text: Mannheim

text: plasterer

text: Mannheim

text: river

text: Ludwigshafen

text: Georg Schreyögg

text: Karlsruhe

text: Ludwig Gies

text: Hugo Lederer

text: Prussian Arts Academy

text: terracotta

text: Charles Despiau

text: Nazi Germany

text: war

text: army

text: prisoner of war

text: Berlin

text: Technical University of Berlin

text: Berlin's

text: Weissensee

text: Cold War

text: (East) German Arts Academy

text: Technical University

text: Berlin University of the Arts

text: West Berlin

text: West Berlin

text: the east

text: Pankow

text: East Berlin

text: Edwin Scharff

text: Fine Arts Academy

text: Bertolt Brecht

text: Ernst Bloch

text: Thomas

text: Heinrich Mann

text: Käthe Kollwitz

text: gypsum

text: Berlin-Pankow

text: Magdeburg

categories: Recipients of the National Prize of East Germany,German draughtsmen,20th-century German sculptors,1906 births,German male sculptors

paragraph: Gustav Seitz

paragraph: Gustav Seitz (11 September 1906 – 26 October 1969) was a German sculptor and artist.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Seitz was born in the Neckarau quarter of Mannheim, the son of a plasterer. He attended school locally till 1921 and then embarked on a traineeship in his father's trade. In 1922 he visited the Kunsthalle (Modern and contemporary art museum) in Mannheim, and was moved to embark on two-year apprenticeship as a stonemason and sculptor across the river in Ludwigshafen with the sculptor August Dursy. He also attended drawing classes at the Mannheim Vocational College (""Gewerbeschule Mannheim"").

paragraph: After this, between 1924 and 1925 Gustav Seitz studied with the sculptor Georg Schreyögg at the State Arts College (""Landeskunstschule"") in Karlsruhe. From 1925 till 1929 he was studying under Ludwig Gies at the Berlin University of the Arts (at that time identified as the ""Vereinigte Staatsschulen für Freie und Angewandte Kunst""). He went on to become a "Master scholar" with Gerstel and, between 1933 and 1938, with Hugo Lederer at the Prussian Arts Academy in Berlin. His sculptures were beginning to attract attention during this period. An early work, "Liebespaar" in terracotta, had been exhibited back in 1926 at the Flechtheim Gallery in Berlin. Works from the 1930s highlighted in sources include "Weiblicher Akt" (1933), "Musik" (1934) and "Pommersches Bauernmädchen" (1936). He was also able to travel, first, in 1926, to Italy where he was much influenced by Etruscan terracotta antiquities, and later in much of Europe, notably in Paris where he had been able to visit Charles Despiau during a study trip in 1929.

paragraph: After 1933 his artistic career was hampered by political developments in Nazi Germany and interrupted by war: between 1940 and 1945 he served in the army. His apartment in Berlin and the adjoining studio were destroyed by bombs, along with a large number of his works, in 1943. Having become a prisoner of war, he was released by the Americans in August 1945, and returned to a politically (and later physically) divided Berlin, setting up home in an apartment in the Zähringer Street, with is studio in the nearby Kant Street.

paragraph: From 1946 till 1950 he worked as a professor at the Technical University of Berlin. In 1949 he was an early recipient of the National Prize of East Germany (Class 3) for his "Victims of Fascism" (""Opfer des Faschismus"") memorial in Berlin's Weissensee quarter. As a recipient of the East German national prize during an intense phase in the Cold War he also became a member of the (East) German Arts Academy as a result of which he lost his teaching posts at the Technical University and at the Berlin University of the Arts (which were located in West Berlin). Having lost his teaching income in West Berlin, and finding himself adulated in the east, in 1950 he relocated to an apartment in the Treskow Street, in the Pankow district of what after 1949 had increasingly come to be known as East Berlin. In 1950 he succeeded Edwin Scharff at the Fine Arts Academy in Hamburg, triggering a widespread "east-west" debate at the time. During the 1950s he produced much of his best remembered work which was exhibited extensively across both "halves" of Germany and beyond and he was evidently able to travel freely. It was only in 1958 that he relocated his home base from East Berlin to Hamburg.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: Seitz's sculptural legacy includes a number of female nudes with a particular focus on a range of differently posed squatting figures. On occasion he peppered his trademark realism with elements of humour. There were also a number of celebrity portrait busts (such as those of Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Thomas and Heinrich Mann). He himself produced several printed publications featuring images of his sculptures.

paragraph: A particularly well known work is his large (more than 2 meters high) Käthe Kollwitz. Kollwitz had died in 1945 and Seitz started work on a gypsum original image of her in 1956. It was completed in 1958 and a bronze casting of it was placed in in Berlin-Pankow in the Autumn of 1960. Another bronze casting of the original was taken more recently and placed in the in Magdeburg.

description: German sculptor

wikidata_label: Gustav Seitz

wikipedia_title: Gustav Seitz


text: long track

text: speed skater

text: Netherlands

text: world record holder

text: Salt Lake City

text: Olympic record holder

text: 2018 Winter Olympics

text: Pyeongchang

text: Pyeongchang Olympics

text: World Speed Skating Championships

text: Gouda

text: Erfurt

text: Speed Skating World Cup

text: Dutch Allround Championships

text: Dutch Allround

text: World Allround Championships

text: Friesland

text: 2012 European

text: World Championships

text: National Championships

text: Jan Blokhuijsen

text: Sven Kramer

text: Denny Morrison

text: ISU World Cup

text: Sven Kramer

text: Utah Olympic Oval

text: 2018 Winter Olympics

text: Pyeongchang

text: Korea

text: 5,000 m race

text: Sverre Lunde Pedersen

text: Willy Logan

text: Lake Placid

text: 1932 Winter Olympics

text: 10,000 m race

text: general practitioner

text: Bathurst, New Brunswick

text: adelskalender

text: Bloemen at SkateResults.com

categories: Olympic gold medalists for Canada,Olympic silver medalists for Canada,Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics,1986 births,Olympic speed skaters of Canada,Canadian male speed skaters,Dutch emigrants to Canada,People from Leiderdorp,Sportspeople from Gouda, South Holland,Speed skaters at the 2018 Winter Olympics,Dutch male speed skaters,Living people,Olympic medalists in speed skating,Sportspeople from Calgary

paragraph: Ted-Jan Bloemen

paragraph: Ted-Jan Bloemen (born 16 August 1986) is a Dutch-Canadian long track speed skater who, prior to the 2014–15 season, competed for the Netherlands in international competitions. Bloemen primarily competes in the long-distance events as well as the team pursuit event. He is the current world record holder for both the 10,000 m (12:36.30) and the 5,000 m (6:01.86), both times set in Salt Lake City, and the Olympic record holder for the 10,000 m (12:39.77), set winning gold at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Bloemen also won a silver medal in the 5,000 m at the Pyeongchang Olympics, the first Canadian male to medal in the distance since 1932. He has won a silver in 10,000 m and one bronze and silver in the team pursuit at the World Speed Skating Championships.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Bloemen started skating at a young age in his hometown of Gouda. He participated at the 2006 World Junior Speed Skating Championships in Erfurt, where he came in 5th. In the 2007/2008 season he first participated in the Speed Skating World Cup at the long distances, winning the Team pursuit with the Dutch team. He also reached 4th place at that season's Dutch Allround Championships and 8th place at the 2008 European Speed Skating Championships. The 2009/2010 season was his best up to that point, coming in second at the Dutch Allround and 4th at the World Allround Championships. Following a less successful next season, he retired as a professional skater, but still participated in championships as an amateur operating from Friesland. Remarkably, he qualified for the 2012 European (9th place) and World Championships (14th place) and won the National Championships. Though somewhat aided by the absence of Jan Blokhuijsen and Sven Kramer, this was the first time that an amateur won this Dutch National Championships since the introduction of professional skating. He joined the (professional) BAM skating team the next season, but disappointing results (15th at the European Championships) caused his contract not to be extended.

paragraph: Bloemen moved to Canada to compete for the Canadian national team in the summer of 2014. He won a silver medal as part of the team pursuit with Canada at the 2015 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships. There Canada's Denny Morrison and teammate said of the team's silver that "With (Bloemen) coming over this summer, it was a new team, and we struggled early on this season. So we had to communicate, find out what our flaws were, correct our flaws, and we had better results... And today, it all came together. This is just the beginning for us, on the road to the 2018 Olympics."

paragraph: He set a world record in the 10,000 metres on November 21, 2015 with a time of 12 minutes 36.30 seconds at an ISU World Cup event. This was more than five seconds faster than the previous mark of 12:41.69 set by Sven Kramer of the Netherlands on 10 March 2007; both men set their times at Salt Lake City's Utah Olympic Oval. After the race he said, "I've dreamt of this record for a long time. It was a perfect race. All through the race, I heard the P.A. announcer and the crowd go wild when they saw my times and realized I was close to a world record. But I was quick to ignore it all and I was able to refocus on my technique, which was key to having a good race – as well as being consistent, physically and mentally." Two years later Bloemen also beat the 5,000 m world record, again pipping Kramer to the feat, overcoming the ten year old time that Kramer put up, with a time of 6:01.86.

paragraph: The 2018 Winter Olympics took place in Pyeongchang, Korea and there Bloemen competed for Canada in his first Olympics at the age of 31. In the 5,000 m race, his first event, he skated to a silver medal. Trailing his skating partner Sverre Lunde Pedersen on the final lap by nearly a second, Bloemen was able to tie Pedersen in a photo finish. Photo technology would later reveal that he had beat Pedersen by two thousandths of a second. This was the first medal for Canada in the men's 5,000 m since Willy Logan won bronze in Lake Placid at the 1932 Winter Olympics. In the 10,000 m race, Bloemen won the gold medal to become the first non-Dutch skater to win a speed-skating event at the 2018 Games. He also set the new Olympic Record for that distance. Bloemen finished off the season by winning the annual World Cup 5,000/10,000-metre classification championship.

paragraph: Section::::Personal.

paragraph: Bloemen's father, Gerhard-Jan Bloemen, is a general practitioner in Gouda and has dual Dutch-Canadian citizenship, being born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, a few years before his Dutch parents returned with him to the Netherlands. This made Bloemen also a dual citizen through his Canadian-born father.

paragraph: Section::::Personal records.

paragraph: As of March 10, 2019, Bloemen is in 7th position in the adelskalender with 145.841 points. Between 12 October 2017 and 2 March 2019 he held a personal best 5th place.

paragraph: Section::::Personal records.:Career highlights.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Winter Olympics

paragraph: BULLET::::- World Allround Championships

paragraph: BULLET::::- European Allround Championships

paragraph: BULLET::::- National Allround Championships

paragraph: BULLET::::- World Junior Allround Championships

paragraph: BULLET::::- European Junior Games

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bloemen at Jakub Majerski's Speedskating Database

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bloemen at SkateResults.com

description: Dutch-Canadian speed skater

wikidata_label: Ted-Jan Bloemen

wikipedia_title: Ted-Jan Bloemen


text: Berlin

text: Dresden

text: German

text: physicist

text: microelectronics

text: East Germany

text: Technische Hochschule Berlin

text: Siemens

text: Fernseh GmbH

text: World War II

text: Soviet Union

text: German Democratic Republic

text: Technische Hochschule Dresden

text: National Prize of GDR

text: Stasi

text: Technische Universität Berlin

text: Walter Schottky

text: Gustav Hertz

text: Gustav Hertz

text: Siemens

text: Fernseh GmbH

text: World War II

text: Berlin

text: Gustav Hertz

text: Soviet atomic bomb project

text: Russian Alsos

text: Lavrenij Beria's

text: NKVD

text: Georgy Flerov

text: Lev Artsimovich

text: Karl Zimmer

text: Nikolaus Riehl

text: Auergesellschaft

text: Uranverin

text: Ehlektrostal’

text: Manfred von Ardenne

text: Gustav Hertz

text: Siemens

text: Peter Adolf Thiessen

text: Humboldt University of Berlin

text: Berlin-Dahlem

text: Max Volmer

text: Technische Hochschule Berlin

text: World War II

text: Sukhumi

text: Justus Mühlenpfordt

text: Heinz Barwich

text: Sukhumi

text: heavy water

text: Manfred von Ardenne

text: Nikolaus Riehl

text: Gustav Hertz

text: German Democratic Republic

text: counterintelligence

text: microelectronics

text: Soviet Bloc

text: Volkseigener Betrieb

text: Habilitation

text: Technische Universität Dresden

text: Heinz Barwich

text: Heinz Pose

text: Ernst Rexer

text: Josef Schintlmeister

text: "Nationalpreis"

text: microelectronics

text: Soviet Bloc

text: Advanced Micro Devices

text: ZMDI

text: Stasi

text: ZMD

text: Ardenne, Manfred von

text: PDF

text: HTML

text: Snezhinsk

text: Riehl, Nikolaus

text: Frederick Seitz

text: Elektronik in Dresden. Eine Chronik.

text: Habilitationsschrift

text: Physik und Physiker

text: Hartmann

text: Sachsen LG

categories: 1912 births,Scientists from Berlin,People from the Province of Brandenburg,German physicists,1988 deaths,East German scientists

paragraph: Werner Hartmann (physicist)

paragraph: Werner Hartmann (30 January 1912 in Berlin-Friedenau – 8 March 1988 in Dresden) was a German physicist who introduced microelectronics into East Germany. He studied physics at the "Technische Hochschule Berlin" and worked at Siemens before joining "Fernseh GmbH". At the end of World War II, he and his research staff were flown to the Soviet Union to work on their atomic bomb project; he was assigned to Institute G. In 1955, he arrived in the German Democratic Republic (GDR); in the same year, he founded and became the director of the "VEB Vakutronik Dresden", later "VEB RFT Meßelektronik Dresden". In 1956, he completed his Habilitation at the Technische Hochschule Dresden and also became a professor for "Kernphysikalische Elektronik" there. In 1961, he founded the "Arbeitsstelle für Molekularelektronik Dresden (AME)". He was awarded the National Prize of GDR in 1958. In 1974, he was removed from his positions, significantly demoted, and sent to work as a staff scientist at the "VEB Spurenmetalle Freiberg". Hartmann had been the object of security investigations by the "Stasi" for some time; while he was investigated at length and repeatedly interrogated, the alleged charges were politically motivated and no trial ever took place. The "Werner-Hartmann-Preis für Chipdesign" is an industrial award given in Hartmann's honor for achievement in the field of semiconductors.

paragraph: Section::::Education.

paragraph: In 1930, Hartmann began studies in physics at the "Technische Hochschule Berlin" (reorganized and renamed the "Technische Universität Berlin" in 1946). His professors there included Walter Schottky and Gustav Hertz.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:In Germany.

paragraph: In 1935, Hartmann became a research associate to Gustav Hertz, Nobel laureate and director of Research Laboratory II at Siemens. At Siemens, he engaged in research on semiconductors. In 1937, he began work at "Fernseh GmbH"; his work there made him exempt from military service during World War II.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:In Russia.

paragraph: Hartmann's 10 years in Russia are best understood in the context of the collective fate of five prominent Berlin scientists in 1945, one of them being his teacher and mentor, Gustav Hertz.

paragraph: At the close of World War II, Russia had special search teams operating in Austria and Germany, especially in Berlin, to identify and “requisition” equipment, materiel, intellectual property, and personnel useful to the Soviet atomic bomb project. The exploitation teams were under the Russian Alsos, and they were headed by Lavrenij Beria's deputy, Colonel General A. P. Zavenyagin. These teams were composed of scientific staff members, in NKVD officer's uniforms, from the bomb project's only laboratory, Laboratory No. 2, in Moscow. In mid-May 1945, the Russian nuclear physicists Georgy Flerov and Lev Artsimovich, in NKVD colonel's uniforms, compelled Karl Zimmer to take them to the location of Nikolaus Riehl and his staff, who had evacuated their "Auergesellschaft" facilities and were west of Berlin, hoping to be in an area occupied by the American or British military forces; Riehl was the scientific director for Auergesellschaft and involved in the German atomic energy project Uranverin. Riehl was detained at the search team's facility in Berlin-Friedrichshagen for a week. This sojourn in Berlin turned into 10 years in the Soviet Union! Riehl was sent there to head a group, at Plant No. 12 in Ehlektrostal’ (Электросталь), tasked with industrializing the production of reactor-grade uranium.

paragraph: Manfred von Ardenne, director of his private laboratory "Forschungslaboratorium für Elektronenphysik", Gustav Hertz, Nobel laureate and director of Research Laboratory II at Siemens, Peter Adolf Thiessen, ordinarius professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin and director of the "Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für physikalische Chemie und Elektrochemie" in Berlin-Dahlem, and Max Volmer, ordinarius professor and director of the Physical Chemistry Institute at the "Technische Hochschule Berlin", had made a pact. The pact was a pledge that whoever first made contact with the Russians would speak for the rest. The objectives of their pact were threefold:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Prevent plunder of their institutes,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Continue their work with minimal interruption, and

paragraph: BULLET::::- Protect themselves from prosecution for any political acts of the past.

paragraph: Before the end of World War II, Thiessen, a member of the " Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei", had Communist contacts. On 27 April 1945, Thiessen arrived at von Ardenne's institute in an armored vehicle with a major of the Soviet Army, who was also a leading Soviet chemist.

paragraph: All four of the pact members were taken to the Soviet Union along with colleagues from their institutes. Hertz was made head of Institute G, in Agudseri (Agudzery), about 10 km southeast of Sukhumi and a suburb of Gul’rips (Gulrip’shi). Topics assigned to Gustav Hertz's Institute G included:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Separation of isotopes by diffusion in a flow of inert gases, for which Gustav Hertz was the leader,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Development of a condensation pump, for which Justus Mühlenpfordt was the leader,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Design and build a mass spectrometer for determining the isotopic composition of uranium, for which Werner Schütze was the leader,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Development of frameless (ceramic) diffusion partitions for filters, for which Reinhold Reichmann was the leader, and

paragraph: BULLET::::- Development of a theory of stability and control of a diffusion cascade, for which Heinz Barwich was the leader.

paragraph: Barwich had been deputy to Hertz at Siemens. Other members of Institute G were Werner Schütze, Karl-Franz Zühlke, and Werner Hartmann. Von Ardenne was made head of Institute A, in Sinop, a suburb of Sukhumi. Volmer went to the Nauchno-Issledovatel’skij Institut-9 (NII-9, Scientific Research Institute No. 9), in Moscow; he was given a design bureau to work on the production of heavy water. At Institute A, Thiessen became leader for developing techniques for manufacturing porous barriers for isotope separation.

paragraph: The importance of certain scientists and their staffs to the Russian atomic bomb project was underscored by their being flown to the Soviet Union shortly after the fall of Berlin, announced by the Soviets on 2 May 1945. For example, Manfred von Ardenne and his staff were flown to Moscow on 21 May and Nikolaus Riehl and his staff were flown to Moscow on 9 July. Hartmann and his research staff were flown there on 13 June. Hartmann worked in Agudseri (Agudzery), at Institute G, directed by Gustav Hertz.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:In Germany again.

paragraph: In preparation for release from the Soviet Union, it was standard practice to put German scientists into quarantine for a few years if they worked on the Soviet atomic bomb project. Once these talented and capable scientists arrived in the German Democratic Republic (GDR, )), they were plied with high salaries, honors, and good positions as inducements to keep them in the GDR for maintenance of information security (counterintelligence) and both technological and economic development of the GDR.

paragraph: Hartmann and his group were released from the Soviet Union in March 1955, and they went to the GDR. There, Hartmann demonstrated his scientific and managerial talents in a number of ways, including the founding of an institute which became a leading institute for microelectronics in the entire Soviet Bloc. However, his apolitical nature was the start of a problem for him in Russia and it followed him into the GDR and magnified under the ruling Party there.

paragraph: In 1955, Hartmann founded and became the director of the "Volkseigener Betrieb Vakutronik Dresden" (VEB Dresden, Dresden Vakutronik People's Enterprise); later, it became the "Volkseigener Betrieb Rundfunk-und-Fernmeldewesen Meßelektronik Dresden" ("VEB RFT Meßelektronik Dresden", Dresden Radio and Telecommunications Technology Measurements Electronics People's Enterprise).

paragraph: In order to teach at a German university, one had to have a doctorate as well as complete Habilitation; Hartmann completed the latter, in 1956, at the "Technische Hochschule Dresden" (after reorganization and renaming in 1961: "Technische Universität Dresden"), where he then also became a professor of "Kernphysikalische Elektronik". From 1956 and 1957, the "Technische Hochschule Dresden" had on the faculty other notable German scientists who had returned from working on the Soviet atomic bomb project, including Heinz Barwich (Institute G), Heinz Pose and Ernst Rexer (Laboratory V), and Josef Schintlmeister (Laboratory of Measuring Instruments.)

paragraph: In 1959 and 1970, Hartmann was awarded the "Nationalpreis".

paragraph: In 1961, Hartmann founded the "Arbeitsstelle für Molekularelektronik Dresden" (AME, Dresden Office for Microelectronics; 1969 renamed in AMD), which became a leading institute for microelectronics in the entire Soviet Bloc. Hartmann's AMD is not to be confused with AMD Saxony, which is a facility belonging to the American company Advanced Micro Devices. In 1987, Hartmann's institute was recently renamed in "Zentrum Mikroelektronik Dresden." ZMD produced the GDR's first 1-megabyte DRAM U61000 in 1988 and is today a fabless semiconductor company named ZMDI

paragraph: Hartmann had been under surveillance in the Soviet Union, since 1947, for “anti-Soviet statements and attitudes.” After his return to Germany, he was the subject of the intelligence investigation "Tablette" (Tablet). Hartmann's reading of foreign scientific journals, as well as his management style, brought suspicion on him and accusations of introducing “managerial methods of capitalist countries.” From his apolitical nature, he disliked the way the "Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands" (SED, Socialist Unity Party of Germany – the ruling party in the GDR) characterized and split the German people into two categories, either “party members” or “non-members”. This resulted in allegations of “non-political conformity” and “disloyalty to the SED”, a direct result from the SED's suspicious view of members of the industrial elite who were not members of the Party. Furthermore, it was even alleged that he spent too much time writing scientific articles. In 1966, he fought receipt of a Soviet security clearance, as he feared this would limit his travel in and scientific contact with the West. In 1974, Hartmann was an object of the security investigation "Molekül" (Molecule) by the "Ministerium für Staatssicherheit" (MfS, Ministry for State Security) – the Stasi.

paragraph: In 1974, Hartmann was removed from his positions, significantly downgraded in position, salary (84% cut), and pension rights, and sent to work as a staff scientist at the "VEB Spurenmetalle Freiberg". He was repeatedly taken in for lengthy interrogations during the period 1974 to 1976, and he was threatened with trial for “economic crimes.” However, no trial was to take place.

paragraph: Hartmann retired in 1977.

paragraph: Hartmann died on 8 March 1988, due to complications after prostate surgery.

paragraph: Section::::Honors.

paragraph: BULLET::::- National Prize – 1959 and 1970

paragraph: BULLET::::- The "Werner-Hartmann-Preis für Chipdesign" (Werner Hartmann Prize for Chip Design) is awarded by the "Zentrum Mikroelektronik Dresden" (ZMD, Dresden Center for Microelectronics)

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ardenne, Manfred von "Erinnerungen, fortgeschrieben. Ein Forscherleben im Jahrhundert des Wandels der Wissenschaften und politischen Systeme." (Droste, 1997)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Augustine, Dolores L. "Red Prometheus: Engineering and Dictatorship in East Germany, 1945-1990" (MIT, 2007)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dieckmann, Christop (2002). "Vernichtung eines Unpolitischen", "Die Zeit" PDF or HTML. Retrieved on 2008-01-17.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kruglov, Arkadii "The History of the Soviet Atomic Industry" (Taylor and Francis, 2002)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Maddrell, Paul "Spying on Science: Western Intelligence in Divided Germany 1945–1961" (Oxford, 2006)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Naimark, Norman M. "The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949" (Belknap, 1995)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Oleynikov, Pavel V. "German Scientists in the Soviet Atomic Project", "The Nonproliferation Review" Volume 7, Number 2, 1 – 30 (2000). The author has been a group leader at the Institute of Technical Physics of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center in Snezhinsk (Chelyabinsk-70).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Riehl, Nikolaus and Frederick Seitz "Stalin’s Captive: Nikolaus Riehl and the Soviet Race for the Bomb" (American Chemical Society and the Chemical Heritage Foundations, 1996) .

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dieckmann, Christop "Vernichtung eines Unpolitischen", "Die Zeit" (2002) – PDF or (2002) – HTML

paragraph: BULLET::::- Elektronik in Dresden. Eine Chronik.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Habilitationsschrift - "Technische Hochschule Dresden", 1956

paragraph: BULLET::::- Physik und Physiker - "Technische Hochschule Dresden"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hartmann - "Professor Werner Hartmann - Triumph und Niederlage des Begründers der DDR-Mikroelektronik"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sachsen LG - "Dresdens Aufstieg Chipmetropole: Werner Hartmann im Porträt"

description: German physicist

wikidata_label: Werner Hartmann

wikipedia_title: Werner Hartmann (physicist)


text: Angarsk

text: Russia

text: long track

text: speed skater

text: Lalenkov at SkateResults.com

categories: Speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics,Russian male speed skaters,1981 births,Speed skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics,Olympic speed skaters of Russia,Speed skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics,Living people

paragraph: Yevgeny Lalenkov

paragraph: Yevgeny Alexeyevich Lalenkov (; born February 16, 1981 in Angarsk) is a Russian long track speed skater who participates in international competitions. He won a silver medal at 1000m at the 2008 single-distance World Championships in Nagano.

paragraph: Section::::Personal records.

paragraph: Section::::Personal records.:Career highlights.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Olympic Winter Games

paragraph: BULLET::::- World Allround Championships

paragraph: BULLET::::- World Sprint Championships

paragraph: BULLET::::- World Single Distance Championships

paragraph: BULLET::::- European Allround Championships

paragraph: BULLET::::- World Junior Allround Championships

paragraph: BULLET::::- World Cup

paragraph: BULLET::::- National Championships

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nordic Junior Games

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nordic Neo Senior Games

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lalenkov at Jakub Majerski's Speedskating Database

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lalenkov at SkateResults.com

description: Russian speed skater

wikidata_label: Yevgeny Lalenkov

wikipedia_title: Yevgeny Lalenkov


text: Erfurt

text: German

text: long track

text: speed skater

text: Lehmann at SkateResults.com

categories: Speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics,1984 births,Sportspeople from Erfurt,Olympic speed skaters of Germany,German male speed skaters,Speed skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics,Speed skaters at the 2014 Winter Olympics

paragraph: Robert Lehmann

paragraph: Robert Lehmann (born 9 January 1984 in Erfurt) is a German long track speed skater who participates in international competitions.

paragraph: Section::::Personal records.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Olympic Winter Games

paragraph: BULLET::::- National Championships

paragraph: BULLET::::- European Youth-23 Games

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lehmann at Jakub Majerski's Speedskating Database

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lehmann at SkateResults.com

description: German speed skater

wikidata_label: Robert Lehmann

wikipedia_title: Robert Lehmann


text:
Chō Tsugutsura
Noto Province
Oda Nobunaga
Ikkō-ikki
Shibata Katsuie
Kaga Province
Isurugi Shrine
Echizen Province
yoriki
Maeda Toshiie
Incident at Honnō-ji
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Sekigahara Campaign
Nanao
koku
karō
Chō Tsurahide
Ōkubo Toshimichi
"Chō-shi" on Harimaya.com

categories: Samurai,Kaga-Maeda retainers,1546 births,1619 deaths

paragraph: Chō Tsuratatsu

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: The son of Chō Tsugutsura, Tsuratatsu was originally from Noto Province. He became a monk later in life, remaining as such until 1577. That year, Tsuratatsu's elder brother joined Oda Nobunaga during his invasion of Noto, and convinced Tsuratatsu to do the same, thus the Chō family became the established power within the province. Tsuratatsu supported his master by repeatedly engaging in conflicts against the Ikkō-ikki, and most notably assisted Shibata Katsuie in his campaign to liberate Kaga Province from the influence of the Ikkō in 1580. In return for Tsuratatsu's conviction, Nobunaga granted him land confiscated from the Isurugi Shrine of Echizen Province. That same year Tsuratatsu became a high ranking "yoriki" under the jurisdiction of Maeda Toshiie, but was later made a direct vassal of the Maeda, following the Incident at Honnō-ji. Tsuratatsu assisted Tokugawa Ieyasu in the Sekigahara Campaign of 1600. Tsuratatsu died in what is now Nanao, in 1619. His descendants continued to serve the Maeda clan, received a stipend of 30,000 koku, and had karō status.

paragraph: One of Tsuratatsu's descendants, Chō Tsurahide, was one of the assassins of Ōkubo Toshimichi.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Chō-shi" on Harimaya.com (18 Feb. 2008)

alias:
Cho Tsuratatsu
Chou Tsuratatsu

description: samurai

wikidata_label: Chō Tsuratatsu

wikipedia_title: Chō Tsuratatsu


text:
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Ścinawa
Toszek
Strzelin
Przemysław I Noszak
Cieszyn
Bolesław
Koźle
Bytom
Jan Długosz
Przemysław of Oświęcim
Bytom
Siewierz
Cieszyn
John II the Iron
Racibórz
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Opava
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Strzelin
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Oświęcim
Casimir
Siemowit IV of Masovia
Władysław II Jagiełło
Poland
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Wrocław
Oświęcim
Gliwice
Toszek
Henry IX of Lubin
Strzelin
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Hussite Wars
Frýdek
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Dominican
Cieszyn
John I of Opava-Ratibor
Euphemia
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László Garai
Palatine
Ban of Macsó
Wenceslaus I
Władysław
Przemysław II
Bolesław II
Genealogical database by Herbert Stoyan
Genealogy of the Dukes of Cieszyn

categories: Dukes of Teschen,1431 deaths,1360s births,Piast dynasty

paragraph: Bolesław I, Duke of Cieszyn

paragraph: Bolesław I of Cieszyn (, , ) ( – 6 May 1431) was a Duke of half of Bytom and Siewierz from 1405, Duke of Cieszyn and half of both Głogów and Ścinawa from 1410, and Duke of Toszek and Strzelin during 1410–1414.

paragraph: He was the second son of Przemysław I Noszak, Duke of Cieszyn by his wife Elisabeth, daughter of Bolesław, Duke of Koźle-Bytom. In the chronicle of Jan Długosz he is named the eldest son, but this is certainly a mistake, because elsewhere, Przemysław of Oświęcim was always placed before Bolesław.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: In 1405 Bolesław's father entrusted him with direct rule over Bytom and Siewierz and the government of the Duchy of Cieszyn. A year later (1406), the murder of his brother Przemysław originated a break in relations between Bolesław and his father. Shortly after, Bolesław married Margareta, the sister of John II the Iron, Duke of Racibórz, who was the instigator of Przemysław's death. According to Jan Długosz, his father, Duke Przemysław I Noszak strongly opposed this union, and even threatened to disinherit Bolesław if he maintained contact with the Přemyslid Dukes of Opava and Racibórz. The early death of Margareta shortly after the wedding contributed to the reconciliation between Bolesław and his father, which was formally signed on 7 September 1407.

paragraph: After his father's death in 1410, Bolesław inherited Cieszyn, Toszek, Strzelin and half of both Głogów and Ścinawa. Also, he was named regent of the Duchy of Oświęcim on behalf of his nephew Casimir, only son of Bolesław's brother.

paragraph: Bolesław's second marriage in 1412 to Euphemia (called also Ofka), daughter of Duke Siemowit IV of Masovia, was probably suggested by King Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland (Euphemia's maternal uncle), who saw the opportunity to make close bonds between Upper Silesia and Kraków. However, Bolesław and Euphemia were related in the third degree of consanguinity, so a Papal dispensation was needed, which was granted on 27 January 1412. The wedding took place some months later, on 20 November.

paragraph: His alliance with Jagiełło quickly brought him results, as in 1414 Bolesław took an active part in the Polish-Teutonic War at the King's side. However, he didn't appear in the Congress of Wrocław in 1420, where King Sigismund of Bohemia (future Holy Roman Emperor), as a mediator between the Teutonic Order and the King of Poland, had issued an unfavorable ruling to the Polish King.

paragraph: In 1414 Bolesław decided to transfer to his nephew Casimir full government over Oświęcim, Gliwice and Toszek. However, Casimir's ambitions erupted in a conflict between him and Bolesław, which ended two years later, on 11 November 1416, when (following the mediation of Duke Henry IX of Lubin), the Duke of Cieszyn give the town of Strzelin and 300 fines as payment to Casimir. Bolesław retained the rest of his lands.

paragraph: Although the Duchy of Cieszyn was under the rule of the Kingdom of Bohemia, Bolesław didn't support the House of Luxembourg in its struggle for the Bohemian crown, but maintained good relations with Kraków and the Bohemian townspeople. In 1422, despite the Bohemian-Polish dispute, Bolesław was a guest at the court of King Władysław II Jagiełło, and took part in the coronation of his wife, Queen Sophia of Halshany.

paragraph: During the last years of his reign, Bolesław supported Bohemian side during the Hussite Wars, but didn't participate in the war itself.

paragraph: In internal politics, he supported the development of the towns. He ceded several rights to some towns, for example Bytom (where in 1412 he give the right to inheritance to the burgers), Frýdek and Bielsko. This was also partly motivated by the lack of money in the duchies' budget.

paragraph: Bolesław died on 6 May 1431 and was buried in the Dominican church in Cieszyn.

paragraph: Section::::Marriages and Issue.

paragraph: On 1 January 1406, Bolesław married firstly Margareta (b. 1380 - d. bef. 7 September 1407), daughter of Duke John I of Opava-Ratibor. They had no children.

paragraph: On 20 November 1412, Bolesław married secondly Euphemia (Ofka) (b. 1395/98 - d. bef. 17 September 1447), daughter of Duke Siemowit IV of Masovia. They had five children:

paragraph: BULLET::::1. Alexandra (b. ca. 1412 - d. aft. 6 October 1463), married to László Garai, Palatine and Ban of Macsó.

paragraph: BULLET::::2. Wenceslaus I (b. 1413/18 - d. 1474).

paragraph: BULLET::::3. Władysław (b. ca. 1420 - d. 14 February 1460).

paragraph: BULLET::::4. Przemysław II (b. 1422/25 - d. 18 March 1477).

paragraph: BULLET::::5. Bolesław II (b. ca. 1425/28 - d. 4 October 1452).

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Genealogical database by Herbert Stoyan

paragraph: BULLET::::- Genealogy of the Dukes of Cieszyn

description: Duke of Bytom, Cieszyn, Głogów, Ścinawa and Siewierz

wikidata_label: Bolesław I, Duke of Cieszyn

wikipedia_title: Bolesław I, Duke of Cieszyn


text: Italian

text: Cardinal

text: Roman Catholic Church

text: cardinalate

text: Perugia

text: University of Perugia

text: doctorates in theology

text: canon and civil law

text: ordained

text: priesthood

text: canon

text: cathedral

text: chapter

text: pro

text: vicar general

text: President

text: Theological

text: College

text: alma mater

text: archpriest

text: Auxiliary Bishop

text: Titular Bishop

text: Pope Pius IX

text: episcopal consecration

text: Cardinal Gioacchino Pecci

text: Assistant at the Pontifical Throne

text: Auditor

text: in pectore

text: College of Cardinals

text: consistory

text: Cardinal- Priest

text: Santa Anastasia

text: Secretary of Memorials of His Holiness

text: Prefect

text: Sacred Congregation of Rites

text: Rome

text: cardinalatial church

text: chapel

text: Campo Verano

text: Catholic-Hierarchy

text: Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church

categories: University of Perugia alumni,1821 births,People from Perugia,1895 deaths

paragraph: Carlo Laurenzi

paragraph: Carlo Laurenzi (January 12, 1821 – November 2, 1893) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites from 1889 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1884.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Carlo Laurenzi was born in Perugia, and studied at the University of Perugia, from where he obtained his doctorates in theology (December 1, 1843) and in canon and civil law (January 17, 1845).

paragraph: He was ordained to the priesthood on September 23, 1843, and finished his studies in 1845. Laurenzi was later made a canon of the cathedral chapter of Perugia in June 1846, the pro-vicar general of Perugia in February 1847, and a Privy Chamberlain supernumerary of His Holiness in 1853. He also served as President of the Theological College at his "alma mater" of the University of Perugia, and became a canon archpriest in 1857.

paragraph: On June 22, 1877, Laurenzi was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Perugia and Titular Bishop of "Amathus in Palaestina" by Pope Pius IX, receiving his episcopal consecration from Cardinal Gioacchino Pecci, the future Pope Leo XIII. He was later named an Assistant at the Pontifical Throne on March 13, 1878, "Auditor Sanctissimi" on May 15, 1879, and Assessor of the Sacred Congregation of the Supreme Roman and Universal Inquisition on March 30, 1882.

paragraph: Pope Leo secretly ("in pectore") elevated him to the College of Cardinals in the consistory of December 13, 1880, eventually publishing him as Cardinal- Priest of "Santa Anastasia" on November 10, 1884. Laurenzi was appointed Secretary of Memorials of His Holiness on April 25, 1885, and served as Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals from February 11 to December 30, 1889. On March 14 of that same year, he was made Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites.

paragraph: The Cardinal died in Rome, at age 74. He lay in state in his cardinalatial church before being buried at the chapel of the Sacred Congregation of "Propaganda Fide" in the Campo Verano cemetery.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Catholic-Hierarchy

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church

description: Catholic cardinal

wikidata_label: Carlo Laurenzi

wikipedia_title: Carlo Laurenzi


text: Austria

text: long track

text: speed skater

text: Pichler at SkateResults.com

categories: 1988 births,Living people,Austrian male speed skaters

paragraph: Christian Pichler

paragraph: Christian Pichler (born July 12, 1988) is an Austrian long track speed skater who participates in international competitions.

paragraph: Section::::Personal records.

paragraph: Section::::Personal records.:Career highlights.

paragraph: BULLET::::- European Allround Championships

paragraph: BULLET::::- World Junior Allround Championships

paragraph: BULLET::::- National Championships

paragraph: BULLET::::- European Junior Games

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pichler at Jakub Majerski's Speedskating Database

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pichler at SkateResults.com

description: Austrian speed skater

wikidata_label: Christian Pichler

wikipedia_title: Christian Pichler


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GoofyGuru – The Website of Mozz
Sony Music Japan YMO Family website
Sony Music Japan Equasian/VISIC website

categories: British male singers,British lyricists,British composers,Alumni of the University of Nottingham,British expatriates in Japan,Sony Music Entertainment Japan artists,Living people

paragraph: Chris Mosdell

paragraph: Chris Mosdell is a British lyricist, poet, author, composer, vocalist and illustrator, based in Tokyo, Japan, and New York City, USA.

paragraph: He has collaborated with an extensive array of musicians and artists, though he is especially known for his work with Yellow Magic Orchestra and the poet Shuntarō Tanikawa. His interactive audio-visual album "Equasian", featuring an experimentation with "VISIC" (visual music), melded his scientific background into a musical framework, and his "Oracles of Distraction", a set of poetic cards set to musical coordinates, further expanded his lyrical idiom.

paragraph: He has written lyrics for Sarah Brightman and Boy George; co-written lyrics with Michael Jackson, had his work covered by Eric Clapton, worked with the West African kora player Toumani Diabaté and the calligraphy artist Juichi Yoshikawa; and wrote the verse dance drama "Amaterasu, the Resurrection of Radiance", that was performed with the City Ballet of London at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (2001).

paragraph: As "Mozz", Mosdell has also released a series of award-winning children's books, which he also illustrates.

paragraph: A film about his life entitled "Ink Music: In the Land of the Hundred-Tongued Lyricist", featuring interviews with many of his collaborators and shot in Japan and the United States, was released in 2009. The documentary bills him as the "Lafcadio Hearn of Lyrics", Long term collaborator Ryuichi Sakamoto describes his interpretation of how Mosdell creates his varied works; "When I read his lyrics, I see him in a high school chemistry laboratory, making Molotov cocktails – his eyes lucid, blue and very clear."

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Early lyrical life.

paragraph: Mosdell was born in Gainsborough, England and grew up in North Wales but left London for Tokyo in 1976 after completing a BSc (specialising in microbiology) from the University of Nottingham and withdrawing from a master's degree in pathology at the University of Exeter after realising his scientific leanings were at odds with his poetic interests. Arriving in Japan he became a script-writer for NHK, numerous radio programs, a reporter for Radio Free Europe, and a reader of the BBC World Service radio news. His plays "The Sound Seller" (1977) and "The Star Polisher" (1978) were both produced for NHK and his collected television scripts, "Laugh Out Loud" (Asahi Publishing), were published in 1979—an edition that is still a popular text in Japanese universities today.

paragraph: In 1977, a series of Mosdell's poems, published in the "Japan Times", came to the attention of Yukihiro Takahashi, then the drummer for the Sadistic Mika Band. Takahashi asked to use the poems as the lyrical base for pop singer , whose album he was producing.

paragraph: Shortly afterward, Sadistic Mika Band disbanded, and some of the remaining members, including Takahashi, formed Sadistics as a follow-up act. Mosdell wrote the lyrics to the "Crazy Kimono Kids" and "Tokyo Taste" for their "Sadistics" album (1977).

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Mainstream success.

paragraph: Takahashi continued to be a prime collaborator for Mosdell, inviting him to participate as the lyricist in his next musical endeavour, Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO), who would go on to major success not only in Japan, but be one of the few Japanese acts to become known overseas as influential innovators in the field of popular electronic music. They helped pioneer synthpop and ambient house, helped usher in electronica, anticipated the beats and sounds of electro music, laid the foundations for contemporary J-pop, and contributed to the development of house, techno, and hip hop.

paragraph: Mosdell's best-known YMO songs include "Behind the Mask", "Solid State Survivor", "Nice Age", "Insomnia", "La Femme Chinoise", and "Citizens of Science", from the albums "Yellow Magic Orchestra" (1978), "Solid State Survivor" (1979), and "×∞ Multiplies" (1980)—lyrics envisaging a socially inert world, digitised and impersonal, and controlled by a forceful hidden authority within a landscape, essentially Japanese, but tinged with Chinese motifs.

paragraph: The popularity and international influence of YMO made Mosdell a sought-after lyricist for other Japanese recording artists, as well as continuing as the central lyricist for the Yellow Magic Orchestra live album "Public Pressure" (1982). During this time Mosdell wrote chart-topping lyrics for other artists, including, among many others, Sandii and the Sunsetz, Sheena & The Rokkets, and Imitation.

paragraph: Continuing his friendship and collaboration with the songwriters behind YMO, Mosdell also worked with these artists on their solo work, writing the bulk of the lyrics for Yukihiro Takahashi's "Murdered by the Music" solo LP, and the synthpop club single, "War Head" with Ryuichi Sakamoto. "War Head", originally titled "Night Boys Pick Up Some Heat", was written for the opening of the Roppongi nightclub Lexington Queen, but was so favoured by Sakamoto that he remixed it, with Mosdell performing vocals for the first time since YMO's "Citizens of Science", in a rap-styled lyrical rant.

paragraph: The breadth of Mosdell's lyrical experimentation during this period led to his first solo recording. This resulted in the 1982 album "Equasian", with its use of global ethnic sounds pre-dating the popularity of world music. It was also the first of Mosdell's efforts employing his visual lyrical and compositional technique, VISIC, which he used as the compositional basis for numerous other musical works. "Equasian" was showcased as an audio-visual/multimedia experience through live performances and a VISIC Exhibition at the Gallery Harajuku in Tokyo. For all its experimentation and relative obscurity, the record's relevance and popularity has continued up through recent times, being reissued as a gate-fold, full-color CD package by Sony in 2003.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:International collaborations.

paragraph: During a period of increasing international collaborations, Mosdell travelled to Los Angeles to work with pop singer Boy George. They worked together on two single cuts ("Fireboy Meets His Match" and "All Prayers are Answered") for a Japanese "shoju" television commercial that, although released for a few weeks, was suddenly withdrawn after the singer's brush with heroin.

paragraph: In the same city, pop singer Michael Jackson recorded a cover of YMO's "Behind the Mask" for inclusion on his 1982 "Thriller" album. Producer Quincy Jones had heard the Yellow Magic Orchestra version on a trip to Japan and played it to Jackson, who decided to turn it from an electro-pop song into a dance-funk version, with additional lyrics by Jackson. Mosdell has said of the collaboration, "when Michael Jackson took it, it made it into a love song about a woman. It was a completely different premise to me, I was talking about a very impersonal, socially controlled society, a future technological era, and the mask represented that immobile, unemotional state. But hey, I let him have that one." An agreement to share the royalties equally between Sakamoto, Mosdell and Jackson broke down when the management of Yellow Magic Orchestra disagreed and it prevented the song to be released on Jackson's sixth studio album, "Thriller", and remained unreleased for over 25 years.

paragraph: The Mosdell-Sakamoto-Jackson version was later picked up by Jackson's keyboardist Greg Phillinganes for his 1984 album "Pulse", and by Eric Clapton, for his "August" album, released in 1986.

paragraph: “Sticky Music", was another international chart success for Mosdell, performed by Sandii and the Sunsetz, as it rose to Number 3 on the Australian Top 40 pop chart in 1983. His lyrics to date were published in "Ink Music: The Collected Lyrics of Chris Mosdell".

paragraph: His popularity as a Tokyo-based English writer also led him to write for numerous Japanese television commercials, often collaborating with former Sadistic Mika Band lead vocalist and guitarist Kazuhiko Kato.

paragraph: During this time he again teamed up with Yukihiro Takahashi to write songs for the albums "Ego" (1988) and "Broadcast from Heaven" (1990).

paragraph: In 2003 Sarah Brightman recorded the song When Firebirds Sing, an operatic opus set in ancient Japan and included on her album Harem. The song was commissioned for the popular PlayStation 2 software Tengai Makyo III (2004). The lyrics themselves depict the tale of lovers from the Land of Curved Fire and the Sea of Desires, who are symbolised by firebirds, their wings intertwined, that circle immortally in a celestial orbit.

paragraph: In 2008 Chris teamed up with long-time collaborator Kazuhiko Kato for a new glam-rock band, Vitamin Q, releasing one album 'Vitamin Q featuring ANZA'. Chris Mosdell opened the show for their debut live performance at Shibuya AX.

paragraph: In 2009 Mosdell travelled to Machu Picchu and Lake Titicaca, Peru, to visit locations adjoined to his Fingerprints of the Gods installation soundtrack, and onward to Santiago, Chile to meet the German composer Uwe Schmidt (Atom™), who had covered several of Mosdell's songs on his Senor Coconut Yellow Fever! album. The meeting led to a collaboration on Atom™ and Masaki Sakamoto's album Alien Symphony (2010) with the lyricist penning the song 5.17 Minutes with Miss Eternity.

paragraph: In 2010 Mosdell began working with the photographer Yuriko Takagi on an adaption of the 10th-century Japanese poetry anthology Hyakunin Isshu (One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets), producing a new "Shibuya version". Based on the original anthology's conversion in the 15th century into a card game, traditionally played in Japan on New Year Day's, this new bilingual photographic/verse edition selected one hundred citizens from the streets of Shibuya with Mosdell transcribing the voices of these "contemporary poets" into a modern idiom.

paragraph: The Michael Jackson version of the song 'Behind The Mask' got its official release on 10 December 2010, as the ninth track on the posthumous album, Michael. It was described by TIME magazine as "Michael's finest moment" and by NME as "something remarkable… an absolute revelation… actually brilliant.”

paragraph: The song was released as a single on 21 February 2011, with the music video released on 14 June. The PV features a collection of hundreds of fan messages singing the track Chris originally wrote with the Yellow Magic Orchestra.

paragraph: In 2012 he wrote "Swan Song" for Coppe's Rays USB and CD box set release, "Cinderella City" for female rock guitarist Risu’s "Bright-Eyed and Bushy-Tailed" album, and "Our Children's Rainsong" for the singer/composer Akino Arai – a song especially commissioned to document the atmospheric radiation contamination after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

paragraph: In 2014, continuing his long song writing partnership with guitarist Makoto Ayukawa of Sheena & The Rokkets, Mosdell wrote the title track to the group's latest album "Rokket Ride", together with the song "Rock Fox". He also worked once again with Uwe Schmidt (Atom™) to write "Beethoven in Antennae", a song for Coppe's upcoming album.

paragraph: To celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, Mosdell was commissioned to write the poetic treatment and scenario for the Kyoto International Performing Arts Festival 2014. Performed by the ensemble Enso Watt, and composed and conducted by the Yannick Paget of the Kansai City Philharmonic Orchestra, a “Rite of Summer” and “Rite of Autumn” were held in Kyoto’s Urban Guild. To complete the cycle of rites, two additional performances are scheduled for 2015.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Alternative lyrical landscapes.

paragraph: Mosdell words were used in alternative forms when he wrote the lyrics to "Shake the Whole World to Its Foundations", a work that has evolved from a mixed Japanese-Western orchestral setting to an electronic techno version. It was eventually published in its entirety in book form in 2001 (Shichosha), together with the work of the experimental calligraphy artist Joichi Yoshikawa. Its first version, however, was written to reflect the rhythmical influence of the African continent and recorded by the West African kora player Toumani Diabate in 1992 for the album "Shake the Whole World to Its Foundations". Mosdell wrote a series of chants (eventually numbering one thousand) based on the oral poetry of the Ainu whereby, instead of having a fixed lyrical base to a song, he could dip into a pool of "chants" and select those favoured for the composition—this eventually leading to infinite lyrical variations within a fixed musical format.

paragraph: Continuing this method of lyrical composition, Mosdell started the solo project, "Squawk: The Song of the Violinnet", though following the financial decline of the Smokey Studios in Ginza, none of the recorded songs was ever distributed. However the effort did result in Mosdell's collaboration with the American artists Jore Park and Wylci Fables, who produced enormous "birdhead boys" depicting the characters. Using a painting technique similar to batik but on waxed Japanese "washi" paper, vast stained-glass-like art pieces were created—a method that would be used in Mosdell's next project.

paragraph: In 1988 Mosdell collaborated with the poet Shuntarō Tanikawa on a deck of 77 cards in the "omikuji" fortune-telling tradition of Shinto shrines. "The Oracles of Distraction," are similar in style to Brian Eno's "Oblique Strategies"; however, rather than being instructional they are intended to distract the reader with juxtaposed images and sound. Mosdell wrote a "distractive" poem for each "oracle" in English, while Tanikawa wrote the reverse side in Japanese. Jore Park and Wylci Fables created accompanying 77 "washi"-painted panels. Musician Yu Imai then worked alongside other studio performers with Mosdell to create 77 audio sketches using Mosdell's VISIC compositional method. The efforts were combined into a CD box set of text, audio and visual imagery intended to be used in conjunction. Users were instructed to randomly select a numbered card to read and view, and to simultaneously play the CD track of the same number.

paragraph: While Mosdell was moving to Paris and commuting to Japan, "The Oracles of Distraction" was presented at Laforet Museum in Harajuku, Tokyo. Sony developed a sound system enabling visitors to wear wireless headphones and walk under motion-triggered canopies that would beam random selections of audio to the headphones to accompany the text selections highlighted on towering, illuminated paintings by Park and Fables. The museum was designed like a Shinto shrine, with attendants dressed in traditional regalia, and visitors selected their own personal oracle from among 77 different entrance tickets.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:The Ink of Tokyo.

paragraph: In 1988 Mosdell's "LAA . . . The Dangerous Opera Begins" was published (Soseisha)—a narrative poem in seven acts with a theatrical structure. Influenced by the Japanese poet Yoshimasu Gozo and his technique of writing whilst walking, Mosdell envisaged a spectacular "prima donna", wearing huge eccentric headdresses, whose voice changed with each new outfit in which she appeared. Gozo wrote that Mosdell's work was "The Ink of Tokyo––beautiful, beautiful, this spirit, this sea."

paragraph: In 1989 "Writing the Riot Act in the Illiterate Hour: New and Selected Lyrics" (Shichosha) was published––an edition including additional poems from five Japanese poets (Shuntarō Tanikawa, Yoshimasu Gozo, Kazuko Shiraishi, Hiromi Ito and Makoto Oka) who gave their own personal poetic interpretations of Mosdell's lyrics.

paragraph: He was also commissioned to write the theme song for the Social Democratic Party of Japan for the 1990 political election, resulting in the single "One World", an ensemble piece featuring an assortment of vocalists and session musicians.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Anime and visual interpretations.

paragraph: In the early 1990s Mosdell began anime soundtrack collaborations with the composer Yoko Kanno. Their partnership resulted in songs for the soundtracks to "Ghost in the Shell", "Gundam", "Cowboy Bebop", "RahXephon", and "Wolf's Rain". Together they also wrote "Dreams in a Pie" for the software game "Napple Tale" and worked on songs ("Another Grey Day in the Big Blue World" and "Kingfisher Girl") for Maaya Sakamoto, a voice actress and singer for anime.

paragraph: Mosdell again collaborated with the calligraphy artist Juichi Yoshikawa, producing a bilingual publication, "The Erotic Odes: A Pillow Book". Erotic "shunga" woodcut prints were used to illuminate the 48 (the number of sexual positions in traditional Japanese society) "haiku"-like poems, as were new creations by Yoshikawa. Shuntarō Tanikawa, together with Rie Terada, translated the poems and the "shunga" themselves were selected from a collection of Tanikawa's father Tetsuzō Tanikawa. The full-color edition, originally published by Libroport in 1997, was reissued in 2008 by Seigensha. Yoshikawa and Mosdell further collaborated on the full text printing of "Shake the Whole World to Its Foundations".

paragraph: Continuing to write lyrics for film soundtracks, Mosdell next wrote "From the Ruins of Your Beautiful Body" for the theme song to Marc Rigaudis' adaptation of his short story, "She Was So Pretty". The film featured Nana Okumura, former Miss Universe Japan 1998, and dealt with bullying in Japanese schools.

paragraph: In 2009 Japanese holographic artist Hatsune Miku released 'Hatsune Miku Orchestra,' featuring covering versions of Mosdell's songs 'La Femme Chinoise,' 'Behind The Mask' and 'Nice Age.'

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Installation and live performance.

paragraph: In 1999 Mosdell was asked by producer Shozo Tsurumoto to convey through sound the prehistorical view set forth by Graham Hancock in his book "Fingerprints of the Gods". Using the gallery setting once more, the project saw the scaled recreation of Stonehenge, Machu Picchu, and the Great Pyramid of Giza, among many other monuments, within an installation environment. It was underscored by what Art Director Kevin Hamilton coined "audio poems," sonically recreating peak events within the timeline such as an Apache Indian reading a bible and amounting to an unusual audio-only project for a lyricist. It was shown in Tokyo and Osaka, and again paired Mosdell with long-time musical collaborator Yu Imai.

paragraph: If Tokyo had been the defining influence on the lyricist's frenetic writing style, his next venture might prove to be its antithesis. In 2000 Mosdell was invited by the Institute of Tagore Studies and Research at Visva-Bharati University (Santiniketan, West Bengal) for a six-month sojourn at India's "Abode of Peace", established by Rabindranath Tagore as an experimental school for literature and dance. Mosdell performed and under the spell of the lush and colourful environment wrote a new series of poems based on the 108 names of Krishna and the tripartite mystical utterance of the "Upanisads". Titled "Thirty-Three Billion Songs on the Road of Reincarnations: The Santiniketan Sutra" (after the number of gods in the Hindu pantheon), the work is in stark contrast to his Tokyo output, subdued and calm. The book was published by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters in 2008.

paragraph: By the next year Mosdell relocated his secondary home from Paris to Boulder, Colorado, and began a series of spoken word performances that resulted in his being awarded the Grand Prize for Poetry at the Colorado Festival of Literature, and a distribution deal to compile his lyrical works into a new publication, "Splatterhead" (Emerson's Eye, 2000). Extending the format of the poetry reading to include live audio/video mixing with visual artist David Fodel and techno DJ E23, Mosdell toured various cities through 2001 with his "tongue-drum delirium" ensemble, Splatterhead & The Oblivion Brotherhood. The trio later released a techno version of "Shake The World" as a single for the politically inspired electronic music compilation "Polyphonic Voices of Digital Dissent".

paragraph: Returning to Tokyo, Mosdell was one of a hundred local artists invited to contribute artefacts to the Millennium Time Capsule, an event held at the Laforet Museum, Harajuku. Each artist was given a time capsule and asked to place in it representations of their work that best depicted the city of Tokyo at the turn of the 20th century. Mosdell chose his notebooks, with page after page of densely written descriptions of his Eastern odyssey, and a selection of the pens that he had used for numerous lyrical projects including a pen embossed with an alien with which he wrote his "Thrills in Voidville" series with, and his "nude nib"", a pen carved in the figure of a woman that he used whilst composing "The Erotic Odes".

paragraph: Mosdell was commissioned to script the theatrical scenario for an updated Anglo-Japanese variation of the ancient Japanese epic, "Amaterasu". Titled "The Sun Goddess: The Resurrection of Radiance", the masked dance drama was performed as part of the “Japan Year in Britain” celebration, at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane from 26–28 May 2001. In collaboration with designer/director Tomio Mohri, choreographer Cathy Marston and the City Ballet of London, "taiko" drummer Miyuki Ikeda, model/actress Sayako Yamaguchi, and composer Kazuhiko Kato (of Sadistic Mika Band), the play depicts the origins of music and dance. Written in blank verse with a British cast of Shakespearean actors, it employed techniques from the traditional stage of kabuki to innovative choreography, and melded into the stage setting other aspects of contemporary media.

paragraph: By 2006, to coincide with the publication of "City of Song", his epic depiction of characters from the twenty-three "ku", or wards, of Tokyo, Mosdell had updated his spoken word performances to include a full mixed-culture ensemble, The Incendiary Orchestra. Featuring "koto" composer/performer, Michiyo Yagi, violinist Edgar Kautzner, tabla player Andy Matzukami, and translator Rie Terada, the live performances were held in various places around Tokyo, and were recorded on video as part of a documentary about Mosdell's artistic history, titled "Ink Music: In the Land of the Hundred-Tongued Lyricist", slated for release in 2009.

paragraph: 2015 was the 70th year since the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to commemorate the tragedy Mosdell wrote and performed his poem “The Flame of the Golden Flower” at events at the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Chion-in Temple in Kyoto and Zojo-ji Temple in Tokyo. The event, organized by “Earth Caravan 2015,” a global peace initiative, was to carry a flame, originally kindled from the atomic bomb fires, to cities touched by the horrors of war. The poem has been translated into seven languages, and was read throughout Europe on the flame’s journey to its final destination of Jerusalem.

paragraph: Section::::Ink Music: The Movie.

paragraph: A film about Chris Mosdell's life, titled "Ink Music: In the Land of the Hundred-Tongued Lyricist" was released in 2009. It was produced by Denver's Brian Comerford, a volunteer producer at KGNU radio who has been running the Electronic Air show since 1995. Comerford said of the production, "He's worked with the who's who of all these major names in Japanese pop culture, from the music scene to calligraphy artists to fashion designers to stage directors to the largest broadcasting company... everyone in Japan knows his work, and yet no one there knows who he is."

paragraph: The full-length film features interviews with Mosdell, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Shuntarō Tanikawa, Yukihiro Takahashi, Yoko Kanno, anime singer Maaya Sakamoto, calligraphy artist Junichi Yoshikawa and others, and debuted at the South by Southwest movie festival in Austin, Texas, in March 2009.

paragraph: Section::::Children's poetry books: Mozz.

paragraph: Under the nickname "Mozz," Mosdell has produced a series of three books under Goofy Guru Publishing, based in Boulder, Colorado. Mosdell has described the books as his "alter ego, to balance out his heavy, abstract, psychedelic and often obscure poetry." The books have been described by The Japan Times as Spike Milligan-esque.

paragraph: Three books have been released so far, entirely illustrated and written by Mosdell, "The Pearls of Wisdumb" (2003), "In Search of the Holey Whale" (2008) and "A Fork in the Road" (2010). The three were compiled into a box set called Utter Mozzsense (2010).

paragraph: All three have won awards. "The Pearls of Wisdumb" won an EVVY Awards for Best Humor, while "A Fork in the Road" was the Winner of the USA Book News "Best Books 2010" Award for Humor. "In Search of the Holey Whale" won Gold Prize Winner of the Moonbeam Children's Book Award for Poetry.

paragraph: Section::::Selected discography.

paragraph: Section::::Selected discography.:Lyricist, Yellow Magic Orchestra.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Behind the Mask" ("Solid State Survivor", 1979)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Citizens of Science" ("×∞ Multiplies", 1980)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Insomnia" ("Solid State Survivor", 1979)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La Femme Chinoise" ("Yellow Magic Orchestra", 1978; "Public Pressure", 1980; "After Service", 1981)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Nice Age" ("×∞ Multiplies", 1980)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Radio Junk" ("Public Pressure", 1980)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Solid State Survivor" ("Solid State Survivor", 1979)

paragraph: Section::::Selected discography.:Lyricist, Yukihiro Takahashi.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Blue Colour Worker" ("Murdered by the Music", 1980)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Core of Eden" ("Murdered by the Music", 1980)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Murdered by the Music" ("Murdered by the Music", 1980)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Radioactivist" ("Murdered by the Music", 1980)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "School of Thought" ("Murdered by the Music", 1980)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Drip Dry Eyes" ("Neuromantic", 1981)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Erotic" ("Ego", 1988)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Yes" ("Ego", 1988)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Forever Bursting into Flame" ("Broadcast From Heaven", 1990)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Sensual Object Dance" ("Broadcast From Heaven", 1990)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "360 Degrees" ("Broadcast From Heaven", 1990)

paragraph: Section::::Selected discography.:Lyricist, Ryuichi Sakamoto.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Behind the Mask" ("Behind the Mask", 1980)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "War Head" ("WAR HEAD", 1980), ("Field Work – Ryuichi Sakamoto Collection: 1981–1987", 1987)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Lexington Queen" [a.k.a. "Night Boys Pick Up Some Heat"] ("WAR HEAD", 1980), ("The Arrangement", 1981)

paragraph: Section::::Selected discography.:Lyricist, Eric Clapton.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Behind the Mask" ("August", 1986)

paragraph: Section::::Selected discography.:Lyricist, Sarah Brightman.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "When Firebirds Cry" ("Harem", 2003)

paragraph: Section::::Selected discography.:Lyricist, Sandii and the Sunsetz.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Idol Era" ("Eating Pleasure", 1980)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Zoot Kook" ("Eating Pleasure", 1980)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Bongazuna" ("Heat Scale", 1981)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Eve of Adam" ("Heat Scale", 1981)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Heat Scale" ("Heat Scale", 1981)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dreams of Immigrants" ("Immigrants", 1982)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sticky Music" ("Sticky Music 7"", 1983)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Drip Dry Eyes" ("Viva Lava Liva", 1984)

paragraph: Section::::Selected discography.:Lyricist, Sheena & The Rokkets.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Stiff Lips" ("Sheena & The Rokkets", 1979)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Radio Junk" ("Synkuu Pack", 1979)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dead Guitar" ("Channel Good", 1980)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Japanic" (Japanik, 2008)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Planet Guitar" (Japanik, 2008)

paragraph: Section::::Selected discography.:Lyricist, Maaya Sakamoto.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Garden of Everything" ("Single Collection+ Nikopachi", 2003)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Another Grey Day in the Big Blue World" ("Easy Listening", 2001)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Kingfisher Girl" ("Shōnen Alice", 2003)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tell Me What The Rain Knows" ("Wolf's Rain OST", 2004)

paragraph: Section::::Selected discography.:Solo.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Equasian" (1982 Alfa / 2003 Sony)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Oracles of Distraction" (1988 Midi Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Fingerprints of the Gods" (2002 Consipio)

paragraph: Section::::Selected discography.:Vocalist.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Citizens of Science" (YMO, "Multiplies")

paragraph: BULLET::::- "War Head" (Ryuichi Sakamoto, "Solo Works")

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Shake the World" (Splatterhead & The Oblivion Brotherhood, "Polyphonic Voices of Digital Dissent")

paragraph: Section::::Selected discography.:Film score lyrics.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Butterfly" ("Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Future Blues)", 2001)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Beauty Is Within Us" (" O.S.T.", 2003)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Run, Wolf Warrior, Run" ("Wolf's Rain", 2004)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Walking Through the Empty Age" ("Texhnolyze: Man of Men", 2004)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The End of All You'll Know" (" O.S.T. 3", 2005)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ringo Biyori: The Wolf Whistling Song" ("Spice and Wolf", 2008)

paragraph: Section::::Selected publications.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Laugh Out Loud" (Asahi Publishing, 1979)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ink Music: The Collected Lyrics of Chris Mosdell" (Ink Music Inc., 1985)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "LAA . . . The Dangerous Opera Begins" (Soseisha, 1988)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Writing the Riot Act in the Illiterate Hour: New and Selected Lyrics" with Shuntarō Tanikawa, Yoshimasu Gozo, Kazuko Shiraishi, Hiromi Ito and Makoto Oka (Shichosha, 1989)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Oracles of Distraction" with Shuntarō Tanikawa (Seidosha, 1991)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Shake the Whole World To Its Foundations" with Juichi Yoshikawa (calligraphy), and Rie Terada (translator) (Shichosha Publishing, 2001)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Splatterhead: The Songlines of Chris Mosdell" (Emerson's Eye, 2001)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "City of Song: The Incendiary Arias" (Edokko Editions, 2006)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Thirty-Three Billion Songs on the Road of Reincarnations: The Santiniketan Sutra" (Sahitya Akademi, 2008)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Erotic Odes: A Pillow Book" with Juichi Yoshikawa (calligraphy), and Shuntarō Tanikawa and Rie Terada (translators) (Seigensha, 2008)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Kantocles: Songs from the Atomic Aisles" (Edokko Editions 2013)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The City That Silk Built: The Courier Collection" (Shinhyoron 2014)

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gold Prize for Lyrics, Tokyo Music Festival, for "Wild Dreams" by Pia Zadora, 1984

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Yuki Hayashi-Newkirk Poetry Prize, 1987

paragraph: BULLET::::- Grand Prize for Poetry, Colorado Festival of Literature, 2000

paragraph: BULLET::::- EVVY Children's Book Award for Humor, 2004

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gold Prize Winner of the Moonbeam Children's Book Award for Poetry, 2008

paragraph: BULLET::::- Winner of the USA Book News "Best Books 2010" Award for Humor

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chris Mosdell's website

paragraph: BULLET::::- GoofyGuru – The Website of Mozz

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sony Music Japan YMO Family website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sony Music Japan Equasian/VISIC website

description: British singer

wikidata_label: Chris Mosdell

wikipedia_title: Chris Mosdell


text:
Austria
Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser
Vienna
Society of Jesus
Christoph Martin Wieland
Karoline Pichler
Josephinism
freemason
papacy
Pius VI
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
Francis II
University of Vienna
Digitalisat
Sommervogel

categories: Christian poets,1827 deaths,18th-century male writers,Austrian Jesuits,18th-century Austrian poets,1749 births,Illuminati members,Former Jesuits,Austrian male poets,Writers from Vienna,Austrian Roman Catholics

paragraph: Lorenz Leopold Haschka

paragraph: Lorenz Leopold Haschka (1 September 1749 – 3 August 1827) was an Austrian poet and author of the words to Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser, Austria's national anthem until 1918.

paragraph: Haschka was born and died in Vienna. In his youth, he was a member of the Society of Jesus. On the suppression of the Society (1773) he devoted himself, in secular life, to poetry, this was now to become his vocation and his means of livehood. His pupil, the wealthy Johann Baptist von Alxinger, an imitator of Christoph Martin Wieland, came to his assistance. Haschka also found aid in the home of poet Karoline Pichler. Having left the Jesuits, under the influence of Josephinism, he became a freemason and wrote odes against the papacy during the presence of Pius VI in Vienna, as well as against the religious orders. He returned to Catholicism after the death of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, and was selected to compose a national anthem, which was first sung on 12 February 1797, at the celebration of Francis II's birthday. Haschka was given a position as assistant in the library of the University of Vienna and was made instructor in aesthetics in the newly founded Theresianum. He retired in 1824.

paragraph: Section::::Work.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Unsere Sprache". 1784

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Die Könige". 1787

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Epinikion Herrn Johann August Starck". 1790 (Digitalisat in der Digitalen Bibliothek Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Verwünschungen, den Franzosen ... gesungen im Februar, 1793". Wien: Mit v. Kurtzbekischen Schriften, 1793.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Blutrache über die Franzosengerufen ... im November 1793". Wien, 1793.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Das gerettete Teutschland gesungen zu Wien im November 1795", Ode. Wien, 1796.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Gott, erhalte den Kaiser! Verfasset von Lorenz Leopold Haschka, In Musik gesetzet von Joseph Haydn, Zum ersten Mahle abgesungen den 12. Februar, 1797". Wien,

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Auf Denis Tod". 1800

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Auf die Vermählung Ihrer Kaiserlichen Hoheit Maria Ludovica, Erzherzogin von Österreich, mit Seiner Majestät Napoleon dem Ersten, Kaiser der Franzosen, ... am 11-ten März 1810", Ode. Wien: Strauß, 1810

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- cites:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sommervogel, "Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jesus"

description: Austrian writer

wikidata_label: Lorenz Leopold Haschka

wikipedia_title: Lorenz Leopold Haschka


text:
Seychelles
leprosy
Seychelles Women's Hall of Fame
Roman Catholic Diocese of Port Victoria
beatification
Anse Royale
Mahé
Roman Catholic
leprosy
Anse Royale
beatification
Seychelles Women's Hall of Fame
Seychellois Creole
Immaculate Conception Cathedral
Alain St Ange
Roman Catholic Diocese of Port Victoria

categories: Seychellois Roman Catholics,1907 deaths,1877 births,Deaths from leprosy,Seychellois women

paragraph: Josephine Cafrine

paragraph: Theresa Josephine Cafrine (13 June 1877 – 14 January 1907) was a woman from Seychelles, known for writing about her suffering from leprosy. Her wounds were said to have miraculously healed upon her death. The journal that she kept documenting her life with leprosy was published as an autobiography after her death. Cafrine was inducted into the Seychelles Women's Hall of Fame in 2012 and a committee from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Port Victoria is gathering evidence for a potential beatification.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Theresa Josephine Cafrine was born on 13 June 1877 at Anse Royale, Mahé where she spent the rest of her life. Cafrine later became an orphan and was a devout Roman Catholic. She suffered from leprosy from the age of 12 and kept a personal journal that documented her struggles and suffering. The disease later progressed such that she could no longer hold her pencil to write and the journal was continued by dictation to Father Philibert, a Catholic priest from Anse Royale. Cafrine died on 14 January 1907. After her death her wounds and scars, resulting from the disease, were said to have been miraculously cured.

paragraph: A Belgian priest, Father Vital, came to Cafrine's house after the death of Father Philibert, found her journal and arranged for it to be published as an autobiography in Belgium in 1923. Soon after this there were calls for her beatification by the church.

paragraph: In 2012 Cafrine was amongst the first group of women to be inducted to the Seychelles Women's Hall of Fame. A series of events were held in 2016 to commemorate the 109th anniversary of her death. This included an exhibition and the relaunch of her autobiography in English, French and Seychellois Creole translations. A commemorative service was held at the Immaculate Conception Cathedral, attended by the Minister for Tourism and Culture, Alain St Ange. A committee from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Port Victoria was formed in 2010 to collect information and accounts regarding possible miracles performed by Cafrine so that she can be considered for beatification.

description: Seychellois leper

wikidata_label: Josephine Cafrine

wikipedia_title: Josephine Cafrine


text:
kanshi
Heian period
Classical Chinese
Imperial University
Japanese missions to Tang China
Bunka Shūreishū
Nihon Kōki
Six National Histories
Muraji
Sukune
Chinese history
Chinese literature
Imperial University
Enryaku 21
Japanese missions to Tang China
Sugawara no Kiyotomo
Kūkai
Saichō
third month
Kōnin 1
chamberlain
Emperor Saga
the capital
the provinces
counsellor
Tenchō 10
Jōwa 1
Junior Third Rank
Etchū Province
hereditary title
Ason
Shoku Nihon Kōki
his seventieth year
kanshi
Bunka Shūreishū
Nihon Kōki
Six National Histories
Takashi Kigoshi
Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten
Asano no Katori
Kotobank

categories: 9th-century Japanese poets,Japanese male poets,774 births,843 deaths,8th-century Japanese poets

paragraph: Asano no Katori

paragraph: Asano no Katori (朝野鹿取; 774–843) was a Japanese "kanshi" poet of the early Heian period. He studied Classical Chinese at the Imperial University before going on to visit China in one of the Japanese missions to Tang China. Six of his poems were included in the "Bunka Shūreishū", and he was also selected to work on the "Nihon Kōki", one of Japan's Six National Histories.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Asano no Katori was born in 774. He was the natural son of Oshinumihara no Muraji Takatori (忍海原連鷹取), but was adopted by Asano no Sukune Michinaga (朝野宿禰道長).

paragraph: He researched Chinese history and Chinese literature at the Imperial University, changing his field of study from Chinese pronunciation (音生) to Chinese literature (文章生 "monjōshō") while there.

paragraph: In Enryaku 21 (802), he was selected as undersecretary for one of the Japanese missions to Tang China. In 804 he journeyed to China in the company of Sugawara no Kiyotomo, Kūkai, Saichō and others, and the following year returned to Japan.

paragraph: In the third month of Kōnin 1 (810) Katori was made chamberlain, and became a teacher to Emperor Saga. He served in various administrative positions in both the capital and the provinces before becoming counsellor in Tenchō 10 (833).

paragraph: The following year (Jōwa 1) he became Major Controller of the Left (左大弁 "sadaiben"), and two years later . In 842 he was promoted to the Junior Third Rank and was appointed governor of Etchū Province. His children were given the hereditary title "Ason".

paragraph: The "Shoku Nihon Kōki" records that he died on the eleventh day of the sixth month of Jōwa 10 (843) in his seventieth year.

paragraph: Section::::Writings.

paragraph: Section::::Writings.:Poetry.

paragraph: Six of Katori's Chinese poems ("kanshi") were included in the "Bunka Shūreishū".

paragraph: Section::::Writings.:Other writings.

paragraph: He assisted in the compilation of both the "" and the "Nihon Kōki", one of the Six National Histories. Takashi Kigoshi (木越隆), in his article on Katori for the "Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten", speculates that his selection for this job, in addition to his being selected to travel to China, was an official acknowledgement of his mastery of Chinese studies.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Asano no Katori on Kotobank.

wikidata_label: Asano no Katori

wikipedia_title: Asano no Katori


text:
pharaoh
Egypt
Second Intermediate Period
Hyksos
Canaan
Nubia
Nile Delta
14th Dynasty
Kim Ryholt
Tel Shikmona
Israel
MB IIB period
West Semitic
Hyksos
Sakir-Har
Khyan
Apophis
prenomen
Khyan
Khayan
Exodus Decoded
Simcha Jacobovici
Jacob
signet ring
Avaris
Second Intermediate Period
Semitic
Joseph
14th Dynasty

categories: 16th-century BC Pharaohs,17th-century BC Pharaohs,Pharaohs of the Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt

paragraph: Yaqub-Har

paragraph: Meruserre Yaqub-Har (other spelling: Yakubher, also known as Yak-Baal) was a pharaoh of Egypt during the 17th or 16th century BCE. As he reigned during Egypt's fragmented Second Intermediate Period, it is difficult to date his reign precisely, and even the dynasty to which he belonged is uncertain.

paragraph: Section::::Chronological position.

paragraph: The dynasty to which Yaqub-Har belongs is debated, with Yaqub-Har being seen variously as a 14th dynasty king, an early Hyksos ruler of the 15th dynasty or a vassal of the Hyksos kings. Yaqub-Har is attested by no less than 27 scarab seals. Three are from Canaan, four from Egypt, one from Nubia and the remaining 19 are of unknown provenance. The wide geographic repartition of these scarabs indicate the existence of trade relations among the Nile Delta, Canaan and Nubia during the Second Intermediate Period.

paragraph: Section::::Chronological position.:Fourteenth Dynasty.

paragraph: The 14th Dynasty of Egypt was a Canaanite dynasty, which ruled the eastern Delta region just prior to the arrival of the Hyksos in Egypt. The Danish specialist Kim Ryholt has suggested that Yaqub-Har was a king of the late 14th Dynasty and the last one of this dynasty to be known from contemporary attestations.

paragraph: First, Ryholt points to a scarab seal of Yaqub-Har which was discovered during excavations in Tel Shikmona in modern-day Israel. The archaeological context of the seal was dated the MB IIB period (Middle Bronze Age 1750 BC - 1650 BC), which means that Yaqub-Har predated the 15th dynasty. Since the name "Yaqub-Har" may have a West Semitic origin, meaning "Protected by Har", Yaqub-Har would then be a 14th dynasty ruler.

paragraph: Second, Ryholt's argument is based on the observation that while early Hyksos kings of the 15th dynasty, such as Sakir-Har, used the title "Heka-Khawaset", later Hyksos rulers adopted the traditional Egyptian royal titulary. This change happened under Khyan who ruled as the "Heka-Khawaset" early in his reign but later adopted the Egyptian prenomen "Seuserenre". Later Hyksos kings, such as Apophis, abandoned the "Heka-Khawaset" title and retained instead the customary Egyptian prenomen, just like the kings of the 14th dynasty. Ryholt then notes that Yaqub-Har himself always used a prenomen, "Meruserre", which suggests that he either ruled at the end of the 15th dynasty or was a member of the Asiatic 14th dynasty. Since the end of the 15th dynasty is known not to have included a ruler by the name of Meruserre, Ryholt concludes that Yaqub-Har was a 14th dynasty ruler.

paragraph: Section::::Chronological position.:Fifteenth Dynasty.

paragraph: On the other hand, Daphna Ben Tor and Suzanne Allen note that Yaqub-Har's scarab seals are stylistically almost identical with those of the well-attested Hyksos king Khyan. This suggests that Yaqub-Har was either Khyan's immediate 15th dynasty successor or a vassal of the Hyksos king who ruled a part of the Egyptian Delta under Khyan's authority. As Ben-Tor writes, "Supporting evidence for the Fifteenth Dynasty affiliation of King Yaqubhar is provided by the close stylistic similarity between his scarabs and the scarabs of King Khayan". Additionally, the form of the "wsr"-sign used in these kings' royal prenomina "argue for a chronological proximity [between Yaqub-Har and Khyan] and against Ryholt's assigning of Yaqub-Har to the Fourteenth Dynasty and Khayan to the Fifteenth Dynasty."

paragraph: Section::::Popular speculation.

paragraph: In "Exodus Decoded" filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici suggested that Yaqub-Har was the Patriarch Jacob, on the basis of a signet ring found in the Hyksos capital Avaris that read "Yakov/Yakub" (from Yaqub-her), similar to the Hebrew name of the Biblical patriarch Jacob (Ya'aqov). Jacobovici ignores the fact that Yaqub-Har is a well-attested pharaoh of the Second Intermediate Period; and Yakov and variants are common Semitic (not just Hebrew) names from the period. Furthermore, Jacobovici provides absolutely no explanation as to why Joseph would have a signet ring with the name of his father Jacob, and not his own, which is a modern-day equivalent of signing legal contracts with a signature of one's father.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 14th Dynasty

description: Egyptian pharaoh

wikidata_label: Yaqub-Har

wikipedia_title: Yaqub-Har


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inventor
Tokyo
Edomae-zushi
sushi
Japan
Edo period
Tokyo Bay
salmon
roe
refrigeration
soy sauce
vinegar
tuna
chef
conveyor belt sushi
History of sushi
Hanaya Yohei's sushi
"The Mysterious Life of Hanaya Yohei"
Hanayayohei-Japanese restaurant

categories: Japanese chefs,1858 deaths,Sushi,1799 births

paragraph: Hanaya Yohei

paragraph: Hanaya Yoshi (華屋 与兵衛 or 花屋 與兵衛; 1799–1858) is generally credited as the inventor of today's Tokyo-style ("Edomae-zushi"; 江戸前寿司) "nigiri" sushi (hand-formed sushi) at the end of Japan's Edo period.

paragraph: Sushi at his time was made from freshly captured fish from the nearby Tokyo Bay. This ruled out many of today's popular materials such as salmon roe ("ikura"; イクラ). Even though Tokyo (とうきょう; 東京) is a coastal city, food safety was still a concern before the invention of refrigeration. To prevent spoilage, Hanaya either slightly cooked or marinated the fish in soy sauce or vinegar. It was quite reasonable for people to dislike the fatty belly meat of tuna because it would decompose very quickly. Hanaya marinated the lean red meat in soy sauce. Then he served the sliced fish on vinegared rice balls that are large by today's standard. His sushi was totally different from today's "raw fish" stereotype.

paragraph: Hanaya's cookery was a departure from Japanese eating habits of the time. In the early years, a chef only made sushi part-time. Then, slowly, inexpensive sushi stands ("yatai"; やたい; 屋台) emerged. After the government outlawed these questionable food stands, sushi restaurants ("ryōtei"; りょうてい; 料亭) became mainstream. Today, relatively inexpensive conveyor belt sushi ("kaiten-zushi"; かいてんずし; 回転寿司) has become popular.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- History of sushi

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hanaya Yohei's sushi

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Mysterious Life of Hanaya Yohei" (華屋与兵衛　謎の生涯; in Japanese)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hanayayohei-Japanese restaurant

description: Japanese chef

wikidata_label: Hanaya Yohei

wikipedia_title: Hanaya Yohei


text:
Hayashi Razan
Neo-Confucianism in Japan

categories: 1619 deaths,Japanese Confucianists,Rinzai Buddhists,Japanese philosophers,Japanese writers of the Edo period,1561 births

paragraph: Fujiwara Seika

paragraph: His most well-known student was Hayashi Razan (1583–1657).

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Neo-Confucianism in Japan

description: philosopher

wikidata_label: Fujiwara Seika

wikipedia_title: Fujiwara Seika