Bayern
With Saxony (see Sachsen) the only Freistaat of the Federal Republik (see Bundesrepublik Deutschland) and the largest state in area, is predominantly Catholic. Bavaria was one of the early German ...
Emanuel Geibel
(Lübeck, 1815–84, Lübeck),son of a pastor, was already a fertile poet in his schooldays. He studied at Bonn and Berlin universities, making the acquaintance of most of the literary ...
Hermann Lingg
(Lindau, 1820–1905, Munich),became a medical officer in the Bavarian army in 1846, resigned his commission in 1851 and settled in Munich, where he devoted himself to writing poetry. He ...
Ludwig Helmbold
(Mühlhausen, 1532–98, Mühlhausen),was crowned poet (see Gekrönter Dichter) by the Emperor Maximilian II in 1566. He wrote Latin poetry, and hymns in German, including ‘Ich weiß, daß mein Erlöser ...
Münchner Dichterkreis
A group of poets, many of them from other parts of Germany, who wrote in Munich in the years c.1850–64 with the active encouragement of King Maximilian II of Bavaria. ...
Österreichischer Erbfolgekrieg
The War of the Austrian Succession, ensued after Maria Theresia succeeded her father Karl VI on the Habsburg throne in accordance with the terms of the Pragmatic Sanction (see Pragmatische ...
Paul Heyse
(Berlin, 1830–1914, Berlin),son of a notable philologist, was educated at the Friedrich Wilhelm-Gymnasium, Berlin, and at Berlin and Bonn universities. In 1851 he made an extended study tour of ...
Revolutions of 1848
A series of revolutions in western and central Europe. Revolution erupted first in France, where supporters of universal suffrage and a socialist minority under Louis Blanc caused the overthrow of ...
Schack, Adolf Friedrich, Graf von
(Brüsewitz nr. Schwerin, 1815–94, Rome),the son of a wealthy country gentleman, studied law at Bonn, Heidelberg, and Berlin universities and entered the Prussian civil service in 1838. In 1839 ...
