Basel
Basel is a city on the Rhine River in northwest Switzerland, close to the country's borders with France and Germany. Its medieval old town centers around Marktplatz, dominated by the 16th-century, red-sandstone Town Hall. Its 12th-century Gothic cathedral has city views, and contains the tomb of the 16th-century Dutch scholar, Erasmus. The city's university houses some of Erasmus' works.
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Markus Barth
Swiss theologian
Paul Speiser
Swiss Politician
Fritz Baumann
Swiss painter
Emanuel Büchel
Swiss painter
Emil Beurmann
Swiss painter
Samuel Birmann
Swiss painter
Christoph Bernoulli
Economist
Adolf Gasser
Swiss author
August Kern
Film director
Urs Graf
Swiss goldsmith
Alfons Simonius
Entrepreneur
René Bader
Former football player
Henricus Petrus
Biographer
Johann Rudolf Huber
Karl Joseph Brodtmann
Artist
Max Sulzbachner
Swiss painter
Ernst Stückelberg
Swiss painter
Othella Dallas
American singer
Luzius Wildhaber
Former President of the European Court of Human Rights
Irena Kempówna
Polish flight instructor
Caleb Ginyard
Singer-songwriter
William Cohn
German actor
Otto Heinrich Senn
Architect
Ernst Jenni
Author
Jost Meier
Swiss composer
Hermann Scherer
German author
Seth Siegelaub
American art dealer
Heinrich Reese
Architect
Mary Vieira
Brazilian Sculptor
Emil Handschin
Ice hockey player
Hansheinz Schneeberger
Swiss Violinist
Hermann Suter
Swiss composer
Hermann A. Schlögl
German actor
Walther Eichrodt
German theologian
Karel Michal
Writer
Margherita, Archduchess of Austria-Este
Ulrich Becher
German writer
Kurt Widmer
Swiss voice teacher
SCHOELLKOPF
Swiss politician
Niggi Schoellkopf
Politician
Karel Hrubý
Czech politician
Ida Elias
Winfried Hitzfeld
Andreas Heusler-Sarasin
Jurist
Rudolf Sarasin
Entrepreneur
Karl Sarasin
Politician
Kurt Vollmoeller
Antiquarian