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January
13 in German History January 13, 1505 Birth of Joachim II Hektor in Cologne, Germany. Joachim II Hektor was the Elector of Brandenburg at the time of the Reformation. He remained true to the Catholic Church and to the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, but he tolerated Protestantism in the areas under his governance. On several occasions he served as a mediator between Catholic and Protestant factions in the empire. He played a significant role in the processes leading to the Peace of Augsburg (1555). January 13, 1635 Birth of Philip Jakob Spener, who founded German pietism. January 13, 1683 Birth of Christoph Graupner in Kirchberg, Germany. Graupner was one of the most highly regarded composers of his day. The position of cantor at the Church of St. Thomas in Leipzig was offered to him before it was offered to Bach. It was only after Graupner had declined the position that it was offered to Johann Sebastian Bach. Graupner himself had studied at the Thomas school in Leipzig. January 13, 1737 Birth of Joseph Hilarius Eckhel in Enzersfeld, Austria. Eckhel developed the system of classification of coins for numismatics which became the standard. He became a professor of numismatics at the University of Vienna and the curator of the Austrian imperial collection of coins. The published work in which he developed his system was Doctrina numorum veterum (1792-1798). January 13, 1749 Birth of Friedrich Müller in Kreuznach, Germany. Müller was a painter, poet and dramatist. Titles of his Sturm und Drang plays include, Fausts Leben dramatisiert (1778), and Das Nusskernen (1811). January 13, 1802 Birth of Eduard von Bauernfeld in Vienna, Austria. Bauernfeld was a very popular dramatist in Vienna for all of his adult life. He was a friend of Franz Schubert and Franz Grillparzer. Titles by Bauernfeld include, Bürgerlich und romantisch and Aus der Gesellschaft. January 13, 1809 Birth of Friedrich Graf von Beust in Dresden, Germany. As the foreign minister of the Austrian Empire from 1867-1871, it was he who negotiated the agreements leading to the creation of the dual monarchy and the Austro-Hungarian empire. January 13, 1864 Birth of Wilhelm Wien in Gaffken, Germany. Gaffken was a physicist at the universities of Giessen and Munich who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1911. The Nobel Prize was given for his work on a displacement law related to radiation by a blackbody. January 13, 1935 The Saarland votes to be a part of the German Reich. January 13, 1942 German submarines harass shipping near the U.S. east coast. January 13, 1994 Erich Honecker leaves Germany for Chile. Honecker had been the leader
of East Germany. After the reunification there was the possibility of
trying him for crimes against humanity, but due to his cancer he was allowed
to leave Germany. Back to Today in German History Calendar |
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