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Wilhelm Marx

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(b. Cologne, 15 Jan. 1863; d. Bonn, 5 Aug. 1946) German; Chancellor of Germany 1923–5, 1926–8, leader of Centre Party 1922–8 The son of an elementary school headmaster, Marx was ...

Marx, Wilhelm

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A Dictionary of Political Biography (2 ed.)

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Current Version:
2013
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Social sciences, Politics
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..., Wilhelm (b. Cologne , 15 Jan. 1863 ; d. Bonn , 5 Aug. 1946 ) German ; Chancellor of Germany 1923–5 , 1926–8 , leader of Centre Party 1922–8 The son of an elementary school headmaster, Marx was brought up in a strongly Catholic home. He studied law at Bonn University and took up a legal career but was soon involved in politics, winning a seat in the Prussian parliament in 1899 and election to the Reichstag in 1910 . On the point of retiring he was persuaded in 1921 to take over the chairmanship of the centre group in the Reichstag. In the...

Marx, Wilhelm

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A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (6 ed.)

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Current Version:
2021
Subject:
History, Contemporary History (post 1945)
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298 words

...Marx, Wilhelm (b. Cologne , 15 Jan. 1863 ; d. Bonn , 5 Aug. 1946 ) Chancellor of Germany 1923–5 , 1926–8 , leader of Centre Party 1922–8 The son of an elementary school headmaster, Marx was brought up in a strongly Catholic home. He studied law at Bonn University and took up a legal career but was soon involved in politics, winning a seat in the Prussian parliament in 1899 and election to the Reichstag in 1910 . On the point of retiring he was persuaded in 1921 to take over the chairmanship of the centre group in the Reichstag. In the...

Wilhelm Marx

Wilhelm Marx  

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(b. Cologne, 15 Jan. 1863; d. Bonn, 5 Aug. 1946)German; Chancellor of Germany 1923–5, 1926–8, leader of Centre Party 1922–8 The son of an elementary school headmaster, Marx was brought up in a ...
Leviticus

Leviticus   Reference library

Lester L. Grabbe and Lester L. Grabbe

The Oxford Bible Commentary

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2022
Subject:
Religion
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22,756 words
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Oxford University Press

...Biblique, 20 (Paris: Gabalda). ———(1988), ‘Dating the Priestly Source in Light of the Historical Study of Biblical Hebrew: A Century after Wellhausen’, ZAW 100 Suppl., 88–100. Janowski, B. and Wilhelm, G. (1993), ‘Der Bock, der die Sünden hinausträgt: Zur Religionsgeschichte des Azazel-Ritus Lev 16,10.21 f’, in Bernd Janowski , Klaus Koch , and Gernot Wilhelm (eds.), Religionsgeschichtliche Beziehungen zwischen Kleinasien, Nordsyrien und dem Alten Testament: Internationales Symposion Hamburg 17.–21. März 1990, OBO 129 (Fribourg: Universitätsverlag;...

24 The History of the Book in Germany

24 The History of the Book in Germany   Reference library

John L. Flood

The Oxford Companion to the Book

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2010
Subject:
History, Social sciences
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10,164 words
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...inflation. Soon after Hitler’s appointment as chancellor, one of the most notorious episodes took place when nationalistically minded students set fire to thousands of Jewish, socialist, and other ‘un-German’ books in various university towns on 10 May 1933 . The works of Freud, Marx, Heinrich Mann, Kurt Tucholsky, and hundreds of others were ceremoniously burnt. These events presaged tighter control of the production and distribution of written material. Authors wanting to continue publishing were obliged to join the Reichsschrifttumkammer, established under...

Wilhelm Liebknecht

Wilhelm Liebknecht  

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(1826–1900)German political leader. An early interest in socialism led to his expulsion from Berlin in 1846 but, after the outbreak of the Revolutions of 1848, he returned to Germany to help set up a ...
G. W. F. Hegel

G. W. F. Hegel  

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(1770–1831)German philosopher. He is especially known for his three-stage process of dialectical reasoning (set out in his Science of Logic, 1812–16), which underlies his idealist concepts of ...
Raymond Aron

Raymond Aron  

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(1905 –1983) A leading French sociologist and political philosopher of the postwar period.Aron addressed a wide range of issues in his career, producing sociological accounts of industrial society, ...
Karl Mannheim

Karl Mannheim  

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(1893–1947)A Hungarian sociologist who emigrated to Germany and finally to England shortly after Hitler came to power. His most enduring contribution was to the sociology of knowledge, which he ...
Berlin

Berlin  

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Berlin airlift an operation by British and American aircraft to airlift food and supplies to Berlin in 1948–9, while Russian forces blockaded the city to isolate it from the West and terminate the ...
Situationism

Situationism  

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A small, influential and highly politicized artistic movement founded in 1957, from the remnants of two previous Avant-garde groups, the Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus (led by Asger Jorn, who had ...
György Lukács

György Lukács  

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(1885–1971)Hungarian Marxist philosopher. Lukács was briefly a minister in the Hungarian government in 1919 and again in 1956, although he spent years in exile in Russia. Lukács saw in Marxism the ...
Philosophy of History

Philosophy of History  

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Reflection upon the nature of history, or of historical thinking. The term was used in the 18th century (e.g. by Voltaire) to mean critical historical thinking, as opposed to the mere collection and ...
Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine  

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(b Düsseldorf, 13 Dec. 1797; d Paris, 17 Feb. 1856)German poet and writer, whose story of the Wilis (contained in Geschichte der neuren schönen Literatur in Deutschland, 1833, French version De ...
Georg Simmel

Georg Simmel  

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(1858–1918)German writer and together with Weber one of the principal founders of sociology as a distinct discipline. A cosmopolitan, Simmel studied at Berlin, where he continued to teach, unpaid, ...
Max Weber

Max Weber  

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(1864–1920)German social scientist and political economist who became a founding father of modern sociology.Weber studied legal and economic history at several German universities. After a brief ...
Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse  

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(1898–1979)German-born US philosopher, famous in the 1960s as the theorist of the new revolutionary left.Born in Berlin, Marcuse was educated at the University of Freiburg, where he gained his ...
Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci  

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(1891–1937)Italian intellectual and founder of the Italian Communist Party.Born in Alès, Sardinia, Gramsci was educated at the University of Turin, where he studied history and philosophy. As a ...
Giambattista Vico

Giambattista Vico  

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(1668–1744)Italian philosopher of history. Vico was born in Naples, and educated by the Jesuits. From 1699 he held the chair of rhetoric at the university of Naples. Vico's principal work was the ...
Liebknecht, Wilhelm

Liebknecht, Wilhelm (1826–1900)   Quick reference

World Encyclopedia

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Current Version:
2004
Subject:
Encyclopedias
Length:
63 words

...Wilhelm ( 1826–1900 ) German revolutionary , father of Karl Liebknecht . After taking part in the Revolutions of 1848 , he was exiled to England where he associated with Marx . In 1869 , Liebknecht and August Bebel founded the Social Democratic Party (SPD) . Otto von Bismarck imprisoned ( 1872–74 ) them for opposing the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870–71 ). In 1874 , he entered the...

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