Search results for "University of Vienna" - New World Encyclopedia
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- whose work centered around theistic ideals of religious consciousness, interpersonal ... Martin Buber was born on February 8, 1878, in Vienna, into a Jewish ...16 KB (2,486 words) - 16:30, 6 November 2022
- Rossini, he was a leading composer of bel canto opera. sincere manner about him. He carried a sense of responsibility to nurture and ...18 KB (2,665 words) - 03:45, 18 April 2024
- and author, widely recognized as the founder of Reform Judaism in the United ... secular studies in Prague and the University of Vienna. ...16 KB (2,521 words) - 18:59, 7 March 2024
- Mesoamerican paper, made from the inner bark of certain trees, the main being ... is generally considered the most important of the few that survive. ...17 KB (2,631 words) - 02:21, 9 November 2022
- composer, virtuoso violinist, and impresario of Baroque music. He was regarded ... concertos, for the violin and a variety of other musical instruments, ...38 KB (5,736 words) - 05:45, 11 August 2023
- An analytic proposition is one whose truth depends on relations of ... At the beginning of his Critique of Pure Reason, following the distinction ...9 KB (1,371 words) - 18:57, 26 July 2023
- Wchinitz und Tettau, died June 21 1914 in Vienna (Austria), was an Austrian ... At the London Peace Congress of 1907 she spoke about how European ...26 KB (4,056 words) - 17:15, 29 September 2023
- | alma_mater = University of Vienna | children = Maria Romana De Gasperi ... and politician. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the ...21 KB (3,168 words) - 23:30, 8 January 2023
- best known during his own lifetime as one of the leading orchestral and ... Gesellen (usually rendered as 'Songs of a Wayfarer', but literally ...43 KB (6,581 words) - 23:49, 26 July 2023
- and a professor at the London School of Economics. He is counted among ... origins. He was educated at the University of Vienna. His father was a ...33 KB (4,906 words) - 07:20, 5 October 2022
- a philosopher and a founding representative of the Oxford-based British ordinary ... his father, eventually the first Bishop of Liverpool, had raised him." ...18 KB (2,734 words) - 07:53, 14 December 2022
- and sociologist, a leading thinker of the Frankfurt School/critical ... In 1923, Carl Grungberg was invited from the University of Vienna ...10 KB (1,416 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- played a major role in shaping the fields of personality psychology and ... laws alone could never tell the whole story of the diversity and uniqueness ...18 KB (2,581 words) - 03:25, 23 December 2022
- literature and society, and the impact of The Holocaust. ... A polyglot and polymath, he is often credited with redefining the ...21 KB (2,963 words) - 08:15, 23 January 2023
- The union of Austria and Hungary, also known as the Dual (that of ... The newly created Austro-Hungarian Empire was a good example of a ...36 KB (5,334 words) - 18:41, 22 August 2023
- In mathematics and set theory, an axiomatic system is any set of specified ... A system will be called independent if each of its underlying axioms is independent ...10 KB (1,582 words) - 07:21, 23 August 2023
- activist and reformer, the chairman of the committee on labor laws ... in Brooklyn, New York City, the youngest of ten children to Joseph Goldmark ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 02:16, 11 August 2022
- instrumental in the development of biofeedback. His productive ... support to behavior modification techniques of altering an individual's ...10 KB (1,432 words) - 16:01, 11 November 2022
- public. Beyond recreation, other functions of zoos include research, education ... observing nature and have a role as stewards of creation, have, in the ideal ...18 KB (2,585 words) - 06:10, 13 June 2023
- Österreichs, was the 1938 annexation of Austria into Greater Germany ... The events of March 12, 1938, marked the culmination of historical ...45 KB (6,819 words) - 05:13, 31 July 2023
- and psychologist. He contributed to a number of different areas in philosophy ... from 1874 to 1895 he taught at the University of Vienna. Among his students ...12 KB (1,636 words) - 05:17, 9 April 2024
- Ljubljana is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is regarded ... position. Ljubljana lies at the crossroads of Germanic, Latin, and Slavic ...26 KB (3,718 words) - 07:46, 9 March 2023
- The Prague Slavic Congress of 1848 was a major event in the Europe ... peoples, which had to do with what area of the Empire they were under ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 00:31, 12 April 2023
- the first among the great German dramatists of the nineteenth century. The ... Kleist was born of aristocratic descent at Frankfurt an der Oder, ...16 KB (2,396 words) - 15:02, 26 October 2022
- Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and is its largest city, with ... Bratislava was a key economic and administrative center of the Kingdom ...38 KB (5,662 words) - 22:52, 20 November 2023
- Nordic countries from about the beginning of the twentieth century up to ... The main founders of analytic philosophy were the Cambridge philosophers ...27 KB (4,040 words) - 18:56, 26 July 2023
- The polka is a fast, lively Central European dance, and also a genre ... 1800s. As immigrants from different parts of Europe spread across the U ...27 KB (4,215 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- Friedrich August von Hayek (May 8, 1899 in Vienna – March 23, 1992 ... Ludwig Wittgenstein. At the University of Vienna he earned doctorates ...29 KB (4,353 words) - 11:04, 11 April 2024
- He was the preeminent Romanian musician of the twentieth century, one ... Enescu exhibited a profound understanding of the large-scale form ...17 KB (2,378 words) - 12:09, 11 August 2021
- author, gentleman philosopher, and patron of the arts. From c. 1305 to 1328 ... Metochites was a man of great learning and political acumen, with ...8 KB (1,270 words) - 17:58, 30 April 2023
- to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and ... French composers and the composers of the Nuremberg tradition. Pachelbel ...46 KB (6,947 words) - 14:51, 1 August 2022
- Marietta Robusti (1560? - 1590) was a female Venetian painter of the ... (1527–1576) and King King Philip II of Spain (1527-1598) to work at ...11 KB (1,724 words) - 15:54, 6 November 2022
- c. 1450 – August 9, 1516) was an Early Netherlandish painter of ... Bosch used images of demons, half-human animals and machines to evoke ...17 KB (2,636 words) - 23:47, 12 February 2022
- , a German composer and pianist, was one of the most important Romantic ... Schumann, can be said to be one of the first truly Romantic composers ...26 KB (4,179 words) - 02:15, 16 December 2022
- and mathematician who is considered one of the greatest creators of old ... . His most iconic images are his woodcuts of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ...24 KB (3,763 words) - 05:04, 17 June 2023
- is a bread product traditionally made of yeasted wheat dough in the ... Jewish specialty, in part because its method of preparation made it popular ...17 KB (2,751 words) - 05:40, 26 August 2023
- Hoover Institution, and the Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason ... born on March 18, 1922, in New York, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. ...12 KB (1,665 words) - 10:15, 26 January 2023
- a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer of the Romantic period. He was ... Liszt studied and played at Vienna and Paris and for most of his early ...26 KB (3,891 words) - 09:36, 11 April 2024
- a Scottish medical missionary and explorer of the Victorian era who traveled ... David Livingstone was born in the village of Blantyre, South Lanarkshire ...18 KB (2,693 words) - 08:06, 28 January 2024
- tradition with the folk idioms and melodies of his native Bohemia. Widely regarded as the most distinguished of Czech composers, Dvorák ...18 KB (2,917 words) - 12:12, 30 October 2021
- the modern libertarian movement and revival of classical liberalism. Prominent ... doctorate in 1906. He taught at the University of Vienna without pay as Privatdozent ...19 KB (2,970 words) - 02:41, 5 November 2022
- 28, 1968) was a German chemist and a pioneer of radioactivity and radiochemistry ... 1879, in Frankfurt am Main, the youngest son of the glazier and entrepreneur ...24 KB (3,736 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- after Zürich) and is the most populous city of Romandie (the French-speaking ... Geneva was a center of the Reformation in the sixteenth century, and ...24 KB (3,552 words) - 06:46, 18 April 2024
- until his death in 117. He was the second of the Five Good Emperors of the ... building program, which reshaped the city of Rome and left enduring landmarks ...18 KB (2,716 words) - 00:38, 2 May 2023
- Pavel Josef Šafařík, also known by the Slovak spelling of his name ... local culture while realizing the extent of Slavic oppression. While most ...26 KB (4,082 words) - 01:44, 23 November 2022
- a colonial global empire outside of continental Europe. Their skills ... global commerce during the second half of the seventeenth century. A ...20 KB (2,997 words) - 18:52, 24 August 2020
- polystylistic musician and composer because of his talent in combining the ... Schnittke's father was born in Frankfurt to a Jewish family of ...10 KB (1,316 words) - 18:06, 20 July 2023
- opera composer, and the first great exponent of French Grand Opera. His nineteenth ... considered him amongst the greatest virtuosi of his period. In his youth Beer ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 20:19, 14 December 2023
- new elements. It also led to the discovery of nuclear fission and its uses ... Chadwick was the leader of the British technical team that helped ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 21:08, 20 March 2024
- was an Italian master painter and architect of the Florentine school in High ... Raphael apprenticed with Perugino, studied the work of Michelangelo ...21 KB (3,084 words) - 00:38, 8 December 2022
- to his death in 2002, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University ... Nozick was born in Brooklyn, the son of a Jewish entrepreneur from ...12 KB (1,858 words) - 21:29, 16 April 2023
- 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile ... school. After dropping out of the University of Vienna, Wilder became a journalist ...22 KB (3,248 words) - 17:40, 31 October 2023
- and the United States. He was a student of French physician Jean Marc ... Seguin's approach was influenced by utopian ideas, such as those ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 01:33, 16 January 2023
- philosophy, primarily on the foundations of logic, the philosophy of mathematics ... Wittgenstein is widely regarded as having been one of the most influential ...59 KB (9,088 words) - 02:40, 5 November 2022
- short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature ... Andrić was born on October 9, 1892 of Croatian parentage in the village ...10 KB (1,459 words) - 07:47, 12 March 2024
- The War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) was a major European ... and was marked by the military leadership of notable generals such as the ...29 KB (4,611 words) - 22:54, 3 May 2023
- staff and equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital ... In accordance with the original meaning of the word, hospitals were ...34 KB (4,867 words) - 16:01, 25 April 2020
- The Austrian School, also known as the “Vienna School” or the ... As professor of economics at the University of Vienna, Menger restored ...22 KB (3,203 words) - 19:14, 22 August 2023
- who developed Alfred Adler's system of individual psychology into ... with the school environment as an extension of the family. Thus, his techniques ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 21:05, 21 December 2022
- ) is a type of counterpoint or contrapuntal composition. It begins ... century from several earlier types of contrapuntal compositions such ...30 KB (4,799 words) - 07:12, 15 April 2024
- philosopher who wrote widely in the areas of sociology, social psychology ... Facing the problems of the Holocaust by the Nazis and the mass murders ...41 KB (6,139 words) - 17:57, 30 April 2023
- painter who is often said to be the greatest of the Northern Baroque artists ... heritage. Rubens expressed the spirit of the Counter-Reformation, which ...28 KB (4,301 words) - 01:35, 24 November 2022
- is a theory that asserts that the nature of complex things is reduced to ... positivists attempted to achieve the unity of science ("unified science ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 02:59, 8 December 2022
- – March 1, 1938, Gardone Riviera, province of Brescia) was an Italian poet ... ego, sensuous pleasure, and glorification of self, exalt a certain type ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 07:39, 15 April 2024
- thumb," which is really an extension of the wrist bone. It has reddish ... Panda is also a genus of the plant family Pandaceae. The word panda ...26 KB (4,054 words) - 11:57, 26 May 2023
- Raoul Gustav Wallenberg (born August 4, 1912, exact date of death ... ancestors. Raoul Wallenberg, Sr., died of cancer three months before ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:37, 8 December 2022
- 2002), known as Abu Nidal, was the founder of Fatah: The Revolutionary Council ... At the height of its power in the 1970s and 1980s, the ANO was widely ...43 KB (6,718 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
- 24, 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist of Parsi-Zoroastrian heritage ... in Bombay (now Mumbai), in 1909. He was one of two sons. His father was a ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 11:24, 2 February 2024
- , was the most frequently used pseudonym of Paul Antschel, a Jewish author ... he had experienced, in the redeeming power of art and language, and although ...19 KB (3,103 words) - 16:50, 21 November 2022
- ” Widely considered to be the father of modern management, his many ... Having experienced the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1930s, observed ...31 KB (4,468 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
- book Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), a study of "sexual perversity," ... Strasbourg, University of Graz, and University of Vienna. Krafft-Ebing was ...13 KB (1,783 words) - 09:26, 10 August 2022
- |name=Saint Lawrence of Brindisi |birth_date=July 22, 1559 ... Saint Lawrence of Brindisi (July 22, 1559 – July 22, 1619), born ...12 KB (1,816 words) - 17:58, 25 October 2022
- was the primary strategist and general of Genghis Khan (Temüjin) and ... When Batu returned to Mongolia for the election of the new Great Khan ...22 KB (3,556 words) - 21:26, 26 February 2023
- often taking years and sometimes decades of careful preparation – including ... ) was born on June 13, 1935, in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, as the second of ...37 KB (5,196 words) - 21:40, 10 December 2023
- for dancers and stimulated a wave of creative experimentation in ... school and company, Denishawn, in 1915. One of her most famous pupils was ...12 KB (1,963 words) - 23:52, 21 August 2022
- Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, Order of Merit (OM), Order ... are considered among the finest examples of vocal writing in the twentieth ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 09:18, 27 September 2023
- , derived from bolshinstvo, "majority") were a faction of ... and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. ...15 KB (2,018 words) - 07:17, 17 November 2023
- Gestalt school. He is considered to be one of social psychology's pre ... Heider's theoretical position began from the concept of what ...14 KB (2,033 words) - 07:04, 15 April 2024
- , also known as Kipchak Khanate or the Ulus of Jochi, was a Mongol state established ... that Batu Khan established to mark a place of his future capital on the Volga ...11 KB (1,663 words) - 18:55, 30 August 2021
- The philosophy of science, a sub-branch of epistemology, is the branch ... was a movement centering on the University of Vienna in the 1920s and 1930s ...72 KB (11,042 words) - 04:18, 24 November 2022
- country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music. Glinka ... Mikhail Glinka was born in the village of Novospasskoye, a village ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 17:51, 9 November 2022
- 6, 2007) was an Italian tenor and one of the most popular contemporary ... Pavarotti was one of those unique artistic personalities (much like ...22 KB (3,379 words) - 10:36, 9 March 2023
- eruption that occurred on the Greek island of Thera (known today as Santorini ... Volcano: Natural History and the Legend of Atlantis (Cambridge University ...26 KB (3,980 words) - 18:52, 9 November 2022
- ; May 22, 1808 – January 26, 1855) was the pen name of the French ... Antoinette Laurent, was the daughter of a clothing salesman,Pierre ...30 KB (4,372 words) - 21:54, 30 April 2023
- and logician. His logical analysis of mathematical problems made ... family in Prague, which was then part of the Austrian Empire. His father ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 11:18, 28 September 2023
- music student in Canada, for the creation of a virtual library of public ... since multiple and historical editions of a single composition can be ...18 KB (2,536 words) - 16:33, 8 March 2023
- 23, 1443 – April 6, 1490) was king of Hungary and Croatia, ruling ... as Matthias Corvinus House, the second son of John Hunyadi--a successful ...23 KB (3,564 words) - 16:56, 7 November 2022
- von Taaffe; 11th Viscount Taaffe and Baron of Ballymote, in the peerage of ... Although himself an aristocrat and a member of the social elite, he extended ...13 KB (1,955 words) - 18:17, 12 February 2024
- civilization museums in the city, a series of laboratories for conservation ... for Romanian Literature and the Culture of the Romanian People") ...14 KB (2,039 words) - 07:06, 13 June 2023
- | work_institution = University of Vienna | alma_mater = University of Vienna | doctoral_advisor = Jean-Martin ...58 KB (8,678 words) - 21:59, 29 January 2023
- which was to become a controversial symbol of Westernization in the Meiji ... the need for Westernization in the areas of technology, science, infrastructure ...14 KB (2,063 words) - 02:43, 16 December 2022
- a philosophical model. He was a close friend of the U.S. German-born theologian ... May is best known for his work on the human struggles of living in ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 02:44, 16 December 2022
- Hibernation is a state of inactivity (deep sleep) and metabolic depression ... of Wild Animals and Ecology at the University of Vienna and Gerhard Heldmaier ...14 KB (2,055 words) - 15:45, 25 January 2023
- was an American historian and philosopher of science who wrote extensively ... Kuhn entered Harvard University in 1940 and obtained his bachelor ...29 KB (4,408 words) - 22:54, 30 April 2023
- politician, who ruled Hungary, as the leader of the Hungarian Soviet Republic ... Although Kun was hostile to all forms of religion, his Jewish roots ...26 KB (4,004 words) - 08:50, 27 September 2023
- or Helsinki Declaration, was the Final Act of the Conference on Security ... human rights and to non-violent resolution of disputes. Analysts identify ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 17:19, 6 February 2022
- ), was an Italian Renaissance painter, the foremost painter of the ... His main works focused on religious themes, with many paintings of ...26 KB (3,834 words) - 19:48, 9 April 2024
- authors. Strindberg is known as one of the fathers of modern theater ... Born in Stockholm, Strindberg was the fourth son of Carl Oscar Strindberg ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 18:29, 21 August 2023
- athleticism and comedy to create one of the best-known sports entertainment ... Their warm-up routine, done to the tune of Brother Bones' whistled ...13 KB (1,878 words) - 09:11, 19 January 2024
- a silvery metallic element that is a member of the lanthanide series of chemical ... It constitutes about 38 parts per million (ppm) of the Earth’s crust. ...12 KB (1,578 words) - 16:18, 11 November 2022
