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  Johann, Elector of Saxony (1468-1532)
Johann der Beständige (John the Steadfast), Elector of Saxony (Kurfürst von Sachsen), 1525-1532, was b.
Johann was an ardent friend and patron of Martin Luther, headed the evangelical estates in Germany and was an active promoter of the Reformation.
Hence it was not surprising that Johann the Steadfast readily gave his assent to the decree of Emperor Charles V, 23 April 1529, condemning Anabaptists to death with fire and sword.
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 Johann pictures and videos on Webshots
2005.03.25 (15) Johann in R.o.d.T. Andre Rieu and the Johann Strauss Orchestra
Andre Rieu and the Johann Strauss Orchestra in Calgary
Maestro Andre Rieu and the Johann Strauss Orchestra in...
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Saxony
Saxony was given to St. Sturmi, who was on terms of friendship with Charlemagne, and the monks of the monastery of Fulda founded by Sturmi.
Saxony forever the possibility of extending its territory along the lower course of the Elbe, and confirmed the preponderance of Prussia.
Saxony is the fifth state of the German Empire in area and third in population; in 1905 the average population per square mile was 778.8.
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 Johann Tetzel - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Tetzel, Johann (1465?-1519), German Catholic preacher of the Dominican order, born in Pirna, Saxony (Sachsen), and educated at the University of...
Johann Tetzel (1465- August 11, 1519) was a German Dominican friar who is perhaps best known for selling indulgences during the 16th century using the catchy line, As soon a coin in coffer rings, the...
Johann Tetzel: German Dominican friar whose preaching on indulgences, considered by many of his...
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 Johann Sebastian Bach
Bach was borne at Eisenach, Thuringia, on 21 March, 1685, the youngest child of Johann Ambrosius Bach and Elisabeth Lämmerhirt.
Johann Sebastian received his first formal keyboard lessons from his eldest brother who was a student of Johann Pachelbel.
It became apparent in his studies at Lüneburg, that Johann Sebastian was turning away from his immediate family's style of secular string playing to become a performer bothe of works of keyboard and the sacred sort.
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 Johann Walther: Father of Lutheran Music
Johann Walther (1495-1570) is often referred to as the father of Lutheran Church music.
Johann Walther was born in the year 1496 in Kahla, a village near Jena, Germany.
Both were written by Johann Walther; one was based on the account of Christ’s passion as recorded by the Evangelist St. Matthew, the other on that by St. John.
www.carolinaclassical.com /articles/walther.html   (9552 words)

  
 Courtly Lives - Electors of Saxony - Albertine Branch
Saxony was originally held by the descendants of Hermann Billung, but they died out in 1106.
Johann Georg I married (2) in 1607 to Magdalen Sybilla (1587-1659), daughter of Albert Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia.
Johann George III married Anne Sophia of Denmark (1647-1717) in 1665.
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 Johann Tetzel - LoveToKnow 1911
Later on he was at Nuremberg, Ulm and Innsbruck, where he is said to have been condemned to imprisonment for adultery, but released at the intercession of the elector of Saxony.
This charge is denied by his apologists; and though his methods were attacked by good Catholics like Johann Hass, he was elected prior of the Dominicans in Glogau in i 505.
Fresh scope was given to his activity in 1517 by archbishop Albrecht of Mainz.
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 Johann Sebastian Bach: Biography - Classic Cat
Johann Sebastian Bach (pronounced [ˈjoːhan zəˈbastjan ˈbax]) (21 March 1685 O.S. – 28 July 1750 N.S.) was a prolific German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity.
Sebastian's father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, was a talented violinist and trumpeter in Eisenach, a town of some 6,000 residents in Thuringia, and held a post involving the organisation of secular music and participation in church music.
Johann Sebastian Bach’s contributions to music, or, to borrow a term popularised by his student Lorenz Christoph Mizler, his "musical science", are frequently bracketed with those by William Shakespeare in English literature and Isaac Newton in physics.
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 Saxony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Saxony Tower is said to have differed in appearance from the original only by virtue of the great crystal which was set upon the uppermost parapet, whose light provided a guide to safe harbor for incoming vessels.
While it is true that no Saxony in that time was able to stand as close to the Throne as the Five, the Saxony family had certainly redeemed its name in the eyes of the Crown after the tragedy of YR 139, and had actually gained considerably in wealth and influence.
Lady Pamilla Saxony was the wealthy widow of Major Preston Garvey of the 4th Crown Guard, and reputed to be one of the greatest beauties in all of Evendarr.
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 Johann Walter (Composer) - Short Biography
Johann Walter [Walther] was a German composer, one of the earliest of the composers in the Lutheran Church.
In 1524 Johann Walter was bass singer in the choir at Torgau, and in 1525 Kapellmeister, or 'Sängermeister,' to the Elector of Saxony, and Kantor (musical director) of the town choir of Torgau in 1525.
In 1524 Johann Walter was called to Wittenberg by Martin Luther to assist him in framing the German Mass.
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 TSCHORNACK Family
Johann and Hanna were among the 558 Wends who left their homes during the first week
Johann died 5 February 1863 in Frelsburg, Colorado County, Texas.
A "Johann HERENZ" who was born in 1827 in Klein Oelsa, died in Serbin, Texas in 1900.
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 Johann Eck (Eckius)
His uncle, Martin Maier, pastor at Rothenburg on the Neckar, received Johann in his house (1495) and educated him.
In 1498, when twelve years old, he was admitted to the Heidelberg University; thence he went in 1499 to Tübingen where he received the degree of Master of Arts in 1501; then to Cologne and in 1502 to Freiburg in the Breisgau.
Both Luther and Karlstadt answered bitterly and then it was agreed to submit the points at issue to the test of a public debate, which was held in Leipzig, 27 June-15 July, 1519.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/e/eck,johann.html   (1567 words)

  
 Open Directory - Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: B: Bach, Johann Sebastian
Grave of Johann Sebastian Bach - Find a Grave details the burial, reburial, and subsequent moving of the composer's remains to Thomaskirche, Leipzig, Germany with portrait of composer and photographs of grave plate and church exterior.
Johann Sebastian BACH Cantata 198: The Trauer Ode.
Johann Sebastian Bach's Achievement - Article examining the role the composer's works had in helping to reunite a Europe torn by post-Reformation conflict even as it became the standard upon which almost all subsequent Western music was based.
dmoz.org /Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/B/Bach,_Johann_Sebastian   (1883 words)

  
 The Averbeck/Overbeck Family Tree   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
During the period 1442-1450 - ascertained by Westerfeld from the Archives of Lower Saxony in Osnabruck - Johann Schele of Schelenburg (Schelen Castle) held as fief the "Overbecken Hus to Hiddinghusen" (the Overbeck house in Hiddinghausen).
The first direct reference by name to the occupants of the Hof is that of 1601 in the files of the Archives of Lower Saxony, which names Frantz Averbecke and his wife, Trina (Katherine) and their three children.
Johann Gisbert married Anna Engel Dormann Nov. 25, 1694 (Anna Engel was born Feb. 26, 1662 in Hiddinghausen).
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 Open Directory - Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: B: Bach, Johann Sebastian
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - Detailed biography of the life of J.S. Bach with links to many of his Cantata scores as Adobe PDF files.
Johann Sebastian BACH Cantata 198: The Trauer Ode.
Johann Sebastian Bach's Achievement - Article examining the role the composer's works had in helping to reunite a Europe torn by post-Reformation conflict even as it became the standard upon which almost all subsequent Western music was based.
www.dmoz.org /Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/B/Bach,_Johann_Sebastian   (1839 words)

  
 Johann Sebastian Bach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sebastian's father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, was a talented violinist and trumpeter in Eisenach, a town of some 6,000 residents in Thuringia, and held a post involving the organisation of secular music and participation in church music.
In 1723, Bach was appointed Cantor of the Thomasschule, adjacent to the Thomaskirche (St Thomas’s Lutheran Church) in Leipzig, as well as Director of Music in the principal churches in the town.
Johann Sebastian Bach’s contributions to music, or, to borrow a term popularised by his student Lorenz Christoph Mizler, his "musical science", are frequently bracketed with those by William Shakespeare in English literature and Isaac Newton in physics.
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 Johann Hundrack
Johann was naturalised in 1862 at Rosenthal, South Australia and again in 1860.
Johann retired from farming in 1874 and lived with his daughter Maria for the next thirteen years until his death.
Johann Hundrack made his last will and testament on August 27, 1881 in the presence of Pastor Clamour Wilhelm Schurmann and Heinrich Nuschmedt and appointed his son-in-law Johann Gotthelf Schultz as his executor.
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 History of the Johann Friedrich Mohr Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Johann Friedrich’s son Georg Konrad (Conrad) received a patent from the State of Kansas on a quarter section of state school land (the northeast quarter of section 16, Township 18 south, Range 19 west).
Johann Friedrich Mohr was pastor of a German Baptist Church north of Bison, Kansas.
Saxony which Prussia disarmed shortly after the beginning of hostilities was heavily burdened with levies of troops and taxes during the entire period.
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 The Augustan Era
This encyclopedia, published by Johann Heinrich Zedler, was the largest (68 volumes) and most important German encyclopedia of the century.
After the death of Hofkapellmeister Heinichen in 1729 and the appointment of J.A. Hasse as his replacement, Bach (who was not considered for the position for religious reasons) applied for a court appointment.
Moritz, Count of Saxony (1696-1750), the son of Augustus the Strong and Countess Aurora of K”nigsmarck, entered French military service in 1720 and was promoted to general field marshal of French armies in 1745.
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 Searching The Past - Person Page 43
Johann Gottlieb Schlegel was confirmed on 2 October 1732.
She was the daughter of Johann Gottlieb Schlegel and (1) Maria Helena Viehweg.
Johann Samuel Schlegel was born on 29 June 1739 at Grossenhaim, Dresden, Saxony.
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 Courtly Lives - The von Doering Family
After the fall of the Ludowinger dynasty, the House of Wettin became the rulers of Thuringia and ascended to the throne of Saxony.
Johann Döring was the Royal Danish financier at Kiel.
Johann's grandson, Erich Frederick von Döering, was Royal Polish and Saxon Justice Advisor and later Privy Councillor and Chancellor of the college at Naumberg.
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 Johann HULS, 1830-1904
Maria was born January 17, 1844 in Saxony (probably in Duerrbach).
Johann and Maria's children were baptized in Trinity Lutheran Church,
Johann, son of Friedrich Kaiser and Minna Hüls, when he was baptized on
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 Johann Sebastian Bach biography by Boyd
Having several generations of a family dedicated to music was nothing unusual at that time, as the examples of the Scarlatti's in Italy, the Couperin's in France and the Purcell's in England show, just to mention the outstanding dynasties.
According to Boyd, Johann Sebastian Bach, born in 1685 in Eisenach, needed a window to open him up new horizons, a catalyst that could help him develop his mature style.
Leipzig was, after Dresden, the most important city of Saxony, with one of the most notable and advanced universities in Germany, founded in 1409.
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 Earl Fischer Database of St. Louisans
She was married to Johann Gottfried HEINIG in, Nieder-Frohna.
She was married to Johann Christoph PAUL in, Kleinpestitz.
She was married to August Johann Christian GRAFE in, Dresden,, Saxony.
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 Johann Sebastian Bach presented in Culture section
Johann Sebastian Bach (21 March 1685 - 28 July 1750) was an outstanding German composer of the Baroque who represents the peak of the Bach family.
His father, Johann Ambrosius, was a town musician in Eisenach who had given to Johann Sebastian the chance to create a unique bond with music.
Bach was orphaned when he was only 10 and he had as a foster father for five years Johann Christoph Bach, an elder brother who was organist at Ohrdruf.
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 JP Anc - 4th=gr-grand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Johann Wilhelm Eberhardt was born on 16 Nov 1823 in Siebleben (Gotha), Saxony, Prussia.
Johann was baptized on 23 Nov 1823 in Gotha, Saxony, Prussia (now Germany).
Eve Christane Hasenstein was born on 11 Aug 1824 in Siebleben (Gotha), Saxony, Prussia.
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 Johann Sebastian Bach
He was the youngest son of Johann Ambrosius Bach, a town musician, from whom he probably learnt the violin and the rudiments of musical theory.
For these Bach arranged harpsichord concertos and composed several large-scale cantatas, or serenatas, to impress the Elector of Saxony, by whom he was granted the courtesy title of Hofcompositeur in 1736.
Among the 13 children born to Anna Magdalena at Leipzig was Bach's youngest son, Johann Christian, in 1735.
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 Evangelical Lutheran Church in Saxony
In the east-central hills of Saxony, in the Oberlausitz, there is an austere spirituality with a character of its own.
The regional differences within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony are reflected in the organization of the church into districts which are largely self-governing and have their own agencies.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony is part of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany (VELKD), which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1998.
www.elca.org /countrypackets/germany/saxony.html   (575 words)

  
 Johann Gottlieb Fichte Biography and Summary
Johann Gottlieb Fichte, son of Christian and Johanna Dorothea Schurich Fichte, was born in the small town of Rammenau near Bischofswerda in Saxony on May 19, 1762.
The German philosopher of ethical idealism Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) posited the spiritual activity of an "infinite ego" as the ground of self and world.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte(May 19, 1762 – January 27, 1814) was a German philosopher.
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 flutehistory.com: Johann George Tromlitz (1725-1805)
At the moment I am a member of the exclusive club of Dead White Males, but a couple of hundred years ago I lived in Saxony (a part of Germany), where I was a famous flute player, teacher, composer, instrument-maker and writer.
Ardal Powell, The Virtuoso Flute-Player by Johann George Tromlitz (Cambridge, 1991) `An das musikalische Publikum', Musikalische Korrespondenz der teutschen filarmonischen Gesellschaft, 32-4 (10-24 Aug 1791), 252-69 An das musikalische Publikum (Leipzig, 1796/R1982) über die Flöten mit mehrern Klappen (Leipzig, 1800/R1973, 1991) trans.
Ardal Powell, The Keyed Flute by Johann George Tromlitz (Oxford, 1996) `Abhandlung über den schönen Ton auf der Flöte', AMZ 2 (Jan 1800) 301-16, translated in trans.
www.flutehistory.com /Players/Johann_George_Tromlitz/index.php3   (1350 words)

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