List of Illuminati members


The following list of Illuminati members is a compilation of well-known personalities associated with the Illuminati, an 18th-century Bavarian secret society. The list is in alphabetical order.
The Illuminati Order was founded on May 1, 1776, by the philosopher and canon lawyer Adam Weishaupt in Ingolstadt and existed primarily in the Electorate of Bavaria until it was banned in 1784/85. The secret society had set itself the goal of spreading the values of the Enlightenment and infiltrated the lodges of the Freemasons for this purpose. A total of 1,394 members of the order can be identified, around a third of whom were also Freemasons and came almost exclusively the German-speaking world. The members included members of the upper classes, including nobles, entrepreneurs, scholars, intellectuals, military personnel, and civil servants. After a brief heyday, the Illuminati where banned in Bavaria in 1784/85 as treasonous and anti-religious, and by the 1790s at the latest, it was largely inactive. Although hardly any French-speaking people belonged to the Illuminati, conspiracy theories later arose that suspected the group of being behind the French Revolution.

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H

  • Franz Xaver von Haeberl, German physician
  • Benedikt Hacker, Austrian composer and music publisher
  • Johann Casimir Häffelin, German diplomat and cardinal
  • Gerhard Anton von Halem, German writer, lawyer, and civil servant
  • Jan Alois Hanke, Moravian Enlightenment philosopher, historian, writer, and humanist
  • Karl August von Hardenberg, Prussian statesman and reformer
  • Lorenz Leopold Haschka, Austrian poet and author
  • Johann Matthäus Hassencamp, German theologian, orientalist, and mathematician
  • Gottfried Konrad Hecht, German civil servant and botanist
  • Christian Georg von Helmolt, German civil servant
  • Ludwig von Helmolt, Prussian district administrator
  • Johann Wilhelm Hemeling, German librarian, teacher, and teacher of the deaf and dumb
  • Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer, translator, theologian, and philosopher
  • Carl Wilhelm Hilchenbach, German theologian
  • Aloys Friedrich Wilhelm von Hillesheim, German economist and publicist
  • Johann Daniel Hoffmann, German jurist and university lecturer
  • Leopold Alois Hoffmann, Austrian publicist and playwright
  • Caspar Friedrich von Hofmann, procurator at the Imperial Chamber Court
  • Andreas Joseph Hofmann, philosopher and revolutionary
  • Johann Konrad Achaz Holscher, Lutheran theologian
  • Carl Alexander Holtzmann, merchant, mayor, and administrative councilor
  • Johann Wilhelm von Hompesch zu Bolheim, Bavarian Minister of Finance
  • August Ludwig Hoppenstedt, Lutheran theologian
  • Johann Baptist Horix, German lawyer, constitutional law scholar and civil servant
  • Franz Xaver Huber, Austrian journalist, satirist and librettist
  • Gottlieb Hufeland, legal scholar
  • Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, German physician and naturopath, founder of macrobiotics
  • Adolph Carl von Humbracht, patrician and politician

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  • Francesco Mario Pagano, Italian jurist and author
  • Karl Hieronymus Pálffy von Erdőd, Hungarian politician
  • Christian Ludwig Albrecht Patje, German civil servant and publicist
  • Heinrich Paulizky, German physician and writer
  • Johann Baptist Pahr, German architect
  • Johann Nepomuk von Pelkhoven, Royal Bavarian District School Inspector and Government Councillor
  • Josef Bernhard Pelzel, Austrian writer and civil servant
  • Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss educator
  • Carlo Antonio Pilati, Italian lawyer and writer
  • Joseph von Plenciz, Austrian physician and university lecturer
  • József Podmaniczky von Aszód und Podmanin, Hungarian lawyer, politician, and patron of the arts
  • Anton Podobnik, mayor of Ljubljana
  • Alphons Gabriel von Porcia, Italian nobleman and Austrian civil servant
  • Martin Joseph Prandstätter, Austrian Jacobin
  • Johann Baptist Primisser, Austrian librarian, archaeologist, and museum expert

R

  • Joseph Franz Ratschky, Austrian writer
  • Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard, German librarian and writer
  • Carl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher and author
  • Jeremias David Reuss, German philologist, literary historian, and librarian
  • Cornelius Johann Rudolph Ridel, court tutor, prince's tutor, and privy chamberlain in Weimar
  • Victor Heinrich Riecke, German Protestant clergyman
  • Josef Anton von Riegger, German lawyer and historian
  • Franz Anton Ries, German violinist
  • Carl Wilhelm Robert, German theologian, lawyer, and Freemason
  • Georg Robert, German lawyer, university lecturer, and politician
  • Alexandre Roëttiers de Montaleau, French goldsmith, medalist, and Freemason
  • Ludwig Roentgen, German Enlightenment theologian and writer
  • Heinrich Franz von Rottenhan, Austrian civil servant
  • Friedrich Josef Anton von Schreckenstein, Bavarian nobleman and local historian
  • Karl Roth von Schreckenstein, Bavarian nobleman, heraldist, and historian
  • Simon Rottmanner, German cameralist, agricultural reformer, lawyer, landowner, and author
  • Joseph Claude Rougemont, German physician and university professor
  • Johann Kaspar Ruef, German lawyer and librarian
  • Georg Ernst von Rüling, German lawyer

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  • Joseph Ferdinand Maria von Salern, German military officer and general superintendent of court music
  • Friedrich Rudolf Salzmann, French-Alsatian lawyer, legation councillor, bookseller and printer
  • Franz Josef von Saurau, Austrian politician
  • Josef Anton Sauter, German lawyer
  • Charles-Pierre-Paul Savalette de Langes, captain of the French National Guard and aide to Lafayette
  • Clemens August von Schall, German officer, politician, musician, and writer
  • Ernst Carl Constantin von Schardt, German civil servant
  • Ferdinand Schenck zu Schweinsberg, Minister of Justice of Kurhessen
  • Swibert Burkhard Schiverek, German botanist and university lecturer
  • Friedrich Schlichtegroll, German teacher and scholar
  • Johann Georg Schlosser, German lawyer, statesman, and translator
  • Ernst Friedrich von Schlotheim, geologist and paleontologist
  • Carl Christian Erhard Schmid, theologian and philosopher
  • Leopold Schönberg von Brenkenhoff, Prussian officer and military writer
  • Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, actor, theater director, playwright, and Freemason
  • Joachim Thomas Schuhbauer, Benedictine monk and educator
  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Schütz, German publicist
  • Joseph Anton von Seeau, Bavarian court music director
  • Heinrich Philipp Sextro, German theologian
  • Johann Christian Siebenkees, German poet and lawyer
  • Georg Heinrich Sieveking, German merchant and Enlightenment philosopher
  • Johann Friedrich Simon, French teacher, printer, and politician
  • Basilius Sinner, Benedictine monk and inventor
  • Johann Jakob Friedrich Sinnhold, German classical philologist, philosopher, university professor, and Freemason
  • Franz Wilhelm von Spiegel, Westphalian nobleman and civil servant
  • Johann Spieker, German pastor and Reformed theologian
  • Ludwig Timotheus Spittler, German historian
  • Anton Matthias Sprickmann, German writer and lawyer
  • Volrath Friedrich Carl Ludwig zu Solms-Rödelheim und Assenheim, Imperial Count
  • Friedrich Lothar von Stadion, Austrian diplomat
  • Johann Philipp von Stadion, Austrian statesman
  • Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German lawyer and translator
  • Heinrich Friedrich von Storch, German-Russian economist
  • Maximilian Stoll, German-Austrian physician and university professor
  • Johann Baptist Strobl, Bavarian publicist and publisher
  • Andreas Stütz, Austrian mineralogist and geologist
  • Heinrich David Stüve, lawyer and mayor of Osnabrück
  • Martin Ernst von Styx, German-Baltic physician and university professor
  • Lorenz Johann Daniel Suckow, German natural scientist and mathematician
  • Johann Anton Sulzer, German theologian
  • Gottfried van Swieten, Dutch-born Austrian diplomat, librarian, and government officia

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U

  • Karel Rafael Ungar, Bohemian priest, historian, and scholar
  • Joseph von Utzschneider, Bavarian civil servant, politician, manufacturer, entrepreneur, and mayor of Munich

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  • Karl Eberhard von Wächter, lawyer, Württemberg civil servant and Minister of the Interior
  • Philipp Franz Wilderich Nepomuk von Walderdorf, Prince-Bishop of Speyer
  • Heinrich Joseph Watteroth, German-Austrian jurist and university professor
  • Georg von Wedekind, German physician and revolutionary
  • Adam Weishaupt, German author, university professor and philosopher, founder of the Illuminati
  • Johann Adam Weiß, mayor of Speyer
  • Joseph Maria Weissegger von Weißeneck, Austrian writer, historian, lawyer, philosopher, and translator
  • Friedrich Alexander von Wenckstern, German lawyer and diplomat
  • Benedikt Maria von Werkmeister, German Roman Catholic theologian and church reformer of the Enlightenment
  • Friedrich August Clemens Werthes, German writer
  • Lorenz von Westenrieder, German historian and writer
  • Alexander von Westerholt, Bavarian statesman
  • Arnold Wienholt, German physician
  • Johann Josef von Wilczek, Austrian diplomat
  • Johann Jakob Willemer, Frankfurt banker and author
  • Philipp Ludwig Wittwer, German physician
  • Georg Hartmann von Witzleben, Prussian civil servant
  • Franz Xaver Woschitka, Austrian composer, cellist, violinist, and music teacher
  • Johann Nepomuk von Wolf, Bishop of Regensburg

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  • Ernst Carl Ludwig Ysenburg von Buri, German author

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