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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Daniel Gerdes, engraving by Johann Martin Bernigeroth....
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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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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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been the inventor of European porcelain, an invention long accredited to Johann Friedrich Böttger but others claim porcelain had been made by English manufacturers...
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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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Vienna in 1698, Tsar Peter the Great had noticed Ogilvy and in 1702 he sent Johann Patkul to invite him to Russia. With the Emperor's permission, Ogilvy accepted...
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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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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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