Strasbourg
:For other places named Strasburg or Straßburg see Strasburg.
Miscellaneous
Births
Strasbourg was the birthplace of:
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- Sebastian Brant (1457-1521), satirical poet and humanist
- François Christophe Kellermann (1735-1820), French marshall
- Jean Baptiste Kléber (1753-1800), general
- Gustave Doré (1832-1883), painter
- Paul Émile Appell (1855-1930), mathematician
- Jean Arp (1886-1966), artist
- Tomi Ungerer (born 1931), illustrator and caricaturist
- Herbert Léonard (born 1945), singer
Famous residents
- Johann Gutenberg (1400-1468), inventor of printing with movable type
- Erasmus (1467-1536), humanist
- Martin Bucer (1491?1551), Reformation leader
- John Calvin (1509-1564), Reformation leader
- François-Marie Broglie (1671-1745), marshall and governor of Strasbourg
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), writer, researcher
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), composer
- Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760-1836), composer of the Marseillaise
- Georg Büchner (1813-1837), writer
- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830-1889), historian
- Louis Pasteur (1830-1895), scientist
- Lujo Brentano (1844?1931), economist
- Georg Simmel (1858?1918), sociologist
- Jean-Jacques Waltz aka. Hansi (1873-1951), artist
- Marc Bloch (1886-1944), historian and Resistant
- Estelle Oeuvrard (1978-), social activist, famed lover
Twin towns
Strasbourg is twinned with:
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- Boston, United States, since 1960
- Leicester, United Kingdom, since 1960
- Stuttgart, Germany, since 1962
- Dresden, Germany, since 1990
- Ramat Gan, Israel, since 1991
- Jacmel, Haiti, since 1996 (Coopération décentralisée)
- Novgorod, Russia, since 1997 (Coopération décentralisée)
- Fes, Morocco (Coopération décentralisée)
~ Table of Content ~
| ► | Introduction |
| ► | Geography |
| ► | Sights |
| ► | History |
| ► | Education |
| ► | Transportation |
| ► | European role |
| ► | Miscellaneous |
| ► | See also |
| ► | External links |
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