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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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  • with enthusiasm. When the central German government suppressed these ... rejeced the positivist treatment of language in general and, in particular ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • ironic novels dealt with the aftermath of German militarism during the first ... simple style made him a favorite for German-language textbooks. ...
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  • Sirens were an influence, in the English language, Siren and mermaid are not ... Sirens are sometimes considered to be the forerunners of the German ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Moses Mendelssohn (September 6, 1729 – January 4, 1786) was a German ... called Haskalah; Jews learned the German language and culture and developed ...
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  • written their initial tempo marking in some other language. ... Although Italian has been the prevalent language for tempo markings ...
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  • Religious or spiritual enlightenment (German: Erleuchtung) and secular ... The German word "Unmündigkeit" means not having attained ...
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  • Estonian literature refers to literature written in the Estonian language ... The first known printed book is a bilingual German-Estonian translation ...
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  • 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" ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • (July 26, 1855 – April 9, 1936) was a German sociologist. He was a major ... From 1909 to 1933 he was president of the German Sociological Society ...
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  • Germany and met several distinguished German scholars, including Albrecht ... his next Britannica article, Hebrew Language and Literature, in which ...
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  • he used his knowledge of French and German to translate fables, later ... Danish playwright Holberg, whom he read in German, and some of whose plays ...
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  • quot;) is a translation of the old German word Strahlstein (radiated stone). Glaucophane, crocidolite, riebeckite and arfvedsonite form a somewhat ...
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  • experience. It also elevated folk art, language and custom, as well as arguing ... Son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language, written in the musical ...
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  • There has even been disagreement about what language Tatian used for ... to provide paraphrased Gospel versions in language closer to the vernacular ...
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  • Wilhelm Schmidt (February 16, 1868 – February 10, 1954) was a German ... languages, connected to the Austronesian language group. Schmidt managed to ...
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  • tutor, Herr Otto Kuntze, who taught him German and interested him in German ... of the "Bayreuth Circle" of German nationalist intellectuals. ...
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