He also met Count Rumford ( born Benjamin Thompson in Woburn, Mass. ) who was then serving the Elector of Bavaria, and the physicist Ritter ; ;

Alfons Maria Jakob ( 2 July 1884, Aschaffenburg / Bavaria – 17 October 1931, Hamburg ) was a German neurologist with important contributions on neuropathology.

In 1256, the castrum of Abensprech was first mentioned, and on 12 June 1348, Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg, and his brother, Stephen, Duke of Bavaria, raised Abensberg to the status of a city, giving it the right to operate lower courts, enclose itself with a wall and hold markets.

Although Abensberg was an autonomous city, it remained dependent on the powerful Dukes of Bavaria.

Abensberg then lost its independence and became a part of the Duchy of Bavaria, and from then on was administered by a ducal official, the so-called caretaker.

Aventinus, whose name was real name is Johann or Johannes Turmair ( Aventinus being the Latin name of his birthplace ) wrote the Annals of Bavaria, a valuable record of the early history of Germany and the first major written work on the subject.

Until 1800, Abensberg was a municipality belonging to the Straubing district of the Electorate of Bavaria.

Historic Swabia was eventually replaced by today's Baden-Württemberg, but it had been the most significant territory of mediaeval Alamannia, comprising all Germania Superior and territory east to Bavaria.

Agnes Maria of Andechs-Merania ( died 1201 ), queen of France, was the daughter of Bertold IV ( died 1204 ), who was Count of Andechs, a castle and territory near Ammersee, Bavaria and from 1183 duke of Merania ( Istria ).

Albertus was born sometime between 1193 and 1206 to the Count of Bollstädt in Lauingen in Bavaria.

John XXIII was acknowledged as pope by France, England, Bohemia, Prussia, Portugal, parts of the Holy Roman Empire, and numerous Northern Italian city states, including Florence and Venice ; however, the Avignon Pope Benedict XIII was regarded as pope by the Kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, and Scotland and Gregory XII was still favored by Ladislaus of Naples, Carlo I Malatesta, the princes of Bavaria, Louis III, Elector Palatine, and parts of Germany and Poland.

Diabelli was trained to enter the priesthood and in 1800 he joined the monastery at Raitenhaslach, Bavaria.

Alois Alzheimer was born in Marktbreit, Bavaria on 14 June 1864.

His rather atypical Battle of Issus ( or of Alexander ) of 1529 was commissioned by William IV, Duke of Bavaria as part of a series of eight historical battle scenes destined to hang in the Residenz in Munich.

Arnulf was, according to most sources, the illegitimate son of Carloman, King of Bavaria, and his concubine Liutswind, perhaps of Carantanian origin, and possibly the sister of Ernst, Count of the Bavarian Nordgau Margraviate in the area of the Upper Palatinate, or perhaps the burgrave of Passau, as some sources say.

Arnulf was granted the Duchy of Carinthia, a Frankish vassal state and successor of the ancient Principality of Carantania, by his father Carloman, after Carloman had become reconciled with his own father Louis the German and was created King of Bavaria.

After Carloman was incapacitated by a stroke in 879, Louis the Younger inherited Bavaria, Charles the Fat was given the Kingdom of Italy and Arnulf was confirmed in Carinthia by an agreement with Carloman.

Bavaria, however, was ruled more or less by Arnulf.

Arnulf had in fact ruled Bavaria during the summer and autumn of 879 while his father arranged his succession and he himself was granted " Pannonia ," in the words of the Annales Fuldenses, or " Carantanum ," in the words of Regino of Prüm.

While strong forms of the various dialects are not normally fully comprehensible to Northern Germans, communication is much easier in Bavaria, especially rural areas, where Bavarian dialect still predominates as the mother tongue.

The pale lager pilsener, a style developed in the mid-19th century, is predominant in most parts of the country today, whereas wheat beer ( Weißbier / Weizen ) and other types of lager are common, especially in Bavaria.

Similarly, cooked and mashed potatoes or potato flour can be used in the Knödel or dumpling eaten with or added to meat dishes all over central and Eastern Europe, but especially in Bavaria and Luxembourg.

Disorder was again rampant in Germany, especially in Bavaria, but general peace was restored by Frederick's vigorous, but conciliatory, measures.

Slate-producing regions in Europe include Wales ( see slate industry in Wales ), Cornwall ( famously the village of Delabole ), Cumbria ( see Burlington Slate Quarries, Honister Slate Mine and Skiddaw Slate ) in the United Kingdom ; parts of France ( Anjou, Loire Valley, Ardennes, Brittany, Savoie ); Belgium ( Ardennes ); Liguria in northern Italy, especially between the town of Lavagna ( which means chalkboard in Italian ) and Fontanabuona valley ; Portugal especially around Valongo in the north of the country ; Spain see Slate Industry in Spain ; Germany's ( Moselle River-region, Hunsrück, Eifel, Westerwald, Thuringia and north Bavaria ); Alta, Norway ( actually schist not a true slate ) and Galicia.

The remainder of imperial forces came mostly from the Confederation of the Rhine, especially Saxony and Bavaria.

Kristallweizen ( especially in Austria ) and American styles of wheat beer are sometimes served with a slice of lemon or orange in the glass ; this is generally frowned upon in Bavaria.

In most areas, especially in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Austria, it is usual to have a ceremony to erect the maypole on the village green.

Nevertheless the Catholic Counter-Reformation, which under Jesuit influence was reaching a peak in Bavaria in the late sixteenth century, had a demonstrable impact on Lassus ' late work, including the liturgical music for the Roman Rite, the burgeoning number of Magnificats, the settings of the Catholic Ulenberg Psalter ( 1588 ), and especially the great penitential cycle of spiritual madrigals, the ' Lagrime di San Pietro ' ( 1594 ).

Both States, but especially Bavaria had been given substantial concessions with regards to local autonomy in the new Empire's constitution, including a great deal of autonomy over military matters.

Yet, in some parts of Bavaria, especially in lower Bavaria, unglazed " white " pretzels, sprinkled with salt and caraway seeds are still popular.

It was around the turn of the 20th century, across Europe and especially in Bavaria, many people became concerned about a loss of cultural traditions.

On March 19 Spartacist risings occurred in many different places, especially in western Prussia, Bavaria, Württemberg, and Leipzig.

He continued to climb well into his sixties, especially in the Swiss Alps, but also in Bavaria, Austria, Yugoslavia and Italy as well as in the Canadian Rockies where Mt.

However, unlike in most other European countries, sizeable Muslim communities exist in some rural regions of Germany, especially Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and parts of Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia.

Just like English, the German language has many local and dialectal terms for rolls, such as Brötchen ( Rhineland and parts of Northern Germany ; non-dialectal high German uses this term too ), which is the diminutive of " Brot " ( bread ), Rundstück ( in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein ), Semmel ( Bavaria, most parts of Saxony and Austria, from Latin similia wheat flour, originally from Assyrian samidu white flour ; the Hungrarian term zsemle derives from the same root ), Schrippe ( in Berlin and parts of Brandenburg ), or Weck ( especially in Baden-Württemberg, Franconia and Saarland ).

She was decisively debunked during the late 16th century ( after a period in the 15th and 16th centuries in which she was popular ), and thereafter disappears from high art, although lingering well into the 20th century in more popular forms, especially in Bavaria and Austria, but also in northern France and Belgium.

She appeared in the French court on rare occasions, especially during the solemn entry of Isabeau of Bavaria in Paris, which was organized by her.

Lye rolls are a baked specialty in Germany ( especially in Bavaria and Swabia ), Austria, and Switzerland.

The religious division eventually generated The Thirty Years War ( 1618 – 1648 ) which ultimately led to the Peace of Westphalia ( 1648 ) and the confessional division of Germanic Christianity that exists to this day: most of Austria, Luxembourg, Southern ( especially, Bavaria ) and Western Germany ( notably Saarland and Rheinland part of Nordrhein-Westfalen ) remained Catholic while Northern and Eastern Germany ( notably Prussia ) remained Lutheran.

* Bavarian Peasants ' League ( Peasant League ) operated throughout Germany but especially in its stronghold of Bavaria.

Hence, Emmentaler of other origin, especially from France and Bavaria, is widely available and even Finland is an exporter of Emmentaler cheese.