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  Saxony, duke of saxony, saxony hotel miami   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Maurice, Elector of Saxony, elder son of Henry, Duke of Saxony, belonging to the Albertine branch of the.
Saxony in 1485 the land was divided between the brothers Albert and Ernst.
Saxony was an "electorate", that is, its ruler cast one of the votes to.
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 Glossary: August the Strong
Like his predecessors, August the Strong believed it was part of his royal duty to amass a universal collection of art in accordance with the ideals of the Renaissance.
August the Strong's lavish court and grand architectural projects helped Dresden rise to both political and artistic prominence, and his unwavering patronage of the arts helped the city become a European center of the Baroque.
The porcelain sickness, apparently, was not genetic as August III was not as strong a patron of the Meissen factory.
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 Augustus III
Augustus III, King of Poland, and, as Frederick Augustus II, Elector of Saxony, the only legitimate son of Augustus II ("the Strong"), was born at Dresden on the 17th of October 1696.
Saxony was in that year attacked by the Prussians, and with so much success that not only was the Saxon army forced to capitulate at Pirna in October, but the elector, who fled to Warsaw, made no attempt to recover Saxony, which remained under the dominion of Frederick.
He left five sons, the eldest of whom was his successor in Saxony, Frederick Christian; and five daughters, one of whom was the wife of Louis, the dauphin of France, and mother of Louis XVI.
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 August Bogenschneider Information
August served in the Prussian army, and related stories to his family of all the dead bodies he saw while driving an ammunition cart and horse through a battlefield.
But August thought of his pregnant young wife, Wilhelmina, his four year-old son, Karl, and his six-month-old baby Hattie, and concluded that their life and future would be much better in America.
It is believed that August was from the town of Luckow, Kreis (County) Randow, Regierungsbezirk (district) of Stettin, Province of Pommern, Country of Prussia.
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 Frederick Augustus III of Saxony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Friedrich August III, King of Saxony (Friedrich August Johann Ludwig Karl Gustav Gregor Philipp) (25 May 1865 -18 February 1932) was the last King of Saxony.
Friedrich August Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony (1893- 1943).
Friedrich August was born in January, while Friedrich Christian was born in December.
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 Today in German History
Death of the philosopher, Friedrich Bouterwek in Göttingen, Germany.
Death of Friedrich Augustus II, king of Saxony, in the Tyrol, Austria (born in Dresden, Germany).
Friedrich Augustus had granted a certain degree of democratic reform in Saxony prior to 1848.
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 History-KOF-Ancestors-Full-print-version
The wife of Adolph Heinrich Friedrichs (16), Harma Christine Arnd (17) was the daughter of Hinrich Arnd (34), whose father, Ludwig (68) and grandfather Andreas Arnd (136) were shepherds and serfs of the Count of Putbus.
A brother, Friedrich Christian Rosenthal, was a professor of anatomy at the university in Greifswald and later in Berlin.
Friedrich Schneider (14) was born in 1794 in Bunzlau, a city between Liegnitz and Gorlitz.
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 boys clothing: German royalty--Saxony
In 1697 Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony, was crowned King of Poland.
Under the rule of Friedrich August I (Augustus the Strong) and Friedrich August II, Dresden became a centre of European art and culture.
Saxony fought on the side of Napoleon at the Battle of Leipzig and lost.
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 The Former Ruling House of Saxony, 1939-1945   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
, Margrave of Meissen, Prince of Saxony (1893-).
Children of King Friedrich August III of Saxony (1865-1932)
Renounced his rights of succession in 1923 and was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1924.
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 Events in Religion and Philosophy
Friedrich Engels worked in his father's business as a young man but developed radical ideas early on.
A student of Friedrich Hegel Rothe, became a professor at the University of Heidelberg in theology.
Alfons Maria Stickler was born on August 23, 1910 in Neukirchen, Austria.
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 Friedrich Nietzsche - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900) was a highly influential German philosopher.
Friedrich Nietzsche was born on October 15, 1844 in the small town of Röcken bei Lützen, not too far from Leipzig, Saxony.
He was born on the 49th birthday of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia and was thus named after him.
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 Horn (Instrument) - LoveToKnow 1911
The horn (a post-horn) did not appear in the arms of the family in question until 1699, when the first peer Casimir Johann Friedrich was created hereditary Post-Master.
Examples of C. Graun's 6 scoring for horns in F and G respectively in Polydorus (1728-1729) and in Iphigenia (1731) show the complete emancipation of the instrument from its original limitations; it serves not only as melody instrument but also to enrich the harmony and emphasize the rhythm.
of Saxony, dated Dresden, April 3, 1771, in which he prays that the post of his father as horn-player in the court orchestra - in which he had already served as deputy for his invalid father - may be awarded to him.
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 Index At-Az
The only legitimate son of Friedrich August I of Saxony (August II of Poland), he followed his father's example by joining the Roman Catholic Church in 1712.
On August 1 he led the fight to halt Malik's attempt to seat the Communist China delegation by a ruling of the chair.
On August 2 he demanded that the U.S.S.R. submit proposals to end the Korean War, asserting (August 8) that the Soviet Union was assisting the invaders and could call off the attack.
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 Genealogy of Karl Emil OTTO Austel
Auguste Luise Austel, born October 04, 1894 in Lugau by Aue, Saxony, Germany; died December 08, 1946 in Nurnberg, Germany.
Friedrich Gotthold Austel moved From Zwönitz to Lössnitz and became the root of the Lössnitz line of the Austel family.
Friedrich Gotthold Austel, born May 01, 1768 in Zwönitz, Saxony, Germany; died January 08, 1835 in Lössnitz, Saxony, Germany; married Johanne Christiana Haarlass June 10, 1794 in Lössnitz, Saxony.
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 1789
He gave a concert before the court of the Elector Friedrich August III of Saxony and his wife Amalie, which included the D major piano concerto K 537, for which he received a “very fine box” containing 100 ducats on the following day (he did not tell Constanze about this).
Mozart received from King Friedrich Wilhelm II a commission to write six string quartets, of which he composed three (K 575, 589 and 590).
On 29th August “Figaro” was performed in the Burgtheater under Joseph Weigl — with two new numbers for Adriana Ferrarese del Bene as Susanna (K 577 and K 579).
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 Der Rittmeister Militaria Imperial German Merchandise Page 20:Imperial German Royalty & Nobility Memorabilia: ...
Friedrich Wilhelm III was the King of Prussia (1797-1840) during the Napoleonic Wars.
Friedrich August III was the final king of the Kingdom of Saxony.
The regiment was garrisoned in Metz and raised in 1753.
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The first large porcelain service was a gift to Elisabeth from August III of Saxony on the occasion of the wedding of her nephew Grand Duke Peter to a minor German princess (later Empress Catherine the Great).
To smooth relations and commemorate Russia’s military victory over the Turks, Friedrich II of Prussia ordered a porcelain service known as the Berlin Dessert Service that was made in Meissen, Germany and had the Russian Imperial monogram of Peter I and the cross of the Order of St. Andrew.
Friedrich II also gave three plates to Paul Petrovich, Catherine’s son and later Paul I, to commemorate important Russian victories in three wars.
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 Saxony Royal Family
Friedrich August III assumed the title King of Saxony as Friedrich August I on 11 December 1806.
Luise didn't follow the etiquette at the Saxony court which resulted in arguments with her father in law King Georg of Saxony.
On 9 December 1902 with the assistance of her brother Archduke Leopold she left Saxony without her children but pregnant to meet up with the teacher of her children, André Giron.
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 RULERS OF GERMANY (DEUTSCHLAND)
  The Hohenstaufen Konrad III eventually succeeded Lothar II and passed the throne to his nephew Friedrich I. The Hohenstaufen lost the throne again during the minority of Friedrich II and the civil war between Philipp of Swabia and Otto IV of Brunswick.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM II Son of August Wilhelm son of Friedrich Wilhelm I
Son of Friedrich Michael son of Christian III of Zweibrücken; King from 1805, died 1825
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 Genealogy of the Royal Family of Saxony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
HRH Maria Auguste Friederike Karoline Ludovike Amalie Maximiliane Franziska Nepomucena Xaveria Princess of Saxony
HRH Maria Sidonia Ludovica Mathilde Wilhelmine Auguste Xaveria Baptista Nepomucena Veronica Hyacinthia Deodata Princess of Saxony
HRH Elisabeth Albertine Karoline Sidonie Ferdinande Leopoldine Antonie Auguste Clementine Princess of Saxony
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 Johann Sebastian BACH Cantata 198: The TRAUER ODE. Illustrated history, full text and music samples.
In 1697, Friedrich August, Elector of Saxony, assumed the Polish crown, which traditionally passed not through lineage, but on selection by the Polish nobility from eligible candidates.
Despite the Elector's, and Saxony's solid Lutheran Protestant background, this was no problem for the opportunist Friedrich August who readily acceded, formally adopting Catholicism in Vienna on June 1st, 1697 despite a storm of protest from the strongly Protestant Saxon populace.
The bass recitative extols her praises, with reference to the great rivers of Saxony and Poland, the Weichsel (Vistula), Dniester, the Elbe and Muth, as well as the Residence at Pretzsch on the Elbe to which the Queen had retired and nearby Torgau, where she spent time while Pretzsch was prepared.
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 Otto von Below   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
1873) and Queen Amelia, he was likewise the father of Friedrich August III.
From an early age he received a careful scientific and military training, and in 1846 joined an artillery unit as a lieutenant.
hen his brother Albert became Saxony's king, Georg was named Commander-in- Chief of the Saxon Army, and in 1888 was made a Prussian field marshal by the Kaiser Wilhelm I. Since King Albert's marriage was childless, Georg succeeded on his death in 1902
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Born in 1122 in Waiblingen or in Weingarten.
Married secondly in 1824 at Charlottenburg Countess Auguste von Harrach (*1800 Harrach,†1873 Homburg).
Issue of marriage: Friedrich August (*1720,†1722); Joseph August (*1721,†1728); FREDERICK CHRISTIAN (*1722,†1763); Maria Amalia (*1724,†1760; Queen of Spain); Maria Margaret (*1727,†1734); Maria Anna (*1728,†1797); Franz Xavier (*1730,†1806); Maria Josepha (*1731,†1767); Carl Christian (*1733,†1796); Maria Christina (*1735,†1782); Maria Elisabeth (*1736,†1818); Albert Casimir (*1738,†1822); Clement Wenceslaus (*1739,†1812); Maria Kunigunda (*1740,†1826).
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 Austro-Hungarian Army - Erzherzog Josef Franz
During the communist revolution in 1919 he was taken as an hostage by the bolshevik republicans but soon liberated by the international pressure mainly by the British Royal Family.
When Admiral Horthy came to power, Erzherzog Josef Franz decided to remain in Hungary where he married the daughter of King Friedrich August III.
of Saxony, Princess Anna, in the summer of 1924.
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 Frederick William III of Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
, August 3, 1770 – June 7, 1840) was king of Prussia from 1797 to 1840.
The son of King Frederick William II of Prussia, Frederick William was born in Potsdam and became Crown Prince in 1786, when his father ascended the throne.
At the Congress of Vienna, Frederick William's ministers succeeded in securing important territorial increases for Prussia, although they failed to obtain the annexation of all of Saxony, as they had wished.
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 Frederick Augustus I of Saxony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was the eldest son of Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony and Maria Antonia, Princess of Bavaria.
He succeeded his father in December 1763, as Elector Frederick Augustus III of Saxony (from the House of Wettin).
The country was occupied by Russia, and only restored to full sovereignty after a landswap between Russia, Prussia and Saxony, resulting in the loss of two-thirds of the country's territory.
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 Royal News 2006, Section I
Maria Margarethe, Duchess of Mecklenburg, née Princess von Hohenzollern, died at Hechingen on 4 August.
Luisa Giovanna Agata Gavina Bianca Maria, at Geneva on 16 August.
Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia died at Mallorca on 19 June.
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 Johann Georg Palitzsch (1723 - 1788)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In the following he was called to the court of the Elector of Saxony to teach the young principal, Friedrich August III.
Besides astronomy, he studied agricultural botanics, and helped to introduce the potato as a common food in Saxony.
His former residence was detroyed during the Battle at Dresden in August 1813.
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 Photographs of Russian Tsar Nicholas II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Nicholas II reviewing the Life Guard Uhlan Regiment of His Majesty, the emperor wearing the uniform of the regiment, Peterhof, May 11, 1910, 5 3/8 x 8 1/4 in.
Rare photograph of Nicholas II and empress Maria Feodorovna (his mother and Chief of the regiment) reviewing the Chevalier Guard Regiment of Her Majesty Empress Maria Feodorovna, circa 1910, cossacks of His Majesty's Own Convoy standing behind the emperor.
Nicholas II and king of Saxony Friedrich-August III wearing the uniform of the Lief Guard Cuirassier regiment reviewing the guard of honour at the Tsarskoe Selo railway station on June 6, 1914.
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 August Friedrich Pecht ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Johann Friedrich Bause, Portrait Of Frederic August Of Saxony, 1769
Jacques Callot, St. Mederic, Abbot, August 29; Decapitation of St. John the Baptist, August 29; St. Fiacre, August 30; Deposit of the Virgin*s Belt, August 31; seventy-sixth plate from the book, Les IMAGES DE TOUS/LES SAINCTS ET SAINTES /DE L*ANN…E...
Friedrich, Casper David : 1774 - 1840 - Romanticism, Romanticism, painting, german, Absolutearts.com
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