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unusual facts about John Christopher, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch



Alfred Walter Stewart

The novel is similar in spirit to such disaster stories as Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer's When Worlds Collide (1933) and anticipates the theme of John Christopher's The Death of Grass (1956).

Balingen

Initially a possession of the lords of Haigerloch, in 1162 it was acquired by the count of Hohenberg.

Charles I, Count of Hohenzollern

Christopher (1552-1592), later the first Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch

The third son, Christopher, founded the Hohenzollern-Haigerloch line, which died out in 1634, with Christopher's share falling to Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.

He had held the family possessions in a single hand since the Counts of Haigerloch had died out with the death of his cousin Jobst Nicholas II in 1558.

Charles, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch

Charles, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch (1588 in Haigerloch – 9 March 1634 in Überlingen) was the third Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch.

in 1602, Charles succeeded his brother John Christopher as Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch.

Charles was the second son of Count Christopher of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch from his marriage to Catherine (d. after 1608), the daughter of Baron Christopher of Welsperg.

Christopher, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch

When Charles I died in 1576, the County of Hohenzollern was divided into Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Hohenzollern-Haigerloch.

Count Christopher of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch (20 March 1552 in Haigerloch – 21 April 1592, ibid.) was the first Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch.

Christopher studied law together with his brother Charles II (1547-1606) studied in Freiburg im Breisgau and Bourges.

Die Wächter

The dystopian novel The Guardians (German title: Die Wächter) is a piece of work by the English author John Christopher.

Die Wächter by John Christopher, published by Ravensburger Verlag, ISBN 978-3-473-58027-9.

Francis Christopher Anton, Count of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

His elder brother Ferdinand Leopold was also at various times canon of several cathedral chapters, first minister of Cologne, and ruling Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch.

Francis Christopher Anton, Count of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (16 January 1699 in Haigerloch – 23 November 1767 in Cologne) was a member of the House of Hohenzollern.

From 1750 until his death, he was also the ruling count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch.

He was the son of Count Francis Anthony of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch and his wife Anna Maria Eusebia of Königsegg-Aulendorf.

Frank Bolle

Bolle illustrated and the Boys' Life adaptation of John Christopher's The Tripods stories, along with other strips in Boys' Life.

Horb am Neckar

The following towns and communities border on Horb am Neckar, listing them in clockwise order starting in the east: Starzach (in Landkreis Tübingen), Haigerloch (Zollernalbkreis), Empfingen (Landkreis Freudenstadt), Sulz am Neckar (Landkreis Rottweil), Glatten, Schopfloch and Waldachtal (all in Landkreis Freudenstadt), and finally Haiterbach and Nagold, both in Landkreis Calw).

Jehuda L. Wallach

Jehuda Lothar Wallach (21 May 1921 in Haigerloch, Germany – 1 August 2008 in Tel-Aviv, Israel) was an Israeli military officer and military historian.

Johann Michael Feuchtmayer

Haigerloch—Pilgrimage Church of St. Anne (1753–1755) (stucco work and side altar design)

John Carnell

Despite that list, Carnell tended to prefer adventure and Hard SF to New Wave experimentation so John Christopher, Kenneth Bulmer, and E. C. Tubb were more typical of his tenure.

John Christopher

A scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation made it possible for him to pursue a writing career, beginning with The Winter Swan (Dennis Dobson, 1949) under the name Christopher Youd.

John Christopher, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch

John Christopher, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch (1586 in Haigerloch – 1620 in Haigerloch) was the second Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch.

Since he had not children, he was succeed by his younger brother Charles, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch.

John Christopher was the eldest son of Count Christopher of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch, from his marriage to Catherine (d. after 1608), daughter of Christopher, Baron of Welsperg.

Joseph Frederick Ernest, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Prince Joseph Ernst Friedrich Karl Anton Meinrad of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (24 May 1702 in Sigmaringen – 8 December 1769 at Haag Castle, Haigerloch), was the fifth Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.

In Haigerloch, which he preferred as a residence over Sigmaringen, he built the St Anna's Church.

Junot Díaz

At this time Díaz became fascinated with apocalyptic films and books, especially the work of John Christopher, the original Planet of the Apes films, and the BBC mini-series Edge of Darkness.

Karl Hermann Zahn

Karl Hermann Zahn (3 December 1865, Baiertal – 8 February 1940, Haigerloch) was a German botanist who was a leading authority regarding the genus Hieracium (hawkweed).

Karl Hurm

Hurm is a self-taught artist whose paintings in the style referred to as naïve art have been on permanent display in an exhibition at the municipal art museum Ölmühle in Haigerloch (Germany) since 1998.

Karl Hurm (born December 29, 1930 in Weildorf/Haigerloch) is a contemporary German painter.

Operation Big

His team reached Horb three days later and headed for Haigerloch while the French troops occupied themselves with looking for members of the Vichy Government in nearby Sigmaringen.

Operation Harborage

Harborage teams were directed toward the cities of Hechingen, Bisingen and Haigerloch.

Oskar Ritter

The Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Physik (KWIP, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics, today, the Max-Planck Institut für Physik) had partly evacuated to Hechingen and Haigerloch in southern Germany.

Peter Herbert Jensen

The Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Physik (KWIP, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics) had partly evacuated to Hechingen and Haigerloch in southern Germany.


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