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  • Karl Richard Lepsius (December 23, 1810 – July 10, 1884) was a German ... work on the decipherment of the Egyptian language. Lepsius also visited Egyptian ...
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  • In SI units, the unit of frequency is hertz (Hz), named after the ... frequency of a human heart (Herz in German language). This unit was ...
    11 KB (1,752 words) - 10:59, 11 April 2024
  • be awake, observe). Cognate with Old High German botah (whence Swabian Bottich ... * body language * body lotion * body mass index * body of water ...
    4 KB (577 words) - 14:28, 1 April 2024
  • writings. Krochmal then proceeded to study German and German philosophers, especially Immanuel Kant; to read Latin and French classics and Arabic ...
    11 KB (1,697 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
  • The Final Solution of the Jewish Question (German: Die Endlösung ... should have sympathy rather with our own German people. If the German people ...
    14 KB (2,250 words) - 19:48, 26 March 2024
  • would remove "war" from human language. Schuman's contribution ... of Elsaß-Lothringen), he became a German citizen. Robert's mother ...
    19 KB (2,911 words) - 21:29, 16 April 2023
  • 10, 1715 – October 18, 1775) was a German philosopher and theologian ... important works, originally written in German, appeared in the 1740s: Advice ...
    10 KB (1,478 words) - 17:58, 10 December 2023
  • referred to as Meister Eckhart, was a German theologian, philosopher, ... between God and Godhead (Gottheit in German). These notions had been ...
    18 KB (2,801 words) - 04:17, 9 November 2022
  • under Austrian rule dreaded growing German nationalism, which is what ... the Slavic lands against the increasing German nationalism. Advocated by ...
    19 KB (2,913 words) - 00:31, 12 April 2023
  • ) was a German-language writer, born in Ruse, Bulgaria to a Sephardic ... Despite being a German-language writer, Canetti settled in Britain ...
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  • VKhUTEMAS was closely parallel to the German Bauhaus in its intent ... Impressed by the photomontage of the German Dadaists, Rodchenko began ...
    8 KB (1,080 words) - 14:39, 18 July 2023
  • linguist (fluent in French, Greek, Hebrew, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish ... Tyndale introduced new words into the English language: ...
    14 KB (2,095 words) - 20:44, 13 May 2023
  • elites from the West generally spoke French or German. On arriving into some villages dressed appropriately and singing and dancing, putting into practice ...
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  • of the paper, translated it into German himself and submitted it ... #039;s theory of General Relativity from German to English. It is said that ...
    13 KB (1,968 words) - 17:03, 23 December 2022
  • Norbert Elias (June 22, 1897 - August 1, 1990) was a German sociologist ... After passing the abitur in 1915, he volunteered for the German army ...
    13 KB (1,741 words) - 02:41, 16 November 2022
  • them. In order to study them more closely, German scholar J.J. Griesbach (1776 ... termed by scholars "Q" (from German: Quelle, meaning "source ...
    17 KB (2,705 words) - 04:23, 24 May 2024
  • While his governess taught him Russian, German, French, and geography, he ... return to her, but when his sister's German maid turned up without the ...
    12 KB (1,827 words) - 17:51, 9 November 2022
  • of the skull") is the English-language name given to the hill on ... 'Hebrew', indicating the 'language of the Hebrews', which ...
    7 KB (1,139 words) - 18:36, 25 November 2023
  • return, he devoted himself to the study of German idealism, and developed a ... Dongwen Xueshe (東文學社), a Japanese language teaching school, where he ...
    12 KB (1,844 words) - 18:49, 17 April 2023
  • Rainer Maria Rilke (December 4, 1875 – December 29, 1926) is generally considered the German language's greatest twentieth century poet ...
    14 KB (2,076 words) - 00:08, 8 December 2022

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