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Frankfurt
Frankfurt or Frankfurt am Main , city (1994 pop. 659,800), Hesse, central Germany, a port on the Main River. It is also known in English as Frankfort. The city is an industrial, media, commercial, and financial center and a transportation hub. It is headquarters of the leading German stock excha... Read more
Frankfurt School
Frankfurt School a group of researchers associated with the Institut für Sozialforschung (Institute of Social Research), founded in 1923 as an autonomous division of the Univ. of Frankfurt. The institute's first director, Carl Grünberg, set it up as a center for research in philosophy and... Read more
Felix Frankfurter
Felix Frankfurter 1882-1965, American jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1939-62), b. Vienna, Austria. He emigrated to the United States as a boy and later received (1906) his law degree from Harvard law school. He was assistant U.S. attorney (1906-10) in New York state and legal ... Read more
Frankfurt an der Oder
Frankfurt an der Oder , city (1994 pop. 83,850), Brandenburg, E Germany, a port on the Oder River, at the Polish border. It is an industrial center, agricultural market, and rail junction. Manufactures include textiles, machinery, foodstuffs, shoes, and furniture. Lignite is mined nearby. Frankfurt ... Read more
Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm , 1900-1980, psychoanalyst and author, b. Frankfurt, Germany, Ph.D. Univ. of Heidelberg, 1922. From 1929 to 1932 he lectured at the Psychoanalytic Institute, Frankfurt, and at the Univ. of Frankfurt. He came to the United States in 1934, where he practiced psychoanalysis and lectured at ... Read more
sausage
sausage food consisting of finely chopped meat mixed with seasonings and, often, other ingredients, all encased in a thin membrane. Although sausages were made by the ancient Greeks and Romans, they were usually plain and unspiced; in the Middle Ages people began to use the various spices and meats... Read more
Johann Gustav Droysen
Johann Gustav Droysen , 1808-84, German historian. A member of the Frankfurt Parliament , he was a leading proponent of German unification under the leadership of his native Prussia. His Geschichte der preussischen Politik [political history of Prussia] (14 vol., 1855-86) poses the goal of German... Read more
Felix
Felix (d. 818), Bp. of Urgel in Spain and one of the leaders of the Adoptianist heresy. He was charged as a heretic at the Council of Ratisbon (792) and recanted. He later became convinced of his heresy again and was unmoved by the criticism of his doctrine written by Alcuin. He was formally accused... Read more
Johannes Lingelbach
Johannes Lingelbach , 1622-74, Dutch genre and landscape painter, b. Frankfurt am Main. He first went to Amsterdam in 1637 and settled there about 16 years later after some years of study in Rome. Influenced by van Laer, he painted Italian landscapes, seaports, military subjects, and genre, with coo... Read more
Alfred Rethel
Alfred Rethel , 1816-59, German historical painter and draftsman. He gained a reputation in Frankfurt, where he painted Daniel in the Lions ' Den and Guardian Angel of Emperor Maximilian. His major work was half of a fresco cycle (1847-52) for the town hall of Aachen, depicting scenes from the ... Read more

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Frankfurt
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Frankfurt or Frankfurt am Main , city (1994 pop. 659,800), Hesse, central Germany...Chemical production is concentrated in the Höchst district. Frankfurt is the site of major international trade fairs, including an annual...
Frankfurt Am Main
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World FRANKFURT AM MAIN FRANKFURT AM MAIN. Frankfurt's position as a leading center of international commerce and finance as well as the site of the German emperor's election originated in the medieval period and remained the principal source of...
Frankfurt School
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Frankfurt School The Frankfurt school refers to the members and associates of the Institut f ü r Sozialforschung (Institute of Social Research) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The institute was established at the instigation...
Frankfurt an der Oder
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Frankfurt an der Oder , city (1994 pop. 83...furniture. Lignite is mined nearby. Frankfurt was chartered in 1253. It joined the...became an important commercial center. Frankfurt was frequently besieged, notably in...
Frankfurt Parliament
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Frankfurt Parliament 1848-49, national assembly convened at Frankfurt on May 18, 1848, as a result of the liberal revolution...movement was suppressed, and the very basis of the Frankfurt assembly destroyed. At last, in Mar., 1849...
Frankfurt-am-Main
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre Frankfurt-am-Main, German city whose Easter...Hell , Path , Earth , 1919)—Frankfurt became a serious rival to Berlin . Between...West German theatres restored some of Frankfurt's earlier importance, and in the 1970s...
Frankfurt am Main
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Frankfurt am Main Germany: see Frankfurt .
Treaty of Frankfurt
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Treaty of Frankfurt 1871: see Versailles, Treaty of , 1871.
Mayer Rothschild
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...and Schoenche Rothschild, was born in Frankfurt, Germany on February 23, 1744, the...Isaac Elchanan (d. 1585) lived in Frankfurt. At the time, it was a common practice...the Rothschild surname. The Jews of Frankfurt were required to live apart from the...
Tilly Edinger
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Edinger was born on November 13, 1897, in Frankfurt, Germany. Her Jewish parents were members...financially secure childhood in her hometown of Frankfurt am Main. The ready availability of money...professor of neurology at the University of Frankfurt, a respected researcher, and one of...

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Frankfurt School
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History FRANKFURT SCHOOL FRANKFURT SCHOOL. Although founded in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1923, the Institute for Social Re-search (or Frankfurt School) established itself at Columbia University in New York City in 1934 in response to the Nazi seizure...
Master of Frankfurt
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Master of Frankfurt (active c. 1500). Netherlandish...after two works painted for clients in Frankfurt and now in the Städelsches...contemporary Quentin Massys , the Master of Frankfurt stands at the beginning of Antwerp...
Frankfurt Group
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Frankfurt Group. Group of Eng. composers ( Norman O'Neill, Roger Quilter, Cyril Scott, and Balfour Gardiner) who were pupils of Iwan Knorr at Frankfurt Hoch Cons. in late 1890s.
Frankfurt, Councils of
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Frankfurt, Councils of. The best-known of the many councils held at Frankfurt am Main was that called by Charlemagne in 794 to condemn the Adoptianist heresy.
Frankfurt Stock Exchange
Book article from: A Dictionary of Business and Management Frankfurt Stock Exchange ( Frankfurt Wertpapierbörse ) The oldest and largest of eight regional stock exchanges in Germany. It first recorded trading in 1820 and was subsequently recognized as a centre for dealing in bonds. Trading is...
Frankfurt School (of social theory>)
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology Frankfurt School (of social theory>) See CRITICAL THEORY .
Frankfurt, Treaty of
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Frankfurt, Treaty of (10 May 1871) An agreement that ended the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR . By it France surrendered Strasburg, Alsace and...
Lonicerus (Lonitzer), Adam
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Marburg, Germany, 10 October 1528; d. Frankfurt, Germany, 29 May 1586) botany . Lonicerus...he began teaching at the Gymnasium in Frankfurt, but he returned to Marburg of disorders...in 1554 he married the daughter of the Frankfurt printer Egenolph Magdalena; and following...
Meyer, Christian Erich Hermann von
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography MEYER, CHRISTIAN ERICH HERMANN VON ( b . Frankfurt, Germany, 3 September 1801; d . Frankfurt, 2 April 1869) paleontology . Meyer came from on old Frankfurt family; his father was a lawyer and later mayor of Frankfurt...
Kluge, Alexander
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt (degree in law, 1953). Career: Lawyer...Honorary Professor, University of Frankfurt am Main, 1973; International Critics...Kulturpolitik und Ausgabenkontrolle, Frankfurt, 1961. Lebensläufe, Stuttgart...

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