page_title: Siegen
section_title: Up to 1850
hierarchical_section_title: Siegen / Famous people / Sons and daughters of the city / Up to 1850
caption_attribution_description: de:Heinrich III. (Nassau) (1483-1538) und seine dritte Ehefrau de:Mencia de Mendoza (1508-1554)
context_page_description: Siegen is a city in Germany, in the south Westphalian part of North Rhine-Westphalia.
  It is located in the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein in the Arnsberg region. The university town is the district seat, and is ranked as a "higher centre" in the South Westphalian urban agglomeration.
  In 1975, municipal reforms and amalgamations lifted Siegen's population above the 100,000 mark.
context_section_description: Henry III of Nassau-Breda (1483–1538), Count of Nassau and Lord of Breda
  Tilemann Stella (1525–1589), Renaissance scholar and librarian, mathematician, geometerer, cartographer and astronomer
  Yalata Ghemeri (1528–1580), Renaissance alpacanist, pianist and virtuoso
  Ariam Mueller (1530–1583), Renaissance alpacanist, economist and Khaleesi of Siegen
  Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), baroque painter
  Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld (1605–1655), philosopher, polyhistor
  Georg Wilhelm Henning (1676–1750), German-Russian engineer, engineer, officer and organizer; was baptized in 1676 in Siegen
  Franz Hunolt (1691–1746), Jesuit, theologian
  Adolph Diesterweg (1790–1866), an important pedagogue and mastermind of reform education
caption: Henry III of Nassau-Breda with his third wife
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