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43 unusual facts about Heidelberg


1619 in poetry

Martin Opitz becomes the leader of the school of young poets in Heidelberg

Alberico Gentili

From there, Alberico went on to the German university towns of Tübingen and Heidelberg.

Anatomy for Beginners

The show features public anatomy demonstrations with the use of real human cadavers and live nude models (for Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings), carried out at Gunther von Hagens' "Institute for Plastination" in Heidelberg, Germany.

Anthony R. Michaelis

Anthony R. Michaelis (22 August 1916 in Berlin – 18 October 2007 in Heidelberg) was a science journalist and publisher.

Blesbokspruit

It is a stream running south and later west, past the towns of Springs, Nigel and Heidelberg, before it joins the Suikerbosrand River.

Christoph Hemlein

Christoph Hemlein (born 16 December 1990 in Heidelberg) is a German footballer.

Dankwart Rustow

In addition to his son Timothy of Manhattan, he is survived by his wife of 18 years, Dr. Margrit Wreschner, a psychoanalyst; another son, Stephen of Manhattan; two daughters, Janet of Cambridge, Mass., and Marina of Manhattan; three grandchildren; two sisters, Maria Funk, and Friedburg Lorenz (died in 2007); a half-brother, Helmut - all of them of Heppenheim, Germany; and his stepmother, Lorena (died in 1999) of Heidelberg, Germany.

DRG Class ET 85

In 1924 the Waggonfabrik Fuchs coach factory in Heidelberg converted four Bavarian MCCi steam railbuses into Class ET 85 electric railbuses with running numbers 01–04.

Ella Hepworth Dixon

Dixon received an outstanding education for a young woman at her time, studying briefly at Heidelberg, as well as painting in Paris.

Frits Clausen

After the war, Clausen studied medicine in Heidelberg and became a doctor in 1924, after which he returned to Aabenraa, which had been voted back to Denmark in 1920, and set up a practice.

Gravitational lens

Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, the results of which are accepted for publication on Oct 21, 2013 in the Astrophysical Journal Letters (arXiv.org), have discovered the most distant gravitational lens termed as J1000+0221 using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

Heidelberg-Kirchheim

Perhaps because of the presence of the American Forces Network which broadcast rap music to US service members stationed in Europe, youth in Kirchheim emulated the music forming their own rap groups and taking up graffiti art.

The Stieber Twins, a rap duo consisting of brothers Martin (Marshall Mar, a.k.a. Martin Jekyll) and Christian (Luxus Chris a.k.a. Christian Hyde) are from Kirchheim; and Painter Crew Kirchheim, a graffiti troupe originating on one of the town's main streets (Schwartzwald Strasse) was known for creating vandalistic artwork on public spaces.

Heidelberg, Kentucky

A post office was established in the community in 1904, and is said to be named for the hometown of an early German-American settler.

Isaac Casaubon

Offers came to him from various quarters, including Nîmes, Heidelberg and Sedan, France.

J1000+0221

A very recent discovery by a group of astronomers led by Dr Arjen Van der Wel from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, the results of which are accepted for publication on Oct 21, 2013 in the Astrophysical Journal Letters (arXiv.org).

Jan Appel

At this time Appel also became chairperson of the Hamburg District KPD, and was a delegate to the Second Congrees of the KPD held in Heidelberg.

Jim McBride

Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival: Grand Prize; for David Holzman's Diary; 1967.

Joe Sostilio

In AAA competition, Sostilio won seven races between 1948 and 1950 at tracks all over the country: South Bend, Indiana, Milwaukee Mile, Akron, Ohio; Miami, Florida and Heidelberg, Pennsylvania.

Johann Kremer

He studied in Heidelberg, Strassburg as well as Berlin; he received his medical degree in 1919 and his philosophy degree in 1914.

Johannes Piscator

Elector Frederick III experienced some resistance when he attempted to appoint him to the arts faculty at the University of Heidelberg in 1574, and Piscator eventually took a post at the preparatory Latin Paedagogium in Heidelberg.

K. M. Madhusudhanan

:• Special Mention Jury Award, Mannheim-Heidelberg International Festival, Germany

Karl Geiler

Geiler, a university professor of economic law in Heidelberg and without affiliation to a political party at the time, was installed prime minister of the newly created territory Greater Hesse by the US military administration.

Kazimierz Michałowski

Michałowski studied classical archeology and art history at the University of Lwów; he studied at the Universities and Archaeological Institutes of Berlin, Heidelberg, Münster, Paris, Rome, Athens and Cairo.

Marc Monnier

His father was French, and his mother a Genevese; he received his early education in Naples, he then studied in Paris and Geneva, and he completed his education at Heidelberg and Berlin.

Matthew J. Jasen

After the war, he was President of the Security Review Board for Württemberg-Baden, and from 1946 to 1948 President of the Third Military Government Judicial District of Occupied Germany, with seat at Heidelberg.

Matthew of Kraków

Accepting an invitation from the University of Heidelberg, he joined its professorial staff in 1395, and a year later was appointed rector.

That he continued to reside in Heidelberg is very probable, and also that he continued to act as professor.

Michael Streicher

He was born on September 6, 1921, in Heidelberg, Germany, the son of Johann Simon Streicher and Olga Schmidt Streicher.

Paula Heimann

Together they went to Heidelberg where she trained to be a psychiatrist from 1924–1927.

Private Plane

He informs them of their fate, which entails teaching home economics to young German girls in a convent outside Heidelberg, which he thinks will be a fate worse than death to a British soldier; Blackadder feigns sorrow, but he is, of course, overjoyed.

Rebecca Moesta

Rebecca Moesta Anderson (born November 17, 1956 in Heidelberg, West Germany) is the author of several science fiction books.

Richard Holt Hutton

Meanwhile he had also studied for short periods at Heidelberg and Berlin, and in 1847 he entered Manchester New College with the idea of becoming a minister like his father, and studied there under James Martineau.

Said Atabekov

2011: 42nd Photo Festival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg The eye is a lonely hunter: images of humankind

Sibrandus Lubbertus

He earned his doctorate in theology on June 22, 1587 in Heidelberg under Daniel Tossanus.

Sprengel Museum

It is located in a building designed by Peter and Ursula Trint (of Cologne) and Dieter Quast (of Heidelberg), adjacent to the Maschsee.

Spycraft: The Great Game

Thorn travels to Heidelberg and meets with Onyx, who reveals the pit is being exchanged at a factory that evening.

The Girl on a Motorcycle

Newly married Rebecca leaves her husband's Alsatian bed on her prized motorbike—symbol of freedom and escape—to visit her lover, Daniel, in Heidelberg.

Thomas Erastus

In 1553 he became physician to the count of Henneberg, Saxe-Meiningen, and in 1558 held the same post with the elector-palatine, Otto Henry, Elector Palatine, being at the same time professor of medicine at Heidelberg.

In theology he followed Zwingli, and at the sacramentarian conferences of Heidelberg (1560) and Maulbronn (1564) he advocated by voice and pen the Zwinglian doctrine of the Lord's Supper, replying (1565) to the counter arguments of the Lutheran Johann Marbach, of Strasbourg.

Thomas Gaspey

His son, Thomas W. Gaspey, Ph.D., of Heidelberg, who died on 22 Dec. 1871, was author of works on the Rhine and Heidelberg, and of several linguistic handbooks.

Ton van Loon

Returning to Dutch-German cooperation efforts, Van Loon reported to Heidelberg in August 2007.

Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum

In the 1972 Games, hosted in Heidelberg, West Germany, she won a gold medal in javelin with a new world record of 18.5 metres, and also won a silver medal in the shot put.


André Michel Lwoff

In 1932, he finished his PhD and, with the help of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, moved to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research of Heidelberg to Otto Meyerhof, where he did research on the development of flagellates.

Arnold Berliner

Asteroid 1018 Arnolda, discovered as 1924 QM on March 3, 1924, in Heidelberg Observatory by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth is named in his honor.

Arthur M. Lesk

He was a group leader in the biocomputing program at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, from 1987 to 1990; a visiting scientist at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, United Kingdom, between 1977 and 1990; and a professor of chemistry at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey from 1971 to 1987.

Badnerlied

The verse beginning with "Alt-Heidelberg, Du feine" originates from the poem "The Trumpeteer of Säckingen", a poem written around 1852 by Joseph Victor von Scheffel, who was also a resident of Baden.

Benjamin Ide Wheeler

In the spring of 1885, he received on examination at Heidelberg the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, summa cum laude, presenting a thesis entitled Der griechische Nominalaccent, afterwards published at Strasburg as a separate book.

Caroline Rudolphi

Rudolphi moved her institute to Heidelberg in 1803 (in the newly formed Electorate of Baden), where she became socially involved with the circle of Romanticist intellectuals there (Achim von Arnim, Clemens Brentano, Sophie Mereau, Friedrich Creuzer Ludwig Tieck) and a close friend of the family of classicist Johann Heinrich Voß.

César-Constantin-François de Hoensbroeck

The son of Ulric Antoine de Hoensbroeck (whose family originated in the village of Hoensbroeck, now in Dutch Limburg), he studied at Heidelberg and became a canon in the cathedral chapter of Aachen Cathedral before becoming prince bishop of Liege in 1784, succeeding François-Charles de Velbrück, whose progressive reforms he tried to undo.

Dietrich Gresemund

In 1498 he received the degree of doctor legum at Ferrara, and in 1499 he matriculated at Heidelberg.

Division of Jagajaga

The area is predominantly residential and light industrial, and includes the Australian Army's Simpson Barracks, the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, the Mercy Hospital for Women and the Austin Hospital.

Dmitry Lachinov

In 1862, when the University was closed because of the students' unrest, Lachinov went to Germany and for two and a half years studied there under the guidance of Gustav Kirchhoff, Robert Bunsen and Hermann Helmholtz, attending practical lessons in their laboratories in Heidelberg and Tübingen.

Eduard Karl August Riehm

Entering the ministry in 1853, he was made vicar at Durlach soon afterwards, and became a licentiate in the theological faculty at Heidelberg.

Francisco de Tutavilla y del Rufo, Duque de San Germán

He conquered in 1674 Bellegarde Fort, 42° 27′ 31″ N, 2° 51′ 33″ E, French since the Peace of the Pyrenees of 1659 between France and Spain, but it was taken back by the mercenary Troop Commander Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg, (Heidelberg, Germany, 1615 - Battle of the Boyne, near Drogheda, Ireland, 1 July 1690 1690) on behalf of king Louis XIV of France.

Gamal Abdel-Rahim

In 1950 he began university studies in musicology at the Musikhochschule of Heidelberg in West Germany, deciding on a career as a composer.

Hans-Walter Rix

He was Hubble Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton 1991-1994, then returned to the University of Arizona, and has been director of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg since 1999.

Heidelberg Project

Under Mayor Dennis Archer, a second demolition of the Heidelberg Project was ordered on February 4, 1999 that ended in the destruction of the houses Guyton termed "Your World", "Happy Feet" and "The Canfield House".

Fashion model Kate Moss visited the Heidelberg Project with photographer Bruce Webber to photograph the City of Detroit for a special edition of W magazine in June 2006.

Hermann Krukenberg

Krukenberg studied medicine at the Universities of Bonn, Strassburg and Heidelberg.

Jill Bell

She has spoken at numerous schools, universities, professional organizations and conferences such as Seybold, ATypI, TypeCon, AIGA, TypoBerlin, NY TDC (Type Directors Club), and was the keynote speaker at TypoTechnica 2002 in Heidelberg, Germany.

Karlsberg Castle

Before French troops could arrest him, he was warned by a nearby farmer and was able to escape to Mannheim, to live in his castles of Mannheim and Rohrbach near Heidelberg.

Koumasa

After another campaign within the years 1991 and 1992 by Alexandra Karetsou and Athanasia Kanta, the site is investigated by the University of Heidelberg supervised by Prof. Dr. Diamantis Panagiotopoulos.

Laurance

Laurance Doyle, scientist who received his PhD from the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg

Lawrence Amos McLouth

He served as principal of the Danville, Illinois High School for three years, then proceeded to Europe for additional training, studying for two years at Leipzig, Heidelberg, and Munich.

Leo Allatius

In 1622, after the capture of Heidelberg by Tilly, when the Protestant Elector of Bavaria Frederick V was supplanted by a Catholic one, the victorious elector Maximilian of Bavaria presented the Palatinate library composed of 196 cases containing about 3500 manuscripts to Pope Gregory.

Lothar Ledderose

After graduating from the prestigious Apostelgymnasium of Cologne he studied East-Asian as well as European History of Art, Sinology and Japanology at the universities of Cologne, Bonn, Paris, Taipei and Heidelberg.

Louise Ebert

Louise Ebert (born 1873 in Melchiorshausen/Weyhe as Louise Rump died 1955 in Heidelberg) on May 9, 1894 in Bremen married Friedrich Ebert, who from his election in 1919 until his death on 28 February 1925 served as the first Reichspräsident of the Weimar Republic.

Moses Buttenweiser

Moses Buttenweiser (1862–1939) was an American Bible scholar, born at Beerfelden, Germany and educated at the universities of University of Würzburg, Leipzig, and Heidelberg.

Neckar Valley Railway

The Heidelberg–Neckargemünd section of the line was built in 1862 as part of the Baden Odenwald Railway (Baden Odenwaldbahn), running from the Heidelberg via Neckargemünd, Meckenheim, Neckarbischofsheim, Aglasterhausen, Obrigheim, Neckarelz, Mosbach, Oberschefflenz, Seckach, Osterburken, Königshofen and Lauda to Würzburg.

Nicholas Brodzsky

He wrote three songs for The Student Prince: "Summertime in Heidelberg," "Beloved," and "I'll Walk with God" (with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster) to supplement the Sigmund Romberg musical score for the 1954 filmed version.

Otto Brendel

While at Heidelberg, Brendel studied with the leading minds of his day: Franz Boll (1867-1924), Alfred von Domaszewski (1856-1927), Friedrich Karl von Duhn (1851-1930), Richard Carl Meister (1848-1912), and Eugen Täubler (1879-1953); the literary theorist Ernst Robert Curtius (1886-1956), Friedrich Gundolf (1880-1931), Karl Jaspers (1883-1969), the classical art historians Karl Lehmann and Friedrich Zimmer.

Peter Vischer the Elder

He became "master" in 1489, and in 1494 was summoned by Philip, Elector Palatine to Heidelberg.

Pseudo-spectral method

Canuto C., Hussaini M. Y., Quarteroni A., and Zang T.A. (2006) Spectral Methods. Fundamentals in Single Domains. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg

Reba Hurn

While in Heidelberg, Reba Hurn met Nathan Straus, co-owner of Macy’s department store in New York City.

SAP Arena

A tram line (number 6) connects the SAP Arena to Mannheim city center and a newly built road connection to the B 38a highway connects it to the A 656 Autobahn, leading to the A656/A 6 interchange, connecting eastbound Mannheim to Heidelberg (A656), and north/southbound to Frankfurt, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart (A6), as well as a little north on the A6 to Kaiserlautern (westbound).

Teodor Florian

His first match was a 59-3 loss to France, at the 4 May 1924, for the 1924 Olympic Tournament, and his last came at the 6-0 loss to Germany, at 19 May 1927, in Heidelberg, in a friendly match.

Theodore Erasmus Hilgard

Theodore Erasmus Hilgard (7 July 1790 Marnheim - 14 February 1873 Heidelberg) was a lawyer, viticulturalist and Latin farmer.

Thomas Carell

Carell was born in 1966 in Herford Germany, he studied chemistry from 1985 till 1990 at the University of Münster finishing with a diploma thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research Heidelberg.

TI Automotive

The Fuldabrück location focuses on flexible tube products, while the Heidelberg, location produces rigid tube products.

UDC Finance Limited

(Heidelberg), a German banker who came to New Zealand at the age of 50 after fleeing Nazi Germany.

Variobahn

In 1996, six trams were delivered to serve on the light rail between Mannheim, Heidelberg and Weinheim, Germany, operated by Oberrheinischen Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft.

Wiesloch-Walldorf station

The Karlsruhe—Heidelberg section of the Rhine Valley Railway was opened on 15 April 1843 as part of the construction of the Baden Mainline from Mannheim via Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Baden-Baden and Freiburg to Basel, which was initially built to 1600 mm broad gauge.

Wild Rugby Academy

It started out with an under-19 group which was later followed by an under-21 group, and draws young players from the Frankfurt, Heusenstamm and Heidelberg area, targeting clubs and schools.

World Congress of Philosophy

The second International Congress took place in Geneva in 1904; the third was in Heidelberg, 1908 (with Josiah Royce, Wilhelm Windelband and Benedetto Croce).