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Friedrich Von Pourtalès
Jakob Ludwig ''Friedrich'' Wilhelm Joachim de Pourtalès (24 October 1853 – 3 May 1928) was a German aristocrat and diplomat who served as the Ambassador to the Russian Empire in Saint Petersburg from 1907 to 1914. Early life Graf de Pourtalès was born on 24 October 1853. He was a son of Wilhelm von Pourtalès (1815–1889) and Charlotte Luise Auguste Gräfin von Maltzan zu Wartenberg und Penzlin. His father spent a number of years in Venice creating a collection of Renaissance sculpture, which included works by Jacopo Sansovino and Andrea Riccio, and paintings by old Italian masters. His siblings included Louise de Pourtalès (who died aged 29 in 1879), Johanna Albertine Antoinette de Pourtalès (wife of Bernard von Jagow-Calberwisch) and Rosa Margarete Guillemette Mathilde Auguste von Pourtalès (wife of Moritz von Hohenthal). Among his extended family were uncles Count Guillaume von Pourtalès and Count Albert von Pourtalès (a member of the Prussian House of Lords ...
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List Of Ambassadors Of Germany To Russia
Ambassador of the German Empire to the Russian Empire 1871-1914 * Heinrich VII, Prince Reuss of Köstritz (1868–1876) * Hans Lothar von Schweinitz (1876–1891) * Bernhard von Werder (1892–1895) * Hugo Fürst von Radolin (1895–1901) * Friedrich Johann von Alvensleben (1901–1905) * Wilhelm von Schoen (1905–1907) * Friedrich von Pourtalès (1907–1914) * World War I German Ambassadors to the Soviet Union 1918-1991 *1918-18: Wilhelm von Mirbach (assassinated in Moscow) *1918-21: ''vacant'' *1921-22: Kurt Wiedenfeld *1922-28: Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau *1928-33: Herbert von Dirksen *1933-34: Rudolf Nadolny *1934-41: Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg * World War II *1956-58: Wilhelm Haas *1958-62: Hans Kroll *1962–66: Horst Groepper *1966–68: Gebhardt von Walther *1968–72: Helmut Allardt *1972-77: Ulrich Sahm *1977-80: Hans-Georg Wieck *1980-83: Andreas Meyer-Landrut *1983-87: Hansjörg Kastl *1987-89: Andreas Meyer-Landrut *1989–93 ...
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Frederick William II Of Prussia
Frederick William II (german: Friedrich Wilhelm II.; 25 September 1744 – 16 November 1797) was King of Prussia from 1786 until his death in 1797. He was in personal union the Prince-elector of Brandenburg and (via the Orange-Nassau inheritance of his grandfather) sovereign prince of the Canton of Neuchâtel. Pleasure-loving and indolent, he is seen as the antithesis to his predecessor, Frederick the Great. (Frederick II). Under his reign, Prussia was weakened internally and externally, and he failed to deal adequately with the challenges to the existing order posed by the French Revolution. His religious policies were directed against the Enlightenment and aimed at restoring a traditional Protestantism. However, he was a patron of the arts and responsible for the construction of some notable buildings, among them the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven all dedicated works to him. Early life Frederick William was born in Berlin, the son of Prince Aug ...
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Boydell & Brewer
Boydell & Brewer is an academic press based in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, that specializes in publishing historical and critical works. In addition to British and general history, the company publishes three series devoted to studies, editions, and translations of material related to the Arthurian legend. There are also series that publish studies in medieval German and French literature, Spanish theatre, early English texts, in other subjects. Depending on the subject, its books are assigned to one of several imprints in Woodbridge, Cambridge (UK), or Rochester, New York, location of its principal North American office. Imprints include Boydell & Brewer, D.S. Brewer, Camden House, the Hispanic series Tamesis Books ("Tamesis" is the Latin version of the River Thames, which flows through London), the University of Rochester Press, James Currey, and York Medieval Press. The company was co-founded by historians Richard Barber and Derek Brewer in 1978, merging the two co ...
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Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. After the retirement of William P. Sisler in 2017, the university appointed as Director George Andreou. The press maintains offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts near Harvard Square, and in London, England. The press co-founded the distributor TriLiteral LLC with MIT Press and Yale University Press. TriLiteral was sold to LSC Communications in 2018. Notable authors published by HUP include Eudora Welty, Walter Benjamin, E. O. Wilson, John Rawls, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Jay Gould, Helen Vendler, Carol Gilligan, Amartya Sen, David Blight, Martha Nussbaum, and Thomas Piketty. The Display Room in Harvard Square, dedicated to selling HUP publications, closed on June 17, 2009. Related publishers, imprints, and series HUP owns the Belknap Press ...
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List Of Ambassadors Of Germany To Italy
This is an incomplete list of ambassadors from Germany to Italy. History The below lists contain the highest-ranking representatives of the North German Confederation (1866–1871), the German Empire (1871–1945) and the Federal Republic of Germany (since 1951) in the Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946) and the Italian Republic (since 1946). The capital of Italy and the official headquarters of the German embassy were Turin (1861–1865), Florence (1865–1870) and Rome (since 1870). The German ambassador in Rome has also been accredited for the Republic of San Marino since 1995. Ambassadors Envoys from the German States (before 1871) Bavarian envoys Prussian envoys Envoy to Savoy- Piedmont (until 1720) Envoy to Sardinia-Piedmont The Kingdom of Sardinia,The name of the state was originally Latin: , or when the kingdom was still considered to include Corsica. In Italian it is , in French , in Sardinian , and in Piedmontese . also referred to as the Kingdom o ...
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