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Science Arts And Culture

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  1. Complete the sentence about Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel with the correct year: In ______, Hegel came to Jena at the encouragement of Schelling, who held the position of Extraordinary Professor at th…
  2. Complete the sentence about Arthur Schopenhauer with the correct year: In ______, Arthur was sent to Le Havre to live with the family of his father's business associate, Grégoire de Blésimaire.
  3. Complete the sentence about Arthur Schopenhauer with the correct year: In ______ he accompanied his parents on a European tour of Holland, Britain, France, Switzerland, Austria and Prussia.
  4. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______ Heinrich drowned in a canal near their home in Hamburg.
  5. Complete the sentence about Martin Heidegger with the correct year: In ______, he broke off training for the priesthood and turned his attention to recent philosophy, in particular, Edmund Husserl's L…
  6. Complete the sentence about Jürgen Habermas with the correct year: Habermas was born in Düsseldorf, Rhine Province, on 18 June ______.
  7. Complete the sentence about Jürgen Habermas with the correct year: From August ______, his detachment operated anti-aircraft guns against the Allied advances on the Siegfried Line.
  8. Complete the sentence about Jürgen Habermas with the correct year: Habermas's essay "The Dialectic of Rationalisation" of ______ sketched the outline for his later work, including his critical engagem…
  9. Complete the sentence about Hannah Arendt with the correct year: Hannah Arendt was born to a Jewish family in Linden in ______.
  10. Complete the sentence about Hannah Arendt with the correct year: In ______, Arendt was briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo for performing illegal research into antisemitism.
  11. Complete the sentence about Hannah Arendt with the correct year: With the publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism in ______, her reputation as a thinker and writer was established, and a series…
  12. Complete the sentence about Gotthold Ephraim Lessing with the correct year: In ______, Lessing and Mylius teamed together to begin a periodical publication named Beiträge zur Historie und Aufnahme des…
  13. Complete the sentence about Novalis with the correct year: By August ______, he fell terminally ill with a severe lung condition, rendering him unable to continue his professional duties.
  14. Complete the sentence about E. T. A. Hoffmann with the correct year: Ernst Theodor Wilhelm, born on 24 January ______, was the youngest of three children, of whom the second died in infancy.
  15. Complete the sentence about E. T. A. Hoffmann with the correct year: During the year ______, both attended some of Kant's lectures at the University of Königsberg.
  16. Complete the sentence about E. T. A. Hoffmann with the correct year: In ______, Hoffmann became enamored of Dora Hatt, a married woman to whom he had given music lessons.
  17. Complete the sentence about E. T. A. Hoffmann with the correct year: From ______, Hoffmann obtained employment as a clerk for his uncle, Johann Ludwig Doerffer, who lived in Glogau with his daughter M…
  18. Complete the sentence about Theodor Fontane with the correct year: In ______ became engaged to his future wife, Emilie Rouanet-Kummer, whom he had met when still at school.
  19. Complete the sentence about Gutenberg Bible with the correct year: In March ______, the future Pope Pius II wrote that he had seen pages from the Gutenberg Bible, displayed in Frankfurt to promote the…
  20. Complete the sentence about Gutenberg Bible with the correct year: The first precisely datable printing is Gutenberg's 31-line Indulgence which certainly existed by 22 October ______.
  21. Complete the sentence about Johannes Gutenberg with the correct year: To celebrate the 500th anniversary of his birth, the Gutenberg Museum was founded in his hometown of Mainz in ______.
  22. Complete the sentence about Johannes Gutenberg with the correct year: In ______, Time Life picked Gutenberg's invention as the most important of the second millennium.
  23. Complete the sentence about Johannes Gutenberg with the correct year: The year ______ is commonly assigned to Gutenberg, "for the sake of convenience".
  24. Complete the sentence about Albrecht Dürer with the correct year: Albrecht Dürer the Elder was a successful goldsmith who by ______ had moved to Nuremberg from Ajtós, near Gyula in Hungary.
  25. Complete the sentence about Albrecht Dürer with the correct year: Koberger's most famous publication was the Nuremberg Chronicle, published in ______ in German and Latin editions.
  26. Complete the sentence about Hans Holbein the Younger with the correct year: Holbein travelled to England in ______ in search of work with a recommendation from Erasmus.
  27. Complete the sentence about Lucas Cranach the Elder with the correct year: The first evidence of Cranach's skill as an artist comes in a picture dated ______.
  28. Complete the sentence about Lucas Cranach the Elder with the correct year: In ______ Cranach went to the Netherlands, and painted the Emperor Maximilian and the boy who afterwards became Emperor Charl…
  29. Complete the sentence about Caspar David Friedrich with the correct year: The early 20th century brought a renewed appreciation of his art, beginning in ______ with an exhibition of thirty-two of his…
  30. Complete the sentence about Caspar David Friedrich with the correct year: Caspar David Friedrich was born on 5 September ______, in Greifswald, Swedish Pomerania, on the Baltic coast of Germany.
  31. Complete the sentence about Caspar David Friedrich with the correct year: A year later, his sister Elisabeth died, and a second sister, Maria, succumbed to typhus in ______.
  32. Complete the sentence about Max Ernst with the correct year: In ______, Max Ernst enrolled in the University of Bonn, to read philosophy, art history, literature, psychology, and psychiatry.
  33. Complete the sentence about Max Ernst with the correct year: In ______, Max befriended August Macke and joined his Die Rheinischen Expressionisten group of artists, deciding to become an artist.
  34. Complete the sentence about Paul Klee with the correct year: Hans Wilhelm Klee was active as a music teacher at the Bern State Seminary in Hofwil near Bern until ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about Paul Klee with the correct year: With his parents' reluctant permission, in ______ Klee began studying art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Heinrich Knirr and Fra…
  36. Complete the sentence about Wassily Kandinsky with the correct year: In ______, Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts.
  37. Complete the sentence about Joseph Beuys with the correct year: In ______, Beuys was stationed in the Crimea and was a member of various combat bomber units.
  38. Complete the sentence about Joseph Beuys with the correct year: From ______ onward, he was deployed as rear-gunner in a Ju 87 "Stuka" dive-bomber, initially stationed in Königgrätz, later moving to th…
  39. Complete the sentence about Joseph Beuys with the correct year: On 16 March ______, Beuys's plane crashed on the Crimean Front close to Znamianka, then Freiberg Krasnohvardiiske Raion.
  40. Complete the sentence about Gerhard Richter with the correct year: In ______, Hildegard moved the family to Waltersdorf, and was later forced to sell her piano.
  41. Complete the sentence about Gerhard Richter with the correct year: In ______, his application for study at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts was rejected as "too bourgeois".
  42. Complete the sentence about Otto Dix with the correct year: In ______, he entered the Kunstgewerbeschule in Dresden, now the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where Richard Guhr was among his teachers.
  43. Complete the sentence about Otto Dix with the correct year: In the autumn of ______ he was assigned as a non-commissioned officer of a machine-gun unit on the Western front and took part in the Battle…
  44. Complete the sentence about Bauhaus with the correct year: Still, the Dessau campus was shuttered in ______, after the Nazi party took over the local government of the Free State of Anhalt.
  45. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, he won the AIA Gold Medal, one of the most prestigious awards in architecture.
  46. Complete the sentence about Walter Gropius with the correct year: Walter and Alma's daughter, named Manon after Walter's mother, was born in ______.
  47. Complete the sentence about Walter Gropius with the correct year: Ise Gropius died on 9 June ______ in Lexington, Massachusetts.
  48. Complete the sentence about Walter Gropius with the correct year: Gropius left the firm of Behrens in ______ and established a practice in Berlin with fellow employee Adolf Meyer.
  49. Complete the sentence about Walter Gropius with the correct year: Gropius was commissioned in ______ to design a car for the Prussian Railroad Locomotive Works in Königsberg.
  50. Complete the sentence about Ludwig Mies van der Rohe with the correct year: During his military service in ______, Mies fathered a son out of wedlock.
  51. Complete the sentence about Expressionism with the correct year: Dancers from the Laban Dance School practicing an expressive dance, ______. 4.
  52. Complete the sentence about Expressionism with the correct year: The name came from Wassily Kandinsky's Der Blaue Reiter painting of ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Die Brücke with the correct year: In September and October ______, the first group exhibition was held, focused on the female nude, in the showroom of K.F.M.
  54. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The Blue Rider disbanded at the start of World War I in ______.
  55. Complete the sentence about Der Blaue Reiter with the correct year: In December ______, Kandinsky submitted Composition V for the association's third exhibition, but the jury rejected the painting.
  56. Complete the sentence about Der Blaue Reiter with the correct year: Kandinsky resigned as chairmanship of the N.K.V.M. on 10 January ______ but remained in the association as a simple member.
  57. Complete the sentence about Der Blaue Reiter with the correct year: The group was disrupted by the outbreak of the First World War in ______.
  58. Complete the sentence about Albert Einstein with the correct year: Born as a subject to the Kingdom of Württemberg, part of the German Empire, Einstein moved to Switzerland in ______, forsaking his ci…
  59. Complete the sentence about Albert Einstein with the correct year: In ______, he submitted a successful PhD dissertation to the University of Zurich.
  60. Complete the sentence about Albert Einstein with the correct year: In ______, while Einstein was visiting the United States, Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany.
  61. Complete the sentence about Albert Einstein with the correct year: Horrified by the Nazi persecution of his fellow Jews, he decided to remain in the US, and was granted American citizenship in ______.
  62. Complete the sentence about Max Planck with the correct year: In ______ it was renamed the Max Planck Society, and today includes 83 institutions representing a wide range of scientific disciplines.
  63. Complete the sentence about Max Planck with the correct year: Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was born on 23 April ______ in Kiel, the son of Johann Julius Wilhelm Planck and his second wife, Emma Patzig…
  64. Complete the sentence about Max Planck with the correct year: In ______, the family moved to Munich, where Planck enrolled at Maximiliansgymnasium.
  65. Complete the sentence about Werner Heisenberg with the correct year: Heisenberg published his Umdeutung paper in ______, a major reinterpretation of old quantum theory.
  66. Complete the sentence about Werner Heisenberg with the correct year: In ______, Heisenberg arrived in Munich as a member of the Freikorps to fight the Bavarian Soviet Republic established a year earli…
  67. Complete the sentence about Wilhelm Röntgen with the correct year: In ______, Röntgen enrolled at Utrecht Technical School, where he followed courses for almost two years.
  68. Complete the sentence about Wilhelm Röntgen with the correct year: In ______, he tried to attend Utrecht University without having the necessary credentials required for a regular student.
  69. Complete the sentence about Wilhelm Röntgen with the correct year: In ______, Röntgen became a lecturer at the University of Strasbourg.
  70. Complete the sentence about Robert Koch with the correct year: At the age of 19, in ______, Koch entered the University of Göttingen to study natural science.
  71. Complete the sentence about Johannes Kepler with the correct year: Kepler attended the Grammar School in Weil until ______, when the family moved to Leonberg in Protestant Württemberg.
  72. Complete the sentence about Carl Friedrich Gauss with the correct year: When Gauss was only 19 years old, he proved the construction of the heptadecagon, the first progress in regular polygon construc…
  73. Complete the sentence about Alexander von Humboldt with the correct year: Alexander von Humboldt was born in Berlin in Prussia on 14 September ______.
  74. Complete the sentence about Alexander von Humboldt with the correct year: Alexander Georg died in ______, leaving the brothers Humboldt in the care of their emotionally distant mother.
  75. Complete the sentence about Konrad Zuse with the correct year: Much of his early work was financed by his family and commerce, but after ______ he was given resources by the government of Nazi Germany…
  76. Complete the sentence about Otto Hahn with the correct year: Hahn completed his habilitation in early ______ and became a Privatdozent.
  77. Complete the sentence about Max Born with the correct year: Born entered the University of Göttingen in ______, where he met the three renowned mathematicians Felix Klein, David Hilbert, and Hermann M…
  78. Complete the sentence about Max Born with the correct year: In ______, he began researching special relativity with Minkowski, and subsequently wrote his habilitation thesis on the Thomson model of th…
  79. Complete the sentence about Max Born with the correct year: In ______ Born returned to Göttingen, where he arranged another chair for his long-time friend and colleague James Franck.
  80. Complete the sentence about Max Born with the correct year: In ______, Born and Werner Heisenberg formulated the matrix mechanics representation of quantum mechanics.
  81. Complete the sentence about Erwin Schrödinger with the correct year: Schrödinger shared the ______ Nobel Prize in Physics with Paul Dirac "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory".
  82. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, he succeeded Max Planck at the University of Berlin.
  83. Complete the sentence about Karl Benz with the correct year: In ______, it merged with Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft to form Daimler-Benz, which produces the Mercedes-Benz among other brands.
  84. Complete the sentence about Karl Benz with the correct year: Carl Benz was born Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant on 25 November ______ in Mühlburg, Grand-Duchy of Baden, today a part of Karlsruhe, Bade…
  85. Complete the sentence about Karl Benz with the correct year: In ______, at the age of nine, he started at the scientifically oriented Lyceum.
  86. Complete the sentence about Gottlieb Daimler with the correct year: After completing secondary school in ______, Daimler had trained as a gunsmith under Master Gunsmith Hermann Raithel.
  87. Complete the sentence about Gottlieb Daimler with the correct year: Daimler performed well, and when Rollé und Schwilque began making railway locomotives in ______, Daimler, then 22, was named foreman…
  88. Complete the sentence about Gottlieb Daimler with the correct year: In ______, he resigned from R&S, visiting Paris, then went on to England, working with the country's top engineering firms, becoming…
  89. Complete the sentence about Gottlieb Daimler with the correct year: While in London, he visited the ______ International Exhibition, where one of the exhibits was a steam carriage.
  90. Complete the sentence about Rudolf Diesel with the correct year: Theodor Diesel, a bookbinder by trade, left his hometown of Augsburg, Bavaria, in ______.
  91. Complete the sentence about Rudolf Diesel with the correct year: Being a very good student, 12-year-old Diesel received the Société pour l'Instruction Elémentaire bronze medal and had plans to enter E…
  92. Complete the sentence about Rudolf Diesel with the correct year: After finishing his basic education at the top of his class in ______, he enrolled at the newly founded Industrial School of Augsburg.
  93. Complete the sentence about Nikolaus Otto with the correct year: Nicolaus August Otto was born on 10 June ______ in Holzhausen an der Haide, Germany.
  94. Complete the sentence about Nikolaus Otto with the correct year: After six years of good performance he moved to the high school in Langenschwalbach until ______.
  95. Complete the sentence about Nikolaus Otto with the correct year: Otto worked for various companies, first for IC Alpeter and then in ______ for Carl Mertens.
  96. Complete the sentence about Nikolaus Otto with the correct year: Running low on funds, in ______ Otto worked for Carl Mertens in order to continue work on his engine.
  97. Complete the sentence about Nikolaus Otto with the correct year: Together they entered into a partnership on 31 March ______ and named it NA Otto & Cie in Cologne.
  98. Complete the sentence about Ferdinand von Zeppelin with the correct year: By ______, Zeppelin had been promoted to lieutenant, and that year he was given leave to study science, engineering, and chemi…
  99. Complete the sentence about Ferdinand von Zeppelin with the correct year: In ______, Zeppelin took leave to act as an observer for the Union's Army of the Potomac in the American Civil War in Virginia…
  100. Complete the sentence about Wernher von Braun with the correct year: The V-2 became the first artificial object to travel into space by crossing the Kármán line on 20 June ______.

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