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    today St. Anne's Museum (engraved in 1747 by Johann Martin Bernigeroth). Full-length portrait of Johann Gottlob Carpzov (1756), Lübeck, St. Marien, destroyed...
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    said to have had an affair with the Russian emissary in Copenhagen Baron Johann Albrecht von Korff, who belonged to the freemasons; she had tricked him...
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    Daniel Gerdes, engraving by Johann Martin Bernigeroth....
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    In 1672 he became a chamberlain and again assisted his father. Elector Johann Georg II appointed him as a mining inspector in 1679. In 1711 he became...
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    Johann Heinrich Linck the elder (17 December 1674 – 29 October 1734) was a German apothecary and naturalist. He grew the family natural history cabinet...
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    on Wallenstein's orders, renewed talks with Arnim who was then visiting Johann Georg. The two generals met for dinner when Holk suddenly fell ill. Fearing...
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    Johann Christoph von Ponickau (21 March 1652 – 31 October 1726), was a counselor and chamberlain at the Dresden court of the elector of Saxony. Ponickau...
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