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- The Verifiability theory of meaning was put forth in the early twentieth ... Adherents of the verifiability principle claimed that all statements ...8 KB (1,167 words) - 18:01, 3 May 2023
- of inductive sciences at the University of Vienna. In the same year ... Schlick, however, stayed on at the University of Vienna where he taught from ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 21:22, 9 November 2022
- to gymnasium before entering the University of Vienna at 17. There he studied ... Mach returned to the University of Vienna as professor of inductive ...9 KB (1,301 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- |Origin = Vienna, Austria |Died = March 15, 1942United ... teacher who efficiently perfected the art of composition as well as becoming ...12 KB (1,584 words) - 06:31, 20 July 2023
- The term "logical positivism" itself originated in the Vienna ... Logical positivism held that philosophy should aspire to the same ...13 KB (1,922 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- and then working in operatic venues in Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Leipzig ... As a renowned conductor, Bruno Walter understood the actions of giving ...16 KB (2,368 words) - 04:44, 22 November 2023
- of the University of Munich and the University of Vienna. In 1892 both his ... ceiling of the Great Hall in the University of Vienna. Not completed until ...15 KB (2,101 words) - 21:28, 26 July 2023
- after Weininger's suicide at the age of 23. Today, the book is often ... in July 1898 he registered at the University of Vienna. He studied mainly ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- was an Austrian sociologist and philosopher of science and one of the founders ... 1919, after the war, the Marxist governments of Bavaria and Saxony employed ...12 KB (1,753 words) - 05:54, 18 November 2022
- [[Image:Hall Freud Jung in front of Clark 1909.jpg|thumb|Jones, middle ... was a Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst of the Freudian school. He contributed ...11 KB (1,522 words) - 01:05, 7 September 2023
- pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, ... Nieder! (Lay Down Your Arms!) the title of the Baroness' famous 1889 ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 07:20, 20 July 2023
- Johann Strauss I (German: Johann Strauß) born in Vienna (March 14 ... Beginning his career in the string quartet of Joseph Lanner, Strauss ...11 KB (1,610 words) - 14:55, 1 August 2022
- medical doctor and psychologist, founder of the school of individual psychology ... He trained as a doctor at the University of Vienna Medical School and ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 20:46, 1 April 2024
- III. He graduated from the University of Vienna, earning a doctorate ... Morgenstern started work at the University of Vienna, first as a lecturer ...9 KB (1,193 words) - 04:38, 18 November 2022
- [[Image:Bayeux-crypte1.JPG|200px|thumb|Crypt of Bayeux, France]] chamber or vault, usually beneath the floor of a church or castle. It was ...11 KB (1,624 words) - 02:11, 15 January 2023
- first to quantify the change in frequency of a wave motion experienced by ... for Experimental Physics at the University of Vienna, in 1850. During his ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 17:59, 10 December 2023
- Crafts movement and also the main exponent of Art Nouveau in Scotland. Mackintosh ... Glen's School in Scotland. At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed ...10 KB (1,454 words) - 00:20, 5 December 2023
- Positivism is a family of philosophical views characterized by a highly ... As Niccola Abbagnano has put it: The characteristic theses of positivism ...11 KB (1,561 words) - 05:45, 30 November 2022
- non-partisan. Later he attended the University of Vienna, where he graduated ... finishing his studies in law at the University of Vienna. He served as first ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- arcade of the main building, University of Vienna, Austria. ... | alma_mater = University of Vienna | doctoral_advisor = Friedrich ...17 KB (2,571 words) - 21:27, 20 March 2024
- 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 ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 18:49, 1 January 2023
- Boltzmann studied physics at the University of Vienna, starting in ... In 1873, Boltzmann joined the University of Vienna as Professor of ...19 KB (2,826 words) - 02:38, 5 November 2022
- 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 ...12 KB (1,707 words) - 07:05, 15 April 2024
- His work in systematizing the languages of Southeast Asia revealed connections ... Schmidt served as a professor at the University of Vienna from 1921 ...10 KB (1,397 words) - 12:00, 5 May 2023
- The Great Turkish War refers to a series of conflicts between the ... Some see the subsequent decline and fall of the Ottomans in terms ...18 KB (2,776 words) - 12:21, 24 January 2023
- to the Mathematical Seminar at the University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5 ... called to a professorship at the University of Vienna in 1922, and organized ...34 KB (4,936 words) - 20:14, 3 May 2023
- was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the so called Second Viennese ... eventually composed utilizing the techniques of dodecaphonic writing. ...12 KB (1,713 words) - 06:59, 31 July 2023
- very popular with the Viennese public. Son of the composer Johann Strauss ... building on his father's foundation of popularizing the waltz in Vienna ...18 KB (2,468 words) - 14:59, 1 August 2022
- 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 ...7 KB (1,073 words) - 17:05, 9 November 2022
- | alma_mater = University of Vienna (PhD, 1929) }} ... He received a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Vienna ...17 KB (2,352 words) - 21:30, 5 September 2023
- 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 ...10 KB (1,537 words) - 15:55, 5 December 2022
- 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 ...16 KB (2,351 words) - 04:11, 6 November 2022
- 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 ...14 KB (2,015 words) - 07:53, 9 March 2023
- October 17, 1938) was a leading theoretician of German Social Democracy before ... history and philosophy at the University of Vienna, Kautsky became a ...14 KB (2,094 words) - 10:45, 28 February 2023
- band that appears immediately to the left of the gradient.]] Mach bands are an optical illusion where a band of gradients will ...4 KB (546 words) - 04:49, 5 November 2022
- 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 ...12 KB (1,678 words) - 06:43, 28 July 2023
- period, who predominantly lived in Vienna, Austria. Brahms was considered ... eschewing the more popular genres of opera and symphonic poems. ...19 KB (2,995 words) - 15:01, 1 August 2022
- 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 ...21 KB (3,325 words) - 20:21, 3 May 2023
- 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 ...15 KB (2,318 words) - 03:03, 8 December 2022
- *Medical University of Vienna *PEF Private University of Management Vienna ... *University of Vienna *University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna ...42 KB (5,917 words) - 20:13, 3 May 2023
- [[Image:Traktat brzeski 1918.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The first two pages ... parties which may be individuals or groups of states or organizations. Treaties ...26 KB (3,960 words) - 14:53, 2 May 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 07:21, 5 October 2022
- 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 ...16 KB (2,716 words) - 14:17, 7 February 2024
- Angleichung von Buddhas und Kami.] University of Vienna. Retrieved December ... Angleichung von Buddhas und Kami.] University of Vienna. Retrieved December ...15 KB (2,180 words) - 20:48, 31 December 2023
- Papyrus (The plural of papyrus is papyri) is an early form of thick ... The study of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, and ...12 KB (1,870 words) - 07:37, 18 November 2022
- February 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ... Frankfurter was born in Vienna, Austria. His family emigrated to the ...8 KB (1,184 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2024
- 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 ...27 KB (4,028 words) - 21:04, 21 December 2022
- Princeton, New Jersey) was a philosopher of science and a major figure ... Hempel was a major theorist of logical positivism, but, at later stage ...24 KB (3,610 words) - 19:18, 26 November 2023
- 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 ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 05:54, 18 November 2022
- was baptized on December 17, 1770. Children of that era were usually baptized ... counterpoint to his majestic compositions. Of irritable temperament and physically ...18 KB (2,631 words) - 17:30, 20 December 2022
- Cavalleria rusticana, caused one of the greatest sensations in ... Mascagni wrote a total of fifteen operas, plus an operetta, several ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 05:28, 24 November 2022
- 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 ...16 KB (2,237 words) - 04:43, 22 November 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 17:56, 30 April 2023
- 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 ...22 KB (3,442 words) - 06:48, 31 July 2023
- neuroanatomist and physiologist, the father of phrenology. He was also one ... Gall's work pioneered our understanding of the function of the ...14 KB (2,093 words) - 05:20, 9 April 2024
- and occasional film producer, one of the best known émigrés from ... Lang briefly attended the Technical University of Vienna, where he studied ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 07:06, 15 April 2024
- Austrian philosopher who taught at the University of Graz from 1878 until ... Gymnasium, Vienna and later the University of Vienna where he studied history ...14 KB (1,974 words) - 06:46, 20 July 2023
- 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; ...15 KB (2,376 words) - 05:19, 9 April 2024
- 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 ...13 KB (1,972 words) - 02:02, 8 September 2022
- 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 ...18 KB (2,958 words) - 01:45, 16 December 2022
- and the Berlin Philharmonic. A conductor of great stature, his unorthodox ... Although most of his recorded legacy was accomplished prior to the ...21 KB (3,095 words) - 11:58, 5 May 2023
- 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 ...10 KB (1,584 words) - 13:57, 2 April 2008
- 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 ...19 KB (2,982 words) - 04:42, 22 March 2024
- Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria, with a population ... arrived in the area. The first establishment of Salzburg was the Benedictine ...19 KB (2,898 words) - 01:56, 23 December 2022
- 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 ...18 KB (2,699 words) - 19:20, 26 November 2023
- Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December ... At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in ...23 KB (3,477 words) - 22:10, 29 January 2023
- 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 ...13 KB (1,934 words) - 01:02, 4 February 2023
- 1, 1914 - June 13, 2004), an Oxford University philosopher, literary critic ... Inspired by a careful study of Spinoza, Hampshire developed a detailed ...12 KB (1,807 words) - 21:06, 26 February 2023
- 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 ...10 KB (1,667 words) - 19:26, 22 October 2022
- 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 ...15 KB (2,257 words) - 10:05, 29 January 2024
- 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 ...20 KB (3,228 words) - 14:45, 3 May 2023
- 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. ...30 KB (4,803 words) - 09:36, 11 April 2024
- Empire. It ended in 1676, with the Treaty of Żurawno and the Commonwealth ... The Commonwealth, however, was terminally weakened as a result of ...12 KB (1,753 words) - 00:14, 12 April 2023
- 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 ...15 KB (2,193 words) - 19:28, 25 November 2023
- first conductor born in the United States of America to receive world-wide ... Bernstein was one of the first classical musicians to recognize the ...27 KB (3,897 words) - 22:15, 20 December 2023
- 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 ...26 KB (3,955 words) - 16:54, 21 November 2022
- In epistemology and the philosophy of perception, phenomenalism is ... Chair of Inductive Sciences at the University of Vienna, a position Schlick ...13 KB (2,023 words) - 02:56, 24 November 2022
- Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg dynasties of the Austrian Empire, Habsburg ... In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Peace of Westphalia ...37 KB (5,890 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2020
- theatre, greatly influenced the development of the Romantic opera in German ... Weber was the eldest of the three children of Franz Anton von Weber ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 19:20, 26 November 2023
- 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 ...18 KB (2,787 words) - 21:10, 18 October 2022
- French physicist, philosopher and historian of science. His most influential ... At the young age of eleven, Duhem entered the Collège Stanislas. ...15 KB (2,236 words) - 05:22, 24 November 2022
- (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 ...31 KB (4,893 words) - 21:50, 6 May 2024
- or Prague school was an influential group of literary critics and linguists ... chair of Slavic Philology at the University of Vienna (1922–1938). On ...16 KB (2,265 words) - 22:11, 30 November 2022
- Mesmer's technique of healing was met with great enthusiasm by ... While a medical student at the University of Vienna, Mesmer had been ...22 KB (3,362 words) - 16:24, 29 October 2022
- research revolutionized our understanding of the sensory perception of fish ... as a student of medicine at the University of Vienna, where his uncle taught ...15 KB (2,290 words) - 10:47, 28 February 2023
- 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 ...34 KB (5,408 words) - 16:10, 10 October 2020
- influences = Hume, Vienna Circle, Popper, Russell, Wittgenstein, Kant | ... British philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly ...30 KB (4,587 words) - 06:50, 13 June 2023
- 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 ...24 KB (3,987 words) - 06:28, 24 May 2021
- 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 ...23 KB (3,406 words) - 23:47, 3 December 2023
- and an early pioneer in the use of psychoanalysis with children ... Melanie Klein (née Reisez) was born in Vienna, in 1882. Her father ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 04:19, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...7 KB (986 words) - 06:51, 31 July 2023
- Edmund Husserl's formulation, the study of experience and the ways in ... This emphasis on the intentional structure of experience makes phenomenology ...26 KB (3,647 words) - 02:57, 24 November 2022
- 26, 1983) was a logician and mathematician of considerable philosophical ... In 1930 Tarski visited the University of Vienna, where he lectured ...27 KB (4,019 words) - 20:34, 20 July 2023
- in the percussion family. It consists of wooden bars of various lengths ... Xylophone can refer to western style concert xylophones or to one ...7 KB (1,049 words) - 21:33, 15 January 2024
- [[Image:Eugen Bleuler.jpg|thumb|right|Photograph of Eugen Bleuler.]] psychiatrist, was a pioneer in the treatment of psychoses, particularly schizophrenia ...8 KB (1,200 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- | education = University of Vienna (MD, 1922) | known_for ... entered the medical school at the University of Vienna. As an undergraduate ...34 KB (4,898 words) - 20:11, 17 November 2023
- and his contributions to the development of theories of culture within ... he studied anthropology at the University of Vienna and was exposed to ...10 KB (1,350 words) - 22:13, 7 January 2024
- 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 ...16 KB (2,415 words) - 07:19, 5 October 2022
- is known as the "father" of phenomenology, a major philosophical ... Modern philosophy discarded the framework of thought of medieval philosophy ...17 KB (2,508 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- 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
- 2, 1754 – May 17, 1838), 1st Prince of Benevento, then Prince of Talleyrand ... peace with Austria through the 1801 Treaty of Lunéville and with Britain ...51 KB (7,312 words) - 22:21, 4 December 2023
- about growing up impoverished as the son of Armenian immigrants. These ... Saroyan was born in Fresno, California, the son of an Armenian immigrant ...13 KB (2,107 words) - 10:49, 12 May 2023
- in the Roman Catholic faith, is a piece of metal, often worn around the ... These medals have their roots in the very beginnings of Christianity ...24 KB (3,815 words) - 05:56, 25 August 2020
- philosopher who was noted for his pursuit of natural theology and philosophy ... provide a rational argument in the defense of natural theology and Newtonianism. ...15 KB (2,384 words) - 02:22, 23 December 2022
- strives to remain "A national network of like-minded state and territorial ... Despite the urgency of environmental issues, nations are not taking ...15 KB (2,010 words) - 04:19, 11 March 2023
- ), officially the Republic of Austria ( Republik Österreich ... the Gothic style, and founded the University of Vienna (1365). Rudolf is ...90 KB (13,119 words) - 17:56, 22 August 2023
- The Platonic Academy originated as Plato's school of philosophy ... New Academy (beginning under the leadership of Arcesilaus). Cicero listed ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (the anglicized form of Schönberg—Schoenberg ... He began composing at the young age of ten, producing short pieces ...35 KB (5,095 words) - 03:55, 15 August 2023
- Museum.jpg|thumb|right|250px|General view of the room displaying the Elgin ... Parthenon Sculptures, are a large collection of marble sculptures removed from ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 16:10, 13 February 2024
- An academy (Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of higher learning ... The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded ...16 KB (2,354 words) - 07:13, 14 June 2023
- but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the best regarded American ... One of the United States' most popular nineteenth century poets ...15 KB (2,269 words) - 10:32, 11 March 2023
- Knauth, was an American philosopher of art, a writer, and an educator ... but her doctrine has become an integral part of the "collective unconsciousness” ...17 KB (2,624 words) - 00:28, 27 February 2023
- quot;) is a cross with a representation of Jesus' body, or corpus ... The crucifix is a reminder of the trials and tribulations that human ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 06:30, 11 January 2024
- Literature in 1924. Reymont was the author of novels such as the ironic The ... to protect him in the Russian-occupied area of Poland from any trouble for ...13 KB (2,005 words) - 23:19, 17 May 2023
- who is best known for pioneering works of Bengali poetry. He is popularly ... as a muezzin at a local mosque. He learned of poetry, drama, and literature ...34 KB (5,210 words) - 22:44, 14 September 2023
- claim that "moral judgments are capable of being objectively true, because ... the ontological and epistemological assumptions of theism. ...15 KB (2,197 words) - 02:38, 16 November 2022
- in the self, particularly the development of the self within the context ... his death: Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and Of Time and River (1935); and ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 22:56, 30 April 2023
- Pope Saint Victor I was bishop of Rome (from about 189 to 199 C.E ... all Christians celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus on Sunday, rather than ...14 KB (2,181 words) - 04:06, 26 November 2022
- Jikji is the abbreviated title of a Korean Buddhist document, whose ... The purpose of Jikji was to assist Buddhist monks in teaching Zen ...14 KB (2,230 words) - 01:10, 9 February 2023
- ethical judgments are primarily expressions of one's own attitude and ... Influenced by the growth of analytic philosophy and logical positivism ...34 KB (5,141 words) - 18:27, 13 February 2024
- Deuterium (chemical symbol D or ²H) is a stable isotope of hydrogen ... Scientists have developed a variety of applications for deuterium ...31 KB (4,687 words) - 10:07, 29 January 2024
- considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and the adventures ... preparatory school Stonyhurst at the age of nine, and by the time he left ...14 KB (2,161 words) - 11:09, 16 August 2023
- " or other variations on the theme of "Ethical." Ethical ... Ethical Culture Society initiated a number of projects to improve the lives ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 04:32, 22 March 2024
- an English dramatist, known for his creation of the comedy of intrigue and ... Etherege was one of the early examples of Restoration Comedy, which ...15 KB (2,460 words) - 08:05, 23 January 2023
- UNSC) was created after World War II as part of the United Nations. It was ... in the Korean War. During a Soviet boycott of the meetings over the inclusion ...68 KB (9,754 words) - 11:45, 3 May 2023
- Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the ... a reed or a fipple. A woodwind may be made of any material, not just wood ...17 KB (2,413 words) - 21:52, 26 December 2023
- also an important forerunner in the school of art known as Expressionism. famous work and was stolen twice; it is one of the most recognizable and iconic ...14 KB (2,144 words) - 18:20, 12 February 2024
- a comedian. During his years at Harvard University, Johnson interrupted his ... In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA ...17 KB (2,558 words) - 22:38, 28 March 2023
- 1911 – February 8, 1960) was a philosopher of language and the main figure ... accolades for his work in and leadership of intelligence services and his ...17 KB (2,638 words) - 06:11, 3 August 2022
- to facilitate and manage the logistics of mass deportation to Ghettos ... Born in Solingen, Germany, Adolf Eichmann was the son of a businessman ...27 KB (4,132 words) - 06:02, 15 June 2023
- 6, 1884) was an Austrian monk whose studies of the inheritance of traits in ... priest. In 1851, he was sent to the University of Vienna to study, returning ...16 KB (2,499 words) - 19:37, 5 January 2024
- Prize in Literature|1993 Presidential Medal of Freedom|2012 ... | notableworks = Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye ...18 KB (2,615 words) - 03:59, 1 May 2023
- George Balanchine (January 22, 1904 — April 30, 1983) was one of ... York City Ballet. His United States staging of The Nutcracker made that ballet ...14 KB (1,953 words) - 07:02, 18 April 2024
- 27, 2006) was best known as the publisher of the Los Angeles Times between ... However, Chandler did not prepare any of his children to take over ...18 KB (2,752 words) - 04:45, 18 November 2022
- comprising the western and central thirds of the Czech Republic. It has ... whose helm it also became an autonomous part of the Holy Roman Empire after ...30 KB (4,624 words) - 05:23, 17 November 2023
- – May 4, 1980) was the chief architect of the "second" Yugoslavia ... Tito died on May 4, 1980 in Ljubljana hospital of post-surgery complications ...26 KB (3,964 words) - 05:28, 7 May 2024
- The Ottoman Empire represents one of the largest imperial projects ... history will view the decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire in terms ...38 KB (5,718 words) - 05:55, 18 November 2022
- Batu Khan (c. 1205 – 1255) was a Mongol ruler and the founder of ... use. Perhaps the most significant aspect of Batu Khan's legacy and ...14 KB (2,251 words) - 18:34, 14 February 2023
- but known to his friends as Van, was one of the most influential American ... while also being the main proponent of the view that philosophy is ...34 KB (5,037 words) - 15:37, 6 May 2023
- Empiricism is a term in philosophy for a set of philosophical positions ... positions that emphasize the role of innate ideas, or a priori knowledge ...34 KB (4,921 words) - 18:30, 13 February 2024
- from Austria and a giant in the history of economic thought. His work ... his career studying law at the University of Vienna under the great Austrian ...19 KB (2,667 words) - 04:57, 7 May 2024
- movement that unified different states of the Italian peninsula into ... Ideas of the new kingdom as the modern-day successor of the Roman ...54 KB (8,375 words) - 06:28, 11 March 2024
- 1835 – October 19, 1909) was the founder of the Italian School of Positivist ... Verona, Italy on November 6, 1835. The son of a long line of rabbis, he studied ...15 KB (2,164 words) - 01:47, 13 January 2023
- images tend to focus on the problems of Christianity in an age of disbelief ... one must "get behind" the thinkers of the past, and achieve a state ...14 KB (2,076 words) - 00:08, 8 December 2022
- Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924) was one of the major German ... His most famous pieces of writing include his short story Die Verwandlung ...29 KB (4,338 words) - 09:35, 11 April 2024
- the United Kingdom as well as other areas of Europe and North America, and ... Gothic architecture aims to create an experience of the sublime or ...32 KB (4,445 words) - 04:37, 31 December 2022
- chronicled Polish history in a series of panoramic novels that won unprecedented ... He is best known internationally for Quo Vadis, a historical novel ...16 KB (2,417 words) - 08:01, 22 January 2024
- April 26, 121 – March 17, 180) was emperor of Rome from 161 C.E. until his ... Pius, so that he would be in the direct line of succession. After becoming ...16 KB (2,530 words) - 03:10, 6 November 2022
- The Defenestrations of Prague refers to either of two incidents with ... 1618, although the term "Defenestration of Prague" is more commonly ...17 KB (2,723 words) - 09:09, 28 January 2024
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