Search results for "German language" - New World Encyclopedia

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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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  • be applied both synchronically, to a language as it exists, and diachronically ... A diverse group of Czech, Russian, Ukrainian, and German scholars ...
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  • level of precision in his use of language. Moreover, like all the ... The German-language title is a pun on the phrase Mann mit Eigenschaften—literally ...
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  • nineteenth century writings of Russian and German authors. Some famous and ... In the English language, the earliest well-known example of novella ...
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  • for eleven years, he was joined by the German Franciscan Arnold of Cologne ... he familiarized himself with the native language, preached in it, and translated ...
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  • trying to "break apart" the German language, and as his style matured ... poetry either to destroy or remake the German language. The urgency and power ...
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  • in the face of territorial demands made by German dictator Adolf Hitler. The ... Germans had attempted to prevent the German-language border areas that had ...
    18 KB (2,719 words) - 18:57, 10 November 2022
  • were difficult to express in ordinary language by using symbols such as ... York City, to Antonio Knauth, a well-to-do German immigrant lawyer, and Else ...
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  • In January 1943, the German troops tried to enter the ghetto to round ... that Polish troops would restrain the German advance. His plans were altered ...
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  • 25, 1801), was one of the earliest of the German Romantics. Although Novalis ... Novalis descended from ancient, Low German nobility. In the different ...
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  • The Q document or Q (from the German Quelle, "source") is ... source is referred to as Q (from the German "Quelle" meaning ...
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  • Karl Richard Lepsius (December 23, 1810 – July 10, 1884) was a German ... work on the decipherment of the Egyptian language. Lepsius also visited Egyptian ...
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  • In SI units, the unit of frequency is hertz (Hz), named after the ... frequency of a human heart (Herz in German language). This unit was ...
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  • The Final Solution of the Jewish Question (German: Die Endlösung ... should have sympathy rather with our own German people. If the German people ...
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  • writings. Krochmal then proceeded to study German and German philosophers, especially Immanuel Kant; to read Latin and French classics and Arabic ...
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  • would remove "war" from human language. Schuman's contribution ... of Elsaß-Lothringen), he became a German citizen. Robert's mother ...
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  • 10, 1715 – October 18, 1775) was a German philosopher and theologian ... important works, originally written in German, appeared in the 1740s: Advice ...
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  • referred to as Meister Eckhart, was a German theologian, philosopher, ... between God and Godhead (Gottheit in German). These notions had been ...
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  • under Austrian rule dreaded growing German nationalism, which is what ... the Slavic lands against the increasing German nationalism. Advocated by ...
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  • VKhUTEMAS was closely parallel to the German Bauhaus in its intent ... Impressed by the photomontage of the German Dadaists, Rodchenko began ...
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  • ) was a German-language writer, born in Ruse, Bulgaria to a Sephardic ... Despite being a German-language writer, Canetti settled in Britain ...
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  • linguist (fluent in French, Greek, Hebrew, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish ... Tyndale introduced new words into the English language: ...
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  • elites from the West generally spoke French or German. On arriving into some villages dressed appropriately and singing and dancing, putting into practice ...
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  • Norbert Elias (June 22, 1897 - August 1, 1990) was a German sociologist ... After passing the abitur in 1915, he volunteered for the German army ...
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  • of the paper, translated it into German himself and submitted it ... #039;s theory of General Relativity from German to English. It is said that ...
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  • them. In order to study them more closely, German scholar J.J. Griesbach (1776 ... termed by scholars "Q" (from German: Quelle, meaning "source ...
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  • While his governess taught him Russian, German, French, and geography, he ... return to her, but when his sister's German maid turned up without the ...
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  • of the skull") is the English-language name given to the hill on ... 'Hebrew', indicating the 'language of the Hebrews', which ...
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  • return, he devoted himself to the study of German idealism, and developed a ... Dongwen Xueshe (東文學社), a Japanese language teaching school, where he ...
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke (December 4, 1875 – December 29, 1926) is generally considered the German language's greatest twentieth century poet ...
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  • During this period he became interested in German philosophy, especially the ... Its words have given the English language the metaphor of an albatross ...
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