He then went on to study philosophy at the Reformed College of Hermannstadt and in 1805 in Wittenberg.
Ludwig von Sarnthein (4 January 1861, Hermannstadt – 1 February 1914, Hall, Tyrol) was an Austrian government administrator and botanist.
Michael Hissmann (1752, Hermannstadt – 1784, Göttingen) was a German philosopher, a radical materialist who translated Condillac and Joseph Priestley into German.
The part of the Carpathians near Hermannstadt holds Păltiniş Lake and Bâlea Lake, which host popular resorts for people of the surrounding area.
The novel tells the story of a youth from Hermannstadt (Sibiu) in Siebenbürgen (Transylvania), Leo Auberg, who is deported at the age of 17 to a Soviet forced labor concentration camp in Nowo-Gorlowka (Novogorlovka, Ukraine, now incorporated in Gorlovka) and spends five years of his life there.