German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic. He is associated with the Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism.
Size 9 x 8 cms
Price £14.00
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Category Archives: German
Martin Heinrich Klaproth 1743-1817
German chemist. He trained and worked for much of his life as an apothecary, moving in later life to the university. His shop became the second-largest apothecary in Berlin, and the most productive artisanal chemical research center in Europe.
Date:1743
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
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Samuel Stryk 1640-1710
Samuel Stryk, also spelled Stricke, Stryck, Striccius, Strick, Stricke, Stryckius, Stryke, Stryken, Strykius (born November 22, 1640 in Lenzen; died July 23, 1710 in Halle (Saale)), was a German jurist. He is considered one of the most important figures in the development of German law in the 17th and 18th centuries, the Usus modernus pandectarum.
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Size 13 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
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Maximillian Emmanuel, Elector Bavaria
Maximilian II Emanuel (born July 11, 1662, Munich—died Feb. 26, 1726, Munich) was the elector of Bavaria from 1679 and an able soldier whose quest for dynastic aggrandizement led him into a series of wars, first as an ally of the House of Habsburg, later against it, an enmity that nearly cost him his holdings.
Artist: De Larmessin
Date:1662
Size 17 x 23 cms
Price £28.00
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Rupert, King of the Romans 1352-1410
Rupert of the Palatinate sometimes known as Robert of the Palatinate, a member of the House of Wittelsbach, was Elector Palatine from 1398 (as Rupert III) and King of Germany from 1400 until his death.
Artist: R. Gaillard c.1719-1790
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Size 10 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
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Heinrich von Brühl 1700-1763
The Brühl family (de Brüel, von Brühl) is an old German noble family from Saxony-Thuringia, with their ancestral seat in Gangloffsömmern in Thuringia. Branches of the family still exist today.
Heinrich von Brühl, who indirectly controlled Saxony and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the 18th century, was a powerful statesman in the Holy Roman Empire.
One of the most important branches of the Brühl family uses the spelling Brüel or Bryll and mainly resides in Denmark, Sweden, Poland, and United States.
Size 9 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
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Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach 1617-1677
He was born at Karlsburg Castle, in Durlach (now part of Karlsruhe) as the son of Friedrich V, Margrave of Baden-Durlach and Barbara of Württemberg. He studied in Strasbourg and Paris where he particularly enjoyed the science of war. Later he participated in the defense of German territories against the Ottoman invasion of 1663. Frederick later also participated in the Franco-Dutch War.
Artist: Meyssens
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Size 15 x 24 cms
Price £28.00
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Philip Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg 1620-1689
His branch of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg is named after Wiesenburg Castle, near Zwickau.
Size 6 x 9 cms
Price £14.00
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Charles Alexander of Württemberg 1684-1737
Württemberg Duke from 1698 who governed the Kingdom of Serbia as regent from 1720 until 1733, when he assumed the position of Duke of Württemberg, which he held until his death.
Size 8 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
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Georg Wilhelm Kirchmaier 1673-1759
German philologist, philosopher and linguist.
Size 9 x 14.5 cms
Price £14.00
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