X-Nico

unusual facts about Old German



Charles Fritz Juengling

Other courses of study have included Old, Middle, and Early Modern English, Old and Middle High German, Old Norse (Old Icelandic), Gothic, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Middle Dutch, history of the English, German, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages, Latin and Greek philology, Latin paleography, and Middle English paleography.

Samo

Befulci is a term, cognate with the word fulcfree found in the Edict of Rothari, signifying "entrusted to guard", from the Old German root felhan, falh, fulgum and Middle German bevelhen.


see also

Bartholomäus Herder

In 1801, during the turbulent period prior to the dissolution of the old German Empire, he began his career, at the instance of the Prince-Bishop (soon afterwards Prince Primate) Karl Theodor von Dalberg, in the capacity of "publisher to the princely episcopal court of Constance", at Meersburg on the Lake of Constance, the episcopal residence and seat of a seminary.

Charlottenhof

Aegviidu, settlement in Estonia with old German name Charlottenhof

Giślinek, settlement in Poland with old German name Charlottenhof

Christian Darnton

His paternal grandfather, born in Leipzig but who later settled in Britain, was part of an old German family that had, since 1715, held a Barony in the Holy Roman Empire.

Elk Forest, West Virginia

Originally built in the late 1950s-early 1960s, it is a part of Mink Shoals, originally willed for development by Amanda Pitzer at her death, now buried at a small cemetery across the road from Elk Forest along Ventura Acres Rd.It is directly opposite Dutch Road which is a part of the Old German Settlement at Mink Shoals.

Ford Taunus P3

Unusually for a car launch, both the by now 84 year old German chancellor, Konrad Adenauer and the grandson of the firm's founder, Henry Ford were present.

Heinrich Albertz

Nevertheless he was forced to resign one year later after an investigation into the police's role in the killing of Benno Ohnesorg, a 28 year-old German literature student at a protest against the Shah of Iran, an incident that became a turning point in the devolution of the German student movement.

Jadwiga

It originated from the old German Hedwig (compounded from hadu, "battle", and wig, "fight").

Kameradschaft

After the end of World War I, due to the Treaty of Versailles, an old German mine is split in two because of the new border, and the mine is closed off at the border, including an underground mine.

Kaprun disaster

The most notable victim was Sandra Schmitt, a 19 year old German freestyle skier who at the time was the reigning Women's Dual Moguls World Champion.

KiKa

Augsburger Puppenkiste, a rather old German television programme which had always been on the air on Saturday and Sunday mornings, ceased being broadcast on KiKA for four years but returned to the channel's lineup in April 2008.

Langwith, Derbyshire

Etymology "Nether" is Saxon/Old German for Lower, "Lang" meaning long, and "with" is Old Norse vīōr wood

Leopold I, Margrave of Austria

Celebrations under the same title were held twenty years later at the anniversary of the famous 996 Ostarrîchi document first mentioning the Old German name of Austria.

Old German Baptist Brethren

Old German Baptist Brethren (OGBB) descend from a pietist movement in Schwarzenau, Germany, in 1708, when Alexander Mack founded a fellowship with seven other believers.

Oskar Schade

He was the author of the influential Altdeutsches Wörterbuch (Old German Dictionary), and with August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798-1874), was co-editor of the Weimarisches Jahrbuch für deutsche Sprache, Literatur und Kunst (Weimar Annals of German language, literature and art).

RTL Nitro

The program contains many old German and American series and films, but also first runs of some American series like Modern Family, Nurse Jackie or Chase.

Treaty of Schönbrunn

A 17-year-old German patriot, Friedrich Staps, demanded an audience with Napoleon to present a petition, but was refused by the emperor's aide Jean Rapp.

Yabrud

The city is known for its ancient caves, most notably the Iskafta cave (where, in 1930, a thirty-year old German traveller and would-be archeologist Alfred Rust made many important pre-historical findings), and the Yabrud temple, which was once Jupiter Yabroudis 's temple but later became "Konstantin and Helena Cathedral".