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See also:LAUFF, JOSEF (1855- ) , See also:German poet and dramatist, was See also:born at See also:Cologne on the 16th of See also:November 1855, the son of a jurist. He was educated at See also:Munster in See also:Westphalia, and entering the See also:army served as a See also:lieutenant of See also:artillery at See also:Thorn and subsequently at Cologne, where he attained the See also:rank of See also:captain in 1189o. In 1898 he was summoned by the German See also:emperor,
See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William IL, to See also:Wiesbaden, being at the same 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 promoted to See also:major's rank, in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order that he might devote his See also:great dramatic talents to the royal See also:theatre. His See also:literary career began with the epic poems See also:Jan See also:van Calker, ein Malerlied vom Niederrhein (1887, 3rd ed., 1892) and Der Helfensteiner, ein Sang aus dem Bauernkriege (3rd ed., 1896). These were followed by See also:Die Overstolzin (5th ed., 1900), Herodias (2nd ed., 1898) and the Geislerin (4th ed., 1902). He also wrote the novels Die Hexe (6th ed., 1900), See also:Regina coeli (a See also:story of the fall of the Dutch See also:Republic) (7th ed., 1904), Die Hauptmannsfrau (8th ed., 1903) and See also:Marie Verwahnen (19o3). But he is best known as a dramatist. Beginning with the tragedy Ignez de See also:Castro (1894), he proceeded to dramatize the great monarchs of his See also:country, and, in a See also:Hohenzollern tetralogy, issued Der Burggraf (1897, 6th ed. 1900) and Der Eisenzahn (1900), to be followed by Der See also:grosse Kurfurst (The Great Elector) and See also:Friedrich der Grosse (See also:Frederick the Great).
See A. Schroeter, Josef Lauff, Ein litterarisches Zeitbild (1899), and B. See also:Sturm, Josef Lauff (1903).
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