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Ferdinand Johann Franz Blumentritt (10 September 1853, Prague – 20 September 1913, Litoměřice) was an Austrian teacher, secondary school principal in Leitmeritz, lecturer, and author of articles and books about the Philippines and its ethnography.
Rizal has befriended Austro-Hungarian linguistic scholar Ferdinand Blumentritt of Leitmeritz. [ 6 ] On 13 June 2015, as part of the theatre festival Wiener Festwochen , a group of artists (Zsuzsi Flohr, Benjy Fox-Rosen, Eduard Freudmann , Eva Reinold, Luisa Ziaja) illegally erected a meta-memorial dedicated to the survivors who had illegally ...
Litoměřice (Czech pronunciation: [ˈlɪtomɲɛr̝ɪtsɛ] ⓘ; German: Leitmeritz) is a town in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 23,000 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument reservation. The town is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Litoměřice.
Bohemian Forest Region (southwestern Bohemia) – planned adjoining to Upper Austria [4] In 29 November 1918 the Czechoslovak army began an invasion of Province of German Bohemia and during December it occupied the whole region, with Reichenberg falling on 16 December and the last major city, Leitmeritz, falling on 27 December 1918. Other ...
In 1219, Litoměřice (German: Leitmeritz), was the first German town to be given the privileges of the Magdeburg Laws in Bohemia. [43] During the 13th–14th century, as much as 1 out of every 6th German settlers was going to Bohemia, while this is lower than in Upper Saxony, Lusatia, and Lower Silesia, It's still a substantial number. [44]
Although Leitmeritz was ceded to Germany, Theresienstadt remained in the Czechoslovak rump state until the German invasion of the Czech lands on 15 March 1939. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Small Fortress became a Gestapo prison in 1940 and the fortress town became a Wehrmacht military base, with about 3,500 soldiers and 3,700 civilians, largely employed by ...
The camp was located west of downtown Leitmeritz, 5 kilometres (3 mi) distant [12] [13] from Theresienstadt Ghetto in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, a transit ghetto for Jews. [ 14 ] The camp was established by a transport of 500 men from Dachau concentration camp , who arrived at nearby Theresienstadt Small Fortress on 24 [ 7 ] or 25 ...
The reigns of Maria Theresa (1740–1780) and her son Joseph II (1780–1790), Holy Roman Emperor and coregent from 1765, were characterized by enlightened rule.Influenced by the ideas of eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosophers, Maria-Theresa and Joseph worked toward rational and efficient administration of the Bohemian Kingdom.