page_title: Freiberg
section_title: Personalities who have worked in the place
hierarchical_section_title: Freiberg / Personalities who have worked in the place
context_page_description: Freiberg is a university and former mining town in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is a so-called Große Kreisstadt and the administrative centre of Mittelsachsen district.
  Its historic town centre has been placed under heritage conservation and is a chosen site for the proposed UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Ore Mountain Mining Region. Until 1969, the town was dominated for around 800 years by the mining and smelting industries. In recent decades it has restructured into a high technology site in the fields of semiconductor manufacture and solar technology, part of Silicon Saxony. It is home of the oldest university of mining and metallurgy in the world - the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology.
context_section_description: August Bebel (1840–1913), politician
  Fritz Bleyl (1880–1966) architect, painter of Expressionism
  Günter Blobel (born 1936), biologist, Nobel laureate, sponsor of the reconstruction of neo-historic buildings in Saxony
  Kwasi Boakye (1827–1904), from Ashanti, Dutch mining engineer, student in Freiberg (also: Boachi)
  Johann Friedrich August Breithaupt (1791–1873), mineralogist
  Leopold von Buch (1774–1853), geologist
  Hans Carl von Carlowitz (1645–1714), Saxon Oberberg Chief
  Christoph Demantius (1567–1643), composer
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), natural scientist, writer and statesman
  Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), naturalist and explorer
  Herbert Jobst (1915–1990), writer
  Helmut Kirchberg (1906–1983), mining scientist
  Theodor Körner (author) (1791–1813), poet, freedom fighter
  Wilhelm August Lampadius (1772–1842), metallurgist, chemist
  Friedrich Mohs (1773–1839), Mineralogist, creator of the Mohssche Härteskala
  Carl Friedrich Naumann (1797–1873), geologist
  Novalis (1772–1801), poet
  Max Roscher, (1888–1940), politician, Reichstag deputy
  Bernd Schröder (born 1942), football coach
  Clara Schumann (1819–1896), pianist
  Gottfried Silbermann (1683–1753), organ builders
  Alfred Wilhelm Stelzner (1840–1895), geologist
  Robert Volkmann (1815–1883), composer
  Christian Leopold von Buch (1774–1853), geologist
  Bernhard von Cotta (1808–1879), geologist
  Kunz von Kaufungen (1410–1455), abductor of the Saxon Princes Albrecht and Ernst, executed in Freiberg
  Eberhard Wächtler (1929–2010), economic historian
  Julius Weisbach (1806–1871), mathematician and engineer
  Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749–1817), co-founder of the modern geoscience
  Johann Heinrich Zedler (1706 to 1751), bookseller and publisher
  Gustav Zeuner (1828–1907), engineer
caption: Karl Theodor Körner
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