Wesel
Wesel is a city (population about 61,689 in 2004) in Germany, located at the point where the Lippe River empties into the Rhine. It is the capital of the Wesel district in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
People born in Wesel
- Jan Joest - 1455-1519
painter - Hans Lipperhey - 1550-1619
Inventor of the telescope - Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby - 1555-1601
English soldier - Peter Minuit - 1580-1641
Founder of New Amsterdam (New York) - Johann Friedrich Welsch - 1796-1871
painter - Konrad Duden - 1829-1911
Author of the first Duden - Friedrich Geselschap - 1835-1898
painter - Ida Noddack-Tacke - 1896-1978
Discover with her husband Walter Noddack the chemical elements rhenium and technetium
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