Elblag (German: Elbing Latin: Elbinga) is a city in the north of Poland in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. It has about 127,000 people. It was founded in 1237.
Famous people who live there[change]
- Hans von Bodeck (1582–1658), diplomat and Chancellor of Brandenburg
- John Amos Comenius (1592–1670), educator
- Samuel Hartlib (ca. 1600–1662), teacher and scientist
- Christian Wernicke (1661–1725), epigrammist and diplomat
- Johann Friedrich Endersch (1705–1769), mathematician geographer
- Gottfried Achenwall (1719–1772), statistician
- Johann Heinrich Ammelung (1746–?), historian
- Wilhelm Baum (1799–?), doctor of medicine, first honorary burgher of Danzig
- Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht (1800–1876), lawyer, member of Göttinger Sieben
- Bruno Erhard Abegg (1803–1848), statesman of Königsberg
- Hieronymus Truhn (1811–?), composer
- Ferdinand Schichau (1814–1896), founder of the Schichau-Werke in Elbing and Danzig.
- Johann Ludwig Hinrichs (1818–1901), co-founder of the German Baptists
- John Prince-Smith (1809–1874), liberal economist and politician in Germany
- Hugo Weiss (1842–?), theologian
- Albrecht Wernich (1843–?), doctor of medicine
- Hermann Baumgart (1843–1926), literary historian at Königsberg University
- Franz Komnick (1857–?), founder of Komnick Maschine-, Automobile- and Agriculture Machine Companies in Elbing
- Max Georg Zimmermann (1861–?), art historian
- Georg Bessau (1884–?), doctor of medicine
- Max Reimann (1898–1977), president of the Communist Party of Germany
- Lutz Weltmann (1901–?), journalist, director of the Jewish Culture Foundation
- Hellmut Drews-Tychsen (1904 Elbing – 1973 near Wasserburg), author
- Ursula Karusseit (1939– ), actress
- Bernd Neumann (1942– ), Minister of Culture of Germany since 2005
- Ortwin Runde (1944– ), mayor of Hamburg from 1997 to 2001.
- Andrzej Sakson (1950– ), sociologist and director of the Western Institute
- Ewa Białołęcka (1967– ), fantasy writer
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