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.
People died in Basel (First 19 people) - Page 6
Ernst Alfred Stückelberg
Archaeologist ‧ Ernst Stückelberg's son
Karl Gustav Jung
German-Swiss medical doctor
Samuel Preiswerk
Swiss theologian
Modest Modestvič Korff
Author
Jean Bauhin
French physician
Vera Dreyfus-de Gunzburg
James I. Jones
Military personnel
Johann J. Bachofen
Swiss jurist and philologist
Hans Benno Bernoulli
Architect
Lukas Hottinger
Paleontologist
Walther von Klingen
German poet
Adolf Bäuerle
Austrian writer
Eva Bernoulli
Speech and language therapist
Jean-Baptiste-Adolphe Charras
French Politician
Anna Maria von Baden-Durlach
German author
Friedrich Fichter
Swiss chemist
B. H. Streeter
Theologian
Meta von Salis
Swiss historian
