Leipzig

French, preserve their armies and let the winter and hunger finish off the French Army, which destruction was the decisive point for the Russian’s to win the war against Napoleon. In the War of the Sixth Coalition (1813-1814) the decisive battle of Leipzig, the allied soldiers defeated Napoleon’s Army, which as a decisive point destruction of the army, ended the French domination in…

The most significant demonstration took place on October 9, 1989, where over 70,000 people met in Leipzig, carrying lit candles. Slowly, the crowd began walking around the city, past the Stasi headquarters, chanting "no violence" and "we are the people". In the weeks following, well over 420,000 protesters joined in the protests surfacing throughout…

When it comes to the War of 1812 there are many parties involved that you must take in to account. There are the British, the Indians, the French, Canada and the Americans. Among scholars there is much debate as to what the causes of the war had but to keep it simple you can look at a few different aspects and the results that this war had on all of the parties and the affects that they had. The War of 1812 may have only lasted a couple of years but we still include many of these aspect in our…

the "Brandenburg Concertos" and "The Well-Tempered Clavier." Bach had a tragic family life, he had 21 kids, of which only 8 survived infancy, and lost two wives. He lived a long life based on the standards of the day, and died of a stroke in Leipzig, Germany,…

There were many other factors that contributed to the Reformation, one being the new humanistic fashion of reading and writing that allowed people to become more insightful and critical. A popular literary humanistic method introduced during the Renaissance was the reading of ancient texts and analyzing them to increase knowledge and insight. Writing became a key way to communicate thoughts and opinions to others. Reading and writing affected the Protestant Reformation greatly because it allowed…

After boarding school he went on to attend at the University of Leipzig where he was first introduced to the works of Arthur Schopenhauer, and philosopher Friedrich A. Langes. These men had a huge influence on Nietzsche’s thinking. In the middle of University he was called to serve a mandatory year of military service. While he was in the military he got seriously injured which led him out of the military and back to his studies in Leipzig. After that at the young age of 25 Nietzsche is offered…

Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt is best known for being the father of experimental psychology and the founder of the first psychology laboratory. Wundt had a huge influence on the development of psychology as a discipline. Wundt was known to be a shy person but he dominated his areas of psychology. His scope was vast and his accomplishments outstanding. It is estimated that during his career he wrote around 53,000 pages. Some of his work includes articles on animal and human physiology, poisons,…

incubators, research by Claire Prentice at the Smithsonian shows that he never registered an incubator in any patent office. On top of that, Claire Prentice at the Smithsonian also says, “Couney, throughout his career, said he had studied medicine in Leipzig and Berlin. However, I could find no evidence of Couney (or Cohn/Cohen as he was known then) having studied medicine at a university in either city. To become a physician in Germany, one was required to write a thesis. The U.S. National…

multiple intelligences which tries, in eight different ways, to demonstrate how the mind operates, or, in simpler terms, the theory is explaining how you learn best. Wilhelm Wundt, whose field was Structuralism, set up first psychological laboratory in Leipzig, Germany in 1879 and is known for training subjects in introspection and then used that to create a map of consciousness and a periodic table of sensation. He is also known for his theory of structuralism, which compares one small aspect…

Stasiland is the first book of the author Anna Funder. Funder won a prodigious nonfiction writing award for Stasiland. Funder, born in Australia, currently lives in New York. Previously, Anna Funder was an international lawyer. Anna also worked in Berlin for a German communication production service. Anna Funder amalgamated various sources to present a detailed account of the time period she calls “Stasiland.” Funder used personal accounts as sources. She gathered information from face-to-face…