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Bernward of Hildesheim
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Bernward of Hildesheim (
c.960–1022). German ecclesiastic and art patron. He was abbot of the Benedictine monastery at Hildesheim in Saxony from 993 until his death, and for the church of St Michael there (begun 1001) he commissioned the famous bronze doors (
c.1008–15) and a great bronze column (
c.1018–20), probably intended to support the paschal candle. They are important not only for being among the outstanding European works of their period, but also for marking the revival of the
cire-perdue technique of casting, which had virtually disappeared since the time of Charlemagne. A contemporary biographer records that Bernward himself practised metalwork and manuscript
illumination, but no work can be attributed to him. He was canonized in 1192 and is a patron saint of goldsmiths.
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Hildesheim
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hildesheim , city (1994 pop. 106,300), Lower Saxony, N central...agricultural and dairy machinery. In 815, Emperor Louis I made Hildesheim the seat of a bishopric; Hildesheim's bishops later became territorial princes of the Holy...
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Bernward of Hildesheim
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Bernward of Hildesheim ( b c. 960; d Hildesheim, 20 Nov. 1022). German ecclesiastic and art patron. He was abbot of the Benedictine monastery at Hildesheim in Saxony from 993 until his death, and for the church...
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Roemer, Friedrich Adolph
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
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Couturat, Louis
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...mythis Platonicis (Paris, 1896; Hildesheim, 1961); La logique de Leibniz...logique (Paris, 1905, 1914; Hildesheim, 1965); Les principes des math é matiques (Paris, 1905; Hildesheim, 1965), É tude sur la...
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Quasthoff, Thomas
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...hospital in Germany near his home in Hildesheim, where nurses played recorded music...9, 1959 near the industrial city of Hildesheim in the Hannover region of Germany...x2026; Born on November 9, 1959 near Hildesheim in Germany; son of Hans (a civil servant...
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