Karl Maria Kertbeny - Karl Maria Kertbeny Quoth Andrew Wilkholm: "Karl Maria Kertbeny was a Hungarian writer who is remembered today mostly for coining the term 'homosexual' as a replacement for the pejorative term 'pederast' that was used in the German and French speaking world of his time. Though he claimed not to be homosexual himself, Kertbeny said that his sense of justice made him cry out against sodomy prosecutions. Kertbeny argued that homosexuality is an inborn disposition, so laws like Paragraph 175 that punish it are unjust. "Kertbeny's writing career produced many books, but almost nothing of literary merit.".
Karl-Maria Kertbeny - Karl-Maria Kertbeny Karl-Maria Kertbeny Karl-Maria Kertbeny (born Karl-Maria Benkert) (1824 – 1882), Austrian-born journalist and human rights campaigner who coined the word homosexual, was born in Vienna, the son of a writer and a painter. The Benkert family moved to Budapest when he was a child—he was equally at home in Austria, Hungary or Germany. As a young man, while working as a bookseller's apprentice, Benkert had a close friend who was a homosexual. This young man killed himself after being blackmailed by an extortionist. Benkert later recalled that it was this tragic episode which led him to take a close interest in the subject of homosexuality, following what he called his "instinctive drive to take issue with every injustice." After a stint in the Hungarian.
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs - Karl Heinrich Ulrichs Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs (1825 – 95), pioneer gay rights activist, was born in Westerfeld, in north-western Germany. He graduated in law and theology from Göttingen University in 1846 . From 1846 to 1848, he studied history at Berlin University, writing a dissertation (in Latin) on the Peace of Westphalia. From 1849 to 1857 Ulrichs worked as an official legal adviser for the district court of Hildesheim in the Kingdom of Hanover. He was dismissed in 1859 when his homosexuality became apparent. In 1862, Ulrichs took the momentous step of telling his family and friends that he was, in his own word, a Uranian. He also wrote a statement of legal and moral support for a man arrested for homosexual offences. This was.
Karl Maria Wiligut - Karl Maria Wiligut Karl Maria Wiligut [alias Weisthor] (December 10, 1866 - January 3, 1946) was also known as "Himmler's Rasputin" He was born in Vienna. After World War I, he performed as a Neopagan and began claiming to have a clairvoyant recollection of the early history of Germany. In 1933 he met Himmler for the first time, who appointed Wiligut to the "SS Race and Settlement Main Department". He designed the "Totenkopf" ring, which Himmler personally awarded to prestigious SS officers. Due to his advice, Himmler in 1934 chose Wewelsburg to be the ritual headquarters of the SS. In 1938 he became the head of the "Departement for Pre- and Early History" in Himmler's personal staff. In 1939 his career was permanently damaged when records.
Karl of Austria - Karl of Austria Karl of Austria (also known in English as Charles) Karl Franz Josef Ludwig Hubert Georg Maria von Habsburg (August 17, 1887 - April 1, 1922) was the last Emperor of Austria and the last King of Hungary (as Charles IV of Hungary) and of the Habsburg Dynasty. He reigned from 1916 until his abdication on November 11, 1918. He sought to reclaim the throne of Hungary in the early 1920s. Karl has generally been seen by historians as an honourable figure who tried as emperor-king to halt World War I. On 14 April 2003 the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in the presence of Pope John Paul II, promulgated Karl of Austria's "heroic virtues", a step on the road to sainthood.
Karl Pearson - Karl Pearson Karl Pearson (March 27, 1857 - April 27, 1936) was a major player in the early development of statistics as a serious scientific discipline in its own right. He founded the Department of Applied Statistics at University College London in 1911; it was the first university statistics department in the world. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Biography 2 Awards from Professional Bodies 3 Contributions to Statistics 4 Publications 5 Other Useful Sites 6 Further Reading Biography Karl Pearson was born in London on the 27th March 1857. He was educated privately at University College School, after which he went to King's College, Cambridge to study mathematics. He then spent part of 1879 and 1880 studying medieval and 16th-century German literature at the universities of.
Karl May - Karl May Karl Friedrich May (February 25, 1842 - March 30, 1912) was a German writer noted chiefly for his wild west books set in the American West. He visited North America in 1908, well after writing his books, never getting west of Buffalo, New York. His very influential fictional accounts of the Western milieu have no direct basis in experience, but in his ingenious use of creativity, imagination and source literature (travel books, anthropological guides etc.). He wrote under many different pen names, including Capitain Ramon Diaz de la Escosura, M. Gisela, Hobble-Frank, Karl Hohenthal, D. Jam, Prinz Muhamel Lautréamont, Ernst von Linden, P. van der Löwen, Emma Pollmer, Richard Plöhn, and Oberlehrer Franz Langer. May invented the characters of Winnetou, the wise Indian, and.
Karl Philipp, prince zu Schwarzenberg - Karl Philipp, prince zu Schwarzenberg Karl Philipp, prince zu Schwarzenberg (April 18, 1771 - October 15, 1820), Austrian field marshal, was born at Vienna. He entered the imperial cavalry in 1788, fought in 1789 under Lacy and Loudon against the Turks, distinguished himself by his bravery, and became major in 1792. In the French campaign of 1793 he served in the advanced guard of the army commanded by Prince Josias of Coburg, and at Cateau Cambresis in 1794 his impetuous charge at the head of his regiment, vigorously supported by twleve British squadrons, broke a whole corps of the French, killed and wounded 3000 men, and brought off 32 of the enemy's guns. He was immediately decorated with the cross of the Maria Theresa order. After.
Karl Freiherr Mack von Leiberich - Karl Freiherr Mack von Leiberich Karl Freiherr Mack von Leiberich (August 25, 1752 - December 22, 1828), Austrian soldier, was born at Nenslingen, in Bavaria. In 1770 he joined an Austrian cavalry regiment, in which his uncle, Leiberich, was a squadron commander, becoming an officer seven years later. During the brief war of the Bavarian Succession he was selected for service on the staff of Count Kinsky, under whom, and subsequently under the comniander-in-chief Field Marshal Count Lacy, he did excellent work. He was promoted first lieutenant in 1778, and captain on the quartermaster-general's staff in 1783. Count Lacy, then the foremost soldier of the Austrian army, had the highest opinion of his young assistant. In 1785 Mack married Katherine Gabrieul, and was ennobled under the.
Carl Maria von Weber - Carl Maria von Weber Carl Maria Friedrich Ernest von Weber (November 18 or December 18, 1786 - June 5, 1826) was a German composer, born at Eutin, near Lübeck. He is best known for the operas Der Freischütz, Euryanthe, Oberon, King of the Fairies, Silvana, and The Three Pintos. There is some confusion over his birthdate: his father said he was born on December 18 and baptized on December 20, but the record of his baptism gives November 20, which suggests he was born instead on November 18. He came from a family that had long been devoted to art. His father, Baron Franz Anton von Weber, a military officer in the service of the palgrave Karl Theodor, was an excellent violinist, and his mother once sang.
Princess Maria Louisa of Baden - Princess Maria Louisa of Baden Born Maria Louisa Auguste, Princess of Baden (24 January 1779 - 4 May (O.S.) = 16 May (N.S.) 1826) daughter of Prince Karl Ludwig of Baden and Amalia Frederica of Hesse-Darmstadt. She is known by other names and titles, Marie Louise Augusta of Baden or Empress Elizaveta (Elizabeth in English) of Baden, also Luise Marie Auguste Princess and Margravine von Baden and Luise Marie Auguste Grand-Ducal Princess and Margravine von Baden. She was thought of as a very beautiful woman, she loved magnificent jewellery and cloths. Louise Marie Auguste converted from the Evangelical faith to Russian Orthodoxy in St. Petersburg on 9 May 1793 (O.S.) = 20 May 1793 (.N.S.) , receiving the name Elizabeth Alexeyevna (Alexejevna, Alekseievna, Alekseyevna, Alexeievna, or Alexeevna)..
January 9 - Kosto, theologian, actor, assistant Secretary of Justice of the Netherlands 1940 - Jimmy Boyd, actor, singer 1940 - Barbara Buczek, composer (†1993) 1940 - Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss politician 1941 - Joan Baez, American folk music singer, activist 1941 - Susannah York, British actress 1943 - Dick Yount, rock musician 1943 - Kenneth Kelley, American singer 1943 - Rob Hoeke, pianist, singer 1944 - Scott Engel, singer 1944 - Jimmy Page, rock musician, guitarist ("Led Zeppelin") 1945 - Frank J. Biondi Jr, president of HBO 1945 - Harun Farocki, actor, director 1946 - Leo Gullotta, actor 1948 - Paul King, musician (Blue Oyster Cult) 1950 - David Johansen (Buster Poindexter),singer 1950 - Rio Reiser, German singer (†1996) 1951 - Crystal Gayle, country music singer 1951 - Rosalyn Kind, , singer.
Joseph Goebbels - regime, known for his great rhetorical skills. He was born to the accountant Friedrich Goebbels and his wife Maria (née Oldenhausen) in Rheydt in the Rhineland. Because of a walking disability he was rejected when he volunteered for military service at the beginning of World War I. He played a large role in helping the Nazis achieve and retain power by creating propaganda to present the Nazi ideology to the German people in a favourable light. During the final stages of the war, before his suicide, Hitler appointed Goebbels Chancellor of Germany in his will (with Karl Dönitz as Führer). His government was not recognised by the Allied powers. On May 1, 1945, Goebbels and his wife also killed themselves, as well as their six children. Like Hitler's final moments, the.
Joseph Haydn - musical location. In 1749, Haydn had matured physically to the point that he was no longer able to sing high choral parts. On a weak pretext, he was summarily dismissed from his job. He evidently spent one night homeless on a park bench, but was taken in by friends and began to pursue a career as a freelance musician. During this arduous period, which lasted ten years, Haydn worked many different jobs, including valet/accompanist for the Italian composer Nicola Porpora, from whom he later said he learned "the true fundamentals of composition". He labored to fill the gaps in his training, and eventually came to write his first string quartets and his first opera. During this time Haydn's professional reputation gradually increased. In 1759, Haydn received his first important position, that.
Ira von Fürstenberg - manager for the fashion designer Valentino Garavani. The daughter of Prince Tassilo Egon Maria Karl George Leo von Fürstenberg and his half-American first wife, Clara Agnelli, a Fiat heiress, she was born Princess Virginia Carolina Theresa Pancrazia Galdina von Fürstenberg in Rome, Italy. Her maternal great-grandmother was a Kentucky heiress, Jane Campbell (Princess di San Faustino), and her brother, Prince Eduard Egon Peter Paul Giovanni von Fürstenberg, is better known as the fashion designer Egon von Fürstenberg. Her former sister in law is the fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg, and an uncle was Gianni Agnelli, the famous chairman of Fiat. Princess Ira has been married twice and reportedly was a close companion of Prince Rainier III of Monaco after the death of his wife, the former Grace Kelly. She and the.
Habsburg - Mary, heiress of Burgundy (the Low Countries) and the marriage of his son Philipp the Fair with Juana, heiress of Spain and its newly-founded empire, Charles V inherited an empire where "the sun does not set". Upon the abdication of the Emperor Charles V, also King Charles I of Spain (1516 - 1556), the family split into the Austrian Habsburgs and the Spanish Habsburgs. The Spanish Habsburgs died out in 1700 (prompting the War of the Spanish Succession), as did the Austrian Habsburgs in 1740 (prompting the War of the Austrian Succession). However, the heiress of the last Austrian Habsburg (Maria Theresa) had married Francis Stephen Duke of Lorraine, and their descendents carried on the Habsburg tradition from Vienna under the dynastic name Habsburg-Lorraine. It is speculated that extensive intra-family marriages.
Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza - no sons of his own, adopted Heinrich and passed on his barony to him. The passing along of the title has raised numerous questions over whether Heinrich Thyssen could actually call himself baron at all. He married firstly, August 1, 1946, Austrian aristocrat Princess Teresa Amalia Franziska Elisabeth Maria zur Lippe-Weissenfeld (born 1925). Their only child was Georg Heinrich (born 1950). They divorced May 14, 1954, and she married in 1960, as her second husband, Friedrich Maximilian, prince zu Furstenberg. He married secondly, June 23, 1954, Anglo-Indian fashion model Nina Dyer (1930-1965); they had no children and were divorced on July 4, 1956. She later married and divorced His Highness Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan and committed suicide in 1965. He married thirdly, September 17, 1956, New Zealand-born British fashion model Fiona.
History of Bavaria - division of 1392 proved a succession of civil wars which led to the temporary eclipse of Bavaria as a force in German politics. Neighbouring states encroached upon its borders, and the nobles ignored the authority of the dukes, who, deprived of the electoral vote, were mainly occupied for fifty years with intestine strife. This condition of affairs, however, had some benefits. The government of the country and the control of the finances passed mainly into the hands of an assembly called the Landtag or Landschaft, organized in 1392. The towns, assuming a certain independence, became strong and wealthy as trade increased, and the citizens of Munich and Regensburg often proved formidable antagonists to the dukes. Thus a period of disorder saw the growth of representative institutions and the establishment of a.
History of Bratislava - the town's official new name becomes "Bratislava"- instead of "Pressburg" (German) / "Pozsony" (Hungarian) 1919: the (Slovak) Comenius University (Univerzita Komenského) is founded 1926: the radio started broadcasting 1938 (October)- 1939(March): seat of the government of the autonomous Slovakia within Czecho-Slovakia (see e.g. Jozef Tiso) 1939-1945 the capital of Slovakia 1943-1948: construction of the tunnel through the castle hill 1944(June): the Allies bombard the oil refinery (see late 19th century) and the western part of the city 1944(June)- 1945 (April 4): occupation by the German army 1945 (April 4): liberation by the Soviet Army (see 1960) and part of Czechoslovakia again 1940s - 1970s: expansion of the town (the following villages became city parts: Karlova Ves in 1944, Devín+ Dúbravka+ Lamač+ Petržalka (right river bank)+ Prievoz+ Rača+ Vajnory in 1946, Čunovo+.
History of anti-Semitism - of their possessions, and forced conversion of Jewish children. 270 Jews burned at stake. Expulsion of Jews from Austria. 1422 Pope Martin V issues a Bull reminding Christians that Christianity was derived from Judaism and warns the friars not to incite against the Jews. The Bull was withdrawn the following year, alleging that the Jews of Rome attained the Bull by fraud. 1435 Massacre and forced conversion of Majorcan Jews. 1438 Establishment of mellahs (ghettos) in Morocco. 1447 Casimir IV renews all the rights of Jews of of Poland and makes his charter one of the most liberal in Europe. He revokes it in 1454 at the insistence of Bishop Zbignev. 1463 Pope Nicholas V authorizes the establishment of the Inquisition to investigate heresy among the Marranos. 1473-1474 Spain. Massacres of.
