006 which won the Historians of British Art Book Award in the pre-1800 category in 2007.
WUlinka Rublack, FBA is a German historian and academic. She received her PhD from Cambridge University, and is a professor in early modern European history and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. Rublack is the founder of the Cambridge History for Schools outreach programme and a co-founder of the Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies. She is German, and her father Hans-Christoph Rublack was a historian.
WRosa Schapire was an Austro-Hungarian-born art historian who lived in Germany and England. She was a model and art owner who gave early recognition to the Die Brücke group of artists.
WEva Schlotheuber is a German historian of Christianity in the Middle Ages.
WClaudia Schoppmann is a German historian and author.
WSelma Stern-Täubler was one of the first women to become a professional historian in Germany, and the author of a seven-volume work The Prussian State and the Jews, her opus magnum.
WBarbara Stühlmeyer OblOSB is a German theologian, musicologist, writer and contributing editor, especially a Hildegard scholar.