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Albrecht Kurzwelly
Albrecht Alexander August Kurzwelly (20 January 1868 – 8 January 1917) was a German art historian, and founding director of the . Life Kurzwelly was born in 1868 in Leipzig as the son of the physician Martin Liberatus Kurzwelly (1831-1882) from Chemnitz and his wife Thekla Caecilie, ''née'' Heinig. From 1878 until 1888, this talented boy, who was gifted in music and drawing, attended the Thomasschule zu Leipzig, where especially Heinrich Stürenburg and Friedrich Eduard König had a strong influence on his intellectual development. After graduating from high school, he studied theology and from 1889 philosophy and art history at the University of Leipzig and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München as a student of Anton Springer, Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl, Moritz Carrière, Johannes Overbeck, Hubert Janitschek, Karl Lamprecht. In 1894, Kurzwelly received his doctorate thanks to a work published by August Schmarsow with a monograph about the painter and Albrecht Dürer, Düre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as well as the second most populous city in the area of the former East Germany after (East) Berlin. Together with Halle (Saale), the city forms the polycentric Leipzig-Halle Conurbation. Between the two cities (in Schkeuditz) lies Leipzig/Halle Airport. Leipzig is located about southwest of Berlin, in the southernmost part of the North German Plain (known as Leipzig Bay), at the confluence of the White Elster River (progression: ) and two of its tributaries: the Pleiße and the Parthe. The name of the city and those of many of its boroughs are of Slavic origin. Leipzig has been a trade city since at least the time of the Holy Roman Empire. The city sits at the intersection of the Via Regia and the Via Imperii, two important medieval trad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
