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    Blut und Wunden" by Paul Gerhardt, stanza 5: Erkenne mich, mein Hüter 16. Mt 26:33–35, with Vox Christi and Peter (bass) 17. "O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden"...
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    with the help of his five sons, Hermann, Peter, Hans, Jakob and Paul. Tomb of Bishop Johannes IV., in the Breslau cathedral (1496) Tomb of Archbishop Ernest...
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  • Peter Wackernagel (26 July 1897 – 17 May 1981) was a German musicologist and librarian Wackernagel was born in Breslau as the son of the priest Paul Wackernagel...
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    Hedwig of Silesia (redirect from St Hedwig)
    Hedwig, Herzogin und Landespatronin von Schlesien. 1174-1243. Schletter, Breslau 1860 (Digitalisat) Kirsch, Johann Peter (1910). "St. Hedwig". The Catholic...
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    Archdiocese of Wrocław (Polish: Archidiecezja wrocławska; German: Erzbistum Breslau; Czech: Arcidiecéze vratislavská; Latin: Archidioecesis Vratislaviensis)...
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    ISBN 978-3-89528-744-2 Cf. Peter Paul Schwarz: Aurora. Zur romantischen Zeitstruktur bei Eichendorff. Ars poetica. Texte zur Dichtungslehre und Dichtkunst. Vol....
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    Fürstbischöfliche Delegatur für Brandenburg und Pommern), since Emanuel von Schimonsky was invested to Breslau's see as prince-bishop in 1824. In 1821 the...
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    Freiburg in 1916–1918 and, later, privately in Breslau in Edith Stein House in 1920 1921, Freiheit und Gnade. This work has for years been wrongly identified...
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    The church St. Peter und Alexander (also Stiftskirche Aschaffenburg or collegiate church Aschaffenburg or Basilica of SS. Peter and Alexander) is a Catholic...
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    from an artistic Jewish family with roots in Lithuania, she moved from Breslau, Germany, to Paris, France, at the turn of the 20th century, where she...
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    Georg studied political sciences for three months at the University of Breslau. He then began to study economics. During this time, he joined the KDSt...
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    Viennese Art Nouveau artist and puppeteer Richard Teschner. He then moved to Breslau and later to Zürich. In the late 1920s, the actor moved to Berlin, where...
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    altar (1727–1729, attributed) Striegau (now Strzegom) Parish Church St. Peter and Paul, side altar sculptures of the saints Gertrude and Scholastica (1720–1725...
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    Max Born (category University of Breslau alumni)
    Initially educated at the König-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Breslau, Born entered the University of Breslau in 1901. The German university system allowed students...
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    Linderhof, Oberammergau und Kloster Ettal. Würzburg: Violette Bücher. Koch, Laurentius (1996). Basilika Ettal. Kloster-, Pfarr- und Wallfahrtskirche. Ettal:...
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    Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (category Recipients of the Order of St. George of the First Degree)
    A statue once stood in the square that bore his name, Blücherplatz, in Breslau (today Wrocław). Blücher was born on 21 December 1742 in Rostock, a Baltic...
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  • gave his first harpsichord concerts in Breslau in 1920 and in Brieg in 1923. In Brieg he was trained by Paul Hielscher in organ playing and choir leading...
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    1849 to 1854, at the University of Breslau, secondly, in 1854 he co-founded the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau and thirdly in 1868, he was appointed...
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    1868, he attended the village school and then, in 1874, the Realschule in Breslau for which he had only barely passed the qualifying exam. Hauptmann had...
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    ISBN 978-3-939645-14-6. Peter Geffcken: Jakob Fugger der Reiche (1459–1525): "Königsmacher", Stratege und Organisator". in: DAMALS 7/2004. Peter Geffcken: Fugger...
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    marks. The church was consecrated on 28 October 1861, by the Bishop of Breslau, in the presence of William I, Emperor of Germany. After the church's consecration...
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    Olaf Kühl-Freudenstein, Peter Noss, and Claus Wagener (eds.), Berlin: Institut Kirche und Judentum, 1999, (=Studien zu Kirche und Judentum; vol. 18), pp...
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  • at the University of Breslau in 1911 and his Licentiate of Theology at Halle-Wittenberg in 1912. His PhD dissertation at Breslau was on Schelling and...
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    the city to Breslau (Wrocław), Thorn (Toruń), Insterburg, Eydtkuhnen, Tilsit, and Pillau. In 1860 the railway connecting Berlin with St. Petersburg was...
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    Humboldt-Universität, Berlin; the K.St.V. Unitas-Breslau, established March 4, 1863, at Universitas Wratislaviensis, Breslau, Lower Silesia (Wrocław, Lower Silesian...
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    collapse of the Nazi regime. Bonhoeffer was born on 4 February 1906 in Breslau, then Germany (now Poland), into a large family. In addition to his other...
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  • Thumbnail for Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
    took his master's degree in Wittenberg. From 1760 to 1765, he worked in Breslau (now Wrocław) as secretary to General Tauentzien during the Seven Years'...
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    Chmielus, "Der St. Annaberg bei Groß-Strehlitz", in Bunte Bilder aus dem Schlesierlande Volume 2, Schlesischer Pestalozzi-Verein, Breslau: Woywod, 1903...
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    (written following the conferring of an honorary degree by the University of Breslau) and Tragic Overture of 1880. In May 1876, Cambridge University offered...
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  • four German Film Awards for Best Direction. Wicki studied in the city of Breslau such topics as art history, history and German literature. In 1938, he...
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