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Lemberg (today Lviv) is the most important city in western Ukraine. Ludwig von Mises was born here in 1881, as was Julius Landesberger in 1865; during the 1860s Carl Menger worked here as a journalist.
Lemberg (today Lviv) is the most important city in western Ukraine. Ludwig von Mises was born here in 1881 into a wealthy Jewish family. Only a few years after his birth the family moved to Vienna. Julius Landesberger, born in 1865, was likewise a son of the city that is Ukrainian today. During the 1860s Carl Menger worked here as a journalist. Lemberg has long been shaped by the coexistence of several peoples. Until the 20th century, alongside a Polish majority there was a large Jewish population and, besides these, various minorities of Ukrainian, German and Armenian descent. After the first written mention of the city in 1256, Lemberg belonged first to the principality of Rus and later to the Kingdom of Poland, and from 1772 to 1918 it was the fourth-largest city of the Habsburg Monarchy. After the First World War, Lemberg passed to Poland, and after the Second to the Soviet Union. Since 1991 the city has finally been part of Ukraine.
