page_title: Kassel
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Kassel / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: German banknote of the fourth series (since 1989/90) Deutsch: Deutsche Banknote der vierten Serie (ab 1989/90)
context_page_description: Kassel is a city located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 200,507 inhabitants in December 2015. The former capital of the state of Hesse-Kassel has many palaces and parks, including the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Kassel is also known for the documenta exhibitions of contemporary art. Kassel has a public university with 25,000 students and a multicultural population.
context_section_description: Valerius Cordus (1515-1544) physician and botanist, authored pharmacopoeias and herbals.
  William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1532-1592)
  Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel (1627-1686)
  Maria Amalia of Courland (1653-1711), noblewoman, participated in creation of park at Karlsaue
  Simon Louis du Ry (1726-1799), architect
  Rudolf Erich Raspe (1736 – 1794), a University of Kassel librarian who fled to England after embezzling significant funds from Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, and wrote (or compiled) The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchhausen
  Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel (1744-1836)
  Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel (1747-1837)
  Gertrud Elisabeth Mara (1749-1833), operatic soprano
  Georg Friedrich Sartorius (1765-1828), research historian and economist
  Louis Spohr (1784-1859), 19th-century composer and violinist, who is commemorated by a museum in the city
  Jérôme Bonaparte (1784-1860), brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, lived in Kassel while he was king of Westphalia
  The Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), academics, linguists, cultural researchers, and authors who collected folklore and published several collections as Grimms' Fairy Tales
  Princess and Landgravine Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (1797-1889), consort to Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge
  Friedrich Armand Strubberg (1806–1889), merchant, physician, colonist in North America, direct descendant of Frederick I of Sweden
  Albrecht Rosengarten (1809-1893), architect famous for synagogue buildings in Central Europe
  Justus Carl Hasskarl (1809-1894), botanist specialising in Pteridophytes, Bryophytes, and Spermatophytes
  Louise of Hesse-Kassel (1811-1898), princess of Hesse-Kassel, later queen consort of King Christian IX of Denmark
  Paul Reuter (1816–1899), founder of the Reuters news agency
  Israel Meyer Japhet (1818–1892) choral director in Frankfurt am Main
  Carl Friedrich Claus (1827-1900), chemist
  Adolf Eugen Fick (1829–1901), physiologist
  Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl (1833-1899), artist who designed the Seal of California
  Daniel Bandmann (1837-1905), actor-manager
  Jakob Stilling (1842-1915), ophthalmologist, son of Benedict Stilling, surgeon, and brother of Heinrich Stilling, pathologist
  Josias von Heeringen (1850-1926), general
  Philipp Scheidemann (1865–1939), briefly Germany's Chancellor after the First World War
  Andreas Dippel (1866-1932), operatic tenor
  Carl Kaiserling (1869-1942), pathologist
  Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929), philosopher
  F. W. Murnau (1888–1931), movie director in the silent era
  Helmut Hasse (1898–1979), fundamental theorist in algebra and number theory
  Arnold Bode (1900-1977), architect, painter, designer, and founder of the documenta
  Lucien Scheler (1902-1999), French poet, writer, and publisher
  Leni Junker (1905-1997), athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres sprint
  Dieter Koch-Weser (1916-2015), Professor, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health
  Holger Börner (1931-2006), politician
  Otto Sander (30 June 1941 – 12 September 2013), German film, theater, and voice actor
  Hans Eichel (born 24 December 1941), politician
  Norbert Trelle (born 1942), Roman Catholic German bishop
  Yona Melnik (born 1949), Israeli Olympic judoka
  Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt (born 1956), German television journalist and talk show host
  Barbara Rudnik (27 July 1958 - 23 May 2009), German actress
  Helmut Kollars (born 1968), writer and illustrator
  Chris Hülsbeck (born 1968), video game music composer
  Meryem Sahra Uzerli (born 1982), Turkish-German actress
  Annika Mehlhorn (born 1983), German butterfly and medley swimmer, who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics
  Milky Chance (present), German folk duo
  Yunus Mallı (born 1992), Turkish footballer
caption: The Brothers Grimm and historic buildings of Kassel on the last 1000 DM banknote
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