The Swedish chemist, was the development, patenting (1867) and production of dynamite, one of the richest entrepreneurs of his time. Knowing about the abuse of his inventions, adopted by the childless Alfred Nobel, the bulk of his fortune posthumously should ...

As a subsidiary of the British upper class, she developed in Victorian Britain a unique commitment to the needy and the sick that they subsequently moved to a trained nurse. During the Crimean War (1853-1856) and the desolate care of ...

The Polish composer, pianist and teacher, was the founder of an entirely new, hitherto not known before, piano style. Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin has advanced to become one of the most famous virtuosos of his time. He was much influenced by ...

The German writer has made ​​a name for the recording of long talks with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Johann Peter Eckermann's famous "Conversations with Goethe in the last years of his life" (1836) - as the title of the work ...

The playwright, storyteller and writer is often referred to as a military or military poet of the Germans. His work examines the political and social phenomena in their susceptibility to crisis time from different perspectives. This Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von ...

The writer was the most important poets of the Enlightenment. With his plays and his theoretical writings he influenced the further development of German literature significantly. By Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, the name of a newer in the German drama and ...

The Hamburg-based counselor, translator and poet is a transitional poet, who felt obliged in his early works of the Baroque and Enlightenment in the later literary sense of the early Enlightenment era operation. The content of his works are considerably ...

The philologist, philosopher, humanist, theologian, textbook author, poet and Neo-Latin "Praeceptor Germaniae" (Teacher of Germany) was the driving force of the European Reformation church policy. Philipp Melanchthon joined the Reformation movement of Martin Luther and became its most important employees. ...