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German and knight
English " knight " and German and Dutch Knecht are clearly related ( though pronounced differently ), and originally had also a similar meaning, denoting a person rather low in the social scale.
The German word for English " knight " is Ritter, the Dutch ridder, the Swedish riddare, which is the cognate of English " rider "-but which carries vast social implications absent from the English word.
Not until the introduction of well-regulated, plate-armored knight heavy cavalry could German emperors stop the Hungarian armies.
The word knight, from Old English cniht (" boy " or " servant "), is a cognate of the German word Knecht (" servant, bondsman ").
The German and Austrian equivalent of an hereditary knight is a Ritter.
* March 2 – Franz von Sickingen, German knight ( d. 1523 )
* May 17 – Philipp von Hutten, German knight ( b. 1511 )
* May 7 – Franz von Sickingen, German knight ( b. 1481 )
* August 20 – Georg von Frundsberg, German knight and landowner ( b. 1473 )
In the course of this religious upheaval, the German Peasants ' War of 1524 – 1525 swept through the Bavarian, Thuringian and Swabian principalities, including the Black Company of Florian Geier, a knight from Giebelstadt who joined the peasants in the general outrage against the Roman Catholic hierarchy.
He saw Roderic de Lalanne, a Flemish knight arrive with two little ships and 60 German soldiers and meet James IV and talk to Warbeck.
S was also used for the knight in the early days of algebraic notation, from the German Springer, and is still used in chess problems ( where N stands for the nightrider, a popular fairy chess piece ).
Valdemar himself was saved only by the courageous actions of a German knight who carried Valdemar to safety on his horse.
Thence Roger moved to Benevento and northern Apulia, where Duke Ranulf, although steadily losing his bases of power, had some German troops plus some 1, 500 knight from the cities of Melfi, Trani, Troia, and Bari, who were " ready to die instead to lead a miserable life.
The dominant form of German lyric poetry in the period was the Minnesang, " a love lyric based essentially on a fictitious relationship between a knight and his high-born lady ".
Wolfram von Eschenbach ( c. 1170 – c. 1220 ) was a German knight and poet, regarded as one of the greatest epic poets of his time.
Franz von Sickingen ( 2 March 1481 – 7 May 1523 ) was a German knight, one of the most notable figures of the first period of the Reformation.
A good example for the use of the word " Panzer " in German is the Indian Rhinoceros or, whose appearance resembles an armoured medieval knight.
* July 23-Götz von Berlichingen, German knight immortalised by Goethe ( born c. 1480 )
Michael Glinski was the most illustrious member of the family: he studied at the German university, took part as a knight in the Italian Wars, was the most powerful man in Lithuania in the 16th century, but later rebelled and run away with his brothers to Muscovy and helped the Russians to retake the city of Smolensk.
Allumwandlung ( German for " complete promotion ", sometimes shortened to AUW ) is a chess problem where, at some stage in the solution, the pawn ( or sometimes pawns ) is promoted variously to a knight, bishop, rook and queen.
In the poem Le Chevalier Délibéré written by Olivier de la Marche and first published in 1486, there is an anonymous woodcut depicting a knight carrying a rather simple morning star with spikes mounted in an asymmetrical pattern as well as a flail equipped with a single spiked ball, known in German as a " Kettenmorgenstern " ( literally chain-morning star ) which is technically a military flail.
Fleischer was one of the eight foreign members of the French Academy of Inscriptions and a knight of the German Ordre pour la mérite.
Shortly afterwards, the troops of a German knight named Folkmar were pillaging the territories of the Hungarian County of Nitra, while the German priest Gottschalk's hordes were ravaging the Transdanubian region of the kingdom.

German and named
This replica was discovered in a cave by a Swedish German missionary named Harald von Sicard in the 1940s and eventually found its way to the Museum of Human Science in Harare.
It is named after Ernst Abbe ( 1840 – 1905 ), the German physicist who defined it.
* Robert Bunsen ( 1811 – 1899 ), German chemist, after whom is named:
Most of the brighter stars were assigned their first systematic names by the German astronomer Johann Bayer in 1603, in his star atlas Uranometria ( named after Urania, the Greek Muse of Astronomy, along with Uranus, the Greek god of the sky and heavens ).
The Lutician uprising of 983 practically annihilated it ; bishops continued to be named, but they were merely titular, until the downfall of the Wends in the twelfth century and the German eastward settlement in the diocesan region revived the bishopric.
Slavoljub Eduard Penkala invented a solid-ink fountain pen in 1907, a German inventor named Baum took out a ballpoint patent in 1910, and yet another ballpoint pen device was patented by Van Vechten Riesburg in 1916.
At the outbreak of war, the German army had no radically new theory of war named Blitzkrieg or otherwise.
The Battle of Świecino ( named for the village of Świecino, near Żarnowiec Lake, northern Poland ) also called the Battle of Żarnowiec or in German Battle of Schwetz, took place on September 17, 1462 during the Thirteen Years ' War.
They were first observed in 1869 by German physicist Johann Hittorf, and were named in 1876 by Eugen Goldstein kathodenstrahlen, or cathode rays.
British navigator Captain James Cook arrived in 1773 and 1777 ; Cook named the islands the ' Hervey Islands ' to honour a British Lord of the Admiralty ; Half a century later the Baltic German Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern published the Atlas de l ' Ocean Pacifique, in which he renamed the islands the Cook Islands to honour Cook.
The American team proposed that the new element should be named hahnium ( Ha ), in honor of the late German chemist Otto Hahn.
also written von Haeckel, was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including anthropogeny, ecology, phylum, phylogeny, stem cell, and the kingdom Protista.
In the German middle-age epic the Nibelungenlied, a dwarf named Alberich plays an important role.
* Laborschule Bielefeld-Founded in 1974, the Laborschule in Bielefeld ( Germany ) is named by the German translation of laboratory school.
In Des Teufels General ( The Devil's General ) of 1954, a Luftwaffe general named Harras loosely modeled after Ernst Udet, appears at first to be cynical fool, but turns out to an anti-Nazi who is secretly sabotaging the German war effort by designing faulty planes.
In SI units, the unit of frequency is the hertz ( Hz ), named after the German physicist Heinrich Hertz: 1 Hz means that an event repeats once per second.
" Amber " was named by discoverers Richard Epstein and Charles Steinberg after their friend Harris Bernstein, whose last name means " amber " in German.
This unit is named after the German mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss (" Gauß ").
The German Empire () is the common name given to the state officially named the ( literally: " German Realm "), designating Germany from the unification of Germany and proclamation of Wilhelm I as German Emperor on 18 January 1871, to 1918, when it became a federal republic after defeat in World War I and the abdication of the Emperor, Wilhelm II.
A common German folk-tale is of the German priest / monk named Berthold Schwarz who independently invented gunpowder, thus earning it the German name Schwarzpulver or in English Schwarz's powder.
Some West German media referred to East Germany initially as the SBZ and later consistently named it the so-called " GDR " ( sogenannte " DDR ").

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