Duchy of Münsterberg

The Münsterberg region was the home of a number of acclaimed scholars, including: Johannes Otto von Münsterberg (1360–1416) - philosopher and theologian, professor at the University in Prague, founder and first rector of the University in Leipzig; Johannes Großnickel (born in 1440) – astronomer, rector of the University in Vienna; Martin Nößler (1554–1608) – a Protestant theologian and preacher in the court of the Margraviate of Brandenburg in Berlin; Zacharias Hildebrandt (1688–1757) – one of the most acclaimed constructors of Baroque pipe organs, whose pieces were used by the most renowned composers and organ masters of the day, including Johann Sebastian Bach; Otto Cimbal (1840–1912) - a botanist and cultivation expert, commended for his achievements in growing new potato types at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889; and Carl Weigert (1845–1904) – a doctor, pathologist, professor and lecturer at the Universities in Breslau and Vienna, Director of the Institute of Anatomical Pathology in Frankfurt am Main.