Conrad Grebel wrote in a letter to Thomas Müntzer in 1524:

** Conrad Grebel, co-founder of the Anabaptist movement ( b. 1498 )

* January 21 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.

These colleges are: Renison, Conrad Grebel, and St. Paul's.

Conrad Grebel University College has a Residence Building.

There are 9 primary residence communities for the University which include ; Ron Eydt Village ( REV ), Village 1 ( V1 ), University of Waterloo Place ( UWP ), MacKenzie King Village ( MKV ), Columbia Lake Village ( CLV ), St Jerome's University ( SJU ), St Paul's University ( STP ), Renison University College ( REN ), and Conrad Grebel College.

St Jerome's, St Paul's and Renison have religious associations that are not mandatory to follow for residents while Conrad Grebel is a little more faith-driven.

* Conrad Grebel University College, an affiliated college of University of Guelph

Conrad Grebel ( ca.

Conrad Grebel ( c. 1498 – 1526 ), son of a prominent Swiss merchant and councilman, was a co-founder of the Swiss Brethren movement and is often called the " Father of Anabaptists ".

Conrad Grebel was born, probably in Grüningen in the Canton of Zurich, about 1498 to Junker Jakob and Dorothea ( Fries ) Grebel, the second of six children.

Conrad Grebel is thought to have studied for six years at the Carolina, the Latin school of the Grossmünster Church in Zürich.

Conrad Grebel spent about six years in three universities, but without finishing his education or receiving a degree.

Conrad Grebel probably experienced a conversion in the spring of 1522.

Conrad Grebel and Wolfgang Ulimann spent several months preaching with much success in the area of St. Gall.

The extant works of Conrad Grebel consist of 69 letters written by him from September 1517 to July 1525, three poems, a petition to the Zürich council, and portions of a pamphlet written by him against infant baptism, as quoted by Zwingli in his counterarguments.

The beliefs of Conrad Grebel and the Swiss Brethren have left an impression on the life and thought of Amish, Baptist, Schwarzenau Brethren / German Baptist, and Mennonite churches, as well as numerous pietistic and free church movements.

With Petr Chelčický ( 1390 – 1460 ) of Bohemia, Conrad Grebel is considered one of the first nonresistant Christians of the Reformation.

Against his family's wishes, Conrad Grebel married Barbara < u >?

His grandson, also named Conrad, was the city's treasurer in 1624, and a later descendant also named Conrad Grebel was burgomaster in 1669.

* Conrad Grebel — the Founder of the Swiss Brethren, by Harold S. Bender ; ISBN 1-57910-157-7

* Conrad Grebel in Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online

The character of Barnaby Jones was introduced in the episode " Requiem for a Son " in 1973, featuring special guest star William Conrad as Frank Cannon.

Three editions were published by Conrad Gessner ( Zurich, 1543 ; Basle, 1549 ; Zurich ; 1559 ), and another by Gaisford ( Oxford, 1822, 4 vols.

The statesman, scientist, painter and manager Conrad Escher ( later named " von der Linth ") from Zurich developed and executed the plan of channeling the Linth into Lake Walen, where the gravel could be deposited without damage.

The picture shows Conrad Escher's plan of the correction from the archive of ETH Zurich:

In 1867 he became privatdozent in Berlin University, and in the following year was chosen professor of physics at the Federal Polytechnic Institute in Zurich, where he was the teacher of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen ; then, after a year or two at Würzburg, he was called in 1872 to Strasbourg, where he took a great part in the organization of the new university, and was largely concerned in the erection of the Physical Institute.

The prize is given annually to up to three recipients by the Conrad Ferdinand Meyer-Stiftung in Zurich.

Konrad Pellikan (; Latin: Conradus Pellicanus ; sometimes anglicized as Conrad Pellican ; January 8, 1478, Rouffach in Alsace – May 6, 1556, Zurich ) was a German Protestant theologian, humanist, and Christian Hebraist who worked chiefly in Switzerland.

* 1192 – Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat ( Conrad I ), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne is confirmed by election.

The kingdom of Cyprus passed to Hugh, his only surviving son, while the kingdom of Jerusalem passed to Maria, the daughter of Isabella by her previous marriage with Conrad of Montferrat.

He is by no means an impartial source: he is prejudiced against the Saracens, against the French, and against all the rivals or enemies of his master, including the Polein party which supported Conrad of Montferrat against Guy of Lusignan.

Later, however, her daughter-in-law, the Byzantine princess Theophano, turned her husband Otto II against his mother, and she was driven from court in 978 ; she lived partly in Italy, and partly with her brother Conrad, king of Burgundy, by whose mediation she was ultimately reconciled to her son ; in 983 Otto appointed her as his viceroy in Italy.

In 1192, Conrad of Montferrat, the de facto King of Jerusalem, was killed by an assassin.

Ceres Brewery was founded by a grocer named Malthe Conrad Lottrup, with help from the chemists A. S. Aagard and Knud Redelien, as the city's seventh brewery.

A total of 15 Moon walks were performed by members of six Apollo crews, including Charles " Pete " Conrad, Alan Bean, Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, David Scott, James Irwin, John Young, Charles Duke, Eugene " Gene " Cernan and Dr. Harrison " Jack " Schmitt.

The first EVA repairs of a spacecraft were made by Charles " Pete " Conrad, Joseph Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz on May 26, June 7 and June 19, 1973, on the Skylab 2 mission.

The phrase may have been invented by either writer Barnaby Conrad or automotive author Ken Purdy.

Louis ' subsequent assault on Damascus with his remaining army, fortified by King Conrad and Baldwin III of Jerusalem in 1148 achieved comparatively little.

In the same year, George Baker dedicated a second book to Oxford, his Practice of the New and Old Physic, a translation of a work by Conrad Gesner.

Other writers admired by Orwell included: Ralph Waldo Emerson, G. K. Chesterton, George Gissing, Graham Greene, Herman Melville, Henry Miller, Tobias Smollett, Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and Yevgeny Zamyatin.

Hawks accepted and was immediately put in charge of over forty productions, including many literary acquisitions that included works by Joseph Conrad, Jack London and Zane Grey.

Heart of Darkness is a novella, written by Joseph Conrad, that is presented in the form of a frame narrative ( a story within a story ).

Eight and a half years before writing the book, Conrad had been appointed by a Belgian trading company to serve as the captain of a steamer on the Congo River.

Though lies seem to present Marlow as a depraved hypocrite, Conrad intends them to show an enlightened and willful man who desires to undo the darkness caused by others.

* ' Heart of Darkness ' and late-Victorian fascination with the primitive and the double-novel by Joseph Conrad

Category: Novels by Joseph Conrad

Duke Frederick II and Conrad, the two current male Staufer, by their mother Agnes were grandsons of late Emperor Henry IV and nephews of Henry V. Frederick attempted to succeed to the throne of the Holy Roman Emperor ( formally known as the King of the Romans ) through a customary election, but lost to the Saxon duke Lothair of Supplinburg.

Conrad IV was succeeded as duke of Swabia by his only son, two-year old Conradin.

The cadet Franconian branch of the House of Hohenzollern was founded by Conrad III, Burgrave of Nuremberg.

The film was directed by Michael Curtiz, produced by Hal Wallis and featured a strong cast, including Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Paul Henreid, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson.

* 1895 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovers X-rays (" bremsstrahlung ", from German for radiation produced by deceleration )