He went then to a 40-year-old Basel art dealer named Ernst Beyeler, with whom he had long been trading pictures.

, Basel had an unemployment rate of 4. 2 %.

Capranica was protesting against the new Pope Eugene IV's refusal of a cardinalate for him, which had been designated by Pope Martin V. Arriving at Basel after enduring a stormy voyage to Genoa and then a trip across the Alps, he successively served Capranica, who ran short of money, and then other masters.

Zwinger was the son of the furrier Leonhard Zwinger who had become Basel citizen in 1526.

Maximilian had no choice but to agree to a peace treaty signed on 22 September 1499 in Basel that granted the Swiss Confederacy independence from the Holy Roman Empire.

Consequently, Melanchton opposed the feast of the Immaculate Conception, which in his days, although not dogma, was celebrated in several cities and had been approved at the Council of Basel in 1439.

In the various controversies into which he was drawn, Beza often showed an excess of irritation and intolerance, from which Bernardino Ochino, pastor of the Italian congregation at Zurich ( on account of a treatise which contained some objectionable points on polygamy ), and Sebastian Castellio at Basel ( on account of his Latin and French translations of the Bible ) had especially to suffer.

By 1515, Hans and Ambrosius had moved as journeymen painters to the city of Basel, a centre of learning and the printing trade.

Basel had become a turbulent city in Holbein's absence.

The council refused to dissolve ; instead they renewed the resolutions by which the Council of Constance had declared a council superior to the Pope and ordered Eugene IV to appear at Basel.

In the following November the council elected the ambitious Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy, as antipope under the name of Felix V. The conduct of France and Germany seemed to warrant this action, for King Charles VII of France had introduced the decrees of the Council of Basel, with slight changes, into France through the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges ( 7 July 1438 ), and the Diet of Mainz had deprived the Pope of most of his rights in the Empire ( 26 March 1439 ).

Although his pontificate had been so stormy and unhappy that he is said to have regretted on his deathbed that he ever left his monastery, Eugene IV's victory over the Council of Basel and his efforts on behalf of church unity nevertheless contributed greatly to the breakdown of the conciliar movement and restored the papacy to a semblance of the dominant position it had held before the Western Schism ( 1378 – 1417 ).

Early in his life, he had created detailed town plans in his unique style, e. g. a plan of Basel ( 1615 ) and a plan of Paris ( 1615 ).

Driven out of Basel in 1448, they moved to Lausanne, where Felix V, the Pope they had elected and the only claimant to the papal throne who ever took the oath that they had prescribed, resigned.

Considerable powers had been decreed to Church councils by the Council of Constance, which amid the troubles of the Western Schism had proclaimed the superiority, in certain cases, of the council over the pope, and the fathers at Basel insisted upon their right of remaining assembled.

He held the chair of medicine at the University of Basel for less than a year ; while there his colleagues became angered by allegations that he had publicly burned traditional medical books.

A month before this Sozzini had been sent with Martino Muralto to Basel, to secure Ochino as pastor of the Italian church at Zürich ; and it is clear that in their subsequent intercourse the minds of Sozzini and Ochino ( a thinker of the same type as Camillo, with finer dialectic skill ) acted powerfully on each other in the radical discussion of theological problems.

But in 1822 he accepted the chair of theology in the University of Basel, which had been reorganized four years before.

Returning in 1823 to Basel, where W. M. L. de Wette had recently been appointed to a theological chair, he distinguished himself greatly by his trial dissertation, Observationes historico-hermeneuticae circa Origenis methodum interpretendae sacrae Scripturae ; in 1824 he became professor extraordinarius, and in 1829 professor ordinarius of theology.

The development of the town is due to its strategic location on the road between the first bridge over the Rhine at Basel and the St. Gotthard Pass.

The Basel II definition of operational risk excludes, for example, strategic risk-the risk of a loss arising from a poor strategic business decision.

The outstanding location benefits logistics corporations, which operate globally from Basel.

Within Switzerland, Basel was chosen largely because of its location, with excellent railway connections in all directions, especially important at a time when most international travel was by train.

The initial location at Basel reflected the desire among parties seeking reform to meet outside the territories of the Papacy, the Holy Roman Empire, or the kings of Aragon and France, whose influences the council hoped to avoid.

Because the location of the tower lies in the seismic zone of Basel – Erdbebengebiet in the Upper Rhine district, this has been built especially securely about the base.

Eugene IV, however much he may have wished to keep on good terms with the fathers of Basel, found himself neither able nor willing to accept or observe all their decrees.

The first edition of Mela was published at Milan in 1471 ; the first good edition was by Vadianus ( Basel, 1522 ), superseded by those of Voss ( 1658 ), J Gronovius ( 1685 and 1696 ), A Gronovius ( 1722 and 1728 ), and Tzschucke ( 1806 – 1807 ), in seven parts ( Leipzig ; the most elaborate of all ); G Paithey's ( Berlin, 1867 ), gives the best text.

Prognos, the renowned economic institute in Basel, Switzerland, presented the Freie Universität with an award for its good entrepreneurial principles.

In 1927, with the rise of Adolf Hitler, Busch decided he could not in good conscience stay in Germany, so he emigrated to Basel, Switzerland.

In his relations with the Holy Roman Empire, where no more danger was to be apprehended since the fall of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, Martin followed the moderate course taken by Gregory X. Rudolf I of Germany sent Bishop Henry of Basel to Rome to request coronation.

From 1338 to 1339 Tauler was in Basel, then the headquarters of the " Friends of God " ( Gottesfreunde ), and was brought into intimate relations with the members of that pious mystical fellowship.

With the Peace of Basel, the relations between the Old Swiss Confederacy and the empire returned to the status quo ante from before the Reichstag of Worms in 1495.

Nevertheless, on the whole, his relations with the city of Basel were friendly.

His two well-known letters to Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini ( later Pius II ) about the pope's relations to the Council of Basel are printed among the works of Pius II Piccolomini, in his letters, describes Cesarini as unfortunate in war, but he also says the cardinal went straight to heaven upon being martyred by the Turks.

At that moment, up walked a tall young man with glasses who announced himself as a world citizen from Basel, Switzerland.

In early 1492 Dürer travelled to Basel to stay with another brother of Martin Schongauer, the goldsmith Georg.

This allows, among other things, the OECD countries to continue trading in wastes with countries like the United States that have not ratified the Basel Convention.

Basel () or Basle (; ; ) is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166, 000 inhabitants.

The council then forbade Jews in Basel for 200 years, except that their money was helpful in rebuilding after the Basel earthquake of 1356 which destroyed much of the city along with a number of castles in the vicinity.

In 1989, the Basel Convention was opened for signature with the aim of preventing the export of hazardous waste from wealthy to developing nations for disposal.

Council of Basel, Ferrara and Florence ( 1431 – 1445 ) addressed church reform and reunion with the Eastern Churches, but split into two parties.

Prussia, having effectively abandoned the coalition in the fall of 1794, made peace with revolutionary France at Basel in April 1795, and soon thereafter Spain, too, made peace with France.

After three years in Basel, he stayed a short time in Bern with the humanist, Henry Wölfflin.

In 1439, the Council of Basel, which is not reckoned an ecumenical council, stated that belief in the immaculate conception of Mary is in accord with the Catholic faith.

In July 1530 he disputed with Johannes Oecolampadius in Basel and was eventually expelled.

Euler's early formal education started in Basel, where he was sent to live with his maternal grandmother.

At the age of thirteen he enrolled at the University of Basel, and in 1723, received his Master of Philosophy with a dissertation that compared the philosophies of Descartes and Newton.

Two years later, Daniel Bernoulli, who was fed up with the censorship and hostility he faced at St. Petersburg, left for Basel.

Aleman was a prominent member of the council of Basel, and, together with Cardinal Julian Cesarini, led the party which maintained the supremacy of general councils over the pope's authority.

Upon his return to Basel, Aeneas sided actively with the council in its conflict with the Pope, and, although still a layman, eventually obtained a share in the direction of its affairs.

In December 2007, Hamdi Quran confessed in an Israeli court to assassinating Ze ' evi together with Basel al-Asmar after being instructed by PFLP member Majdi Rahima Rimawi.

This judgment will force State Street to comply with all aspects of the Basel III accord.