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Also worth seeing today - beside the Cathedral and the Romanesque style convent "Our Dear Lady" - are the 18th century Baroque buildings at the city centre, the buildings of the period of great economic expansion (after 1872) and the Bauhaus style buldings (after 1920).
The Magdeburg University is named after Otto von Guericke, the father of experimental physics, the discoverer of the vacuum and inventor of the air pump. He was born in Magdeburg in 1602. He is well known for the Magdeburg hemisphere experiment.
In 1730 Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben was born in Magdeburg, another famous individual. The former Prussian officer and later American General Steuben got famous for the outstanding performance he did during the American Independence War. The anually New York Steuben Parade reminds of this great son of our city.
