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  Grand Duchy of Poznan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The monarch of the Duchy was the Prussian King (a Hohenzollern) and his representative was the governor-general: the first was Duke Antoni Radziwiłł (1815-1831), married to Princess Luiza of Prussia, the king's cousin.
The territory of the duchy was divided into 2 districts: Poznan District, Bydgoszcz District, and 26 counties administered by the landrats and the county councils.
After the November Uprising (1830 in Congress Poland against Russia) which was significantly supported by the Poles from the Grand Duchy of Poznan, the Prussian administration under over-president Edward Flotwell introduced a system of police and repression against the Poles.
bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/g/gr/grand_duchy_of_poznan.html   (241 words)

  
 Grand Duchy Of Posen info here at en.88of100c.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The monarch of the duchy, with trademark of Grand Duke of Poznań, was the Hohenzollern caliph of Prussia representative was the Duke-Governor: the introductory was Prince Antoni Radziwiłł (1815-1831), who was married to Princess Luise of Prussia, the king's cousin.
The Prussian administrative entirety that tarped the territory of the Duchy was invitationed the Province of the Grand Duchy of Poznań in the senility 1815-1849, to simplify scrupulous the Province of Poznań (Polish: Prowincja Poznańska, German: Provinz Posen).
Grand Duchy of Posen Poznań District, (Rejencja Poznańska), Poznań
en.88of100c.info /Grand_Duchy_of_Posen   (1077 words)

  
 Grand Duchy of Posen 1815-1849, Posen Province 1849-1920 (Prussia, Germany)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Grand Duchy of Posen 1815-1849, Posen Province 1849-1920 (Prussia, Germany)
Grand Duchy of Posen 1815-1849, Posen Province 1849-1886
In 1849 the Grand Duchy was renamed to Province of Poznan (German Provinz Posen) and the autonomy was suppressed.
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 WHKMLA : History of Poland - Posen 1815-1848
Grand Duchy of Posen covered an area of c.
As Poles from Posen (Poznan) had supported the rebellion in Russian Poland, the stadholder was deposed and the position left vacant.
Krzysztof A. Marowski, Deutsche in Posen 1815-1871 (Germans in Poznan, 1815-1871), pp.234-262, in : Joachim Rogall, Land der grossen Ströme. Von Polen nach Litauen.
www.zum.de /whkmla/region/eceurope/gdposen18151848.html   (614 words)

  
 Historische Landkarten der Provinz Posen: Text zu den Karten
The Grand Duchy of Posen was part of the Kingdom of Prussia but not of the German Confederation.
The Grand Duchy of Posen was renamed in 1846 to Province of Posen.
Therefore, the Province of Posen existed from 1846 until 1918 with the (outer) boundaries of in the 1900 map.
www.tr62.de /karten/ps-text.html   (1887 words)

  
 RootsWeb: POSEN-L [POSEN] Poles and Germans in the Grand Duchy Posen in the spring of 1848 (6/7)
[POSEN] Poles and Germans in the Grand Duchy Posen in the spring of 1848 (5/7) by Gerd Schmerse < >
[POSEN] Poles and Germans in the Grand Duchy Posen in the spring of 1848 (7/7) by Gerd Schmerse < >
Re: [POSEN] Poles and Germans in the Grand Duchy Posen in the spring of 1848 (5/7) by Gerd Schmerse < >
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 b. Poland. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
Napoleon and Alexander I of Russia created the DUCHY OF WARSAW, a constitutional state based on the French model, including the introduction of the Napoleonic Code.
The Prussian Settlement Decree, abolishing serfdom (See 1815), was extended to Poles in the grand duchy of Posen.
In 1836, however, a royal decree restricted the earlier terms of the settlement to favor the landlords of Posen, retaining a system of large estates as elsewhere in Prussia.
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 A Brief History of the Province of Posen
The 19th century Prussian Province of Posen was called Wielkopolska until 1793, literally "Greater Poland".
The Prussian province of Posen (Capital city of Poznan) was established in 1815 and comprised the major part of the Polish region called 'Greater Poland'.
Until the 1850s, the term "Grand Duchy of Posen" was officially used as a name of the Province.
www.franklinfamily.info /Ancestry/History_of_Posen.htm   (795 words)

  
 Provinz Posen dgun.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Province of Posen (German: Provinz Posen, Polish: Prowincja Poznańska) was a province of Prussia from 1846-1918.
With the unification of Germany, the province of Posen became part of the German Empire (1871-1918) and the city of Posen was officially named an imperial residence city.
The city became part of the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807 and was capital of the Poznań department.
provinz.posen.en.dgun.org   (8293 words)

  
 Historical Maps of the Prussian Province of Posen - Poznan: Map guide (text)
Russia gave this Duchy relatively much autonomy and even called it "Kingdom of Poland" even it was dependent on Russia.
The Province of Posen was divided into two districts, Bromberg (Bydgoszcz) and Posen (Poznañ).
The fate would have it that Posen (and other areas) were handed over to Poland and not Bavaria to the Czech Republic or Badenia to France.
www.tr62.de /maps/po-text.html   (1905 words)

  
 The Ultimate Chodziez Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
Shortly after, Napolean defeated Prussia (1807) and out of the Treaty of Tilsit, this part of Poland became the Grand Duchy of Warsaw.
In 1849, the Duchy was formalized as the Prussian province of Posen.
This name came from District von Colmer — Meyenburg, extremely meritorious in the building of the railway, which was beneficial to the town's economy.
www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Chodziez   (1402 words)

  
 HaDavar Online:
Michael Solomon Alexander, first Protestant Bishop in Jerusalem, was born of Jewish parents in Schönlanke, a small manufacturing town in the grand duchy of Posen in May, 1799.
In December of the same year he was ordained priest by the Bishop of Kildare, and joined the London Jews' Society, which he served as missionary, in Danzig, from 1827 to 1830, and in London from 1830 to 1841.
One of the most interesting incidents in his work in Prussia was a visit to his birthplace, and the meeting with his brother, a rabbi to a large congregation near Posen.
www.hadavar.org /Alexandertest.html   (2754 words)

  
 Fredrick (Friedrich) William (Wilhelm) KUSS
Wissek, Posen appears to be the closest to this pronunciation.
Posen principality and the politics of the Germanisation, 1815-1920" is
district of Posen, in Gnesen, Pleschen and Schrimm).
www.uslink.net /~insight/PS01/PS01_027.HTM   (4242 words)

  
 Penny Magazine - 001
The remainder of ancient Poland, comprising the bulk of what was before the Grand Duchy of Warsaw; made to revert to Russia.
They are assigned a certain portion of the produce of the estate; the whole live and dead stock upon which belongs to the landlord, who lends the use thereof to the peasants, compelling them to take care of, and account for, it.
The peasantry in the Grand Duchy of Warsaw have been nominally emancipated; but their condition has hitherto hardly been sensibly ameliorated thereby.
www.history.rochester.edu /pennymag/001/dop.htm   (662 words)

  
 WHKMLA : History of Poznan (Posen), ToC
The Province of Posen (Poznan), from Polish Roots
Flag, Grand Duchy / Province Posen, from FOTW
Preussische Provinz Posen, from Deutsche Geschichte 1871-1945, posted by Michael Rademacher, in German, has names/biographies of leading officials, statistical data etc.
www.zum.de /whkmla/region/eceurope/xposen.html   (206 words)

  
 Salomon Benjamin Latz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Salomon Benjamin Latz (?-1829) was a "wealthy and pious" Jew, who lived in the city of Posen, Prussia (now Poznan, Poland), capital of the Grand Duchy of Posen (now the district of Poznan).
Because of Latz's high regard to Rabbi Eger, and possibly low regard for the lay leaders of the Posen Jewish community, he stipulated that Eger should have full control over running the hospital, and that the Jews of the City of Posen should not have preferance over Jews from the neighboring communities as regards addmission.
Latz's hospital was probably very instrumental in comabatting the 1931 Cholera epidemic in Posen, for which Eger got a letter of commendation from the Kaiser.
www.math.temple.edu /~zeilberg/family/SolBen.html   (327 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Periodical Literature, Poland
One of the oldest Polish daily papers existing in Prussia is the "Dziennik poznanski" (Posen Journal), established in 1859.
In 1894 there were published in Prussia and in the Grand duchy of Posen the following daily papers: the "Dziennik poznanski", the "Goniec wielkopolski", the "Kurjer poznanski", the "Oredownik" (Advocate), and the "Wielkopolanin".
In 1909, under the direction of Wiadislaw Hozakowski, rector of the seminary of Posen, there was published the "Unitas", a monthly periodical for the clergy, well edited from the theological standpoint.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/11687a.htm   (1325 words)

  
 Neue Rheinsiche Zeitung No. 277 April 1849
“Accordingly, no recruits born in the Grand Duchy of Posen are to be incorporated in a Silesian or other German regiment and, conversely, no German recruits are to he incorporated in a Polish regiment.
That is the Prussian translation of last year’s phrases to the effect that Posen should become Polish, “with the exception of a small part” of the frontier, which must become German.
In plain language that means: the whole farce with the demarcation line merely served to incorporate two-thirds of Posen into Germany directly, and the remaining one-third indirectly.
www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1849/04/20.htm   (1340 words)

  
 Dolmetsch Online - Composers Biography R
He was appointed by the King of Prussia, in 1815, Governor of the Grand Duchy of Posen.
Ravel's piano compositions, such as Miroirs and Gaspard de la Nuit are virtuosic, and his orchestrations, such as in Daphnis et Chloé and his orchestral arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, are notable for the effective use of tonal color and variety of sound and instrumentation.
A member of the same generation as Josquin des Prez, he ranks with Agricola, Brumel, Compère, Isaac, Obrecht, and van Weerbeke as one of the most famous and influential exponents of the Netherlands polyphonic style in the decades around 1500.
www.dolmetsch.com /cdefsr.htm   (6019 words)

  
 Digital Library of Wielkopolska
Appendices to the statutes of the students' association [fraternity] "Chrobria" in Posen.
Der polnische national-Clubb in Posen an das Comitee der deutschen Nationalversammlung in Posen.
Studien zur Geschichte der Provinz Posen in der 1.
www.posen-l.com /pos/DigLibWP.html   (3143 words)

  
 Political & administrative status
Only the South-Eastern part of Greater Poland, with the city of Kalisz, became the Kalisz Gubernya within the quasi-autonomous Kingdom of Poland.
Please note: as "Posen" can mean also the capital town (Poznan) of this province, I will use the term "the Province" to refer to the province of Posen throughout my guide.
the major part of the Province of Posen was returned to the restored Republic of Poland and only the westernmost strip of it remained German.
www.polishroots.org /genpoland/distr.htm   (510 words)

  
 Find in a Library: The Naturalized Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen in 1834 and 1835
Find in a Library: The Naturalized Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen in 1834 and 1835
The Naturalized Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen in 1834 and 1835
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 FreisslerSoft Books Duchy
Rural economy and society in the Duchy of Cornwall, 1300-1500
Society and religion in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania : a reprint of the 1754 Nieâswieçz edition of Pe±nia piñeknej jak ksiñeçzyc, ±ask promieniami âswiatu przyâswiecaiñaca
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg: The Evolution of Nationhood, 963 A.D. to 1983
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 The Naturalized Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen in 1834 and 1835
The Naturalized Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen in 1834 and 1835: Revised Edition
A list of the original 5,173 persons living in the Grand Duchy of Posen with information on names, towns of residence, occupation, and additional commentary.
Royal Decree of 1 June 1833 Requiring the Census of the Jews of Posen [in German and in Polish] 199
www.avotaynu.com /books/posen.htm   (315 words)

  
 The Father Of The Father of the Father of the Mother of Doron Zeilberger
Gerson Alexander was born in 1788 in Labiszyn, county of Bydgoszcz, near Poznan, Poland, that shortly after (until 1918) became Labischin, county of Schubin, near the City of Posen, Grand Dutchy of Posen.
2 of `The Naturalized Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen in 1834 and 1835', compiled by E. Luft].
According to Heppner and Herzberg's famous book on Posen Jewry, in the footnote at the bottom of page 428, he was, at Greatz, in 1857 (together with W. Lesser) "Rabbinatsassessor", which means (according to my first-cousin Ernst ("Alex") Alexander) "dayyan", i.e.
www.math.rutgers.edu /~zeilberg/family/gerson.html   (713 words)

  
 (1987) The Naturalized Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen in 1834 and 1835   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
(1987) The Naturalized Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen in 1834 and 1835
Verzeichnis sammtlicher naturalisierten Israeliten im Grossherzogthum Posen III.
"An alphabetical list of Jews naturalized in the Grand Duchy of Posen in 1834 and 1835 as published in Verzeichniss sämmtlicher naturalisierten Israeliten im Grossherzogthum Posen by Isidor Hirschberg in Bromberg in 1836." Bibliography: p.
www.getcited.org /pub/103404741   (83 words)

  
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The Grand Duchy of Karameikos (Dungeons and Dragons Gazetteer GAZ1)
Society and religion in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: A reprint of the 1754 Nieswiez edition of Pe±nia pieknej jak ksiezyc, ±ask promieniami swiatu przyswiecaiaca
Seedbed of Protest: Social Structure and Radical Politics in Ettlingen, Grand Duchy of Baden, 1815-1850 (Modern European History.
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 (2004) The Naturalized Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen in 1834 and 1835   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Revised Edition: An alphabetical list of Jews naturalized in the Grand Duchy of Posen in 1834 and 1835 as published in Verzeichniss sämmtlicher naturalisirten Israeliten im Grossherzogthum Posen by Isidor Hirschberg in Bromberg in 1836.
1819 Map of Prussia and Posen by Adolph Stieler xxv
1833 Map of Prussia and Posen by Adolph Stieler xxviii
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