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See also:FREIBERG, or FREYBERG , a See also:town of See also:Germany in the See also:kingdom of See also:Saxony, on the Munzbach, near its confluence with the See also:Mulde, 1g m. S.W. of See also:Dresden on the railway to See also:Chemnitz, with a See also:branch to See also:Nossen. Pop. (1905) 30,896. Its situation, on the rugged See also:northern slope of the See also:Erzgebirge, is somewhat See also:bleak and uninviting, but the town is generally well built and makes a prosperous impression. A See also:part of its See also:ancient walls still remains; the other portions have been converted into public walks and gardens. Freiberg is the seat of the See also:general See also:administration of the mines throughout the kingdom, and its celebrated See also:mining See also:academy (Bergakademie), founded in 1765, is frequented by students from all parts of the See also:world. Connected with it are extensive collections of minerals and See also:models, a library of 50,000 volumes, and laboratories for See also:chemistry, metallurgy and See also:assaying. Among its distinguished scholars it reckons See also:Abraham Gottlob See also:Werner (1750-1817), who was also a See also:professor there, and See also:Alexander von See also:Humboldt. Freiberg has extensive manufactures of See also:gold and See also:silver See also:lace, woollen cloths, See also:linen and See also:cotton goods, See also:iron, See also:copper and See also:brass wares, See also:gunpowder and See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white-See also:lead. It has also several large breweries. In the immediate vicinity are its famous silver and lead mines, See also:thirty in number, and of which the See also:principal ones passed into the See also:property of the See also:state in 1886. The See also:castle of Freudenstein or Freistein, as rebuilt by the elector See also:Augustus in 1572, is situated in one of the suburbs and is now used as a military See also:magazine. In its grounds a See also:monument was erected to Werner in 1851. The See also:cathedral, rebuilt in See also:late See also:Gothic styleafter its destruction by See also:fire in 1484 and restored in 1893, was founded in the 12th See also:century. Of the See also:original 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 a magnificent See also:German Romanesque See also:doorway, known as the See also:Golden See also:Gate (Goldene Pforte), survives. The church contains numerous monuments, among others one to See also:Prince See also:Maurice of Saxony. Adjoining the cathedral is the See also:mausoleum (Begrdbniskapelle), built in 1594 in the See also:Italian See also:Renaissance See also:style, in which are buried the remains of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry the Pious and his successors down to See also:John See also:George IV., who died in 1694. Of the other four See also:Protestant churches the most noteworthy is the Peterskirche which, with its three towers, is a conspicuous See also:object on the highest point of the town. Among the other public buildings are the old 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, dating from the 15th century, the antiquarian museum, and the natural See also:history museum. There are a classical and See also:modern, a commercial and an agricultural school, and numerous charitable institutions.
Freiberg owes its origin to the See also:discovery of its silver mines (c. 1163). The town, with the castle of Freudenstein, was built by See also:Otto the See also:Rich, See also:margrave of See also:Meissen, in 1175, and its name, which first appears in 1221, is derived from the extensive mining franchises granted to it about that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. In all the partitions of the territories of the Saxon See also:house of See also:Wettin, from the latter part of the 13th century onward, Freiberg always remained See also:common property, and it was not till 1485 (the mines not till 1537) that it was definitively assigned to the Albertine See also:line. The See also:Reformation was introduced into Freiberg in 1536 by Henry the Pious, who resided here. The town suffered severely during the Thirty Years' See also:War, and again during the See also:French occupation from 1806 to 1814, during which time it had to support an See also:army of 700,000 men and find See also:forage for 200,000 horses.
See H. Gerlach, Kleine Chronik von Freiberg (2nd ed., Freiberg, 1898) ; H. Ermisch, Das Freiberger Stadtrecht (See also:Leipzig, '889); Errnisch and O. Posse, Urkundenbuch der Stadt Freiberg, in Codex diplom. See also:Sax. reg. (3 vols., Leipzig, 1883–1891); Freibergs See also:Berg- and Hiittenwesen, published by the Bergmannischer Verein (Freiberg, '883); Ledebur, Ober See also:die Bedeutung der Freiberger Bergakademie (ib. '9o3); Steche, Bau- and Kunstdenkmdler der Amtshauptmannschaft Freiberg (Dresden, 1884).
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