page_title: Wolfenbüttel
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Wolfenbüttel / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Georg Scholz Selbstporträt (ohne Jahr)
context_page_description: Wolfenbüttel is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, the administrative capital of Wolfenbüttel District. It is best known as the location of the internationally renowned Herzog August Library and for having the largest concentration of timber-framed buildings in Germany. It is an episcopal see of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brunswick. It is also home to the Jägermeister distillery, houses a campus of the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, and the Landesmusikakademie of Lower Saxony.
context_section_description: 1489: Henry V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, died 1568
  1528: Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, died 1589
  1675 (died): Philipp Sömmering, alchemist and fraudster
  1696: August Querfurt, genre, horse, and hunting artist, died 1761
  1715: Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, wife of the Frederick II Queen in Prussia, died 1797
  1724: Johann Julius Walbaum, physician, natural scientist, died 1799
  1739: Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess and composer
  1746: Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia, daughter of Duke Charles I (Braunschweig)
  1774: Friederike von Reden, philanthropist and salon-holder, Mother of the Hirschberg Valley, died 1854
  1810: August Ludwig von Rochau, publicist and politician, died 1873
  1813: Theodor Engelbrecht, physician, professor and pomologist, died 1892
  1816: Theodore Eisfeld, composer, chief conductor of the New York Philharmonic, died 1882
  1851: Victor Ehrenberg, legal scientist, died 1929
  1857: Richard Ehrenberg, National Economist, died 1921
  1890: Georg Scholz, painter of new objectivity, died 1945
  1964: Hans-Jörg Meyer, sports shooter
  1987: Arnd Peiffer, biathlete
caption: Georg Scholz Self-portrait (undated)
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