page_title: Davos
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Davos / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: Sophie Taeuber-Arp ca 1903
context_page_description: Davos is an Alpine town, and a municipality in the Prättigau/Davos Region in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It has a permanent population of 10,899. Davos is located on the river Landwasser, in the Rhaetian Alps, between the Plessur and Albula Range at 1,560 m above sea level.
  The former Alpine resort village consists of two parts: Davos Dorf to the northeast towards Klosters and further down through the Prättigau to Landquart, and Davos Platz to the southwest, which opens into the valley of the river Landwasser and eventually leads to Filisur.
  During summer season the Flüela Pass leads south-east into the Lower Engadine.
  Davos plays host to the World Economic Forum, an annual meeting of global political and business elites, and has one of Switzerland's biggest ski resorts. At the end of every year it serves as the site of the annual Spengler Cup ice-hockey tournament, hosted by the HC Davos local hockey team.
context_section_description: The Arts
  Valentin Bühler (1835–1912) citizen of Davos where he went to school, a lawyer, he wrote dictionaries about the local and Swiss dialects
  Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889 in Davos – 1943) Swiss painter, sculptor, textile designer, architect and dancer
  Dorothea Wieck (1908 in Davos – 1986) a German theatre and film actress
  Juri Elperlin (1917 in Davos – 2015) writer and German-Russian translator
  Ernst Haefliger (1919 in Davos – 2007) Swiss tenor
  Eberhard W. Kornfeld (born 1923) art collector; made Honorary citizen of Davos in 2004
  Jürg Federspiel (1931–2007) Swiss writer, grew up in Davos
  Thomas Hirschhorn (born 1957) Swiss artist, grew up in Davos
  Marc Forster (born 1969) German and Swiss director and filmmaker, grew up in Davos made freeman of Davos in 2007
  Politics, public service and business
  Johannes Guler von Wyneck (1562 in Davos – 1637) Grisonian annalist, officer, and local official
  Fortunat Sprecher von Bernegg (1585 in Davos – 1647) lawyer, Grisonian annalist and local official
  Johann Luzius Isler (1810 in Davos – 1877) confectioner and gastronomy entrepreneur in Nevsky Prospect, St. Petersburg
  Willem Jan Holsboer (1834–1898) a Dutch entrepreneur, sponsor of Davos as a health resort. His young wife died after 2 years in Davos due to TB. He stayed in Davos, remarried, and founded the Rhaetian Railway
  Wilhelm Vischer (1895 in Davos – 1988) a Swiss pastor, theologian, Hebraist, Old Testament scholar and amateur Lied lyricist
  Ursula Wyss (born 1973 in Davos) economist, Swiss National Councillor 1999–2013 and current Municipal Councilor of Bern
  Science & Medicine
  Alexander Spengler (1827–1901) a German and Swiss physician, specialised in TB in Davos
  Carl Rüedi (1848 in Davos – 1901) a Swiss pulmonologist, treated Robert Louis Stevenson
  Lucius Spengler (1858 in Davos – 1923) Swiss physician, specialised in TB
  Carl Spengler (1860 in Davos – 1937) Swiss physician, bacteriologist, inventor of immunotherapy with Spenglersan colloids. Also an ice hockey player from Davos, founded the Spengler Cup
  Carl Dorno (1865 – 1942 in Davos) German researcher, lived in Davos from 1904, founded the Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos, a predecessor of Academia Raetica in Davos
  Walter Siegenthaler (1923 in Davos – 2010) Swiss physician, professor of internal medicine at Zurich University
  TB patients
  Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) a Scottish novelist and travel writer, TB patient in Davos in the 1880s
  Franz Holper (1862–1935) German painter and architect, lived in Davos 1901–1920 because of his TB
  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938 in Davos) German artist, TB patient, lived in Davos from 1917; namesake of the local art museum
  Philipp Bauknecht (1884 – 1933 in Davos) German expressionist painter, TB patient from 1910
  Erwin Poeschel (1884–1965) German art historian, TB patient 1914/1915
  Harry Clarke (1889–1931 in Davos) an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator, TB patient from 1929, buried in Chur
  Klabund (1890 – 1928 in Davos) aka Alfred Henschke, German writer and painter, TB patient
  Sport
  Fritz Kraatz (1906–1992) a Swiss ice hockey player, competed in the 1928 Winter Olympics
  Paul Söllner (1911 in Davos – 1991) a German rower, competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics
  Albert Künzler (1911 in Davos - ??) a Swiss ice hockey player, competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics
  Andreas Däscher (born 1927 in Davos) a ski jumping athlete, competed at the 1956 Winter Olympics and developed the Daescher technique
  Franz Berry (1938 in Davos – 2009) a Swiss ice hockey player, competed in the 1956 and 1964 Summer Olympics
  Peter Frei (born 1946 in Davos) a Swiss former alpine skier, competed in the 1968 Winter Olympics
  Nicolas Gilliard (born 1947 in Davos) a Swiss former swimmer, competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics
  Paul Accola (born 1967 in Davos) former alpine skiing World Cup, overall champion
  Martina Accola (born 1969, Davos) a Swiss former alpine skier, competed in the 1994 and 1998 Winter Olympics
  Andrea Senteler (born 1977) a Swiss cross-country skier, competed in the 1998 Winter Olympics
  Carmen Schäfer (born 1981 in Davos) a S
caption: Sophie Taeuber-Arp
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