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Erlangen ranks 1,405th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Aschaffenburg, Osnabrück, and Babylon. Memorable people born in Erlangen include Georg Ohm, Emmy Noether, and Lothar Matthäus. Memorable people who died in Erlangen include Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, and Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach. Erlangen has been the birth place of many mathematicians, and soccer players and the death place of many biologists, and mathematicians. Erlangen is located in Germany.

Erlangen is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. It is the seat of the administrative district Erlangen-Höchstadt, and with 116,062 inhabitants, it is the smallest of the eight major cities in Bavaria. The number of inhabitants exceeded the threshold of 100,000 in 1974, making Erlangen a major city according to the statistical definition officially used in Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1779 and 1967, Erlangen was the birth place of 11 globally memorable people, including Georg Ohm, Emmy Noether, and Lothar Matthäus. Additionaly, 14 globally memorable people have passed away in Erlangen including Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, and Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach. Interestingly, more notably known people have passed away in Erlangen than were born there.

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Erlangen were mathematicians (3), soccer players (2), physicists (1), economists (1), and biologists (1),  while most who died were biologists (4), mathematicians (4), noblemen (2), politicians (1), and physicians (1).

Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Erlangen, including Lothar Matthäus, and Achim Beierlorzer. Whereas, throughout history, mathematicians have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Erlangen, including Emmy Noether, Martin Ohm, and Fritz Noether.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 8 globally memorable people born in Erlangen since 1700.