page_title: Bayreuth
section_title: 1701–1800
hierarchical_section_title: Bayreuth / Famous people / 1701–1800
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of Rudolf Wagner (1805-1864), physiologist and anatom.
context_page_description: Bayreuth is a medium-sized town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Franconian Jura and the Fichtelgebirge Mountains. The town's roots date back to 1194. In the 21st century, it is the capital of Upper Franconia and has a population of 72,148. It is world-famous for its annual Bayreuth Festival, at which performances of operas by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented.
context_section_description: Princess Wilhelmine of Bayreuth (1709–1758), monarch
  Casimir Christoph Schmidel (1718–1791), physician and botanist
  Johann David Schoepf (1752–1800), surgeon, botanist, zoologist and naturalist
  Anna Heinel (1753–1808), dancer
  Johann Christian Ritter (1755–1810), first printer in South Africa
  Johann Georg Wunderlich (1755–1819), flutist, university teacher and composer
  Ludwig Abeille (1761–1838), pianist and composer
  Jean Paul (1763–1825), German romantic writer
  Ludwig Förster (1797–1863), Austrian-German architect
  Heinrich von Gagern (1799–1880), politician, first president of the Frankfurt National Assembly on 19 May 1848
  August Riedel (1799–1883), painter
caption: Rudolf Wagner
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