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unusual facts about Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen


Folding harpsichord

A folding harpsichord may have been owned by Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen during the time he employed Johann Sebastian Bach as his Kapellmeister.


A Sand County Almanac

Leopold's home, Aldo Leopold Shack and Farm, was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Adina Porter

Porter's film and TV resume stretches back to 1992's Leopold/Loeb New Queer Cinema feature, Swoon, though she's best known for frequent episodic television guest-starring roles and advertising campaigns for GEICO and Domino's Pizza.

Adolph Achille Gereau

One of Gereau's foster brothers, Leopold Adelbert Augustus Ffrench, moved to Mexico and a grandson Leonardo I. Ffrench serving in the diplomatic corps eventually became the Director General of the Institute for Mexicans Abroad of the Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores.

Augustus Christian Frederick, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen

In Frankfurt-am-Main on 9 February 1792 Augustus Christian Frederick married Fredericka (b. Usingen, 30 August 1777 - d. Hochheim, 28 August 1821), daughter of Frederick Augustus, Prince of Nassau-Usingen and later (1806) Duke of Nassau.

Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau

#Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau, later Anhalt-Köthen (b. Plötzkau, 8 April 1622 - d. Köthen, 7 November 1669).

Congo River, Beyond Darkness

All along its 4371 km, we discover places that have seen the turbulent history of this country, while archives remind us of the mythological figures that created its destiny: explorers such as Livingstone and Stanley, the colonial kings Léopold II and Baudouin I and leaders such as Lumumba, Mobutu and Kabila.

Dirch Passer

Among his best movie roles were stage roles transferred to film; here must be mentioned the hero in Charley’s Aunt (1959), Celestin-Floridor in Frøken Nitouche (1963) and Leopold in Summer in Tyrol (i.e. The White Horse Inn, 1964).

Dongola, Missouri

Dongola is an unincorporated community in the southern part of Liberty Township in Bollinger County, Missouri, and is located 7 miles south of Leopold.

Earl L. Stendahl

Earl L. Stendahl (born Earl Leopold Steendahl; December 11, 1888 - May 18, 1966) was a pioneering American art dealer known for promoting California Impressionism, modern and pre-Columbian art.

Eleuterio Pagliano

He was made an official in the Order of the Crown of Italy, Knight of the Order of Saints Maurizio e Lazzaro, knighted by King Leopold of Belgium, and knighted with the Legion d'Onore, and as a Commendatore of the Order of the Medjidie by the Ottoman rulers of Egypt.

Elisabeth of Oettingen

Elisabeth's son Landgrave Leopold of Leuchtenberg (d. 1463) was a Palatinate governor of Amberg and was later raised to Prince of Leuchtenberg.

Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine

Princess Elisabeth Therese was born at the Château de Lunéville and was the ninth of eleven children of Leopold Joseph of Lorraine and his wife Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans.

Emmanuel, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

In 1653, after the death of his father, Emmanuel inherited Plötzkau jointly with his older brothers Ernest Gottlieb and Lebrecht.

Estella Leopold

By studying the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, Idaho, and Wyoming, Leopold helped recreate the paleoenvironment of the Paleogene and Neogene periods.

Freiburg Botanical Garden

Directors of the botanical garden from this period included Karl Julius Perleb, Fridolin Karl Leopold Spenner, Alexander Braun, Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Heinrich Anton de Bary and Julius von Sachs.

Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg

Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg (7 November 1750 – 5 December 1819), was a German poet, lawyer and translator born at Bramstedt in Holstein (then a part of Denmark).

Gustav, Duke of Zweibrücken

Count Palatine Gustav Samuel Leopold of the House of Wittelsbach (12 April 1670, Stegeborg Castle near Söderköping, Sweden – 17 September 1731, Zweibrücken, Germany) was the Count Palatine of Kleeburg from 1701 until 1731 and the Duke of Zweibrücken from 1718 until 1731.

Heinrichsberg Castle

In 1514 the princes, Ernest and Wolfgang of Anhalt, renewed the enfeoffment of Stolberg and Heinrichsberg Castle together with its estates, the village of Breitenstein, the then already deserted village of Ammacht, the copse near Gräfen Pond (Gräfenteich), a field near Güntersberge and the field at Lingesbach, half the village of Dankerode and other rights.

Henry II, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben

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International Association of the Congo

It was not made clear to Henry Morton Stanley, who signed a five-year contract to establish bases in the Congo in 1878, whether he was working for the International African Association, the Committee for Study of the Upper Congo, or Leopold himself.

J. Baird Callicott

For 26 years, Callicott lived and taught in the northern reaches of Wisconsin's sand counties, located on the Wisconsin River, just ninety miles from Aldo Leopold's storied shack and John Muir's first homestead on Fountain Lake, the region that stirred the souls of two very influential environmental thinkers.

Junkers Jumo 211

From 1937 to mid-1944, production was spread between factories in Magdeburg, Köthen, Leipzig, Stettin and Strasburg.

Leopold David

He was survived by his wife Anna and children Caroline and Leopold, Jr, and buried in Anchorage Memorial Park.

Leopold Eberhard, Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard

Leopold Eberhard of Württemberg-Montbéliard (21 May 1670, Montbéliard - 25 March 1723, Montbéliard), was the last ruler of the Duchy of Württemberg-Montbéliard from 1699 until his death.

Leopold Engleitner

In the years after the war, Leopold Engleitner continued to face isolation and intolerance, and only after the author and film producer Bernhard Rammerstorfer documented his life in 1999 in the book and documentary film Nein statt Ja und Amen, did the larger public become aware of him.

Leopold Feldmann

Leopold Feldmann (born Munich, Bavaria, 22 May 1802; died Vienna, 26 March 1882) was a German-Austrian dramatist.

Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau

In Charlottenburg on 25 July 1767 Leopold married his cousin Louise Henriette Wilhelmine (b. Różanki, Brandenburg, 24 September 1750 – d. Dessau, 21 December 1811), daughter of Frederick Henry, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, by his wife Leopoldine Marie of Anhalt-Dessau, a sister of his father.

#Count Franz John George of Waldersee (b. Dessau, 5 September 1763 – d. Dessau, 30 May 1823), married in Dessau on 20 May 1787 to Countess Louise of Anhalt (morganatic granddaughter of the Hereditary Prince William Gustav, eldest son and heir of Prince Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau).

As the head of the senior Anhalt branch, he could not earlier by etiquette receive his kinsmen, the Princes of Anhalt-Köthen and Anhalt-Bernburg, who were raised to that rank before him.

Leopold Lewin

Leopold Lewin (28 July 1910 in Piotrków Trybunalski – 7 December 1995 in Warsaw) was a Polish poet, journalist and translator.

Leopold van Gilse van der Pals

Leopold van Gilse van der Pals (St. Petersburg 4 July 1884 – Dornach 7 February 1966) was a composer and the brother of musicologist Nicolaï van Gilse van der Pals.

Léopold Zborowski

Léopold Zborowski was Amedeo Modigliani's primary art dealer and friend during the artist's final years, organizing his expositions and letting the Leghorn artist use his house as an atelier.

Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt

Prince Leopold was born on 18 July 1855 in Dessau as the first child of Hereditary Prince Frederick of Anhalt-Dessau-Köthen and his wife Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg.

Literatur und Kritik

Writers such as Beppo Beyerl, Max Blaeulich, Manfred Chobot, Klaus Ebner, Leopold Federmair, Andrea Grill, Drago Jančar, Michael Scharang, Wolfgang Sréter, Daniela Strigl, Christian Teissl, and Manfred Wieninger have written cultural essays for the magazine.

Morris Winchevsky

Morris Winchevsky (Leopold Benzion Novokhovitch; Pseudonym: Ben Netz (Hebrew: 'Son of Hawk'; 1856–1932) was a prominent Jewish socialist leader in London and the United States in the late 19th century.

Mozart in Italy

In his review of this first Italian journey, musicologist Maynard Solomon's investigation of the meagre financial information provided by Leopold indicates that the Mozarts made a substantial profit—perhaps as much as 2,900 florins.

National Order of the Leopard

By some mistake of Buckingham Palace services, HRH the Duke of Edinburgh has worn the sash of his Grand Cordon of "National Order of the Leopard" instead of the convenient highest Belgian Order he was awarded, the Grand Cordon of Order of Leopold.

Paul Reinman

Reinman's sister Alice and her husband Alex Leopold moved to Boca Raton, Florida, in Palm Beach County, and Reinman, following the death of wife Dora in 1967 and his leaving comics in the mid-1970s, settled nearby with his second wife, Celia.

Pony Club Association of Victoria

The Pony Clubs themselves normally pay for the upkeep and maintenance of facilities, although often government grants will supplement club finances such as the 2008 sand arena at Drysdale/Leopold Pony Club.

Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine

Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (Friedrich Wilhelm August Victor Leopold Ludwig; 7 October 1870 – 29 May 1873) was the haemophiliac second son of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, one of the daughters of Queen Victoria.

Princess Louise of Schleswig-Holstein

Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1866-1952), daughter of Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, wife of Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia

Richarda

Richarda or Richardis of Sualafeldgau (945/50-994), the first Austrian royal consort, married to Leopold I, Margrave of Austria

Robert von Lieben

Thanks to his well-off parents (his father, Leopold von Lieben, was president of the Vienna board of trade, and his mother, Anna von Lieben, born of the Viennese Todesco dynasty, owned a mansion at Ringstrasse, across from the opera house), he could independently pursue his scientific propensity.

The Rat Catchers

Showdown Vienna: Hurst and Smith are on a find and destroy mission but run up against the dangerous Leopold Donner (Frank Gatliff).

Theodor von Strattman

In that role he arranged the marriage of Leopold's daughter Maria Antonia of Austria to Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria in 1685, and settled the dispute between Lorraine and Hungary.

Trial of Louis XVI

# An agreement was made at Pillnitz, on 24 July, between Leopold of Austria and Frederick William of Brandenburg, who pledged themselves to restore to France the throne of the absolute monarchy; and you were silent on that agreement up to the time when it was known to all Europe.

Tropaeum Traiani

The team was composed by Heinrich Muhlbach, leading Friedrich Leopold Fischer, Carol Wincke-Olbendorf and Helmuth von Moltke the Elder.

William R. Trotter

He is an acknowledged expert on the works of Jean Sibelius, the subject of his "Winter Fire" novel, and Leopold Stokowski, whose Trotter-penned biography has gone as yet unpublished but has made the rounds of the Leopold Stokowski Society for many years.


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