The name derives from the German word Zwinger ( outer ward of a concentric castle ); it was for the cannons that were placed between the outer wall and the major wall.

The Zwinger was not enclosed until the Neoclassical building by Gottfried Semper called the Semper Gallery was built on its northern side.

The area between the two walls was generally referred to as the Zwinger and, in the vicinity of the castle, was utilised by the royal court at Dresden for garden purposes.

This was no longer the case when work on the present-day Zwinger palace began in the early 18th century, nevertheless the name was transferred to the new building.

Until well into the 16th century, the area of the present-day Zwinger comples was still outside the city fortifications.

The Zwinger was designed by Pöppelmann and constructed in stages from 1710 to 1728.

The Zwinger was formally inaugurated in 1719, on the occasion of the electoral prince Frederick August ’ s marriage to the daughter of the Habsburg emperor, the Archduchess Maria Josepha.

Later the plans were changed to a smaller scale, and in 1847 – 1855 the area was closed by the construction of the gallery wing now separating the Zwinger from the Theatre Square.

Theodor Zwinger the Elder ( August 2, 1533 – March 10, 1588 ) was a Swiss physician and humanist scholar.

Zwinger was the son of the furrier Leonhard Zwinger who had become Basel citizen in 1526.

His descendant Theodor Zwinger the Younger ( 1597-1654 ) was a prominent preacher and theology professor.

A walled area known as the “ Zwinger ” was created between the two gates.

The most famous building started under Augustus the Strong was the Zwinger.

The museum's zoological collection was almost completely destroyed by the fire in the Zwinger palace during the constitutional crisis of 1849, but Reichenbach was able to replace it within only a few years.

Zwinger ’ s son, Jakob Zwinger, briefly served as his successor as editor of the Theatrum.

Today, the Zwinger is a museum complex that contains the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister ( Old Masters Picture Gallery ), the Dresden Porcelain Collection ( Porzellansammlung ), the Armory ( Rüstkammer ) and the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon ( Royal Cabinet of Mathematical and Physical Instruments ).

After Zwinger ’ s father ’ s death, Christina married the noted humanist Conrad Lycosthenes ( Wolffhart ).

Time's editor, Thomas Griffith, in his book, The Waist-High Culture, wrote: `` most of what was different about it ( the Deep South ) I found myself unsympathetic to.

City editor Victor Watson of the New York American was a man of brooding suspicions and mysterious shifts of mood.

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

Though it was a great relief when the big brains on these shows turned out to be frauds and phonies, it did irreparable damage to the ego of the editor and many another intelligent, well-informed American.

It also happened with the Inauguration, which was not re-run at all during the evening hours, and I wrote to the TV editor of the Times.

It had gone big with the Hollywood girls when he told them his sister was an editor of Art And Apparel.

Herb, an expert on narrow ties, thin lapels, and swatches, was men's fashion editor of Parvenu, the weekly magazine with the tremendous circulation.

The Providence Daily Post's editor wrote that he could not believe that a meeting honoring Brown was to be held in Providence.

On the morning following the Pratt Hall meeting the editor of the Providence Daily Journal wrote that although the meeting was milder and less extreme than those held in other areas for similar purposes, it could have been avoided completely.

`` Once, when the editor was just out of the hospital from a gallstone operation, Mrs. Calhoun and the mother of the bride went out to his house and fought it out beside his bed.

That you have refused to drive him into the family business or push him into a profession so you can say at the club, `` Of course David has known since he was twelve he wanted to be an engineer '' -- or a lawyer, or an editor??

was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, producer, and editor.

Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films ( founded in 1920 by the actor Leslie Howard and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel ).

Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.

The first organized race was on April 28, 1887 by the chief editor of Paris publication Le Vélocipède, Monsieur Fossier.

Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.

As editor, Mackenzie was perhaps a little too vocal, leading the paper to a suit of law for libel against the local conservative candidate.

Braudel was editor of Annales from 1956 to 1968, followed by the medievalist Jacques Le Goff.

From 1803 to 1808 he was editor of Annual Review.

As editor of the Journal für praktische Chemie ( Journal of practical chemistry, from 1870 to 1884 ), Kolbe was sometimes so severely critical of the work of others, especially after about 1874, that some wondered whether he might have been suffering a mental illness.

Anton Diabelli, lithograph by Josef KriehuberAnton ( or Antonio ) Diabelli ( 5 September 17817 April 1858 ) was an Austrian music publisher, editor and composer of Italian descent.

The primary controller was ranked the 10th worst video game controller by IGN editor Craig Harris.

An important period for the journal was 1928 – 1958 with Solomon Lefschetz as editor.

She was the food editor of The New York Times Magazine and the editor of T Living, a quarterly publication of The New York Times.