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Founded in , Leipzig reached its cultural apex in the 17th century, particularly in music, optics and astronomy. The famous debate between Martin Luther and John Eck concerning the Reformation took place here in Other intellectual luminaries related with Leipzig include Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn, and Richard Wagner who was born here, but did not work in the city.

Leipzig was Germany's most important German publishing center until Nazi times. First homosexual writers Karl Heinrich Ulrich and Magnus Hirschfeld published works, including Hirschfeld´s pioneering book, ¨What People Must Know About the Third Sex.´ It was again a center for homosexual political discourse from around on. The GDR (East Germany) had decriminalized homosexuality in , and made it fully legal in , 25 years before the West Germans. Activists in this municipality figured large in that accomplishment. Leipzig also developed into a major center for the East German peace movement. Huge demonstrations in contributed to the fall of the Wall in , and the subsequent re-unification of Germany.

Always a trading municipality