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Henry III (1017–1056), King of Germany 1039, Holy Roman Emperor 1046–56; Henry IV (1050–1106), King of Germany 1056, Holy Roman Emperor 1084–1106; Henry V (1081–1125), King of Germany 1106, Holy Roman Emperor 1111–25; Henry VI (1165–1197), King of Germany 1190, Holy Roman Emperor 1191–97; John (1801–1873), King of Saxony (1854 ...
Heinrich Graetz (1817 in Xions – 1891 in Munich) an historian, wrote a history of the Jewish people from a Jewish perspective. Gottfried Bernhardy (1800 in Landsberg an der Warthe – 1875) German philologist and literary historian; Ferdinand von Roemer (1818 – 1891) geologist, he formed a mineralogy collection in the Museum at Breslau
As such, it is one of the largest cultural organizations in the world, [4] and also the largest cultural employer in Germany with around 2,000 staff as of 2020. More than four million people visited its museums in 2019. [2] The SPK was established in 1957 with the mission to acquire and preserve the cultural legacy of the former State of ...
The monarchs of Prussia were members of the House of Hohenzollern who were the hereditary rulers of the former German state of Prussia from its founding in 1525 as the Duchy of Prussia. The Duchy had evolved out of the Teutonic Order , a Roman Catholic crusader state and theocracy located along the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea .
Prussians were baptised at the Archbishopric of Magdeburg, while Germans and Dutch settlers colonized the lands of the native Prussians; Poles and Lithuanians also settled in southern and eastern Prussia, respectively. Significant pockets of Old Prussians were left in a matrix of Germans throughout Prussia and in what is now the Kaliningrad ...
East Prussian Regional Museum. The East Prussian Regional Museum (German: Ostpreußisches Landesmuseum), with a Baltic German department, in Lüneburg, Lower Saxony in Germany, was established in 1987 on the basis of the East Prussian Hunting Museum (German: Ostpreußischen Jagdmuseum) created by forester Hans Loeffke.
Stadtmuseum Fembohaus (City Museum at Fembo House) Science and nature museums. DB-Museum (DB Railway Museum) Deutsches Museum Nürnberg (Future Museum) Museum Industriekultur (Museum of Industrial Culture) Museum für Kommunikation (Museum of Communications) Naturhistorisches Museum Nürnberg (Natural History Museum Nuremberg)
Prussia, with its capital at Königsberg and then, when it became the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701, Berlin, decisively shaped the history of Germany. The name Prussia derives from the Old Prussians ; in the 13th century, the Teutonic Knights – an organized Catholic medieval military order of German crusaders – conquered the lands inhabited by ...