Baron Omar Rolf von Ehrenfels
Baron Omar Rolf von Ehrenfels (born 28 April 1901 in Prague - died 7 February 1980 in Neckargemünd, Heidelberg, Germany) was a prominent Muslim of Austrian origin.
Christian Heinrich Postel
Postel was born in , the son of the theologian Lorenz Postel and his wife Dorothea, née Isentrut. His father was a minister at the "" in Hamburg. Christian Heinrich Postel attended the . He studied law at the University of Leipzig from 1680 with Christian Thomasius. When the plague threatened Leipzig, he continued his studies at the University of Rostock, where he graduated as a licentiate on 10 May 1683. He travelled for six months with , a historian and theologian, in the Netherlands, England and France. Their diary of the journey, "" (Description of a journey through the north-western Germany, to the Netherlands and England in the year 1683), not printed until the 19th century, shows their many interests, especially in foreign universities and libraries.
Back in Hamburg, he opened an office as a lawyer. He wrote 28 opera libretti for the from 1688 to 1702, set by contemporary composers such as Johann Georg Conradi, Reinhard Keiser and Johann Sigismund Kusser. Georg Philipp Telemann set his libretto of "Sieg der Schönheit" (Victory of beauty). He adapted Jean Galbert de Campistron's tragedy "Achille et Polyxène" for an opera by Lully and Colasse, premiered in 1687, as a French-German cooperation unique in opera history. His opera libretto " ("St. Eugenia, or the conversion of Alexandria to Christianity"), was set by Johann Philipp Förtsch, premiered in 1688 and printed in 1695.