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unusual facts about Wenceslaus I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg



Adolph Gottfried Kinau

Born in Aschersleben into a family of ministers and teachers, he studied theology in Halle and Magdeburg from 1833 to 1840.

Adrianus Petit Coclico

Coclico applied for a position as chair of music at Wittenberg, composing a lost piece on a text by Philipp Melanchthon, in 1546; he was denied the position.

Albert III, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

The definite partitioning of Saxony into Saxe-Lauenburg, jointly ruled by Albert III and his brothers and Saxe-Wittenberg, ruled by their uncle Albert II, took place by 20 September 1296, at which time the Vierlande, Sadelbande (Land of Lauenburg), the Land of Ratzeburg, the Land of Darzing (later Amt Neuhaus), and the Land of Hadeln are mentioned as the separate territories of the brothers.

Albert of Saxe-Wittenberg

Albert II, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (1250–1298), first duke of Saxe-Wittenberg after its definite division from the Duchy of Saxony in 1296

Albert III, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (1375-1422), last in the Ascanian line of Saxe-Wittenberg

Albrecht von Blumenthal

He was nominated by the Kaiser as a Rhodes Scholar studying Classics at Lincoln College (Oxford University) in 1909 and in 1913 his dissertation Hellanicea: De Atlantiade was approved at the University of Halle.

Bernard Holsey

Currently he is an assistant football coach at Wittenberg-Birnamwood High School in Wittenberg, Wisconsin.

Brethertons

Brethertons Solicitors is one of the oldest firms of solicitors in Rugby and was founded by Count William Ferdinand Wratislaw in 1810, a Bohemian nobleman related to Good King Wenceslas.

Caspar Aquila

Returning to Wittenberg, he met Luther, and acted as tutor to the sons of Franz von Sickingen at Ebernburg castle.

Christian Frederick Matthaei

Christian Frederick Matthaei (1744, Mücheln – 1811), a Thuringian, palaeographer, classical philologist, professor first at Wittenberg and then at Moscow.

David Ruhnken

At Wittenberg, Ruhnken lived in close intimacy with the two most distinguished professors, Heinrich Ritter and Berger.

Dorotheenstadt cemetery

In 1975, a 1909 marble replica of Schadow's 1821 statue of Martin Luther for the marketplace in Wittenberg was placed at the end of the main axis of the cemetery.

Edward Foxe

The principal result of the mission was the Wittenberg articles of 1536, which had no slight influence on the English Ten Articles of the same year.

Eric I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

The definite partitioning of Saxony into Saxe-Lauenburg, jointly ruled by Eric I and his brothers and Saxe-Wittenberg, ruled by their uncle Albert II, took place before 20 September 1296, when the Vierlande, Sadelbande (Land of Lauenburg), the Land of Ratzeburg, the Land of Darzing (later Amt Neuhaus), and the Land of Hadeln are mentioned as the separate territory of the brothers.

Fläming Heath

The towns Ziesar, Bad Belzig, Niemegk, Treuenbrietzen, Jüterbog, Baruth/Mark, Dahme/Mark, Wittenberg, Loburg, Möckern, and Zerbst, as well as the municipalities Wiesenburg (Mark) and Rabenstein/Fläming, are situated in or at the border of the Fläming Heath.

Forestle

Forestle was an ecologically inspired search engine created by Christian Kroll, Wittenberg, Germany, in 2008.

Friedrich Asinger

Well-known students of Asinger are in example Heribert Offermanns, a longtime board member of the Degussa AG, Egon Fanghänel, professor of organic chemistry at the Technical University Merseburg and then at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, and Karl Gewald, who is best known for the development of the Gewald reaction and his work in the field of thiophenes and heterocycles.

Friedrich Schorlemmer

In 1978, he became a lecturer at the Protestant Preachers' Seminary in Wittenberg and also a preacher at All Saints' Church (Schlosskirche, "Castle Church") there, which is closely associated with Martin Luther and his 95 Theses.

George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Amongst her children was Charles Edward, last reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

Good King Wenceslas

The legend is based on the life of the historical Saint Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia or Svatý Václav in Czech (907–935).

Grotów, Żary County

Against their resistance, it became part of the Silesian Duchy of Żagań under the Piast duke Jan I, after his father-in-law Elector Rudolf III of Saxony had devastated the settlement.

Hans-Georg Moldenhauer

Hans-Georg Moldenhauer (born 25 November 1941 in Senst near Wittenberg) is a former football goalkeeper, playing for 1. FC Magdeburg and its predecessors.

Johannes Praetorius

In 1571 be became Professor of mathematics (astronomy) at Wittenberg where he met Valentinus Otho and Joachim Rheticus.

John II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

The definite partitioning of Saxony into Saxe-Lauenburg, jointly ruled by John II and his brothers and Saxe-Wittenberg, ruled by their uncle Albert II, took place before 20 September 1296, when the Vierlande, Sadelbande (Land of Lauenburg), the Land of Ratzeburg, the Land of Darzing (later Amt Neuhaus), and the Land of Hadeln are mentioned as the separate territory of the brothers.

Justus Jonas

He accompanied Luther to the Diet of Worms in 1521, and there was appointed professor of canon law at Wittenberg by Frederick III, Elector of Saxony.

Kaspar von Barth

After studying at Gotha, Eisenach, Wittenberg, and Jena, he travelled extensively, visiting most of the countries of Europe.

Lamjavyn Gündalai

After completing the local middle school in 1982, he studied medicine at the Martin Luther University in Halle from 1984 to 1991.

Má vlast

It is named for the mountain Blaník inside which a legend says that a huge army of knights led by St. Wenceslas sleep.

Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats

Nueske’s Applewood Smoked Meats is specialty meat supplier in Wittenberg, Wisconsin.

Prettin

After the German Burgward ("castle district"), which first crops up in one of Otto I's documents as "Pretimi", had passed in 1012 from Archbishop Dagino to the Church estate of Magdeburg, and then by way of the County of Brehna in 1290 to the Dukes of Saxony-Wittenberg, Rudolf I of Saxony-Wittenberg built the so-called "Schlösschen" (little castle) about 1335.

Pretzsch

Pretzsch, Wittenberg, a community in the Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Province of Saxony

territory gained from the Kingdom of Saxony after the Battle of Leipzig in 1813: the towns and surrounding territories of Wittenberg, Merseburg, Naumburg, Mansfeld, Querfurt, and Henneberg;

Rahul Peter Das

Rahul Peter Das (born 7 July 1954 in Haan, North Rhine-Westphalia) is the professor of South Asian studies at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, where he is also the Dean of Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy I and erstwhile Director of the Centre for Languages of the University.

Rudolf I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg

He was Duke, Prince-Elector of Saxony and Arch-Reichsmarschall of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation from 1298 until his death.

For example, he organised a meeting between six of the electors in Rhens in 1338.

Rudolf II, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg

After Rudolf I died on 12 March 1356, Rudolf II asked the imperial court in Metz on 27 December 1356 to reaffirm the rights of the Saxe-Wittenberg line of the House of Ascania, against opposing claims from the Saxe-Lauenburg line.

Tauentzienstraße

The projected section was named after Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien (1760–1824) by order of King William I of Prussia, celebrating the 50th anniversary storming of the French garrison at Wittenberg under General Jean François Cornu de La Poype by the Prussian Army in 1814.

Teofil Ociepka

On the recommendation of his Swiss mentor, Philip Hohmann of Wittenberg, with whom he maintained steady correspondence, Ociepka became a member of the Rosicrucian Lodge and attained the status of Master of Secret Sciences.

Tornau

Tornau, Wittenberg, a municipality in the district of Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Turčianske Teplice

The recuperative abilities of the spa were first studied by the University of Halle medical student Jan Lisschoviny.

Valentinus Otho

In 1573 he came to Wittenberg, proposing to Johannes Praetorius an approximation of Pi as \pi \approx \tfrac {355} {113} .

Vinnytsia massacre

The first examinations of the exhumed bodies were made by German, Ukrainian and Russian doctors such as professor Gerhard Schrader of the University of Halle-Wittenberg, docent Doroshenko of Vinnytsia, and professor Malinin of Krasnodar.

Vischer family of Nuremberg

The tomb of the electoral prince Frederick the Wise in the Schlosskirche at Wittenberg (1521), previously thought to be by the Elder, is now thought to be by the Younger.

Wallenstein Palace

The palace chapel is two stories high and richly decorated with scenes from the legend of St Wenceslas.

War of the Lüneburg Succession

Duke Frederick of Brunswick-Lüneburg married Duchess Anna of Saxe-Wittenberg a daughter of Prince-Elector Wenceslas, and Duke Bernard of Brunswick-Lüneburg was wedded to Duchess Margaret of Saxony, also a daughter of Wenceslas.

Wenceslaus I

Saint Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (907–935 or 929), and subject of a Christmas carol

Wenceslaus I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg

On 23 January 1376 Wenceslas married Cecilia of Carrara (d. 1435), daughter of Francis of Carrara (born 29 September 1325 in Padua – died 6 October 1393 in Monza), Count of Padua.

Wittenberg, Missouri

It and the others -- Altenburg, Dresden, Frohna, Johannisberg, Paitzdorf, and Seelitz—were all named by settlers for towns in the Saxony region of their native country.

Wittenbergplatz

It was laid out between 1889 and 1892 and named after the storming of the town of Wittenberg on 14 February 1814 by Prussian troops under General Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien in the course of the War of the Sixth Coalition.


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