List of Famous people born in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Jakob Böhme
Jakob Böhme was a German philosopher, Christian mystic, and Lutheran Protestant theologian. He was considered an original thinker by many of his contemporaries within the Lutheran tradition, and his first book, commonly known as Aurora, caused a great scandal. In contemporary English, his name may be spelled Jacob Boehme; in seventeenth-century England it was also spelled Behmen, approximating the contemporary English pronunciation of the German Böhme.
Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus
Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus was a German mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher. He introduced the Tschirnhaus transformation and is considered by some to have been the inventor of European porcelain, an invention long accredited to Johann Friedrich Böttger but others claim porcelain had been made by English manufacturers at an even earlier date.
Samuel Gottlieb Wald
Samuel Friedrich Nathanael Morus
Leopold Auerbach
Leopold Auerbach was a German anatomist and neuropathologist born in Breslau.
Otto Juliusburger
Ernst Hofmann
Ernst Hofmann was a German film actor.
Georg Landsberg
Georg Landsberg was a German-Jewish mathematician, known for his work in the theory of algebraic functions and on the Riemann–Roch theorem. The Takagi–Landsberg curve, a fractal that is the graph of a nowhere-differentiable but uniformly continuous function, is named after Teiji Takagi and him.
Emanuel Aloys Förster
Emanuel Aloys Förster was a composer and music teacher, who spent most of his life in Vienna, Austria.
Eduard Franck
Eduard Franck was a German composer, pianist and music pedagogue.