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The descendant of an East Prussian pastor’s family and lawyers-turned, with studying theology and philosophy to writing and journalism. His Italian travel diary “wandering years in Italy” (1856) became well-known as a writer Ferdinand Gregorovius. In the scientific field, he made his “History of Rome in the Middle Ages” (1859-1872) a classic of German Renaissance [...]

The philosopher and politician, was cofounder with Karl Marx’s dialectical materialism and scientific socialism. Friedrich Engels in his writings a widespread revolutionary, political-economic theory, the aim of the communist society. According to Engels, and so he stood in contrast to traditional Marxism, the political, legal, literary development is based inter alia on the economic progress, [...]

The son of a mayor’s life was marked by the experience of social distress in his childhood, his own work as mayor in the Westerwald in the middle of the 19th Century was a earnest element. In the economically weak, marked by crop failures and famine province developed Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, with its “Brodvereinen” and [...]

The American dentist and chemist who learned one of the nitrous oxide in the treatment of pain among the pioneers of anesthesia. Horace Wells, opened with William TG Morton, a practice in Hartford. During a visit to the market and the demonstration of a quack, who was busy with nitrous oxide, Wells realized the potential [...]

The child appeared to boulder on 26 May 1828 as some 16-year-ancient, mentally retarded, neglected and overgrown with young people speaking barely walk on the Nuremberg Unschlittplatz. But, the case of the inexplicable weirder, who grew up isolated from civilization, internationally known and provided the material for the largest crime report of the 19th Century. [...]

The Italian statesman who was with Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) and Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872) one of the most vital figures of the Italian Risorgimento, that the national liberation struggle of Italy in the 19th Century. Camillo Benso di Cavour represented the moderate wing of the nationalist movement, which in a centralized or unitary, but in any [...]

The German pianist, composer and wife of Robert Schumann was one of the greatest pianists and composers of their time. Above all, they made ​​known the work of her husband. She dedicated her life but also the compositions of Frederic Chopin and their friend Johannes Brahms. Initially hailed as a prodigy Clara Josephine Schumann became [...]

The French painter, one of the most vital representatives and co-founders of realism. His work had fantastic influence on French and German paintings of the late 19th and early 20 Century. In particular, Edgar Degas and Edouard Manet, who had to contend such as Gustave Courbet, even with the lack of understanding of academic colleagues [...]

The musician and composer, wrote his numerous operas, a large part of European musical history of the 19th Century. The substance of Giuseppe Verdi’s productions pointed in the course of the romance sometimes turned on a political message, the presence of explosive in Italy before the unification of the oppressed, the opera houses in seats [...]

The German composer of the musical romance is one of the largest European music dramatists. Richard Wagner altered the expression of romantic music and the theoretical and practical bases of the Opera, designed by dramatic and euphoric actions as a total work of art and writing to text, music and stage directions. With its world-well-known [...]