page_title: Seesen
section_title: Famous residents
hierarchical_section_title: Seesen / Famous residents
caption_attribution_description: English: Exhibit in the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum, Braunschweig, Germany. This work is in the public domain because the artist(s) died more than 100 years ago.
context_page_description: Seesen is a town and municipality in the district of Goslar, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the northwestern edge of the Harz mountain range, approx. 20 km west of Goslar.
context_section_description: The composer Louis Spohr (1784 – 1859) spent his childhood at Seesen.
  In 1801 the merchant Israel Jacobson (1768 – 1828) established the first Haskalah interdenominational school in Germany at Seesen.
  The piano manufacturer William Steinway was born at Seesen on 5 March 1835 as Wilhelm Steinweg. His father Henry E. Steinway (Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg) built his first grand piano at a Seesen washkitchen in 1836.
  Emil Wohlwill (1835 – 1912), chemist, born at Seesen.
  The caricaturist Wilhelm Busch (1832 – 1908) spent his last years at the Mechtshausen vicarage.
  Konstantin Bernhard von Voigts-Rhetz (1809-1877), Prussian general, born in Seesen
  Wilhelm Fitzenhagen (1848-1890), cellist, composer and university teacher, born in Seesen
caption: Israel Jacobson 1810
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