The German pianist, conductor, composer and critic championed the works of Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt. So he did, for example, Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" premiered. Later assisted Hans Guido Freiherr von Bülow with its performance commitment nor the compositions ...

A doctorate in geology from Silesia is considered the founder of modern geomorphology and one of the most important scientists of modern China. Through extensive travels Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen studied from 1860 to 1872 the entire Far East of ...

The writer is not only the most important poet of the late Romantic period, but often set to music by his songs and the story "The life of a ne'er-do" even the most famous of the Romantic era. His style ...

The German writer and educator was a political writer. Doubtful he achieved fame through his work "On dealing with people" (1788). The book has been misunderstood as a work of etiquette, but was written as an educational brochure for the ...

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 English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and author of "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" (1687) was. Isaac Newton ushered in the modern era with his teaching of physics and classical mechanics. He developed, among other things, the famous three laws of ...