The Austrian writer became internationally known with his own stories, which are in the tradition of village stories with enlightening messages. His extensive body of work has almost exclusively to the subject steiermarksche home landscape. In it the idealized peasant ...

The American General, and Republican politicians found through the American Civil War in 1861 the opportunity to resume his military career and to feed their peak. He successfully fought for the north and forced the Confederates in 1865 as commander ...

The son of a teacher and businessman tried since 1838 in Heilbronn as a food producer. With its mix of legume flour, dried and ground vegetables and spices put Carl Heinrich Knorr the foundation for a range of products, which ...

The Austrian Biedermeier writers of distinguished himself as a poet, who shows his complete works in a strong ambivalence. On the one hand, acting as his poetic works of world-weariness, melancholy and decay, on the other hand, are calling for ...

The Ligurian musician and composer, is considered one of the greatest violinists in music history. Niccolò Paganini's compositions inspired by other masters such as Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Franz Liszt. He significantly influenced the development of violin-playing art through ...

The German theologian and philosopher understood God as the creator of the world, but not later intervene in world affairs. For Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, religion was the "feeling of absolute dependence niger" from God. His religion Schleiermacher described in ...

The German poet, writer and educator of the late Enlightenment developed the genre of the novel explanation for their summit. His skepticism was voiced is also a critical Selbstrefflektion to the Enlightenment. Basis of his philosophical ideas was the English ...

The German scholar was as natural law philosophers and historians a pioneering role in European intellectual life, when much of the early modern period also. The cruel turmoil of the Thirty Years War and the restructuring of European states in ...

The sculptor, painter, architect and poet, was next to Leonardo da Vinci's most important representative of the Italian High Renaissance and Mannerism trailblazer. Ludovico di Leonardo Michelagniolo Tues Tues Buonarroti Simoni marked his work with the output of the Italian ...