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Biographies: Notable Chess Players

Notable Chess Players Gary Kasparov See also Deep Blue, Chess Computer The Turk Wolfgang von Kempelen People in the NewsRecent Obituaries Related Links Biographies…

Sankt Wolfgang

(Encyclopedia) Sankt WolfgangSankt Wolfgangzängkt [key]Sankt Wolfgangvôlfˈgäng [key], town, Upper Austria prov., in the Salzkammergut, on the Wolfgang See, a lake. It is a popular resort, famous for…

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

(Encyclopedia) Goethe, Johann Wolfgang vonGoethe, Johann Wolfgang vonyōˈhän vôlfˈgäng fən göˈtə [key], 1749–1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and scientist, b. Frankfurt. One of the great…

Kapp, Wolfgang

(Encyclopedia) Kapp, WolfgangKapp, Wolfgangvôlfˈgäng käp [key], 1858–1922, German right-wing politician. In 1920 he led the uprising known as the Kapp putsch, an armed revolt in Berlin aimed at…

Capito, Wolfgang Fabricius

(Encyclopedia) Capito, Wolfgang FabriciusCapito, Wolfgang Fabriciuskăpˈĭtō, Ger. vôlfˈgäng fäbrēˈtsy&oobreve;s käˈpētō [key], 1478–1541, German Protestant reformer, whose original family name was…

Brewer's: Automaton

- plural, automatons or automata. Machines which imitate the actions, etc., of living creatures. The most famous are the following:—(1) The pigeon that could fly, made, B.C. 400, by Archy…

Döbereiner, Johann Wolfgang

(Encyclopedia) Döbereiner, Johann WolfgangDöbereiner, Johann Wolfgangyōˈhän vôlfˈgäng döˈbərīnər [key], 1780–1849, German chemist. From 1810 he was professor of the Univ. of Jena. He is known…

Pacher, Michael

(Encyclopedia) Pacher, MichaelPacher, Michaelmĭkhˈäĕl päˈkhər [key], c.1435–1498, German religious painter and probably a wood carver, a native of the Tyrol. He painted figures reminiscent of the art…

Vienna State Opera

(Encyclopedia) Vienna State Opera, opera house and company in Vienna, Austria, founded in 1869 as an expansion of the Vienna Court Opera (Hofoper). Destroyed by wartime bombing in 1945, the elegant…