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Adolf Julicher
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Adolf von Henselt
Adolf von Henselt , 1814-89, German pianist and composer. One of the most brilliant performers of his time, he gave up his concert career in 1838 to become court pianist and teacher in St. Petersburg. He composed a concerto, salon pieces, and studies for the piano.... Read more |
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Adolf von Baeyer
Adolf von Baeyer (Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer) , 1835-1917, German chemist. He taught at Berlin and Strasbourg and in 1875 succeeded Liebig at Munich. For his work in organic chemistry, especially that on organic dyes and the hydroaromatic compounds, he received the 1905 Nobel Prize... Read more |
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Hitler
Hitler derogatory term for an overbearing and officious person, held to resemble the Nazi leader and German Führer Adolf Hitler (1889–1945).Hitler diaries in April 1983, it was announced that diaries written by Adolf Hitler had been discovered. Initially accepted as genuine (extracts... Read more |
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James Ingo Freed
James Ingo Freed James Ingo Freed (born 1930) was an American architect who designed many important structures, including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. James Ingo Freed was born on June 23, 1930, in Essen, Germany. A Jewish refugee in Nazi Germany, Freed escaped to France in... Read more |
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Adolf of Nassau
Adolf of Nassau , d. 1298, duke of Luxembourg, German king (1292-98). He owed his election to the ecclesiastical electors , who, fearing the growing power and ambition of the Hapsburgs , chose him rather than Albert of Austria (later King Albert I ), son of Rudolf I of Hapsburg. Seeking to... Read more |
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Willem Adolf Vissert Hooft
Willem Adolf Visser't Hooft Willem Adolf Visser 't Hooft (1900-1985) was a Reformed churchman from the Netherlands, of remarkable vision, who became the first general secretary and guiding influence in the World Council of Churches and of Protestant ecumenism in the 20th century. Willem... Read more |
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Adolf Arthur Dehn
Adolf Arthur Dehn , 1895-1968, American painter and illustrator, b. Waterville, Minn. During the 1920s, Dehn became known as a forceful satiric illustrator. Later he concentrated primarily on painting, especially watercolor. Among his major works are Jimmy Savo and Rope (Whitney Mus., New York... Read more |
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Adolf von Hildebrand
Adolf von Hildebrand , 1847-1921, German sculptor and author. He studied in Munich and in Italy, where he spent 18 years. He is best known for his dignified public monuments, such as the equestrian statue of Bismarck in Bremen, and for his realistic portrait busts. Hildebrand defined his art theory... Read more |
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Karl Adolf Verner
Karl Adolf Verner , 1846-96, Danish philologist. Verner was a librarian at the Univ. of Halle (now in E Germany) and a professor of Slavonic languages at the Univ. of Copenhagen. His fame rests on Verner's law, a linguistic formulation showing that certain consonantal alternations in Germanic... Read more |
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Eintagsjobs als "Nazisse"
...wie ihn beispielsweise Dolly Haas oder Lilian Harvey oft verkörperten. Nicht...Film "The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler" ein "Hitlerweib" spielte...Allein in "The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler" wirkten neben Lotte Stein noch...Unsterblich wurde sie zusammen mit Ludwig Stössel als ... |