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Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, had the building converted into a library in 1761, [9] and in 1766 arranged for the courtly (hoefische) book collection to be moved into the library. [8] The Duchess, seeking a tutor for her son Duke Carl August , hired Christoph Martin Wieland , an important poet and noted translator of William ...
Emergency money of the Free State of Bottleneck with a map of the region. The text reads: "Nowhere is it more beautiful than in the Free State of Bottleneck". During the turbulent early years of the Weimar Republic, there were a number of short-lived attempts to set up soviet-style republics: People's State of Bavaria (8 November 1918 – 6 ...
The books are illustrated with maps created by András Bereznay. [2] [3] [4] According to Ian Kershaw, it is "the most comprehensive history in any language of the disastrous epoch of the Third Reich". [5] It has been hailed as a "masterpiece of historical scholarship". [6]
The Weimar Republic, [d] officially known as the German Reich, [e] was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.
The Weimar Republic in Germany gave way to two episodes of political and economic turmoil, the first culminated in the German hyperinflation of 1923 and the failed Beer Hall Putsch of that same year. The second convulsion, brought on by the worldwide depression and Germany's disastrous monetary policies, resulted in the further rise of Nazism ...
The Timeline of the Weimar Republic lists in chronological order the major events of the Weimar Republic, beginning with the final month of the German Empire and ending with the Enabling Act of 1933 that concentrated all power in the hands of Adolf Hitler. A second chronological section lists important cultural, scientific and commercial events ...
The project for the Great Books of the Western World began at the University of Chicago, where the president, Robert Hutchins, worked with Mortimer Adler to develop there a course of a type originated by John Erskine at Columbia University in 1921, with the innovation of a "round table" approach to reading and discussing great books among professors and undergraduates.
Weimar. Lexikon zur Stadtgeschichte is the title of an encyclopedia on the history of the German city of Weimar. The non-fiction book was first published in 1993 and improved in 1997 by Böhlau Verlag in a second edition. It was edited by Gitta Günther, who worked as a Weimar city archivist from 1959 to 2001, together with the musicologist ...