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  1. Bishop Of Passau

    The Bishop of Passau is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Passau in the Archdiocese of München und Freising. The diocese covers an area of 5,442 km². The current bishop is Wilhelm Schraml.

  2. Altmann Of Passau

    Altmann of Passau, often called Saint or Blessed Altmann (born about 1015; died 8 August 1091) was a founder of monasteries and Bishop of Passau. He is venerated as a saint, but not officially canonised. He was born between 1013 and 1020 in Westphalia to a family of the greater nobility of Saxony. He was educated at the cathedral school at Paderborn, of which he later became director.

  3. Otto Of Passau

    Otto of Passau was a medieval Germanic clerical author.

  4. Bruno Jonas

    Bruno Jonas, born in Passau, Germany on December 3, 1952, is a German cabaret artist and actor.

  5. Anna Rosmus

    Anna Rosmus, also known as Anna Rosmus-Wenninger, is a German author born in 1960 in Passau, Bavaria. As a child and adolescent she started developing an interest in German history, especially that of the Third Reich, as the subject was not very much emphasized at school. She thus started writing an essay addressing the history of her town during the Nazi regime for a national contest while in her teens.

  6. Carlo Lurago

    Carlo Lurago (also spelled Luraghi; 1615 - october 22 1684) was an Italian architect, who was most active in Prague. He was born in Pellio Superiore in the Val d'Intelvi, near Como. At the age of 23, as an already an accomplished plasterer, he moved to Prague. He would build several different Jesuit churches and cloisters there, including some at the Clementinum, in the early baroque style. His first commission was the stucco decoration on the gothic St.

  7. Abraham A Sancta Clara

    Abraham a Sancta Clara (July, 1644-December 1, 1709), Austrian divine, was born at Kreenheinstetten, near Messkirch. His lay name was Ulrich Megerle. {not to be confused with Abraham Megerle, composer (1607-1680)In 1662 he joined the Catholic order of Discalced Augustinians, and assumed the religious name by which he is known. In this order he rose step by step until he became "prior provincialis" and "definitor" of his province.

  8. Antonio Beduzzi

    Antonio Maria Nicolao Beduzzi (1675 - 1735) was an Austrian-Italian theater engineer, painter, and architect who flourished in Vienna at the turn of the 17th century. He was born in Bologna. He succeeded Burnacini as the theatre architect at the Court in Vienna in 1708. Among his better known designs are: * The interior of Melk Abbey for Jakob Prandtauer's baroque reconstruction * St. Leopold's Church on Leopoldsberg above Klosterneuburg,

  9. Ruth Drexel

    Ruth Drexel is a Bavarian actress and theatre director. Although Drexel has been a serious actress, director and theatre manager for many decades, her wide popularity rests on her comic role (since 1996) as Resi Berghammer in the German television series, "Der Bulle von Tölz", where she plays, in Bavarian dialect, the adventurous and resolute mother of the eponymous cop. Born in Vilshofen near Passau, Drexel trained as an actress in Munich, …

  10. Ingeborg Hallstein

    Ingeborg Hallstein is a German opera singer. She studied with her mother Elisabeth Hallstein and debuted at the opera house in Passau/Germany in 1957 as Musetta in Puccinis "La Bohème". After engagements at the Theatre of Basel and the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich she made her Salzburg Festival debut in 1960 as Rosina in Mozart's "La Finta Semplice". The same year she joined the Bavarian State Opera, becoming a full member there from 1961-1973.

  11. Franz Xaver Haberl

    Franz Xaver Haberl (Oberellenbach, Lower Bavaria, 12 April 1840 - Ratisbon, 5 September 1910) was a German musicologist, friend of Liszt and Singenberger, cleric, and student of Proske. He made his classical and theological studies at Passau, Bavaria, where he was ordained priest, 12 August, 1862. Showing decided aptitude for music, be was given every opportunity for study of the art, and was entrusted with the direction of music in the seminary.

  12. Agnes Of Germany

    Agnes of Germany (1072 - September 24, 1143), was the daughter of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor and Bertha of Savoy. Her maternal grandparents were Otto, Count of Savoy, Aosta and Moriana and Adelaide, Marchioness of Turin and Susa. Agnes married firstly, in 1089, Frederick I, Duke of Swabia. They had several sons and daughters, amongst whom were Frederick II of Swabia (1090 - 1147) (the father of Frederick Barbarossa) and Conrad III of Germany (1093 - 1152).

  13. Mojmír I

    Mojmír I was the first known prince of the Моravian principality (?830-833) and the first prince of Great Moravia (833-846). He is also the first known member of the Mojmirid dynasty, which was named after him. He appears in Frankish sources in 830 as a ruler of the Moravian principality, a Slavic state situated around the Morava River (encompassing the territories of present-day southeastern Czech Republic and westernmost Slovakia).

  14. Luděk Pachman

    Luděk Pachman (German: Ludek Pachman, May 11 1924, Bělá pod Bezdězem, today Czech Republic - March 6 2003, Passau, Germany) was a Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster and political activist. In 1972, after being tortured almost to death and imprisoned by the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, he was allowed to immigrate to West Germany. He lived the remainder of his life there, and resumed his chess career with considerable success, …

  15. Nicolas Luckner

    Nikolaus, Count Luckner (* January 12, 1722 - January 4 1794 in Paris) was a German in French service who rose to become a Marshal of France. Luckner originated in Cham, in eastern Bavaria and received his early education from the Jesuits in Passau. Before entering the French service, Luckner had spent time in the Bavarian, Dutch and Hanoverian armies. He fought as a commander of hussars during the Seven Years' War against the French.

  16. Kunigunde Of Austria

    Kunigunde of Austria was an Austrian Archduchess and the wife of Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria. She was born in Wiener Neustadt as the daughter of Duke Frederick V of Austria and his wife Eleonore of Portugal. In 1470 Matthias Corvinus requested her hand; however, Frederick refused it to him. She married Albrecht IV of Bayern-München in 1487 against the will of her own father, and was joint regent for son Wilhelm IV.

  17. Odilo Of Bavaria

    Odilo (d.18 January 748), of the house of Agilolfing, ruled Bavaria from 736 until his death in 748, succeeding Duke Hugbert of Bavaria. Odilo presided over the establishment of bishoprics in Bavaria in 739, when the dioceses of Regensburg, Freising, Passau, und Salzburg were established by St. Boniface, followed in 741 by Würzburg. In 741, Odilo married Hiltrud, daughter of the Frankish Mayor of the Palace Charles Martel, …

  18. Giselle Of Bavaria

    Giselle of Bavaria (also Gisela or Gizella) (c. 985-1033 or 1065) was the daughter of Henry II, Duke of Bavaria and Gisela of Burgundy. She married King Stephen I of Hungary in 995 (some sources say 1008) as a part of Hungary's policy of opening up to the West. The couple had at least three children, including Saint Emeric ("Szent Imre"), but all of their children died young without further descendants.

  19. Philipp von Hörnigk

    Philipp von Hörnigk was born in Frankfurt am Main on the 23rd of January 1640 and died on the 23th of October 1714 in Passau. He was an Austrian civil servant and a supporter of the economic theory of mercantilism.

  20. Dominik von Königsegg-Rothenfels

    Lothar Joseph Dominik Graf von Königsegg-Rothenfels was an imperial Fieldmarshal. Lothar was the youngest son of Count Leopold Wilhelm von Königsegg-Rothenfels and Maria Polyxena, Countess Scherffenberg. His parents sent him to the Jesuit school in Besançon, to become a priest. At the age of 16 Lothar became capitular in Salzburg and Passau. Then he was sent to Rome to finish his education.<br> But Lothar didn't want to become a priest, …

  21. Jacob Ziegler

    The humanist and theologian Jacob Ziegler of Landau, was an itinerant scholar of geography and cartographer, who lived a wandering life in Europe. He studied at the University of Ingolstadt, then spent some time at the court of Pope Leo X before he converted to Protestantism. For a time he taught at Vienna; in his old age, 1545-49, he lived in the house of Wolfgang Salm, Bishop of Passau. His portrait by Wolf Huber (c. 1485-1553), executed about 1540, …

  22. William Joseph Behr

    William Joseph Behr, German publicist and writer, was born at Salzheim. He studied law at Würzburg and Göttingen, became professor of public law in the university of Würzburg in 1799, and in 1819 was sent as a deputy to the Landtag of Bavaria. Having associated himself with the party of reform, he was regarded with suspicion by the Bavarian king Maximilian I and the court party, although favoured for a time by Maximilian's son, …

  23. Johann Pfeffinger

    Johann Pfeffinger (27 December 1493, Wasserburg am Inn - 1 January 1573, in Leipzig) was a significant Evangelist theologian and Protestant Reformer. Devoting himself to the religious life, he became an acolyte at Salzburg in 1515, and soon afterward was made subdeacon and deacon. Receiving a dispensation from the regulations concerning canonical age, he was ordained priest and stationed at Reichenhall, Saalfelden, and Passau, …

  24. Otto Scherzer

    Otto Scherzer (9 March 1909 - 15 November 1982) was a German theoretical physicist from Passau who made contributions to electron microscopy.

  25. Leopold IV, Duke of Bavaria

    Leopold IV, "the Generous" (c. 1108-October 18, 1141) was Margrave of Austria from 1136 and Duke of Bavaria from 1139 until his death. He was one of the younger sons of Margrave Leopold III, the Holy. It is not known why he was originally preferred to his brothers Adalbert and Henry Jasomirgott. Through his mother Agnes, he was related to the Hohenstaufen. In the course of their struggle against the competing Welfen family, …

  26. Joseph Waltl

    Dr. Joseph Waltl (July 28, 1805-March 4, 1888) was a German physician and naturalist. Waltl was born in Wasserburg and studied at Landshut and Munich, graduating in medicine in 1819. He then travelled in Austria, France and Spain. In 1833 he became a teacher in Passau, and in 1835 a professor of natural history at the university. His numerous writings were mainly concerned with beetles and other insects.

  27. Nicola Avancini

    Nicola Avancini, born in Tyrol, was an ascetical writer. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1677, and for some years held the chair of rhetoric and philosophy at Gratz, and subsequently that of theology at Vienna. He was rector of the Colleges of Passau, Vienna, and Gratz, Provincial of the Austrian Province, Visitor of Bohemia, and at his death Assistant for the German Provinces of the Society. In the midst of these duties he published works on philosophy, theology, …

  28. Agnes Of Habsburg

    Agnes of Habsburg (ca. 1257 - 11 October 1322) was a daughter of Emperor Rudolph I of Germany and his first wife Countess Gertrude of Hohenberg. In 1273 she was married to Elector Albert II of Saxony. They had six children: # Duke Rudolf I of Saxe-Wittenberg (d. 11 March 1356) he was an Elector of Saxony # Otto (d. after 29 August 1311) # Albrecht (d. 19 May 1342), Bishop of Passau in 1322-1342 # Wenzel (d. 17 March 1327), a canon in Halberstadt # Anna (d.

  29. Trudi Le Caine

    Trudi Le Caine, C.M. (1911-September 5, 1999) was an arts patron involved with local and national arts initiatives in Ottawa, Canada. Born in Passau, Bavaria, she spent her youth in Teplitz-Schönau/Teplice-Šanov, Czechoslovakia before joining her step-father, Arnold Walter, in Berlin, where he was a music editor and critic for the leftist journals "Die Weltbühne" and "Vorwärts". After fleeing Germany following the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, …

  30. Theobald Of Bavaria

    Theobald (also "Theudebald", "Theodolt", or "Theodoalt") (died between 717 and 719) was the duke of Bavaria from at least 711, when his father Theodo associated him with his rule at Passau or Salzburg. He was the second son of Theodo and Folchaid. His father divided the duchy between his four sons some time before 715. On his death in 716, the duchy was divided, but it is not certain whether this division was territorial or not.

  31. Demy Passau
  32. Tassilo II of Bavaria II of Bavaria

    Tassilo II (d.c.719) was the son, probably third, of Theodo and Folchaid. Sometime before 715, Theodo divided his duchy and associated with its rule the eldest two of his four sons. The eldest, Theodbert, was co-ruling as early as 702 and the second, Theobald, from 711. On Theodo's death (probably in 716), the division took full effect.

  33. Tom Passau
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  35. Graeme Passau
  36. Marion

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  37. Sebastian Korbinian Frankenberger
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