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  • #039; in later philosophers. The great German metaphysician Leibniz (1646 ... entelechies is found in the works of the German embryologist Hans Driesch ...
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  • Imitation of Christ is a writing of the mystical German-Dutch school ... appeared at Toulouse in 1488. The earliest German translation was made in 1434 ...
    10 KB (1,599 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
  • of the Austrian School and the German Historical school of economics ... in the 1870s and 1880s. At that time, the German-speaking world was engaged ...
    9 KB (1,331 words) - 07:01, 3 August 2022
  • Lebensraum (German for "habitat" or literally "living ... |right|250px|"Lebensraum" (German for "living space ...
    11 KB (1,632 words) - 18:49, 25 October 2022
  • translated from originally Palatine German and other Southwest German ... Rumspringa is a Pennsylvania German noun meaning "running around ...
    15 KB (2,162 words) - 18:14, 22 December 2022
  • German reunification (Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) took place on October ... of the Soviet Union, urged the East German government to embrace change ...
    20 KB (3,005 words) - 18:19, 21 May 2024
  • Karl Ernst Haushofer (August 27, 1869 – March 13, 1946) was a German ... By 1924, as the leader of the German geopolitik (geopolitics) school ...
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  • the reformation of the Russian literary language, preferring the easy style ... essays by foreign writers into his native language. He also met Jakob Michael ...
    10 KB (1,515 words) - 04:13, 15 November 2022
  • with enthusiasm. When the central German government suppressed these ... rejeced the positivist treatment of language in general and, in particular ...
    12 KB (1,753 words) - 05:54, 18 November 2022
  • 17, 1856) was one of the most significant German poets of the nineteenth century ... verses ever rendered in the German language. These poems were collected ...
    13 KB (2,100 words) - 08:29, 21 January 2024
  • ironic novels dealt with the aftermath of German militarism during the first ... simple style made him a favorite for German-language textbooks. ...
    12 KB (1,890 words) - 15:15, 25 January 2023
  • Sirens were an influence, in the English language, Siren and mermaid are not ... Sirens are sometimes considered to be the forerunners of the German ...
    10 KB (1,575 words) - 22:34, 29 January 2023
  • War II, Ingarden switched from writing in German to writing in Polish, as ... Art, was first published (1926; 1931, in German), followed by The Cognition ...
    16 KB (2,359 words) - 04:50, 16 December 2022
  • Moses Mendelssohn (September 6, 1729 – January 4, 1786) was a German ... called Haskalah; Jews learned the German language and culture and developed ...
    14 KB (2,061 words) - 16:58, 10 November 2022
  • written their initial tempo marking in some other language. ... Although Italian has been the prevalent language for tempo markings ...
    18 KB (2,794 words) - 05:39, 27 February 2023
  • Religious or spiritual enlightenment (German: Erleuchtung) and secular ... The German word "Unmündigkeit" means not having attained ...
    14 KB (2,125 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
  • Estonian literature refers to literature written in the Estonian language ... The first known printed book is a bilingual German-Estonian translation ...
    15 KB (2,152 words) - 23:59, 18 March 2022
  • dwarves were assimilated into Dutch and German tradition. What is known ... burrows, never teach non-gnomes their language, and appear only when they ...
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  • Dutch it appears as dwerg; in Old High German it is twerg, while in Middle ... Although dwarrow has passed from the language, both "dwarfs" ...
    15 KB (2,408 words) - 15:51, 24 September 2020
  • read several other languages, including German and Dutch. He was a prolific ... to the continent and widely read Dutch and German folk tales. The pieces for ...
    11 KB (1,727 words) - 23:12, 3 May 2023

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