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(Encyclopedia)Herne hĕrˈnə [key], city, North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany, a port on the Rhine-Herne C...Ansermet, Ernest
(Encyclopedia)Ansermet, Ernest ĕrnĕstˈ äNsĕrmĕˈ [key], 1883–1969, Swiss conductor. For several years he was a high-school mathematics teacher. He began his conducting career in Germany and toured with Diag...Hesse, Eva
(Encyclopedia)Hesse, Eva hĕsˈə [key], 1936–70, American sculptor, b. Hamburg, Germany. Hesse's sculpture displays an antiformalism that developed in the late 1960s in reaction against conventional geometric co...Freising
(Encyclopedia)Freising frīˈzĭng [key], city, Bavaria, S Germany, on the Isar River. Manufactures include ...Good, James Isaac
(Encyclopedia)Good, James Isaac, 1850–1924, American clergyman of the German Reformed Church, b. York, Pa. He held pastorates in York, Philadelphia, and Reading, Pa., and in 1890 he became professor in the School...Fliedner, Theodor
(Encyclopedia)Fliedner, Theodor tāˈōdôr flētˈnər [key], 1800–1864, German Protestant minister and philanthropist. In 1826 he organized the first prison society of Germany. Ten years later at Kaiserswerth h...Münsterberg, Hugo
(Encyclopedia)Münsterberg, Hugo mŭnˈstərbərg, mĭnˈ– [key], 1863–1916, American psychologist, b. Danzig, Ph.D. Univ. of Leipzig, 1885; M.D. Univ. of Heidelberg, 1887. At the instigation of William James h...Olsztyn
(Encyclopedia)Olsztyn ôlˈshtĭn [key], Ger. Allenstein, city (1993 est. pop. 165,600), capital of Warmińsko-Mazurskie prov., N Poland. It is a trade, manufacturing, and railroad center, as well as a popular heal...Neckar
(Encyclopedia)Neckar nĕkˈär [key], river, 228 mi (367 km) long, rising in the Black Forest, SW Germany. It flows generally N past Tübingen, Stuttgart, and Heilbronn, then W past Heidelberg before joining the Rh...Neumann, Johann Balthasar
(Encyclopedia)Neumann, Johann Balthasar yōˈhän bältäsärˈ noiˈmän [key], 1687–1753, German architect. He traveled (1718) in Austria and N Italy and studied (1723) in Paris. Neumann designed several palace...Browse by Subject
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