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The Prussian collections became separated during the Cold War during the division of the city, but were reunited after German reunification, except for the art and artefacts removed after World War II by Allied troops and not yet returned ; these include the Priam's Treasure, also called the gold of Troy, excavated by Heinrich Schliemann in 1873, then smuggled out of Turkey to Berlin and today kept at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.
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Further extended under succeeding Prussian kings, the museum's collections of art and archeology were turned into a public foundation after 1918.
The museum's mineral collections date back to the Prussian Academy of 1700.
In 1962 the Federal Republic passed a law giving administrative responsibility for all these collections to Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and endowed it with State funding.
Prussian and became
Administered within the Prussian Rhine Province, the town became part of the German Empire in 1871 during the Prussian-led unification of Germany.
With the coronation of Frederick I in 1701 as king ( in Königsberg ), Berlin became the new capital of the Kingdom of Prussia ( instead of Königsberg ); this was a successful attempt to centralize the capital in the very outspread Prussian Kingdom, and it was the first time the city began to grow.
The attempts by Konrad of Masovia to subdue the Prussian lands had picked long-term and intense border quarrels, whereby the Polish lands of Masovia, Cuyavia and even Greater Poland became subject to continuous Prussian raids.
Elbing became part of the new Prussian Province of West Prussia in 1773.
In 1884 he became senior physician in the Prussian provincial town of Leubus and the following year he was appointed director of the Treatment and Nursing Institute in Dresden.
He also became friends with Wilhelm von Humboldt, then Prussian ambassador at the Court of St. James's, to whom he taught Sanskrit.
He also became a member of the Royal Prussian Academy the following year.
While the Kingdom of Prussia contained most of the population and most of the territory of the Reich, the Prussian leadership became supplanted by German leaders and Prussia itself played a lesser role.
The Gestapo became a national state agency rather than a Prussian state agency.
Within the Prussian empire, western Greater Poland became the Grand Duchy of Posen ( Poznań ), which theoretically held some autonomy.
He then served in the Franco-Prussian War and later became district medical officer in Wollstein ( Wolsztyn ), Prussian Poland.
In 1885, he became professor of hygiene at the University of Berlin, then in 1891 he was made Honorary Professor of the medical faculty and Director of the new Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases ( eventually renamed as the Robert Koch Institute ), a position from which he resigned in 1904.
Despite having defeated Prussia at the Battle of Langensalza, the city of Hanover became a Prussian provincial capital.
In 1834 became chaplain to the Prussian embassy in Rome.
Born into a wealthy middle-class family in Trier ( formerly in Prussian Rhineland, now called Rhineland-Palatinate ), Marx studied at both the University of Bonn and the University of Berlin, where he became interested in the philosophical ideas of the Young Hegelians.
In 1836 Marx became engaged to Jenny von Westphalen, a beautiful baroness of the Prussian ruling class —" the most desirable young woman in Trier " — who broke off her engagement with a young aristocratic second lieutenant to be with him.
After he became regent in 1859, Prussia bought its first 312 steel cannon from Krupp, which became the main arms manufacturer for the Prussian military.
Kolberg became part of the Prussian province of Pomerania in 1815, after the final defeat of Napoleon ; until 1872, it was administered within the Fürstenthum District (" Principality District ", recalling the area's former special status ), then it was within Landkreis Kolberg-Körlin.
The fortress, ancestral seat of the medieval Luxembourgers, was taken over by Prussian forces, following Napoleon's defeat, and Luxembourg became a member of the German Confederation with Prussia responsible for its defense.
In 1815 following the Napoleonic Wars, the town became part of the Prussian Province of Saxony.
No longer under the influence of his ultraconservative Prussian friends, Bismarck became less reactionary and more pragmatic.
The region became a part of the Kingdom of Poland province of Royal Prussia with the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ), prospered with the grain trade from southern Poland to the royal city of Gdańsk and then sustained ravages and plagues brought by several Swedish and Prussian invasions during the 17th and early 18th centuries, and was forcefully removed from Kingdom of Poland and annexed into the Kingdom of Prussia as a result of the First Partition of Poland in 1772.
Most of it became part of the Prussian Rhine Province.
Prussian and separated
The baneful influence of these antiquated principles was clearly shown in the maintenance of Königgratz-Josefstadt in 1866 as a strategic point, which was preferred to the defeat of the separated Prussian armies, and in the strange plans produced in Vienna for the campaign of 1859, and in the almost unintelligible Battle of Montebello in the same year.
There was a Prussian partition, with a portion of it separated as the Grand Duchy of Posen, and an Austrian partition.
The reconstitution of Poland following the Treaty of Versailles ( 1919 ) separated German minorities of the Prussian provinces of the German Empire from a German nation state.
The province comprised two spatially separated areas, stretching from the Prussian Province of Pomerania and the " Polish Corridor " in the north along the eastern border of the Province of Brandenburg to the Silesia Province in the south.
The territorial growth of the southwestern middle-sized states, in particular the two Hessian principalities, but also the growth of Baden and Württemberg, had split the territorial continuity of Prussia ; the Prussian state was no longer linked entirely by territory, but rather was separated from many of its newer acquisitions by territories newly acquired by other states.
At the end of the 1st century, Prussian settlements were probably divided into tribal domains, separated from one another by uninhabited areas of forest, swamp and marsh.
In 1920 Britain and France established for the League of Nations mandate of the Saar a nominally independent occupation government in an area separated from the previous Prussian Rhine Province ( main part ) enlarged by two Bavarian districts ( Homburg and St. Ingbert ), ceded from the Palatinate.
Prussian and during
* French, Prussian and Anglo-allies uniforms during the Battle of Waterloo: Mont-Saint-Jean ( FR )
Clausewitz served in the Rhine Campaigns ( 1793 – 1794 ) including the Siege of Mainz, when the Prussian army invaded France during the French Revolution, and served in the Napoleonic Wars from 1806 to 1815.
Opposed to Prussia's enforced alliance with Napoleon I, he left the Prussian army and served in the Russian army from 1812 to 1813 during the Russian Campaign, including the Battle of Borodino.
Truso did not disappear suddenly to be replaced with the citadel and town of Elbing during the Prussian Crusade.
* 1871 – The victorious Prussian Army parades though Paris, France after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
With the Prussian army entering France, more doubts were raised against the aristocracy, and these tensions climaxed during the September Massacres.
Royalists and their allies still dreamed of restoring the monarchy to power, while the Prussian and Austrian crowns did not accept their territorial losses during the previous war.
During Napoleon's invasion of Prussia during the War of the Fourth Coalition, the town was besieged from mid-March to July 2, 1807, by the Grande Armée and by Polish forces drawn from insurgents against Prussian rule ( a street named for the commander leading Polish soldiers is located within the present-day city ).
It was meant to inspire the Germans with its depiction of the heroic Prussian defence during the Napoleonic Wars.
The 17th and 18th centuries include what is known as a golden age of libraries ; during this some of the more important libraries were founded in Europe, such as the Bodleian Library at Oxford, the British Museum Library in London, the Mazarine Library and the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, the Austrian National Library in Vienna, the National Central Library in Florence, the Prussian State Library in Berlin, the Załuski Library in Warsaw and the M. E.
* 1757 – Battle of Prague – A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years ' War.
In the subsequent conquest which lasted over 50 years, the original population was nearly exterminated especially during the major Prussian rebellion of 1261 – 83.
During the Franco-Prussian War the Parisian National Guard, which was founded during the time of the American Revolution, engaged the Prussian Army and later rebelled against the Versailles Army under Marshal McMahon.
A notable example of this was the occasional surveillance by Prussian police of Karl Marx during the years he remained resident in London.
A Greater Poland Uprising during the Revolutions of 1848 was ultimately unsuccessful, and the Grand Duchy lost its remaining autonomy, Poznań becoming simply the capital of the Prussian Province of Posen.
The northern half of the German Province of East Prussia, occupied by the Red Army during its East Prussian Offensive followed by its evacuation in winter 1945, had already been incorporated into the Soviet territory by amendment of the country's constitution.
The National Archives of Canada, in its biographical sketches of Canadian Prime Ministers, records show that on one occasion during the war, Trudeau and his friends drove their motorcycles wearing Prussian military uniforms, complete with pointed steel helmets.
Pomesanians joined the other Prussian clans during the First Prussian Uprising ( 1242 – 1249 ), but was the only clan not to participate in the Great Prussian Uprising ( 1260 – 1274 ).
One of these was the Lion of Belfort, a monumental sculpture carved in sandstone below the fortress of Belfort, which during the war had resisted a Prussian siege for over three months.
As part of the Prussian Rhineland, Trier developed economically during the 19th century.
Cartoon depicting Václav Bělský ( 1818 – 1878 ), Mayor of Prague from 1863 until 1867, in charge of the city during Prussian occupation in July 1866.
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