Leipzig

In his book, Sleuthing The Alamo, James E. Crisp goes beyond the mere description of the historical events that took place during the Texas Revolution. Crisp’s passion to uncover why certain events of the Texas Revolution were remembered in a specific way, propelled him to closely examine and critically analyze the motive behind a number of writers and historians. It was this determination that forced Crisp to take no for an answer and to “attempt to separate Texas myth from Texas history”.…

Russia in the summer of 1812, they stayed until December. His troops couldn’t survive the extreme cold of Moscow, and many died, leaving Russia with only 100,000 of his original 600,000 troops. The Battle of Nations, otherwise known as the Battle of Leipzig, was fought by Napoleon and his troops who were defeated. The following year, Paris was captured. In April of 1814, Napoleon was exiled, the first time, to the island of Elba, off the coast of…

and philosophy. He was the first to ever person to call himself a psychologist and recognized as the father of experimental psychology. In 1879, it was Wundt who founded the first official laboratory for psychological research at the University of Leipzig. In order to judge whether…

Before Bach passed away in the eighteenth century, the audiences thought his music was old fashioned. Many of the musicians also thought his music were old fashioned because all of the younger composers in Baroque period wrote better songs than Bach. However, Mendelssohn’s performance of Bach’s piece, Liszt’s arrangement and performance of Bach’s piece, Bach’s innovative musical techniques, and influence on Vivaldi’s Italian style soon spread throughout Europe and to the world. Therefore, Bach…

Sigmund Freud a historic figure, born on the 6 May 1856 in former Freiberg, Moravia (currently known as Pribor in the Czech Republic) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of Psychoanalysis. The movement of his family from Leipzig to Vienna was where he settled for his education. In 1873, Freud started his study of medicine at the University of Vienna, after graduating, things took a major turn, he began working at Vienna General Hospital and teamed up with people such as Josef Breuer and…

“God is dead,” claimed Friedrich Nietzsche. Such bold statements defined Nietzsche’s nonconformity and his critical attitude towards the public and Christianity in the late 1800’s. A nonconformist is one who does not comply with society's standards and opinions as a whole. Nietzsche fit this role of nonconformity perfectly, he disagreed with common opinions, criticized mainstream religion, and argued with modern philosophy. Friedrich Nietzsche was born in 1844 in Röcken, Germany. Nietzsche had…

Bach was born in the present day Germany in the capital of duchy of Saxe-Eisenach on March 21, 1685. His mother had eight other children and taught him music theory and how to play the violin at a very young age. Many of his family members were professional musicians including Johann Christoph Bach, his uncle, and Johann Ludwig Bach, his cousin. At the age of ten his parents died so he lived with his oldest brother who played the organ. He studies and performed music with his brother while…

Russian winter. After only 5 months, Napoleon's army was diminished to only about 100,000. In 1813, the Sixth Coalition arose seeing their opportunity to strike. Napoleon won several battles but ultimately was decisively defeated at the battle of Leipzig, the largest land battle before…

Psychology is the study of human mental functions and behavior in an attempt to learn from observation in addition to the ability to predict behavior. The study of psychology can be traced back to the ancient civilizations of the Greece, Chinese, and the Egyptians. Psychology was named during a historical period of Greece. The word was evolved from "psyche", which can be taken to have the same meaning as life. Psyche can be translated many ways however each translation continues to link it to…

a series of commissions. While the first one found them to be heretical, the next one simply stated that my writings were “scandalous and offensive to pious ears.” One example of why he might have stated so was that in 1519, at a public debate in Leipzig, I declared that “a simple layman armed with the Scriptures” was superior to both the pope and councils that acted without…