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Grossbeeren

(Encyclopedia)Grossbeeren grōsbārˈən [key], village, Brandenburg, E Germany. There, in 1813, Friedrich Wilhelm von Bülow, using the Prussian militia for the first time, defeated the French under Oudinot, thus ...

Porz am Rhein

(Encyclopedia)Porz am Rhein pôrts äm rīn [key], city, North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany, on the Rhine River; chartered 1951. Manufactures of this industrial city include glass and agricultural machinery. ...

Sonneberg

(Encyclopedia)Sonneberg zônˈəbĕrghˌ [key], city (1994 pop. 25,655), Thuringia, E central Germany; first mentioned 1317. It is the center of the Thuringian toy industry and is home to a toy museum. ...

Agricola, Rudolphus

(Encyclopedia)Agricola, Rudolphus, 1443–85, Dutch humanist, whose real name was Roelof Huysmann. He opposed scholasticism and spread the culture of the Renaissance throughout Germany greatly influencing Erasmus a...

Bergisch-Gladbach

(Encyclopedia)Bergisch-Gladbach bĕrˈgĭsh-glätˈbäkhˌ [key], city, North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany; chartered 1856. ...

Mersen, Treaty of

(Encyclopedia)Mersen, Treaty of, 870, redivision of the Carolingian empire by the sons of Louis I, Charles the Bald (later Charles II) of the West Franks (France) and Louis the German of the East Franks (Germany), ...

Haldane of Cloan, Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount

(Encyclopedia)Haldane of Cloan, Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount, 1856–1928, British statesman. He entered (1885) the House of Commons as a Liberal. As war secretary (1905–12) he effected drastic army reforms, ...

De Maizière, Lothar

(Encyclopedia)De Maizière, Lothar lōˈtär də mīˌzyĕˈzəs [key], 1940–, the first and last freely elected prime minister of the (East) German Democratic Republic. He joined the puppet Christian Democratic ...

Doriot, Jacques

(Encyclopedia)Doriot, Jacques zhäk dôryōˈ [key], 1888–1945?, French collaborator during the German occupation of France in World War II. For many years he served as the mayor of Saint-Denis, a Paris suburb. H...

Conant, James Bryant

(Encyclopedia)Conant, James Bryant kōˈnənt [key], 1893–1978, American educator, chemist, and diplomat, b. Dorchester, Mass., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1913; Ph.D., 1916). Except for a brief period in the army (1917...