Matthäus Merian der Ältere (or "Matthew", "the Elder", or "Sr."; 22 September 1593 – 19 June 1650) was a Swiss-born engraver who worked in Frankfurt, Germany...
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Matthäus Merian (25 March 1621 – 15 February 1687) was a Swiss engraver and portrait painter. He was born in Basel as the eldest son of Matthäus Merian...
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Matthäus Merian the Younger (1621–1687), Swiss painter Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717), naturalist and scientific illustrator Johann Bernhard Merian...
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and illustrator, dtr. of Matthäus the Elder Johann Matthäus von Merian (1659–1716) - pastel painter, son of Matthäus the Younger Johanna Helena Herolt (1668-1723)...
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"The Elder" and "the Younger" are epithets generally used to distinguish between two individuals, often close relatives. In some instances, one of the...
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predictable life cycles. Maria Sibylla Merian's father, the Swiss engraver and publisher Matthäus Merian the Elder, married her mother, his second wife...
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trained with the engravers Matthäus Merian the Younger in Frankfurt am Main, and François de Poilly in Paris. He was the younger brother of Philipp Kilian...
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Beromünster (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
municipality in the district of Sursee in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. On 1 January 2004 the former municipality of Schwarzenbach merged into the municipality...
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Rüdesheim am Rhein (category Populated places on the Rhine)
at the foot of the Niederwald on the Rhine's right bank in the Rheingau wine region. The town belongs to the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region and to the World...
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painting : Ulmer Dogge, Jagdschloss Grunewald, Berlin (url) Matthäus Merian the Younger (1621–1687), 1 painting : Landgrave Friedrich of Hessen-Eschwege...
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Seligenstadt (category Populated places on the Main basin)
in the north on the community of Hainburg, in the east on the community of Karlstein (Aschaffenburg district in Bavaria), in the southeast on the community...
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Bingen am Rhein (redirect from Bingen on the Rhine)
"hole in the rock",[citation needed] a description of the shoal behind the Mouse Tower (German: Mäuseturm), known as the Binger Loch. Bingen was the starting...
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Idstein (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
Idstein Castle. The Old Town is found between the two brooks running through town, the Wolfsbach in the east and the Wörsbach in the west, on a high ridge...
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Battle of Triebl (category Battles of the Thirty Years' War involving the Holy Roman Empire)
The Battle of Triebl or Battle of Třebel took place on 22 August 1647 during the Thirty Years' War. Imperial cavalry under Raimondo Montecuccoli and Johann...
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Miltenberg (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
The old town lies on the Main’s left bank on the "left knee" of the Mainviereck ("Main Square") between the Spessart and Odenwald ranges. Since the Main...
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the river Main. The town lies right on the boundary with the state of Hesse on the Lower Main and is made up of the old town of Klingenberg and the two...
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Arvid Wittenberg (category Members of the Privy Council of Sweden)
general. He later came under the command of Lennart Torstenson with whom he participated in the rest of the Swedish campaign in the Thirty Years' War until...
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Dambach-la-Ville (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. It lies northwest of Sélestat, on the eastern slopes of the Vosges mountains...
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the town hosted the seventh Hessentag state festival. The town lies in the Hersfeld Basin formed here by the forks of the Fulda and the Haune. The inner...
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About 1217 the canonesses of Ahnaberg Priory near Kassel were permitted to establish a daughter-house on the Eppenberg, on the shoulder of the Heiligenberg...
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Bad Schwalbach (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
footballer and manager Christian Werner (1979– ), competition cyclist Matthäus Merian the Elder (1593–1650), copper engraver and publisher, died in Bad Schwalbach...
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publisher Matthäus Merian the Younger (1621–1687), Swiss-born engraver and portrait painter Johann Friedrich Städel (1728–1816), banker and founder of the Städel...
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Carl Gustaf Wrangel (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Wrangel (born 4 November 1642 during the siege of Leipzig, married to Nils Brahe the Younger, nephew of Per Brahe the Younger, on 21 December 1660) Polidora...
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Defenestrations of Prague (redirect from The Defenestration of Prague)
increasingly viewed as unfit to govern, and other members of the Habsburg dynasty declared his younger brother, Matthias, to be family head in 1606. Matthias...
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Jagdschloss Grunewald (category Religious buildings and structures completed in the 1540s)
Cranach the Elder, his son Lucas Cranach the Younger, and from the Netherlands and Germany from 15th to 19th century. The Jagdschloss contains the sole remaining...
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Jan Erasmus Quellinus (category Members of the Bentvueghels)
there with Matthäus Merian the Younger. He recounted that he saw some beautiful paintings of Merion, in particular a full-length portrait of the Emperor...
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Indian massacre of 1622 (category 1622 in the Colony of Virginia)
probably the effective leader, with his friend, war-chief and advisor Nemattanew. Neither of the younger men believed that peaceful relations with the colonists...
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property boundaries show that the Ebenfurth defences were roughly five-sided, joining onto the castle at the south. Matthäus Merian Ebenfurth 1679 Ebenfurth...
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Siege of Kronborg (category Sieges involving the Swedish Empire)
The siege of Kronborg (Danish: Belejringen af Kronborg; Swedish: Belägring av Kronborg) was a Swedish siege of the Danish stronghold Kronborg from 16 August...
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Uelzen (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
Ülz'n), officially the Hanseatic Town of Uelzen (German: Hansestadt Uelzen), is a town in northeast Lower Saxony, Germany, and capital of the district of Uelzen...
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