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Burckhardt Family
The Burckhardt family alternatively also (de) Bourcard (in French language, French) is a family of the Basel Patrician (post-Roman Europe), patriciate, descended from Christoph (Stoffel) Burckhardt (1490–1578), a merchant in cloth and silk originally from Münstertal, Black Forest, who received Basel citizenship in 1523, and became a member of the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt in 1553. The family was represented in the Grand Council continuously from 1553 until the 20th century. In the 17th century and early 18th century, the family was the most powerful family of the canton of Basel. Branches of the family were based in Nantes and in the Kingdom of Naples from the 18th century, where it was nobility, ennobled as ''de Bourcard''. The family's famous members include the traveller and orientalist Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, the influential art historian Jacob Burckhardt and the international President of the Red Cross Carl Jacob Burckhardt. The surname is derived from the Germanic_na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrician (post-Roman Europe)
Patricianship, the quality of belonging to a patriciate, began in the ancient world, where cities such as Ancient Rome had a social class of Patrician (ancient Rome), patrician families, whose members were initially the only people allowed to exercise many political functions. In the rise of European towns in the 12th and 13th centuries, the patriciate, a limited group of families with a special constitutional position, in Henri Pirenne's view, was the motive force. In 19th century Central Europe, the term had become synonymous with the upper Bourgeoisie and cannot be interchanged with the Middle Ages, medieval patriciate in Central Europe. In the maritime republics of the Italian Peninsula as well as in Geographical distribution of German speakers#Europe, German-speaking parts of Europe, the patricians were as a matter of fact the ruling body of the medieval town. Particularly in Italy, they were part of the nobility. With the establishment of the medieval towns, Italian city-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gottlieb Burckhardt
Johann Gottlieb Burckhardt (24 December 1836 – 6 February 1907) was a Swiss psychiatrist and the medical director of a small mental hospital in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel. He is commonly regarded as having performed the first modern psychosurgical operation. Born in Basel, Switzerland, he trained as doctor at the Universities of Basel, Göttingen and Berlin, receiving his medical doctorate in 1860. In the same year he took up a teaching post in the University of Basel and established a private practice in his hometown. He married in 1863 but the following year he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and gave up his practice and relocated to a region south of the Pyrenees in search of a cure. By 1866 he had made a full recovery and returned to Basel with the intention of devoting himself to the study of nervous diseases and their treatment. In 1875, he attained a post at the Waldau University Psychiatric Clinic in Bern, and from 1876 he lectured on mental diseases at the Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Prominent Families Of The United States
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supreme Court Of Ohio
The Supreme Court of the State of Ohio is the highest court in the U.S. state of Ohio, with final authority over interpretations of Ohio law and the Ohio Constitution. The court has seven members, a chief justice and six associate justices, who are elected at large by the voters of Ohio for six-year terms. The court has a total of 1,550 other employees. Since 2004, the court has met in the Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center (formerly known as the Ohio Departments Building) on the east bank of the Scioto River in Downtown Columbus. Prior to 2004, the court met in the James A. Rhodes State Office Tower and earlier in the Judiciary Annex (now the Senate Building) of the Ohio Statehouse. The Ohio Supreme Court and the rest of the judiciary is established and authorized within Article IV of the Ohio Constitution. History The Supreme Court of Ohio was founded in 1802, established in the state constitution as a three-member court, holding courts in each county every year. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob F
Jacob, later known as Israel, is a Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions. He first appears in the Torah, where he is described in the Book of Genesis as a son of Isaac and Rebecca. Accordingly, alongside his older fraternal twin brother Esau, Jacob's paternal grandparents are Abraham and Sarah and his maternal grandfather is Bethuel, whose wife is not mentioned. He is said to have bought Esau's birthright and, with his mother's help, deceived his aging father to bless him instead of Esau. Then, following a severe drought in his homeland Canaan, Jacob and his descendants migrated to neighbouring Egypt through the efforts of his son Joseph, who had become a confidant of the pharaoh. After dying in Egypt at the age of 147, he is supposed to have been buried in the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron. Per the Hebrew Bible, Jacob's progeny were beget by four women: his wives (and maternal cousins) Leah and Rachel; and his concubines Bilhah and Zilpah. His sons were, in order of their b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Basel
The University of Basel (Latin: ''Universitas Basiliensis''; German: ''Universität Basel'') is a public research university in Basel, Switzerland. Founded on 4 April 1460, it is Switzerland's oldest university and among the world's oldest universities. The university is traditionally counted among the leading institutions of higher learning in the country. The associated Basel University Library is the largest and among the most important libraries in Switzerland. The university hosts the faculties of theology, law, medicine, humanities and social sciences, science, psychology, and business and economics, as well as numerous cross-disciplinary subjects and institutes, such as the Biozentrum for biomedical research and the Institute for European Global Studies. In 2020, the university had 13,139 students and 378 professors. International students accounted for 27 percent of the student body. In its over 500-year history, the university has been home to Erasmus of Rotterdam, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wettstein , system of plant taxonomy developed by Richard Wettstein
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Wettstein is a Swiss surname. Bearers of the name include: * Bryce Wettstein (born 2004), American skateboarder * Carla Wettstein (born 1946), Swiss and Australian chess master *Fritz von Wettstein (1895–1945), Austrian botanist *Johann Jakob Wettstein (1693–1754), Swiss theologian * Johann Rudolf Wettstein (1594–1666), Swiss diplomat *Otto von Wettstein (also given as Otto Wettstein-Westersheimb) (1892–1967), Austrian zoologist * Richard Wettstein (1863–1931), Austrian botanist See also *Wettstein system A list of systems of plant taxonomy, system of plant taxonomy, the Wettstein system recognised the following main groups, according to Richard Wettstein's ''Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik'' (1901–1924). 3rd edition (1924) Outline Syn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Von Der Mühll
Von der Mühll or Von der Mühl is a Swiss Patrician (post-Roman Europe), patrician (see the Daig (Switzerland), Daig of Basel) and Nobility, noble family. From the 18th century, with other patrician families in Basel (Merian family, Merian, Burckhardt, Faesch, Vischer), the Von der Mühll family dominated the city of Basel's political, economic and social landscape. The coat of arms of the Von der Mühll family is a shield in or (gold), set with three fers-de-moline sable (three black mill-rinds). The crest is an eagle sable (black eagle) in flight, its beak and talons in gold. History The family probably originated from Moulins, Allier, Moulins, France, in the 12th century. In the 15th century a branch emigrated to Delft, from where Johannes fled in the 16th century for Dutch Revolt, confessional reasons. A religious refugee in Herborn, Hesse, Herborn (Hessen), he is mentioned there as a linen merchant and mayor in 1561. His son, Christoffel (Stoffel), was a banker and linen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vischer
Vischer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Vischer family of Nuremberg, a family of sculptors active in Nuremberg between 1453 and 1549 **Hermann Vischer, the Elder (died 1487) **Peter Vischer the Elder (1455–1529) ** Hermann Vischer, the Younger (1486–1517) **Peter Vischer the Younger (1487–1528) **Hans Vischer (1486-1546) * Blanca Vischer (1915–1969), Guatemalan film actress * Friedrich Theodor Vischer (1807–1887), German novelist and philosopher * Phil Vischer (born 1966), director and co-creator of VeggieTales ''VeggieTales'' is an American Christian media, Christian Computer animated, CGI-animated series and multimedia franchise created by Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki under Big Idea Entertainment. The series stars Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumb ... * Wilhelm Vischer (1895–1988), Swiss pastor and theologian * Wilhelm Vischer (botanist) (1890–1960), Swiss botanist {{surname German-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Staehelin
Staehelin or Stähelin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Adolf Staehelin (1901–1965), Swiss chess player *Jenö Staehelin (born 1940), Swiss diplomat and lawyer *Lucas Andrew Staehelin (born 1939), Australian-born Swiss American cell biologist *Martin Staehelin (born 1937), Swiss musicologist Stähelin *August Stähelin (1812–1886), Swiss politician *Felix Stähelin (1873–1952), Swiss historian *Hartmann F. Stähelin (1925–2011), Swiss pharmacologist *Helene Stähelin (1891–1970), Swiss mathematician *Johann Jakob Stähelin (1797–1875), Swiss theologian *Rudolf Stähelin (1875–1943), Swiss physician {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarasin
Sarasin is a surname, originating (unrelatedly) in Switzerland and Thailand. * Arsa Sarasin (born 1936), Thai diplomat and businessman * Edouard Sarasin (1843–1917), Swiss scientist * Fritz Sarasin (1859–1942), full name Karl Friedrich Sarasin, Swiss naturalist * Jakob Sarasin (1742–1802), Swiss manufacturer and writer in the Age of Enlightenment * Jean François Sarrazin (c. 1611–1654), or Sarasin, French author * Kanit Sarasin (born 1964), Thai actor * Pao Sarasin (1929–2013), Thai politician and policeman * Paul Sarasin (1856–1929), full name Paul Benedict Sarasin, a Swiss naturalist * Pong Sarasin (born 1927), Thai businessman and politician * Pote Sarasin Pote Sarasin (25 March 1905 – 28 September 2000) was the ninth prime minister of Thailand from September 1957 to December 1957. He belonged to the influential Sarasin family. He served as foreign minister from 1949 to 1950 and then served as ... (1905–2000), Thai diplomat and politician * Ronald A. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
