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Georg-Cantor-Gymnasium

The Georg-Cantor-Gymnasium is a German gymnasium in Halle (Saale) with a special focus on mathematics and the sciences (specialist school).


1584 in music

Daniel Friderici, German cantor, conductor, and composer (died 1638)

Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe

He was born in Stadthagen to the then Hereditary Prince Georg (1846–1911) and Princess Marie Anne of Saxe-Altenburg (1864–1918) during the reign of his grandfather Prince Adolf I.

Alexander, Count of Hoyos

His parents were Georg Anton, Count of Hoyos (1842–1904) and Alice Whitehead, who was the daughter of Robert Whitehead, the British engineer and inventor of the torpedo.

Carl Röchling

Together with Georg Koch and Eugen Bracht a panorama of the Battle of Chattanooga is among his works.

Charles de Villers

In 1811, Villers was appointed Professor of Philosophy at the Georg-August University of Göttingen.

Christoph von Dohnányi

Jens Georg Bachmann, music director of the Crested Butte Music Festival in Colorado, had been in the same position at the NDR Symphony Orchestra from 2007 to 2009.

County of Veldenz

Georg Johann I, Count Palatine of Veldenz (1543–1592; or Georg Hans), from 1544 to 1592 Pfalzgraf of Pfalz-Veldenz

Creek to Coast

Joining him in presenting a variety of segments are Martin Bowerman, Frank 'Tommo' Thompson, Gary Howard, former Miss Universe contestant Kimberley Busteed radio personality Dean Miller, former AFL player for the Brisbane Lions Richard Champion and winner of the 5th Australian version of the reality series The Mole Liz Cantor.

Friedrich Ernst Krukenberg

He was a brother to orthopedic surgeon Hermann Krukenberg (1863-1935) and Georg Heinrich Peter Krukenberg (1856-1899), who was a professor of gynecology at the University of Bonn.

Fritz Arndt

Fritz Georg Arndt was a German chemist recognised for his contributions to synthetic methodology, who together with Bernd Eistert disoverered the Arndt-Eistert synthesis.

Georg Albrecht, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach

Georg Albrecht of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (Bayreuth, 20 March 1619 – Schretz, 27 September 1666), was a German prince and member of the House of Hohenzollern.

Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe

Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe (July 5, 1795 – November 23, 1880) was a German pharmacist, botanist and bryologist who was a native of Fürstenberg.

Georg Friedrich Schmidt

Georg Friedrich Schmidt (24 January 1712 Schönerlinde - 25 January 1775 Berlin) was a German engraver and designer.

Georg Friedrich Zundel

Georg Friedrich Zundel (13 October 1875 in Iptingen, Wiernsheim - 7 June 1948 in Stuttgart) was a German painter, farmer and art patron.

Georg Hellmesberger

Georg Hellmesberger, Sr. (1800–1873), Austrian violinist, conductor and composer, father of Georg Jr.

Georg Klusemann

He is the protagonist of the personal documentary "Georg" by his daughter Caterina Klusemann, completed in 2008 for Arte/ZDF.

Georg Knorr

Theodor Georg Knorr (born November 13, 1859 in Ruda, West Prussia; died April 15, 1911 in Davos, Switzerland), was an engineer and entrepreneur on the field of railroad technology and founder of the company Knorr-Bremse.

Georg Ludolf Dissen

Georg Ludolf Dissen (December 17, 1784 – September 21, 1837) was a German classical philologist who was a native of Groß Schneen, a village in the District of Göttingen.

Georg Ludwig Spalding

Georg Ludwig Spalding (April 8, 1762 – June 7, 1811) was a German philologist born in Barth, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Georg Neumann

Georg Neumann relocated his company to the much smaller town of Gefell in Thuringia and resumed production at the beginning of the following year.

Georg von Rosen

Georg von Rosen (February 13, 1843, Paris - March 3, 1923, Stockholm), was a Swedish painter, known for his treatment of subjects from Swedish history and Norse mythology.

Georg-Peter Eder

Attacking Allied armour near Dreux on 17 August Eder shot down a Spitfire at low level; it crashed between two M4 Sherman tanks, destroying them.

Gerhard Ritter

Gerhard Georg Bernhard Ritter (6 April 1888 in Bad Sooden-Allendorf – 1 July 1967 in Freiburg) was a nationalist-conservative German historian, who served as a professor of history at the University of Freiburg from 1925 to 1956.

Hans-Georg Moldenhauer

Hans-Georg Moldenhauer (born 25 November 1941 in Senst near Wittenberg) is a former football goalkeeper, playing for 1. FC Magdeburg and its predecessors.

Hohman

John George Hohman (also known as Johann Georg Hohman(n)), a German-American printer

Interpretivism

Antipositivism, also known as interpretivism – a tradition in social science related to interactionism and the verstehen sociology of Max Weber and Georg Simmel

Jacob A. Cantor

Cantor was elected as a Democrat to the 63rd United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Francis Burton Harrison, and served from November 4, 1913, to March 3, 1915.

Johann Eccarius

Johann Georg Eccarius (23 August 1818, Friedrichroda - 4 March 1889) was a Thuringian tailor and labour activist.

Johann Georg Elser

In 2011 a 17-metre (56 ft) steel sculpture of Georg Elser was unveiled in the capital, Berlin, by German playwright Rolf Hochhuth.

Johann Georg Pisendel

At the age of nine, Johann Georg became a choirboy at the court chapel of Ansbach.

Johann Walther

Johann Walter (1495-1570), first cantor of the Evangelical Church

Johannes Versmann

Johannes Georg Andreas Versmann (7 January 1820 in Hamburg-Sankt Pauli - 28 July 1899 in Hamburg) was a German lawyer and politician.

John George I, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach

Johann Georg received an income from the new duchy of Saxe-Eisenach and took his residence in the small town of Marksuhl.

Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg

Joseph Georg Friedrich Ernst Karl, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (Hildburghausen, 27 August 1789 – Altenburg, 25 November 1868), was a duke of Saxe-Altenburg.

Klindworth

Agnes Street-Klindworth, daughter of Georg Klindworth and a close friend of the composer Richard Wagner

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Consequently the last Knight's Cross awarded to Oberleutnant zur See of the Reserves Georg-Wolfgang Feller on 17 June 1945 must therefore be considered a de facto but not de jure award.

Lehni AG

Currently, Lehni manufactures furniture designed by Willy Boesiger, Andreas Christen, Frédéric Dedelley, Georg Gisel, Thai Hua, Donald Judd, Rudolf Lehni, Antonio Monaci, Jacques Schader, and Hanspeter Weidmann.

Lincoln Square Synagogue

Cantor Goffin has been only Principal of the Lincoln Square Synagogue Feldman Hebrew School since 1965.

Malavsky Family

Cantor Samuel (Shmuel) Malavsky was born in the Ukrainian city of Smila, near Kiev in 1894.

Marika Rökk

In the same year, she appeared in the propaganda film Wunschkonzert by Eduard von Borsody (as herself), followed by her performance in Georg Jacoby's lavish Women Are Better Diplomats (Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten, UFA's first Agfacolor motion picture) in 1941, together with Willy Fritsch.

Mattarnovy

Georg Johann Mattarnovi, architect (d. 1719), father of Philipp Georg Mattarnovi

Nicolai Gedda

Gedda was raised by his aunt Olga Gedda and his adoptive father Mihail Ustinov (a distant relative of Peter Ustinov), who sang bass in Serge Jaroff's Don Cossack Choir and was cantor in a Russian Orthodox church.

Ohms

Ohm's law of electric currents, first proposed by Georg Ohm

Reichenau Island

The famous artworks of Reichenau include the Ottonian murals of miracles of Christ in St Georg, unique survivals from the 10th century.

Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras.

Shawnee Mission East Choraliers

The choir has performed at Carnegie Hall, Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, Germany, Great St. Mary's Cathedral in Cambridge, the Pantheon and at the Thomaskirche (St. Thomas Lutheran Church), a church in Leipzig, Germany where Johann Sebastian Bach held the position of cantor.

Steven Cantor

The film spawned a reality series, "Amish in the City", which Cantor's Stick Figure banner executive produced, as well as a non-fiction book "Rumspringa" by Tom Shachtman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007).

The Road To Mecca

A Road to Mecca - The Journey of Muhammad Asad, 2008 documentary on the life of Muhammad Asad, made by Austrian filmmaker Georg Misch

Von der Decken

Leopold von der Decken (1895–1947), changed his name to John Decker, painter in Los Angeles, grandson of Georg von der Decken

William G. Sebold

William G. Sebold (Wilhelm Georg Debrowski; 10 March 1899 in Mülheim, Germany – February 1970 in Walnut Creek, California) was a German spy in the United States during World War II, who became a double agent for the FBI.


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