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Lüneburg

Lüneburg ranks 4,558th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Tauranga, Lee, London, and Surakarta. Memorable people born in Lüneburg include Niklas Luhmann, Henry the Middle, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Curt Backeberg. Memorable people who died in Lüneburg include William II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Klaus Schulze, and Helena of Denmark. Lüneburg has been the birth place of many sociologists, and noblemen and the death place of many politicians, and composers. Lüneburg is located in Germany.

Lüneburg, officially the Hanseatic City of Lüneburg and also known in English as Lunenburg, is a town in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is located about 50 km (31 mi) southeast of another Hanseatic city, Hamburg, and belongs to that city's wider metropolitan region. The capital of the district which bears its name, it is home to roughly 77,000 people. Lüneburg's urban area, which includes the surrounding communities of Adendorf, Bardowick, Barendorf and Reppenstedt, has a population of around 103,000. Lüneburg has been allowed to use the title Hansestadt in its name since 2007, in recognition of its membership in the former Hanseatic League. Lüneburg is also home to Leuphana University. Read more on Wikipedia