* 1926 – Frederick Buechner, American minister and author

** Godric by Frederick Buechner

On Taylor's 1998 release, John Wayne ( album ) he credits more influences ; Flannery O ' Connor, Dennis Prager and Frederick Buechner.

( Carl ) Frederick Buechner is an American writer and theologian.

He is best known for his works A Long Day ’ s Dying ( his first work, published in 1950 ); The Book of Bebb, a tetralogy based on the character Leo Bebb published in 1979 ; Godric, a first person narrative of the life of the medieval saint, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 ; Brendan, a second novel narrating a saint ’ s life, published in 1987 ; Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner ( 1992 ); and his autobiographical works The Sacred Journey ( 1982 ), Now and Then ( 1983 ), Telling Secrets ( 1991 ), and The Eyes of the Heart: Memoirs of the Lost and Found ( 1999 ).

Annie Dillard ( Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ) says: " Frederick Buechner is one of our finest writers.

Frederick Buechner is among the most widely read contemporary Christian authors.

::" Ever since the publication of A Long Day's Dying ... Frederick Buechner has one of our most interesting and least predictable writers.

Inaugurated in 2008 at King College, the Buechner Institute is dedicated to the work and example of Frederick Buechner, exploring the intersections and collisions of faith and culture that define our times.

* 2008: Frederick Buechner ( inaugural lecture )

A summer symposium on the work of Frederick Buechner was featured in 2010.

* 1992 Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner published

* Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner, 1992

Laughter in a Genevan Gown: The Works of Frederick Buechner 1970 – 1980.

Frederick Buechner: Novelist and Theologian of the Lost and Found.

Listening to Life: Psychology and Spirituality in the Writings of Frederick Buechner.

* Frederick Buechner receives a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University.

* After five years as an English Teacher, Frederick Buechner moves to New York to become a full-time writer.

As a teenager, Merrill attended the Lawrenceville School, where he befriended future novelist Frederick Buechner.

* Godric ( novel ), a Pulitzer-nominated book by Frederick Buechner

Frederick William was the eldest surviving son of Karl Christian of Nassau-Weilburg and Princess Wilhelmine Carolina of Orange-Nassau.

He was the eldest son of Prince John, ( who succeeded his brother Frederick Augustus II on the Saxon throne as King John in 1854 ) by his wife Amalie Auguste of Bavaria.

Frederick I of Ansbach and Bayreuth ( also known as Frederick V ; or ; 8 May 1460 – 4 April 1536 ) was born at Ansbach as the eldest son of the Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg by his second wife Anna, daughter of Frederick II, Elector of Saxony.

His eldest surviving son was Frederick II ( Fritz ), born in 1712.

He was the eldest son of Maximilian, Prince of Saxony — younger son of the Elector Frederick Christian of Saxony — by his first wife, Caroline of Bourbon, Princess of Parma.

Her eldest brother became King Frederick VIII of Denmark.

At first William was seen as a moderate ruler, whose friendship with liberal Britain was symbolised by the recent marriage of his son ( the future Frederick III ) to Queen Victoria's eldest daughter ; their son ( the future William II ) was born in 1859.

Upon Sophia's death, her eldest son Elector George Louis of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( 1660 – 1727 ) became heir presumptive in her place, and weeks later, succeeded Queen Anne as George I. Sophia's daughter Sophia Charlotte of Hanover ( 1668 – 1705 ) married Frederick I of Prussia, from whom the later Prussian Kings descend.

Victoria's eldest daughter, the Princess Royal, becomes German Empress when her husband succeeds as Frederick III, German Emperor.

When Frederick I retired in 1437, he compensated his incapable eldest son John with the Principality of Bayreuth while Frederick II assumed the government of Brandenburg.

Consequently, his younger son Frederick V became the new Duke of Swabia in 1167, while his eldest son Henry was crowned King of the Romans in 1169, alongside his father who also retained the title.

Anglo-American settlers named the county for Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales ( 1707 – 1751 ), the eldest son of King George II of Great Britain.

For example, Prince Frederick, Prince of Wales predeceased King George II, so Frederick's eldest son, Prince George ( the future George III ), was created Prince of Wales.

At the time, Barmen was an expanding industrial metropole and Frederick was the eldest son of a wealthy German cotton manufacturer.

On 13 August 1651 the Dutch Hoge Raad ( Supreme Court ) ruled that guardianship would be shared between his mother, his paternal grandmother and Frederick William, the Elector of Brandenburg, whose wife, Louise Henriette, was his father's eldest sister.

He was the second ( but eldest surviving ) son of Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, and Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria, Princess of Bavaria.

He was the third but eldest surviving son of Frederick Augustus II, Prince-Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, by his wife, Maria Josepha of Austria.

Because Frederick Christian's eldest son was a minor, his brother Franz Xavier and the Dowager Electress Maria Antonia took the joint regency of the Electorate until the boy's majority.

Her eldest son, Frederick, became Prince of Wales.

Over the next few years, she and her husband fought a constant battle against their eldest son, Frederick, Prince of Wales, who had been left behind in Germany when they came to England.

Caroline and her eldest son, the Frederick, Prince of Wales | Prince of Wales ( pictured ), had a difficult relationship throughout her lifetime.

Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales ( 1 February 1707 – 20 March 1751 ) was a member of the House of Hanover and therefore of the Hanoverian and later British Royal Family, the eldest son of George II and father of George III, as well as the great-grandfather of Queen Victoria.