Erfurt () is the capital city of Thuringia and the main city nearest to the geographical centre of Germany, located 100 km SW of Leipzig, 150 km N of Nuremberg and 180 km SE of Hannover.

The most complete compendium of Galen's writings, surpassing even modern projects like the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum, is the one compiled and translated by Karl Gottlob Kühn of Leipzig between 1821 and 1833.

This is an English translation of Die mathematischen und physikalischen Theorieen der höheren Geodäsie, Vol 1 ( Teubner, Leipzig, 1880 ).

It is probably these difficulties that prompted Telemann to apply, already in 1722, for the post of Thomaskantor in Leipzig ( Kuhnau died on 5 June that year ).

Napoleon was largely defeated in the Battle of the Nations outside Leipzig in October 1813, and was overwhelmed by much larger armies during the Six Days Campaign ( February 1814 ), although, the Six Days Campaign is often considered a tactical masterpiece because the allies suffered much higher casualties.

Leipzig (; ) with more than 530. 000 inhabitants, is one of the two largest cities ( along with Dresden ) in the federal state of Saxony, Germany.

Leipzig is derived from the Slavic word Lipsk, which means " settlement where the linden trees ( British English: lime trees ; U. S. English: basswood trees ) stand ".

The Leipzig Trade Fair, started in the Middle Ages, became an event of international importance and is the oldest remaining trade fair in the world.

Leipzig lies at the confluence of the rivers Weisse Elster, Pleiße and Parthe, in the Leipzig Bay, on the most southerly part of the North German Plain, which is the part North European Plain in Germany.

The site is characterised by swampy areas such as the Leipzig Riverside Forest, though there are also some limestone areas to the north of the city.

Although there are some forest parks within the city limits, the area surrounding Leipzig is relatively unforested.

Leipzig is also situated at the intersection of the ancient roads known as the Via Regia ( King's highway ), which traversed Germanic lands in an east-west direction, and Via Imperii ( Imperial Highway ), a north-south road.

Leipzig is divided administratively since 1992 into ten urban districts, which contain 63 subdistricts.

It is available in Europe through Nitrochemie Wimmis ( Wimmis, Switzerland ) under the name of Papersave Swiss and the Zentrum für Bucherhaltung ( Leipzig, Germany ).

The next edition is that by Reitemeier, who, though he consulted no fresh manuscripts, made good use of the critical remarks of Heyne and other scholars ( Leipzig, 1784 ).

* October 16 – October 19 – Battle of Leipzig: Napoleon is defeated.

It is true, Melanchthon rejected the Augsburg Interim, which the emperor tried to force upon the defeated Protestants ; but in the negotiations concerning the so-called Leipzig Interim he made concessions which many feel can in no way be justified, even if one considers his difficult position, opposed as he was to the elector and the emperor.

His most important work in potential theory is summarised in his 1911 book Researches in Potential Theory ( Potentialtheoretische Untersuchungen ), which received the Jablonowski Society award in Leipzig ( 1500 marks ), and the Richard Lieben award from the University of Vienna ( 2000 crowns ) for the most outstanding work in the field of pure and applied mathematics written by any kind of ' Austrian ' mathematician in the previous three years.

A point of hot controversy today is the so-called " Rifkin hypothesis ," which re-examines the famous " Entwurff ," Bach's 1730 memo to the Leipzig City Council ( A Short but Most Necessary Draft for a Well Appointed Church Music ) calling for at least 12 singers.

The earliest treatise to mention the possible connection of the name to the expression pas menus is Gottfried Taubert's Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister, published in Leipzig in 1717, but this source does not describe the steps as being particularly small or dainty ( Russell 2006, 140 – 41 ).

In addition, Svante Pääbo's group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology is currently sequencing the genome of a female bonobo from the Leipzig zoo.

It is located in the federal state of Thuringia (), north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle and Leipzig.

The Augustusplatz in Leipzig is named after him.

Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes.

Both Leipzig / Halle Airport and Dresden Airport are situated about from Chemnitz and offer numerous continental as well as intercontinental flights.

It is situated approximately 14 km northeast of Weißenfels, and 18 km southwest of Leipzig.

The district is situated in the plain countryside north of the virtual line connecting Leipzig and Dresden.

He also studied the works of Johann Kuhnau, Kantor of the Thomaskirche and city director of music in Leipzig ; in his later years, Telemann recounted how much he learned about counterpoint from Kuhnau's work.

His book about his discovery was printed in Leipzig in 1917, under the title The Language of the Hittites ; Its Structure and Its Membership in the Indo-European Linguistic Family.

The first German labour party, the General German Workers ' Association ( Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein, ADAV ) was founded in Leipzig on 23 May 1863 by Ferdinand Lassalle ; about 600 workers from across Germany travelled to the foundation on the new railway line.

Luther returned Eck's assaults with more than equal vehemence and about this time Philipp Melanchthon wrote Œcolampadius that at Leipzig he had first become distinctly aware of the difference between what he considered to be true Christian theology and the scholasticism of the Aristotelian doctors.

In the autumn of 1813 at the start of the Battle of Leipzig ( Battle of Nations ) the local population of Saxony, which tallied about 2 million, saw almost a million soldiers brought to its territories.

Among Hyginus ' sources are the scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes ' Argonautica, which were dated to about the time of Tiberius by Apollonius ' editor R. Merkel, in the preface to his edition of Apollonius ( Leipzig, 1854 ).

The reference always given is-Ferdinand Hitzig, Das Buch Daniel, Leipzig: Weidman, 1850, p. 75, as quoted by Millard, " Daniel and Belshazzar in History ," Biblical Archaeology Review, May / June 1985, pp. 74 – 75-but, there is not even a little clue about such claim into that page which coming up neither page 74 and page 76.

The bookseller and publisher Zedler published this book in Leipzig under the name " Great Complete Encyclopaedia of All Sciences and Arts Which So Far Have Been Invented and Improved by Human Mind and Wit: Including the Geographical and Political Description of the Whole World According to All Monarchies, Empires, Kingdoms, Principalities, Republics, Free Sovereignties, Countries, Towns, Sea Harbors, Fortresses, Castles, Areas, Authorities, Monasteries, Mountains, Passes, Woods, Seas, Lakes ... and also a Detailed Historical and Genealogical Description of the World's Brightest and Most Famous Family Lines, the Life and Deeds of the Emperors, Kings, Electors and Princes, Great Heroes, Ministers of State, War Leaders ... ; Equally about All Policies of State, War and Law and Budgetary Business of the Nobility and the Bourgeois, Merchants, Traders, Arts.

He had worked on this topic, in Leipzig, since about 1910.

Freiberg is located about 31 kilometres west-southwest of Dresden, about 31 kilometres east-northeast of Chemnitz, about 82 kilometres southeast of Leipzig and about 179 kilometres south of Berlin and about 120 kilometres northwest of Prague.

Sullivan had learned about Schott's borosilicate glass as a doctoral student in Leipzig, Germany.

From Leipzig, it went to Dresden, where Joseph Friedrich Freiherr von Racknitz viewed the Turk and published his findings in Über den Schachspieler des Herrn von Kempelen, nebst einer Abbildung und Beschreibung seiner Sprachmachine, along with illustrations showing his beliefs about how the machine operated.

Other archives holding material about Rudolf Laban include the Tanzarchiv Leipzig e. V., Dartington Archive and the German Dance Archives, Cologne

Once other East Germany cities, such as East Berlin, Karl-Marx-Stadt, and Potsdam, heard about the Leipzig demonstrations, they, too, began meeting on Monday nights at the city squares.

According to comments by Thomas Böcker, the Leipzig Trade Fair did not inform him about the new collaboration with Video Games Live in advance and his team only took notice of it through a press release.

" Mettmann remained French for about 10 years and became a part of Prussia's Province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg following Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Leipzig in 1813.

After being educated briefly at the University of Leipzig, he moved to Boston, Massachusetts in about 1688.

Keiser was born in Teuchern ( in present Saxony-Anhalt ), son of the organist and teacher Gottfried Keiser ( born about 1650 ), and educated by other organists in the town and then from age eleven at the Thomasschule in Leipzig, where his teachers included Johann Schelle and Johann Kuhnau, direct predecessors of Johann Sebastian Bach.

It is about 60 km east of Leipzig.