ERLANGEN
, a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the See also:kingdom of See also:Bavaria, on a fertile See also:plain, at the confluence of the See also:Schwabach and the See also:Regnitz, r r m
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N.W. of See also:Nuremberg, on the railway from See also:Munich to See also:Bamberg
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Pop
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(1905) 23,720
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It is divided into an old and a new town, the latter consisting of wide, straight and well-built streets
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The See also:market See also:place is a See also:fine square
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Upon it stand the town-See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall and the former See also:palace of the margraves of See also:Bayreuth,, now the See also:main See also:building of the university
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The latter was founded by the See also:margrave See also:Frederick (d
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1763), who, in 1742, established a university at Bayreuth, but in 1743 removed it to Erlangen
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A statue of the founder, erected in 1843 by See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis I. of Bavaria, stands in the centre of the square and faces the university buildings
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The university has faculties of See also:philosophy, See also:law, See also:medicine and See also:Protestant See also:theology
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Connected with it are a library of over 200,000 volumes, See also:geological, anatomical and mineralogical institutions, a See also:hospital, several clinical establishments, laboratories and a botanical See also:garden
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Among the churches of the town (six Protestant and one See also:Roman See also:Catholic), only the new town See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, with a See also:spire 220 ft. high, is remarkable
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The See also:chief See also:industries of Erlangen are See also:spinning and See also:weaving, and the manufacture of See also:glass, See also:paper, brushes and gloves
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The See also:brewing See also:industry is also important, the See also:beer of Erlangen being famous throughout Germany and large quantities being exported
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Erlangen owes the See also:foundation of its prosperity chiefly to the See also:French Protestant refugees who settled here on the revocation of the See also:edict of See also:Nantes and introduced various manufactures
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In Io17 the place was transferred from'the bishopric of See also:Wurzburg to that of Bamberg; in 1361 it was sold to the king of Bohemia
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It became a town in 1398 and passed into the hands of the Hohenzollerns, burgraves of Nuremberg, in 1416
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There for nearly three centuries it was the See also:property of the margraves of Bayreuth, being ceded with the See also:rest of Bayreuth to See also:Prussia in 1791
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In 1810 it came into the See also:possession of Bavaria
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Erlangen was for many years the See also:residence of the poet See also:Friedrich See also:Ruckert, and of the philosophers Johann Gottlieb See also:Fichte and Friedrich Wilhelm von Schnelling
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See See also:Stein and See also:Miller, See also:Die Geschichte von Erlangen (1898)
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