• Adolph Speyer (28 April 1812, Arolsen – 14 October 1892, Rhoden, Waldeck ) was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera, especially Hesperiidae...
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    a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Adolph Speyer in 1875. It is found in western North America from southern British...
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    (German: Dom zu Unserer lieben Frau in Speyer) in Speyer, Germany, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Speyer and is suffragan to the Roman Catholic...
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    Bibasis aquilina (category Taxa named by Adolph Speyer)
    Species: B. aquilina Binomial name Bibasis aquilina (Speyer, 1879) Synonyms Ismene aquilina Speyer, 1879 Proteides chrysaeglia Butler, [1882] Ismene jankowskii...
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    a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Adolph Speyer in 1870. It is found from coast to coast across southern Canada and...
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    The history of the Jews in Speyer reaches back over 1,000 years. In the Middle Ages, the city of Speyer (formerly Spira), Germany, was home to one of the...
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  • archbishop's throne. Adolph allied himself with the Archbishop of Trier, John II of Baden; the Bishop of Metz, George of Baden; the Bishop of Speyer, Johann II...
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    Amphipoea americana (category Taxa named by Adolph Speyer)
    a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Adolph Speyer in 1875. It is found from coast to coast in the northern United States...
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    later transferred to Speyer. On 29 August 1309, Albert I’s successor, Emperor Henry VII transferred Adolf’s remains to the Speyer Cathedral, where he was...
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    Friedrich Adolph Sorge (9 November 1828 – 26 October 1906) was a German communist political leader who emigrated to the United States, where he played...
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  • Adolph Friedrich Lindemann (13 May 1846 – 25 August 1931) was a British engineer, businessman, and amateur astronomer of German origin. He was involved...
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    In 1298, he took part in the Battle of Göllheim, near Speyer, in which the king of Germany, Adolph, was killed fighting his rival, Albert of Habsburg. Theobald...
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  • VII confirmed the election of Adolph as administrator of Mainz in 1379 and appointed Adolph as administrator of Speyer in 1380. When King Wenceslaus subsequently...
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    second-most populous Stadtbezirk is Lechenich. Adolph Wolff von Metternich zur Gracht (1553–1619), cathedral dean in Speyer and steward of the duke Wilhelm V. of...
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  • Philip of Swabia (category Burials at Speyer Cathedral)
    death: On 21 January 1198, Philip issued a charter for the citizens of Speyer, in which he indicated that he was acting in the name of King Frederick;...
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    with Speyer Cathedral and Worms Cathedral. Since the 12th century, Mainz was one of the ShUM-cities [de]—a league formed by the cities of Speyer, Worms...
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    on the river's left bank around the cities of Cologne, Worms, Trier and Speyer. In response to the Ems Dispatch incident, which occurred in Bad Ems, not...
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  • Adolf von Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein, c. 1353–6 February 1390) was Bishop of Speyer 1371–1388 and Archbishop of Mainz 1381–1390. Adolf was born c. 1353 as son...
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  • Lionel Lawson Faudel Faudel-Phillips, 3rd Baronet Speyer baronets of Grosvenor Street Sir Edgar Speyer, 1st Baronet Sassoon baronets of Bombay Sir Jacob...
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    Speyer, Metropolitan Archdiocese of Trier and Diocese of Worms) Lost territories repeatedly; in April 1818 to Diocese of Konstanz, Diocese of Speyer and...
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    Schilling created a statue for the town of Speyer, the location of the Protestation at Speyer in 1539. Gustav Adolph Kietz [de] made statues of Jan Hus, Philipp...
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    created by him was called Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp. Until the Treaty of Speyer, concluded on 23 May 1544, Adolf's half-brother Christian III of Denmark...
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    Gabriel Biel (category People from Speyer)
    clerical counterpart to the Brethren of the Common Life. Biel was born in Speyer and died in Einsiedel near Tübingen. In 1432 he was ordained to the priesthood...
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    Siebmacher, Johann (1703). Erneuertes und vermehrtes Wappenbuch... Nürnberg: Adolph Johann Helmers. pp. Part I Table 8. "KAMTA RAJAULI (Princely State)". World...
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    Jewish citizens (for example Mathilde Hannah von Rothschild, Sigmund Kohn-Speyer, L. Albert Hahn, Hermann Wronker, Albert Katzenellenbogen, Julius Blau,...
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    Henry Villard (category People from Speyer)
    Pacific Railway. Born and raised by Ferdinand Heinrich Gustav Hilgard in Speyer, the Rhenish Palatinate of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Villard clashed with...
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     235 Steigmann-Gall 2003, pp. 224–226 Albert Zink: Die Pfalz am Rhein. Speyer 1952, Volume D, Table 19 p. 263 f, Konfessionsverteilung im späteren Regierungsbezirks...
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    in 838. For unclear reasons, he was expelled from his house and went to Speyer. According to his own verses, it seems that the real cause of his flight...
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    by Albert Vandal (1853–1910) the only time. Martin Greif June 18, 1839 Speyer, Germany April 1, 1911 Kufstein, Austria 1909, 1910, 1911 Francesco D'Ovidio...
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  • banker Edward Speyer. 'Ridgehurst' was their home at Shenley, Hertfordshire. Not to be confused with Sir Edgar Speyer and Lady Speyer (the latter a professional...
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