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    Friedrich von Gentz (2 May 1764 – 9 June 1832) was a Prussian-Austrian diplomat and a writer. With Austrian chancellor Klemens von Metternich he was one...
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    with Josef von Pilat, editor of the Österreichischer Beobachter, and with the help of Adam Müller and Friedrich Schlegel, Metternich and Gentz projected...
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    Friedrich Carl von Savigny (21 February 1779 – 25 October 1861) was a German jurist and historian. Savigny was born at Frankfurt am Main, of a family recorded...
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    sources. It was in Vienna where the friendship of Friedrich von Gentz and the protection of Klemens von Metternich opened to him the Venetian Archives,...
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    been developed by Austrian Foreign Minister Klemens von Metternich, assisted by Friedrich von Gentz, and was the first occasion in history where, on a...
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    Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801), pen name Novalis (/noʊˈvɑːlɪs/; German: [noˈvaːlɪs]), was a German aristocrat...
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    critically selected Die Schriften von und über Friedrich von Gentz (1906) – The writings of and about Friedrich von Gentz. Napoleon: Auswahl aus Seinen Aussprüchen...
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    Congress would operate and, to Metternich's delight, named his own aide Friedrich von Gentz secretary to the negotiations of the "Big Six" (the Big Four plus...
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    turns, he changed his ministers every few months. "The king," wrote Friedrich von Gentz in 1814, "himself enters the houses of his prime ministers, arrests...
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    (literary historian). 1947 Friedrich von Gentz 1958 Deutsche Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts 1964 Wilhelm II 1970 Von Weimar nach Bonn. Fünfzig...
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    was persuaded by his friend Friedrich von Gentz to take up political science. He had early formed a close intimacy with Gentz, his elder by 15 years; and...
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    aristocracy and its political elite through Prince Klemens von Metternich and Friedrich von Gentz.[citation needed] Under the direction of Salomon, the Viennese...
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    time in Prussia, Adams befriended the German diplomat and writer Friedrich von Gentz, whose work, The Origins and Principles of the American Revolution...
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    among other things the acquaintance of Johannes von Müller, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich von Gentz, Adam Müller, with whom he had constant exchange...
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    Anti-Machiavel, proclaimed the principle to the world. In 1806, Friedrich von Gentz re-stated it with admirable clarity, in Fragments on the Balance...
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    Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Immanuel Kant and Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel, among others. The writer and diplomat Friedrich Gentz and the poet Friedrich August...
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  • loyalty. Elsewhere on the continent, German thinkers Justus Möser and Friedrich von Gentz criticised the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen...
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    crystallographer Friedrich von Gentz (1764–1832), a German diplomat and writer. Alfred Gomolka (1942–2020), a German politician and MEP Rudolf von Gottschall...
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  • Restoration) and national conservatism. Notable theorists include Friedrich von Gentz, Friedrich Schlegel and Ernst Moritz Arndt. Conservative writing in defense...
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    took up residence in Paris in 1822, after his initial requests to Friedrich von Gentz for settling back in Vienna were unsuccessful. In 1824 the Foreign...
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    Lebrun (2011). Joseph de Maistre and his European Readers: From Friedrich von Gentz to Isaiah Berlin. Leiden and Boston: Brill. Armenteros, Carolina...
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    Calvinist pastor Friedrich von Gentz (1764–1832), diplomat and writer. Johann Ernst Plamann (1771–1834), schoolmaster Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer (1781–1873)...
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    name is Karl Habsburg-Lothringen. Karl is the son of Otto von Habsburg and Regina Prinzessin von Sachsen-Meiningen, and the grandson of the last Austro-Hungarian...
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    control the situation and cycled through ministers, being described by Friedrich von Gentz in 1814: "The king himself enters the houses of his prime ministers...
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  • ran into trouble with the Bavarian government. Friedrich von Gentz, a close associate of Klemens von Metternich considered the NSZ to be most impertinent...
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    in contact with the Austrian Chancellor, Klemens von Metternich; he instructed Friedrich von Gentz to send Caradja regular digests of the goings-on in...
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  • ISBN 0-8014-4943-X. Joseph de Maistre and his European Readers: From Friedrich von Gentz to Isaiah Berlin. Brill Publishers. 2011. ISBN 9789004193949. Joseph...
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    After captivating all hearts in Berlin and Vienna, and inspiring Friedrich von Gentz with a remarkable passion, she paid a visit to London, where she...
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    1868, p. 311 Friedrich von Gentz, Adam Heinrich Müller (Knight of Nitterdorf): correspondence, JG Cotta, 1857, p. 85. Constantin von Wurzbach: Biographisches...
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    Joseph offered him the post of Minister of the Interior in Count Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust's cabinet. In June he became vice-president of the ministry...
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