Maria Anna/Anna Marie "Nanny" Adamberger, born Jaquet, was an Austrian actress. She was played ingénue roles in comedies and originated the role of Madame Vogelsang in Der Schauspieldirektor by Mozart.
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie is one of the most important and comprehensive biographical reference works in the German language.
Leonhard Ennen, also spelled Leonard Ennen, was a German theologian, historian and archivist born in Schleiden, in the Eifel region of modern-day Germany. He is remembered for his writings on the history of Cologne.
Johann Gottfried Langermann was a German psychiatrist and administrator born in Maxen, near Dresden.
The treaty of Marienburg, concluded on 29 June 1656, was a Brandenburg-Prussian – Swedish alliance during the Second Northern War.
Johann Georg von Lori was a Bavarian high official, lawyer and historian. He was the driving force behind the foundation of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1759.
Franz Töpsl was an Augustinian Canon Regular, provost of Polling Abbey, historian and librarian.
The Biographical Portal is a free online index to biographical reference works in the German language area. Intended to facilitate access to reliable biographical information, it contains entries for more than 160,000 biographies of persons from all social backgrounds and nearly all periods of German, Austrian, Swiss, Slovenian and South-East European history.
Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Hegel was a German historian and son of the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. During his lifetime he was a well-known and well-reputed historian who received many awards and honours. He was one of the major urban historians during the second half of the 19th century.
Robert Eitner was a German musicologist, researcher and bibliographer.
Eduard Alberti was a German literary historian and philosopher. His surviving published output includes approximately twenty biographical entries in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Duncker was a German publisher and bookseller. He played an important part in the early creation and growth of the publishing firm which became Duncker & Humblot, more recently the publishers of the Neue Deutsche Biographie, a biographical dictionary.
Carl Geibel(néCarl Stephan Franz; 19 May 1842 - 5 June 1910) was a Hungarian-born German book dealer and publisher. He built up Duncker & Humblot, the Leipzig based publisher of the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, a 56 volume German dictionary of national biography covering approximately 26,500 notable German and Dutch people who died before 1900.
Jakob Baechtold, surname sometimes spelled as Bächtold was a Swiss literary scholar.
Karl Friedrich von Moller was a Prussian colonel of artillery. His uncanny genius at setting up artillery parks gave Frederick the Great high confidence in the artillery's ability to effect the outcome. During the Seven Years' War, Moller gained great fame specifically for his actions at Lobositz, Rossbach and Zorndorf.
Deutsche Biographie is a German-language online biographical dictionary. It published thus far information about more than 730,000 individuals and families (2016). All entries are linked to the Integrated Authority File (GND).
Johann Josef Spitzeder was a German actor and singer. A popular artist in his own right, he is today mostly remembered for being the father of confidence trickster and actress Adele Spitzeder.
Hans-Christof Kraus is a German historian.
August von Eisenhart was a Bavarian lawyer who became a politician. Between 1870 and 1876 he served as the king's cabinet secretary. The appointment was almost certainly made at the instigation of the powerful Interior Minister Johann von Lutz. The king himself became increasingly reclusive during the 1870s: commentators indicate that von Eisenhart became, in effect, the sole intermediary between King Ludwig II and the outside world - which included the other members of the Bavarian government.
Cothenius Medal is a medal awarded by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina for outstanding scientific achievement during the life of the awardee. The medal was created to honour Christian Andreas Cothenius, who was the personal physician to Frederick the Great. In 1743, Cothenius became a fellow of the Leopoldina, later president of the learned society that had been created by Emperor Leopold I. When Cothenius died, he left a sum of money in his will to the society with the condition that the interest on the money should be used to award a gold medal, every two years by answering a question in medicine whereby some new truth could be established. Up until 1864, the award came with a prize but was then converted into an award for the promotion of research over the whole period of a persons life. Each medal bears the Latin inscription "Praemium virtutis salutem mortalium provehentibus sancitum".
