Die germanische Urgeschichte in Tacitus Germania,

Zwei Stationennamen am Niederrhein. Onomathologisches zu Asciburgium. Mit einem Beitrage von T. Siebs. Castra Herculis, eine Station zwischen Leyden und Nymwegen.--Almanni Stamm- und Volksname.

Acta martyrvm, eorvm videlicet, qvi hoc secvlo in Gallia, Germania, Anglia, Flandria, Italia, constans dederunt nomen Euangelio, idque sanguine suo obsignarunt: ab Wicleffo & Husso ad hunc vsque diem.

Translation of Le livre des martyrs, by Claude Baduel.--Cf. Brit. Mus. Cat.

Germania; a lyrical drama in a prologue, two scenes and epilogue.

Words in English and Italian.

The Penn Germania ... a popular journal of German history and ideals in the United States.

Imprint varies: Jan. 1900-Sept. 1906, Lebanon, Pa., P.C. Croll.--Oct. 1906-Mar. 1909, East Greenville, Pa., H.W. Kriebel.--Apr. 1909-Dec. 1911, Lititz, Pa., H.W. Kriebel.--Jan. 1912- Cleona, Pa., H.W. Kriebel.

Les Allemands peints par eux-mêmes, peints par les neutres. Germania, seen by themselves, seen by neutrals. Dipinti da sè stessi, dipinti dai neutri. Pintados por si mismos, pintados por los neutrales. Desenhados por elles mesmos, desenhados pelos neutros.

Mode of access: Internet.

L'Asse Tripartito Italia-Germania- Giappone e la Cina

Germany, Italy and Japan were engaged in China from the turn of the 20th century to WWII. However, they formed an anti-Chinese alliance only at the final stage of their presence there, when Japan assumed an undisputed role of leader in the region. Despite its alliance with the Axis powers, Japan never implemented racial laws against the Jews in China. All of them took part in the Boxer Upraising suppression and received as a consequence extraterritorial rights and concessions. Moreover, Japan won the war against China in 1895 and transformed itself from a tributary country of China into an imperialistic power. It took possession of Taiwan and in the 1930s established a puppet government in Manchuria.Germany followed different route obtaining as indemnity for the murders of two missionaries the control of the Shandong province, which was later expanded thanks to the anti-Boxer coalition's victory. However, Germany lost all possessions when China entered WWI. The issue of Shandong was finally resolved at the Conference for Disarmament hold in Washington in 1921-2. Japan failed to gain ex-Germany territories. Finally, Italy arrived in the Far East at the turn of the century but was not very interested in the oriental colonialism to the same extent it was interested in Africa. Tianjin was its only concession in China, and it took almost a decade before a subvention to arrive from the Italian government for its development.In the 1920s and 1930s Germany and Italy engaged in successful diplomatic, commercial and military relationships with China. In fact, both were considered China's partners thanks to their experts at the service of the Chinese government. On the other hand, Japan position was opposite to them, because of its plans of aggression towards China which was to be transformed into “the natural extension” of the mainland. In 1935 Italy declared war on Ethiopia and abandoned the seat at the League of Nations. China interpreted the Italian aggression as the endorsement of Japan's politics towards China in Manchuria, and the relations between the two countries were broken off. After that Italy supported Wang Jingwei's puppet government during the Japanese occupation of China. Germany followed the same path in 1937, when it was evident that the Japanese were playing the leading role in the region, and decided to ally with Wang Jingwei too. Both Italy and Germany decided also to recognise the Manzhuguo and established diplomatic relations, definitively turning their backs on the old Chinese ally.The Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis sealed the alliance among the three countries, and it confirmed Japan as the leading power in the region. Nevertheless Japan did not apply the racial law against the Jews in China.

Germania Judaica

hrsg. im Auftr. der Ges. zur Förderung der Wiss. des Judentums von M. Brann und A. Freimann

Interpretazione geoarcheologica di un contesto di scavo di età romana presso Cervia (Ravenna)

Lo studio riguarda l’analisi stratigrafica tridimensionale di un contesto di scavo presso la località Pinarella di Cervia (Ravenna). Il lavoro è consistito nella realizzazione di cinque colonne stratigrafiche e relative osservazioni utili alla correlazione di queste, dalle quali è stato possibile ricostruire l’evoluzione dell’assetto ambientale nell’arco temporale compreso tra l’età romana (20 a.C-20 d.C.) ed il Medioevo. Il contesto stratigrafico rilevato mostra una chiara evidenza trasgressiva da età romana su ambienti continentali preromani. In un ambito areale limitato si sono osservate facies costiere giacenti su depositi fini lagunari e palustri. Il rinvenimento di alcune strutture archeologiche romane, di ancora non certa destinazione funzionale, ha permesso di formulare considerazioni sulla quota del livello del mare in età romana, riconosciuta a 2,60/2,70m al di sotto del livello marino attuale. Si è notato come la regressione forzata caratteristica dell’ambiente padano, in questo ambito sia molto limitata e tarda (successiva al VII sec. d.C) e sia avvenuta ad opera dell’accrezione dell’apparato deltizio del Savio nella sua ala destra.

Gli ammortizzatori sociali in caso di disoccupazione involontaria: un confronto terminologico tra ordinamento italiano e tedesco.

Ziel der vorliegenden Masterarbeit sind der terminologische sowie inhaltliche Vergleich zwischen den von der italienischen und der deutschen Rechtsordnung vorgesehenen Leistungen bei Arbeitslosigkeit und die daraus hervorgehende Erstellung zweisprachlicher terminologischen Einträge zur Anreicherung der IATE-Datenbank. Die Arbeit ist an ein breites Publikum gerichtet, das RechtsübersetzerInnen, RechtsexpertInnen und DolmetscherInnen sowie auch Studierenden und Interessenten an Rechtsvergleichung umfasst. Die Arbeit ist in vier Kapitel gegliedert. Das erste besteht in einer Einführung in die Rechtssprache(n) und deren wesentliche Merkmale, mit besonderem Bezug auf das Problem der semantischen Äquivalenz; es wird außerdem ein Überblick über die Funktionen der Rechtstexte und die zurzeit verfügbaren Datenbanken der Rechtsterminologie gegeben. Im zweiten Kapitel wird der Fachbereich der Arbeit vorgestellt. Die italienischen und deutschen Sozialleistungen werden hier sowohl auf mikro- als auch auf makrokomparativer Ebene untersucht und es wird auf die jüngsten Arbeitsmarktpolitikreformen in beiden Ländern eingegangen. Das dritte und das vierte Kapitel sind dem praktischen Teil der Arbeit gewidmet. Es werden die einzelnen Schritte zur Erstellung der 216 Termini enthaltenden Datenbank geschildert – von der Zusammenstellung der Korpora aus autoritativen Quellen und der Extraktion der Termini, über die Erstellung der zweisprachigen Begriffssysteme bis hin zur Suche nach äquivalenten Begriffen bzw. Formulierung von Übersetzungsvorschlägen und zur Erarbeitung der terminologischen Einträge.

The North in the Old English Orosius : A Geographical Narrative in Context

This doctoral dissertation examines the description of the North as it appears in the Old English Orosius (OE Or.) in the form of the travel accounts by Ohthere and Wulfstan and a catalogue of peoples of Germania. The description is discussed in the context of ancient and early medieval textual and cartographic descriptions of the North, with a special emphasis on Anglo-Saxon sources and the intellectual context of the reign of King Alfred (871-899). This is the first time that these sources, a multidisciplinary approach and secondary literature, also from Scandinavia and Finland, have been brought together. The discussion is source-based, and archaeological theories and geographical ideas are used to support the primary evidence. This study belongs to the disciplines of early medieval literature and (cultural) history, Anglo-Saxon studies, English philology, and historical geography. The OE Or. was probably part of Alfred s educational campaign, which conveyed royal ideology to the contemporary elite. The accounts and catalogue are original interpolations which represent a unique historical source for the Viking Age. They contain unparalleled information about peoples and places in Fennoscandia and the southern Baltic and sailing voyages to the White Sea, the Danish lands, and the Lower Vistula. The historical-philological analysis reveals an emphasis on wealth and property, rank, luxury goods, settlement patterns, and territorial divisions. Trade is strongly implied by the mentions of central places and northern products, such as walrus ivory. The references to such peoples as the Finnas, the Cwenas, and the Beormas appear in connection with information about geography and subsistence in the far North. Many of the topics in the accounts relate to Anglo-Saxon aristocratic culture and interests. The accounts focus on the areas associated with the Northmen, the Danes and the Este. These areas resonated in the Anglo-Saxon geographical imagination: they were curious about the northern margin of the world, their own continental ancestry and the geography of their homeland of Angeln, and they had an interest in the Goths and their connection with the southern Baltic in mythogeography. The non-judgemental representation of the North as generally peaceful and relatively normal place is related to Alfredian and Orosian ideas about the unity and spreading of Christendom, and to desires for unity among the Germani and for peace with the Vikings, who were settling in England. These intellectual contexts reflect the innovative and organizational forces of Alfred s reign. The description of the North in the OE Or. can be located in the context of the Anglo-Saxon worldview and geographical mindset. It mirrors the geographical curiosity expressed in other Anglo-Saxon sources, such as the poem Widsith and the Anglo-Saxon mappa mundi. The northern section of this early eleventh-century world map is analyzed in detail here for the first time. It is suggested that the section depicts the North Atlantic and the Scandinavian Peninsula. The survey of ancient and early medieval sources provides a comparative context for the OE Or. In this material, produced by such authors as Strabo, Pliny, Tacitus, Jordanes, and Rimbert, the significance of the North was related to the search for and definition of the northern edge of the world, universal accounts of the world, the northern homeland in the origin stories of the gentes, and Carolingian expansion and missionary activity. These frameworks were transmitted to Anglo-Saxon literary culture, where the North occurs in the context of the definition of Britain s place in the world.

Studio portrait of Sally Segall with his first wife Gündel Segall.

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Simultaneous Measurement of Strain and Temperature using Type I and Pre-strained Fiber Bragg Gratings

Strain and temperature sensitivities of a type I Bragg grating inscribed in a germania doped silica fiber, fabricated under normal conditions and zero strain, are compared with that of a Bragg grating inscribed under pre-strained condition. The results obtained reveal that the strain and temperature sensitivities of the two gratings are different. Based on these results, we demonstrate a technique which enables discrimination of strain and temperature in a Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) with a linear response. The present technique allows for an easy implementation of the sensor by providing a direct access to the grating region in the fiber and demands only a simple interrogation system.

Novel Bi-doped glasses for broadband optical amplification

Broadband infrared luminescence is observed in various Bi-doped oxide glasses prepared by conventional melting-quenching technique. The absorption spectrum of the Bi-doped germanium oxide glass consists of five broad peaks at below 370, 500, 700, 800 and 1000 nm. The fluorescence spectrum exhibits a broad peak at about 1300 nm with full width at half maximum (FWHM) of more than 300 nm when excited by an 808 nm laser diode. The fluorescence lifetime at room temperature decreases with increasing Bi2O3 concentration. Influence of the glass composition and melting atmosphere on the fluorescence lifetime and luminescent intensity is investigated. The mechanism of the broadband infrared luminescence is suggested. The product of stimulated emission cross-section and lifetime of the Bi-doped aluminophosphate glass is about 5.0 X 10(-24) cm(2) s. The glasses might be promising for applications in broadband optical fiber amplifiers and tunable lasers. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

O cantar da Germânia: política e cultura na Alemanha na passagem dos séculos XII e XIII

Esta tese desenvolvida na linha de pesquisa Política e Cultura destaca o interesse pelos fenômenos da transmissão do conhecimento intelectual. A tese reconstrói a expressão da cultura política medieval germânica pela ótica de dois poetas, Walther von der Vogelweide e Wolfram von Eschenbach, integrantes da aristocracia guerreira. Os suportes teóricos dos Sprüche, sentenças de natureza política de Vogelweide e do Parzifal de Eschenbach, foram fundamentais para compreender o posicionamento político e cultural alemão frente às transformações que afetaram a Cristandade no período de fins do século XII ao início do século XIII. Esse período foi marcado pelo confronto de Papas e Imperadores em torno do direito de exercer a autoridade no âmbito do Sacro Império Romano-Germânico. O movimento cruzadista, o renascimento urbano e a ascensão de novos atores sociais burgueses integram o conjunto dos elementos a serem levados em conta na elaboração da tese. A ideia norteadora do trabalho tornou necessário recorrer a obras literárias com objetivo de elucidar questões de natureza histórica, tendo claro que a Literatura não é um contraponto da História e o texto resultante contribua para ressignificar a produção política da cultura medieval e um melhor entendimento dos mecanismos do poder na Alemanha medieval. No plano teórico-metodológico recorremos à chamada História Cultural fornecendo uma visão integradora dos planos político, social e econômico.