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Bodmer, Johann Jakob
(Encyclopedia)Bodmer, Johann Jakob yōˈhän yäˈkôp bōdˈmər [key], 1698–1783, Swiss critic, poet, and editor. He translated Milton's Paradise Lost and Middle High German poetry. Inspired by the Spectator, B...Bachofen, Johann Jakob
(Encyclopedia)Bachofen, Johann Jakob bäkōˈfən [key], 1815–87, Swiss legal historian and antiquarian. Bachofen studied in Berlin, Göttingen, Paris, and Cambridge, and accepted only honorary offices in order t...Dillenius, Johann Jakob
(Encyclopedia)Dillenius, Johann Jakob dĭlāˈnēəs [key], 1687–1747, English botanist, of German birth. He published catalogs of the plants of Eltham, Kent, and of Geissen, Germany, and a work on mosses that pl...Herzog, Johann Jakob
(Encyclopedia)Herzog, Johann Jakob yōˈhän yäˈkôp hĕrˈtsōkh [key], 1805–82, German Protestant theologian. His most important contribution was the founding and editing of the standard reference work Realen...Froberger, Johann Jakob
(Encyclopedia)Froberger, Johann Jakob yōˈhān yāˈkôp frōˈbĕrgər [key], 1616–67, German organist and composer; pupil of Frescobaldi. His style influenced German keyboard music during the baroque era. He i...Gottsched, Johann Christoph
(Encyclopedia)Gottsched, Johann Christoph yōˈhän krĭsˈtôf gôtˈshĕt [key], 1700–1766, German literary critic, disciple of the Enlightenment. As professor of poetry and philosophy at the Univ. of Leipzig, ...Boehme, Jakob
(Encyclopedia)Boehme or Böhme, Jakob bēˈmə, Ger. yäˈkôp böˈmə [key], 1575–1624, German religious mystic, a cobbler of Görlitz, in England also called Behmen. He was a student of the Bible and was influ...Böhme, Jakob
(Encyclopedia)Böhme, Jakob: see Boehme, Jakob.Bidermann, Jakob
(Encyclopedia)Bidermann, Jakob yäˈkôp bēˈdərmän [key], 1578–1639, German Jesuit dramatist and poet. Based on saint and martyr legends, Bidermann's plays were among the finest artistic expressions of the Co...Behmen, Jakob
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