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2 unusual facts about Balthasar


Balthasar's Odyssey

Before the dawn of the apocalyptic 'Year of the Beast' in 1666, Balthasar Embriaco, a Levantine merchant, sets out on an adventure that will take him across the breadth of the civilised world from Constantinople, through the Mediterranean, to London, shortly before the Great Fire.

Friedrich IV, Landgrave of Thuringia

Friedrich superseded Balthasar (1349–1406) and preceded Friedrich V der Sanftmütige (1440–1445).


Aidan Nichols

However he is best known for his work on Hans Urs von Balthasar, publishing three analytic volumes on von Balthasar's famous trilogy: The Word Has Been Abroad: A Guide Through Balthasar's Aesthetics (1998), No Bloodless Myth: A Guide Through Balthasar’s Dramatics (2000) and Say It Is Pentecost: A Guide Through Balthasar’s Logic (2001).

Balthasar Anton Dunker

Balthasar Anton Dunker, a landscape painter and etcher, was born at Saal, near Stralsund, in 1746.

Balthasar Schwarm

Balthasar Schwarm (born 11 September 1946 in Bruckmühl, Bavaria) is a West German former luger who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s.

Christian Ulrich I, Duke of Württemberg-Oels

In 1685, he purchased the town of Neudorf from Balthasar Wilhelm von Prittwitz, Lord of Rastelwitz.

Didrik Thomas Johannes Schnitler

He was born in Østre Toten, as the son of military officer Balthasar Schnitler (died 1840) and Bolette Rogneby.

Franz von Hoesslin

Franz Johannes Balthasar von Hößlin, also von Hoesslin (Munich, 31 December 1885 - Sète, 25 September 1946) was a German conductor.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

In Balthasar's book Mysterium Paschale he explored the meaning of Holy Saturday, where Jesus Christ dies and descends to the dead, to be resurrected by God the Father and His own power.

House of Eggenberg

Hans Eggenberger († 1481) a brother of Balthasar who remained in Radkersburg was the father of the Ehrenhausen line.

Hans founded the Radkersburg (later Ehrenhausen) line and Balthasar was the patriarch of the main Graz line which then also developed a branch in Augsburg.

Keith Skinner

His career began when he starred as Bruno in the 1966 film Mademoiselle, and more notably perhaps in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film Romeo and Juliet as Balthasar, Romeo's manservant and trusted friend.

Kulturpreis Baden-Württemberg

In 2005, in the field of the performing arts, the Hauptpreis was shared by the action theater PAN.OPTIKUM and the Balthasar Neumann Chor & Ensemble, choreographer Marco Goecke won the Förderpreis.

Problem of Hell

Balthasar was careful to describe his opinion that Hell might be empty as merely a hope, but even this claim was rejected by most conservative Catholics, including Cardinal Avery Dulles.

Przewóz, Żary County

Duke Jan II the Mad had his older brother Balthasar imprisoned and starved to death at the castle's tower in 1472, shortly before he sold his duchy to Duke Albert III of Saxony.

Thomas Hengelbrock

Festa teatrale : carnival in Venice & Florence - Pietro Antonio Giramo, Giovanni Legrenzi, Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Lambardi, Diego Ortiz, Orazio Vecchi, Salamone Rossi, Tarquinio Merula, Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi - Balthasar-Neumann-Chor, Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 2000

Mozart: Il re pastore – Annette Dasch, Marlis Petersen, Krešimir Špicer, Arpiné Rahdjian, Andreas Karasiak, Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, Deutsche Grammophon, DVD 2006

Wilhelm Balthasar

On 16 March 1937 Balthasar made an emergency landing at Almorox airfield.

Wilhelm Balthasar was killed only a day later during an aerial combat with RAF fighters over Aire, France.


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