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Notable residents
Throughout the centuries, the history of our city has been shaped by all sorts of people living, working, suffering and celebrating here, and by those who only stayed for a short while but still left their mark on history and, indirectly, on Pirna.
Some streets in Pirna are named after these personalities:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
August Bebel (1840 – 1913)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)
Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
Bertolt Brecht (1898 – 1956)
Hans von Bülow (1830 – 1895)
Lucas Cranach der Ältere (1472 – 1553)
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 – 1857)
Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)
Gertrud Eysoldt (1870 – 1955)
Juri Gagarin (1934 – 1968)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
Gerhart Hauptmann (1862 – 1946)
Wilhelm Adolph Haußner (1819 – 1849)
Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809)
Heinrich Heine (1797 – 1856)
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744 – 1803)
Hans Holbein (1497 – 1543)
Robert Koch (1843 – 1910)
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729 – 1781)
Karl Liebknecht (1871 – 1919)
Thomas Mann (1875 – 1955)
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)
Dr. Ernst Gottlob Pienitz (1777 – 1853)
Arthur Friedrich Pollack (1885 – 1944)
Adrian Ludwig Richter (1803 – 1884)
Karl August Röckel (1814 – 1876)
Emil Adolph Rößmäßler (1806 – 1867)
Friedrich Schiller (1759 – 1805)
Hans Scholl (1918 – 1943)
Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)
Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856)
Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski (1840 – 1893)
Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)
Carl Maria von Weber (1786 – 1826)
Clara Zetkin (1857 – 1933)
Heinrich Zille (1858 – 1929)
Other notable residents who lived and worked in Pirna:
Bernardo Michiel Bellotto, gen. Canaletto (1721 – 1780)
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 – 1821)
Johann Siegmund von Liebenau (1607 – 1671)
Philipp Melanchthon (1497 – 1560)
Friedrich II. von Preußen (der Große) (1712 – 1786)
Gottlieb Heinrich Schmalz (1777 – 1861)
Johann Tetzel (um 1465 – 1519)
Selmar Werner (1864 – 1953)