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Schinkel,Karl Friedrich

SCHINKEL,KARL FRIEDRICH

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House in Wolfenbuettel, Germany, where the poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing lived from 1777-1781. This is where he wrote his play "Nathan the Wise", the first play in European literature to feature a "good" Jew as the main character.
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House in Wolfenbuettel, Germany, where the poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing...

House of the mayor of Wesselburen, Germany, where German poet Friedrich Hebbel worked as a town clerk. Hebbel wrote historical tragedies under the influence of Hegel's philosophy.
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House of the mayor of Wesselburen, Germany, where German poet Friedrich He...

Castle gate at Husum, the "grey city on the shore" of German poet Theodor Storm. Storm wrote romantic short stories and novels about his North-German home country.
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Castle gate at Husum, the "grey city on the shore" of German poet Theodor S...

The tower of St. Lambert Church in Muenster, Westfalia, Germany. The radical sect of Anabaptists set up a com- munist "New Zion" community in Muenster in 1534/35. The Anabaptists surrendered after a 16 months siege; the bodies of their executed leaders were exposed in cages.
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The tower of St. Lambert Church in Muenster, Westfalia, Germany. The radical sec...

Tomb of Till Eulenspiegel, famous German jester, said to have lived from 1300 to 1350. His adventures and pranks were published in high-German in 1515; many newer versions exist. Composer Richard Strauss dedicated a symphonic poem to Till Eulenspiegel.
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Tomb of Till Eulenspiegel, famous German jester, said to have lived from...

The gothic vaults of the cellars of Castle Chillon, Switzerland. This was the prison of Bonivard, hero of Lord Byron's novel "The Prisoner of Chillon", published in 1820. Lord Byron visited the vault and scratched his name into the third column.
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The gothic vaults of the cellars of Castle Chillon, Switzerland. This was th...

Italian organ grinders used to play in Luebeck around Christmas; in his novel "The Buddenbrooks", German writer Thomas Mann describes the scene. An Italian hand-organ of 1880 stands in one of the narrow streets of Old Luebeck. A Christmas tree is seen in the window.
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Italian organ grinders used to play in Luebeck around Christmas; in his novel...

Seal with equestrian figure and coat-of-arms ("Bindenschild") of Friedrich II, last Duke of the Babenbergs, attached to a treaty of April 29th, 1233, between the Duke and the Abbot of Freising.
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Seal with equestrian figure and coat-of-arms ("Bindenschild") of Frie...

Deed by which King Rudolf I of Habsburg invested his sons Albrecht and Rudolf with the Duchies of Austria and Styria. December 27, 1282
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Deed by which King Rudolf I of Habsburg invested his sons Albrecht and Rudolf...

Deed by which Margarethe Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol, made over the counties of Tyrol and Goricia to the Dukes of Austria. Parchment with the seal of Margarethe and those of fourteen of her squires. January 26, 1363
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Deed by which Margarethe Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol, made over the counties o...

Charles le Temeraire (the Bold), Duke of Burgundy (1433-1477), tried to establish an independent kingdom between France and the Holy Roman Empire. He died in the battle of Nancy. His only child and heir, Marie, married Habsburg Emperor Maximilian I. Copy, Inv.7011
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Charles le Temeraire (the Bold), Duke of Burgundy (1433-1477), tried to es...

Napkin, woven in memory of the peace of Hubertusburg, 1763, which ended the Seven-Years War between Austria and Prussia and their allies, between Empress Maria Theresia and King Friedrich II, over the possession of Silesia.
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Napkin, woven in memory of the peace of Hubertusburg, 1763, which ended the S...