Alfred Wallenstein

male, deceased (1983)
Conductor, chicago symphony orchestra, Peabody Award winner, new york philharmonic, cellist, los angeles philharmonic
Alfred Wallenstein (October 7, 1898 - February 8, 1983) was an American cellist and conductor, born in Chicago, Illinois. At the age of 17, he...
Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller

male, deceased (1805)
wallenstein, demetrius, don carlos, Die Raeuber, turandot, Wilhelm Tell
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist. During the last several years of his life...

Johan Banér

male, deceased (1641)
Battle of Rain, Field Marshal of Sweden, Battle of Breitenfeld, Field Marshal, swedish, Swedish nobility…wallenstein
Johan Banér was a Swedish Field Marshal in the Thirty Years' War. Johan Banér was born at Djursholm Castle. His father and uncle were beheaded in 16...
Matthias Gallas

Matthias Gallas

male, deceased (1647)
Count Collalto, War of Mantuan Succession, lorraine, Austrian nobility, Austrian, flanders…wallenstein, Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein
Matthias Gallas, Graf von Campo und Herzog von Lucera (Count of Campo, Duke of Lucera) (1584-1647), Austrian soldier, first saw service in...
Adriaen de Vries

Adriaen de Vries

male, deceased (1626)
virtues, Patina, escorial, baroque, wallenstein, Museum De Vries
Adriaen de Vries (The Hague ca.1556 - Prague 1626) was a Late Mannerist sculptor born in the Netherlands, whose international style crossed the...

Dave Blalock

male
supreme court, Flag Protection Act, Stop The WAR Brigade, United States v. Eichman, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Fort Jackson…wallenstein
Dave Blalock, born 1950 in Johnstown (Pennsylvania), is an American anti-war activist who helped overturn the 1989 Flag Protection Act. Blalock...
Luigi Denza

Luigi Denza

male, deceased (1922)
from the Province of Naples, from Campania, wallenstein, Italian, royal academy of music, opera
Luigi Denza, was an Italian composer. Denza was born at Castellammare di Stabia, near Naples. He studied music under Saverio Mercadante and Paolo...
Nils Brahe

Nils Brahe

male, deceased (1632)
gustavus adolphus, Thirty Years' War, wallenstein, swedish, Swedish nobility, stralsund
Count Nils Brahe (October 14, 1604 - November 21, 1632) was a Swedish soldier and younger brother of Per Brahe. He served with distinction under...
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

male, deceased (1689)
Protestant, French, wallenstein, Travel writer, nuremberg, duke of Rethel
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605 - July 1689), French traveller and pioneer of trade with India, was born in 1605 at Paris, where his father Gabriel...
Anton Gindely

Anton Gindely

male, deceased (1892)
German Charles-Ferdinand University, Geschichte der Gegenreformation in Böhmen, Thirty Years' War, wallenstein, English, University of Prague…Wallenstein waehrend seines ersten Generalats
Anton Gindely was a German historian, the son of a German father and a Slavonic mother, born Prague. He studied at Prague and at Olmütz, and, a...