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Karl Johnson (born 1 March 1948) is a Welsh actor, who has worked on stage, film and television. His notable roles to date include the title role in Derek Jarman 's 1993 film Wittgenstein , [2] and those of Cato the Younger in the television drama series Rome and of Twister Turrill in the BBC costume drama Lark Rise to Candleford .
Karl Barth (/ b ɑːr t, b ɑːr θ /; German:; () 10 May 1886 – () 10 December 1968) was a Swiss Reformed theologian.Barth is best known for his commentary The Epistle to the Romans, his involvement in the Confessing Church, including his authorship (except for a single phrase) of the Barmen Declaration, and especially his unfinished multi-volume theological summa the Church Dogmatics ...
This is especially true of Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s only solo concerto, the Concerto funebre from 1939. Hartmann’s life and work are associated with his “inner emigration” during the Nazi regime and his music which was a declaration of his beliefs. Born in Munich in 1905, he witnessed the revolution in Bavaria, the failed Bavarian Soviet ...
Paul Carell was the post-war pen name of Paul Karl Schmidt (2 November 1911 – 20 June 1997) who was a writer and German propagandist. During the Nazi era, Schmidt served as the chief press spokesman for Joachim von Ribbentrop 's Foreign Ministry. In this capacity during World War II, he maintained close ties with the Wehrmacht, while he ...
Karl Paul Polanyi (/ p oʊ ˈ l æ n j i /; Hungarian: Polányi Károly [ˈpolaːɲi ˈkaːroj]; 25 October 1886 – 23 April 1964), was an Austro-Hungarian economic anthropologist, economic sociologist, and politician, best known for his book The Great Transformation, which questions the conceptual validity of self-regulating markets.
Dec 2 Sabu [Dastagir], Indian actor (The Thief of Bagdad, Elephant Boy, Drum), dies of a heart attack at 39. Dec 5 Herbert H Lehman, (Gov-D-NY), dies. Dec 5 Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1892) Dec 5 Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer, dies at 58. Dec 6 Jozef Goossenaerts, Flem philologist (Language Boundary ...
Aug 26, 1997 · Paul Feyerabend. Paul Feyerabend (b.1924, d.1994), having studied science at the University of Vienna, moved into philosophy for his doctoral thesis, made a name for himself both as an expositor and (later) as a critic of Karl Popper’s “critical rationalism”, and went on to become one of the twentieth century’s most famous philosophers ...
