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Gottschalk or Godescalc (Old High German) is a male German name that can be translated literally as "servant of God". Latin forms include Godeschalcus and Godescalcus . Similarly, the Arabic equivalent of the name is Abdullah (عبد الله), which also translates to "servant of God," reflecting a shared linguistic and cultural concept of ...
Gottschalk of Orbais (Latin: Godescalc, Gotteschalchus; c. 808 – 30 October 868) was a Saxon theologian, monk and poet.Gottschalk was an early advocate for the doctrine of double predestination, an issue that ripped through both Italy and Francia from 848 into the 850s and 860s.
Gottschalk's music was very popular during his lifetime and his earliest compositions created a sensation in Europe. Early pieces like Bamboula, La Savane, Le Bananier and Le Mancenillier were based on Gottschalk's memories of the music he heard during his youth in Louisiana and are widely regarded as the earliest existing pieces of creole music in classical culture.
D. J. Schalk, pseudonym of David Kalisch (1820–1872), German playwright and humorist; Franz Schalk (1863–1931), Austrian conductor; Gertrude Schalk (1906–1977), African-American writer, columnist, and newspaper editor; Henriette Goverdine Anna van der Schalk (1869–1952), Dutch poet and socialist; Jeff Schalk (born 1974), American ...
A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterization of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilization and humanitarian values having ...
Gottschalk the monk went on to lead a crusade from the Rhineland and Lorraine into Hungary, occasionally attacking Jewish communities along the way. In late June 1096, the crusader mob of Gottschalk was welcomed by King Coloman of Hungary, but they soon began plundering the countryside and causing drunken disorder. The King then demanded they ...
Gottschalk of Aachen (fl. 1071–1104) was a German monk, notary, poet and composer. A supporter of King Henry IV during the Investiture Contest , his writings laid the theoretical foundation for the state's anti- papal propaganda.
Louis Reichenthal Gottschalk (February 21, 1899 – June 23, 1975 [1] [2]) was an American historian, an expert on the Marquis de Lafayette and the French Revolution. He taught at the University of Chicago , where he was the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of History.