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    Friedrich Wilhelm von Hanau-Hořowitz (4 May 1832 – 24 March 1889) was a German aristocrat. Prince Friedrich was born at the Wilhelmshöhe Palace in Kassel...
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    daughters, Augusta (von Schaumburg/Hanau) in 1829 and Alexandrine (von Schaumburg/Hanau) in 1830. Philipp Losch: Die Fürstin von Hanau und ihre Kinder. In:...
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    theology at the universities of Marburg and Halle, then served as a curate in Hanau. Being dissatisfied with this line of work, he focused his attention towards...
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    (1803–1882), whom he later elevated to Princess of Hanau and Hořowitz (German: Fürstin von Hanau und zu Hořowitz). Her paternal grandparents were Prince...
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  • Ulrich V, Lord of Hanau (c. 1370–1419 in Schaafheim) was the ruling Lord of Hanau from 1380 to 1404. His exact date and even the year of his birth were...
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    Count Johann Reinhard II of Hanau-Lichtenberg (2 February [O.S. 23 January] 1628 in Bouxwiller – 25 April 1666 in Bischofsheim am Hohen Steg) was a younger...
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  • Ulrich II, Lord of Hanau (c. 1280/1288 – 23 September 1346) was Lord of Hanau from 1305/1306 until his death. He was the son of Ulrich I and his wife,...
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    Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg (28 January 1602– 18 August 1651) was Landgravine consort and Regent of Hesse-Kassel. She married the future William...
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    Casimir of Hanau (born 4 August 1623 in Bouxwiller; died 30 March 1685 in Hanau) was a member of the Hanau-Lichtenberg branch of the House of Hanau. He was...
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    Vergrößerung der Grafschaft Hanau von der Mitte des 13. Jahrhunderts bis zum Aussterben des gräflichen Hauses im Jahre 1736. Hanau 1860 Das Marienstift und...
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    Counts von Schaumburg, but post-1918 descendants bear the title Prince and Princess von Hanau. Moritz (1834–1889), who married, morganatically, Anne von Lossberg...
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    centre in Germany where she counted Johann Gottfried von Herder, Johann Caspar Lavater, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Christoph...
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    worked closely with geologist Leopold von Buch. In 1853 he was named director of the Wetterauische Gesellschaft (Hanau), and in 1858 became a member of the...
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  • Tygör, "Wiederentdeckte Wertungen zum frühen Werk Gottfried Benns," in Mitteilungen der Gottfried-Benn-Gesellschaft e. V., 9, no. 22 (2022), pp. 4–6...
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    Landesstraße 3065 goes towards Hanau, and southwards towards Seligenstadt. "Ergebnisse der jeweils letzten Direktwahl von Landrätinnen und Landräte sowie...
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    until 1809. The son Heinrich von Hohenlohe (d. 1249) became Grand Master of the Teutonic Order. His grandsons, Gottfried and Conrad, supporters of Emperor...
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  • Colonel Albrecht Weikhard Kapaun von Swoykow Hanau Saxon Cuirassier – Generalfeldwachtmeister Augustin von Hanau Borneval Cuirassier – Lieutenant Colonel...
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  • (1643 – 1643) Johann Christian von Stramberg: Fürstenberg - Die Linie in Stühlingen. In: Johann Samuel Ersch, Johann Gottfried Gruber (Hrsg.): Allgemeine...
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    which the Falkensteins returned to Hanau-Lichtenberg in 1606. In 1623, the castle was ruined by the troops of Ernst von Mansfeld during the Thirty Years'...
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    Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1621/22 – 17 August 1676) was a German author. He is best known for his 1669 picaresque novel Simplicius Simplicissimus...
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    such as Gottfried von Hagenau's Liber sex festorum beatae Virginis. From 1656 he served as a legal adviser to Friedrich Casimir, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg...
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  • Count Johann Philipp of Hanau-Lichtenberg (13 January [O.S. 23 January] 1626 in Bouxwiller – 18 December 1669 in Babenhausen) was a son of Count Philipp...
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  • Thumbnail for Albrecht of Hanau-Münzenberg
    Albert of Hanau-Münzenberg (12 November 1579 – 19 December 1635 in Strasbourg) was the younger son of Philip Louis I of Hanau-Münzenberg (1553-1580) and...
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    Hanau, who was a granddaughter of Count Gottfried VIII of Ziegenhain via her mother, Elisabeth of Ziegenhain, who had married Lord Ulrich V of Hanau....
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  • Thumbnail for Reinhard II, Count of Hanau
    Hanau (c. 1369 – 26 June 1451 in Hanau) was Lord of Hanau and from 1429 Count of Hanau. He was one of the most important member of the House of Hanau...
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    Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (German pronunciation: [ˈɡɛphaʁt ˈleːbəʁɛçt fɔn ˈblʏçɐ]; 21 December 1742 – 12 September 1819), Graf (count), later elevated...
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    Wilhelm Grimm (category People from Hanau)
    the literary duo the Brothers Grimm. Wilhelm was born in February 1786 in Hanau, in Hesse-Kassel. In 1803, he started studying law at the University of...
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    Revolution. It attracted literary men such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Gottfried Herder and the reigning Duke of Gotha and of Weimar. In subsequent...
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  • Lord Ulrich III of Hanau (c. 1310 – 1369 or 1370; buried in the Arnsburg Abbey) was Lord of Hanau from 1346 until his death. He was also governor in the...
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    Jacob Grimm (category People from Hanau)
    duo known as the Brothers Grimm. Jacob Grimm was born 4 January 1785, in Hanau in Hesse-Kassel. His father, Philipp Grimm, was a lawyer who died while...
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