page_title: Eisleben
section_title: People
hierarchical_section_title: Eisleben / People
caption_attribution_description: English: bust turned slightly to the left; with traces of a profile head in upper left corner; third state Deutsch: Büste leicht nach links gedreht; mit Spuren eines Profilkopfes in der oberen linken Ecke; mit Tonsur
context_page_description: Eisleben is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is famous as the hometown of Martin Luther; because of this, its official name is Lutherstadt Eisleben. In 2015, Eisleben had a population of 24,198.
  Eisleben has two parts old town and new town. The new town was created for Eisleben's miners in the 14th century.
  Eisleben was the capital of the district of Mansfelder Land and is the seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Lutherstadt Eisleben.
context_section_description: Gertrude the Great (1256–1301), mystic, saint of the Catholic Church
  Martin Luther (1483–1546), Protestant reformer, author and professor of theology
  Johannes Agricola (1494–1566), Protestant reformer
  Michael Teuber (1524–1586), lawyer
  Caspar Schütz (around 1540-1594) German historian
  Friedrich Koenig (1774–1821), printer
  Ludwig Geyer (1779–1833), painter, playwright and actor
  Friedrich August von Quenstedt (1809–1889), geologist and paleontologist
  Carl Fischer (1841–1906), worker and author
  Max Schneider (1875–1967), music historian
  Hermann Lindrath (1896–1960), CDU politician and minister
  Egbert Hayessen (1913–1944), major and resistance fighter of 20 July 1944
  Ute Starke (born 1939), gymnast, Summer Olympics 1960, 1964 and 1968
  Gudrun Berend (1955-2011), hurdler
  Thomas Lange (born 1964), two-time Olympic champion in rowing
  Timo Hoffmann (born 1974), boxer
caption: Martin Luther as a monk in 1520
exif: {"Image Make": "NIKON CORPORATION", "Image Model": "NIKON D300S", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "GIMP 2.6.11", "Image DateTime": "2012:04:25 20:03:30", "Image Artist": "Marie-Lan Nguyen", "Image Copyright": "Creative Commons Attribution", "Image ExifOffset": "296", "GPS GPSVersionID": "[2, 2, 0, 0]", "Image GPSInfo": "9028", "Image Tag 0x9216": "[1, 0, 0, 0]", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "9140", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "7856", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/10", "EXIF FNumber": "4", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Manual", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "800", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0210", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2012:02:12 14:21:57", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2012:02:12 14:21:57", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "415241/125000", "EXIF ApertureValue": "4", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "3", "EXIF SubjectDistance": "79/100", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Spot", "EXIF LightSource": "Tungsten (incandescent light)", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire", "EXIF FocalLength": "50", "EXIF SubSecTime": "67", "EXIF SubSecTimeOriginal": "67", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "67", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "0", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "0", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed", "EXIF CVAPattern": "[0, 2, 0, 2, 0, 1, 1, 2]", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Manual Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Manual", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "1", "EXIF FocalLengthIn35mmFilm": "75", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF GainControl": "Low gain up", "EXIF Contrast": "Normal", "EXIF Saturation": "Normal", "EXIF Sharpness": "Normal", "EXIF SubjectDistanceRange": "0"}