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6 unusual facts about Greifswald


Bandelin

Bandelin is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, consisting of the villages Kuntzow, Schmoldow, Vargatz, and Bandelin.

Herbert Nachbar

Herbert Nachbar was the son of a fisherman in Greifswald, Province of Pomerania.

Herbert Nachbar (12 February 1930 Greifswald – 25 May 1980 East Berlin) was a German writer resident in the German Democratic Republic.

Nikolaus von Schönberg

In 1891 this mission was the subject of a doctoral thesis in Greifswald.

Risteard De Hindeberg

He pursued further studies in Germany at the universities of Greifswald and Freiburg, where he was awarded a Doctorate in Philosophy.

Sibylla Schwarz

Sibylla Schwarz, also known as Sibylle Schwartz (14 February 1621 in Greifswald – 31 July 1638 in Greifswald) was a German poet of the Baroque era.


Alexander von Homeyer

Alexander von Homeyer (19 January 1834 in Vorland, now a part of Splietsdorf - 14 July 1903 in Greifswald) was a German soldier and ornithologist.

Arthur Byron Coble

He traveled to Germany where he studied at Greifswald University and the University of Bonn.

Christian Eduard Langethal

During the winter term of 1834/35 he began teaching classes in natural history at the recently built scientific academy at Eldena (near Greifswald), where he worked closely with his former teacher, Friedrich Gottlob Schulze (1795–1860).

Disraelis

In collaboration with Hofmann and the Lutheran pastor Wolfgang Breithaupt from Weitenhagen/Germany and with the support of many donors, a vacational stay was made possible in the summer of 2002: Accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Brunner, 18 young Israelis came to the church meeting center Haus der Stille (House of Silence) in Weitenhagen near Greifswald/Germany.

Ernst Bogislaw von Croÿ

With permission from the authorities of Swedish Pomerania, he bequeathed to the University of Greifswald his assets, including books, the signet ring of Bogislaw XIV, the golden chain of Ernst Ludwig, Duke of Pomerania, and the Croy Tapestry.

FLI

Friedrich Loeffler Institute, a research centre for animal health in Greifswald in Germany

Franz Eilhard Schulze

Franz Eilhard Schulze (March 22, 1815 – November 2, 1921) was a German anatomist and zoologist born in Eldena, near Greifswald.

Friedrich Christian Rosenthal

He earned his doctorate from the University of Jena, and later opened a medical practice in Greifswald (1804).

Großer Mützelburger See

Großer Mützelburger See (Jezioro Myśliborskie Wielkie) - is a lake in Ueckermünder Heide (Puszcza Wkrzańska), Vorpommern-Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany and Police County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.

Hanne Marie

Sailing trips start from the museum port in Greifswald and the excursions generally take place in the southern and western Baltic Sea.

Heinrich Bandlow

Heinrich Bandlow (* April 14, 1855 in Tribsees, † August 25, 1933 in Greifswald) was a Pomeranian author, writing in Standard as well as in Low German.

Heinrich Eddelien

Matthias Heinrich Elias Eddelien (22 January 1802 in Greifswald – 24 December 1852 in Stuer) was a Danish history painter of German origin.

Ivar Lissner

He studied languages, history, anthropology, and law at Greifswald, Berlin, Göttingen, Erlangen, Lyon (1931–1932), and at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten

Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten (September 10, 1792, Altenkirchen – August 18, 1860, Greifswald) was a German Orientalist born in Altenkirchen on the island of Rügen.

Kampfgeschwader 30

I Gruppe formed 1 September, II Gruppe on 23 September and III Gruppe on 1 January 1940, based in Greifswald then Barth.

Lassan

Lassan, Germany, a town in Vorpommern-Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

It also offers important historical cities, such as Stralsund, Wismar, Greifswald and Rostock as former Hanseatic cities - or Schwerin, Güstrow, Ludwigslust and Neustrelitz as former residences.

Nord Stream AG

Nord Stream AG is a consortium for construction and operation of the planned Nord Stream submarine pipeline between Vyborg in Russia and Greifswald in Germany, a project initially promoted by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and President Vladimir Putin.

Nordström's theory of gravitation

Nordström's theories arose at a time when several leading physicists, including Nordström in Helsinki, Max Abraham in Milan, Gustav Mie in Greifswald, Germany, and Albert Einstein in Prague, were all trying to create competing relativistic theories of gravitation.

Otto Jaekel

After his retirement in Greifswald, Otto Jaekel accepted a position at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou in 1928.

Piae Cantiones

The collection Piae Cantiones was published in Greifswald (Part of Swedish territory 1648-1815, though now in Germany) and includes 74 Latin and Swedish/Latin songs that were sung at the time in Finnish cathedral schools, most notably in the cathedral school at Turku.

Reinberg

Reinberg is a village and in the municipality of Sundhagen and lies between Stralsund and Greifswald on the B 105 federal road in northeastern Germany.

Ryck

From its source near Bartmannshagen, part of the Süderholz community northeast of Grimmen, the Ryck flows for about 28 km to the east, reaching Greifswald shortly before its mouth.

Study of Health in Pomerania

For SHIP-0,a sample of 7008 women and men aged 20 to 79 years was drawn in the cities of Greifswald, Stralsund and Anklam and 29 communities in the surrounding region which is part of West Pomerania, a region in the northeast of Germany, adjacent to the Baltic Sea in the north and to the Polish border in the east.

Treatise of the Three Impostors

It became known in the auctioning in 1716 of the library of the Greifswald theologian Johann Friedrich Mayer.

Tuberculin

The social hygienist Alfred Grotjahn described the arrival of tuberculin in Greifswald, “Finally the great day also arrived for Greifswald on which the Clinic for Internal Medicine was to carry out the first inoculations with tuberculin.

Wartislaw I, Duke of Pomerania

The site of Wartislaw's death near Stolpe in the modern district of Vorpommern-Greifswald, where he is said to be slain by pagans, is marked by a rock called Wartislawstein with an engraved Christian cross in remembrance of his missionary efforts.

Ziethen

Ziethen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern


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