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    Johann Jakob Biedermann (7 August 1763 – 10 April 1830) was a Swiss painter and etcher. Biedermann was born in Winterthur, and initially instructed by...
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    give up the silver mines of Guadalcanal. After hard times under Anton's nephew and successor Johann Jakob, Anton's oldest son, Markus, carried on the business...
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    time. Johann and his brother Jakob Bernoulli derived the same solution, but Johann's derivation was incorrect, and he tried to pass off Jakob's solution...
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    OCLC 433236093. Retrieved 16 July 2021. Fleckenstein, Joachim O. (1977) [1949]. Johann und Jakob Bernoulli (in German) (2nd ed.). Birkhäuser. ISBN 3764308486. OCLC 4062356...
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    Jakob Böhme (/ˈbeɪmə, ˈboʊ-/; German: [ˈbøːmə]; 24 April 1575 – 17 November 1624) was a German philosopher, Christian mystic, and Lutheran Protestant...
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  • Ernst Ising Patrick Ilg Max Jakob J. Hans D. Jensen Peter Herbert Jensen Willibald Jentschke Sabina Jeschke Viktor K. Jirsa Johann Gottfried Teske Philipp...
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  • theatre. His brother Johann is a well-known, established artist, who cultivates a bourgeois lifestyle and moves in elite circles. Jakob runs away from home...
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    Jakob Fugger (1398 in Augsburg – 1469 in Augsburg) was a German master weaver, town councillor and merchant, as well as the founder of the Fugger dynasty...
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    were often used. Augustus II charged first Johann Jakob Irminger with the design of new vessels. In 1720 Johann Gregor Herold became the director and in...
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  • Dörbeck (1799–1835) Johann Jakob Dorner the Elder (1741–1813) Anton Josef Dräger (1794–1833) Heinrich Dreber (1822–1875) Johann Friedrich Dryander (1756–1812)...
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    was announced, in which Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach prevailed over, among others, Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena and Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt. Construction...
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    the works of other composers. A particularly significant influence was Johann Christian Bach, whom he visited in London in 1764 and 1765. When he was...
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    Gingo biloba (category Poetry by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
    to avoid the hard sound of the letter "k". Goethe sent Marianne von Willemer (1784–1860), the wife of the Frankfurt banker Johann Jakob von Willemer (1760–1838)...
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    Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist...
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    magazine with an international view. Illustrirte Zeitung was founded by Johann Jakob Weber in Leipzig in 1843. The Illustrated London News and L'Illustration...
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    Cornelius Josef Führich Johann Friedrich Overbeck Franz Pforr Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld Eduard Jakob von Steinle Philipp Veit...
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  • tended to "correct" harder readings and so cut off the stream of transmission. Thus, only earlier manuscripts would have the harder readings. Later manuscripts...
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    species level. Jakob & Blattner 2009 find cytotypes of both tetraploid and hexaploid. Another subspecies is 'Hordeum murinum ssp. glaucum. Jakob & Blattner...
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    settings by Johann Walter, Eyn geystlich Gesangk Buchleyn, all published in 1524. Luther's hymns inspired composers to write music. Johann Sebastian Bach...
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    National Theatre. Lessing was born in Kamenz, a small town in Saxony, to Johann Gottfried Lessing (1693–1770) and Justine Salome Feller (1703–1777). His...
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    to Hans Jakob Schulthess and Anna Holzhalb. She had five siblings, all younger brothers, with four siblings dying in childhood. She met Johann Heinrich...
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    Johann Friedrich Overbeck (3 July 1789 – 12 November 1869) was a German painter and a founder of the Nazarene art movement. Overbeck was born in Lübeck...
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  • Elfenlied (category Poetry by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
    is first used in German in the 1742 translation of Paradise Lost by Johann Jakob Bodmer, and popularised in the second half of the 18th century via Wieland's...
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    Cyclichthys (category Taxa named by Johann Jakob Kaup)
    scales) distributed over their bodies, and beak-like jaws, used to crush their hard-shelled prey (crustaceans and molluscs). They differ from members of the...
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    German art historian Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796–1877), physicist. He dealt with electricity and magnetism. Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804–1881)...
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  • Hans Hansen Egil Harder Knud Harder August Wilhelm Hartmann Emil Hartmann Emma Hartmann J.P.E. Hartmann Johan Ernst Hartmann Johann Hartmann Lars Hegaard...
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  • film he retains the name Johann. The film opposes the "easy" money of gold-digging with the wealth and values created by hard work, as the gold rush eventually...
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    Göring, Alfred Rosenberg, Rudolf Hess, Ernst Hanfstaengl, Ulrich Graf, Johann Aigner, Adolf Lenk, Max Amann, Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, Wilhelm...
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  • and inventor. Glasgow. Johann Harder (1811–1888), German farmer and tinker, inventor of the lannual clock about 1875. Johann Weule (1811–1897), German...
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    species in the genus Petronia that was introduced by the German naturalist Johann Jakob Kaup in 1829. Petronia is a local name for the rock sparrow from the...
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