Blankenburg, Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis, a German municipality in the Unstrut Hainich district of Thuringia
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Bad Blankenburg, a German town in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district of Thuringia
As of 1789, the Principality of Blankenburg was surrounded by (from the north clockwise): Brandenburg (County of Stolberg-Wernigerode and Principality of Halberstadt), Anhalt-Bernburg, Brandenburg (County of Hohnstein), and Brunswick-Grubenhagen.
He was one of the prominent entomologists associated with the Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Science where his brother August Feodorovitsh Morawitz (22 August 1837 in St. Petersburg – 16 September 1897 in Blankenburg) was Curator of the insect collections.He was a member of the Russian Entomological Society.
In 1876 he sold his pharmacy in Blankenburg, and moved to Helmstedt, where he went to live with his son.
Through the relocation of his family, his father was a forester, Hans Geitel came to Blankenburg in 1861 and grew up in close proximity to Julius Elster.
Hermann Ludwig Blankenburg (born 14 November 1876 in Thamsbrück and died 15 May 1956 in Wesel) was a German composer of military marches.
The latter was a famous printer named Ignatius Meurer (1589–1672) who was, according to a memorial verse found in the Royal Library, born in Blankenburg, Schwarzburg, Germany, immigrated to Stockholm in 1610 and eventually through marriage became the owner of a printing workshop and settled in the block north of the alley.
Otto Schmiedeknecht (8 September 1847 Bad Blankenburg, Thüringen- 11 February 1936, Blankenburg) was a German entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera.
In 1497, he married Catherine of Querfurt (died: 1521 in Kelbra), the widow of Count Günther XXXVIII of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg.
Larry Lujack (born Larry Lee Blankenburg in Quasqueton, June 6?
Reinhard of Blankenburg (11th century – 1123) was Bishop of Halberstadt from 1107 to 1123.
The power system used for this isolated network was not the usual German, single-phase, electrification system, 15 kV AC, 16 2/3 Hz, but single-phase, 25 kV AC, 50 Hz, which was taken from the 110-kV state electricity network at a substation at the exit to Blankenburg with the aid of transformers.
Blankenburg was born in Hillentrup (now a district of Dörentrup), Lippe-Detmold (now Lippstadt), Germany, and educated there.
Excluded were the eastern areas belonging to Brunswick including the district of Blankenburg and the exclave of Calvörde (part of the district of Helmstedt), which fell within the Soviet Zone and was integrated into the state of Saxony-Anhalt, and the Hanoverian Amt of Neuhaus, which also lay on Soviet-occupied territory and was not united with Lower Saxony until 1993.