Kneiphof Gymnasium
image:ID003746 B178 KneiphoefGymnasDom.jpg, Kneiphof Gymnasium, with Königsberg Cathedral in the background Kneiphof Gymnasium (german: Kneiphöfisches Gymnasium) was a Gymnasium (Germany), gymnasium in the Kneiphof quarter of Königsberg, Germany. History A cathedral school, the ''schola cathedralis'' or ''Domschule'', was established on Heiligengeistgasse in Altstadt (Königsberg), Altstadt in 1304.Albinus, p. 163 After construction of Königsberg Cathedral began on the island of Kneiphof in 1333, the school was relocated north of the new cathedral. The school was separated from the cathedral in 1528 during the Reformation, with oversight passing to Kneiphof's town council. The Protestant theologian Martin Chemnitz taught at the school before receiving his degree from the University of Königsberg in 1548. It was occupied by students protesting the appointment of Johann Campinge as director in 1554. Kneiphof's school was relocated south of the cathedral in 1560. The poet Simon D ...
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Paul Wegener
Paul Wegener (11 December 1874 – 13 September 1948) was a German actor, writer, and film director known for his pioneering role in German expressionist cinema. Acting career At the age of 20, Wegener decided to end his law studies and concentrate on acting, touring the provinces before joining Max Reinhardt's acting troupe in 1906. In 1912, he turned to the new medium of motion pictures and appeared in the 1913 version of '' The Student of Prague''. It was while making this film that he first heard the old Jewish legend of the Golem and proceeded to adapt the story to film, co-directing and co-writing the script with Henrik Galeen. His first version of the tale '' The Golem'' (1915, now lost) was a success and firmly established Wegener's reputation. In 1917, he made a parody of the story called ''Der Golem und die Tänzerin'', but it was his reworking of the tale, '' The Golem: How He Came into the World'' (1920) which stands as one of the classics of German cinema and help ...
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Georg Evert
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Lovis Corinth
Lovis Corinth (21 July 1858 – 17 July 1925) was a German artist and writer whose mature work as a painter and printmaker realized a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism. Corinth studied in Paris and Munich, joined the Berlin Secession group, later succeeding Max Liebermann as the group's president. His early work was naturalistic in approach. Corinth was initially antagonistic towards the expressionist movement, but after a stroke in 1911 his style loosened and took on many expressionistic qualities. His use of color became more vibrant, and he created portraits and landscapes of extraordinary vitality and power. Corinth's subject matter also included nudes and biblical scenes. Early life Corinth was born Franz Heinrich Louis on 21 July 1858 in Tapiau, in the Province of Prussia in the Kingdom of Prussia. The son of a tanner, he displayed a talent for drawing as a child. In 1876 he went to study painting in the academy of Königsberg. Initially intending to be ...
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Ludwig Clericus
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Robert Caspary
Johann Xaver Robert Caspary (29 January 1818 – 18 September 1887) was a German botanist. Caspary was born in Königsberg. He studied theology and philosophy at the University of Königsberg and was educated in sciences at the University of Bonn. Among his influences at Bonn were zoologist Georg August Goldfuss, astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander and botanist Ludolph Christian Treviranus. Afterwards, he spent considerable time in England studying marine and freshwater algae. From 1851 he served as a lecturer at the University of Berlin, where he worked closely with Alexander Braun. In 1859 he returned to Königsberg as a professor of botany and director of the botanical garden. He specialized in the study of aquatic plants, including extensive systematic research involving the family Nymphaeaceae (water lilies). He made significant contributions in the fields of plant anatomy and morphology, being especially interested in growth of the trees and the structure of ...
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Paul Adloff
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Georg Christoph Pisanski
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Georg Lejeune-Dirichlet
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Leo Cholevius
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Bombing Of Königsberg In World War II
The bombing of Königsberg was a series of attacks made on the city of Königsberg in East Prussia during World War II. The Soviet Air Force had made several raids on the city since 1941. Extensive attacks carried out by RAF Bomber Command destroyed most of the city's historic quarters in the summer of 1944. Königsberg was also heavily bombed during the Battle of Königsberg, in the final weeks of the war. With the aim of retaliation for German airstrikes on the capital of the USSR, Moscow in 1941, Joseph Stalin ordered the Soviet Air Force to bomb Königsberg. Eleven Pe-8 bombers attacked the city on 1 September 1941. The Soviets did not lose a single bomber in the raid. The Soviet Air Force bombed the city again on 26 July 1942, 27 August 1942 and 15 July 1943. On the night of 28 April 1943, a bomber dropped an 11,000-pounder on the city's area, the largest bomb in the Soviet inventory. No. 5 Group carried out the first RAF attack on Königsberg on the night of 26/27 August ...
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Stadtgymnasium Altstadt-Kneiphof
Stadtgymnasium Altstadt-Kneiphof was a ''Gymnasium (Germany), Gymnasium'' in the Kneiphof quarter of Königsberg, Germany. History Despite some resistance,Gause, p. 76 the school was established by merging Altstadt Gymnasium and Kneiphof Gymnasium on 6 January 1923, with classes held at the latter's location north of Königsberg Cathedral.Albinus, p. 298 Its first and only director was Dr. Arthur Mentz. Educational projects were first held at the chine Gausupschlucht near Svetlogorsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Rauschen in 1928, and it partnered with the Deutsche Gymnasium for Baltic Germans in Jelgava, Latvia, in 1929. In 1933 the Stadtgymnasium celebrated the 600th anniversary of the founding of the ' ("the parish school") and the ' (the "cathedral school"), the predecessors of the Altstadt and Kneiphof schools, respectively. The building was destroyed during the 1944 bombing of Königsberg in World War II. Classes continued to be taught by its instructors until the closing of all cit ...
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