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Abschwangen (now Tishino, in Pravdinsky District) was a small village near Preussisch Eylau in East Prussia some 30 km south of Königsberg, today Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia and the scene of a massacre of German civilians in August 1914.
Called "AJ" by friends, Budrys was born Algirdas Jonas Budrys in Königsberg in East Prussia.
After the I World War he was appointed professor of psychiatry in Königsberg.
Andreas Aurifaber (1514–1559), physician from Breslau, living in Königsberg
A short time later (1644) Ehrenreich Christoph Königsberg sold the sovereignty and the castle to Count Ádám Batthyány.
The boat fired a four-torpedo salvo, of which two struck, one hitting the SMS Grosser Kurfürst, while the other struck the SMS Kronprinz; both enemy battleships were considerably damaged.
After Napoleonic Wars and the Empire's dissolution in 1806, the Prussian monarchs systematically expanded the road network, completing the chaussee between Berlin and Magdeburg in 1824, and between Berlin and Königsberg in 1828, reaching the East Prussian terminus at Gumbinnen (present-day Gusev, Russia) in 1835.
Celestyn Myślenta (also Mislenski; 27 March 1588 in Kuty (Kutten), Ducal Prussia – 20 April 1653 in Königsberg (Królewiec)) was a Polish Lutheran theologian and rector of the University of Königsberg.
By 1924 three large docks (Hafenbecken) were built northeast of Contienen and northwest of Nasser Garten to alleviate Königsberg's economic difficulties after the Treaty of Versailles and the separation of East Prussia from Weimar Germany.
Louise Juliana of Orange-Nassau (Delft, 31 March 1576 – Königsberg, 15 March 1644) was the eldest daughter of William of Nassau, Prince of Orange and his third spouse Charlotte de Bourbon-Montpensier.
Dorothee Metlitzki (or Devora Metlitsky) (Königsberg, (East Prussia, July 27, 1914 - Berkeley, California, April 14, 2001) was a German born, later American, author and professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley and, for most of her career, at Yale University.
By the first article, the company was erected into a body politic, under the title of the Company of Merchants of the East; to consist of Englishmen, all practicing merchants, who have trafficked through the sound, before the year 1568, into Norway, Sweden, Poland, Livonia, Prussia, Pomerania, etc., and likewise Revel, Königsberg, Dantzic, Copenhagen, etc., excepting Narva, Muscovy, and its dependencies.
Together with 11 other German prisoners of war, he was brought to Sydney on the captured steamer SMS Komet and interned on 29 October in a camp at Holsworthy, New South Wales.
Ernst Frederick III Karl, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (Königsberg, 10 June 1727 – Seidingstadt, 23 September 1780), was a duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
Ernst Bogislaw von Croÿ (26 August 1620, Finstingen (Fénétrange) – 6 February 1684, Königsberg) was a Lutheran Administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Cammin and official in the service of Brandenburg-Prussia.
# Ernst Frederick III Karl, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (b. Königsberg, 10 June 1727 – d. Seidingstadt, 23 September 1780).
Georg Riedel (Cathedral Kantor) 1715-1791 Kantor at the Löbenicht church, Königsberg 1749-1753, then at the cathedral there from 1753–1791
Pennell was promoted to Commander and assigned to HMS Queen Mary in the summer of 1914, and died 31 May 1916 in the Battle of Jutland, when the ship was sunk by the German ships SMS Seydlitz and SMS Derfflinger.
Heinrich August Alexander Wilhelm von Werther (born 7 August 1772 in Königsberg; died 7 December 1859 in Berlin) was a Prussian diplomat and Foreign Minister from 1837 to 1841.
In 1917, due to the threat posed by German raiders such as SMS Seeadler, Gayundah patrolled off Port Jackson and in the Spencer Gulf, although she made no contact with enemy ships during this time.
At 10:47, she struck a mine that had been laid by the German auxiliary cruiser SMS Möwe off Cape Wrath.
He studied modern languages in Bonn, Paris, Rome, and Oxford, collaborated on the revision of Bosworth's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, and was professor of English philology at Königsberg from 1872 until 1877, when he received a like position in Vienna.
Johann Christian Josef Abs (26 August 1781, Wipperfürth - 15 April 1823, Königsberg) was a German teacher.
After being briefly employed as Kantor at the cathedral at Königsberg (now Chojna, Poland), he went in 1700 to Riga, where he served as Kantor until his death in 1719.
Jonas Bretkūnas, Johann(es) Bretke, also known as Bretkus (born 1536 in Bammeln near Friedland – 1602 Königsberg) was a Lutheran pastor and was one of the best known developers of the written Lithuanian language.
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In 1555, when Bretkūnas was nineteen years of age, he began studying theology at the University of Königsberg.
General of Infantry Karl August Adolf von Krafft (9 November 1764 in Delitz am Berge – 18 April 1840 in Königsberg) was a Prussian officer who fought in the Napoleonic Wars.
Kenig or Kyonig is also the colloquial Russian name for Kaliningrad (formerly the German city of Königsberg, from which the nickname is derived)
Johannes Müller alias Regiomontanus (6 June 1436 - 6 July 1476), famous mathematician and astronomer
Popular pubs where the wine was available included the Forester's Lodge in Moditten and the Vierbrüderkrug Inn in Metgethen, both located in the suburbs of Königsberg.
Fritz Gause: Die Geschichte der Stadt Königsberg in Preußen.
In the United Kingdom the transit instrument and mural circle continued till the middle of the 19th century to be the principal instrument in observatories, the first transit circle constructed there being that at Greenwich (mounted in 1850) but on the continent the transit circle superseded them from the years 1818-1819, when two circles by Johann Georg Repsold and by Reichenbach were mounted at Göttingen, and one by Reichenbach at Königsberg.
In late August 1944 during World War II, Königsberg was repeatedly fire-bombed by the Royal Air Force, and much of the city's centre, including the medieval castle and the 14th century Königsberg Cathedral, was destroyed, gutted, or heavily damaged.
Other notable exhibits include the huge medieval bombard, Pumhart von Steyr, the original shipbuilder's model of the battleship SMS Viribus Unitis, flagship of the Austro-Hungarian naval fleet during World War I, a French observation balloon, the oldest surviving European aircraft, L'Intrépide, and the wreck of SM U-20, an Austro-Hungarian Navy submarine sunk in combat in 1918.
Thence he passed on to Gotha as director of the Seeberg observatory; nor could he be tempted to relinquish the post by successive invitations to replace F.G.W. Struve at Dorpat in 1829, and F.W. Bessel at Königsberg in 1847.
On 13 June 1872, a German fleet composed of SMS Vineta and SMS Gazelle seized Haitian Navy ships Union and Mont Organisé which were anchored in the port, as a means of pressure to have the Haitian government pay a 20,000 thaler debt to a German businessman.
They were at first composed of officials of six big cities of the region; Braunsberg (Braniewo), Culm (Chełmno), Elbing (Elbląg), Danzig (Gdańsk), Königsberg (Królewiec) and Thorn (Toruń).
Radio Königsberg was originally produced at the Haus des Rundfunks in Berlin, but moved to East Prussian Königsberg (present-day Kaliningrad) when the Allies started to bomb Berlin.
Auerswald became General-Landschaftsrath of the Province of Prussia in 1835 and Oberbürgermeister (roughly Lord Mayor) of Königsberg in 1835.
SMS Scharnhorst (1907), an armored cruiser of World War I, sunk at the Battle of the Falkland Islands
The city of Königsberg in Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia) was set on both sides of the Pregel River, and included two large islands which were connected to each other and the mainland by seven bridges.
Three 160 hp folders were sent to Durban in March 1915 to take part in operations against the German cruiser Königsberg, blockaded in the Ruji Delta in German East Africa.
One of the first papers in topology was the demonstration, by Leonhard Euler, that it was impossible to find a route through the town of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) that would cross each of its seven bridges exactly once.
One personal letter of Stoltzer's is still extant, dated February 23, 1526 and addressed to Duke Albrecht of Prussia in Königsberg; in this letter Stoltzer relates the news of a recently completed psalm setting and intimates that he would like to join Albrecht's court.
The road running through the valley, Aschbacher Weg, links with the Roman road running over the Königsberg and into the Landstuhler Niederung (a depression) and may once further have been a link by way of Wiesweiler to the Roman road between Tholey and Bad Kreuznach.