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

Basel, had a strategic location, good relations with Strasbourg and Mulhouse, and control of the corn imports from Alsace, whereas the Swiss lands were becoming overpopulated and had few resources.

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.

Most developed countries implement Basel I and II, stipulate lending limits as a multiple of a banks capital eroded by the yearly inflation rate.

Following the spread of the Black Death through the surrounding countryside of Savoy and subsequently Basel, the Jews were accused of having poisoned the wells, on account of the fact that they suffered a lower mortality rate than the local gentiles from the pestilence.

Article 4 of the Basel Convention calls for an overall reduction of waste generation.

Basel has an average of 121. 4 days of rain or snow per year and on average receives of precipitation.

In complete contrast with this work is the lyrical, nostalgic Symphony No. 4, subtitled " Deliciae Basilienses " (" The Delights of Basel ") and written as a tribute to days of relaxation spent in that Swiss city during the war.

Proscribed at the coup d ' état of the 18th Fructidor ( 4 September 1797 ) he escaped to Basel.

In the Netherlands it was pulled by the 3700-3800-3900 steam locomotive series, in Germany by the Baureihen 18 < sup > 3 </ sup > ( Badic IV h, between Mannheim and Basel ) and BR 18 < sup > 4-5 </ sup > ( Bavarian S 3 / 6, between Emmerich and Mannheim ) and in Switzerland by Ae 4 / 7 electric locomotives.

For example under Basel II, a AAA rated securitization requires capital allocation of only 0. 6 %, a BBB requires 4. 8 %, a BB requires 34 %, whilst a BB (-) securitization requires a 52 % allocation.

Although Henman was scheduled to play in both Basel & Paris at the end of the 2006 season, he lost in the second round in Basel against the rising Swiss star Stanislas Wawrinka 2 – 6, 7 – 6, 6 – 4.

Basel ( nf ) 4, pp. 17-22

Prolonged negotiations ensued ; but finally a Hussite embassy, led by Prokop and including John of Rokycan, the Taborite bishop Nicolas of Pelhřimov, the ‘ English Hussite ’ Peter Payne and many others, arrived at Basel on 4 January 1433.

FC Basel did not have much of an early footballing success ; it took them 40 years to win their first trophy, winning the Swiss Cup in 1933 when they defeated arch-rivals and reigning cup-holders Grasshopper-Club Zürich 4 – 3, in what is now considered to be one of the best cup finals in Swiss football history.

In the third round of the Swiss Cup, Basel were drawn away against FC Thun, but lost 5 – 4 after penalties.

Basel won the first leg 2 – 1 at St. Jakob-Park but lost 3 – 0 at the Weserstadion in the second leg, the aggregate 4 – 2 in Bremen's favour.

Nonetheless, Basel finished the tie off with a 4 – 0 away win after a 2 – 1 victory at St. Jakob-Park.

Basel won the Swiss Cup for the second consecutive season after beating second-tier side AC Bellinzona 4 – 1 at St. Jakob-Park on 6 April 2008.

Daniel Majstorović restored the lead for Basel with a header and Swiss internationals Marco Streller and Benjamin Huggel scored one goal each to make the final scoreline 4 – 1 in Basel's favour.

The second leg took place on 6 August at St. Jakob-Park ; with Basel coming from behind twice to win 4 – 2.

On 24 May 2009, Basel lost 4 – 1 against Grasshopper-Club Zürich, meaning that they could no longer win the Swiss Super League and that FC Zürich were crowned champions.

Ernst Louis Étienne Laspeyres ( November 28, 1834 – August 4, 1913 ) was Professor ordinarius of economics and statistics or State Sciences and cameralistics ( public finance and administration ) in Basel, Riga, Dorpat ( now Tartu ), Karlsruhe, and finally for 26 years in Gießen.

When the Bohemians entered into negotiations with Sigismund and the Council of Basel and, after prolonged discussions, resolved to send an embassy to the council, Prokop the Great was its most prominent member, reaching Basel on 4 January 1433.

Since May 4, 2009, with the opening of the highway section between the port Birmensdorf and Zurich, the branch South-the last section of the so-called " Western Bypass "-the A3 motorway is continuous between Basel and Sargans.

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Jean Daetwyler ( January 24, 1907, Basel — June 4, 1994, Sierre ) was a Swiss composer and musician.