Aus meinem Leben 1899-1918

The memoir was written between 1899 and 1918. Family history going back to the early 18th century. Recollection of the author's childhood in Hildesheim. Moritz was the youngest child of Joseph and Bena Guedemann. Early death of his father in 1847. Moritz attended the Jewish elementary school prior to the age of five. In 1843 he was enrolled in the episcopal "Josephinum Gymnasium", where he was the only Jewish student in the entire school. He had friendly relationships with students and teachers and was not confronted with antisemitism during his school years. Moritz Guedemann graduated in 1853 and enrolled in the newly established Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau. Description of teachers and colleagues in the seminary. Doctorate in 1858 and continuation of rabbinic studies. Occasional invitation to preach at the high holidays in Berlin, where Moritz got acquainted with the famous rabbi Dr. Michael Sachs. Position as a rabbi in Magdeburg in 1862. Small publications of studies in Jewish history. Engagement with Fanny Spiegel. In 1863 Moritz and Fanny Guedemann got married. Offer to succeed rabbi Michael Sachs in Berlin. Division and intrigues in the Jewish community and withdrawing from the position. Invitation to give a sermon in Vienna. In 1866 Moritz Guedemann was nominated to succeed rabbi Mannheimer at the Leopoldstadt synagogue in Vienna. Austro-Prussian war and defeat of Austria in Koeniggraetz. Initial difficulties and cultural differences. Criticism toward his orthodox conduct in the Vienna Jewish press ("Neuzeit"). Cultural life in Vienna. Welfare institutions and philanthropists. Difference within the Jewish community. Crash of the stock exchange and rise of antisemitism. Publication of sermons and studies in Jewish history. In 1891 Max Guedemann became chief rabbi of Vienna. Speeches against antisemitism and blood libel trials. He was awarded with the title "Ritter" of the Kaiser Franz Joseph order for these achievements. Death of his wife in

Life of Maximilian I late Emperor of Mexico, with a sketch of the Empress Carlota

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Collecting the Painted Netherlands: The Art Collection of Ernest of Austria in Brussels

The (art) collection of Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553-1595) is widely unknown when it comes to early-modern Habsburg collections. Ernest, younger brother of Emperor Rudolf II (b. 1552) and educated at the Madrid court, was appointed Governor-General of the Netherlands by King Philip II of Spain, his uncle, in summer 1593. Ernest relocated his court from Vienna to Brussels in early 1594 and was welcomed there with lavish festivities: the traditional Blijde Inkomst, Joyous Entry, of the new sovereign. Unfortunately, the archduke died in February 1595 after residing in Brussels for a mere thirteen months. This investigation aims to shed new light on the archduke and his short-lived collecting ambitions in the Low Countries, taking into account that he had the mercantile and artistic metropolis Antwerp in his immediate reach. I argue, that his collecting ambitions can be traced back to one specific occasion: Ernest’s Joyous Entry into Antwerp in June 1594. There the archduke received a series of six paintings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525/30-1569) known as The Months (painted in 1565), hanging today in separate locations in Vienna, New York and Prague. These works of art triggered Ernest’s collecting ambitions and prompted him to focus mainly on works of art and artefacts manufactured at or traded within the Netherlands during the last eight months of his lifetime. Additionally, it will be shown that the archduke was inspired by the paintings’ motifs and therefore concentrated on acquiring works of art depicting nature and landscape scenes from the 1560s and 1590s. On the basis of the archduke’s recently published account book (Kassabuch) and of the partially published inventory of his belongings, it becomes clear that Ernest of Austria must be seen in line with the better-known Habsburg collectors and that his specific collection of “the painted Netherlands” can be linked directly to his self-fashioning as a rightful sovereign of the Low Countries.

The Forgotten Archduke: The Funeral Monument for Ernest of Austria in Brussels

Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553–1595), second son of Emperor Maximilian II and younger brother of Emperor Rudolf II, was in his youth a possible candidate for the thrones of the Empire or the Spanish Kingdom. Instead, he became Governor-General of the Netherlands in 1593 and relocated to Brussels in 1594 where he was welcomed with lavish festivities as the bearer of hope and prosperity. Unfortunately, Ernest died only thirteen months later without having achieved any political success. His brother and successor Albert of Austria commissioned the funeral monument for Ernest in 1600 after it was settled that he would be buried in Brussels and not Vienna. Focusing on this monument, which draws stylistically from various dynasty-related models, it will be shown that Albert intended to use this monument – and thus his brother’s memoria – to make the Brussels Cathedral the primary location of Habsburg dynastic memory in the Low Countries.

The confidential correspondence of Napoleon Bonaparte with his brother Joseph ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Schlesiens Landesvertretung und Landeshaushalt von ihren Anfängen bis zur neuesten Zeit. Aus Anlass des 60-jährigen Regierungs-Jubiläums vom 2. Dezember 1908 Sr. Majastät des Kaisers Franz Josef I. hrsg. vom Schlesischen Landesausschusse. Unter Mitwirkung der schlesischen Landes-Ämter und Anstalten bearb. und redigiert von Karl Berthold.

I. T. Landesvertretung -- II. T. Landeshaushalt.

Trials of Capt. Joseph J. Knapp, Jr., and George Crowninshield, Esq., : for the murder of Capt. Joseph White, of Salem, on the night of the sixth of April, 1830.

McDade, T.M. Murder,

Sermons of Rev. Joseph I. Foot : with a brief biographical sketch by Rev. George Foot.

Mode of access: Internet.

History of the house of Austria /

v. 1-3. From the foundation of the monarchy by Rhodolph of Hapsburgh to the death of Leopold the Second. -- v. 4. Froom the aaccession of Francis I to the revolution in 1848 in continuation of the history written by Archdeacon Coxe [by Walter K. Kelly]; to which is added Genesis, or, details of the late Austrian revolution by an officer of state [Count Hartig]

Campaigns of the armies of France, in Prussia, Saxony, and Poland, under the command of His Majesty the emperor and king, in MDCCCVI and VII : a work destined to record the great events of that memorable era, and the brilliant achievements of the generals, officers, and soldiers : accompanied with biographical notices upon those who fell during that memorable campaign : also, with historical and military details of the sieges and battles which have signalized the different countries, through which the French have just marched their armies /

Includes index.

Questions and answers of W. Joseph Smith, clerk of Grimsby

Questions and answers of W. Joseph Smith, clerk of Grimsby (2 pages, handwritten). These pages are stained and slightly torn. This affects a small portion of the text, 1830.

Examination of W. Joseph Smith, clerk of Grimsby

Examination of W. Joseph Smith, clerk of Grimsby (2 pages, handwritten). The pages are stained and torn. This affects the text slightly, 1830.

BOOK REVIEW of Oceans of Kansas: A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea by Michael J. Everhart

Just as there are seashells on Mt. Everest, there is an exceptional wealth of fossil remains of marine organisms preserved in the chalk of western Kansas. This Cretaceous-aged rock, and the fossils therein, were deposited at a time when a great sea cut northward across the interior of the continent around 85 million years ago, inspiring the provocative title of Everhart's book. The title is true to its subject: documentation of the Cretaceous fossils of western Kansas, their geographic and stratigraphic occurrences, and the inferences that paleontologists can make about how the organisms represented by these fossils may have once lived and interacted with one another.

Wir Franz Joseph der Erste, von Gottes Gnaden Kaiser von Oesterreich; König von Hungarn und Böhmen ...: Durch die Thronentsagung Unseres erhabenen Oheims, Kaisers und Königs Ferdinand des Ersten ...

Welsch (Projektbearbeiter): Thronbesteigung Kaiser Franz Josephs I. nach dem Rücktritt Ferdinands und dem Verzicht des Erzherzogs Franz Karl. Ankündigung, die Gesamtmonarchie "ungeschmälert" erhalten zu wollen; die die Landbewohner betreffenden Reformen sollen unangetastet bleiben