List of personalities of the city of Jáchymov

The list of personalities of the city of Jáchymov in the Czech Republic contains people who played an important role in the history of the city of Jáchymov. These are personalities who were born here, worked here or who were granted honorary citizenship.

Honorary citizen

• Peter von Rittinger (1811–1872), miner and pioneer in ore processing
• Gregor Lindner (1831–1917), city dean of St. Joachimsthal, chronicler
• Karl Siegl (1851–1943), lawyer, historian and archivist in Eger
• Maximilian Hüttisch (1911–1988), painter and graphic artist
• Jan Hloušek (1950–2014), geologist, mineralogist and historian

sons and daughters of the town

• Christoph Fischer (1518–1598), pastor, state superintendent of the county of Henneberg , general superintendent of Lüneburg - Celle
• Johannes Criginger (1521–1571), Lutheran theologian, cartographer and writer
• Isaak Haßler , (around 1530–1591), German Evangelical-Lutheran church organist in Nuremberg

• Johann Richter or Johannes Praetorius (1537–1616), mathematician and astronomer
• David Seltenreich (around 1540–1614), mountain master, vice judge and governor
• Johannes Mathesius the Younger (1544–1607), medic
• Samuel Fischer (1547–1600), pastor, superintendent and professor in Jena
• Paul Mathesius (1548–1584), Lutheran theologian
• Johannes Titelius († 1626), Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and playwright
• Jakob Schober (1563–1632), Lutheran clergyman, pastor and inspector, exile
• Elias Pistorius (1590–1664), Lutheran theologian, rector in St. Joachimsthal, pastor in Olbernhau
• Jacob Schedlich (1591–1669), organ builder and cantor and mayor of St. Joachimsthal for 36 years
• Theophil Pistorius (* 1592), linguist, theologian, Hebrew and poet
• David Schedlich (1607–1687), baroque composer, organist in Nuremberg
• Johann Gabriel Macasius (around 1608–1665), miner, city treasurer and mayor
• David Rebentrost (1614–1703), pastor of Drebach, doctor, naturopath, pharmacist and plant breeder
• Centurio Wiebel (1616–1684), Elector Saxon painter
• Paul Wenzel Seeling (around 1617–1693), forest ranger, city judge in Platten, mint administrator, last mint master in St. Joachimsthal
• Elias Pistorius (1624–1668), theologian, court preacher and consistorial assessor
• Johannes Centurio Macasius (1636–1680), physician, philosopher and city physicist in Annaberg
• David Funck (1648–1701), composer and musician
• Franz Macasius (1686–1733), Jesuit, scholar and doctor of theology at the Clementinum in Prague
• Johann Franz von Heßler (1693–1770), town clerk, border customs collector and mine owner in Platten, imperial councilor
• Johann Optat Mießl vonzeileisen (1768–1841), kk postmaster, lead and red lead factory owner, mayor
• Johann Anton Heidmann (1772–1855), physician
• Florian Makasy (1790–1878), mining entrepreneur and director, kk postmaster, school supervisor
• Alberich Heidmann (1808–1898), abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Lilienfeld since 1862
• Karl Siegl (1851–1943), historian, city archivist and museum director
• Arpad Schmidhammer (1857–1921), book illustrator and caricaturist
• Johann Alboth (1861–1940), poet and teacher
• Robert Juza (1904–1996), chemist and university professor
• Erwin Schneider (1906–1987), mountaineer and cartographer, participant in several Himalayan expeditions, called the seven-thousand-meter cutter
• Maximilian Hüttisch (1911–1988), painter and graphic artist

People connected to the city

• Johannes Sylvius Egranus († 1535), theologian, humanist and reformer
• Heinrich von Könneritz (around 1483–1551), miner and mint master
• Stefan Schlick (1487–1526), ​​landlord, city founder and mining entrepreneur
• Georgius Agricola (1494–1555), city doctor and pharmacist, father of mineralogy
• Nikolaus Herman (1500–1561), cantor and teacher at the Latin school, wrote numerous Protestant hymns
• Ruprecht Pullacher († 1563), mint master
• Johannes Mathesius (1504–1565), from 1532 rector of the Latin School, from 1542 on the mountain preacher
• Gabriel Kolb (* around 1521–1607), mining master, headed the St. Joachimsthal Mining Authority
• Kaspar Eberhard (1523–1575), teacher and principal of the Latin School from 1545 to 1554
• Johann Nepomuk Mießl vonzeileisen (1733–1802), ennobled senior administrator, mountain judge and local researcher
• Anton Böhm (approx. 1785–1870), pastor of St. Joachimsthal and chronicler of the city
• Leopold Gottlieb (1852–1916), balneologist and first medical director of the spa in St. Joachimsthal.
• Gustav Kroupa (1857–1935), chief smelter and manager of the uranium paint factory in St. Joachimsthal
• Heribert Sturm (1904–1981), city archivist in St. Joachimsthal from 1928 to 1934, member of the board of the Collegium Carolinum in Munich.
• Karl Lapper (1907–1996), Austrian press officer, propagandist and politician (NSDAP), attended school here