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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. N.W. of See also:Nuremberg, on the railway from See also:Munich to See also:Bamberg. Pop. (1905) 23,720. It is divided into an old and a new town, the latter consisting of wide, straight and well-built streets. The See also:market See also:place is a See also:fine square. 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. The latter was founded by the See also:margrave See also:Frederick (d. 1763), who, in 1742, established a university at Bayreuth, but in 1743 removed it to Erlangen. 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. The university has faculties of See also:philosophy, See also:law, See also:medicine and See also:Protestant See also:theology. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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. 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. It became a town in 1398 and passed into the hands of the Hohenzollerns, burgraves of Nuremberg, in 1416. 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. In 1810 it came into the See also:possession of Bavaria. 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.
See See also:Stein and See also:Miller, See also:Die Geschichte von Erlangen (1898).
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