- Bishop Of Speyer
The Bishop of Speyer is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Speyer in the Archdiocese of Bamberg. The diocese covers an area of 5,893 km². The current bishop is Anton Schlembach. - Julian Of Speyer
Julian of Speyer (d. c. 1250), also known as Julian of Spires and Latinized Julianus Teutonicus, was a German Franciscan composer, poet, and historian of the thirteenth century. Born in Speyer, Julian studied at the University of Paris and was the musical director for the royal chapel during the reigns of Philip Augustus and Louis VIII of France. Eventually, he left to become a member of the newly founded Order of St Francis, … - Simha Of Speyer
Simha ben Samuel of Speyer was a German rabbi and tosafist. Neither the year of his birth nor that of his death is known. He took part in the rabbinical synod held at Mayence in Tammuz (July), 1223, being one of the signers of the decrees and regulations issued by that body (comp. Moses Minz, Responsa, No. 202). He was a nephew of the director ("parnas") Kalonymus, a pupil of R. Eliezer of Metz, and a colleague of Eliezer ben Joel ha-Levi. - Walter Of Speyer
Walter of Speyer (Walt(h)er von Speyer, Gualterus Spirensis) (967-1027) was a German bishop and poet. - Samuel Of Speyer
Samuel ben Kalonymus he-Hasid of Speyer was a Tosafist, liturgical poet, and philosopher of the 12th century, surnamed also "the Prophet" (Solomon Luria, Responsa, No. 29). He seems to have lived in Spain and in France. He is quoted in the "tosafot" to Yebamot (6lb) and Soṭah (12a), as well as by Samuel b. Meïr (RaSHBaM) in his commentary on "Arbe Pesaḥim" (Pes. 109a). Samuel was the author of a commentary on the treatise Tamid, … - Chris Speyer
Chris Speyer (b. 9 February 1902 in Toronto, Ontario - d. 26 December 1966) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played 2 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Toronto St. Pats. He died at home in Toronto. - Alexei Nikolaevich Speyer
Alexei Nikolaevich Speyer was a Russian diplomat and Anglophobe. The Russian government had intended to send him to Korea in 1895 to replace Karl Ivanovich Weber as Russian consul general in Korea, but at the request of King Gojong of Korea's Joseon Dynasty, Weber remained in place, and Speyer was sent to Tokyo instead. Speyer finally replaced Weber in September 1897. He later served as the chargé d'affaires of the Russian Embassy in Tehran, Persia, … - Edith Stein
Edith Stein (October 12, 1891 - August 9, 1942) was a philosopher, a Carmelite nun, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church, who died at Auschwitz. In 1922, she converted to Christianity, was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church and was received into the Discalced Carmelite Order in 1934. She was canonized as Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (her Carmelite monastic name) by Pope John Paul II in 1998; however, she is still often referred to, … - Hans Purrmann
Hans Marsilius Purrmann (April 10, 1880 - April 17, 1966) was a German artist. He was born in Speyer where he also grew up. He completed an apprenticeship as a scene painter and interior decorator, and subsequently studied in Karlsruhe and Munich before going to Paris in 1906. There he became a student and later a friend of Henri Matisse and set up a painting school with the great French painter. After 1916 Purrmann lived in Berlin and Langenargen (Lake Constance), … - Anselm Feuerbach
Anselm Feuerbach (September 12, 1829 - January 4, 1880) was a German painter. He was the leading classicist painter of the German 19th-century school. According to the 1911 Britannica, <blockquote>He was the first to realize the danger arising from contempt of technique, that mastery of craftsmanship was needed to express even the loftiest ideas, and that an ill-drawn coloured cartoon can never be the supreme achievement in art. - Wilhelm Meyer
Wilhelm Meyer was a German classical scholar, initially a librarian and literary scholar, who worked also on musicology. He became professor of Classical and Medieval Latin Philology at the University of Göttingen. He was known as Meyer aus Speyer (Meyer from Speyer), from his birthplace Speyer. He was an authority on the prosody of medieval Latin verse, … - J. J. Becher
Johann Joachim Becher (May 6, 1635 - October 1682), was a German physician, alchemist, precursor of Chemistry, scholar and adventurer, best known for his development of the Phlogiston theory. He was born in Speyer. His father, a Lutheran minister, died while he was a child, leaving a widow and three children. At the age of thirteen Becher found himself responsible not only for his own support but also for that of his mother and brothers. - Gabriel Biel
Gabriel Biel (c. 1420 or 1425 - 7 December 1495) was a German scholastic philosopher born in Speyer. In 1432 he was ordained to the priesthood and entered Heidelberg University. He succeeded academically and became an instructor in the faculty of the arts. - Arnold Gehlen
Arnold Gehlen (January 29, 1904 - January 30, 1976) was an influential conservative German philosopher and sociologist. His major influences while studying philosophy were Hans Driesch, Nicolai Hartmann and especially Max Scheler. He joined the Nazi Party in 1933 and had a shining career as a member of the 'Leipzig School' under Hans Freyer. He replaced Paul Tillich, who emigrated to the USA, at the University of Frankfurt. - Reinhard Bütikofer
Reinhard Hans Bütikofer is a German politician for the Alliance 90/The Greens party and one of the two current party leaders, together with Claudia Roth. Bütikofer was born in Mannheim and grew up in Speyer. He studied philosophy, sinology and history in Heidelberg, but did not finish his studies. He was engaged in the student's movement and one of the "K groups", the maoistic "Kommunistischer Bund Westdeutschland" (KBW). - Joseph Wendel
Joseph Cardinal Wendel (May 27, 1901-December 31, 1960) was a German prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Munich and Freising from 1952 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953. - Friedrich von Spee
Friedrich von Spee (February 25, 1591 - August 7, 1635) was a German Jesuit and poet, most noted as an opponent of trials for witchcraft. Spee was the first person in his time who spoke strongly and with arguments against torture in general. He may be considered the first who ever gave good arguments why torture is not a way of obtaining "truth" from someone undergoing "painful" questioning. He was born at Kaiserswerth on the Rhine. - Henry Villard
Henry Villard (April 10 1835 - November 12, 1900) was an American journalist and financier of German origin. - Eberhard Bosslet
Eberhard Bosslet (born 1953) is a German contemporary artist who has been producing side-specific art and architectural-related works, such as sculpture, installation and painting, both indoors and outdoors, since 1979. Born in Speyer, Germany, and living in Dresden, he co-founded the artist group, "Material & Effect" ("Material & Wirkung") in Berlin in 1981, and since 1980, … - Karl Haas
Karl Haas (December 6, 1913 - February 6, 2005) was a German-American classical music radio show host whose distinctively sonorous voice and humanistic approach to making his joy of music contagious made him well-received by many. He was the host of "Adventures in Good Music", which was syndicated to commercial and public radio stations around the world. He also published a book, "Inside Music". - Jakob Wimpfeling
Jakob Wimpfeling (July 25, 1450-November 17, 1528) was a German Renaissance humanist and theologian. Wimpfeling was born in Schlettstadt, Alsace. He went to the school at Schlettstadt, conducted by Ludwig Dringenberg. In 1464 he became a student at the University of Freiburg, where he received his baccalaureus in 1466; later he went to the University of Erfurt and the University of Heidelberg, … - Jerry Speyer
Mr. Speyer was one of the two founding partners of Tishman Speyer Properties (TSP), and has been President and CEO since TSP's formation in 1978. Prior to 1978, Mr. Speyer was a Senior Vice President and Director of Tishman Realty & Construction Co., Inc. An active advocate on behalf of New York City, Mr. Speyer has headed many community, business and cultural organizations. - Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor
Conrad II (c. 990-June 4, 1039) was the son of a mid-level nobleman in Franconia, Count Henry of Speyer and Adelheid of Alsace, who inherited the titles the Salian Count of Speyer and of Worms as an infant when Henry died at age twenty. From his power base in Worms and Speyer as he matured he came to be well known by many noblemen in The Germanies, and when the Saxon line died off and the elected monarchy for the Eastern German realm was up for grabs, … - Johann Cochlaeus
Johann Cochlaeus (1479 - January 10, 1552) was a German humanist and controversialist. Originally Johann Dobneck, he was born of poor parents at Wendelstein (near Nuremberg), from which he obtained the punning surname Cochlaeus (spiral), for which he occasionally substituted Wendelstinus. Educated at Nuremberg from the humanist Heinrich Grieninger, he entered the University of Cologne in 1504. - Gerhard Vollmer
Gerhard Vollmer (born 17 November 1943 in Speyer) is a German physicist and philosopher. He tries to build bridges between the natural science and the more social or humanistic disciplines. He is perhaps best known for his development of an evolutionary theory of knowledge - Matthias Langkamp
Matthias Langkamp (born February 24, 1984 in Speyer) is a German footballer. His career began in 2004 with Arminia Bielefeld where he played 22 games in the 2004-05 season. He transferred to VfL Wolfsburg in 2005/06 before moving to Switzerland for 2006-07, where he is currently playing for Grasshoppers Zurich. He has played two games for the Under-21 German national team. - Friedrich Cardinal Wetter
Friedrich Cardinal Wetter (born February 20, 1928) is a German cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, the Archbishop Emeritus of Munich, Germany. His resignation as Metropolitan Archbishop of Munich and Freising was accepted on Friday, February 2, 2007, by Pope Benedict XVI. Pope Benedict, as Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, had held that post before becoming Pope John Paul II's Prefect for the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith and then Pope. - Jürgen Wullenwever
Jürgen Wullenwever, burgomaster of Lübeck, was probably born at Hamburg in 1492. Settling in Lübeck as a merchant he took some part in the risings of the inhabitants in 1530 and 1531, being strongly in sympathy with the democratic ideas in religion and politics which inspired them. Having joined the governing council of the city and become leader of the democratic party, … - Wolfgang Drechsler
Wolfgang Drechsler (born June 6, 1963, Marburg, Germany) is a Public Administration, Political Philosophy and Innovation Policy scholar. He is Professor and Chair of Governance, and one of the founders and directors of the Technology Governance program, at the Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia. Drechsler holds degrees from Bridgewater College, the University of Virginia, the University of Marburg, … - Johann Kaspar Zeuß
Johann Kaspar Zeuß was a German historian and founder of Celtic philology. - Paul Joseph Nardini
Paul Joseph Nardini (July 25, 1821-January 27, 1862) was a diocesean priest and the founder of the religious order the Franciscan Sisters of the Holy Family. He was born at Germersheim, in Germany, to Margaret Lichtenberger, a single mother. She gave him the name Paul Joseph Lichtenberger at birth. Margaret was unemployed and thus not able to personally provide for herself and her son. She turned her son over to her paternal aunt, Maria Barbara, … - Adolf Of Germany
Adolf or Adolph (c. 1255 - 2 July 1298) was the King of Germany from 1292 until 1298. His title in his lifetime was "rex Romanorum", but he is usually known as Adolf of Nassau. Adolf of Nassau was a member of the minor nobility, born about 1255 as son of count Walram II of Nassau and Adelheid of Katzenelnbogen. - Isaac ben Asher Ha-Levi
Rabbi Isaac ben Asher HaLevi or Riva is the earliest known Tosafist, son-in-law of Eliakim ben Meshullam and pupil of Rashi. He flourished in Speyer during the 11th century. He is cited under the name of "Tosafot Riva," in the "Temim De'im," in the printed "tosafot" ("Sotah" 17b), and in the "Tosafot Yeshanin" ("Yoma" 15a). They are frequently quoted without the name of their author. - Karl Felix Halm
Karl Felix Halm (April 5, 1809 - October 5, 1882), was a German classical scholar and critic. He was born at Munich. In 1849, having held appointments at Speyer and Hadamar, he became rector of the newly founded "Maximiliansgymnasium" at Munich, and in 1856 director of the royal library and professor in the University of Munich. These posts he held till his death. Halm is known chiefly as the editor of Cicero and other Latin prose authors, … - Nicolaus von Weis
Nicolaus von Weis was Bishop of Speyer (in the Rhenish Palatinate in what is now Germany). He was born in Rimlingen, Lorraine, 8 March, 1796; he died in Speyer, 13 December, 1869. - Adam Philippe Comte de Custine
Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general. Born in Metz, he began his military career in the Seven Years' War. He next served with distinction against the English in the War of American Independence. In 1789 he was elected to the states-general by the "bailliage" of Metz. In October 1791 he again joined the army, with the rank of lieutenant-general and became popular with the soldiers, amongst whom he was known as "général moustache". - Daniel Bonifacius von Haneberg
Daniel Bonifacius von Haneberg (Tanne near Kempten, Bavaria, 16 June1816 - Speyer, Rhine Palatinate, 31 May1876) was a German Catholic bishop and orientalist. - Conrad II, Duke of Carinthia
Conrad II (probably 1003-20 July 1039), called the Younger, was the Salian duke of Carinthia from 1035. His father, Conrad I died in 1011 when he was a minor. Adalbero of Eppenstein was given the duchy of Carinthia. Instead Conrad became count in Nahegau, Speyergau, and Wormsgau. In 1024, as his father and grandfather in 1002, Conrad was a candidate for the German kingship after the death of the Emperor Henry II. It was his cousin, another Conrad II, … - Johann Georg Gichtel
Johann Georg Gichtel (March 14, 1638 -January 21, 1710), German mystic, was born at Regensburg, where his father was a member of senate. Having acquired at school an acquaintance with Greek, Hebrew, Syriac and even Arabic, he proceeded to Strasbourg to study theology; but finding the theological prelections of JS Schmidt and PJ Spener distasteful, he entered the faculty of law. He was admitted an advocate, first at Speyer, …
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