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  • was baptized on December 17, 1770. Children of that era were usually baptized ... counterpoint to his majestic compositions. Of irritable temperament and physically ...
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  • Cavalleria rusticana, caused one of the greatest sensations in ... Mascagni wrote a total of fifteen operas, plus an operetta, several ...
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  • Saint Giovanni da Capestrano, known as John of Capistrano in English ... sick in the hospitals, and preached the word of God. He became a disciple of ...
    12 KB (1,836 words) - 19:54, 22 December 2022
  • His "refrigerator mother" theory of autism, now largely disfavored ... class Jewish family. He entered the University of Vienna, but in order to take ...
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  • and playwright who became the founder of modern political Zionism. His ... from anti-Semitism and that the creation of a Jewish state was the only ...
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  • October 11, 1896) was an Austrian composer of the Romantic era who used his ... He later accepted a post at the University of Vienna in 1875, where he ...
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  • neuroanatomist and physiologist, the father of phrenology. He was also one ... Gall's work pioneered our understanding of the function of the ...
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  • and occasional film producer, one of the best known émigrés from ... Lang briefly attended the Technical University of Vienna, where he studied ...
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  • Austrian philosopher who taught at the University of Graz from 1878 until ... Gymnasium, Vienna and later the University of Vienna where he studied history ...
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  • tragedies were belatedly recognized as some of the finest plays in the tradition ... Grillparzer entered in 1807 the University of Vienna as a student of jurisprudence; ...
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  • and a famous Nazi collaborator as president of Slovakia during World War II ... Tiso's role in the treatment of Slovak Jews during the war has ...
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  • Switzerland) was an Austrian writer, author of the unfinished long novel The ... as a librarian in the Technical University of Vienna, and then in an editorial ...
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  • and the Berlin Philharmonic. A conductor of great stature, his unorthodox ... Although most of his recorded legacy was accomplished prior to the ...
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  • publisher, and owner. Patterson was one of the first women to head a major ... and using their talents for the benefit of society, their family life ...
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  • Vienna, Austria. He studied at the University of Vienna with three of the ... (an unsalaried lecturer) at the University of Vienna, teaching a joint ...
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  • Republic. He was trained in the University of Vienna as a lawyer. There ... During his time at the University of Vienna, he became good friends ...
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  • Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria, with a population ... arrived in the area. The first establishment of Salzburg was the Benedictine ...
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  • Carl Menger (February 28, 1840 – February 26, 1921) was the founder ... Poland on February 28, 1840. He was the son of a wealthy family; his father ...
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  • Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December ... At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in ...
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  • most famous for his roles as the founder of Conservative Judaism and president ... secular branches of learning in the University of Vienna. After receiving his ...
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