Search results for "German language" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • any word that modifies any other part of language: verbs, adjectives (including ... *In Dutch and German, adverbs have the basic form of their corresponding ...
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  • physical and intellectual education, the German gymnasium school developed ... used as the main admissions criterion for German universities. Today, however ...
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  • the translation of his works into German. Hemsterhuis' ideas ... contributed to his reputation among German intellectuals and encouraged ...
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  • Karl Georg Büchner (October 17, 1813 – February 19, 1837) was a ... attained the significance of such central German literary figures as Johann ...
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  • June 9, 1775 – December 15, 1853), was a German teacher, archaeologist, and ... of a society for investigating the German language in 1817. In 1821, he ...
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  • German New Guinea (Ger. Deutsch-Neuguinea) was a former German protectorate ... confiscated by the victors of World War I German colonies never engaged in ...
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  • Comparative law (French: droit comparé, German: Rechtsvergleichung ... * The German group * The Scandinavian group (comprising the laws of ...
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  • The German colonial empire was an overseas area formed in the late ... use of death camps during the revolt in German West Africa 1904-1905 and ...
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  • the agency was suppressed during German occupation in the Second ... news in French, English, Arabic, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Russian ...
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  • Nieder-Siegersdorf, Niederschlesien) was a German philosopher born of Jewish ... “Maimon.” Later, he learned some German from books and walked all ...
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  • interest in the inter-connections among language, thinking, and culture. ... amongst themselves, so Edward learned both German and the language of his parents ...
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  • May 1525) was an early Reformation-era German pastor who was a rebel leader ... him and invitations to preach in Latin and German in the University chapels ...
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  • to seek a viable partnership as the German navy and army continued to ... the Alexander von Battenberg affair, German Chancellor Bismarck tried ...
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  • Reformation. It was written in both German and Latin, and was presented ... issued letters from Bologna, inviting the German diet to meet in Augsburg ...
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  • Ernst Curtius (September 2, 1814 – July 11, 1896), was a German ... of Greek history published in the German language, and was presented in ...
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  • Erich Honecker (August 25, 1912 – May 29, 1994) was an East German ... After German re-unification, Honecker first fled to the Soviet Union ...
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  • publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, and co-winner ... founded the Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft (German Peace Society) with her. ...
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  • Grimm collected orally transmitted German tales and published the first ... a standardized "modern" German language since Martin Luther ...
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  • of the North, was a philosopher of the German Enlightenment. He was a fideist ... Lay Styles (Volume III in the English language translation of The Glory ...
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  • (March 10, 1772 - January 12, 1829) was a German poet, critic and scholar ... Schlegel’s Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier (On the Language ...
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  • Johann Ludwig Tieck (May 31, 1773 – April 28, 1853) was a German ... of the romantic enthusiasm for old German art. In 1798, Tieck married ...
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  • "Rapunzel" is a German fairy tale in the collection assembled ... Gothel," a common term for a godmother in German. Maria Tatar ...
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  • "Deutsch" refers to their German language. Hex signs are a type ... quot; derives from the Pennsylvanian German word, Hex (German Hexe), ...
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  • Nelly Sachs, (December 10, 1891 – May 12, 1970) was a German poet ... translations between Swedish and German. ===After the war=== ...
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  • The term Nix comes from the Old High German Nichus, which became nickes ... and Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld were two German artists who painted many ...
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  • one of the first Japanese to study the German language and German philosophy ... was one of the first Japanese to study German language and German philosophy. ...
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  • of Philosophy, and studied Hungarian and German languages and literature ... was Viennese Classical music and the language spoken by educated Hungarians ...
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  • German idealism was a philosophical movement in Germany in the late ... Kant's contemporary Jacobi was a German idealist who wrote the well ...
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  • 20, 1898) was a nineteenth century German novelist and poet. He was ... contact with many of the most renowned German writers such as Theodor Storm ...
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  • copies were made in Russian, Polish, Czech and German. ==Members== ... Pact on October 3, 1990, the date of German reunification. ...
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  • official biographer. As the first English-language practitioner of psychoanalysis ... His extensive reading of French and German literature in this area aroused ...
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  • published between 1502 and 1504. In 1507, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller ... to mapmakers. Martin Waldseemuller, a German carographer, was one of the ...
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  • have been influenced by his unique style and language. His contribution to the renewal of the language contributed greatly to all ...
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  • English. There were also translations into German, Dutch, Spanish and Czech ... the first one in 1473, in Latin and German, and with a metrical summary ...
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  • 22, 1729 – February 15, 1781) was a German writer, philosopher, publicist ... years as a dramaturge and adviser at the German National Theatre in Hamburg ...
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  • Johann Gottlieb Fichte (May 19, 1762 - January 27, 1814) was a German ... human race” and the greatness of the German language (previously replaced ...
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  • in the West when it was translated into German as "Das Geheimnis der ... in the West when it was translated into German as "Das Geheimnis der ...
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  • Feldspar is derived from the German Feld (field) and Spat (a rock that does not contain ore). "Feldspathic" refers to materials that ...
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  • visible. Lester taught himself Latin, Greek, German, Russian, Japanese, and Hebrew. After his family moved to Myersburg, Pennsylvania, Ward started working ...
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  • the nineteenth century, when it came under German control—apart from the ... the Basters two to one). Whites of Dutch, German, British, French, and Portuguese ...
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  • 25, 1744 – December 18, 1803) was a German philosopher, poet, critic ... lack of understanding about the role of language in human thought. Herder ...
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  • (July 2, 1724 – March 14, 1803) was a German epic and lyric poet. His ... wrote some meritorious idylls and odes in German. His original intention to ...
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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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Lebensraum (German for "habitat" or literally "living ... |right|250px|"Lebensraum" (German for "living space ...
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  • translated from originally Palatine German and other Southwest German ... Rumspringa is a Pennsylvania German noun meaning "running around ...
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  • German reunification (Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) took place on October ... of the Soviet Union, urged the East German government to embrace change ...
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  • 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 ...
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