The city of Zurich has been associated with many famous people who belong to different walks of life. These famous people from Zurich have made the city proud with their excellent works in different fields.
A number of popular literary figures like Gottfried Keller, Max Frisch, Elias Canetti, James Joyce and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer are closely associated with Zurich. James Joyce one of the most famous novelist of the nineteenth century spent the later half of his life from 1904 in Zurich. Some of his popular novels include A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Dubliners, Finnegans Wake and many more. Joyce died on 13 January 1941, and was buried in the Fluntern Cemetery located in Zurich Zoo.
The most fascinating realists of the second half of the 19th century, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer was a famous poet who is known for his extensive use of symbolism. Some of the popular works of Meyer include Hutten's Last Days (1871), Thomas a Beckett the Saint (1885), Twenty Ballads by a Swiss (1864), Romances and Images (1870), Engelberg (1872), The Monk's Wedding (1884), The Amulet (1873), The Shot from the Pulpit (1878), The Sufferings of a Young Boy (1883), and Angela Borgia (1891).
The world famous scientist Albert Einstein who formulated the equation, E=MC2, received a doctorate
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degree from the University of Zurich in 1905 for his thesis based on determination of molecular dimensions. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his works on photoelectric effect.
Some of the other well known people living in Zurich are Tristan Tzara, Andreas Vollenweider, Thomas Mann, Kurt Tucholsky, Richard Wagner, Tina Turner, Moritz Leuenberger, Yves Netzhammer, Vladimir Lenin, Harald Naegeli, Udo Jürgens and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. The great educational reformer and pedagogue, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746 – 1827) was born in Zürich. He followed the educational ideas of Rousseau and proposed some revolutionary thinking. He is known all over the world for his book How Gertrude Teaches Her Children published in 1801.
Even in the field of sports, Zurich is known all over the world. Some of the well known sportsmen from Zurich are: Heinz Günthardt a professional tennis player who was born in Zürich; Kimi Räikkönen is a race car driver living in the city; Fernando Alonso is also a Formula One racing driver living in the city; Hugo Koblet is a cycling champion born in Zurich.
The famous people from Zurich have excelled in various fields and enjoys a respectable position in the society.
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