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Antonie Jüngst
Antonie Jüngst (born June 13, 1843, in Werne; died June 8, 1918, in Münster) was a Westphalian writer and poet. Life Antonie Jüngst was a great-granddaughter of the law professor Wolrad Burchardi. After the early death of her parents, she came into the family of the councillor of justice Crone, who initially lived in Rheine, later in Münster. She was sent to the Ursulines at St. Leonhard in Aachen for her education. Back in Münster, she received a great deal of inspiration, especially from the poet and philosopher Christoph Bernhard Schlüter, the friend of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. With her foster parents, and after the death of her foster father with her mother alone, she traveled extensively to Switzerland, Thuringia and Italy. She turned these inspirations into poetry. She wrote poems, short stories and epics. On her second trip to Rome in the spring of 1899, she was able to present her work "Roma aeterna" to Pope Leo XIII in a private audience. After the death o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonie Juengst
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Antonie may refer to: * Antonie (given name) * Antonie (surname) * Antonie, Lord of Monaco (died 1427) * Antonie, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, a village * Antonie, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, a village See also * Antoni, a given name and surname * Antony (other) Antony may refer to: * Antony (name), a masculine name Films * Antony (2018 film), an Indian Tamil-language action drama film * Antony (2023 film), an Indian Malayalam-language action drama film Persons * Antony (footballer, born 2000) (Antony ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honorary Citizen
Honorary citizenship is a status bestowed by a city or other government on a foreign or native individual whom it considers to be especially admirable or otherwise worthy of the distinction. The honor usually is symbolic and does not confer any change to citizenship or nationality. North America Canada Honorary Canadian citizenship requires unanimous approval in both houses of Parliament. The only people to ever receive honorary Canadian citizenship are Raoul Wallenberg posthumously in 1985; Nelson Mandela in 2001; the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso in 2006; Aung San Suu Kyi in 2007 (revoked in 2018); Prince Karim Aga Khan in 2009; and Malala Yousafzai in 2014. United States By act of United States Congress and presidential assent, an individual may be named an honorary citizen of the United States. Since 1963, it has been awarded to only eight individuals. Europe Germany In Germany, Section 14 of the Nationality Act allows the Federal Minister of the Interior to nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1918 Deaths
The ceasefire that effectively ended the World War I, First World War took place on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of this year. Also in this year, the Spanish flu pandemic killed 50–100 million people worldwide. In Russia, this year runs with only 352 days. As the result of Julian to Gregorian calendar switch, 13 days needed to be skipped. Wednesday, January 31 ''(Julian Calendar)'' was immediately followed by Thursday, February 14 ''(Gregorian Calendar)''. Events World War I will be abbreviated as "WWI" January * January – 1918 flu pandemic: The "Spanish flu" (influenza) is first observed in Haskell County, Kansas. * January 4 – The Finnish Declaration of Independence is recognized by Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Russia, Sweden, German Empire, Germany and France. * January 8 – American president Woodrow Wilson presents the Fourteen Points as a basis for peace negotiations to end the war. * January 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1843 Births
Events January–March * January 3 – The '' Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms'' (海國圖志, ''Hǎiguó Túzhì'') compiled by Wei Yuan and others, the first significant Chinese work on the West, is published in China. * January 6 – Antarctic explorer James Clark Ross discovers Snow Hill Island. * January 20 – Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná is appointed by the Emperor, Dom Pedro, as the leader of the Brazilian Council of Ministers, although the office of Prime Minister of Brazil will not be officially created until 1847. * January ** Serial publication of Charles Dickens's novel ''Martin Chuzzlewit'' begins in London; in the July chapters, he lands his hero in the United States. ** Edgar Allan Poe's short story " The Tell-Tale Heart" is published in ''The Pioneer'', a Boston magazine. ** The Quaker magazine '' The Friend'' is first published in London. * February 3 – Uruguayan Civil War: Argentina supports Oribe of Uruguay, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feliks Nowowiejski
Feliks Nowowiejski (7 February 1877 – 18 January 1946) was a Polish composer, conductor, concert organist, and music teacher. Nowowiejski was born in Wartenburg (today Barczewo) in Warmia in the Prussian Partition of Poland (then administratively part of the Province of East Prussia, German Empire). He died in Poznań, Poland.Polish perspectives Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych - 1968 -- Volume 11, Numéros 1 à 6 - Page 91 "Feliks Nowowiejski (1887–1946), composer, organist and orchestra conductor, was the author of the opera The Legend of the Baltic, the song The Oath to the text by Maria Konopnicka, and many other works for orchestra, choir, ..." Childhood Feliks Nowowiejski was born the fifth of 11 siblings. Nowowiejski's ancestors, like himself, came from Warmia, a region which was part of the Polish Kingdom prior to the First Partition of Poland in 1772. His father was Franz Adam Nowowiejski, a Pole born in 1830 in Wartenburg in Warmia (former Polish Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quo Vadis (Oratorio)
''Quo vadis?'' (, ) is a Latin phrase meaning "Where are you going?". It is commonly translated, quoting the King James Version, KJV translation of John 13:36, as "Whither goest thou?" The phrase originates from the Christianity, Christian tradition regarding Saint Peter's first words to the risen Christ during their encounter along the Appian Way. According to the apocryphal Acts of Peter (Vercelli manuscript, Vercelli Acts XXXV; late 2nd century AD), as Peter flees from crucifixion in Rome at the hands of the government, he meets the resurrection of Jesus, risen Jesus along the road outside the city. In the Latin translation, Peter asks Jesus, "''Quo vadis?''" He replies, "''Romam eo iterum crucifigī''" ("I am going to Rome to be crucified again"). Peter then gains the courage to continue his ministry and returns to the city, where he is martyred by being Cross of St. Peter, crucified upside-down. The Church of Domine Quo Vadis in Rome is built where the meeting between Pete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
