Born in Strasbourg

St-Pierre-le-Jeune protestant-Tauler (3)

Before 1750

* Eric of Friuli (8th century), Frankish duke of

Friuli Friuli ( fur, Friûl, sl, Furlanija, german: Friaul) is an area of Northeast Italy with its own particular cultural and historical identity containing 1,000,000 Friulians. It comprises the major part of the autonomous region Friuli Venezia Giulia ...

Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg (c. 1205 – c. 1270) was a Dominican theologian from Strasbourg, Alsace. He is now considered to be the author of the ''Compendium theologiae'' or ''Compendium theologicae veritatis''. On account of its scope and style, ...

(ca. 1205–ca. 1270), theologian *

Johannes Tauler Johannes Tauler OP ( – 16 June 1361) was a German mystic, a Roman Catholic priest and a theologian. A disciple of Meister Eckhart, he belonged to the Dominican order. Tauler was known as one of the most important Rhineland mystics. He prom ...

(1300–1361), mystic and theologian *

Fritsche Closener Fritsche Closener or Friedrich Klosener (died between 1372 and 1396) was a priest and historian of Strasbourg. His work was one of the first vernacular city chronicles, a type that became very common in Germany in the century that followed. Closene ...

(died before 1373), priest, historian *

Rulman Merswin Rulman Merswin (c. 1307 - 1382) was a German mystic, leader for a time of the Friends of God. Life Born into an important family in Strasbourg, at the time a free city of the Holy Roman Empire, Rulman Merswin became a banker and amassed a large fo ...

(ca. 1307–1382), mystic *

Jakob Twinger von Königshofen Jacob Königshofen (more properly Jakob Twinger von Königshofen) (1346 – 27 December 1420) was a German chronicler. Jacob was born at Königshofen, then a village near, and now a district of, Strasburg, in Alsace, but only a few details of ...

(1346–1420), chronicler *

Martin Schott Martin Schott (d. 22 November 1499) was a book printer from Strasbourg. One of the earliest printers in Strasbourg, his catalog reflected the tastes of the higher classes in Germany at the time of German humanism. Biography Schott hailed from a ...

(d. 1499), printer *

Johannes Schott Johannes Schott (19 June 1477 – 1550) was a book printer from Strasbourg. He printed a large number of books, including tracts from Martin Luther and other Reformers. He was a well-educated man, who had relationships with some of the leadin ...

(1477–1550), printer *

Hieronymus Brunschwig Hieronymus Brunschwig or Hieronymus Brunschwygk (c. 1450c. 1512) was a German surgeon ("Wundarzt"), alchemist and botanist. He was notable for his methods of treatment of gunshot wounds and for his early work on distillation techniques. His most i ...

(ca. 1450–ca. 1512), surgeon, alchemist and botanist *

Sebastian Brant Sebastian Brant (also Brandt) (1458 – 10 May 1521) was a German humanist and satirist. He is best known for his satire '' Das Narrenschiff'' (''The Ship of Fools''). Biography Brant was born in Strasbourg to an innkeeper but eventually enter ...

(1457–1521), satirical poet and humanist *

Ottmar Luscinius Ottmar Luscinius (also called Othmar or Otmar Nachtgall) was an Alsatian Catholic Humanist who wrote Biblical commentaries; 1478 in Strasbourg – 1537 in Freiburg. After receiving instruction in Strasbourg from Jacob Wimpheling, he went in 1508 ...

(1478–1537), theologian and humanist *

Hans Kotter Hans may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Hans (name), a masculine given name * Hans Raj Hans, Indian singer and politician ** Navraj Hans, Indian singer, actor, entrepreneur, cricket player and performer, son of Hans Raj Hans ** Yuvraj Hans, Punjabi ...

(1480–1541), composer and organist *

Wilhelm Stetter Wilhelm Stetter (1487–1552) was a German Renaissance painter from Alsace. He was born and died in Strasbourg. Stetter was long known by the notname Master W. S. with the Maltese cross until he was identified in 1952 by the scholar Jean ...

(1487–1552), painter and priest *

Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck Jacob (or Jakob, or Jacques) Sturm von Sturmeck (10 August 1489 – 30 October 1553) was a German statesman, one of the preeminent promoters of the Protestant Reformation in Germany. Biography Sturm was born at Strasbourg, where his father, Marti ...

(1489–1553), Protestant statesman and

reformist Reformism is a political doctrine advocating the reform of an existing system or institution instead of its abolition and replacement. Within the socialist movement, reformism is the view that gradual changes through existing institutions can eve ...

Andreas Cratander Andreas Cratander (born Andreas Hartmann in Strasbourg, ca. 1490; died 1540) was a Swiss printer, publisher, and book seller. Based in Basel, his workshop is estimated to have published at least 150 individual works between 1518 and 1535, predom ...

(1490–1540), printer * Katharina Zell (1497–1568),

Protestant Protestantism is a Christian denomination, branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Reformation, Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century agai ...

writer *

Jacob Micyllus Jacob Micyllus,In Antiquity Micyllus was the poor cobbler of Lucian's ''Gallus'' (6 April 1503 – 28 January 1558) was a German Renaissance humanist and teacher, who conducted the city's Latin school in Frankfurt and held a chair at the Univer ...

(1503–1558), humanist and teacher * Martin Schalling the Younger (1532–1608), Protestant theologian and writer * Daniel Specklin (1536–1589), architect, engineer and cartographer *

Johann Fischart Johann Baptist Fischart (c. 1545 – 1591) was a German satirist and publicist. Biography Fischart was born, probably, at Strasbourg (but according to some accounts at Mainz), in or about the year 1545, and was educated at Worms in the house of K ...

(1545–1591), satirical author *

Johannes Piscator Johannes Piscator (; german: Johannes Fischer; 27 March 1546 – 26 July 1625) was a German Reformed theologian, known as a Bible translator and textbook writer. He was a prolific writer, and initially moved around as he held a number of positions ...

(1546–1625), theologian and translator *

Johann Theodor de Bry Johann Theodor de Bry (1561 – 31 January 1623) was an engraver and publisher. Biography De Bry was born in Strasbourg, the elder son and pupil of Dirk de Bry. He greatly assisted his father in works such as, the ''Florilegium novum'', which ...

(1561–1623), engraver and publisher *

Sebastian Stoskopff Sebastian (or Sébastien) Stoskopff (July 13, 1597 – February 10, 1657) was an Alsatian painter. He is considered one of the most important German still life painters of his time. His works, which were rediscovered after 1930, portray gobl ...

(1597–1657), painter *

Johann Wilhelm Baur Johann Wilhelm Baur, Joan Guiliam Bouwer, or Bauer ( Strasbourg, 31 May 1607 - Vienna, 1 January 1640) was a German engraver, etcher and miniature painter. He is famous for a series of illustrations of Ovid's ''Metamorphoses''. Biography Accordi ...

(1607–1640), engraver, etcher and miniature painter *

Albrecht Kauw Albrecht Kauw (1621–1681) was a Swiss still-life painter, cartographer and a painter of Veduta, vedute. Biography Kauw was born in Strasbourg, then moved to Bern in 1640. He painted a large number of works for public buildings and for variou ...

(1621–1681), painter *

Marie Luise von Degenfeld Luise von Degenfeld (28 November 1634 – 18 March 1677) was a German noblewoman and the morganatic second wife of Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine. Early life Born as Baroness Maria Susanne Luise von Degenfeld in Strasbourg, she was the daug ...

(1634–1677),

morganatic Morganatic marriage, sometimes called a left-handed marriage, is a marriage between people of unequal social rank, which in the context of royalty or other inherited title prevents the principal's position or privileges being passed to the spous ...

second wife of

Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine Charles Louis, Elector Palatine (german: Karl I. Ludwig; 22 December 1617 – 28 August 1680), was the second son of Frederick V of the Palatinate, the "Winter King" of Bohemia, and of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia and sister of Charl ...

Countess Palatine Anna Magdalena of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler Countess Palatine Anna Magdalena of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (14 February 1640 – 12 December 1693) was a daughter of Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (1598–1654) and his first wife, Countess Palatine Magdalene Catherine ...

(1640–1693) * Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1674–1735) *

Friedrich Ludwig, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen Friedrich Ludwig of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1 September 1688 in Strasbourg – 4 June 1750 at Lindich Castle in Hechingen) was prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen. Friedrich Ludwig was a son of Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Hohenzollern-Hechingen ...

(1688–1750) *

Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken Caroline of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken (Caroline Henriette Christiane Philippine Louise; 9 March 1721 – 30 March 1774) was Landgravine of Hesse-Darmstadt by marriage to Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt. She was famed as one of the mos ...

(1721–1774) *

Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser Dagobert Sigismund, Count von Wurmser (7 May 1724 – 22 August 1797) was an Habsburg monarchy, Austrian field marshal during the French Revolutionary Wars. Although he fought in the Seven Years' War, the War of the Bavarian Succession, and mount ...

(1724–1797), Austrian field marshal *

Johann Georg Roederer Johann Georg Roederer (13 May 1726 – 4 April 1763) was a German physician and obstetrician who was a native of Strasbourg. He was father-in-law to historian August Ludwig von Schlözer (1735–1809). Roederer studied medicine at Leiden, Paris ...

(1726–1763), physician and obstetrician *

Richard François Philippe Brunck Richard François Philippe Brunck (30 December 1729 – 12 June 1803) was a French people, French classical scholar. Biography Brunck was born in Strasbourg, France, educated at the Jesuits' College in Paris, and took part in the Seven Years' Wa ...

(1729–1803), French classical scholar *

Jean-Joseph Rodolphe Jean-Joseph Rodolphe (14 October 1730 – 12 August 1812) was a French horn player, violinist and composer. Life Born in Strasbourg, Rodolphe was a pupil of Jean-Marie Leclair in Paris. He travelled to Parma in 1754 and to Stuttgart in 1761, whe ...

(1730–1812), horn player, violinist and composer *

Jérémie-Jacques Oberlin Jérémie-Jacques Oberlin (8 August 1735 – 10 October 1806) was an Alsatian philologist and archaeologist. He was also known as Jeremias Jakob Oberlin in German. The brother of Jean Frédéric Oberlin, he was born at Strasbourg. While studyin ...

(1735–1806), philologist and archaeologist *

François Christophe Kellermann François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis. People with the given name * Francis I of France, King of France (), known as "the Father and Restorer of Letters" * Francis II of France, King ...

(1735–1820), French marshall * Christoph Wilhelm von Koch (1737–1813), diplomat, politician, librarian and writer *

Philippe Rühl Philippe Jacques Rühl (3 May 1737 – 29/30 May 1795) was a German-French statesman during the French Revolution, best remembered as the ''doyen d'âge'' (oldest deputy) of the opening session of the Convention of 1792–1795. Biography Born ...

(1737–1795), politician *

Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay Ludwig Heinrich Freiherr von Nicolay (russian: Андре́й Льво́вич Никола́и, translit=Andréj L'vovič Nikolái; 25 December 1737, in Strasbourg, in Monrepos north of Vyborg) was a German poet of the Enlightenment. He served ...

(1737–1820), poet and President of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences *

Philip James de Loutherbourg Philip James de Loutherbourg RA (31 October 174011 March 1812), whose name is sometimes given in the French form of Philippe-Jacques, the German form of Philipp Jakob, or with the English-language epithet of the Younger, was a French-born Brit ...

(1740–1812), painter *

Jean-Frédéric Oberlin J. F. Oberlin (31 August 1740 – 1 June 1826) was an Alsatian pastor and a philanthropist. He has been known as John Frederic(k) Oberlin in English, Jean-Frédéric Oberlin in French, and Johann Friedrich Oberlin in German. Life Oberlin was ...

(1740–1826), pastor and philanthropist *

Johann Christian von Mannlich Eren Yeager(2 October 1741 – 3 January 1822) was a German painter and architect. Early life, family and education Von Mannlich was born in Strasbourg in 1741, the son of Konrad von Mannlich, court painter to Christian IV, Duke of Zweibr� ...

(1741–1822), painter and architect *

Heinrich Leopold Wagner Heinrich Leopold Wagner (19 February 1747 – 4 March 1779) was a German dramatist. Wagner was born in Strasbourg and is chiefly known for his 1776 tragedy '' The Child Murderess''. He died, aged 32, in Frankfurt. Works * ''Prometheus, Deukalio ...

(1747–1779), writer *

Philippe Friedrich Dietrich Baron Philippe Friedrich Dietrich (german: Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Dietrich; 14 November 1748 – 29 December 1793) was a French scholar and politician. He was most well known as the first mayor of Strasbourg who encouraged Rouget de l'Isl ...

(1748–1793), scholar and politician *

Jean-Frédéric Edelmann Jean-Frédéric Edelmann (born Johann Friedrich Edelmann; 5 May 1749 – 17 July 1794) was a French Classical period (music), classical composer. He was born in Strasbourg to a Protestant family of Alsatian descent. After studying law and music ...

(1749–1794), composer *

Johan Peter Rottler Johan Peter Rottler (June 174924 January 1836) was a French missionary and botanist, most associated with the Danish Mission in Tranquebar and later Vepery, Chennai in southern India. He was born in Strasbourg, France in 1749, and studied at th ...

(1749–1836), missionary and botanist * Johann von Türckheim (1749–1824), diplomat

Between 1750 and 1900

Sébastien Érard Sébastien Érard (born Sebastian Erhard, 5 April 1752 – 5 August 1831) was a French instrument maker of German origin who specialised in the production of pianos and harps, developing the capacities of both instruments and pioneering the mode ...

(1752–1837), instrument maker * Philippe-André Grandidier (1752–1787), priest and historian *

Bernard-Frédéric de Turckheim Bernard-Frédéric de Turckheim (3 November 1752 – 10 July 1831) was a French politician. Mayors of Strasbourg 1752 births 1831 deaths Members of the Chamber of Deputies of the Bourbon Restoration {{France-mayor-stub ...

(1752–1831), politician *

Jean Baptiste Kléber Jean may refer to: People * Jean (female given name) * Jean (male given name) * Jean (surname) Fictional characters * Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character * Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations * Jean ...

(1753–1800), architect and general *

Jean-François Barbier Jean-François-Thérèse Barbier (3 December 1754, Strasbourg, (Bas-Rhin) 6 May 1828, Strasbourg) was a French general during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Biography Barbier was born on 3 December 1754 in Strasbourg an ...

(1754–1828), general *

Louis Ramond de Carbonnières Louis François Élisabeth Ramond, baron de Carbonnières (4 January 1755 Strasbourg – 14 May 1827), was a French politician, geologist and botanist. He is regarded as one of the first explorers of the high mountains of the Pyrenees who can be d ...

(1755–1827), politician, geologist and botanist *

Antoinette Saint-Huberty Anne-Antoinette-Cécile Clavel, better known by her stage name Madame Saint-Huberty or Saint-Huberti ( Strasbourg, 15 December 1756 – 22 July 1812, Barnes, London), was a celebrated French operatic soprano whose career extended from until 1 ...

(1756–1812), opera singer * Christophe Guérin (1758–1831), engraver and painter *

François Andrieux François Guillaume Jean Stanislaus Andrieux (6 May 17599 May 1833) was a French man of letters and playwright. Life Born and educated at Strasbourg, Andrieux proceeded to Paris to study law. There he became a close friend of Collin d'Harlevil ...

(1759–1833), playwright and poet * Jacques Widerkehr (1759–1823), cellist and composer *

Joseph Ludwig Colmar Joseph Ludwig Colmar (born at Strasburg, 22 June 1760; died at Mainz, 15 December 1818) was a German Catholic Bishop of Mainz. Life After his ordination (20 December 1783) he was professor of history and Greek at the Royal Seminary, and curate ...

(1760–1818), bishop of

Mainz Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main (river), Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-we ...

* Christian Kramp (1760–1826), mathematician *

Marie Tussaud Anna Maria "Marie" Tussaud (; née Grosholtz; 1 December 1761 – 16 April 1850) was a French artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussauds, the wax museum she founded in London. Biography Marie Tussaud was born 1 December 1761 in St ...

(1761–1850), founder of

Madame Tussauds Madame Tussauds (, ) is a wax museum founded in 1835 by French wax sculptor Marie Tussaud in London, spawning similar museums in major cities around the world. While it used to be spelled as "Madame Tussaud's"; the apostrophe is no longer us ...

Johann Jakob Humann Johann Jakob Humann (7 May 1771, Strasbourg – 19 August 1834, Mainz) was a German Roman Catholic clergyman. From 1860 he was vicar general of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mainz and then Vicar Apostolic A vicar (; Latin: ''vicarius'') is a ...

(1771–1834) Roman Catholic clergyman *

Charles-Joseph Christiani Baron Charles-Joseph Christiani (27 February 17726 April 1840) was a French Army '' Maréchal de camp'' who served during the Napoleonic Wars. Career Born in Strasbourg, Christiani was originally a private in the French Revolutionary Army and rose ...

(1772–1840), ''Maréchal de camp'' of the French Army *

Louis-François Lejeune Louis-François, Baron Lejeune (3 February 1775 in Strasbourg – 29 February 1848) was a French general, painter, and lithographer. His memoirs have frequently been republished and his name is engraved on the Arc de Triomphe. Life He studi ...

(1775–1848), general, painter, and lithographer *

Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué (born in Strasbourg in 1776, died in the same place in 1856) was the author of the third astronomical clock of Strasbourg Cathedral, built between 1838 and 1843 (not 1842, as it is written on the clock itself). In 1844 Schw ...

(1776–1856), clockmaker * Chrétien Géofroy Nestler (1778–1832), botanist and pharmacist * Johann Georg Daniel Arnold (1780–1829), lawyer and writer * Samson Cerfberr (1780–1826), soldier and author * Jean-Georges Humann (1780–1842), statesman *

Jean-Frédéric de Turckheim Jean-Frédéric de Turckheim (10 December 1780, in Strasbourg – 13 December 1850, in Paris) was a French politician. He conducted a thwarted campaign for deputy, 27 February 1824, in the 4th electoral district of Bas-Rhin against Georges Huma ...

(1780–1850), politician *

Gustave Vogt Gustave Vogt (18 March 1781 – 20 May 1870) was a French oboist and composer. Biography Born in Strasbourg, Vogt followed his parents to Paris at a very young age, where he entered the Conservatoire de Paris on 7 July 1798 and became a pupil of ...

(1781–1870), oboist and composer * Nicholas-Henri Schreider (1783–1832), champagne maker *

Maximilien Joseph Schauenburg Maximilien Joseph Schauenburg (born in Saint Stephen's Church on 30 April 1784 and died in Paris on 19 September 1838) was a French officer who participated to the French conquest of Algeria. Family Born on 30 April 1784 in Saint Stephen's ...

(1784–1838), military officer *

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(1786–1868) *

Camille Pleyel Joseph Étienne Camille Pleyel (December 18, 1788 – May 4, 1855) was a French virtuoso pianist, publisher, and owner of Pleyel et Cie. He also ran a concert hall, the Salle Pleyel, where Frédéric Chopin played the first and last of his c ...

(1788–1855), piano manufacturer and musical entrepreneur *

Princess Augusta of Bavaria french: Auguste Amélie Louise Georgie , spouse = , issue = Joséphine, Queen of Sweden and Norway Eugénie, Princess of Hohenzollern-Hechingen Auguste, 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg Amélie, Empress of Brazil Théodoline, Countess Wilhelm of Wü ...

(1788–1851) *

Édouard Spach Édouard Spach (23 November 1801 – 18 May 1879) was a French botanist. The son of a merchant in Strasbourg, in 1824 he went to Paris, where he studied botany with René Desfontaines (1750–1831) and Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu (1748–1836). ...

(1801–1879), botanist * Baruch Schleisinger Weil (1802–1893), American businessman and politician *

August Stöber August Daniel Ehrenfried Stöber (1808–1884) was an Alsatian poet, scholar and collector of folklore. He was born on 9 July 1808 in Strasbourg and died on 19 March 1884 in Mulhouse, where he had worked as a teacher. Stöber composed poetry an ...

(1808–1884), poet, scholar and collector of folklore *

Louis Roederer Louis Roederer is a producer of champagne based in Reims, France. Founded in 1776, the business was inherited and renamed by Louis Roederer in 1833. It remains as one of the few independent and family-run ''maisons de champagne'' (champagne house ...

(1809–1870), champagne maker *

Jean-Georges Kastner Jean-Georges Kastner, born 9 March 1810 in Strasbourg, died 19 December 1867 in Paris, was a composer and musicologist. Biography Kastner's parents were Johann Georg Kastner, from Dettwiller, and Marie Salome Pfeiffer, from Woerth. Despite his ...

(1810–1867), composer and musicologist *

Adolphe Stoeber Adolphe Stoeber, or Adolf Stöber (Strasbourg, 1810 – Mulhouse, 1892) was a French ecclesiastic and writer in German language from Alsace. He was Ehrenfried Stoeber's son and Auguste Stoeber's brother. He studied theology and was a Protestant ...

(1810–1892), ecclesiastic and writer *

Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne image:Alphonse Ratisbonne 1865.jpg, Father Ratisbonne in 1865 Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne, Congregation of Our Lady of Sion, N.D.S., (1 May 1814, Strasbourg, Alsace, France – 6 May 1884, Ein Karem, Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire) was a ...

(1814–1884), Catholic priest and missionary * Louis Charles Auguste Steinheil (1814–1885), painter *

Émile Küss Émile Küss (1 February 1815 – 1 March 1871) was a French physician who, with Charles-Emmanuel Sédillot, performed the first recorded biopsy on a tumour. He later entered politics in Strasbourg, became mayor, and played a significant role in ...

(1815–1871), physician and politician * Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1818–1884), chemist *

Charles Frédéric Gerhardt Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (21 August 1816 – 19 August 1856) was a French chemist, born in Alsace and active in Paris, Montpellier, and his native Strasbourg. Biography He was born in Strasbourg, which is where he attended the gymnasium (an ...

(1818–1856), chemist * Benjamin-Constant Martha (1820–1895), historian * August Kayser (1821–1885), Protestant theologian *

Théophile Schuler Jules Théophile Schuler (18 June 1821 – 26 January 1878) was a French painter and illustrator in the Romantic style. He gave his name to an art award established in 1938. Life The son of a pastor, he studied painting in his hometown, inta ...

(1821–1878), painter and illustrator *

Hippolyte Pradelles Justin Jean-Baptiste Hippolyte Pradelles (29 March 1824 – 6 January 1913) was a French landscape painter. Initially working as a draughtsman and watercolourist, Pradelles later moved into painting, principally producing regional landscapes but ...

(1824–1913), painter *

Oscar Berger-Levrault Oscar François George Berger-Levrault (9 May 1826 in Strasbourg – 24 September 1903 in Nancy) was a French philatelist. The invention of the stamp catalogue is attributed to him and to the Englishman, John Edward Gray. Life Oscar Berger-Lev ...

(1826–1903), philatelist * Charles Netter (1826–1882), French Zionist *

Louis Ratisbonne Louis Gustave Fortuné Ratisbonne (29 July 1827 – 24 September 1900) was a French man of letters. He was born at Strasbourg. He was the son of the banker Adolphe Ratisbonne and his wife Charlotte Oppenheim (daughter of Salomon Oppenheim), and ...

(1827–1900), writer *

Paul Schützenberger Paul Schützenberger (23 December 1829 – 26 June 1897) was a French chemist. He was born in Strasbourg, where his father Georges Frédéric Schützenberger (1779–1859) was professor of law, and his uncle Charles Schützenberger (1809–1881) ...

(1829–1897), chemist *

Frédéric Albert Constantin Weber Frédéric Albert Constantin Weber (17 May 1830 in Wolfisheim – 27 July 1903 in Paris) was a French botanist, who specialized in Cactaceae. In 1852 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Strasbourg with the thesis ''De l'hémor ...

(1830–1903), botanist *

Gustave Doré Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré ( , , ; 6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French artist, as a printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor. He is best known for his prolific output of wood-engraving ...

(1832–1883), painter *

Charles Friedel Charles Friedel (; 12 March 1832 – 20 April 1899) was a French chemist and Mineralogy, mineralogist. Life A native of Strasbourg, France, he was a student of Louis Pasteur at the University of Paris, Sorbonne. In 1876, he became a professor of ...

(1832–1899), chemist and mineralogist *

Frédéric Auguste Lichtenberger Frédéric Auguste Lichtenberger (1832 in Strasbourg – 1899) was a French theologian. Biography He obtained his degree in theology, and was made professor at the University of Strasbourg (1864). In 1877 he was appointed professor in the newly f ...

(1832–1899), theologian *

Mélanie de Pourtalès Mélanie de Pourtalès, Countess Edmond de Pourtalès (''née'' Louise Sophie Mélanie Renouard de Bussière) (26 March 1836 – 5 May 1914) was a French ''salonnière'' and courtier. Early life She was born on 26 March 1836 at the Château de Ro ...

(1836–1914), socialite *

Émile Waldteufel Charles Émile Waldteufel (9 December 1837 – 12 February 1915) was a French pianist, conductor and composer known for his numerous popular Salon music, salon pieces. Life Émile Waldteufel (German for ''forest devil'') was born at 84 Grand ...

(1837–1915), composer *

Édouard Schuré Eduard (Édouard) Schuré (January 21, 1841 in Strasbourg – April 7, 1929 in Paris) was a French philosopher, poet, playwright, novelist, music critic, and publicist of esoteric literature. Biography Schuré was the son of a doctor in ...

(1841–1929), philosopher *

Edward Dannreuther Edward George Dannreuther (4 November 1844, Strasbourg – 12 February 1905, Hastings) was a German pianist and writer on music, resident from 1863 in England. His father had crossed the Atlantic, moving to Cincinnati, and there established a pia ...

(1844–1905), pianist and musicologist * Nicolas Delsor (1847–1927), priest and politician *

Alfred Morel-Fatio Alfred Paul Victor Morel-Fatio (9 January 1850 in Strasbourg, France – 10 October 1924 in Versailles, France) was the leading French Hispanist of his time, educated at École des chartes, Paris. From 1875 to 1880 he was attaché of the departme ...

(1850–1924), hispanist * Jules Martha (1853–1932), archaeologist *

Paul Émile Appell :''M. P. Appell is the same person: it stands for Monsieur Paul Appell''. Paul Émile Appell (27 September 1855, in Strasbourg – 24 October 1930, in Paris) was a French mathematician and Rector of the University of Paris. Appell polynomials and ...

(1855–1930), mathematician *

Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (12 May 1856 – 9 September 1901) was a German botanist and phytogeographer who made major contributions in the fields of histology, ecology and plant geography. He travelled to South East Asia and the Caribbea ...

(1856–1901), botanist and phytogeographer *

Léon Wieger Léon Wieger (born 9 July 1856 in Strasbourg, France - died 25 March 1933 in Xian County, Hebei, China), was a French Jesuit missionary, medical doctor, theologist and sinologist who worked at the Catholic Jesuit mission in Hejian, together with ...

(1856–1933), Jesuit missionary, medical doctor, theologist and sinologist * Charles de Foucauld (1858–1916), Christian mystic *

Charles Diehl Charles Diehl (; 19 January 1859 – 1 November 1944) was a French historian born in Strasbourg. He was a leading authority on Byzantine art and history. Biography He received his education at the École Normale Supérieure, and later taught cla ...

(1859–1944), historian *

Hugo Becker Hugo Becker (born Jean Otto Eric Hugo Becker, 13 February 1863, died 30 July 1941) was a prominent German cellist, cello teacher, and composer. He studied at a young age with Alfredo Piatti, and later Friedrich Grützmacher in Dresden. Biograp ...

(1863–1941), cellist, cello teacher, and composer *

Charles Andler Charles Philippe Théodore Andler (11 March 1866, Strasbourg – 1 April 1933, Malesherbes, Loiret) was a French Germanist and philosopher. Life Andler was born to a Protestant family in Strasbourg.Antoinette Blum, 'Charles Andler (1866-1933)', in ...

(1866–1933), germanist and philosopher *

Eugène Wilhelm Eugène Wilhelm in French, or in German Eugen Wilhelm (Strasbourg, 1866–1951) was a French-German lawyer and sexologist. Early life Wilhelm was born in Strasbourg in a Protestant family.Mirande Lucien, Patrick Cardon, ''Georges Eekhoud: un illu ...

(1866–1951), lawyer, judge and writer * Ernest Henri Demanne (1870–1938), comedian *

André Lichtenberger André Lichtenberger (29 November 1870, Strasbourg – 23 March 1940, Paris) was a French novelist and sociologist. He held a Doctor of Letters in history. He was the son of theologian Frédéric Auguste Lichtenberger. Published works *''Le Soci ...

(1870–1940), novelist and sociologist *

Helmar Lerski Helmar Lerski (18 February 1871, in Strasbourg – 19 September 1956, in Zürich) was a photographer who laid some of the important foundations of modern photography. His works are on display in the USA, Germany, Israel and Switzerland. He focus ...

(1871–1956), photographer *

Heinrich Emil Timerding Heinrich Carl Franz Emil Timerding (23 January 1873 in Strasbourg (On the occasion of his 70th birthday) – 30 April 1945 in Braunschweig) was a German mathematician, professor at the Braunschweig University of Technology, mainly known for h ...

(1873–1945), mathematician *

Heinrich Liebmann Karl Otto Heinrich Liebmann (* 22. October 1874 in Strasbourg; † 12. June 1939 in Munich-Solln) was a German mathematician and geometer. Life Liebmann was the son of Otto Liebmann (1840–1912), a Jewish neo-Kantian philosophy professor i ...

(1874–1939), mathematician and geometer * Max Looff (1874–1954), naval officer *

Karl Wendling Karl/Carl Wendling ( entling (10 August 1875, Strasbourg – 27 March 1962, Stuttgart) was a German violinist and musical educator. He studied in his hometown with Heinrich Schuster and , and later in Berlin with Carl Halir and Joseph Joachi ...

(1875–1962), violinist and musical educator *

Léo Schnug Léo Schnug (17 February 1878, Strasbourg Strasbourg (, , ; german: Straßburg ; gsw, label=Bas Rhin Alsatian, Strossburi , gsw, label=Haut Rhin Alsatian, Strossburig ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of e ...

(1878–1933), painter and illustrator *

Karl Klingler Karl Klingler (7 December 1879 – 18 March 1971) was a German violinist, concertmaster, composer, music teacher and lecturer. Life Early years Karl Klingler was born in Strasbourg, at that time in Germany, the fifth of his parents' six re ...

(1879–1971), violinist and composer *

Émile Mathis Ernest Charles "Émile" Mathis (15 March 1880 – 3 August 1956) was a French businessman who founded the car firm Mathis in 1910. (Before the frontier moved in 1919, he would have considered himself a German businessman and the car firm was a ...

(1880–1956), car manufacturer *

Richard Laqueur Richard Laqueur (27 March 1881 – 25 November 1959) was a German historian and philologist born in Strassburg. He studied classical literature and history at the Universities of Bonn and Strassburg, and in 1904 received his doctorate of philosoph ...

(1881–1959), historian and philologist *

Elisabeth Abegg Luise Wilhelmine Elisabeth Abegg (; 3 March 1882 – 8 August 1974) was a German educator and resistance fighter against Nazism. She provided shelter to around 80 Jews during the Holocaust and was consequently recognised as Righteous Among the N ...

(1882–1974), educator and Nazi resistance fighter *

Ernst Damzog Ernst Damzog (30 October 1882 – 24 July 1945) was a German policeman, who was a member of the SS of Nazi Germany and served in the Gestapo. He was responsible for the mass murder of Poles and Jews committed in the territory of occupied Polan ...

(1882–1945), Brigadeführer of the SS *

Robert Redslob Robert Redslob (3 February 1882 – 6 June 1962) was a German-French constitutional and public international law-scientist who was critical of the French constitution in the early twentieth century. He was born in Straßburg in Elsass-Lothringen. ...

(1882–1962), constitutional and public international law-scientist * Georges Weill (1882–1970), German politician who defected to France * Paul Gröber (1885–1964), geologist * Jean/Hans Arp (1886–1966), artist *

René Beeh René Beeh (, January 1886 − 23 January 1922) was a German draughtsman and painter from Alsace. He was held in high esteem by his contemporaries and called "the coming genius" (''das kommende Genie'') by art historian Wilhelm Hausenstein, but ...

(1886–1822), painter and draughtsman *

Robert Heger Robert Heger (19 August 1886 – 14 January 1978) was a German conductor and composer from Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine. Life and career He studied at the Conservatory of Strasbourg under Franz Stockhausen, then in Zurich under Lothar ...

(1886–1978), conductor *

Hilla von Rebay Hildegard Anna Augusta Elisabeth Freiin Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, known as Baroness Hilla von Rebay or simply Hilla Rebay (31 May 1890 – 27 September 1967), was an abstract artist in the early 20th century and co-founder and first director of the ...

(1890–1967), artist, museum director *

Jules Kruger Jules Kruger (1891–1959) was a French cinematographer. He is known particularly for films which he photographed in the 1920s and 1930s for Abel Gance, Marcel L'Herbier, Raymond Bernard, and Julien Duvivier. He also worked in Great Britain and in ...

(1891–1959), cinematographer * Charles Münch (1891–1968), conductor *

Friedrich-Georg Eberhardt Friedrich-Georg Eberhardt (15 January 1892 – 9 September 1964) was a German ''Generalleutnant'' who commanded several division (military), divisions during World War II. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. History He command ...

(1892–1964), general *

Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger (8 May 1894 – 10 May 1945) was a German war criminal and paramilitary commander acting as a high-ranking member of the SA and the SS. Between 1939 and 1943 he was the Higher SS and Police Leader in the General Govern ...

(1894–1945), Nazi official and high-ranking member of the SA and the SS *

Marcelle Cahn Marcelle Cahn (March 1, 1895 - September 20, 1981) was a French painter and one of the members of Abstraction-Création. She was born in a Jewish family of Strasbourg, Alsace Hans-Georg von Friedeburg Hans-Georg von Friedeburg (15 July 1895 – 23 May 1945) was a German admiral, the deputy commander of the U-boat Forces of Nazi Germany and the second-to-last Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine. He was the only representative of the armed ...

(1895–1945), admiral of the ''

Kriegsmarine The (, ) was the navy of Germany from 1935 to 1945. It superseded the Imperial German Navy of the German Empire (1871–1918) and the inter-war (1919–1935) of the Weimar Republic. The was one of three official branches, along with the a ...

'' * Paul Alverdes (1897–1979), novelist and poet * Rudolf Schwarz (1897–1961), architect

After 1900

Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt (1 November 1901 – 15 August 1988) was a German composer, musicologist, and historian and critic of music. Life Stuckenschmidt was born in Strasbourg. At as early an age as 19, he was the Berlin-based music criti ...

(1901–1988), musicologist *

Hans Bethe Hans Albrecht Bethe (; July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005) was a German-American theoretical physicist who made major contributions to nuclear physics, astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics, and solid-state physics, and who won the 1967 Nobel Prize ...

(1906–2005), physicist, Nobel Prize winner *

Gerolf Steiner Gerolf Steiner (22 March 1908 – 14 August 2009) was a German zoologist. Life and career Steiner was born in Strasbourg, Alsace in March 1908. He earned his doctorate in 1931 at the University of Heidelberg. He completed his habilitation in 1942 ...

(1908–2009), zoologist *

Hans-Otto Meissner Hans-Otto Meissner (4 June 1909 – 8 September 1992) was a German lawyer and Nazi diplomat, posted in London, Tokyo, Moscow, and Milan, among other cities. He is best known as a writer and novelist publishing a series of books, which proved succes ...

(1909–1992), writer *

Max Bense Max Bense (7 February 1910 in Strasbourg – 29 April 1990 in Stuttgart) was a German philosopher, writer, and publicist, known for his work in philosophy of science, logic, aesthetics, and semiotics. His thoughts combine natural sciences, art, a ...

(1910–1990), philosopher *

Georges Loinger Georges Loinger (29 August 1910 – 28 December 2018) was a French soldier during World War II. During his time in the French Resistance, he helped hundreds of Jewish children escape from German military administration in occupied France during W ...

(1910–2018), member of the

French Resistance The French Resistance (french: La Résistance) was a collection of organisations that fought the German occupation of France during World War II, Nazi occupation of France and the Collaborationism, collaborationist Vichy France, Vichy régim ...

Jean-Paul de Dadelsen Jean-Paul de Dadelsen, (20 August 1913 Strasbourg – 23 June 1957 Zurich) was a French schoolmaster, officer, journalist, broadcaster and poet. He was an early supporter of a European Common Market and adviser to Jean Monnet. Biography Youth D ...

(1913–1957), poet and journalist *

Antoinette Becker Antoinette Becker (born Antoinette Mathis, 5 April 1920 – 29 August 1998) was a French-German author, especially of books for children and young people. She also translated, such as Aribert Reimann's opera ''Lear''. Career Born Antoinette Ma ...

(1920–1998), writer and translator * Jacques Martin (1921–2010), comic-book artist *

Germain Muller Germain Muller (July 23, 1923 in Strasbourg – October 10, 1994 in Strasbourg), was a French playwright, poet, songwriter, actor, humourist, politician and a prominent figure in Alsace, Alsatian culture. In 1946, he cofounded ''De Barabli'' (The U ...

(1923–1994), playwright, songwriter, poet, actor, humourist, politician *

Marcel Marceau Marcel Marceau (; born Marcel Mangel; 22 March 1923 – 22 September 2007) was a French actor and mime artist most famous for his stage persona, "Bip the Clown". He referred to mime as the "art of silence", and he performed professionally worldw ...

(1923–2007), mime *

Serge Leclaire Serge Leclaire (born Serge Liebschutz; 6 July 1924 – 8 August 1994) was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Initially analyzed by Jacques Lacan, he 'became the first French "Lacanian"'. Subsequently, he developed into 'one of the most respe ...

(1924–1994), psychiatrist and psychoanalyst * Pierre Weil (1924–2008), psychologist and educator * Noah Klieger (1926–2018), journalist *

Francis Rapp Francis Rapp (27 June 1926 – 29 March 2020) was a French medievalist specializing in the history of Alsace and medieval Germany. An ''emeritus'' university professor, he was a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres since 199 ...

(1926–2020), historian *

Claude Rich Claude Rich (8 February 1929 – 20 July 2017) was a French stage and screen actor. He began his career in the theater before his film debut in 1955. Personal life He married actress Catherine Renaudin on 26 June 1959. They had two daughters, ...

(1929–2017), actor *

Tomi Ungerer Jean-Thomas "Tomi" Ungerer (; 28 November 1931 – 9 February 2019) was an Alsatians (people), Alsatian artist and writer. He published over 140 books ranging from children's books to adult works and from the fantastic to the autobiographical. H ...

(1931–2019), writer, illustrator and caricaturist *

Solange Fernex Solange Fernex (15 April 1934 – 11 September 2006) was a French environmental and pacifist activist and politician. One of the environmental movement's pioneers in Europe, she helped found the French Green Party and was a member of the European ...

(1934–2006), politician *

Liliane Ackermann Liliane Aimée Ackermann (''née'' Weil) (1938–2007) was a French microbiologist, Jewish Community pioneer, leader, writer, and lecturer. Early life and education Liliane Ackermann was born on September 3, 1938, in Strasbourg, France, the da ...

(1938–2007), French Jewish community leader *

Gilbert Gress Gilbert Gress (born 17 December 1941) is a French football coach and a former player. He was the mentor of Arsène Wenger. Club career Gress was born in Strasbourg. He began his professional football career in the city of his birth with RC St ...

(born 1941), football coach * Jean-Pierre Hubert (1941–2006), author *

Isoldé Elchlepp Waltraud Isoldé Elchlepp (born 20 May 1942) is a German protest song singer under the pseudonym Dominique, and an operatic mezzo-soprano and soprano who appeared at major German opera houses and festivals including the Bayreuth Festival. She ...

(born 1942) German protest song singer, and operatic mezzo-soprano and soprano *

Wolfgang Huber Wolfgang Huber (born 12 August 1942 in Strasbourg, Germany) is a prominent German theologian and ethicist. Huber served as bishop of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia until November 2009. Huber succeeded Man ...

(born 1942), theologian and ethicist * Bob Wollek (1943–2001), rally driver *

Herbert Léonard Herbert Léonard (; born 25 February 1945 in Strasbourg, France) né Hubert Lœnhard is principally known as a singer, however, he is also a specialist of Russian airplanes from World War II. His first success "Quelque chose tient mon cœur" (So ...

(born 1945), singer *

Joseph Daul Joseph Alexander Daul (born 13 April 1947) is a French politician who served as President of the European People's Party (EPP) from 2013 to 2019. He previously served as Leader of the EPP Group in the European Parliament from 2007 to 2014 and a ...

(born 1947), politician *

Thierry Mugler Manfred Thierry Mugler (; 21 December 1948 – 23 January 2022) was a French fashion designer, creative director and creative adviser of Mugler. In the 1970s, Mugler launched his eponymous fashion house; and quickly rose to prominence in the fo ...

(1948–2022), fashion designer * Francis Wurtz (born 1948), politician *

Michel Warschawski Michel Warschawski (Mikado) ( he, מיכאל ורשבסקי (מיקאדו); born 25 July 1949) is an Israeli anti-Zionist activist. He led the Marxist Revolutionary Communist League (previously Matzpen-Jerusalem) until its demise in the 1990s, an ...

(born 1949), Israeli anti-Zionist writer and activist *

Arsène Wenger Arsène Charles Ernest Wenger (; born 22 October 1949) is a French former association football, football Manager (association football), manager and football player, player who is currently serving as FIFA's Chief of Global Football Developme ...

OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

(born 1949), football manager *

Jean-Marie Bockel Jean-Marie Bockel (born 22 June 1950) is a French politician who served as Secretary of State for Defence and Veterans in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon appointed on 18 March 2008, having previously been Secretary of State ...

(born 1950), politician *

Catherine Trautmann Catherine Trautmann (born 15 January 1951 in Strasbourg) is a French politician for the French Socialist Party. She served as Minister of Culture of France in the Lionel Jospin cabinet 1997–2000 and was a Member of the European Parliament 19 ...

(born 1951), politician *

Patrice Meyer ''Patrice Meyer'' (b. 18 December 1957) is a French electric guitarist active in Jazz, Jazz rock, Progressive rock and Canterbury scene bands. History ''Patrice Meyer'' was born in Strasbourg in the Alsace region of France. He began teaching hi ...

(born 1957), guitarist * Elizabeth Sombart (born 1958), pianist *

Alain Weill Alain Weill (born 6 April 1961) is a French business executive. He is the founder, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of NextRadioTV (which includes BFM TV and Radio Monte Carlo) and Chairman and CEO of SFR Group. Early life Al ...

(born 1961), business executive * Patrick Cahuzac (born 1963), writer, winner of the

Prix Fénéon The Fénéon Prize (''Prix Fénéon''), established in 1949, is awarded annually to a French-language writer and a visual artist no older than 35 years of age. The prize was established by Fanny Fénéon, the widow of French art critic Félix Fén� ...

for literature in 1990 * Emmanuel Villaume (born 1964), conductor *

Carole Richert Carole Richert (born 28 September 1967) is a French actress. She studied at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Paris. She played Marie-France in the series '' Clem Clem may refer to: Places *Clem, Oregon, United States, an unincorp ...

(born 1967), actress * Christophe Ohrel (born 1968), football player * Philippe Schaaf (born 1968), handball player * Eliette Abécassis (born 1969), writer *

Yann Wehrling Yann Wehrling (born 3 July 1971) is a French illustrator and politician of the Democratic Movement (MoDem). He previously was a member and former leader of the political party The Greens. Education and early activism In 1988 Wehrling joined the ...

(born 1971), artist and leader of the French Green Party * Elif Şafak (born 1971), writer *

Alexis Kohler Alexis Kohler, full name Arnaud Alexis Michel Kohler, (born 16 November 1972, Strasbourg) is a French special adviser, senior official, and politician. Énarque, former director of cabinet of Pierre Moscovici then of Emmanuel Macron at the Minist ...

(born 1972), politician *

Valérien Ismaël Valérien Alexandre Ismaël (born 28 September 1975) is a professional football coach and a former professional player who most recently managed Turkish club Beşiktaş. During his playing career, Ismaël played for Racing Strasbourg, Crystal ...

(born 1975), football player * Armando Teixeira (born 1976), football player *

Mehdi Baala Mehdi Baala ( ar, مهدي بعلة; born 17 August 1978 in Strasbourg) is a French, middle-distance runner competing mainly in the 1500 metres event. Baala has won several major international championships medals in the 1500 metres event – a ...

(born 1978), athlete * Blandine Brocard (born 1981), politician *

Paul-Henri Mathieu Paul-Henri Mathieu (; born 12 January 1982) is a French former professional tennis player. He won four singles titles on the ATP Tour. His best singles performance in an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament was reaching the semifinals of the ...

(born 1982), tennis player * Antoine Grauss (born 1984), football player *

Pio Marmaï Pio Marmaï (born 13 July 1984) is a French actor. He has appeared in more than twenty films since 2008. Early life and education Marmaï was born on 13 July 1984. His mother is a former costume designer at the Opéra de Strasbourg, and his f ...

(born 1984), actor *

Karim Matmour Karim Matmour ( ar, كريم مطمور; born 25 June 1985) is an Algerian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. During his playing time career, Matmour played for SC Freiburg, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Eintrach ...

(born 1985), football player * Laura Weissbecker (born 1984), actress *

M. Pokora Matthieu Tota (; born 26 September 1985), artistically known as Matt Pokora and later M. Pokora (), is a French pop and R&B singer. In 2016, he became a coach for ''The Voice Kids France'' and '' The Voice: la plus belle voix''. Early life ...

(born 1985), singer * Candice Didier (born 1988), figure skater *

Jonathan Schmid Jonathan Schmid (born 22 June 1990) is a French professional Association football, footballer who plays as a midfielder or right back for Bundesliga club SC Freiburg. Early and personal life Schmid was born in 1990 in Strasbourg to an Austrian f ...

(born 1990), football player

Notable residents of Strasbourg

{{Further, University of Strasbourg#Notable academics and alumni, by year of birth, Observatory of Strasbourg#Notable astronomers, List of bishops, prince-bishops and archbishops of Strasbourg Gutenberg

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Josef Stieler)

Prince Klemens Lothar von Metternich-Winneburg

Hans Pfitzner par Lothar von Seebach (1)

Albert Schweitzer, Etching by Arthur William Heintzelman

Meister Eckhart Eckhart von Hochheim ( – ), commonly known as Meister Eckhart, Master Eckhart

(1467–1536), humanist *

Hans Baldung Hans Baldung (1484 or 1485 – September 1545), called Hans Baldung Grien, (being an early nickname, because of his predilection for the colour green), was a painter, printer, engraver, draftsman, and stained glass artist, who was considered th ...

(1484–1545), painter * Beatus Rhenanus (1485–1547), humanist *

Caspar Schwenckfeld Caspar (or Kaspar) Schwen(c)kfeld von Ossig () (1489 or 1490 – 10 December 1561) was a German theologian, writer, physician, naturalist, and preacher who became a Protestant Reformer and spiritualist. He was one of the earliest promoters of ...

(1489–1561), theologian *

Martin Bucer Martin Bucer ( early German: ''Martin Butzer''; 11 November 1491 – 28 February 1551) was a German Protestant reformer based in Strasbourg who influenced Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican doctrines and practices. Bucer was originally a me ...

(1491–1551), Reformation leader *

Johannes Sleidanus Johannes Sleidanus or Sleidan (1506 – 31 October 1556) was a Luxembourgeois historian and annalist of the Reformation. Life He was born at Schleiden, then part of the duchy of Luxembourg, an element of the Spanish Netherlands (not far from Aach ...

(1506–1556), German historian, the annalist of the

Reformation The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in ...

Johannes Sturm Johannes Sturm (also known as Jean Sturm; Latinized as Ioannes Sturmius; 1 October 1507 – 3 March 1589), was a German educator and Protestant reformer, who was influential in the design of the gymnasium system of secondary education. Biogr ...

(1507–1589), teacher and pedagogue *

John Calvin John Calvin (; frm, Jehan Cauvin; french: link=no, Jean Calvin ; 10 July 150927 May 1564) was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system ...

(1509–1564), Reformation leader *

Michael Servetus Michael Servetus (; es, Miguel Serveto as real name; french: Michel Servet; also known as ''Miguel Servet'', ''Miguel de Villanueva'', ''Revés'', or ''Michel de Villeneuve''; 29 September 1509 or 1511 – 27 October 1553) was a Spanish th ...

(1511–1553), Spanish theologian, physician and humanist *

Joachim Meyer Joachim Meyer (ca. 1537–1571) was a self described Freifechter (literally, Free Fencer) living in the then Free Imperial City of Strasbourg in the 16th century and the author of a fechtbuch '' Gründtliche Beschreibung der Kunst des Fechten ...

(1537?–1571), fencer, author of an influential

fechtbuch Martial arts manuals are instructions, with or without illustrations, specifically designed to be learnt from a book. Many books detailing specific techniques of martial arts are often erroneously called manuals but were written as treatises. Pros ...

Tobias Stimmer Tobias Stimmer (7 April 1539 – 4 January 1584In the old style.) was a Swiss painter and illustrator. His most famous work is the paintings on the Strasbourg astronomical clock. Biography He was born in Schaffhausen, and was active in Sch ...

(1539–1584), Swiss painter *

Johann Carolus Johann Carolus (26 March 1575 − 15 August 1634) was a German publisher of the first newspaper, called ''Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien'' (Account of all distinguished and commemorable stories). The ''Relation'' is re ...

(1575–1634), German publisher *

François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie François-Marie, duc de Broglie, (11 January 167122 May 1745) was a French military leader. Biography Early years François-Marie de Broglie was the third son of Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, named for his grandfather, François Marie. He ...

(1671–1745), marshall and governor of Strasbourg *

Johann Daniel Schöpflin Johann Daniel Schöpflin (6 September 1694, Sulzburg – 7 August 1771, Strasbourg) was a professor of history, rhetoric and law at the University of Strasbourg. He was one of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s teachers. Biography Schöpflin was w ...

(1694–1771), historian and jurist, Goethe's teacher at

Strasbourg University The University of Strasbourg (french: Université de Strasbourg, Unistra) is a public research university located in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, with over 52,000 students and 3,300 researchers. The French university traces its history to the ea ...

Franz Xaver Richter Franz (Czech: František) Xaver Richter, known as ''François Xavier Richter'' in France (December 1, 1709 – September 12, 1789) was an Austro-Moravian singer, violinist, composer, conductor and music theoretician who spent most of his life fir ...

(1709–1789), composer, eminent member of the Mannheim school *

Johann Hermann Johann, or Jean-Frederic, Hermann, or Herrmann, (31 December 1738 in Barr, Alsace – 4 October 1800 in Strasbourg) was a French physician and naturalist. In 1769 he was appointed professor of medicine at the School of Public Health of Strasbou ...

(1738–1800), French physician and naturalist *

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as trea ...

(1749–1832), poet, playwright, novelist, researcher *

Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (23 January 1751, or 12 January in the Julian calendar – 4 June 1792, or 24 May in the Julian calendar) was a Baltic German writer of the ''Sturm und Drang'' movement. Life Lenz was born in Sesswegen (Cesvaine), ...

(1751–1792), poet * King

Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria Maximilian I Joseph (german: Maximilian I. Joseph; 27 May 1756 – 13 October 1825) was Duke of Zweibrücken from 1795 to 1799, prince-elector of Bavaria (as Maximilian IV Joseph) from 1799 to 1806, then King of Bavaria (as Maximilian I Joseph) ...

(1756–1825), spent several years in Strasbourg *

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...

(1756–1791), composer, spent 23 days there in 1778 *

Ignaz Pleyel Ignace Joseph Pleyel (; ; 18 June 1757 – 14 November 1831) was an Austrian-born French composer, music publisher and piano builder of the Classical period. Life Early years He was born in in Lower Austria, the son of a schoolmaster named Ma ...

(1757–1831), served as ''Kapellmeister'' at the Cathedral in 1789 *

Maximilian von Montgelas Maximilian Karl Joseph Franz de Paula Hieronymus de Garnerin de la Thuile, Count von Montgelas (german: Maximilian Karl Joseph Franz de Paula Hieronymus de Garnerin de la Thuille Graf von Montgelas; 12 September 1759 Munich – 14 June 1838 ...

(1759–1838), Bavarian statesman *

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (), sometimes spelled de l'Isle or de Lile (10 May 1760 – 26 June 1836), was a French army officer of the French Revolutionary Wars. He is known for writing the words and music of the ''Chant de guerre pour l'armé ...

(1760–1836), composer of the ''

Marseillaise "La Marseillaise" is the national anthem of France. The song was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by France against Austria, and was originally titled "Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du R ...

'' *

Klemens von Metternich Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein ; german: Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar Fürst von Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein (15 May 1773 – 11 June 1859), known as Klemens von Metternich or Prince Metternic ...

(1773–1859), studied in Strasbourg from 1788 to 1790 *

Georg Büchner Karl Georg Büchner (17 October 1813 – 19 February 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement. He was also a revolutionary and the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchn ...

(1813–1837), writer *

Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (; 18 March 1830 – 12 September 1889) was a French historian. Joseph M. McCarthy argues that his first great book, '' The Ancient City'' (1864), was based on his in-depth knowledge of the primary Greek and Latin te ...

(1830–1889), historian *

Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur (, ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, the latter of which was named afte ...

(1830–1895), scientist *

Viktor Nessler Viktor (or Victor) Ernst Nessler (28 January 1841 – 28 May 1890) was an Alsatian composer who worked mainly in Leipzig. Nessler was born at Baldenheim near Sélestat, Alsace. At Strasbourg he began his university career with the study of t ...

(1841–1890), composer *

Lujo Brentano Lujo Brentano (; ; 18 December 1844 – 9 September 1931) was an eminent German economist and social reformer. Biography Lujo Brentano, born in Aschaffenburg into a distinguished German Catholic intellectual family (originally of Italian descen ...

(1844–1931), economist *

Karl Ferdinand Braun Karl Ferdinand Braun (; 6 June 1850 – 20 April 1918) was a German electrical engineer, inventor, physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. Braun contributed significantly to the development of radio and television technology: he shared the ...

(1850–1918), physicist, Nobel Prize * Albrecht Kossel (1853–1927), medical doctor, Nobel Prize *

Georg Simmel Georg Simmel (; ; 1 March 1858 – 26 September 1918) was a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic. Simmel was influential in the field of sociology. Simmel was one of the first generation of German sociologists: his neo-Kantian approach l ...

(1858–1918), sociologist *

Georges Friedel Georges Friedel (19 July 1865 – 11 December 1933) was a French Mineralogy, mineralogist and Crystallography, crystallographer. Life Georges was the son of the chemist Charles Friedel. Georges' grandfather was Georges Louis Duvernoy, Louis Geor ...

(1865–1933), mineralogist, son of

Hans Pfitzner Hans Erich Pfitzner (5 May 1869 – 22 May 1949) was a German composer, conductor and polemicist who was a self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera ''Palestrina'' (1917), loosely based on the life of the s ...

(1869–1949), composer *

Fritz Beblo Friedrich Karl Ewald Beblo (10 November 1872, Breslau – 11 April 1947, Munich) was a German city planner, architect and painter. Early life and education His father, Emil Beblo, was a secondary school teacher. Fritz was a class comrade of ac ...

(1872–1947), architect *

Jean-Jacques Waltz Jean-Jacques Waltz (23 February 1873, Colmar – 10 June 1951), also known as "''Oncle Hansi''", or simply "Hansi" ("little John") was a French artist of Alsatian origin. He was a staunch pro-French activist, and is famous for his quaint drawings, ...

aka Hansi (1873–1951), artist * Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965), theologian, philosopher, physician and musician *

Paul Rohmer Paul Rohmer (1 November 1876 – 2 March 1977) was an Alsace, Alsacian physician considered the father of modern pædiatrics in eastern France after World War I. Life Rohmer was born in Huttenheim, Alsace-Lorraine, part of the German Empire, ...

(1876–1977), physician, considered as one of the fathers of modern paediatrics *

Maurice Halbwachs Maurice Halbwachs (; 11 March 1877 – 16 March 1945) was a French philosopher and sociologist known for developing the concept of collective memory. Halbwachs also contributed to the sociology of knowledge with his ''La Topographie Legendaire de ...

(1877–1945), sociologist *

Otto Meißner Otto Lebrecht Eduard Daniel Meissner (13 March 1880, Bischwiller, Alsace – 27 May 1953, Munich) was head of the Office of the President of Germany from 1920 to 1945 during nearly the entire period of the Weimar Republic under Friedrich Ebert a ...

(1880–1953), politician, father of

Otto Klemperer Otto Nossan Klemperer (14 May 18856 July 1973) was a 20th-century conductor and composer, originally based in Germany, and then the US, Hungary and finally Britain. His early career was in opera houses, but he was later better known as a concer ...

(1885–1973), conductor *

Marc Bloch Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch (; ; 6 July 1886 – 16 June 1944) was a French historian. He was a founding member of the Annales School of French social history. Bloch specialised in medieval history and published widely on Medieval France ov ...

(1886–1944), historian and resistant *

Hans Rosbaud Hans Rosbaud (22 July 1895 – 29 December 1962) was an Austrian conductor, particularly associated with the music of the twentieth century. Biography Rosbaud was born in Graz. As children, he and his brother Paul Rosbaud performed with their ...

(1895–1962), conductor *

George Szell George Szell (; June 7, 1897 – July 30, 1970), originally György Széll, György Endre Szél, or Georg Szell, was a Hungarian-born American conductor and composer. He is widely considered one of the twentieth century's greatest condu ...

(1897–1970), conductor *

Emmanuel Lévinas Emmanuel Levinas (; ; 12 January 1906 – 25 December 1995) was a French philosopher of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry who is known for his work within Jewish philosophy, existentialism, and phenomenology, focusing on the relationship of ethics to ...

(1906–1995), philosopher *

Maurice Blanchot Maurice Blanchot (; ; 22 September 1907 – 20 February 2003) was a French writer, philosopher and literary theorist. His work, exploring a philosophy of death alongside poetic theories of meaning and sense, bore significant influence on post- ...

(1907–2003), writer and philosopher *

Pierre Pflimlin Pierre Eugène Jean Pflimlin (; 5 February 1907 – 27 June 2000) was a French Christian Democrat politician who served as the Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic for a few weeks in 1958, before being replaced by Charles de Gaulle during the ...

(1907–2000), politician *

Lucie Aubrac Lucie Samuel (29 June 1912 – 14 March 2007), born Lucie Bernard, and better known as Lucie Aubrac (), was a French history teacher and member of the French Resistance during World War II. In 1938, she earned an agrégation of history (somethi ...

(born 1912) and

Raymond Aubrac Raymond Aubrac (31 July 1914 – 10 April 2012) was a leader of the French Resistance during the Second World War and a civil engineer after the Second World War. Early life Aubrac was born Raymond Samuel into a middle-class Jewish family in Ves ...

(born 1914), founding members of the

Résistance The French Resistance (french: La Résistance) was a collection of organisations that fought the German occupation of France during World War II, Nazi occupation of France and the Collaborationism, collaborationist Vichy France, Vichy régim ...

Antoinette Feuerwerker Antoinette Feuerwerker (24 November 1912 – 10 February 2003) was a French jurist and an active fighter in the French Resistance during the Second World War. Early years Antoinette (Antonia, Toni, Toibe Rochel) Gluck was born in Antwerp (Borg ...

(1912–2003), jurist, member of the Résistance *

Ernest Bour Ernest Bour (20 April 1913 - 20 June 2001) was a noted conductor. Born in Thionville, Moselle (in north-eastern Lorraine, then part of Germany), Bour studied at both the University and the Conservatoire of Strasbourg. His conducting teachers incl ...

(1913–2001), conductor *

Paul Ricoeur Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chris ...

(1913–2005), philosopher *

Salomon Gluck Abraham Salomon Glück (5 November 1914 – c. 20 May 1944) was a French physician and a member of the French Resistance. Biography His ancestors His father was a direct descendant of Hasidic Masters, going back to the Magid Dov Ber of M ...

(1914–1944), physician, member of the Résistance *

Rose Warfman Rose Warfman (née Gluck; 4 October 1916 – 17 September 2016) was a French survivor of Auschwitz and member of the French Resistance. Biography Early life Gluck was born on 4 March 1916 in Zürich, Switzerland, the daughter of Pinhas Gluc ...

(born 1916), nurse, survivor of Auschwitz and member of the Résistance *

Hélène Boschi Hélène Boschi ( ; 11 August 19179 July 1990) was a Franco-Swiss pianist, born in Lausanne. She studied with Yvonne Lefébure and Alfred Cortot at the Ecole normale de musique in Paris. Throughout her life she led a dual career as a teacher and as ...

(1917–1990) pianist *

René Thom René Frédéric Thom (; 2 September 1923 – 25 October 2002) was a French mathematician, who received the Fields Medal in 1958. He made his reputation as a topologist, moving on to aspects of what would be called singularity theory; he became w ...

(1923–2002), mathematician *

Guy Debord Guy-Ernest Debord (; ; 28 December 1931 – 30 November 1994) was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, critic of work, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationis ...

(1931–1994), philosopher *

Sarkis Zabunyan Sarkis Zabunyan ( hy, Սարգիս Զաբունյան), known as Sarkis, ( hy, Սարգիս; born September 26, 1938) is a French conceptual artist. Biography Born in Istanbul in 1938, Sarkis studied French, painting and interior design bef ...

(born 1938), painter *

Alberto Fujimori Alberto Kenya Fujimori Inomoto ( or ; born 28 July 1938) is a Peruvian politician, professor and former engineer who was President of Peru from 28 July 1990 until 22 November 2000. Frequently described as a dictator, * * * * * * he remains a ...

(born 1938), Peruvian president *

Jean-Marie Lehn Jean-Marie Lehn (born 30 September 1939) is a French chemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen in 1987 for his synthesis of cryptands. Lehn was an early innovator in the field of supramolec ...

(born 1939), Nobel Prize for chemistry 1987 * Alain Lombard (born 1940), conductor *

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe ( , ; 6 March 1940 – 28 January 2007) was a French philosopher. He was also a literary critic and translator. Lacoue-Labarthe published several influential works with his friend Jean-Luc Nancy. Lacoue-Labarthe was ...

(1940–2007), philosopher *

Jean-Luc Nancy Jean-Luc Nancy ( , ; 26 July 1940 – 23 August 2021) was a French philosopher. Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was ''Le titre de la lettre'' (''The Title of the Letter'', 1992), a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Laca ...

(born 1940), philosopher *

Jules Hoffmann Jules A. Hoffmann (; born 2 August 1941) is a Luxembourg-born French biologist. During his youth, growing up in Luxembourg, he developed a strong interest in insects under the influence of his father, Jos Hoffmann. This eventually resulted in the y ...

(born 1941), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011 *

Georges Aperghis Georges Aperghis ( el, Γιώργος Απέργης; born 23 December 1945) is a Greek composer working primarily in the field of experimental music theater but has also composed a large amount of non- programmatic chamber music. He lives in Fr ...

(born 1945), composer * Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948–1989), playwright *

Barbara Honigmann Barbara Honigmann (born 12 February 1949 in East Berlin) is a German author, artist and theater director. Honigmann is the daughter of Jewish emigrant parents, who returned to East Berlin in 1947 after a period of exile in Great Britain. Her pare ...

(born 1949), German writer and painter *

Pierre Moerlen Pierre Moerlen (23 October 1952, Colmar, Haut-Rhin – 3 May 2005, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, near Strasbourg) was a French drummer and percussionist, best known for his work with Gong and Mike Oldfield and as Pierre Moerlen's Gong. Biography P ...

(1952–2005), musician *

Ségolène Royal Marie-Ségolène Royal (; born 22 September 1953) is a French politician who was the Socialist Party candidate for the Presidency of France in the 2007 election. Royal was president of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council from 2004 to 2014 ...

(born 1953), leading member of the ''Parti Socialiste'', went to school in Strasbourg *

Thomas Ebbesen Thomas Ebbesen (born 30 January 1954 in Oslo) is a Franco-Norwegian physical chemist and professor at the University of Strasbourg in France, known for his pioneering work in nanoscience. He received the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience “for transforma ...

(born 1954), physical chemist * John Howe (born 1957), artist *

Mireille Delunsch Mireille Delunsch (born 2 November 1962) is a French soprano. She was born in Mulhouse, and studied musicology and voice at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg. Her debut was at the Opéra national du Rhin in Mulhouse, in Mussorgsky's '' Boris Godun ...

(born 1962), soprano *

Marjane Satrapi Marjane Satrapi (; fa, مرجان ساتراپی ; born 22 November 1969) is a French-Iranian graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author. Her best-known works include the graphic novel ''Persepolis'' a ...

(born 1969), comic-strip artist

Strasbourg Strasbourg (, , ; german: Straßburg ; gsw, label=Bas Rhin Alsatian, Strossburi , gsw, label=Haut Rhin Alsatian, Strossburig ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France and the official seat of the Eu ...