List of personalities of the city of Chernivtsi

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This list contains people who were born in Chernivtsi, who lived here at times, and who were important to the city. The list does not claim to be complete.

Honorary citizen

In alphabetic order

sons and daughters of the town

1701-1880

1881-1900

1901-1930

1931-2000

People with a relationship to the city

  • Mosche Altman (1890–1981), Yiddish writer, lived and died in Chernivtsi
  • Hermann Bahr (1863–1934), author of Remember Chernivtsi! , 1975
  • Lothar Baier (1942–2004), author of City of Language Controversy. 1995
  • Margit Bartfeld-Feller , author of Czernowitz, just a dream! , 2002
  • Ruth Beckermann (* 1952), author of strawberries in Czernowicz, 1985
  • Kurt Blaukopf (1914–1999), author of My Birthplace and Its Theater.
  • Antonin Borovec , also Anton Borowetz (1870–1925), Czechoslovak diplomat in Chernivtsi, founder of the "socially innovative concept for widows and orphans"
  • Johanna Brucker (1917–2002) writer, poet, poet from Deutsches Haus, 1990
  • Otto Brusatti (* 1948), author of Apropos Chernivtsi, 1990
  • Martin Buber , a so-called "Galician by choice", gave a lecture on "National Education" on April 7, 1939 in the Czernowitz Jewish House.
  • Josef Burg (1912–2009), a narrator who wrote in Yiddish, lived most of his life in Chernivtsi
  • Raban von Canstein (1845–1911), lawyer, member of the academic senate
  • Andrei Corbea-Hoișie (* 1951), author of Czernowicz, mon amour! 2002
  • Max Diamant , author of The Sculptor Opanas Schewtschukewicz, 1932
  • Mihai Eminescu (1850–1889), Romanian national writer, attended the Romanian school in Chernivtsi
  • Osyp Jurij Fed'kovyc (1834–1888), also Fedkovicz, poem Am Tscheremusch, published again in 1985
  • Mojsej Fischbejn , Moses Fishbein, Moysey Fišbejn, author of Paul Celan in commemoration. In Ukrainian 1996, in German 2004
  • Karl Emil Franzos (1848–1904), writer and publicist, grew up in Chernivtsi and created a literary monument to the Jewish ghetto with Die Juden von Barnow (1905)
  • Marie Fürstin Gagarin (1904–1993) describes Czernowitz in detail in her memoirs Blond was the wheat of Ukraine
  • Gala Galaction , actually Grigore Pisculescu (1879–1961), writer
  • Leopold Gegenbauer (1849–1903), mathematician
  • Josef von Geitler (1870–1923), physicist
  • Alois Golbacher (1837–1924), classical philologist
  • Veit Graber (1844-1892), entomologist and zoologist of Austria-Hungary
  • Nora Gray (* 1929), poet, author of Czernowicz is everywhere.
  • Hans Gross (1847–1915), criminologist
  • Otto von Habsburg (1912–2011), 1978 keynote speaker at the centenary of the University of Chernivtsi (in exile in Linz, from the Landsmannschaft der Buchenlanddeutsche ), first personal visit in 2007
  • Alois Handl (1837–1915), physicist
  • Stefan Hantel (* 1968), German music producer
  • Georg Heinzen , author of Where the dogs are named after Olympic gods , (di Czernowitz) 1991
  • Isidor Hilberg (1852–1919), psychologist, later rector of the university
  • Carl Hiller (1846–1912), lawyer
  • Nicolae Iorga (1871–1940), author of Czernowitz on the Jewish Czernowitz. From Romanian 1998
  • Mykola Iwasjuk (1865–1937), painter and graphic artist
  • Emil Kałużniacki (1845–1914), Slavist
  • David Kaufmann (1852–1899), historian, theologian
  • Leon Kellner (1859–1928), English studies
  • Else Keren (1924–1995), poet from Czernowitz, 1983
  • Anton Keschmann (1870–1947), district captain and member of the Reichsrat, campaigned for the expellees from Bukovina; later President of the Senate of the Austrian Administrative Court
  • Friedrich FG Kleinwächter (1877–1959), lawyer, studied in Czernowitz
  • Friedrich von Kleinwächter (1838–1927), national economist, taught in Czernowitz
  • Alfred Klug (1883–1944), Germanist
  • Olha Kobyljanska (1863–1942), Ukrainian writer, lived in Chernivtsi since 1891
  • Arthur Kolnik (1890–1972), illustrator and painter
  • Vasyl Koželanko (* 1957), author of A city where the streets are swept with rose bushes. Ukrainian and German 2004
  • Karl Kraus , wrote about Czernowitz in Aus Redaktion und Irrenhaus , Die Fackel, June 30th, 1928 pp. 781–786
  • Johannes Kromayer (1859–1934), historian
  • Johann Loserth (1846–1936), historian
  • Sophia Majdans'ka, b. 1948, author of The Thankful Bukovina, in Ukrainian 1999, in German 2004
  • Ossyp Makowej (1867–1925), Ukrainist and editor-in-chief of Bukowyna
  • Alfred Margul-Sperber (1898–1967), German-speaking writer and translator
  • Anton Marty (1847–1914), philosopher
  • Jacob Melzer (* 1922), author of Das neue Regime
  • Philipp Menczel 1872–1941 (USA), lawyer, journalist, editor of a newspaper, author of Die Dreiländerecke bei Chernivtsi and Das Land und seine Menschen, 1932
  • Andreas Mikulicz (1806–1881), architect (planned the Chernivtsi town hall together with A. Marin)
  • Basil Mitrofanowicz (1831–1888), theologian
  • Hermann Mittelmann (1869–1916), travel writer, author of The State Capital of Chernivtsi, 1907/08
  • Anton Norst (1859–1939), editor of the Czernowitzer Zeitung , Im Buchenwald and Czernowitzer Gemeindezeitung
  • Johann Georg Obrist (1843–1901), poet, philosopher, co-editor of Buchenblätter
  • Josip Plemelj (1873–1967), mathematician
  • Igor Pomerancev, Igor Jakovljevič Pomerancev (* 1948), author from childhood in Chernivtsi, in Russian 1985, in German 2004
  • Friedrich Poppenberger (1904–1992), lawyer and journalist, editor in charge of the Czernowitzer Deutsche Tagespost
  • Constantin Popowicz / Popovici (1863–1917), Orthodox canon lawyer
  • Eusebius Popowicz / Popovici (1890–1929), church historian
  • Franz Porubsky (1880–1934), author of The Wedding of Kalyczanka, Chernivtsi 1905
  • Richard Pribram (1847-1928), chemist
  • Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), psychoanalyst and sex researcher, b. in Dobzau , went to school in Chernivtsi
  • Eduard Reiss (1850–1907), mayor, first Jewish mayor of an Austrian state capital
  • Moses Rosenkranz (1904–2003), German-speaking poet
  • Reuven Rubin (1893–1974), Israeli painter and first Israeli ambassador to Romania
  • Arthur Rubinstein , author of Concert in Chernivtsi, 1973
  • Josef Norbert Rudel , Yôsēf N. Rûdel
  • Petro Rychlo (* 1950), Germanist and literary scholar
  • Leopold von Sacher-Masoch , author of The Visit to the Miracle Rabbi of Sadagora , 1989
  • Dmytro Sahul (1890-1944), Ukrainian poet
  • Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman (1920–2013), author of Yiddish poems and lyrics, b. in Vienna, lived and survived in Cernowitz, moved to New York in 1951, leading there, also as an interpreter, in the preservation, renewal and resurrection of Yiddish culture
  • Joseph Victor von Scheffel , author of On the opening of the "Francisco-Josephina" , the German-speaking nationality university of Chernivtsi , 1875
  • Joseph Schmidt (1904–1942), singer (tenor), born in nearby Dawideny
  • Ludwig Schiffner (1845–1909), lawyer
  • Karl Schlögel , author of Chernivtsi: Crossing borders. Approaching a distant, nearby city, 1991
  • Friedrich Schuler-Libloy (1827–1900), lawyer
  • Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950), economist and finance minister, 1909–1911 professor in Czernowitz
  • Edith Silbermann (1921–2008) translator, author of egg briquettes for Aunt Dela, 2003
  • Ludwig Adolf Staufe-Simiginowicz (1832-1897), the first autochthonous German-speaking poet of the Bukowina
  • Wilhelm Stekel (1868–1940), psychoanalyst and sex researcher, born in Bojan, Bukowina , grew up in Chernivtsi and attended high school
  • Alexander Supan (1847–1920), Austrian geographer
  • Eduard Tangl (1848–1905), botanist
  • Constantin Tomaszczuk (1840–1889), founding rector of the University of Chernivtsi
  • Ernst Trost (1933–2015), author of K. and k. in the shadow of the Kremlin, 1984 (about Chernivtsi in the 1970s, looking back on the k. and k. past)
  • Friedrich Heinrich Vering (1833-1896), lawyer
  • Richard Wahle (1857–1935), philosopher
  • Baron Alexander Wassilko von Serecki (1827-1893), long-time governor of Bukovina, member of the state parliament and the manor house, owner of the Wassilkopalais in Herrengasse
  • Count Georg Wassilko von Serecki (1864–1940), long-time governor of Bucovina, member of the state parliament, the Reichstag and the manor house, owner of the Wassilkopalais in Herrengasse
  • Count Viktor Wassilko von Serecki (1872–1934), exarch and Romanian Orthodox archdeacon, after his retirement pastor for the hospitals in Chernivtsi
  • Nikolaus Ritter von Wassilko (1868–1924), Austrian, later Ukrainian politician and large landowner of Romanian origin
  • Anton Wassmuth (1844–1927), mathematician
  • Hugo Weczerka (* 1930), historian; researched and published about Chernivtsi
  • Léon d'Ymbault (1700–1781), last Moldovan mayor of Chernivtsi
  • Ferdinand Zieglauer von Blumenthal (1829–1906), historian

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Wehap: Unbeatable in the 50s: Die Ase von Puch Radlobby Steiermark, ex: ARGUS Steiermark, graz.radln.net, September 2014, accessed April 2, 2019.
  2. ↑ Central Council of Jews in Germany Kdö.R .: Frankfurt: On the trail of the ancestors | Jewish general. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
  3. ↑ in: Jancos Reise. From Czernowitz through the Transnistrian exile to Israel 1941–1946. Übers. Inge Jassur. Hartung-Gorre, Konstanz 2001
  4. ↑ a district on the way from the synagogue to the freight yard, a way on which the Jews had to run to the trains later during the deportation by the Germans