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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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