Title: Vorarlberg, aus den Papieren des ... F. J. W. ... Bearbeitet und herausgegeben von M. Merkle.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF EUROPE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection includes works chronicling the development of Western civilisation to the modern age. Highlights include the development of language, political and educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. The selection documents periods of civil war, migration, shifts in power, Muslim expansion into Central Europe, complex feudal loyalties, the aristocracy of new nations, and European expansion into the New World. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Weizenegger, Franz Joseph; Merkle, Mathias; 1839. 3 Thle.; 8 . 10210.d.16.
Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) was always a controversial figure, as was his doctrine, later called phrenology. Although often portrayed as a discredited buffoon, who believed he could assess a person's strengths and weaknesses by measuring cranial bumps, he was, in fact, a serious physician-scientist, who strove to answer timely questions about the mind, brain, and behavior. In many ways a remarkable visionary, his seminal ideas would become tenets of modern behavioral neuroscience. Among other things, he was the first scientist to promote publicly the idea of specialized cortical areas for diverse higher functions, while taking metaphysics out of his new science of mind. Moreover, although he obviously placed too much emphasis on "tell-tale" skull features (mistakenly believing that the cranium faithfully reflects the features of underlying brain areas), he fully understood the strength of "convergent operations," conducting neuroanatomical, developmental, cross-species, gender-comparison, and brain-damage studies on both humans and animals in his attempts to unravel the mysteries of brain organization. Rather than looking upon Gall's "organology" as one of science's great mistakes, this book provides a fresh look at the man and his doctrine. The authors delve into his motives, what was known about the brain during the 1790s, and the cultural demands of his time. Gall is rightfully presented as an early-19th-century biologist, anthropologist, philosopher, and physician with an inquisitive mind and a challenging agenda--namely, how to account for species and individual differences in behavior. In this well-researched book, readers learn why, starting as a young physician in Vienna and continuing his life's work in Paris, he chose to study the mind and the brain, why he employed his various methods, why he relied so heavily on cranial features, and why he wrote what he did in his books. Frequently using Gall's own words, they show his impact in various domains, including his approach to the insane and criminals, before concluding with his final illness and more lasting legacy.
In 1848, an 18-year-old boy assumed the throne of Austria, one of the most powerful countries in Europe. He would be its last significant emperor, the only monarch to serve two countries, and the last cogent head of the prestigious Habsburg dynasty. Emperor Franz Joseph's reign was marked by revolutions, often fueled by rising liberalism and nationalism, and wars orchestrated by conquering architects such as Napoleon, Metternich, and Bismarck. This book gives attention to these political and cultural events, but it is moreover a biography of Emperor Franz Joseph and his enigmatic wife, Empress Elisabeth.
In this volume, following the "cembalo concertato" technique, the organist's library is enriched with a beautiful page by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): the Concerto in D Hob. XVIII n 11 (originally composed for keyboard and orchestra). The technique used for this transcription is moreover contemporary with the Austrian composer, and frequently used by composers from the German area, notably by Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach. It consist on adding to the keyboard part the important details of the orchestral score. In this way the piece can be performed by the keyboard player alone. The score was created with a medium-sized instrument in mind. There are no suggestions for the registration but the only subdivision, according to the practice of the period, to indicate the points corresponding to the Tutti and Solo. EMF COLLECTION 040
Das Leben und Werk des Frankfurter Philosophen und christlichen Kabbalisten F. J. Molitor (1779-1860) wird vor dem Hintergrund seiner Auseinandersetzung mit dem Judentum hier zum ersten Mal systematisch entfaltet. Molitor vertrat die Utopie der christlichen Kabbala, die in der jüdischen Esoterik die ältesten Zeugnisse der göttlichen Offenbarung sucht. Seine mehr als 40 Jahre währende Auseinandersetzung mit der jüdischen Literatur brachte ihm gleichermaßen die Bewunderung der intellektuellen Größen seiner Zeit wie Armut und soziale Isolation. Die Arbeit ordnet den bisher weitgehend vernachlässigten Denker in die deutsche Geistesgeschichte der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts ein.
"Franz Josephs Walten war ein Regieren gegen die Anspr che der Zeit." Kaum ein Herrscherleben ist so durchzogen von tragischen Ereignissen wie das des sterreichischen Kaisers Franz Joseph I.: Mit nur 18 Jahren sieht sich der junge Monarch vor die Herausforderungen der Regentschaft gestellt. Seine oft als romantisch verkl rt dargestellte Ehe mit Elisabeth von Wittelsbach ist von Distanz gepr gt; Sohn Rudolf setzt seinem Leben mit 31 Jahren ein Ende. Karl Tschuppik nimmt sich in diesem biografischen Werk Zeit, den ber hmten Kaiser ausf hrlich vorzustellen. Erg nzend zu seiner Biografie ber Kaiserin Elisabeth werden Leben, Schaffen und Leiden der sterreichischen Monarchen lebhaft greifbar.
Franz Joseph I., ein Kaiser, der nicht bloss uber ein Reich herrschte, das einen "Anachronismus" darstellte, sondern der auch langst jeden Kontakt mit einer sich rapide verandernden Welt verloren hatte? Dieses Buch zeichnet ein ganz anderes Bild und unternimmt eine Neubewertung der Epoche und der Person Franz Josephs, der sich zu einem der bestunterrichteten Politiker seiner Zeit entwickelte und nach der Krise der 1860er-Jahre Schritt um Schritt seine innenpolitische Handlungsfreiheit zuruckgewann. Er verstand es, die Habsburgermonarchie in einem Zustand wohltemperierter Unzufriedenheit zu belassen, die kein gemeinsames Agieren der liberalen Krafte ermoglichte, aber auch nicht den Bestand ubergreifender Institutionen gefahrdete. Diese Balance, die standig nachjustiert werden musste, war das Geheimnis der Regierungskunst Kaiser Franz Josephs I.
