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See also: NICOLAI, CHRISTOPH See also:FRIEDRICH (1733-1811) , See also:German author and bookseller, was See also:born on the 18th of See also:March 1733 at
See also:Berlin, where his See also:father, Christoph Gottlieb Nicolai (d. 1752), was the founder of the famous Nicolaische Buchhandlung. He received a See also:good See also:education, and in 1749 went to See also:Frankfort-on-See also:Oder to learn his father's business, finding 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 also to become acquainted with See also:English literature. In 1752 he returned to Berlin, and began to take See also:part in See also:literary controversy by defending See also:Milton against the attacks of J. C. See also:Gottsched. His Briefe fiber den jetzigen Zustand der schonen Wissenschaften in Deutschland, pub-
lished anonymously in 1755 and reprinted by G. Ellinger in 1894, were directed against both Gottsched and Gottsched's Swiss
opponents, Johann See also:Jakob See also:Bodmer and Johann Jakob Breitinger; his See also:enthusiasm for English literature won for him the friendship of See also:Lessing and See also:Moses Mendelssohn. In association with Mendelssohn he established in 1757 the Bibliothek der schonen Wissenschaften, a periodical which he conducted until 176o. With Lessing and Mendelssohn Nicolai founded in 1759 the famous Briefe, See also:die neueste Literatur betreffend; and from 1765 to 1792 he edited the Allgemeine deutsche Bibliothek. • This latter periodical served as the See also:organ of the so-called " popular philosophers," who warred against authority in See also:religion and against what they conceived to be extravagance in literature. The new See also:movement of ideas represented by See also:Herder, ' oethe, See also:Schiller, See also:Kant and See also:Fichte, Nicolai was incapable of understanding, and he made himself ridiculous by foolish misrepresentation of the aims of these writers. Of Nicolai's See also: independent See also:works, perhaps the only one which has some See also:historical value is his Anekdoten von Friedrich II. (1788–1792). His romances are forgotten, although Das Leben and die Meinungen See also:des Herrn Magister Sebaldus Nothanker (1773–1776), and his See also:satire on See also:Goethe's Werther,
Freuden des jungen Werthers (1775), had a certain reputation in their See also:day. Between 1788 and 1796 Nicolai published in 12 vols.
a Beschreibung einer Reise durch Deutschland and die Schweiz, which bears See also:witness to the narrow conservatism of his views in later See also:life. He died in Berlin on the 11th of See also:January 1811.
Nicolai's Bildniss and Selbstbiographie was published by M. S. See also:Lowe in the Bildnisse jetzt lebender Berliner Gelehrter, in 18o6. See also L. F. G. von Gockingk, F. Nicolai's Leben and literarischer Nachiass (182o) ; J. See also: Minor, Lessings Jugendfreunde, in J. Kiirschner's Deutsche Nationalliteratur, vol. lxxii. (1883) ; O. See also:Hoffmann, Herders Briefwechsel mit Nicolai (1887); E. See also:Friedel, Zur Geschichte der Nicolaischen Buchhandlung (1891); and E. Altenkruger, F. Nicolais Jugendschriften (1894).
NICOLA!, See also:OTTO (1810-1849), German composer, was born on the 9th of See also:June in See also:Konigsberg. He studied See also:music in Berlin and in 1833 became organist to the German See also:embassy in See also:Rome. There his operas Enrico II (1839) and Il Templario (1840) were produced, besides some 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 music, a See also:series of songs, and a number of compositions for the See also:pianoforte. He was subsequently appointed See also:Hof Kapellmeister at the Berlin See also:Opera See also:House; and there, only two days before he died (on the 11th of March 1849), was performed his brilliant opera, The Merry Wives of See also:Windsor, the See also:work by which he is now remembered.
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