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Philip Louis, Duke Of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg
Philip Louis of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg (born 27 October 1620 in Beck; died: 10 March 1689 in Schneeberg) was the founder and first duke of the line Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg. His branch of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg is named after Wiesenburg Castle, near Zwickau. Life Philip Louis was the youngest son of Duke Alexander of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (1573–1627) from his marriage to Dorothea (1579–1639), daughter of Count John Günther I of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. Philip Louis spent his youth at various courts in Hesse. In 1663 he acquired the district of Wiesenburg, with Wiesenburg Castle and the city of Kirchberg and 20 villages from Elector John George II of Saxony, with whom he had a very good relationship. Wiesenburg Castle became his seat and gave its name to his family line. In 1668, he appointed Johann Winckler to educate his sons at the Wiesenburg Castle. He invested in the mining industry in Schne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Oldenburg
The House of Oldenburg is a Germans, German dynasty whose members rule or have ruled in Danish Realm, Denmark, Kingdom of Iceland, Iceland, Kingdom of Greece, Greece, Norway, Russian Empire, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom, the United Kingdom, Kingdom of Livonia, Livonia, Duchy of Schleswig, Schleswig, Duchy of Holstein, Holstein, and Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, Oldenburg. The current kings of Norway and the United Kingdom are patrilineality, patrilineal descendants of the House of Glücksburg, Glücksburg branch of this house. The dynasty rose to prominence when Christian I of Denmark, Count Christian I of Oldenburg was elected King of Denmark in 1448, of Norway in 1450 and of Sweden in 1457. Denmark's current monarch, King Frederik X, belongs to the Glücksburg branch of the House of Oldenburg through his mother, Queen Margrethe II. History Count Elimar I, Count of Oldenburg, Elimar I was first mentioned in 1091. The ancestral home of the family is Oldenburg Castle. In the 12t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Winckler
Johann Heinrich Winkler or Winckler (12 March 1703 – 18 May 1770) was a German physicist and philosopher. Biography Early life Winckler was born in Wingendorf, a village in Silesia.Klemme, Heiner F; Kuehn, Manfred. (2016). ''The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers''. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 857. He was educated at Leipzig University. One of his teachers was Andreas Rüdiger, an opponent of Christian Wolff. Winckler read Wolff's works and defended him against Rudiger during his lessons. Career In 1731, he was appointed a teacher (''collega quartus'') at St. Thomas School in Leipzig. The building was enlarged the same year and he wrote the libretto of ''Froher Tag, verlangte Stunde'', a cantata to mark the completion of the project. It was set to music by his colleague Johann Sebastian Bach and performed in the summer of 1732. Winckler authored a textbook of philosophy first published in 1735 and a second edition in 1742. In 1739, he became p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greiz
Greiz ( ; ) is a town in the state of Thuringia, Germany, and is the capital of the Greiz (district), district of Greiz. Greiz is situated in eastern Thuringia, east of the state capital Erfurt, on the White Elster river. Greiz has a large park in its centre (Fürstlich Greizer Park) which is classified as an English garden. Thomasstraße, Burgstraße, Marktstraße, Waldstraße, and Leonhardtstraße, with their Art Nouveau, Jugendstil houses, are well-known examples of that architectural style. History As with other nearby settlements, the place name (originally ''Grouts'') is of Slavic origin and means ''Gord (archaeology), gord''. The first documented mention of the settlement dates from 1209. The prime location of Greiz on the confluence of the White Elster river and its tributary Göltzsch helped to make it a fast-growing town. From the 12th century it was governed by ''Advocatus, advocati'' (), but in 1236 it came into the possession of Gera. It was recognized as a town in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Henry, Duke Of Saxe-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt
Frederick Heinrich of Saxe-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt (21 July 1668 in Moritzburg – 18 December 1713 in Neustadt an der Orla), was a German prince of the House of Wettin. He was the fourth (but third surviving) son of Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz, and his second wife, Dorothea Maria of Saxe-Weimar. Life In Öls on 23 April 1699, Frederick Henry married Sophie Angelika of Württemberg-Oels. Shortly after, his older brother, Duke Moritz Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz, gave him the towns of Pegau and Neustadt as appanage. From then on, he assumed the title duke of Saxe-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt (''Herzog von Sachsen-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt''). His wife Sophie died after only nineteen months of marriage on 11 November 1700. In Moritzburg on 27 February 1702, Frederick married for a second time to Anna Fredericka Philippine of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg. They had two children: #Maurice Adolph Charles (b. Moritzburg, 1 December 1702 - d. Pöltenberg, 20 June 1759), Duke of Saxe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice, Duke Of Saxe-Zeitz
Maurice of Saxe-Zeitz (28 March 1619 – 4 December 1681) was a duke of Saxe-Zeitz and member of the House of Wettin. Born in Dresden, he was the youngest surviving son of John George I, Elector of Saxony, and his second wife Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia. Life Together with his brothers, Maurice was educated at the court of the Elector of Saxony in Dresden. Among his teachers, Field Marshal Kurt of Einsiedel took an outstanding role. From August 1642 until September 1645, Maurice and his brother Christian took a Grand Tour through northern Germany and the Netherlands. In 1645, shortly after his return home, Maurice was selected by Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen to be a member of the Fruitbearing Society. In 1650, he was appointed Bailiwick of Thuringia by the Teutonic Knights. He selected as his chancellor and president to his consistory the noted state scientist and theologian Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff. As ''Hofprediger'' he chose the dramatist Johann Sebastian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karolina Of Legnica-Brieg
Karolina of Legnica-Brieg-Wohlau (, ; 2 December 1652 in Brzeg – 24 December 1707 in Wrocław), was a Silesian noble, duchess of Legnica, Brzeg and Wołów and the last member of the Silesian Piasts dynasty. She was the eldest daughter of Christian, Duke of Brieg and Louise of Anhalt-Dessau (daughter of John Casimir, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau). After the death of her father, she married secretly without the knowledge of her mother on 14 July 1672 to Duke Frederick von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg (b. 1651 – d. 1724) and also became the duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg. Life Youth Karolina was born in Brzeg as the first child of her parents. They gave her an unusual first name, which had never been given to another member of the Piast dynasty (and never was after her death). She was baptized on 1 January 1653. Her godfather was a senior member of the family, Duke George Rudolf of Liegnitz, but he was seriously ill at the time of her birth. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick, Duke Of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg
Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderbourg-Wiesenbourg (Hasselhecke, Hessen-Homberg, 2 February 1652 - Wiesenburg Castle, 7 October 1724) was the 2nd Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg and an Imperial Field Marshal. Biography Friedrich was the eldest son of Philip Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg (1620-1689) and Anna Margaret of Hesse-Homburg (1629–1686). In 1672, he joined the Imperial Army as commander of a cuirassier regiment in Hungary. In 1676, he became a Generalfeldwachtmeister, in March 1689, a General of the cavalry and finally a Field Marshal in 1696. On 29 May 1676, he was awarded the Order of the Elephant in Copenhagen. Already on 14 July 1672 he had secretly married at Brzeg Castle the last Silesian Piast, Karolina of Legnica-Brieg (1652–1707). The Catholic marriage was legalized on 10 May 1673, and recognized by Emperor Leopold on 15 July 1673. There was only one son from this marriage : Leopold, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Homburg
Bad Homburg vor der Höhe (, ) is the district town of the Hochtaunuskreis, Hesse, Germany, on the southern slope of the Taunus mountains. Bad Homburg is part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area. The town's official name is ''Bad Homburg v.d.Höhe'', which distinguishes it from other places named Homburg. The town has become best known for its mineral springs and spa (hence the prefix ''Bad'', meaning "bath"), and for its casino. , the town used the marketing slogan ''Champagnerluft und Tradition'' (Champagne air and tradition). , Bad Homburg was one of the wealthiest towns in Germany (while the Hochtaunuskreis itself and the Landkreis Starnberg in Bavaria regularly vie for the title of the wealthiest district in Germany). History Medieval origins Local tradition holds that Bad Homburg's documented history began with the mention of the ''Villa Tidenheim'' in the Lorsch codex, associated with the year 782. This ''Villa Tidenheim'' was equated with the historic city c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick I, Landgrave Of Hesse-Homburg
Frederick I of Hesse-Homburg (5 March 1585, at Lichtenberg Castle in Fischbachtal – 9 May 1638, in Bad Homburg), was the first Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg and founder of the eponymous family line. Life Frederick was the youngest son of Count George I of Hesse-Darmstadt (1547–1596) from his first marriage to Magdalene (1552–1587), daughter of Count VIII Bernhard of Lippe. Frederick did not have any rights to inherit, because in Hesse-Darmstadt primogeniture had been introduced properly. Nevertheless, Frederick received in 1622 an apanage consisting of the City and district of Homburg, as well as a one-off payment plus an annual sum. He was not considered a sovereign prince, but fell under the sovereignty of Hesse-Darmstadt. In 1626, he introduced primogeniture in Hesse-Homburg. One of his sons was Frederick II of Hesse-Homburg, better known as ''The Prince of Homburg''. Marriage and issue Frederick I married on 10 August 1622 in Butzbach with Margaret Elisabet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Louis, Count Of Sinzendorf
George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George, son of Andrew I of Hungary Places South Africa * George, South Africa, a city ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa, a city * George, Missouri, a ghost town * George, Washington, a city * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Computing * George (algebraic compiler) also known as 'Laning and Zierler system', an algebraic compiler by Laning and Zierler in 1952 * GEORGE (computer), early computer built by Argonne National Laboratory in 1957 * GEORGE (operating system), a range of operating systems (George 1–4) for the ICT 1900 range of computers in the 1960s * GEORGE (programming language), an autocode system invented by Charles Leonard Hambli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Louis, Count Of Lippe
Simon Louis, Count of Lippe (14 March 1610 at Brake Castle – 8 August 1636 in Detmold), was Count of Lippe-Detmold from 1627 until his death. Life He was the second eldest son of Count Simon VII, Count of Lippe, Simon VII of Lippe and his first wife Anna Catherine of Nassau-Wiesbaden. When his father died in 1627, Simon Louis was still underage. His step-grandfather, Count Christian, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen, Christian of Waldeck-Wildungen was selected as his regent and guardian. His paternal uncle, Count Otto, Count of Lippe-Brake, Otto of Lippe-Brake was unavailable, due to the strained relationship between Lippe-Detmold and Lippe-Brake. His maternal uncle, John Louis, Prince of Nassau-Hadamar, John Louis of Nassau-Hadamar, was not asked because he was a Catholic. As was usual among members of his class, Simon Louis made a Grand Tour. His tour started in 1627 and brought him to Prague, France, England and the Netherlands. After he returned to Detmold in 1631, he a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian, Count Of Waldeck-Wildungen
Count Christian of Waldeck-Wildungen (24/25 December 1585 – 31 December 1637), , official titles: ''Graf zu Waldeck und Pyrmont'', was since 1588 Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg and after the division with his brother in 1607 Count of . He founded the new cadet branch of Waldeck-Wildungen and is the progenitor of the Fürst, princes of Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Waldeck and Pyrmont.Haarmann (2014), p. 24. Never before was the independence of the Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont, County of Waldeck more threatened by Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel, Hesse than during the reign of Count Christian. Together with his younger brother Wolrad IV, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg, Wolrad IV, however, he later successfully continued the sovereignty-oriented territorial policy of their father Josias I, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg, Josias I. They made use of the legal possibilities and chose during the for Waldeck disastrous Thirty Years' War the for them favoura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
