Thomas Nast

* 27 September 1840 in Landau, Palatinate; † 7 December 1902 in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Emigrates to America in 1846, becomes the illustrator/caricaturist among other things for “Harpers Weekly”. There he illustrates the Americanised Father Christmas, “Santa Claus” for the first time in the Christmas edition dated 3 January 1863.