Johann Patkul - Johann Patkul Johann Reinhold Patkul, (1660-1707), a Livonian politician and agitator of Baltic German extraction, was born in prison at Stockholm, where his father lay under suspicion of treason. He entered the Swedish army at an early age and was already a captain when, in 1689, at the head of a deputation of Livonian gentry, he went to Stockholm to protest against the rigour with which the land-recovery project of Charles XI of Sweden was being carried out in his native province. His eloquence favourably impressed Charles XI, but his representations were disregarded, and the offensive language with which, in another petition addressed to the king three years later, he renewed his complaints, involved him in a government prosecution. To save himself from the penalties of.
List of Swedish politicians - Gustav Bonde, (1620-1667) Per Brahe, (1602-1680) Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, (1622-1686) Johann Patkul, (1660-1707) Axel Oxenstierna, (1583-1654) Bengt Oxenstierna, (1623-1702) Gabriel Oxenstierna, (1587-1640) Johan Oxenstierna, (1611-1657) Anders Torstenson, (1641-1686) 18th century Fredrik Axel von Fersen, senior, (1755-1810) Arvid Horn, (1664-1742) Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm, (1756-1813) Jacob Magnus Sprengtporten, (1727-1786) Göran Magnus Sprengtporten, (1740-1819) 19th century Nils Magnus Brahe, (1790-1844) Axel von Fersen, (1755-1810) Carl Gustaf Nordin, (1749-1812) Louis De Geer, (1818-1896) 20th century Carl Bildt, (born 1949) Ingvar Carlsson, (born 1934) Olof Palme, (1927-1986) Tage Erlander, (1901-1985) Torbjörn Fälldin Ola Ullsten Gösta Boman Birgitta Dahl Lars Verner 21st century Anna Lindh, (1957-2003) Bo Lundgren, (born 1947) Göran Persson, (born 1949) -- current Prime Minister Gudrun Schyman Alf Svensson Lars Leijonborg See also List of Swedish Prime Ministers Lists of Swedish County.
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Johann Sebastian Bach - Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685 - July 28, 1750) was a German composer, organist and musical scholar of the Baroque period, and is almost universally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. His works, noted for their intellectual depth, technical command, and artistic beauty, have provided inspiration to nearly every musician in the European tradition, from Mozart to Schoenberg. Formative Years J. S. Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany, in 1685. His father, Ambrosius Bach, was the town piper in Eisenach, a post that entailed organizing all the secular music in town as well as participating in church music at the direction of the church organist, and his uncles were also all professional musicians ranging from.
Johann Gutenberg - Johann Gutenberg Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg (circa 1390s - February 3, 1468), German metal-worker and inventor, achieved fame for his contributions to the technology of printing, including a type metal alloy and oil-based inks, and a new kind of printing press based on presses used in winemaking. Tradition credits him with inventing movable type, an improvement on the block printing already in use in Europe. Gutenberg was born in Mainz as the son of a merchant named Friele Gensfleisch zu Laden, who adopted the surname "zum Gutenberg" after the name of the neighborhood into which the family had moved. Though the Chinese and Koreans knew of block printing and even movable metal types at the time, it is unclear whether Gutenberg knew of these.
Johann Friedrich Agricola - Johann Friedrich Agricola Johann Friedrich Agricola (January 4, 1720 - December 2, 1774) was a German composer, organist, singer, teacher and writer on music. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Flavio Anicio Olibrio. He was born in Dobitschen. While a student of law at Leipzig he studied music under Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1741 he went to Berlin, where he studied musical composition under Johann Joachim Quantz. He was soon generally recognized as one of the most skillful organists of his time. The success of his comic opera, Il Filosofo convinto in amore, performed at Potsdam in 1750, led to an appointment as court composer to Frederick the Great. In 1759, on the death of Karl Heinrich Graun, he was appointed conductor of the royal orchestra..
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger - Johann Georg Albrechtsberger Johann Georg Albrechtberger (February 3, 1736 - March 7, 1809) was an Austrian musician who was born at Kloster-Neuburg, near Vienna. He studied musical composition under the court organist, Mann, and became one of the most learned and skillful contrapuntists of his age. After being employed as organist at Raab and Maria-Taferl, he was appointed in 1772 organist to the court of Vienna, and in 1792 Kapellmeister of St. Stephen's cathedral. His fame as a theorist attracted to him in the Austrian capital a large number of pupils, some of whom afterwards became eminent musicians. Among these were Beethoven, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Ignaz Moscheles and Josef Weigl (1766-1846). Albrechtsberger died in Vienna. His published compositions consist of preludes, fugues and sonatas for the.
Johann Heinrich Alsted - Johann Heinrich Alsted Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588-1638) was a German Protestant divine. He was some time professor of philosophy and theology at Herborn, in Nassau, and afterwards at Weissenburg in Transylvania, where he remained till his death in 1638. He was a prolific writer, and his Encyclopaedia (1630), the most considerable of the earlier works of that class, was long held in high estimation..
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (August 28, 1749 - March 22, 1832) was a German writer, scientist, and philosopher. Goethe was the author of Faust (ISBN 0385031149) and Theory of Colors (ISBN 0262570211), etc. He inspired Darwin with his independent discovery of the human premaxilla jaw bones. Goethe was born at Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His father was a man of means and position, and he personally supervised the early education of his son. The young Goethe studied at the universities of Leipzig and Strasbourg, and in 1772 entered upon the practice of law at Wetzlar. At the invitation of Karl August, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, he went in 1775 to live in Weimar, where he held a succession of political offices, becoming the.
Johann Bayer - Johann Bayer Johann Bayer (1572-1625) was a German astronomer. His great work was the star atlas Uranometria, published in Augsburg in 1603, which was the first atlas to cover the entire celestial sphere. It contained 51 charts, one for each of Ptolemy's 48 constellations, one for the southernmost skies which were unknown to Ptolemy, and two planispheres. Uranometria introduced the Bayer designations, which are still used today, as well as some of the modern constellations..
Johann Elert Bode - Johann Elert Bode Johann Elert Bode (1747-1826) was a German astronomer known for his contribution to the Titius-Bode law. Bode was the director of the Berlin Observatory, where he published Uranographia in 1801, one of the first successful attempts at mapping all stars visible to the naked eye without any artistic interpretation of the stellar constellation figures..
Johann Tobias Krebs - Johann Tobias Krebs Johann Tobias Krebs died: February 11,1762 , composer..
Johann von Werth - Johann von Werth Count Johann von Werth (1595-1652)was a German general of cavalry in the Thirty Years' War. Born between 1590 and 1600 at Büttgen in the duchy of Jülich. His parents belonged to the numerous class of the lesser nobility, and at an early age he left home to follow the career of a soldier of fortune in the Walloon cavalry of the Spanish service. In 1622, at the taking of Jülich, he won promotion to the rank of lieutenant. He served as a colonel of cavalry in the Bavarian army in 1630. He obtained the command of a regiment, both titular and effective, in 1632, and in 1633 and 1634 laid the foundations of his reputation as a swift and terrible leader of cavalry.
Johann Georg - Johann Georg Johann Georg Hohenzollern (1525-1598) was the Margrave and Elector of Brandenburg from 1571 until his death. Faced with large debts accumulated during the reign of his father Joachim II, he instituted a grain tax which drove part of the peasantry into dependence on the exempt nobility. Though a staunch Lutheran opposed to the rise of Calvinism, he permitted the admission of Calvinist refugees from the wars in the Spanish Netherlands and France. He was succceeded by his son Joachim Friedrich. Upon the death of Albert of Prussia his father Joachim II Hector had become co-inheritor of Prussia. Joachim II died in 1571 and Johann Georg received the margraviate Brandenburg and the duchy of Prussia. External Link: http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/desbillons/eico/seite33.html - A portrait with ducal title.
Johann Cicero - Johann Cicero John or Johann Cicero Hohenzollern , elector of Brandenburg was born 1455. He acceded in 1486 and died in 1499. His son was Joachim I Nestor, elector Brandenburg b 1484 Johann Cicero was the brother of Frederick V or Friedrich V of Ansbach.
Johann Sigismund - Johann Sigismund John or Johann Sigismund Hohenzollern (1572-1619) succeeded his father Joachim Friedrich as margrave of Brandenburg and duke of Ducal Prussia in 1608. He became in addition duke of Cleve in 1614, holding all three titles until his death. His son and successor was Georg Wilhelm, born in 1595..
Johann Friedrich Endersch - Johann Friedrich Endersch Johann Friedrich Endersch was a German mapmaker and mathematician from Elbing, Prussia who in 1755 completed a beautiful map Warmia (German Ermland) titled: "Tabula Geographica Episcopatu Warmiensis In Prussia Exhibiens", which detailed all the surrounding towns. He was Royal Mathematician and the map itself was made for the Emperor (or his court). Endersch also made a copper etching depicting a galliot or sailing ship, which had been built in his hometown Elbing in 1738 and was named Die Stadt Elbing, (The City of Elbing)..
Johann Philipp Abelin - Johann Philipp Abelin Johann Philipp Abelin was an early 16th-century German chronicler. He was born, probably, at Strasbourg, and died there between 1634 and 1637. He wrote numerous histories over the pseudonyms of Philipp Arlanibaus, Abeleus and Johann Eudwighottfaed or Gotofredus. His earliest works of importance being his history of the wars of Gustavus Adolphus, entitled Arma Suecica (pub. 1631-1634, in 12 parts), and the Inventarium Sueciae (1632), both compilations from existing records. His best known work is the Theatrum Europaeum, a series of chronicles of the chief events in the history of the world down to 1619. He was himself responsible for the first two volumes. It was continued by various writers and grew to twenty-one volumes (1633-1738), including illustrations by the beautiful copperplate engravings.
Johann Tetzel - Johann Tetzel Johann Tetzel (1465-1519) was a Dominican priest who is perhaps best known for selling indulgences during the 16th century. In 1517, Tetzel was trying to raise money for the ongoing construction of St. Peter's Basilica and it is believed that Martin Luther was inspired to write his 95 Theses, in part, due to Tetzel's actions during this period. Born 1465, died 1519. Old text from Schaff-Herzog Encyc of Religion, 1911: TETZEL, JOHANN: born at Leipzig between 1450 and 1460; died there in July, 1519. He studied theology and philosophy at the university of his native city, entered the Dominican order in 1489, achieved some success as a preacher, and was in 1502 commissioned by the pope to preach the jubilee indulgence, which he did.
Johann Homann - Johann Homann Johann Baptist Homann ( 1664 - 1724 ) of Nuremberg,Germany was a geographer and cartographer , who was instrumental in making maps of America to show to Europeans, and in turn bringing Europeans to see America. In 1715 Homann was appointed Imperial Geographer . A sample of an imperial privilege is e.g. cum privilegio Sacrae Caesareae Majestatis. Giving privileges to individuals was an added right that the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire enjoyed. Of particular significance to cartography were the imperial printing privileges (Latin privilegia impressoria). These protected for a time the authors in all scientific fields such as printers, copper engravers, map makers, publishers. They were also very important as recommendation for a potential customer. In 1716 Homann published his master piece.
