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Ambrosius (Hussite)
Ambrosius or Ambrosios (a Latin adjective derived from the Ancient Greek word ἀμβρόσιος, ''ambrosios'' "divine, immortal") is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Ambrosius Alexandrinus, a Latinization of the name of Ambrose of Alexandria (before 212 – c.250), Egyptian theologian and saint *Ambrose (Aurelius Ambrosius) (c. 340–397), bishop of Milan and saint * Ambrosius of Optino (1812–1891), Russian Orthodox monk and saint * Ambrosius Gudko (1867–1918), Russian Orthodox bishop and saint *Ambrosius Aurelianus, fifth-century war leader of the Romano-British * Ambrosius of Georgia (1861–1927), Catholicos Patriarch of All Georgia * Ambrosius, Metropolitan of Helsinki (born 1945), Finnish priest * Ambrosius Beber (fl. 1610–1620), German composer *Ambrosius Benson (c. 1495/1500 – 1550), Italian painter *Ambrosius Blarer (1492–1564), Swiss reformer * Ambrosius Bosschaert (1573–1621), Dutch painter *Ambrosius Bosschaert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek Dark Ages, Dark Ages (), the Archaic Greece, Archaic or Homeric Greek, Homeric period (), and the Classical Greece, Classical period (). Ancient Greek was the language of Homer and of fifth-century Athens, fifth-century Athenian historians, playwrights, and Ancient Greek philosophy, philosophers. It has contributed many words to English vocabulary and has been a standard subject of study in educational institutions of the Western world since the Renaissance. This article primarily contains information about the Homeric Greek, Epic and Classical periods of the language, which are the best-attested periods and considered most typical of Ancient Greek. From the Hellenistic period (), Ancient Greek was followed by Koine Greek, which is regar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambrosius Francken II
Ambrosius Francken II, also called Ambrosius Francken the Younger to distinguish him from his uncle of the same name, was born at Antwerp in the latter part of the 16th century. He studied under his father, Frans Francken the elder, whose style he imitated. In 1624 he was registered as a master in the Guild of St. Luke at Antwerp, and he is said to have painted some time in Leuven Leuven (, , ), also called Louvain (, , ), is the capital and largest City status in Belgium, city of the Provinces of Belgium, province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located about east of Brussels. The municipalit .... He died in 1632. Little else is known of him. Family tree References * Year of birth unknown 1632 deaths 17th-century Flemish painters Painters from Antwerp Ambrosius II {{Flemish-painter-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Ambrosius
Johanna Ambrosius (also Johanna Voigt; 1854–1939) was a German poet. Born to a poor peasant family in East Prussia, she received little education and did not start writing poetry until around 1884. Her works were published in various magazines and she came to the attention of Austrian writer Karl Weiß who published a collection of her poems. Her fame peaked in the late 1890s and many of her poems were set to music. Life and family Johanna Ambrosius was born on 3 August 1854 in Lengwethen, a village in East Prussia, the second of fourteen children of a craftsman. She grew up in poverty and attended the village school in Lengwethen until she was 11. From then on she helped her parents in the fields and in the house and was hired out as a maid and landlady to estates in the area. In 1875, she married Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt, the son of a farmer, and moved with him to Dirwonuppen in Kreis Tilsit. They had two children, Marie (born 1875) and Erich (born 1878). In 1883, they acqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Ambrosius
Hermann Ambrosius (25 July 1897 – 25 October 1983) was a German composer and music educator. Life Born in Hamburg, Ambrosius came via Magdeburg, Berlin and Chemnitz to Leipzig, where he received his musical education. He was a master student of Hans Pfitzner at the Prussian Academy of Arts. From 1925 to 1942, Ambrosius was Tonmeister at the and since 1926 teacher at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. After the Machtergreifung by the Nazis, Ambrosius became a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, NSDAP on 4 March 1933 under the party number 2,994,125.Fred K. Prieberg: ''Handbuch Deutsche Musiker 1933-1945'', CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, . Since 1936 he was also active as Gauobmann Mitte of the Reichsmusikkammer. From 1943 to 1945 he was a teacher at the "Städtische Musikschule für Jugend und Volk" in Leipzig. After he had been drafted into the Wehrmacht for the first time in 1939, he was exempted from military service in 1940, but had to do military ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambrosius Stub
Ambrosius Christoffersen Stub (May 1705 – 15 July 1758) was a Danish poet. Life Stub was born in Gummerup on the island of Funen, but his exact birth date is unknown. He was baptized at Verninge in Odense on 17 May 1705. The son of a tailor, he was able to attend the Latin school of Odense (''Odense Katedralskole'') due to the generosity of noblemen who employed his father. From 1725, he studied theology at the University of Copenhagen. In Copenhagen he developed an interest in opera and music, nurtured by visits of touring opera companies from Italy and Germany. For a living, he worked as a poet and secretary for several noble families. After studying for almost 10 years, he left the university without a degree in 1734, and returned home. There he met Mette Cathrine Schousboe (1716-1747), a minister's daughter, whom he married in 1735. The couple lived at Mette's inherited farm which they were unable to manage well. As a result, its value soon declined, and the Stubs' li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambrosios Pleianthidis
Ambrosios Pleiathidis (, 1872–1922) also known as Ambrosios of Moschonisia was the Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Moschonisia, in modern Turkey, from February to September 1922. He was executed by the Turkish Army at the end of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922). He is commemorated by the Greek Orthodox Church as Hieromartyr () and his feast day is celebrated on the Sunday before the Exaltation of the Holy Cross each year (September 7–13). Life Ambrosios was born in Smyrna (modern İzmir), in the Aidin vilayet of the Ottoman Empire, in 1872. He graduated from the Evangelical School of his home town at 1893. After his graduation Ambrosios became an archdeacon in the nearby metropolis of Heliopolis and Thyateira, based in Aydın. He continued his studies and in 1895 he attended the Theolodigal Academy of Kiev and then he became a priest in the Greek community of Feodosiya in Crimea. In 1910 Ambrosios returned to Smyrna, where he preached in the local metropolis, und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambrosius Petruzzy
Ambrosius Petruzzy (died 1652 in Kaisersteinbruch, Kingdom of Hungary) was an Italian master stonemason and baroque sculptor. Life In December 1640, master Francesco Maderno and his wife Maria sold their house with a garden to master Ambrosius and Lucia Petruzzy. Petruzzy had already been a member of the Brotherhood of Stonemasons for a long time, because in the same year of 1640. He led the stonemason's and bricklayer's ''Viertellade'' in the imperial stonepit. In the 1640s, the Vienna mason's lodge energetically demanded that the Kaisersteinbruch masters separate from the Wiener Neustadt guild and turn to the Viennese one, or else they would have big problems with their Viennese appointments. A letter from the Viennese master stonemason to abbot Michael Schnabel of Abbey Heiligenkreuz as the authority in March 1641 says about that: "''...the Heiligenkreuz subject, Ambrosius Petruzzy, who was banished from Klosterneuburg, has now established a factory in front of the Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambrosius Pelargus
Ambrosius Pelargus (c. 1493 – 5 July 1561) was a German Dominican theologian. He was skilled in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. His polemical efforts were directed principally against the Anabaptists, the Iconoclasts, and those who rejected the Mass. Pelargus was a humanist name, from the Greek ''pelargon'', meaning stork; his real name is given as Storch.Thomas Brian Deutscher, Peter G. Bietenholz, ''Contemporaries of Erasmus'' (2003), p. 63. Life Pelargus was born at Nidda, Hesse. He entered the Dominican order probably at Freiburg, Breisgau. He attended the Diet of Worms (1540) and the Council of Trent in 1546, as theologian and procurator of the Archbishop of Trier. On 10 May 1546, he addressed the assembled priests. When the Council was transferred to Bologna in 1547, Emperor Charles V, incensed against Pelargus because he had favoured the transfer, induced the archbishop to recall him, but the latter chose him again as his theologian in 1561. He died at Trier Tri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambrosius Moibanus
Ambrosius Moibanus (4 April 1494 – 16 January 1554) was a German Lutheran theologian and reformer, and first Lutheran pastor at St Elisabeth's church in Breslau (now Wrocław). He was active in Silesia. He was an opponent of the Anabaptists, and pressed for their persecution. He was also a proponent of the education of women Female education is a catch-all term for a complex set of issues and debates surrounding education (primary education, secondary education, tertiary education, and health education in particular) for girls and women. It is frequently called girl ....Lowell Green, ''The Education of Women in the Reformation'', History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 1, Women's Influence on Education (Spring, 1979), pp. 93-116. Notes 1494 births 1554 deaths Clergy from Wrocław German Lutheran theologians German male non-fiction writers {{Germany-academic-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macrobius
Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius, usually referred to as Macrobius (fl. AD 400), was a Roman provincial who lived during the early fifth century, during late antiquity, the period of time corresponding to the Later Roman Empire, and when Latin was as widespread as Greek among the elite. He is primarily known for his writings, which include the widely copied and read '' Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis'' ("Commentary on the Dream of Scipio") about '' Somnium Scipionis'', which was one of the most important sources for Neoplatonism in the Latin West during the Middle Ages; the ''Saturnalia'', a compendium of ancient Roman religious and antiquarian lore; and ''De differentiis et societatibus graeci latinique verbi'' ("On the Differences and Similarities of the Greek and Latin Verb"), which is now lost. He is the basis for the protagonist Manlius in Iain Pears' book '' The Dream of Scipio''. Name Macrobius's given name () is unrecorded as is his family name (). His recorded nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambrosius Lobwasser
Ambrosius Lobwasser (1515–1585) was a German humanist and translator, born in Saxony. He served as professor of jurisprudence at the University of Königsberg from 1563 until his retirement in 1580, but is best known for his ''Psalter des Königlichen Propheten David'', published in 1573 (Leipzig). This metrical psalter, a translation of the Genevan Psalter, became one of the standard psalm-books used by the evangelical churches of the German-speaking lands, including Switzerland (the Genevan Psalter had been written in French). The Lobwasser psalter was widely reprinted into the 1800s. Psalmbooks and hymnbooks descended from the Lobwasser psalter continue in use today in the worldwide communities of faith descended from Anabaptism, including many branches of the Amish and Mennonite Mennonites are a group of Anabaptism, Anabaptist Christianity, Christian communities tracing their roots to the epoch of the Radical Reformation. The name ''Mennonites'' is derived from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambrosius Hubrecht
Ambrosius Arnold Willem Hubrecht (2 March 1853, in Rotterdam – 21 March 1915, in Utrecht) was a Dutch zoologist. Among his prominent contributions was the evolution of placental mammals. Hubrecht studied zoology at Utrecht University with Harting and Donders, for periods joining Selenka in Leiden and later Erlangen, and Gegenbauer in Heidelberg. He graduated ''magna cum laude'' with Harting in 1874 with a study on nemertine worms. In 1875–1882 he worked at the ''Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie'' in Leiden, where he was the curator of ichthyology and herpetology, and in 1882 became professor at Utrecht. In 1890–1891 he traveled in Java, Sumatra, and Borneo, where he made embryological studies, notably on the tarsier. He visited the United States in 1896 and 1907. Honorary degrees were conferred on him by Princeton University, the University of St Andrews, the University of Dublin, the University of Glasgow ( LL.D 1901), and the University of Giessen. Hubrecht´s mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
