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GANDERSHEIM , a See also:town of See also:Germany in the duchy of Bruns-See also:wick, in the deep valley of the Gande, 48m. S.W. of See also:Brunswick, on the railway Boissum-See also:Holzminden. Pop. (1g05) 2847. It has two See also:Protestant churches of which the See also:convent 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 (Stiftskirche) contains the tombs of famous abbesses, a See also:palace (now used as See also:law courts) and the famous See also:abbey (now occupied by provincial See also:government offices). There are manufactures of See also:linen, cigars, See also:beet-See also:root See also:sugar and See also:beer.
The abbey of Gandersheim was founded by See also:Duke See also:Ludolf of See also:Saxony, who removed- here in 856 the nuns who had been shortly before established at Brunshausen. His own daughter Hathumoda was the first See also:abbess, who was succeeded on her See also:death by her See also:sister Gerberga. Under Gerberga's government 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 III. granted a See also:privilege, by which the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of abbess was to continue in the ducal See also:family of Saxony as See also:long as any member was found competent and willing to accept the same. See also:Otto III. gave the abbey a See also:market, a right of See also:toll and a See also:mint; and after the See also:bishop of See also:Hildesheim and the See also:archbishop of See also:Mainz had long contested with each other about its supervision, See also:Pope See also:Innocent III. declared it altogether See also:independent of both. The abbey was ultimately recognized as holding directly of the See also:Empire, and the abbess had a See also:vote in the imperial See also:diet. The conventual estates were of See also:great extent, and among the feudatories who could be summoned to the See also:court of the abbess were the elector of See also:Hanover and the 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 of See also:Prussia. Protestantism was introduced in 1568, and Magdalena, the last See also:Roman See also:Catholic abbess, died in 1589; but Protestant abbesses were appointed to the See also:foundation, and continued to enjoy their imperial privileges till 1803, when Gandersheim was incorporated with Brunswick. The last abbess, See also:Augusta Dorothea of Brunswick, was a princess of the ducal See also:house, and kept her See also:rank till her death. The memory of Gandersheim will long be preserved by its See also:literary memorials. Hroswitha, the famous Latin poet, was a member of the sisterhood in the 9th See also:century; and the rhyming See also:chronicle of See also:Eberhard of Gandersheim ranks as in all See also:probability the earliest See also:historical See also:work composed in See also:low See also:German.
The Chronicle, which contains an See also:account of the first See also:period of the monastery, is edited by L. See also:Wieland in the Monumenta Germ. historica (1877), and has been the See also:object of a See also:special study by See also:Paul See also:Hasse (See also:Gottingen, 1872). See also " Agii vita Hathumodae abbatissae Gandershemensis primae," in J. G. von See also:Eckhart's Veterum moaumentorum quaternio (See also:Leipzig, 1720) ; and See also:Hase, Mittelalterliche Baudenkmaler Niedersachsen (1870).
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