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HELMSTEDT , or more rarely Helmstedt, a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the duchy of See also:Brunswick, 3o m. N.W. of See also:Magdeburg on the See also:main See also:line of railway to Brunswick. Pop. (1905) 15,415• The See also:principal buildings are the Juleum, the former university, built in the See also:Renaissance See also:style towards the See also:close of the 16th See also:century, and containing a library of 40,000 volumes; the See also:fine Stephanskirche dating from the 12th century; the Walpurgiskirche restored in 1893–1894; the Marienberger Kirche, a beautiful 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 in the See also:Roman style, and the Roman See also:Catholic church. The Augustinian nunnery of See also:Marienberg founded in 1176 is now a Lutheran school. The town contains the ruins of the See also:Benedictine See also:abbey of St Ludger, which was secularized in 1803. The educational institutions include several See also:schools. The principal manufactures are See also:furniture, See also:yarn, See also:soap, See also:tobacco, See also:sugar, See also:vitriol and earthenware. Near the town is See also:Bad Helmstedt, which has an See also:iron See also:mineral See also:spring, and the Lii.bbensteine, two blocks of See also:granite on. which sacrifices to See also:Woden are said to have been offered. Near Bad Helmstedt a See also:monument has been erected to those who See also:fell in the Franco-See also:German See also:War; in the town there is one to those killed at See also:Waterloo. Helmstedt originated, according to See also:legend, in connexion with the monastery founded by Ludger or Liudger (d. 809), the first See also:bishop of See also:Munster. There appears, however, little doubt that this tradition is mythical and that Helmstedt was not founded until about goo. It obtained civic rights in 1099 and, although destroyed by the See also:archbishop of Magdeburg in 1199, it was soon rebuilt. In 1457 it joined the Hanseatic See also:League, and in 1490 it came into the See also:possession of Brunswick. In 1576 See also:Julius, See also:duke of Brunswick, founded a university here, and throughout the 17th century this was one of the See also:chief seats of See also:Protestant learning. It was closed by See also:Jerome, 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:Westphalia, in 1809.
See Ludewig, Geschichte and Beschreibung der Stadt Helmstedt (Helmstedt, 1821).
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