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unusual facts about Brentano’s Chess



Antonie Brentano

In September 1797, prosperous Frankfurt merchant Franz Brentano (1765-1844), the half-brother of authors Clemens Brentano (1778-1842) and Bettina von Arnim (1785-1859), sent his half-sister, Sophie Brentano (1776-1800), and his stepmother Friederike Brentano née von Rottenhof (1771-1817) to Vienna to meet Antonie.

Antonio Millán-Puelles

In all these works he studies and comments Brentano, Aristotle, Aquinas, Husserl, Kant, Hartmann, Meinong, Sartre, Heidegger, and many other ancient, medieval, and modern philosophers.

Armand Blackmar

In 1881 and 1882, A.E. Blackmar created Blackmar's Gambit, a chess opening, and published his work in the July 1882 issue of Brentano’s Chess.

Arnim

Bettina von Arnim (1785-1859), born Elisabeth Catharina Ludovica Magdalena Brentano, German writer and novelist

August Brentano

August Brentano (1829 - November 2, 1886) was a New York City newspaper dealer who was born in Hohenems, Austria.

Brentano String Quartet

Recently, music played by the Brentano String Quartet was featured in the score of the film A Late Quartet.

Brentano's

In 1985, Kmart's Waldenbooks subsidiary acquired Brentano's and nine years later, in 1994, Brentano's and its parent company Waldenbooks were merged into Kmart's other book subsidiary, Borders.

Charles Scribner's Sons Building

Declining business forced the Scribner's Bookstore to relocate to a lower-rent district in New York before it was acquired by Barnes & Noble, Inc. The building has subsequently housed Brentano's bookstore, a Benetton clothing store, and presently Sephora, a cosmetics retailer.

Constitution Plaza

Originally it contained such upmarket specialty stores as Brentano's bookstore and a branch of W & J Sloane furniture.

Dark of Night

According to Brooks and Marsh (1984), locations included a Coca-Cola bottling plant, Brentano's book store in Manhattan, a castle in New Jersey, and the American Red Cross Blood Bank.

Dorothy Arnold

She was last seen in Brentano's bookstore on 26th Street, where she purchased a book of epigrams; before that, she had visited Park & Tilford's store at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 27th Street and charged a pound of candy to her account.

Dunsany's chess

This game was invented by Lord Dunsany in 1942.

Frantz Funck-Brentano

His involvement with extreme right-wing politics also influenced his work; a major part of his Marat ou le mensonge des mots (1941) consists of a virulent attack on Marat, whom he describes as a "semite", riddled with classic antisemitic themes of the day.

Giovanni Angelo Borroni

He painted frescoes on mythologic themes for the Villa Brentano Carones in Corbetta, along with Mattia Bortoloni.

Giovanni Battista Sassi

He painted frescos for the Palazzo Modigliani in Lodi, the Palazzo Brentano of Corbetta, where other artists such as Mattia Bortoloni, Giovanni Angelo Borroni, Giovanni Antonio Cucchi.

Heinrich von Brentano

The Brentano family, of Italian (Lombard) origin, had settled in the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in the 17th century and were recognized as Hessian nobles, with close contact to important figures of the German Romanticism, including Goethe, Savigny and Arnim.

Heinrich von Brentano di Tremezzo (6 June 1904 – 14 November 1964) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

House of the Virgin Mary

On October 18, 1881, relying on the descriptions in the book by Brentano based on his conversations with Emmerich, a French priest, the Abbé Julien Gouyet, discovered a small stone building on a mountain overlooking the Aegean Sea and the ruins of ancient Ephesus in Turkey.

Systemic Constellations

The Systemic Constellation process is a trans-generational, phenomenological, therapeutic intervention with roots in family systems therapy (Psychodrama of Jacob Moreno, Virginia Satir, Iván Böszörményi-Nagy), existential-phenomenology (Brentano, Husserl, Heidegger), and the ancestor reverence of the South African Zulus.

Theodore Brentano

Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan to Lorenzo Brentano and his wife Caroline, Theodore Brentano was educated in Chicago, Dresden and Zurich.

Waldenbooks

In 1984, Waldenbooks acquired the Brentano's chain, and later that year was itself acquired by Kmart.

William Theodore Peters

Peters' only other book was 1894's the Tournament of Love, published by Brentano's, with drawings by Alfred Garth Jones.


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