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)