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Ekkehart
Ekkehard (and Eckardt, Eckard, Eckart, Eckhardt, Ekkehart) is a German given name. It is composed of the elements ''ekke'' "edge, blade; sword" and ''hart'' "brave; hardy". Variant forms include Eckard, Eckhard, Eckhart, Eckart. The Anglo-Saxon form of the name was ''Ecgheard'', possibly attested in the toponym Eggerton. Middle Ages It was the name of five monks of the Abbey of Saint Gall from the tenth to the thirteenth century: * Ekkehard I (died 973) * Ekkehard II (died 990) * Ekkehard III * Ekkehard IV (died c. 1056) * Ekkehard V (died c. 1220) It was also the name of two Margraves of Meissen: * Eckard I (died 1002) * Eckard II (died 1046) Other notable people with that given name include: *Ekkehard of Huysburg (died 1084), abbot of Huysburg Abbey *Ekkehard of Aura (died 1126), chronicler and abbot of Aura Abbey *Meister Eckhart (died c. 1327), philosopher and mystic *Eckhard Christian (1907-1985), Luftwaffe officer *Ekkehard von Kuenssberg (1913–2000), German doctor *Ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eckhard Christian
Ekkehard (and Eckardt, Eckard, Eckart, Eckhardt, Ekkehart) is a German given name. It is composed of the elements ''ekke'' "edge, blade; sword" and ''hart'' "brave; hardy". Variant forms include Eckard, Eckhard, Eckhart, Eckart. The Anglo-Saxon form of the name was ''Ecgheard'', possibly attested in the toponym Eggerton. Middle Ages It was the name of five monks of the Abbey of Saint Gall from the tenth to the thirteenth century: *Ekkehard I (died 973) *Ekkehard II (died 990) *Ekkehard III *Ekkehard IV (died c. 1056) *Ekkehard V (died c. 1220) It was also the name of two Margraves of Meissen: * Eckard I (died 1002) * Eckard II (died 1046) Other notable people with that given name include: * Ekkehard of Huysburg (died 1084), abbot of Huysburg Abbey * Ekkehard of Aura (died 1126), chronicler and abbot of Aura Abbey *Meister Eckhart (died c. 1327), philosopher and mystic * Eckhard Christian (1907-1985), Luftwaffe officer *Ekkehard von Kuenssberg (1913–2000), German doctor *Eckh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eckhart (other)
Eckhart may be: People with the surname Eckhart * Aaron Eckhart, American film actor * Dietrich Eckart, German journalist * Johann Georg von Eckhart, German historian and linguist * Lisa Eckhart (born 1992), Austrian comedian and slam poet Other * Eckhart Tolle (born 1948) is a German-born writer and public speaker living in Canada. * Eckhart von Hochheim, aka ''Meister Eckhart'', a German theologian and philosopher * Mason Eckhart, a comic book character * ''Eckhart'' (TV series), a Canadian animated children's show * Eckhart Branch Railroad, early short line railroad See also * Eckart Eckart is a German surname, and may refer to: * Anselm Eckart (1721–1809), German Jesuit missionary * Carl Eckart * Dennis E. Eckart (born 1950), American lawyer, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives * Dietrich Eckart (1868–1923) ... * Eckert (other) {{disambig, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eckard I, Margrave Of Meissen
Eckard I (''Ekkehard'';Rarely ''Ekkard'' or ''Eckhard''. Contemporary Latin variants to his name include ''Ekkihardus'', ''Eggihardus'', ''Eggihartus'', ''Heckihardus'', ''Egihhartus'', and ''Ekgihardus''. – 30 April 1002) was Margrave of Meissen from 985 until his death. He was the first margrave of the ''Ekkehardinger'' family that ruled over Meissen until the extinction of the line in 1046. Life Eckard was of noble east Thuringian stock, the eldest son of Margrave Gunther of Merseburg (d. 982). He followed his father into exile from 976 to 979 and took part in the 982 Battle of Stilo against the Emirate of Sicily, where Gunther was killed. Back in Germany, Eckard upon the death of Emperor Otto II in 983 supported his minor son King Otto III of Germany. At the '' Hoftag'' diet of Rohr in June 984, he together with Archbishop Willigis of Mainz and several German princes enforced the release of the four-year-old king by his rivaling cousin Duke Henry II of Bavaria. In 985 O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekkehard (opera)
''Ekkehard'' is an 1878 German-language opera by Johann Joseph Abert to a libretto by Adolf Kröner after the novel by Joseph Victor von Scheffel. The plot tells a romantic episode in the life of Ekkehard II of Saint Gall. Recording *''Ekkehard'' - Jonas Kaufmann, Christian Gerhaher Christian Gerhaher (born 24 July 1969, in Straubing) is a German baritone and bass singer in opera and concert, particularly known as a Lieder singer. Career Christian Gerhaher studied with Paul Kuën and Raimund Grumbach at the Hochschule ..., Nyla van Ingen, Susanne Kelling, Henryk Böhm, Alfred Reiter, Stuttgarter Choristen, SWR Rundfunkorchester, Peter Falk. 2CDs Capriccio, DDD/LA, 1998Gramophone " The booklet provides the libretto in German only ... A good cast of young singers (one or two of them a little stretched) does it proud; Jonas Kaufmann in particular is a lyric/dramatic tenor of ..." References {{reflist Operas 1878 operas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eckhard Pfeiffer
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Ekkehard Von Kuenssberg
Ekkehard von Kuenssberg CBE (17 December 1913 – 27 December 2000), , was a German-born physician who made his career in Scotland. He was chairman and later president of the Royal College of General Practitioners and was appointed as its Wolfson Travelling Professor. Early life Kuenssberg was the son of Eberhard von Kuenssberg, a professor who taught law at the University of Heidelberg, and of Dr Katharina von Kuenssberg, a biologist.Alan Large"Ekkehard Von Kuenssberg Former general practitioner (b 1913; Edinburgh 1939; CBE, FRCP Ed, FRCOG, FRCGP), d 27 December 2001" ic bmj.com, accessed 29 January 2021 Kuenssberg’s German ancestry could be traced to the reign of Charlemagne."Dr Ekkehard Kuenssberg" '' The Herald'' (Glasgow), 6 January 2001, accessed 29 January 2021 His mother was the daughter of Gustav Samson, owner of a large cloth mill in Cottbus, and of his wife Anna Goldschmidt, whose family was of Jewish origins. He was educated at Schloss Salem, Baden, under the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meister Eckhart
Eckhart von Hochheim ( – ), commonly known as Meister Eckhart, Master Eckhart claimed original name Johannes Eckhart, was a German Catholic , philosopher and [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekkehard Of Aura
Ekkehard of Aura ( la, Ekkehardus Uraugiensis; died 1126) was the Abbot of Aura (a monastery founded by Otto, Bishop of Bamberg, on the Franconian Saale river, near Bad Kissingen, Bavaria) from 1108. A Benedictine monk and chronicler, he made updates to the ''World Chronicle'' (''Chronicon universale'') of Frutolf of Michelsberg, adding important German history between 1098 and 1125 during the reign of Emperor Henry V, in which he sided strongly with the papacy in the Investiture Controversy. He was a participant in the Crusade of 1101 (Lerner, 1989), and provided important source material for the Rhineland massacres of Jews and for the First Crusade. References Further reading * Ekkehard of Aura from the Catholic Encyclopedia *Albert of Aix and Ekkehard of Aura"Emico and the Slaughter of the Rhineland Jews"from the Internet Medieval Sourcebook *Ekkehard of AuraHierosolymita and World Chronicle (On the Crusades)from the Internet Medieval Sourcebook *Robert E. Lerner, "Ekkerhard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekkehard Of Huysburg
Blessed Ekkehard of Huysburg (died 28 June 1084) was a canon at Halberstadt Cathedral and first abbot of the Benedictine abbey in Huysburg. Life According to the chronicles of the Annalista Saxo, Ekkehard about 1070 was appointed by Bishop Burchard II of Halberstadt as the spiritual director of the anchorite Pia, a nun from Quedlinburg, who lived at the site of a former Carolingian fortress in the Huy hill range north of the Halberstadt Halberstadt ( Eastphalian: ''Halverstidde'') is a town in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, the capital of Harz district. Located north of the Harz mountain range, it is known for its old town center that was greatly destroyed by Allied bomb ... walls. Ekkehard also induced Adelheid from Gandersheim and Ida from Quedlinburg to live with Pia in her hermitage. After a short time other men and women gathered there, and Ekkehard founded the double monastery (i.e., for both monks and nuns) of the Huysburg (''Huy Castle''), of which he was el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eckard II, Margrave Of Meissen
Eckard II (german: Ekkehard; – 24 January 1046) was Margrave of Lusatia (as Eckard I) from 1034 and Margrave of Meissen from 1038 until his death. He was the last of his dynasty, with his death the line of Ekkeharding margraves descending from Eckard I of Meissen (d. 1002) became extinct. Life He was a younger son of Margrave Eckard I of Meissen and his wife Swanehilde. Eckard was a count in the '' Gau'' Chutizi east of Merseburg as well as in the burgward of Teuchern. Upon the assassination of his father in 1002, Eckard II and his elder brother Herman I ruled over the Ekkeharding allodial lands, while the Meissen margravial title first passed to their uncle Gunzelin feuding with his nephews until his deposition in 1009. During the German–Polish War around the Lusatian and Milceni lands, the brothers were able to maintain the rule over the Meissen lands until fighting ended with the 1018 Peace of Bautzen. About 1026, Eckard married Uta von Ballenstedt, sister of the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margraves Of Meissen
This article lists the margraves of Meissen, a march and territorial state on the eastern border of the Holy Roman Empire. History King Henry the Fowler, on his 928-29 campaign against the Slavic Glomacze tribes, had a fortress erected on a hill at Meissen (''Mišno'') on the Elbe river. Later named '' Albrechtsburg'', the castle about 965 became the seat of the Meissen margraves, installed by Emperor Otto I when the vast '' Marca Geronis'' ( Gero's march) was partitioned into five new margraviates, including Meissen, the Saxon Eastern March, and also the Northern March which eventually became the Margraviate of Brandenburg. During the tenth century, the Meissen margraves temporarily extended their territory into the Milceni lands up to the Kwisa (''Queis'') river and the border with the Silesian region of the Early Polish state. The eastern lands around Bautzen (''Budissin''), later known as Upper Lusatia, were ceded to the Polish duke Bolesław I the Brave according to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eckart
Eckart is a German surname, and may refer to: * Anselm Eckart (1721–1809), German Jesuit missionary * Carl Eckart * Dennis E. Eckart (born 1950), American lawyer, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives * Dietrich Eckart (1868–1923), German journalist, poet and one of the founders of the ''Deutsche Arbeiterparte'' * Gabriele Eckart (born 1954), German philosopher and author * Malcolm Eckart, an American race car driver who drove Hudson cars in the Carrera Panamericana race in the 1950s. * Max-Eckart Wolff (1902–1988), German naval commander in the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II. * William Eckart Lehman (1821–1895), Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania * William and Jean Eckart, a husband-and-wife team of theatre designers in the 1950s and 1960s ; Given name * Eckart Afheldt (1921–1999), German general in the Bundeswehr * Eckart Berkes (1949–2014), German hurdler * Eckart Breitschuh (born 1964), Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
