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Kempen (Germany)
Kempen () is a town in the Viersen (district), district of Viersen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approximately northwest of Düsseldorf, and east of Venlo. History * 1186: First mention in official documentation of Kempen as a place – the sovereign until 1794 is the Archbishop (electoral prince) of Cologne * around 1290: Kempen is rebuilt as a fortified town *11 March 1294: First confirmation of Kempen as a town in official documentation *15th century: town blooms economically and culturally (population of approx. 4,200) *1542–1543: Kempen is the centre of the Reformation for the Lower Rhine *1579: The plague costs the town almost half of its inhabitants *1642: Kempen is conquered and destroyed by the allied French, Hessian and Weimar troops during the "Hessen War" (Thirty Years' War) *1794–1814: Kempen is under French rule. In the ''département'' of Roer (department), Roer established in 1797, Kempen becomes a canton seat in 1798 and a French town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Cambridgeshire
East Cambridgeshire (locally known as East Cambs) is a local government district in Cambridgeshire, England. Its council is based in Ely. The population of the District Council at the 2011 Census was 83,818. The district was formed on 1 April 1974 with the merger of Ely Urban District, Ely Rural District, and Newmarket Rural District. The district is divided into 14 electoral divisions, which return a total of 28 councillors. The council has been controlled by the Conservative Party since 2007. Archaeology The recent Fenland survey of archaeological finds mentions an enumeration of findings made between 1884 and 1994 in the region to the north of Devil's Dyke and Cambridge, from the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age (the region south of Devil's Dyke is not yet included in the survey). By far the greatest quantities of bronze objects found in England were discovered in East Cambridgeshire. The most important Bronze Age finds were discovered in Isleham (more than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tobias Koch
Tobias Koch (born September 11, 1968) is a German pianist. Biography Tobias Koch was born in Kempen. He attended the Robert Schumann Music College in Düsseldorf, and conservatories Vienna, Graz and Brussels. His chamber music partners include Andreas Staier, Joshua Bell, and Steven Isserlis Steven Isserlis (born 19 December 1958) is a British cellist. He has led a distinguished career as a soloist, chamber musician, educator, author and broadcaster. Acclaimed for his profound musicianship, he is also noted for his diverse reper .... He collaborates closely with instrument makers, is on the faculty of the Robert Schumann Hochschule and the Hochschule für Musik Mainz at the Gutenberg University in Mainz, and at the Summer Academy in Montepulciano. He is also a Schumann specialist, in particular within the field of Romantic performance practice. Discography Koch's discs include recordings of Chopin, Hiller. Liszt, and other composers of the Romantic period. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernhard Van Treeck
Bernhard van Treeck (born 5 February 1964, Kempen, Niederrhein) is a German psychiatrist and has led a clinic specialised in addictions and drug-dependency. As an author he has written several books on graffiti, street-art, drugs and addiction. Works * ''Piratenkunst'' (Pirate art 1994) * ''Das große Graffiti-Lexikon'' (The big graffiti lexicon) * '' Street-Art Berlin – legale und illegale Kunst im Stadtbild'' (1999) * ''Street-Art Köln – legale und illegale Kunst im Stadtbild'' (1996) * ''Wandzeichnungen'' (Wall-drawings) * ''Writer-Lexikon – American Graffiti'' (1995) * ''Pochoir- die Kunst des Schablonengraffiti'' (Pochoir -The art of stencil graffiti, 2000, with S. Metze-Prou) * ''Graffiti-Art #8'' (1998) * ''Graffiti Art Deutschland #9'' (1998) * ''Hall of Fame – Writing in Deutschland'' (1995, with M. Todt) * '' Wholecars – Graffiti auf Zügen'' (Wholecars – Graffiti on trains, 1996) * Graffiti-Kalender, edition aragon (editor 1991 – 1997) * ''Partydrogen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Varell
Isabel Varell ( Wehrmann; born 31 July 1961) is a German singer, actress and television presenter. Life Born in Kempen, Varell participated in various talent shows as a singer before she was discovered and supported by German producer Jack White in 1981. She released several singles in German and English language from 1981 on. From 1989 to 1991, she was married to German singer Drafi Deutscher. He also wrote her single ''Melodie d'amour'' with which she participated in the German preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 and finished sixth. Varell played in various musicals (e.g. ''Hammerfrauen'' from 2015 on in Berlin) and comedy TV shows, most notably alongside Hape Kerkeling. She has also presented TV shows for different broadcasters (''Aktuelle Schaubude'' for NDR in 1997; ''Ganz in weiß'' for Sat.1 in 2016). From 2009 on she has written almost all the lyrics for her own albums as well as some for other artists such as Claudia Jung (''Mein Plan für's nächste L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolph Moses Radin
Adolph Moses Radin (August 5, 1848 – February 5, 1909) was a Polish-born Jewish-American rabbi. Life Radin was born on August 5, 1848 in Neustadt-Schirwindt, Congress Poland, the son of Marcus Radin and Hinde Ritow. Radin received his Talmudic education in Volozhin and Eiseshok. He then went to Prussia and studied in the University of Berlin, the University of Königsberg (where he edited the "Jüdische Grenzbote"), and the University of Greifswald (where he received his Ph.D.). He then worked as a rabbi, first in Prussia at Mewe and Kempen and then in Poland at Kalisz and Łódź. He immigrated to America in the fall of 1886, and within a month he became rabbi of the Jewish congregation at Elmira, New York and visiting Jewish chaplain of the New York State Reformatory in that city. Radin then became rabbi of the Congregation Gates of Hope in New York City. In 1890, he was designated chaplain of all penal institutions in New York and Brooklyn. He served in that position fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Hünermann
Wilhelm Hünermann (28 July 1900 – 28 November 1975) was a German priest and writer, best known for his novelized biographies of Roman Catholic saints. Life and Works In 1923, Hünermann was ordained to the priesthood and started serving in Essen in the Diocese of Aachen. His first play, the tragedy ''Children's Crusade'' (''Der Kinderkreuzzug''), was published in 1931, and in 1936 he made a breakthrough with the biographical novel on the Moravian-German Redemptorist Clement Maria Hofbauer. In the same year, the transfer of the mortal remains of the missionary Damien de Veuster from a Hawaiian leper colony to his native Belgium inspired Hünermann to compose a biographical novel about him (''Priester der Verbannten''). Hünermann was born, spent his childhood and served for some time near Flanders which he loved and knew quite well. Thus in the novel about the Flemish Father Damien, he introduced his own deep sympathies and concerns about the then rather culturally oppresse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flanders
Flanders (, ; Dutch: ''Vlaanderen'' ) is the Flemish-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium. However, there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to culture, language, politics, and history, and sometimes involving neighbouring countries. The demonym associated with Flanders is Fleming, while the corresponding adjective is Flemish. The official capital of Flanders is the City of Brussels, although the Brussels-Capital Region that includes it has an independent regional government. The powers of the government of Flanders consist, among others, of economic affairs in the Flemish Region and the community aspects of Flanders life in Brussels, such as Flemish culture and education. Geographically, Flanders is mainly flat, and has a small section of coast on the North Sea. It borders the French department of Nord to the south-west near the coast, the Dutch provinces of Zeeland, North Brabant an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friar
A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders founded in the twelfth or thirteenth century; the term distinguishes the mendicants' itinerant apostolic character, exercised broadly under the jurisdiction of a superior general, from the older monastic orders' allegiance to a single monastery formalized by their vow of stability. A friar may be in holy orders or a Brother (Christian), brother. The most significant orders of friars are the Dominican Order, Dominicans, Franciscans, Augustinians, and Carmelites. Definition Friars are different from monks in that they are called to live the evangelical counsels (vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience) in service to society, rather than through cloistered asceticism and devotion. Whereas monks live in a self-sufficient community, friars work among laypeople and are supported by donations or other charitable support. Monks or nuns make their vows and commit to a particular community in a particular place. Friars commit to a comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franciscan
The Franciscans are a group of related Mendicant orders, mendicant Christianity, Christian Catholic religious order, religious orders within the Catholic Church. Founded in 1209 by Italian Catholic friar Francis of Assisi, these orders include three independent orders for men (the Order of Friars Minor being the largest contemporary male order), orders for women religious such as the Order of Saint Clare, and the Third Order of Saint Francis open to male and female members. They adhere to the teachings and spiritual disciplines of the founder and of his main associates and followers, such as Clare of Assisi, Anthony of Padua, and Elizabeth of Hungary. Several smaller Franciscan spirituality in Protestantism, Protestant Franciscan orders exist as well, notably in the Anglican and Lutheran traditions (e.g. the Community of Francis and Clare). Francis began preaching around 1207 and traveled to Rome to seek approval from Pope Innocent III in 1209 to form a new religious order. The o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brugman
John Brugman, O.F.M., was a 15th-century Franciscan friar A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders founded in the twelfth or thirteenth century; the term distinguishes the mendicants' itinerant apostolic character, exercised broadly under the jurisdiction of a superior general, from the ol ..., who became a renowned preacher in the Netherlands Biography Brugman was born at Kempen in the Electorate of Cologne, towards the end of the preceding century; died at Nijmegen, Netherlands, 19 September 1473. Brugman became a lector of theology, Vicar Provincial and one of the founders of the Cologne ecclesiastical province, Province of the Observants, a reformed branch of the Friars Minor. For twenty years his name was celebrated as the most illustrious preacher of the Low Countries. The saying still exists in that region, "to speak like Brugman", meaning to speak eloquently. A friend of Denis the Carthusian, it was at his suggestion that the latter wrote his work: ''De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas à Kempis
Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380 – 25 July 1471; german: Thomas von Kempen; nl, Thomas van Kempen) was a German-Dutch canon regular of the late medieval period and the author of ''The Imitation of Christ'', published anonymously in Latin in the Netherlands c. 1418–1427, one of the most popular and best known Christian devotional books. His name means "Thomas of Kempen", Kempen being his home town. He was a member of the Modern Devotion, a spiritual movement during the late medieval period, and a follower of Geert Groote and Florens Radewyns, the founders of the Brethren of the Common Life. Life Thomas was born in Kempen in the Rhineland. His surname at birth was Hemerken (or Hammerlein), meaning the family's profession, "little hammer," Latinized into "Malleolus." His father, Johann, was a blacksmith and his mother, Gertrud, was a schoolmistress. Although almost universally known in English as Thomas à Kempis, the "a" represents the Latin "from" and is erroneously accented. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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