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  • was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School ... Along with Schoenberg and Webern he was one of the pivotal composers of the ...
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  • Boltzmann studied physics at the University of Vienna, starting in ... In 1873, Boltzmann joined the University of Vienna as Professor of ...
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  • tone and expressive phrasing, he was one of the most famous violinists ... debut the following year. He had become one of the world's leading performers ...
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  • His work in systematizing the languages of Southeast Asia revealed connections ... Schmidt served as a professor at the University of Vienna from 1921 ...
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  • The Great Turkish War refers to a series of conflicts between the ... Some see the subsequent decline and fall of the Ottomans in terms ...
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  • to the Mathematical Seminar at the University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5 ... called to a professorship at the University of Vienna in 1922, and organized ...
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  • was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the so called Second Viennese ... eventually composed utilizing the techniques of dodecaphonic writing. ...
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  • very popular with the Viennese public. Son of the composer Johann Strauss ... building on his father's foundation of popularizing the waltz in Vienna ...
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  • composer and organist, the younger brother of (Franz) Joseph Haydn who lived ... Michael Haydn was born in 1737 in the Austrian village of Rohrau near ...
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  • | alma_mater = University of Vienna (PhD, 1929) }} ... He received a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Vienna ...
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  • Oktay (c. 1186 – 1241), was the third son of Genghis Khan and second Great ... As the Mongols arrived on the edge of the European space, then entered ...
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  • 29, 1780) was (reigning) Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary ... in 1754. She also demanded that the University of Vienna be given money to ...
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  • a professor at what is now Columbia University in 1826, he was the first ... he took the name Lorenzo Da Ponte, the name of the bishop of Ceneda who administered ...
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  • October 17, 1938) was a leading theoretician of German Social Democracy before ... history and philosophy at the University of Vienna, Kautsky became a ...
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  • band that appears immediately to the left of the gradient.]] Mach bands are an optical illusion where a band of gradients will ...
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  • 9, 1982) was the sixth and last child of Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund ... received an honorary M.D. from the University of Vienna, and an honorary Ph ...
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  • period, who predominantly lived in Vienna, Austria. Brahms was considered ... eschewing the more popular genres of opera and symphonic poems. ...
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  • in 1923, he studied medicine at the University of Vienna, and later specialized ... him a teaching appointment at the University of Vienna Medical School. In ...
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  • very young. In 1450 he entered the University of Vienna, where he became a ... entered the Alma Mater Rudolfina, University of Vienna, on April 14, 1450 ...
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  • *Medical University of Vienna *PEF Private University of Management Vienna ... *University of Vienna *University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna ...
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  • [[Image:Traktat brzeski 1918.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The first two pages ... parties which may be individuals or groups of states or organizations. Treaties ...
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  • poet, critic and scholar, and a founder of German Romanticism. His study ... der Indier (On the Language and Wisdom of India, 1808) was a pioneering ...
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  • The horn is a brass instrument that consists of tubing wrapped into ... The horn, as a member of the brass instrumental family, is a powerful ...
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  • Angleichung von Buddhas und Kami.] University of Vienna. Retrieved December ... Angleichung von Buddhas und Kami.] University of Vienna. Retrieved December ...
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  • Papyrus (The plural of papyrus is papyri) is an early form of thick ... The study of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, and ...
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  • February 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ... Frankfurter was born in Vienna, Austria. His family emigrated to the ...
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  • States thereafter. He was a leading member of the Vienna Circle and probably ... Moritz Schlick, a professor at the University of Vienna, who offered Carnap ...
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  • Princeton, New Jersey) was a philosopher of science and a major figure ... Hempel was a major theorist of logical positivism, but, at later stage ...
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  • 31, 1939) was an Austrian psychologist, one of Sigmund Freud's closest ... Freud also helped him to enter the University of Vienna, where Rank obtained ...
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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 ...
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 1, 1914 - June 13, 2004), an Oxford University philosopher, literary critic ... Inspired by a careful study of Spinoza, Hampshire developed a detailed ...
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  • 1494 – September 5-6,1566) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Caliph ... under his rule. His rule represented one of the most just and orderly periods ...
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  • Union and the United States and a thawing of the Cold War that occurring ... in tensions. Leonid Brezhnev and the rest of the Soviet leadership felt ...
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  • The Veil of Veronica, known in Italian as the Volto Santo or Holy ... origins are more likely to be found in image of Jesus associated with the Eastern ...
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  • composer considered to be the last master of the Viennese Classical school ... or at least, assist in the process of invoking the presence of God. ...
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  • Empire. It ended in 1676, with the Treaty of Żurawno and the Commonwealth ... The Commonwealth, however, was terminally weakened as a result of ...
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  • history is very ancient, the formal role of cantor did not emerge until ... #039;s role to Jewish males over the age of 13. Non-Orthodox Jewish movements ...
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  • first conductor born in the United States of America to receive world-wide ... Bernstein was one of the first classical musicians to recognize the ...
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  • 11, 1994) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science. He was one of the ... has noted, "If one looks at the course of Feyerabend's life, one ...
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  • In epistemology and the philosophy of perception, phenomenalism is ... Chair of Inductive Sciences at the University of Vienna, a position Schlick ...
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  • Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg dynasties of the Austrian Empire, Habsburg ... In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Peace of Westphalia ...
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  • theatre, greatly influenced the development of the Romantic opera in German ... Weber was the eldest of the three children of Franz Anton von Weber ...
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  • long and successful tenure as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra from ... The primary aspect of the art of conducting can be said to be bringing ...
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  • French physicist, philosopher and historian of science. His most influential ... At the young age of eleven, Duhem entered the Collège Stanislas. ...
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  • (March 31 or April 1, 1732 – May 31, 1809) was one of the most prominent ... A life-long resident of Austria, Haydn spent most of his career as ...
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  • or Prague school was an influential group of literary critics and linguists ... chair of Slavic Philology at the University of Vienna (1922–1938). On ...
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  • Mesmer's technique of healing was met with great enthusiasm by ... While a medical student at the University of Vienna, Mesmer had been ...
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  • research revolutionized our understanding of the sensory perception of fish ... as a student of medicine at the University of Vienna, where his uncle taught ...
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  • 1791) was a prolific and celebrated composer of Classical music. His enormous ... The young Mozart toured as a child and won the patronage of both nobility ...
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  • influences = Hume, Vienna Circle, Popper, Russell, Wittgenstein, Kant | ... British philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly ...
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  • 27, 1676 - April 8, 1735) was the leader of the Hungarian uprising against ... He was also Prince of Transylvania, an Imperial Prince, and a member ...
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  • The degree Celsius is also a unit increment of temperature for use in indicating ... temperature measurements by most countries of the world and by the entire ...
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  • and an early pioneer in the use of psychoanalysis with children ... Melanie Klein (née Reisez) was born in Vienna, in 1882. Her father ...
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  • he was regarded as a rival and contemporary of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst ... Vikhvatinets (now in Transnistria, Republic of Moldova). He learned the piano ...
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  • Edmund Husserl's formulation, the study of experience and the ways in ... This emphasis on the intentional structure of experience makes phenomenology ...
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  • 26, 1983) was a logician and mathematician of considerable philosophical ... In 1930 Tarski visited the University of Vienna, where he lectured ...
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  • in the percussion family. It consists of wooden bars of various lengths ... Xylophone can refer to western style concert xylophones or to one ...
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  • [[Image:Eugen Bleuler.jpg|thumb|right|Photograph of Eugen Bleuler.]] psychiatrist, was a pioneer in the treatment of psychoses, particularly schizophrenia ...
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  • | education = University of Vienna (MD, 1922) | known_for ... entered the medical school at the University of Vienna. As an undergraduate ...
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  • and his contributions to the development of theories of culture within ... he studied anthropology at the University of Vienna and was exposed to ...
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  • society was not based on market principles of exchange but rather on relationships ... Karl Paul Polanyi was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1886. His younger ...
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  • is known as the "father" of phenomenology, a major philosophical ... Modern philosophy discarded the framework of thought of medieval philosophy ...
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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 ...
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  • Rossini, he was a leading composer of bel canto opera. sincere manner about him. He carried a sense of responsibility to nurture and ...
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  • and author, widely recognized as the founder of Reform Judaism in the United ... secular studies in Prague and the University of Vienna. ...
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  • Mesoamerican paper, made from the inner bark of certain trees, the main being ... is generally considered the most important of the few that survive. ...
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  • composer, virtuoso violinist, and impresario of Baroque music. He was regarded ... concertos, for the violin and a variety of other musical instruments, ...
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  • An analytic proposition is one whose truth depends on relations of ... At the beginning of his Critique of Pure Reason, following the distinction ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • | alma_mater = University of Vienna | children = Maria Romana De Gasperi ... and politician. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the ...
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  • best known during his own lifetime as one of the leading orchestral and ... Gesellen (usually rendered as 'Songs of a Wayfarer', but literally ...
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  • a philosopher and a founding representative of the Oxford-based British ordinary ... his father, eventually the first Bishop of Liverpool, had raised him." ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • and sociologist, a leading thinker of the Frankfurt School/critical ... In 1923, Carl Grungberg was invited from the University of Vienna ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • literature and society, and the impact of The Holocaust. ... A polyglot and polymath, he is often credited with redefining the ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • activist and reformer, the chairman of the committee on labor laws ... in Brooklyn, New York City, the youngest of ten children to Joseph Goldmark ...
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  • instrumental in the development of biofeedback. His productive ... support to behavior modification techniques of altering an individual's ...
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  • public. Beyond recreation, other functions of zoos include research, education ... observing nature and have a role as stewards of creation, have, in the ideal ...
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  • Österreichs, was the 1938 annexation of Austria into Greater Germany ... The events of March 12, 1938, marked the culmination of historical ...
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