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Berg

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Berg , former duchy, W Germany, along the right bank of the Rhine River between the Ruhr and Sieg rivers. Düsseldorf was its chief city. A county in the 12th cent., Berg passed (1348) to the dukes of Jülich and in 1380 was made a duchy. In 1423 the duchies of Berg and Jülich were united. On the extinction (1511) of the Berg-Jülich line, Berg passed to Duke John III of Cleves (see Cleves, duchy of ), whose line died out in 1609, setting off a virulent struggle over succession that contributed to the outbreak of the Thirty Years War (1618-48). In 1614, Berg was awarded... Read more
Alban Berg
Alban Berg The Austrian composer Alban Berg (1885-1935) adopted the revolutionary twelve-tone method, but he frequently combined it with tonality. Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, and Anton Webern have often been called the... Read more
Paul Berg
Paul Berg Paul Berg (born 1926) is best known for his development of a technique for splicing...chromosomes and the biochemical basis of human genetic diseases. Paul Berg made one of the most fundamental technical contributions to the field... Read more

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