List of personalities of the city of Linz

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This list contains personalities born in Linz as well as those who worked in Linz but were born elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.

Personalities born in Linz

Until 1800

19th century

1801 to 1850

1851 to 1900

20th century

1901 to 1910

1911 to 1920

1921 to 1930

1931 to 1940

1941 to 1950

1951 to 1960

1961 to 1970

1971 to 1980

1981 to 1990

1991 to 2000

Well-known residents of Linz

  • Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), mathematician, astrologer, lived in Linz from 1612 to 1626
  • Joseph Valentin Eybel (1741–1805), publicist, district administrator in Linz
  • Johann Christoph Stelzhammer (1750–1840), Catholic clergyman, physicist and rector of the University of Vienna; spent the last years of his life in Linz after growing up there
  • Joseph Fouché (1759–1820), French politician and police minister, spent part of his exile in Linz
  • Joseph Höger Edler von Högen (1767 – after 1820), poet and administrative lawyer, from 1806 district councilor in Linz
  • Johann Baptist Schiedermayr the Elder (1779–1840), composer and church musician
  • Josef Ressel (1793–1857), forest clerk and inventor, attended high school in Linz
  • Johann Konrad Vogel (1796–1883), confectioner, made the Linzer Torte popular
  • Adalbert Stifter (1805–1868), poet, writer, teacher, painter, lived in Linz from 1848
  • Franz Seraph Rieder (1806–1873), clergyman, theologian and canon lawyer, canon and vicar general and head of the seminary in Linz
  • Ignaz Mayer (1810–1876), founder of the Linz shipyard, came to Linz as a teenager
  • Anton Bruckner (1824–1896), composer, cathedral organist in Linz
  • Johann Baptist Wenig (1826–1875), Jesuit, studied and was a high school professor in Linz
  • Johann Jax (1842–1937), entrepreneur for sewing machines and bicycles as well as donor of the Sacred Heart Church
  • Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906), physicist and philosopher, studied at the Academic Gymnasium, Spittelwiese
  • Gustav Steinberger (1862–1931), architect and master builder in Linz from 1892 to 1925
  • Andreas Strickner (1863–1949), painter, lived in Urfahr from 1898 until his death
  • Matthäus Schlager (1870–1959), architect and master builder in Linz
  • August Sander (1876–1964), photographer, lived in Linz from 1901 to 1910
  • Curt Kühne (1883–1963), architect, urban planning director and civil engineer in Linz
  • Adolf Wagner von der Mühl (1884–1962), sculptor, lived and worked in Linz for some time
  • Ignaz Brantner (1886–1960), actor, author, librettist, director of the Linz State Theater from 1932 to 1953
  • Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), dictator, attended secondary school here
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), philosopher, lived in Linz for about two years and successfully graduated from secondary school in 1906, later fading school
  • Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903–1946), National Socialist, attended secondary school here
  • Hans Foschum (1906–1956), architect and senior building officer of the state building management
  • Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962), SS-Obersturmbannführer, jointly responsible for the Holocaust; spent childhood and youth in Linz (1914–1933)
  • Peter Kammerstätter (1911–1993), resistance fighter and local researcher
  • Gottfried Nobl (1923–2017), architect and master builder in Linz
  • Gustav Resch (1926–2004), poet, lived in Linz from 1946 until his death
  • Silvia Glogner (1940–2011), theater actress, lived in Linz since 1976
  • Peter B. Hauser (* 1942), numismatist
  • Peter Androsch (* 1963), musician and composer, has lived in Linz since 1969
  • Gazmend Freitag (* 1968), painter, has lived in Linz since 2009

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Kammerstätter , in: Regiowiki.at website
  2. ^ Gustav Resch , in: Web presence of Regiowiki.at