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MARBURG , an See also:ancient university See also:town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Hesse-See also:Nassau, situated on the slope of a See also:bill on the right See also:bank of the See also:Lahn, 6o m. by See also:rail N. of See also:Frankfort-on-See also:Main, on the main See also:line to See also:Cassel. Pop. (1905), 20,137. On the opposite bank of the See also:river, here spanned by two See also:bridges, See also:lie the suburb of Weidenhausen and the railway station of the Prussian See also:state railway. The See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill on which the town lies is crowned by the extensive old Schloss, a See also:fine See also:Gothic See also:building, the most noteworthy parts of which are the Rittersaal, dating from 1277-1312, and the beautiful little See also:chapel. This Schloss was formerly the See also:residence of the landgraves of Hesse, served afterwards as a See also:prison, and is now the repository of the historically interesting and valuable archives of Hesse. The See also:chief architectural See also:ornament of Marburg is, however, the Elisabethenkirche, a veritable See also:gem of the purest See also:Early Gothic See also:style, erected by the See also:grand See also:master of the See also:Teutonic 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 in 1235-1283, to contain the See also:tomb of St See also:Elizabeth of See also:Hungary. The remains of the See also:saint were deposited in a See also:rich See also:silver-gilt See also:sarcophagus, which may still be seen, and were afterwards visited by myriads of pilgrims, until the See also:Protestant zeal of See also:Landgrave See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip the Generous caused him to remove the See also:body to some unknown spot in the 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. The church also contains the tombs of numerous See also:Hessian landgraves and knights of the Teutonic Order. The Lutheran church is another See also:good Gothic edifice, dating mainly from the 15th See also:century. 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, built in 1512, and several fine houses in the See also:Renaissance style, also deserve mention. The university of Marburg, founded by Philip the Magnanimous in 1527, was the first university established without papal privileges, and speedily acquired a See also:great reputation throughout Protestant See also:Europe. It has a library of 140,000 volumes, is admirably equipped with medical and other institutes, which See also:form some of the finest See also:modern buildings in the town, and was attended, in 1905, by 1576 students. Marburg also possesses a gymnasium, a " Realschule," an agricultural school, a society of naturalists, a See also:hospital, and an extensive lunatic See also:asylum. It is the seat of a See also:district See also:court, and of superintendents of the Lutheran and Reformed Churches. Marburg pottery is renowned; and See also:leather, See also:iron wares and surgical See also:instruments are also manufactured there. The environs are very picturesque.
Marburg is first historically mentioned in a document of the beginning of the 13th century, and received its municipal See also:charter from the landgrave 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 of Thuringia in 1227. On his See also:death it became the residence of his wife, Elizabeth of Hungary, who built a hospital there, and died in 1231, at the See also:age of twenty-four, worn out with See also:works of See also:religion and charity. She was canonized in 1235 at the instance of the Teutonic Knights, who had settled in Marburg in 1233 and were zealous in promoting her cult. By 1247 Marburg had already become the second town of Hesse, and in the 15th and 16th centuries it alternated with Cassel as
the seat of the landgraves. In 1529 the famous See also:conference between See also:Luther and See also:Zwingli on the subject of See also:Transubstantiation took See also:place there in the Rittersaal of the Schloss (see MARBURG, COLLOQUY OF). During the See also:Thirty Years' and Seven Years' See also:Wars Marburg suffered considerably from sieges and See also:famine. In 1806, and again in 181o, it was the centre of an abortive rising against the See also:French, in consequence of which the fortifications of the See also:castle were destroyed.
See See also:Kolbe, Marburg See also:im Mittelalter (Marb., 1879) ; Bucking, theilungen aus Marburgs Vorzeit (Marb., 1886); Schoof, Marburg See also:die Perle See also:des Hessenlandes (2nd ed., 1903).
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