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Gambara is a Germanic wise woman (also called priestess or seeress) who appears in several sources from the 8th to 12th centuries. The legend is about the origin of the Langobard people , then known as the Winnili, and it takes place either before they emigrated from Scandinavia or after their migration, having settled in modern-day northern ...
Sculpture of the Germanic seeress Veleda, by Hippolyte Maindron, 1844, in Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris.. Aside from the names of individuals, Roman era accounts do not contain information about how the early Germanic peoples referred to them, but sixth century Goth scholar Jordanes reported in his Getica that the early Goths had called their seeresses haliurunnae (Goth-Latin). [2]
Middle High German: Antzîus or Middle High German: Anzigus: He shares his name with Ansegisel (died c. 672), father of Pippin II. [172] The first element in the name is probably PGmc *ans-("god"). The name of the Frankish Ansegisel was altered to more closely resemble Anchises. [172] The father of Hugdietrich and king of Greece. [146]
Gambara is a short story by Honoré de Balzac, first published in 1837 in the Revue et gazette musicale de Paris at the request of its editor Maurice Schlesinger. It is one of the Études philosophiques of La Comédie humaine .
Gianfrancesco Gambara was born in Brescia on 16 February 1533, the son of Brunoro Gambara, count of Pralboino (a field marshal in the army of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor) and Virginia Pallavicini, widow of Ranuccio Farnese. [1] He was the nephew of Cardinal Uberto Gambara. [1]
Also housed in the building from 1982 to 1990 was the East German Army Construction Battalion "Mukran", where conscientious objectors served as noncombatant Construction Soldiers (Bausoldaten) to meet their military service obligation. A part of the building also served as the East German Army's "Walter Ulbricht" convalescent home.
Uberto Gambara was born in Brescia on 23 January 1489, the son of Gianfrancesco Gambara and Alda Pio di Carpi. [1] Veronica Gambara was his sister. When he was 10 years old, he was destined for a career in the church. [1] He was named provost of Verolanuova and chaplain of San Giacomo in 1502. [1]
Son of Giovanni Francesco Gambara, count of Pralboino y ambassador to the papacy of Leo X.Lorenzo studied in Padua and was ordained priest. He lived mostly in Rome. [1] Among his patrons was Cardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, to whom he dedicated his epic poem in Latin De navigatione Christophori Columbi libri quattuor, that is the Four books of the travels of Columbus.