The term was introduced into optics by Johann Heinrich Lambert in his 1760 work Photometria.

Alcott had been influenced by educational philosophy of the Swiss pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and even renamed his school " The Cheshire Pestalozzi School ". His style attracted the attention of Samuel Joseph May, who introduced Alcott to his sister Abby May.

This close approximation to the modern value of − 273. 15 ° C for the zero of the air-thermometer was further improved upon in 1779 by Johann Heinrich Lambert, who observed that − 270 ° C might be regarded as absolute cold.

* 1647 – Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer ( d. 1719 )

), Moritz Count von Dietrichstein, Heinrich Eduard Josef Baron von Lannoy, Ignaz Franz Baron von Mosel, Carl Czerny, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Ignaz Moscheles, and the eight-year-old Franz Liszt ( although it seems Liszt was not invited personally, but his teacher Czerny arranged for him to be involved ).

** 1802 – 1803 Johann Heinrich Rothpletz ( b. 1766 – d. 1833 )

* 1666 – Johann Heinrich Buttstett, German organist and composer ( d. 1727 )

Woodcut illustration of Cassandra's prophecy of the fall of Troy ( at left ) and her death ( at right ), from an incunable German translation by Heinrich Steinhowel | Heinrich Steinhöwel of Giovanni Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, printed by Johann Zainer at Ulm ca.

Another forerunner to progressive education was Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi ( 1746 – 1827 ).

* 1724 – Gottfried Heinrich Bach, German son of Johann Sebastian Bach ( d. 1763 )

* Johann Heinrich Lambert 1728 – 1777 ( France )

Hector Admonishes Paris for His Softness and Exhorts Him to Go to War by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein | J. H. W.

Highly influential German classicist historians were Barthold Georg Niebuhr ( 1776-1831 ) and Theodor Mommsen ( 1817-1903 ) Historians of Germany included Johann Gustav Droysen ( 1808-84 ), Heinrich von Sybel ( 1817-95 ), and Heinrich von Treitschke ( 1834-96 ).

Rapp became inspired by the philosophies of Jakob Böhme, Philipp Jakob Spener, Johann Heinrich Jung, and Emanuel Swedenborg, among others, and later wrote Thoughts on the Destiny of Man, published in German in 1824 and in English a year later, in which he outlined his ideas and philosophy.

* 1633 – Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian ( d. 1698 )

* 1706 – Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher ( d. 1751 )

Johann Heinrich Alsted.

Johann Heinrich Alsted ( March 1588 – November 9, 1638 ) was a German Calvinist minister and academic, known for his varied interests: in Ramism and Lullism, pedagogy and encyclopedias, theology and millennarianism.

" In the works of authors like Clemens Timpler of Heidelberg and Steinfurt, Bartolomaeus Keckermann of Heidelberg and Danzig, and Johann Heinrich Alsted of Herborn there appeared a new, unified vision of the encyclopaedia of the scientific disciplines in which ontology had the role of assigning to each of the particular sciences its proper domain.

* Howard Hotson, Johann Heinrich Alsted 1588-1638: Between Renaissance, Reformation, and Universal Reform ( Oxford, Clarendon, 2000 ).

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He was one of the band of professors who in 1870 supported Döllinger in his resistance to the Vatican decrees, and was excommunicated along with Döllinger, Johann Nepomuk Huber, Johann Friedrich, Franz Heinrich Reusch, Joseph Hubert Reinkens and others, for refusing to accept them.

The doomed child's name Nepomuk, in the 19th century quite popular in Austria and southern Germany and middle name of the composer Hummel and the playwright Johann Nestroy, can be seen as an allusion to the high rococo, the're-echoing of movement ', in the St John Nepomuk Church architecture by the Asam brothers in Munich ( as described and interpreted by Heinrich Wölfflin ).

* 1700 – Heinrich von Brühl, German statesman ( d. 1763 )

* 1798 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet ( d. 1874 )

* 1756 – Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman ( d. 1845 )

* Karl Heinrich von Weizsäcker, Das apostolische Zeitalter ( 1886 )

* 1261 – 1278: Heinrich I von Osthenen ( or Ostheeren )

* 1393 – 1406: Heinrich III von Bodendiek ( or Bodendieck )

In 1225 – 1226 the Bridge over the Rhine was constructed by Bishop Heinrich von Thun and lesser Basel ( Kleinbasel ) founded as a bridgehead to protect the bridge.

After three months of intense work, he predicted a position for Ceres in December 1801 — just about a year after its first sighting — and this turned out to be accurate within a half-degree when it was rediscovered by Franz Xaver von Zach on 31 December at Gotha, and one day later by Heinrich Olbers in Bremen.

Two individuals gave eulogies at his funeral: Gauss's son-in-law Heinrich Ewald and Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen, who was Gauss's close friend and biographer.

In 1841, the German linguist and poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the lyrics of " Das Lied der Deutschen " to Haydn's melody, lyrics that were considered revolutionary at the time.

August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben in 1841

August Heinrich Hoffmann ( who called himself Hoffmann von Fallersleben after his home town to distinguish himself from others with the same common name of " Hoffmann ") wrote the text in 1841 on vacation on the North Sea island Heligoland, then a possession of the United Kingdom.

* 1817 – Heinrich von Sybel, German historian ( d. 1895 )

The theme survives into medieval legend and folklore, with dragon slayers such as Beowulf, Sigurd, Tristan, Margaret the Virgin, Heinrich von Winkelried, Dobrynya Nikitich, Skuba Dratewka / Krakus.

Heinrich von Winkelried dies after the blood of the dragon slain by him accidentally drips on him.

A notable example is Heinrich von Kleist's classic novella, The Earthquake in Chile, which describes the destruction of Santiago in 1647.

The work of post-war Germany's leading novelists Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass provided source material for the adaptations The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum ( 1975 ) ( by Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta ) and The Tin Drum ( 1979 ) ( by Schlöndorff alone ) respectively, the latter becoming the first German film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Also Lord Chesterfield, Thomas Gray, George Lyttelton, Thomas Hollis, Metastasio, Benedict XIV and Heinrich von Brühl were among his correspondents

The other early authors and works included Christian Heinrich Spiess, with his works Das Petermännchen ( 1793 ), Der alte Überall and Nirgends ( 1792 ), Die Löwenritter ( 1794 ), and Hans Heiling, vierter und letzter Regent der Erd-Luft-Feuer-und Wasser-Geister ( 1798 ), Heinrich von Kleist's short story Das Bettelweib von Locarno ( 1797 ) and Ludwig Tieck's Der blonde Eckbert ( 1797 ), Der Runenberg ( 1804 ).