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Wolfgang

American  
[woolf-gang, vawlf-gahng] / ˈwʊlf gæŋ, ˈvɔlf gɑŋ /

noun

  1. a male given name.


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Scientists have uncovered hidden fossil insects inside pieces of amber that once belonged to the famed German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026

Even classical music listeners have their version in what may be the most legendary rivalry of all — the one that also-ran Italian composer Antonio Salieri supposedly nursed with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

From Salon • May 16, 2026

He may also have been a prodigy on the scale of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

Peter Wolfgang says his faith led him to challenge US Catholic bishops when they criticised President Trump's immigration policies, but the same faith makes him opposed to this war.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

Discovered in the mid-1920s by German physicist Wolfgang Pauli, the exclusion principle states, roughly, that no two things can be in the same place at the same time.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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