Some early scientists such as Georg Ernst Stahl ( 1659-1734 ) and Francisque Bouillier ( 1813 – 1899 ) had supported a form of animism which life and mind, the directive principle in evolution and growth, holding that all cannot be traced back to chemical and mechanical processes, but that there is a directive force which guides energy without altering its amount.

One is his transformation of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's idealistic understanding of dialectics into a materialist one, an act commonly said to have " put Hegel's dialectics back on its feet ".

In 1743, the Spanish on the Panaro had achieved a victory over Traun at Campo Santo ( 8 February 1743 ), but the next six months were wasted in inaction and Georg Christian, Fürst von Lobkowitz, joining Traun with reinforcements from Germany, drove back the enemy to Rimini.

The engraving, dating back to 1617, was executed by Georg Houfnagel after the painting of Egidius van der Rye ( the original was done in the workshop of Braun and Hagenberg ).

German production of sparkling wines dates back to 1826, when G. C. Kessler & Co. was founded in Esslingen am Neckar by Georg Christian Kessler ( 1787 – 1842 ), who had previously worked at the Champagne house Veuve Clicquot from 1807 to 1826.

The concept goes back to Georg Cantor, who defined the notion of cardinality and realized that infinite sets can have different cardinalities.

The roots of Finnish schlager () date back to the interwar period, when popular singers included Georg Malmstén and Matti Jurva.

The intellectual origins of the idea can be traced back to the work of early social theorists such as Georg Simmel who analyzed the effect of modernization and industrial capitalism on complex patterns of affiliation, organization, production and experience.

As of 2012, she has won 27 Grammy Awards from 41 nominations, making her the most awarded living recipient, and three back of the most honoured artist, classical conductor Sir Georg Solti.

Friedrich III ’ s brothers Georg and Reichard formed the short-lived line of the Counts Palatine of Simmern-Sponheim, whose holdings passed back to the Electorate under Friedrich IV on Reichard ’ s death in 1598.

Georg, seeing she is truly sick, forces her back to bed and presents her with a gift: vanilla ice cream.

German publishing group Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group was the owner of a 50 per cent stake in Economedia, but the Bulgarian owners of Economedia bought the shares back in November 2007.

" Haus von der Leyen "), named after its builder district magistrate and governor of the prince-elector, " Georg III von der Leyen ," dates back to 1600.

The tradition of science in this region goes back to the 16th century when Georg Agricola ( 1494-1555 ), a famous German scholar of minerals, served as the city's mayor.

For example, Georg Cantor ( who introduced this concept ) demonstrated that the real numbers cannot be put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers ( non-negative integers ), and therefore that the set of real numbers has a greater cardinality than the set of natural numbers.

From the 16th century onwards, evidence of cranks and connecting rods integrated into machine design becomes abundant in the technological treatises of the period: Agostino Ramelli's The Diverse and Artifactitious Machines of 1588 alone depicts eighteen examples, a number that rises in the Theatrum Machinarum Novum by Georg Andreas Böckler to 45 different machines, one third of the total.

Gifted with a precocious intellect, Georg early threw himself into the pursuit of the " new learning ", with such effect that at the age of 20, he was appointed Rector extraordinarius of Greek at the so-called Great School of Zwickau, and made his appearance as a writer on philology.

Born Georg Henri Anton Ivens into a wealthy family, Ivens went to work in one of his father's photo supply shops and from there developed an interest in film.

This, in turn, derives from " Lupi spuma ", the name Georg Agricola used for the element in 1546, which translates into English as " wolf's froth " or " cream " ( the etymology is not entirely certain ), and is a reference to the large amounts of tin consumed by the mineral during its extraction.

Cantor's diagonal argument, also called the diagonalisation argument, the diagonal slash argument or the diagonal method, was published in 1891 by Georg Cantor as a mathematical proof that there are infinite sets which cannot be put into one-to-one correspondence with the infinite set of natural numbers.

The concept of dialectics was given new life by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ( following Fichte ), whose dialectically dynamic model of nature and of history made it, as it were, a fundamental aspect of the nature of reality ( instead of regarding the contradictions into which dialectics leads as a sign of the sterility of the dialectical method, as Immanuel Kant tended to do in his Critique of Pure Reason ).

In 1806 Utzscheider and Georg von Reichenbach then brought Fraunhofer into their Institute at Benediktbeuern, a secularised Benedictine monastery devoted to glass making.

Under the influence of this work ( and the ideas of Georg Gottfried Gervinus, according to whom " the highest natural object of musical imitation is emotion, and the method of imitating emotion is to mimic speech "), Mussorgsky in 1868 rapidly set the first eleven scenes of Nikolai Gogol's The Marriage ( Zhenitba ), with his priority being to render into music the natural accents and patterns of the play's naturalistic and deliberately humdrum dialogue.

It gained wider circulation in the 1950s when it was translated into English and published as part of Kurt Wolff's edited collection, The Sociology of Georg Simmel.

Johann Georg Abicht, professor of theology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, translated the 1625 text into Latin as Dissertatio de Libro recti ( Leipzig, 1732 ).

This, in turn, derives from " Lupi spuma ", the name Georg Agricola used for the element in 1546, which translates into English as " wolf's froth " or " cream " ( the etymology is not entirely certain ), and is a reference to the large amounts of tin consumed by the mineral during its extraction.

They missed De Vasto's arquebusiers — who had, by 6: 30, emerged from the woods near the castle and swiftly overrun it — and blundered into 6, 000 of Georg Frundsberg's landsknechts.

The Moravian Church continued to produce a number of renowned composers into the 19th century, including John Antes as well as Francis F. Hagen, Johann Christian Bechler, Edward W. Leinbach, Simon Peter, David Moritz Michael, Georg Gottfried Müller, Peter Wolle, Jeremiah Dencke and Johannes Herbst.

But its chief fruits were the Treatise on the Methods of Observation and Reasoning in Politics, and the Enquiry into the Credibility of the Early Roman History, in which he vigorously attacked the theory of epic lays and other theories on which Barthold Georg Niebuhr's reconstruction of that history was based.

On December 4, 1920, the left wing of the USPD, with about 400, 000 members, merged into the KPD, forming the VKPD ( Vereinigte Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, " United Communist Party of Germany "), while the other half of the party, with about 340, 000 members and including three quarters of the 81 Reichstag members, continued under the name USPD ; led by Georg Ledebour and Arthur Crispien, they advocated a parliamentary democracy.

The USPD was continued as an independent party by Georg Ledebour and Theodor Liebknecht, who refused to work with the SPD, but it never attained any significance again and merged into the Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschland ( SAPD, Socialist Workers ' Party of Germany ) in 1931.

Liebknecht was a member of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany ( USPD ), opposed to the merger with the KPD and the joining of the Comintern but also to the reunification of the party with the SPD, he continued the USPD as an independent party with Georg Ledebour until its merger into the Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands ( SAPD, " Socialist Worker's Party of Germany ") in 1931.

Gimbutas regarded the Eleusinian Mysteries as a survival into classical antiquity of this ancient goddess worship, a suggestion which Georg Luck echos.

In 1803, in the course of the German mediatisation, the abbey was secularized and erected into a secular principality that was then granted to Count Franz Georg Karl von Metternich in compensation for the loss of his immediate fiefs on the left bank of the Rhine after the whole area was annexed by revolutionary France.

The Moravian Church continued to produce a number of renowned composers into the 19th century, including John Antes as well as Francis F. Hagen, Johann Christian Bechler, Edward W. Leinbach, Simon Peter, David Moritz Michael, Georg Gottfried Müller, Peter Wolle, Jeremiah Dencke and Johannes Herbst.

Initially, Sweden ’ s entrance into the war was considered a minor annoyance to the Catholic League and its allies ; his only battles to this point had been inconclusive ones, or fought against generals of modest military ability, such as at Honigfeld, a minor affair in eastern Prussia against Imperial troops under Hans Georg von Arnim-Boitzenburg to aid Sigismund III of Poland-Lithuania, which ended in Fall 1629 with the Truce of Altmark.

As did Marx and Weber, more generally, Georg Simmel developed a wide-ranging approach that provided observations and insights into domination and subordination, competition, division of labor, formation of parties, representation, inner solidarity coupled with exclusiveness toward the outside, and many similar features in the state, in a religious community, in an economic association, in an art school, and in family and kinship networks ( however diverse the interests that give rise to these associations, the forms in which interests are realized may yet be identical ( Crothers, 1996 )).

When Hans Georg von Bicken found out that he would keep being denied inheritance along the male line, he asked Archbishop of Mainz Wolfgang von Dalberg on 10 November 1598 to change the Heidesheim Vogtei, which had been transferred to him and his cousins as a non-heritable fief, into a heritable fief.

His father was a cultured man, and his mother was the sister of Raphael Georg Kiesewetter ( 1773 – 1850 ), the musical archaeologist and collector.

Handel and his father travelled to Weissenfels to visit either Handel's half-brother, Carl, or nephew, Georg Christian, who was serving as valet to Duke Johann Adolf I. Handel and the duke convinced his father to allow him to take lessons in musical composition and keyboard technique from Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, the organist of Halle's Marienkirche.

Niels Henrik Abel's father, Søren Georg Abel, had a degree in theology and philosophy and served as pastor at Finnøy.

German scientist Georg Agricola ( 1494 – 1555 ), known as " the father of mineralogy ", published his great work De re metallica.

He was born Philipp Schwartzerdt ( of which " Melanchthon " is a Greek translation ) on 16 February 1497, at Bretten, near Karlsruhe, where his father Georg Schwarzerdt was armorer to Philip, Count Palatine of the Rhine.

Georg Forster joined his father in the expedition again and was appointed as a draughtsman to his father.

Supervised by his father, Georg Forster first took up the studies of zoology and botanics of the southern seas, mostly by drawing animals and plants.

Description of actual travel logs by W. Bligh, published 1791 and 1793 by Georg Forster and his father in Berlin as " Magazin von merkwürdigen neuen Reisebeschreibungen ".

Johann Georg succeeded his father as Elector of Saxony when he died, in 1680 ; he was also appointed Marshal of the Holy Roman Empire.

In character he resembled his father, the Elector Johann Georg II.

# Johann Georg IV ( b. Dresden, 18 October 1668-died of smallpox, Dresden, 28 May 1694 ), successor of his father as Elector.

He was also known for his recurring roles, such as Beldar, father in the Coneheads family ; with Steve Martin, Georg Festrunk, one of the " Two Wild and Crazy Guys " Czech brothers ; sleazy late-night cable TV host E. Buzz Miller and his cousin, corrupt maker of children's toys and costumes Irwin Mainway ( who extolled the virtues and defended the safety of the " Bag-o-Glass " toy, perhaps the retail leader of the " Bag-o " series of toys ); Fred Garvin – male prostitute ; and high-bred but low-brow critic Leonard Pinth-Garnell.

His second name was given in honor of his godfather Georg Philipp Telemann, a friend of Emanuel's father.

His father, Alexander Georg von Humboldt, belonged to a prominent Pomeranian family ; a major in the Prussian Army, he was rewarded for his services in the Seven Years ' War with the post of Royal Chamberlain.

Born in Schwetzingen and raised in Mannheim, Danzi studied with his father and with Georg Joseph Vogler before he joined the superlative orchestra of the Elector Karl Theodor in 1778 as a teenager.

He was the father of the historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, who published an account of his father's life in 1817.

It is often claimed that the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel ( 1802 – 1829 ) was born on Finnøy, since his father Søren Georg acted as rector there.

He was born at Petershagen, near Minden, where his father, Georg Christof Friedrich, was preacher.

He was born at Meiningen, where his father, Georg Walch, was general superintendent.

His father, Georg Karl Benjamin Ritschl ( 1783 – 1858 ), became in 1810 a pastor at the church of St Mary in Berlin, and from 1827 to 1854 was general superintendent and evangelical bishop of Pomerania.

His father, Johann Georg Martin, also built guitars.

* Georg Agricola ( 1494-1555 ), German scholar and scientist, and the ' father of mineralogy '

Barthold Georg Niebuhr ( August 27, 1776, Copenhagen – January 2, 1831, Bonn ) was a Danish-German statesman and historian who became Germany's leading historian of Ancient Rome and a founding father of modern scholarly historiography.