The House of Bothmer is the name of an ancient German noble comital family whose members occupied significant military and diplomatic positions in the Kingdom of Hanover, Kingdom of Bavaria and later within the German Empire.
The House of Bothmer is the name of an ancient German noble comital family whose members occupied significant military and diplomatic positions in the Kingdom of Hanover, Kingdom of Bavaria and later within the German Empire.
The family was first mentioned in written document from the 12th century and the progenitor of the family is considered to be Dietrich, Ritter de Botmerere (1183–1222). They were named after their estate in Bothmer, near Schwarmstedt, which was on the confluence of the rivers Aller and Leine. On 4 November 1713, they were granted the title of Imperial Count by Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor. [1] The title was heritable by all legitimate male-line descendants.
Reinhold is a German, male given name, originally composed of two elements. The first is from regin, meaning "the (German)Gods" or as an emphatic prefix (very) and wald meaning "powerful". The second element having been reinterpreted as hold meaning "loyal" in the 16th century.
Dietrich is an ancient German name meaning "ruler of the people", but also "keeper of the keys" or "lockpick".
The Fersen family, stylized as the von Fersen, is a Baltic-German noble family grouped into several ennobled branches that settled in and around the kingdoms bordering the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. The most well-known holders of the surname settled in modern day Sweden and Livonia which was once part of the Swedish Empire, and later of the Russian Empire.
The House von der Goltz is the name of an old and influential German noble family whose members occupied many important political and military positions in the Kingdom of Prussia and later in the German Empire.
Tiedemann is both a surname and a given name of German origin, a variant of Thiedemann. Notable people with the name include:
Grün is surname literally meaning "green".
The Amasis Painter was an ancient Greek vase painter who worked in the black-figure technique. He owes his name to the signature of the potter Amasis, who signed twelve works painted by the same hand. At the time of the exhibition, "The Amasis Painter and His World" (1985), 132 vases had been attributed to this artist.
Andokides was an ancient Athenian vase painter, active from approximately 530 to 515 BC. His work is unsigned and his true name unknown. He was identified as a unique artistic personality through stylistic traits found in common among several paintings. This corpus was then attributed by John D. Beazley to the Andokides Painter, a name derived from the potter Andokides, whose signature appears on several of the vases bearing the painter's work. He is often credited with being the originator of the red-figure vase painting technique. To be sure, he is certainly one of the earliest painters to work in the style. In total, fourteen amphorae and two cups are attributed to his hand. Six of the amphorae are "bilingual", meaning they display both red-figure and black-figure scenes.
von Berg in aristocratic German name hailing from the Duchy of Berg. It may refer to:
Wrangel or Wrangell is a Germanic surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The Buxhoeveden family is a Baltic-German noble family of Lower Saxon origin once prominent in Estonia and Russia, with roots tracing to Bexhövede, Bremen-Verden, Germany. In Sweden, the family is considered part of the unintroduced nobility. On 18 December 1795, members of the family were granted the title of Count in the Kingdom of Prussia, and on 16 April 1797 they were awarded with the same title in the Russian Empire.
Unruh is a surname. It may refer to:
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Dietrich Felix von Bothmer was a German-born American art historian, who spent six decades as a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he developed into the world's leading specialist in the field of ancient Greek vases.
The Bonin family or von Bonin is an old Prussian noble family of Polish origin, whose members held significant military posts in the Kingdom of Prussia and later within the German Empire.
Alt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The House of Maltzahn or Maltzan is the name of an ancient German noble family of the counts and barons von Maltza(h)n which originated from Mecklenburg, Germany, and were first mentioned in a document in 1194. Members occupied many important positions in the Duchy of Mecklenburg and in its successor states, in the Kingdom of Prussia and later in the German Empire. The family owned large properties in Mecklenburg, expropriated by communist East Germany in 1945, where they are now once again based on several estates that they have reacquired.
Grassmann, Graßmann or Grassman is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The Lerchenfeld family is an ancient German noble family originating from Bavaria, whose members held significant positions within the Holy Roman Empire, Kingdom of Bavaria, Poland and Russia.
The Jagow family is an old German noble family which originated from Altmark, Brandenburg. Members of the family held important political and military positions in the Kingdom of Prussia and later in the German Empire.
