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    and pharmaceutical industries in the 20th century. In 1897, Basel was chosen by Theodor Herzl as the location for the first World Zionist Congress, and...
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    Zionist Congress at Basel, Switzerland. Eventually, the defendants Theodor Fischer and Silvio Schnell were sentenced by Judge Walter Meyer in his verdict,...
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  • (1868–1945) Emilie Mediz-Pelikan (1861–1908) Edgar Meyer (1853–1925) Josef Mikl (1929–2008) Carl Moll (1861–1945) Josef Moroder-Lusenberg (1846–1939)...
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    Johann Peter Hebel (category Writers from Basel-Stadt)
    Tales"). Born in Basel, Hebel entered primary school in 1766 and joined a Latin school three years later; he visited the schools in Basel during summer and...
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    The two historians who influenced Meyer particularly were Louis Vulliemin at Lausanne and Jacob Burckhardt at Basel, whose book on the Culture of the...
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    His grandparents served in India at a mission under the auspices of the Basel Mission, a Protestant Christian missionary society. His grandfather Hermann...
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    Palestine. He accepted the offer but died of heart failure mid-journey in a Basel, Switzerland hotel on 29 January 1934, aged 65. Haber was born in Breslau...
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  • modern languages. Among his professors were the considerable scholars Theodor Frings, Erich Rothacker and Eduard Spranger, and also Ernst Robert Curtius...
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    Friedrich Nietzsche (category Academic staff of the University of Basel)
    youngest person to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in Switzerland in 1869, at the age of 24, but resigned in 1879 due to health...
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    This includes The Conquest of the World by the Jews (1878), published in Basel and authored by Osman Bey (born Frederick van Millingen). Millingen was...
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    Bernischer Kantonalbank in Biel. Afterwards he worked for a short time in Basel. Walser's mother, who was "emotionally disturbed", died in 1894 after being...
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    Erasmus (category Burials at Basel Münster)
    Christ's Sermon on the Mount, rather than Paul." Historical theologian Carl Meyer writes "Because the Scriptures are the genuine oracles of God, welling...
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    vols.) Taciti Germania edidit (Göttingen, 1835) Über meine Entlassung (Basel, 1838) (together with Schmeller) Lateinische Gedichte des X. und XI. Jahrhunderts...
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    Biedenkopf, but declined. In 1994, State Minister Hans Joachim Meyer and Matthias Theodor Vogt founded the Saxonian Institute of Cultural Infrastructure...
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  • Licco Amar, Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno, conductor and music critic Artur Holde, Erich Itor Kahn, pianist Emma Lübbecke-Job, singer Carl Rehfuss, Ludwig...
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  • Gold Coast, daughter of the Basel missionary, Nicholas Timothy Clerk. Her mother also had a Basel Mission pastor, Carl Meyer for a father. Matilda J. Clerk...
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  • Carl Stumpf Physiologist and philosopher Berlin 1931 Enno Littmann Orientalist Tübingen 1931 Wilhelm Schulze [de] Indogermanist Berlin 1931 Theodor Wiegand...
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  • FC Basel 1893 (Fussball Club Basel 1893) is a Swiss football club based in Basel, Switzerland. This is a list of footballers who have played for FC Basel...
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    before Karl Theodor was to move into the castle and make it his seat (which, by the bye, would have been a great disaster, for if Karl Theodor had spent...
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    Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Theodor W. Adorno and Albert Einstein confessed themselves to it. The University...
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    Eschenbach. Dichter der ritterlichen Welt. Leben, Werke, Nachruhm (in German). Basel: Schwabe Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7965-3955-8. James F. Poag, Wolfram von Eschenbach...
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  • offices: Switzerland List of mayors of Aarau, Altstätten, Arbon, Baden, Basel, Bellinzona, Bern, Biel/Bienne, Brig, Brig-Glis, Bulle, Burgdorf, Carouge...
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    won the Nobel Prize in literature: Theodor Mommsen, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Paul von Heyse, Gerhart Hauptmann, Carl Spitteler, Thomas Mann, Nelly Sachs...
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    Speaks: 265–278. doi:10.3138/9781442675803-014. ISBN 978-1-4426-7580-3. Meyer, Carl (1 December 1969). "Erasmus on the Study of Scriptures". Concordia Theological...
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    Georg Friedrich Rudolph Theodor Herwegh (31 May 1817 – 7 April 1875) was a German poet, who is considered part of the Young Germany movement. He was born...
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    on 17 August 2022. Retrieved 21 June 2022. "Nomination Archive – John Theodor Lund". NobelPrize.org. Archived from the original on 14 August 2022. Retrieved...
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    reflection, longing corresponds with intuition (Ahnen), grieving with memory." Theodor W. Adorno, who set out to rescue Eichendorff from his misled conservative...
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    contemporaneously with a similar work by Franz Theodor Kugler. Heinrich Wölfflin (1864–1945), who studied under Burckhardt in Basel, is the "father" of modern art history...
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  • 1993 Leuven) (id=466) the only time (id=10123) Karl Friedrich Meyer May 19, 1884 Basel, Switzerland April 27, 1974 San Francisco, United States 1950 (id=6238)...
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    advocate of Jewish assimilation, he attacked the founder of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl, with his polemic Eine Krone für Zion (1898) (A Crown for Zion)....
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