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2 unusual facts about Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse


Ferdinando Brachetti Peretti

He is married to Princess and Landgravine Mafalda Margherita of Hesse, daughter of Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse.

Prince Wolfgang of Hesse

Sjöström (2013) bases the succession to the stipulations of the 1772 Instrument of Government, reporting that the heir and successor were Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse and Brabant, eldest son of the brother.


1940 Olympics

The 1940 Winter Olympics, which were to be held in Sapporo, Japan, before moving to St. Moritz, Switzerland, before moving to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, before being cancelled due to World War II

29250 Helmutmoritz

It is named for Helmut Moritz, an Austrian professor of physical geodesy and member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

AEC Armoured Command Vehicle

Two of them, named "Max" and "Moritz", were employed by Rommel and his staff throughout the campaign.

August Engelhardt

Health reformer August Moritz Engelhardt :de:August Engelhardt wrote a book called A Carefree Future in 1898, which described a colony of fruit and vegetable eaters, specifically cocoivores (coconut eaters) he was founding in the then Bismarck Archipelago (now Papua New Guinea) in the South Pacific a place known for its headhunters.

Barbara Buchholz

She played the theremin in various contemporary works, like The Little Mermaid, a ballet by John Neumeier, music by Lera Auerbach, and in the operas Linkerhand by Moritz Eggert and Bestmann-Opera by Alex Nowitz.

Camille of Renesse-Breidbach

After being rejected in Celerina, Sils and finally in St. Moritz due to the Badrutt family's huge power, Count de Renesse succeeded in purchasing some 140 hectares of land in Maloja, at the Lake of Sils.

Chimerica

First coined by historian Niall Ferguson and economist Moritz Schularick in late 2006, they argue that saving by the Chinese and overspending by Americans led to an incredible period of wealth creation that contributed to the global financial crisis of 2008–2009.

Christian Moritz Graf Königsegg und Rothenfels

Count Christian Moritz von Koenigsegg und Rothfels (born November 24, 1705—died July 21, 1778 in Vienna) was knight of the Teutonic Order of Altshausen.

David Moritz Michael

Moritz Michael's official church position was as a worker with the young men of the Moravian congregations in Nazareth and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and his contributions to the musical life of the Moravian settlements in Pennsylvania was great.

David Smiley

After the war, he held the record for the most falls in one season on the Cresta Run in St Moritz; bizarrely, he represented Kenya (where he owned a farm) in the Commonwealth Winter Games of 1960.

Der Plan

The group not only provided the film music: Moritz R was partly responsible for the film's surrealistic scenic design, which resembled The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari-like German expressionism, whilst Frank Fenstermacher played a small role as an actor.

Duke Trophy

They started skating at St Moritz Ice Palais in St Kilda in June 1946 and both eventually represented Victoria in interstate competition.

Egyptian National Library and Archives

The Library also has a large collection of medieval Arabic coins from as early as AD 696, which were published by Stanley Lane-Poole, Bernhardt Moritz and recently by Norman D. Nicol, Jere L. Bacharach and Rifa'at al-Nabarawy (1982).

Frisian literature

Also the North Frisian mainland produced authors in Frisian language such as Johannes Hansen from the Bredstedt area or Moritz Momme Nissen from Enge.

Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus

Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus (3 July 1796, Pfaffroda – 22 September 1862, Dresden) was a German philosopher best known for his exegetical work on philosophy, such as his characterisation of Hegel's dialectic as positing a triad of thesis-antithesis-synthesis.

Heinrich Moritz Max Freiherr von Beschwitz

Heinrich Moritz Max Freiherr von Beschwitz (Otzdorf, December 23, 1859 – Schloss Arnsdorf, July 22, 1944), Lord of Arnsdorf with Gersdorf and Ottendorf in the Kingdom of Saxony, was a German Military and Nobleman, son of Moritz Wilhelm Wolf Freiherr von Beschwitz and wife Alexandra von Hesse.

Heinrich von Brühl

Heinrich was born in Gangloffsömmern the son of Johann Moritz von Brühl, a noble who held the office of the Oberhofmarschall at the court of Saxe-Weissenfels (ruled by a cadet branch of the Albertine House of Wettin), by his first wife Erdmuth Sophie v. d.

Hersfeld Abbey

The town of Hersfeld, now Bad Hersfeld, grew up outside the abbey, and flourished, to the extent that it found itself strong enough to assert its independence, and in 1371 formally placed itself under the protection of the Landgraves of Hesse.

John Maurice Hauke

Of German origin and the son of a German professor at the Warsaw Lyceum (an exclusive Prussian school in Warsaw), Count Moritz Hauke served between 1790 and 1793 in the army of Poland during the country's last years of independence.

Lyndon Rush

Rush, together with Lascelles Brown managed a tie for the victory with André Lange at the 2-man event in St-Moritz, this was their first victory and podium in the 2-man.

Moritz Eggert

Moritz Eggert created the opening ceremony for the 2006 FIFA World Cup (together with director Christian Stueckl and stage designer Marlene Pohley) and is currently working on a new opera for the Beethovenfest and the Bonn opera house (“Freax”, together with librettist Hannah Duebgen, premiere September 2007, director: Christoph Schlingensief).

Moritz Makes his Fortune

Moritz Makes his Fortune (German:Moritz macht sein Glück) is a 1931 German comedy film directed by Jaap Speyer and starring Sig Arno, Viktor Schwannecke and Willy Prager.

Moritz Richard Schomburgk

His older brother, Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk (5 June 1804 - 11 March 1865), carried out geographical, ethnological and botanical studies in South America and the West Indies (in which Moritz Richard participated) and also fulfilled diplomatic missions for Great Britain in the Dominican Republic and Thailand.

Moritz Thomsen

Moritz Thomsen (1915–1991) was an American farmer, writer, and Peace Corps volunteer who worked in the small Ecuadorian town of Rio Verde.

Moritz von Oswald

His most recent releases are with the Moritz von Oswald Trio, where he 'conducts' Max Loderbauer (Sun Electric) and Sasu Ripatti, aka Vladislav Delay.

Moritz Wilhelm Wolf Freiherr von Beschwitz

Moritz Wilhelm Wolf Freiherr von Beschwitz (Krebs, July 10, 1823 – Schloss Arnsdorf, August 31, 1889), Lord of the Fideicomis of Arnsdorf in the Kingdom of Saxony, was a German Military and Nobleman, son of Ferdinand Freiherr von Beschwitz and wife Augusta Amalie von Oppel.

Moses Hirschel

Disappointed with the lack of reform within the Breslau Rabbinat at the time, Hirschel 'converted' to Catholicism in 1803 taking the name "Christian Moritz Herschel".

Nancy Moritz

She grew up in Tipton, Kansas, before her family moved to Salina when Moritz was 15 years old.

Moritz began her legal career in 1985 as a research attorney for Justice Harold Herd of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg

Moritz Franz Friedrich Constantin Alexander Heinrich August Carl Albrecht of Saxe-Altenburg (Eisenberg, 24 October 1829 – Arco, Italy, 13 May 1907), was a German prince of the ducal house of Saxe-Altenburg.

Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel

Her father's older brother was the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel.

Reinhold Glière

He was the second son of the wind instrument maker Ernst Moritz Glier (1834–1896) from Saxony (Klingenthal), who emigrated to the Russian Empire and married Józefa (Josephine) Korczak (1849–1935), the daughter of his master, from Warsaw, Poland.

Schloss Wilhelminenberg

In 1895 their nephew Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria, son of the half-sister of Moritz of Montleart, inherited the estate.

Sybille Schmitz

At the time of her death, Sybille had been living in Munich with a woman named Ursula Moritz, a physician who allegedly sold her morphine at an inflated rate and kept Sybille doped up while squandering the little funds she had available to her.

Teichfuss Tenax

Konsul and the Moritz and these influenced the 1926 Tenax, his next design.

Wau Holland

Herwart Holland-Moritz, known as Wau Holland, (20 December 1951 - 29 July 2001) cofounded the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) in 1981, one of the world's oldest hacking clubs.

Wojciech Pszoniak

Pszoniak gained international visibility following Andrzej Wajda's 1975 film The Promised Land, in which he played Moritz, one of the three main characters.


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