The most well-known was published in 1792, by Mozart's publisher Nikolaus Simrock in Berlin.

File: Nikolaus Kopernikus. jpg | Nicolaus Copernicus ( 1473-1543 ): published De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ( On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres ) in 1543-often considered the starting point of modern astronomy-in which he argued that the Earth and the other planets revolved around the Sun ( heliocentrism )

Friedemann's students included Johann Nikolaus Forkel, who in 1802 published the first biography of Johann Sebastian Bach ; Friedemann, as well as his younger brother Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, were major informants for Forkel.

* Über die Theorie der Musik by Johann Nikolaus Forkel is published in Göttingen.

* Nikolaus Pevsner's book An Outline of European Architecture is published in Britain.

* 1818 – The first performance of " Silent Night " takes place in the church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria.

In 1538, Nikolaus Wynmann, a German professor of languages, wrote the first swimming book, The Swimmer or A Dialogue on the Art of Swimming ( Der Schwimmer oder ein Zweigespräch über die Schwimmkunst ).

Like English, German uses ( German-style ) quotation marks between the first and last names ( e. g., Andreas Nikolaus „ Niki “ Lauda ).

One of the first to conceive of a union of European nations was Count Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi, who wrote the Pan-Europa manifesto in 1923.

The first bolt-action rifle was produced in 1824 by Johann Nikolaus von Dreyse, following work on breechloading rifles that dated to at least the Ferguson of 1776.

This process would be extended by Nash in planning groups of buildings, the first example being Blaise Hamlet ( 1810 – 1811 ), here a group of nine asymmetrical cottages were laid out around a village green, Nikolaus Pevsner described the hamlet as ' the ne plus ultra of the Picturesque movement '.

The Petroleum Reitwagen used a hot tube ignition system and the fuel known as Ligroin to become the worlds first internal combustion engine power vehicle using a four-stroke engine based on Nikolaus Otto's design.

Nikolaus August Otto ( 14 June 1832, Holzhausen an der Haide, Nassau-26 January 1891, Cologne ) was the German inventor of the first internal-combustion engine to efficiently burn fuel directly in a piston chamber.

* December 25 – The first performance of " Silent Night " ( Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria ).

* September 28-Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel, inventor of the first working metronome ( b. 1780 )

The lack of notable or historic buildings led Nikolaus Pevsner to omit the town entirely from the first edition of his Buildings of England account of Cornwall.

The first mayor of the town was Nikolaus Hermann, and Lauban received its own seal.

* Nikolaus Otto builds the first successful four-stroke engine using the Otto cycle.

* Nikolaus Riehl: first class, for contributions to the Soviet atomic bomb project

For the latter production, Flimm co-operated for the first time with the Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who became his most important artistic partner.

The elements from which Monteverdi constructed his first opera score — the aria, the strophic song, recitative, choruses, dances, dramatic musical interludes — were, as conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt has pointed out, not created by him, but " he blended the entire stock of newest and older possibilities into a unity that was indeed new ".

Nikolaus Pevsner first proposed a series of volumes amounting to a county by county survey of the monuments of England in ten or more books to both the Cambridge University Press and Routledge before the war, however for various reason his plan came to nothing.

The College traces its roots to the Bethlehem Female Seminary, which was founded in 1742 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, as the first school for young women in the U. S. The seminary was created by Benigna, Countess von Zinzendorf, the daughter of Count Nikolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, who was the benefactor of the fledgling Moravian communities in Nazareth and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

* Nikolaus Pevsner publishes the first in his Buildings of England series, the volume on Nottinghamshire.

Johann Nikolaus Forkel, the first biographer of Bach, dedicated his book to van Swieten.

One of the first to conceive of a union of European nations was Count Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi, who wrote the Pan-Europa manifesto in 1923.

It was laid out in the 1630s under the initiative of the speculative builder and contractor William Newton, " the first in a long series of entrepreneurs who took a hand in developing London ", as Sir Nikolaus Pevsner observes.

* Nikolaus Joachim Lehmann 1921 – 1998 – Mathematician, professor, first lectures in informatics in the GDR 1967

* Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, 1960 edition.

* Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, 1960 ( first ) edition.

This new edition of the complete three movements has been recorded by Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

* Pevsner, Nikolaus, ( revised by Williamson, Elizabeth ), The Buildings of England: Durham ( London, Penguin ), 1983 ( revised edition ), p. 470 – 3 ISBN 0-300-09599-6

Born in the Netherlands, he attended school at Düsseldorf and Essen, studied for half a year at the University of Münster, and then moved to the University of Bonn, where his teachers included Friedrich Diez and Nikolaus Delius.

The more familiar mechanical musical chronometer was invented by Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel in Amsterdam in 1814.

* Adalbert Nikolaus Fuchs ( 1814, Wieden-1886, Kritzendorf ), Austrian agricultural scientist, born here ( de )

* 1539 – Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada ( now Colombia ), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.

He perhaps had a general knowledge of the false decretals, but did not base his view of the law upon them and owed his knowledge of them solely to documents that came to him from the Frankish Empire " Papst Nikolaus I. und Pseudo-Isidor " in Historisches Jahrbuch, XXV ( 1904 ), 1 sqq.

; Idem, " Die pseudoisidorische ' Exceptio spolii ' bei Papst Nikolaus I " in Historisches Jahrbuch, XXVI ( 1905 ), 275 sqq ..

** Martin Sauer ( producer ), Michael Brammann ( engineer ), Nikolaus Harnoncourt ( conductor ), Norbert Balatsch, Erwin Ortner ( chorus masters ), Bernarda Fink, Matthias Goerne, Dietrich Henschel, Elisabeth von Magnus, Christoph Prégardien, Dorothea Röschmann, Michael Schade, Christine Schäfer, Markus Schäfer, Oliver Widmer, the Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Wiener Sängerknaben & Concentus Musicas Wien for Bach: St. Matthew Passion

Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf, Imperial Count of Zinzendorf and Pottendorf ( May 26, 1700 – May 9, 1760 ), German religious and social reformer and bishop of the Moravian Church, was born at Dresden.

Johann Nikolaus Forkel ( 22 February 1749 in Meeder, near Coburg, Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld – 20 March 1818 in Göttingen, Hanover ), was a German musician, musicologist and music theorist.

* Nikolaus Wilhelm-Stempin ( 2009 ), Das albanische Gewohnheitsrecht aus der Perspektive der rechtlichen Volkskunde, p. 5.

* Sir Nikolaus Pevsner ( 1902 – 1983 ), a German-born British scholar of the history of architecture ;

His memorial by the monumental mason Hopper in Holy Trinity Church ( Cambridge ), was described by architectural critic Nikolaus Pevsner as an " epitaph in Gothic forms.

* Nikolaus Wilhelm Schröder ( 1721 – 1798 ), Orientalist and philologist.

The German organist Adolf Hesse ( 1809 – 1863 ), a student of Bach's biographer Johann Nikolaus Forkel, had demonstrated in 1844 in Paris the pedal technique which ( together with a German-style pedal board ) made the performance of Bach's works possible.

), Concerning Architecture: essays on architectural writers and writing presented to Nikolaus Pevsner.

* Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England: London 6: Westminster ( 2003 ), pp 594 – 601

The poets, Christian Friedrich Alexander von Württemberg and Nikolaus Lenau were constant guests, and in 1826 Friederike Hauffe ( 1801 – 1829 ), the daughter of a forester in Prevorst, a somnambulist and clairvoyante, arrived ; she forms the subject of Kerner's famous work Die Seherin von Prevorst, Eröffnungen über das innere Leben des Menschen und über das Hineinragen einer Geisterwelt in die unsere ( The Seeress of Prevorst, revelations of the human inner life and about the penetrations of the spirit world into ours, 1829 ; 6th ed., 1892 ).

Nikolaus Lenau was the nom de plume of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau ( 25 August 1802 – 22 August 1850 ), a German-language Austrian poet.

Another war crimes trial was held in Brunswick ( Braunschweig ), Germany, against Colonel-General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, Supreme Commander of German forces in Norway 1940-44.

** Martin Sauer ( producer ), Michael Brammann ( engineer ), Nikolaus Harnoncourt ( conductor ), Norbert Balatsch, Erwin Ortner ( chorus masters ), Bernarda Fink, Matthias Goerne, Dietrich Henschel, Elisabeth von Magnus, Christoph Prégardien, Dorothea Röschmann, Michael Schade, Christine Schäfer, Markus Schäfer, Oliver Widmer, the Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Wiener Sängerknaben & Concentus Musicus Wien for Bach: St Matthew Passion