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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Dresden, 11 February 1586) was an Elector of Saxony from the House of Wettin.
Augustus was born in Freiberg, the youngest child and third (but second surviving) son of Heinrich of Saxony and Katharina of Mecklenburg.
The form of Lutheranism taught in electoral Saxony was that of Melanchthon, and many of its teachers and adherents, who were afterwards called Crypto-Calvinists, were favoured by the elector.
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  Freiberg - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
FREIBERG, or Freyberg, a town of Germany in the kingdom of Saxony, on the Miinzbach, near its confluence with the Mulde, 19 m.
Freiberg is the seat of the general administration of the mines throughout the kingdom, and its celebrated mining academy (Bergakadeinie), founded in 1765, is frequented by students from all parts of the world.
In all the partitions of the territories of the Saxon house of Wettin, from the latter part of the 13th century onward, Freiberg always remained common property, and it was not till 1485 (the mines not till 1537) that it was definitively assigned to the Albertine line.
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 Royal Family of Europe - pafg170 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Johann "The Constant", Elector Of SAXONY was born on 30 Jun 1468 in Meissen, Dresden, Saxony.
Ernst, Prince Of SAXONY was born on 26 Jun 1464 in Of Torgau, Sachsen, Prussia.
Moritz, Duke Of SAXONY ZEITZ was born on 28 Mar 1619 in Dresen, Dresden, Saxony.
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 Freiberg, Saxony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Freiberg is a city in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, capital of the district Freiberg.
A symbol of this history is the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (famously known as Mining academy), established in 1765 and the oldest university of mining and metallurgy in the world.
In 1944 the Flossenburg concentration camp oversaw a subcamp built outside the city of Freiberg.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Freiberg,_Saxony   (211 words)

  
 Augustus I
Augustus I, elector of Saxony, was the younger son of Henry, Duke of Saxony, and consequently belonged to the Albertine branch of the Wettin family.
The form of Lutheranism taught in electoral Saxony was that of Philipp Melanchthon, and many of its teachers and adherents, who were afterwards called Crypto-Calvinists, were favored by the elector.
As a ruler of Saxony Augustus was economical and enlightened.
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 Silchem Handelsgesellschaft mbH – Semiconductor and Solar Silicon from Freiberg/Saxony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The mining- and university town Freiberg is situated in the heart of Saxony between Chemnitz and Dresden at the foot of the Erzgebirge.
In the high Middle Ages Freiberg was the largest town in the district Meißen and is regarded as the first free mining town of Germany; as the mother of all mining towns.
Freiberg succeeded in what many other towns of the new federal states can only dream of: busy industrial areas with processing industry whose products are needed in the whole world for computers, telecommunication and modern production methods.
www.silchem.de /area_freiberg.htm   (261 words)

  
 Freiberg. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Freiberg was for centuries a silver-mining center and was settled by miners in the 12th cent.; by the early 20th cent., silver mining in the region had been abandoned.
The city passed in 1485 to the house of Wettin, and it was the main commercial center of Saxony until the 16th cent.
Freiberg’s famous mining academy (founded 1765) is the oldest in the world.
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 Freiberg, Saxony
Freiberg is a city in Saxony, Germany, capital of the district Freiberg.
A symbol of this history is the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, established in 1765 and the oldest university of mining and metallurgy in the world.
Freiberg also has a notable cathedral containing a famous Gottfried Silbermann organ.
www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Freiberg,_Saxony   (230 words)

  
 University - Freiberg
The closer surroundings of Freiberg could not be compared to those of Heidelberg, however there were plenty of places for excursions and walks; Dresden was easy to reach, also the sandstone mountains, so I felt quite well the three years in Freiberg.
Doss, one for Kolbeck the mineralogist, and Beck, the Geologist at Freiberg.
He finished Freiberg, went on studying in Germany and Switzerland; he wanted to be versed in several fields in hope that he could do most of the management of his estates by himself.
www.herzenberg.net /leo/htmlrh/UnivFrei.html   (4079 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - Maurice, Elector of Saxony - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
On 18 August 1541 the Duke Heinrich died, and Maurice, as the eldest son, succeded him as the Duke of Saxony and Head of the Albertine Line.
Duke Maurice of Saxony was raised already briefly after the battle on 4 June 1547 in the field camp to the Electo of Saxony.
Charles V, hoped, with his appointment as the Elector of Saxony the agreement as the Augsburg Interim too gotten, with whose assistance of the Emperor the faith splitting in the Empire wanted to terminate.
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Maurice,_Elector_of_Saxony   (1511 words)

  
 Saxony and Its History
After Henry the Lion, the powerful Duke of Saxony and Bavaria was defeated in 1176 by Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, the boundaries of the duchy were reduced and redrawn to centre it on the middle Elbe with its capital at Wittenberg.
At its centre a sarcophagus was erected in 1563 for Moritz, the Elector of Saxony.
North of Freiberg in the vicinity of Noßen is a romantic landscaped park, established in 1810, where the remains of a large Cistercian cloister may be found which dates from the late 12th century to about the 15th century.
www.apex.net.au /~jgk/saxony/history.html   (11891 words)

  
 WHKMLA : History of Saxony, 1740-1789
The population for Saxony in 1750 is estimated at 1.3 million.
Saxony's lack of weight in international diplomacy was expressed by the fact that Prussia's Frederick the Great, by refusing to negotiate with Saxon prime minister von Brühl, in effect influenced the representation and policy of Saxony.
Although Saxony had not lost any territory, the Seven Years War had been the worst disaster the country had suffered since the Thirty Years' War; during the 7 Years War, the Prussians had pressed 48,000,000 Talers in contributions (designated as such) out of the Saxons; the complete figure is higher.
www.zum.de /whkmla/region/germany/saxony17401789.html   (1120 words)

  
 Freiberg, Saxony, Pictures
Freiberg has long been the center of the state's important lead- and silver-mining industry.
Freiberg contains a cathedral originally dating from the 12th century, rebuilt in Gothic style after its destruction by fire in the late 15th century, and restored in 1893.
Henry the Pious, duke of Saxony, and a number of his successors are buried in the cathedral.
www.greatestcities.com /Europe/Germany/Saxony/Freiberg_city.html   (351 words)

  
 financial.de: NewsRoom > News Deutschland
The Minister of Economic Affairs of the State of Saxony, Thomas Jurk, will be opening the new technological development in a festive celebration on 4 May 2006.
In addition to Freiberg the group also operates another module factory at its Gällivare Photovoltaic AB (GPV) subsidiary in Sweden with a capacity of some 30 MW.
Freiberg is one of the world's most advanced integrated solar production facilities where the SolarWorld Group turns solar grade silicon into high quality solar wafers, solar cells and solar modules.
www.financial.de /newsroom/news_d/63892.html   (711 words)

  
 'Silicon Saxony' fires up Dresden's technology industry, Life in Germany, Germany, Expatica
The leading lights of this "Silicon Saxony" are California's AMD and Germany's Infineon.
The term "Silicon Saxony" was coined in the 1990s in a nod to California's legendary Silicon Valley.
Saxony's electronics firms turned over around 5 billion euros ($6 billion) in the past year and exported 17.9 per cent more than in the previous year.
www.expatica.com /actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=53&story_id=30302   (680 words)

  
 Dietrich of Freiberg (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
He is sometimes referred to as “Dietrich of Saxony,” and often as “Theodoricus Teutonicus.” He is also mentioned in medieval documents as “Magister” or “Master,” indicating that he had advanced university training.
William A. Wallace in his The Scientific Methodology of Theodoric of Freiberg, one of the few studies of Dietrich in English, demonstrates the dependence of Dietrich's scientific methodology on his philosophical theories, and particularly his logical writings.
Dietrich of Freiberg thus presents us with a bifurcated universe of beings, but one that is nonetheless a hierarchy of beings.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/dietrich-freiberg   (8541 words)

  
 Hecht biography
Freiberg is situated at the northeastern foot of the Erzgebirge, southwest of Dresden, and was a centre for the support infrastructure of the mining industry.
Hecht was appointed second professor of mathematics at the Freiberg Bergakademie in 1816.
Hecht was not a leading figure at the Freiberg Bergakademie, but through his great industry and his strict conscientiousness in carrying out his duties he was of great help to his students.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Biographies/Hecht.html   (547 words)

  
 470   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Further, we investigated 8 sediment profiles of 3 lakes in Freiberg, of one lake at the village Zug 3 km south of Freiberg and one of the village Großhartmannsdorf 15 km south of Freiberg, outside the contamination-zone.
The d34S-pattern of the lakes in Freiberg differ distincly from the other two: Freiberg lakes (Kreuzteiche) display negative d34S-values between -5 and -20 ” ; this is quite out of the d34S range of the soil and grass transects and of leaf-sulphat from trees in Freiberg and Zug in this year.
The water-sulphat of the freiberg lakes show in winter and summer 1994 in the sequence of the four lakes increasing d34S (4 to 10”) and increasing d18O-values (4 to 8”).
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 Freiberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Freiberg is the name of two cities in Germany (note there are also two named Freiburg).
Freiberg is also the German name for the Czech town Příbor, in Moravia
Freiberg is the name of a disease in the foot.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Freiberg   (102 words)

  
 learning from history - Anti-Racism Project For Unemployed Youth
The two-year work and education program, supported by contributions from the county of Freiberg and the European Community Initiative INTERREG II, was divided into modules in the modern career fields of information and media services, each supplemented by six-week internships.
This project would not have been possible without the huge amount of public support that was given: The Free-State of Saxony, the County of Freiberg, the cities of Freiberg and Oederan, private individuals and parishes donated several thousand marks, as did city and district councils of all democratic political parties.
Their report formed a substantial part of the book "Wir waren zum Tode bestimmt - Lodz - Theresienstadt - Auschwitz - Freiberg - Oederan - Mauthausen", published by the CJD in May 2002, which chartered the history of the Friberg and Oederan subsidiaries of the Flossenbürg concentration camp.
www.holocaust-education.de /index.php?site=pr_import_C004&lp=en   (1306 words)

  
 Hecht biography
Little is known of Hecht before the age of 26 when he enrolled at the Bergakademie at Freiberg, Saxony.
It is no surprise to learn then, that Hecht was influenced by the mining tradition of the area and it is reasonable to assume that before he entered the Bergakademie at Freiberg, Hecht had worked in the mining industry in some capacity.
When von Busse retired in 1826 it was a natural promotion for Hecht to assume the first mathematics chair at the Freiberg Bergakademie and this was indeed the position.
www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Biographies/Hecht.html   (547 words)

  
 Siltronic - Freiberg, Germany
The Siltronic Plant in Freiberg is situated in the immediate vicinity of Dresden, an important European center of microelectronics.
Freiberg has state-of-the-art production lines 150 mm wafers and one of the most modern silicon crystal pulling furnaces.
Having built a new production line (with an investment total for over EUR 400 mn.) for the new generation of 300 mm wafers, we are now seeking to extend our position in this market segment.
www.siltronic.com /int/noc/AboutUs/Sites/Freiberg/?locale=en_US   (91 words)

  
 Environmental Problems in the Freiberg Mining District
During the environmental research work at the Mining Academy of Freiberg been done an area-covering collection of soil samples from the A- and B-horizon was done.
The anthropogenically caused anomalies reach up to the area around the Freiberg, Muldenhütten and Halsbrücke smelters and also to the forest area in a distance of 10 km from the smelters (see fig.
Using the results of the factor analysis a qualitative characterization of both sources of trace elements could be given, moreover both influences could be plotted in map form.
www.mineral.tu-freiberg.de /geochemie/anodiff   (3087 words)

  
 Ernst Engel
German political economist and statistician, was born in Dresden on the 21st of March 1821.
He studied at the famous mining academy of Freiberg, in Saxony, and on completing his curriculum travelled in Germany and France.
Immediately after the revolution of 1848 he was attached to the royal commission in Saxony appointed to determine the relations between trade and labor.
www.nndb.com /people/886/000095601   (277 words)

  
 Dental Economics-Dental News - Wacker to open 300mm line in Freiberg
The decision to choose Freiberg as the location for the new 300-mm wafer production facility was taken after an intensive study, which also looked at alternatives in North America and Asia.
The main factors in favor of Freiberg, according to the Group's President & CEO, were the existing infrastructure, the availability of highly qualified specialists and the outstanding cooperation with the state of Saxony, including investment incentives.
Germany's federal government and the state of Saxony are providing regional development funding for the project.
www.dentaleconomics.com /articles/article_display.html?id=158294   (529 words)

  
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Everywhere in Saxony you meet people who've been around the world - and throughout the world you find Saxons or signs of their productivity.
After silver was discovered in 1168 in the Ore Mountain village of Christiansdorf, which later became known as Freiberg, Saxony grew to become one of the richest lands in Europe.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing from Kamenz in Saxony - every year the Lessing Conference takes place there; and every other year the Free State of Saxony bestows the Lessing Prize on accomplished laterati for their outstanding achievements in literature - wrote "Nathan the Wise," and it was directed by a Saxon woman, Fredericke Caroline Neuber.
www.smwk.de /en/kf/kunst/inhalt.html   (883 words)

  
 Freiberger Geologie:
It would be really nice to welcome you again in the future for one of our forthcoming workshops which will be held each 2 - 3 years.
Have a look on this"after-meeting website" of "FREIBERG 2004" from where photographs (made by Kathleen) of our meeting are ready to download as nice souvenirs.
Gaitzsch, B. (Freiberg, Germany), Gand, G. (Dijon, France),
www.geo.tu-freiberg.de /palaeo/workshop/index.html   (197 words)

  
 Dietrich of Freiberg
He was born in Freiberg in Saxony around the year 1250.
-----, “'Causa essentialis' bei Dietrich von Freiberg und Meister Eckhart,” in Flasch (1987), pp.
Winkler, N., “Dietrich von Freiberg und Meister Eckhart in der Kontroverse mit Thomas von Aquin.
www.seop.leeds.ac.uk /archives/sum2005/entries/dietrich-freiberg   (8516 words)

  
 Planning your SILBERMANN Organ Tour
Dresden to the east, Freiberg central/north, Frauenstain central south, and Reichenbach to the west.
The Silver City of Freiberg is proud home today to no less than four Silbermann organs in three churches.
Freiberg is also host to the Silbermann Organ Festival and International Organ Competition held every two years (odd-numbered years, 2001 etc) in autumn.
www.baroquemusic.org /silbprog.html   (1595 words)

  
 Friedrich Mohs Summary
Mohs, born in Gernrode, Germany, studied chemistry, mathematics and physics at the University of Halle and also studied at the Mining Academy in Freiberg, Saxony.
After assuming the position of a foreman at a mine in 1801, Mohs moved in 1802 to Austria, where he was employed in trying to identify the minerals in a private collection of a Banker.
In 1812, Mohs became professor in Graz; in 1818, professor in Freiberg, Saxony; in 1826, professor in Vienna.
www.bookrags.com /Friedrich_Mohs   (263 words)

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