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Leonhard Spörle
Leonhard is a male given name and surname in German and other Germanic languages, as well as Estonian, sharing the same origin as English Leonard. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Alfred Leonhard Maluma (1955–2021), Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate *Alfred Leonhard Tietz (1883–1941), German entrepreneur * Anton Leonhard Franzen (1896–1968), German lawyer and Nazi politician * Arne Leonhard Nilsen (1893–1957), Norwegian politician * Artur Leonhard Kasterpalu (1897–1942), Estonian politician * Benedikt Maria Leonhard von Werkmeister (1745–1823), German Roman Catholic theologian *Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (1794–1866), German botanist * Dieterich Leonhard Oskamp (1756–1803), Dutch natural historian and author * Friedrich Georg Leonhard Miedke (1803–1842), German actor, singer, composer, theatre director, painter and author * Fritz Leonhard Redlich (1892–1978) was a German businessman and economic historian *Hans Leonhard Schäufelein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germanic Languages
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania, and Southern Africa. The most widely spoken Germanic language, English language, English, is also the world's most List of languages by total number of speakers, widely spoken language with an estimated 2 billion speakers. All Germanic languages are derived from Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic, spoken in Iron Age Scandinavia, History of Germany#Iron Age, Iron Age Northern Germany and along the North Sea and Baltic coasts. The West Germanic languages include the three most widely spoken Germanic languages: English language, English with around 360–400 million native speakers; German language, German, with over 100 million native speakers; and Dutch language, Dutch, with 24 million native speakers. Other West Germanic languages include Afrikaans, an offshoot of Dutch origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Leonhard Frisch
Johann Leonhard Frisch (19 March 1666 – 21 March 1743) was a German linguist, entomologist and ornithologist Ornithology, from Ancient Greek ὄρνις (''órnis''), meaning "bird", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is a branch of zoology dedicated to the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related discip .... External links Gaedike, R.; Groll, E. K. & Taeger, A. 2012: Bibliography of the entomological literature from the beginning until 1863 : online database - version 1.0 - Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut.h1> References * 1666 births 1743 deaths 18th-century German scholars 18th-century German zoologists German entomologists German ornithologists {{Germany-scientist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonhard Graf Von Blumenthal
Karl Konstantin Albrecht Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal (30 July 1810 – 21 December 1900) was an officer of the Prussian Army and field marshal of the Imperial German Army, chiefly remembered for his decisive intervention at the Battle of Königgrätz in 1866, his victories at Wörth and Weißenburg, and above all his refusal to bombard Paris in 1870 during the siege, of which he was in command. Early life Born in Schwedt, Brandenburg, on 30 July 1810, Leonhard was the son of Ludwig Albrecht von Blumenthal (1774–1813) and his wife Friederike Charlotte Dorothea von Below (1783–1853). Ludwig was a captain in the Brandenburg Dragoon Regiment who was wounded in the Battle of Dennewitz, and later died from his injuries at Potsdam. Leonhard had a younger brother, Karl (1811-1903), who would later serve as a major-general in the army. Leonhard was brought up on his grandfather's estate at Reddentin, where his uncle Gustav von Below was founding what would become the Pentec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonhard Blasius
Leonhard Blasius (also spelled Lennart, Leinert, Lineest) (died 8 December 1644) was a Danish architect in the service of King Christian IV. Biography Blasius, who was certainly a Dutchman, probably arrived in Denmark from the Netherlands where he first worked in Glückstadt, Holstein, in the 1630s. He was called to Copenhagen in 1642 where he became a master builder, taking over the responsibilities of Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger."Leonhard Blasius" ''Dansk Biografisk Leksikon''. Retrieved 29 December 2012. As royal architect to Christian IV, Blasius was credited for major building works, mainly churches, which were carried out by the king. He managed the construction of St. Anna Rotunda and in 1641 commenced the expansion of the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonhard Beck
Leonhard Beck ( – 1542) was a painter and woodcuts designer in Augsburg, Germany. He was the son of Georg Beck, a miniaturist who was active in Augsburg -1512/15. Leonhard collaborated with his father on two psalters for the Augsburg monastery in 1495. He later worked as an assistant to Hans Holbein the Elder, contributing to an altarpiece in 1500-1501 that is now housed in the Städel in Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt am Main () is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Hesse. Its 773,068 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the List of cities in Germany by population, fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located in the forela .... His most notable work emerged during his collaboration with Emperor Maximilian I's artistic team, which produced various self-promotional projects in woodcut. Beck served as the primary designer for the extensively illustrated poem, '' Theuerdank'' (1517), creating 77 of the 118 woodcuts. He made extensive revisions for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonhard Baumeister
Leonhard Baumeister (25 October 1904 - 19 August 1972) was a German politician. He was a representative of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria and a member of the Landtag of Bavaria from 1946 to 1954. His name was added to the ''Monument to the X-ray and Radium Martyrs of All Nations'' in Hamburg, Germany. See also *List of Bavarian Christian Social Union politicians A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ... References Christian Social Union in Bavaria politicians 1904 births 1952 deaths People from Augsburg (district) {{Germany-CSU-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonhard Baldner
Leonhard Baldner or Leonard Baltner (1612 – 1 February 1694) was a Strasbourg fisherman and naturalist who produced a hand-written illustrated book on the fishes, birds, and mammals titled ''Vogel-, Fisch- und Thierbuch''. Only six manuscript copies are now known to exist, two are dated 1653 and the other four 1666. He was one of the early pioneers to use glass aquariums to study fish in life. He was also possibly the first to write on the migration and life-history of the salmon. Biography The exact date of birth of Baldner is unknown but he was born in an old fisher family in Strasbourg. He married Salome, daughter of Hans Michael Fries on January 25, 1636, and had four children. He married his second wife Anna Ursula, daughter of a goldsmith, Abraham Sprengel in 1650 and they had four children. He worked as a toll collector, later a forester and then a forest manager. After the death of his second wife, he married Barbara, daughter of Benedictus Grossen, a professor of Hebre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonhard Agtstein
Leonardus Achates de Basilea, born Leonhard Agtstein in Basel, was a compositor who worked from 1472 to 1491. He is one of the first to introduce the art of printing books in Italy. In 1472 he published a folio edition of Virgil in Venice. In the same year, he appears in Vicenza where he seems to have lived most of the time. In the meantime however, editions appeared in Padua and St. Ursus. Publications Achates printed books on various subjects, including agriculture, grammar, juristic and theological works. Two of his works are suspected reprints. *Franciscus de Platea: ''Opus restitutionum, usurarum, excommunicationum'', Padua, 1473 (not after 28 July) * Omnibonus Leonicenus: ''De laudibus eloquentiae'' and ''Commentum in Ciceronis Oratorem'', Vicenza, 22 December 1476, folio * Pietro de Crescenzi: ''Ruralia commoda'', Vicenza, 1490 *Euclid: ''Elementa in artem geometriae'', reprint, 1491, Vicenza *Constantine Lascaris Constantine Lascaris ( ''Kostantinos Láskaris''; 1434 � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonhard Adelt
Leonhard Adelt (17 June 1881, Boizenburg Boizenburg (, ) is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Elbe, west of Ludwigslust, northeast of Lüneburg and east of Hamburg. It is part of the ... – 21 February 1945) was a German translator and writer. External links * 1881 births 1945 deaths People from Ludwigslust-Parchim People from the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Writers from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania German male non-fiction writers 20th-century German translators {{Germany-translator-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Leonhard Reinhold
Karl Leonhard Reinhold (; ; 26 October 1757 – 10 April 1823) was an Austrian philosopher who helped to popularise the work of Immanuel Kant in the late 18th century. His "elementary philosophy" (''Elementarphilosophie'') also influenced German idealism, notably Johann Gottlieb Fichte, as a critical system grounded in a fundamental first principle. He was the father of Ernst Christian Gottlieb Reinhold (1793–1855), also a philosopher. Life Reinhold was born in Vienna. In late 1772, at the age of fourteen, he entered the Jesuit college (Roman Catholic seminary) of St. Anne's Church, Vienna (Jesuitenkollegium St. Anna). He studied there for a year, until the order was suppressed in 1773, at which time he joined a similar Viennese Catholic college of the Barnabites, the Barnabitenkollegium St. Michael. In 1778, he became a teacher at the Barnabitenkollegium, on 27 August 1780, he was ordained as a Catholic priest, and on 30 April 1783, he became a member of the Viennese Freema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Dietrich Leonhard Engel
Karl Dietrich Leonhard Engel (born Oldenburg, 21 February 1824; died Adlershof, February 1913) was a German musician and writer. Biography He went to Russia as a violin virtuoso at the age of 18, becoming a member of the Imperial Orchestra at Saint Petersburg at 22, and later its concertmaster. He went to Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ... in 1869 and took up his residence there. Literary works Among his works are: * ''Deutsche Puppen Komödien'' (1874–93) * ''Das Volksschauspiel Doktor Johann Faust'' (2d ed., 1882) * ''Zusammenstellung der Faustschriften vom 16 Jahrhundert bis Mitte 1884'' (2d ed., 1884) * ''Die Don Juan Sage auf der Bühne'' (1887) Musical works His musical compositions include a concerto in B minor and the humorous fantasy entitled “J� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Leonhard Rost
Johann Leonhard Rost (12 February 1688 – 22 March 1727) was a German astronomer and author from Nuremberg. He wrote under the alias Meletaon. The crater Rost on the Moon is named after him. His brother Johannes Carolus Rost was a famous doctor from Nuremberg, he is mostly known to be the personal doctor of Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg. Bibliography * Meletaon, "Schau-Platz der gelährten und galanten Welt", 1711. * Meletaon, "Die Unglückseelige Atalanta", 1717. * Rost, J. L., "Atlas Portatilis Coelestis", 1723. External links ''Atlas Portatilis Coelestis'', 1723- Full digital facsimile, Linda Hall Library The Linda Hall Library is a privately endowed American library of science, engineering and technology located in Kansas City, Missouri, on the grounds of a urban arboretum. It claims to be the "largest independently funded public library of sc .... Biography & Bibliography by Hans Gaab and Olaf Simons 1688 births 1727 deaths 18th-century German as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
