Heidelberg

Heidelberg (halfway between Stuttgart and Frankfurt) is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. As of 2005, there are 140,000 people living on the city's 109 km².

Wellknown Heidelbergers

• 1424, 1. January, Ludwig IV. der Sanftmütige; ? 13. August 1449 in Worms; Kurfürst von der Pfalz
• 1448, 14. July, Philipp der Aufrichtige; ? 25. February 1508 in Germersheim; Kurfürst von der Pfalz
• 1648 Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine (* 22 December 1617 - 28 August 1680), back in his anch. town, was the second son of Friedrich V, the Winter King, and his wife, Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of King James I of England. His daughter:
• 1652, 27. May, Liselotte von der Pfalz; ? 8. Dezember 1722 in Saint-Cloud near Paris; Duchess of Orléans, sister-in-law of Louis XIV.
• 1692 or 1698, Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, called Jud Süß; ? 4. February 1738 in Stuttgart (hanged);banker of the Kings of Wirttemberg.
• 1797, 11. January, Carl Rottmann; ? 7. July 1850 in Munich; landscape painter
• 1809, 19. August, Karl Christian Nadler; ? 26. August 1849, poet
• 1829 Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut
• 1851, Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, 30. March 1811 in Holzminden; ? 16. August 1899 in Heidelberg; chemist
• 1852 Carl Adolph von Vangerow
• 1860 Alexandru Ioan Cuza *20. March 1820 in Gala?i|Galatz/Rumänien; ? 15. May 1873 in Heidelberg; first prince and founder of Romania.
• 1863, 21. June, Max Wolf; ? 3. October 1932, astronomer
• 1869 Hermann von Helmholtz; physicist
• 1870 Gustav Kirchhoff; chemist
• 1871, 4. February, Friedrich Ebert; ? 28. February 1925 in Berlin; President of the first Ger. Republic (1919-1925), Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD)
• 1886 J. Viktor von Scheffel, Honorary Citizenship in Heidelberg
• 1895 Otto von Bismarck, Honorary Citizenship in Heidelberg
• 1895, 29. March, Ernst Jünger; ? 17. February 1998 in Riedlingen; writer
• 1898 Adolph Kussmaul, physician
• 1899, 22. July, Wolfgang Metzger,? 20. December 1979 in Bebenhausen, psychologist und founder of the Berlin school of Gestalt theory
• 1906, 25. December, Ernst Ruska; ? 27. May 1988 in Berlin; inventor of the electron microscope
• 1909 Hilde Domin, (* 27. July at Cologne) lyric poet
• 1910 Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 22nd Earl of Sutherland, 4th Duke of Sutherland (1851-1913)
• 1920, Carl Bosch * 27. August 1874 in Cologne; ? 26. April 1940 in Heidelberg, chemist, technician, CEO BASF 1919-1925 und IG Farben 1925-1935, President of Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft 1937-1940, Nobel prize winner in Chemistry 1931
• 1922 Ludolf von Krehl, physician, Honorary Citizenship in Heidelberg
• 1923, Ernst Toller, * 1. December 1893 in Samotschin, Posen; ? 22. May 1939 in New York City, Pacifism, Revolutionär, Bookwriter
• 1925, 20. September, Rama VIII.; ? 9. June 1946 in Bangkok, King of Thailand
• 1925, Stefan George, * 12. July 1868 in Büdesheim; ? 4. December 1933 in Minusio bei Locarno, poet and writer
• 1926 Wilhelm Salomon-Calvi, Honorary Citizenship in Heidelberg
• 1928 Jacob Gould Schurman, Honorary Citizenship in Heidelberg
• 1929, Karl Jaspers, * 23. February 1883 in Oldenburg; ? 26. February 1969 in Basel; philosopher, psychiatrist
• 1929, Otto Meyerhof, * 12. April 1884 in Hannover; ? 6. October 1951 in Philadelphia, Jewish-German physician and biochemist with philosophical and psychological leanings, Nobel prize winner in Medcin 1922, first director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for medical research in Heidelberg
• 1934, Georg Wittig, * 16. June 1897 in Berlin; ? 26. August 1987 in Heidelberg; (Wittig-Reaction), Nobel prize winner in Chemistry 1979
• 1939, Gustav Radbruch, * 21. November 1878 in Lübeck; ? 23. November 1949 in Heidelberg, lawyer and politician, Justice Minister 1921-1922, 1923
• 1943, 23. December, Silvia Sommerlath, Queen of Sweden
• 1946 in HD, Fritz Neidlinger, Jazz musican (Tenor-Sax) ? Honorary Citizenship in New Orleans (2005)
• 1954 Richard Benz, Honorary Citizenship in Heidelberg (Mercedes-Benz, Daimler-Benz ! )
• 1957, 21. October, Wolfgang Ketterle, Nobel prize winner in Physics (2001)
• 1957, 23. July, Rufus Beck, Theater- und Filmschauspieler
• 2000 Hans-Georg Gadamer, philosopher
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