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Friedey's Friedey's is a fictional Fast food franchise which features in several Cheapass Games products. It is described as a "fast food restaurant for the damned" and is generally staffed by zombies in search of brains.
Friedhelm Eronat Friedhelm Eronat (born 1954 in Prem, Bavaria, Germany) is a British-based millionaire business leader mainly involved in oil trading. Eronat is one of the world's most successful oil dealmakers, and one of the most secretive men in Britain.
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (July 30, 1898 - October 9, 1944), was a Viennese artist. She was a student of Johannes Itten at his private school in Vienna, and later followed Itten to study and teach at the Weimar Bauhaus.
Friedland, Mecklenburg Friedland is a town in the district Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is a local center for some villages like Kotelow, Luebbersdorf, Schwichtenberg, Dahle and Boldekow, and has approximately 8500 citizens.
Friedlinde Wagner Friedlinde Wagner (March 29, 1918 - May 8, 1991) was the daughter of German opera composer Siegfried Wagner and his English wife, Winifred Williams and the granddaughter of the famous composer Richard Wagner. Born in Bayreuth, she was known by the nickname "Mausie".
Friedman Billings Ramsey Friedman Billings Ramsey, (NYSE:FBR), is an investment bank headquartered in Arlington, Virginia that sponsors the FBR Open PGA golf tournament held in Phoenix, Arizona. It was founded in 1989 and had over $1 billion in revenues in 2005.
Friedman number A Friedman number is an integer which, in a given base, is the result of an expression using all its own digits in combination with any of the four basic arithmetic operators (+, -, Ă—, Ă·) and sometimes exponentiation. For example, 347 is a Friedman number since 347 = 73 + 4.
Friedman rule The Friedman rule is the term given for Milton Friedman's policy regarding cash-in-advance models of monetary systems. Essentially, Friedman advocated a policy of zero nominal interest rates - that is, it should seek a rate of deflation equal to the real rate on safe assets in order to make the nominal rate zero.
Friedmann equations The Friedmann equations relate various cosmological parameters within the context of general relativity. They were derived by Alexander Friedmann in 1922 from the Einstein field equations under some assumptions of symmetry appropriate for a cosmological model.
Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker metric The Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) metric is an exact solution of the Einstein field equations of general relativity; it describes a [isotropic] [[metric expansion of space|expanding or contracting universe. Depending on geographical or historical preferences, a subset of the four scientists -- Alexander Friedmann, Georges Lemaître, Howard Percy Robertson and Arthur Geoffrey Walker -- may be named
Friedrich (board game) Friedrich (after the German name of Frederick II of Prussia) is a strategic board game about the events of the Seven Years' War. It was created by Richard Sivél, published in 2004 and won the prize for the Best Historical Simulation by the American GAMES magazine in 2006.
Friedrich Adler (artist) Friedrich Adler, (29 April 1878 – 11 July 1943), was a German academic, artist and designer. He was especially renowned for his accomplishments in designing metalwork in the Art nouveau and Art deco styles; he was also the first designer to use bakelite.
Friedrich Adolf Riedesel Friedrich Adolf Riedesel, Freiherr zu Eisenbach (June 3 1738 – January 6 1800) was the commander of a regiment of soldiers from the Duchy of Brunswick (Braunschweig) among the German units hired by the British during the American Revolution. They were known generically as "Hessians", though Riedesel's soldiers are more accurately referred to as Brunswickers.
Friedrich Amelung Friedrich Ludwig Balthasar Amelung (born 23 March 1842, Dorpat, Estonia – died 21 March 1909, Riga, Latvia) was an Estonian chess player, endgame composer, and journalist. He played a few games with Adolf Anderssen, Neumann, Mayet, Schallopp, Ascharin, Emanuel Schiffers.
Friedrich Arnold Friedrich Arnold (8 January 1803 – 5 July 1890) was professor emeritus of anatomy and physiology at Heidelberg. He read medicine at the University of Heidelberg at the same time as his elder brother Johann Wilhelm Arnold (1801-1873).
Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte was a German Luftwaffe officer who served with the Fallschirmjäger during World War II, reaching the rank of oberstleutnant. After the war, he served in the Bundeswehr, reaching the rank of brigadegeneral der reserve.
Friedrich August von Alberti Dr. Friedrich August von Alberti (September 4, 1795—September 12, 1878) was a German geologist who recognized the unity of the three characteristic strata that compose the Triassic period (Latin trias meaning triad), in a ground-breaking 1834 publicationMonographie des Bunten Sandsteins, Muschelkalks und Keupers, und die Verbindung dieser Gebilde zu einer Formation (Stuttgart-Tübingen: Cotta), 1834.
Friedrich Baum Brunswick Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum (1727 – 1777) was a Hessian dragoon Lieutenant Colonel in British service during the American Revolutionary War. Baum served under Major General Friedrich Adolf Riedesel in support of General John Burgoyne's 1777 campaign to attack the Lake Champlain-Hudson River corridor, which ended in Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga on October 15, 1777.
Friedrich Baumbach Dr Friedrich (Fritz) Baumbach (born September 8, 1935 in Weimar, Germany) is a German chess grandmaster of correspondence chess, most famous for being the eleventh ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1983 and 1989. He was also East German Champion in 1970.
Friedrich Bayer Friedrich Bayer (born June 6 1825 in Wuppertal; died May 6 1880 in WĂĽrzburg) was the founder of what would become Bayer, a German chemical and pharmaceutical company. He founded the paint factory Friedrich Bayer along with Johann Friedrich Weskott in 1863 in Elberfeld.
Friedrich Bergius Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius (October 11, 1884 – March 30, 1949) was born near Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław in Poland). In 1931, he and Carl Bosch won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1931 in recognition of their contributions to the invention and development of chemical high pressure methods.
Friedrich Bernhard Marby Friedrich Bernhard Marby, born May 10 1882 in Aurich / Nordfriesland and died on April 3 1966], was a German [[Germanic mysticism|mystisist and Germanic revivalist. He is also most well known for his revivalism and use of the Armanen runes row.
Friedrich Bessel Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (July 22, 1784 – March 17, 1846) was a German mathematician, astronomer, and systematizer of the Bessel functions (which were discovered by Daniel Bernoulli). He was born in Minden, Westphalia and died of cancer in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia).
Friedrich Blume Friedrich Blume (born 1894: died 22 November 1976) was professor of Musicology in Kiel University from 1938-1958. He was a student in Munich, Berlin and Leipzig, and taught in the last two of these for some years before being called to the chair in Kiel.
Friedrich Bonte Friedrich Bonte (* 19 October 1896 in Potsdam; † 10 April 1940 near Narvik, Norway) was the German naval officer commanding the destroyer flotilla that transported invasion troops to Narvik during the German occupation of Norway (Operation Weserübung) in April 1940.
Friedrich der GroĂźe (1896) Friedrich der GroĂźe was a passenger ship of 10,531 GRT, built in 1896 at AG Vulcan in Stettin for the German shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd. Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914 she was interned in the then neutral port of New York.
Friedrich Diercks Friedrich Diercks was born on June 18, 1796, at Burg (Castle) Gödens near the village of Neustadtgödens. In February 1814 he joined the Oldenburg Regiment of the Duke of Oldenburg, and he remained a soldier until June 1819.
Friedrich Ebert Foundation The SPD-associated Friedrich Ebert Foundation (German: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung; Abbreviation: FES) is the largest and oldest of the German party-associated foundations. It is headquartered in Bonn and has an office in Berlin.
Friedrich Ebert junior Friedrich "Fritz" Ebert (September 12, 1894 – December 4, 1979) was the son of Germany's first President Friedrich Ebert. He was a Social Democrat like his father before him, but is best known for his role in the origins of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, whom in he served in various positions.
Friedrich Engel (mathematician) Friedrich Engel (December 26, 1861 - September 29, 1941) was born in Lugau, Germany as the son of a Lutheran pastor. He attended the Universities of both Leipzig and Berlin, before receiving his doctorate from Leipzig in 1883.
Friedrich Engels Friedrich Engels (November 28, 1820, Wuppertal – August 5, 1895, London), a 19th-century German political philosopher, developed communist theory alongside his better-known collaborator, Karl Marx, co-authoring The Communist Manifesto (1848). Engels also edited the second and third volumes of Das Kapital after Marx's death.
Friedrich Ferdinand Graf Beust Friedrich Ferdinand Graf Beust (January 13, 1809 – October 24, 1886), Austrian statesman, was descended from a noble family which had originally sprung from the Mark of Brandenburg, and of which one branch had been for over 300 years settled in Saxony.
Friedrich Franz I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Frederick Francis (Friedrich Franz) I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (10 December 1756 - 1 February 1837) ruled over the German state of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, first as Duke (1785-1815) and then as Grand Duke (1815-1837).
Friedrich Georg Hendel Friedrich Georg Hendel (14 December 1874- 26 June 1936) was an Austrian Hauptsschuldirektor (high school director) and entomologist mainly interested in Diptera. He described very many new species and made important contributions to the higher taxonomy of the Diptera.
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (Russian: Vasily Yakovlevich Struve) (April 15, 1793 – November 23, 1864 (Julian calendar: November 11)) was a Baltic-German astronomer from a famous dynasty of astronomers.
Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs (April 14, 1831 - June 2, 1896) was a German geographer and adventurer who was the first European to cross Africa north to south. His route took him from Tripoli through the Sahara desert, over Lake Chad, along the Niger River to the Gulf of Guinea from 1865-1867.
Friedrich Gernsheim Friedrich Gernsheim (Worms, July 17 1839–Berlin, September 101916) was a composer, conductor and pianist of German birth. He was given his musical training starting from the age of seven from Worms' musical director Louis Liebe, a Spohr pupil.
Friedrich Goltz Friedrich Leopold Goltz (born 14 August 1834 in Poznań; died 5 May 1902 in Strasbourg) was a German physiologist and nephew of the writer Bogumil Goltz. He held various university positions in Königsberg, Halle and Strasbourg, Germany.
Friedrich Gottfried Abel Friedrich Gottfried Abel (8 July 1714–23 November 1794) was a German physician, and the son of historian Caspar Abel. He was assessor of the college of physicians, member of the literary society at Halberstadt, and master of St.
Friedrich Hagenauer Friedrich Hagenauer was a Presbyterian minister in Australia. In 1863 he established Ramahyuck Mission on the banks of the Avon River near Lake Wellington to house the members of the Ganai tribe who survived attacks in west and central Gippsland.
Friedrich Hauser Friedrich Hauser (Stuttgart 1859–Baden-Baden, 1917) was a German classical archaeologist and art historian. His most famous single publication is Die Neuattischen Reliefs (Stuttgart: Verlag von Konrad Wittwer, 1889) in which he identified a style-category he called "Neo-Attic" among sculpture that was being produced in later Hellenistic circles during the last century or so BCE and in early Imperial Rome; the corpus that Hauser called "Neo-Attic" consists of bas-reliefs molded on decorative vessels and plaques, employing a figural and drapery style that looked for its canon of "classic" models to late 5th and early 4th century Athens and Attica, an early form of Neoclassicism.
Friedrich Hayek Friedrich August von Hayek, CH (May 8, 1899 in Vienna – March 23, 1992 in Freiburg) was an Austrian-born British economist and political philosopher known for his defense of liberal democracy and free-market capitalism against socialist and collectivist thought in the mid-20th century. Widely regarded as one of the most influential members of the Austrian School of economics, he also made significant contributions in the fields of jurisprudence and cognitive science.
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (25 January, 1743 - 10 March, 1819), was a German philosopher who made his mark on philosophy by coining the term nihilism and promoting it as the prime fault of Enlightenment thought and Kantianism. Instead of speculative reason, he advocated faith (or "belief" aka Glaube) and revelation (though he differed from the religious meaning in that he took this to be rational).
Friedrich Heusler Friedrich Heusler (1866 – 1947) was a German mining engineer and chemist. He discovered a special group of intermetallics now known as Heusler phases, which are ferromagnetic though the constituting elements are not ferromagnetic.
Friedrich Christoph Förster Friedrich Christoph Förster (1791-1868), German historian and poet, was the second son of Karl Christoph Förster (1751-1811), and consequently a brother of the painter, Ernst Joachim Förster (1800-1885). Born at Münchengosserstadt on the Saale on the 24th of September 1791, he received his early education at Altenburg, and after a course of theology at Jena, devoted some time to archaeology and the history of art.
Friedrich Christoph von Saldern Friedrich Christoph von Saldern (1719-1785), Prussian soldier and military writer, entered the army in 1735 and (on account of his great stature) was transferred to the Guards in 1739. As one of Frederick II's aides-de-camp he was the first to discover the approach of Neipperg's Austrians at the Battle of Mollwitz.
Friedrich Jeckeln Friedrich Jeckeln (2 February 1895 - 3 February 1946) was an SS-Obergruppenfuhrer who served as an SS and Police Leader in Russia during the Second World War. Jeckeln led one of the largest collection of Einsatzgruppen and was personally responsible for ordering the deaths of over one hundred thousand Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, and other "undesirables" of the Third Reich.
Friedrich Johannes Jacob Celestin von Schwarzenberg Cardinal Friedrich Johannes Jacob Celestin von Schwarzenberg (sometimes Friedrich Johannes Joseph Schwarzenberg or Friedrich, Prince of Schwarzenberg; born April 6, 1809, Vienna, Austria; died March 27, 1885, Vienna, Austria) was a Catholic churchman of the nineteenth century in Austria and the present-day Czech Republic (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire).
Friedrich Joseph Haass Dr Friedrich Joseph Haass, Fyodor Petrovic Gaaz, (August 10, 1780 in Bad Münstereifel – August 16, 1853 in Moscow) was the "holy doctor of Moscow." As a member of Moscow's governmental prison committee, he spent 25 years until the end of his life to humanize the penal system.
Friedrich Karl Biedermann Friedrich Karl Biedermann (1812-1901), German publicist and historian, was born at Leipzig on the 25th of September 1812, and after studying at Leipzig and Heidelberg became professor in the university of his native town in 1838.
Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal Friedrich Karl Joseph Reichsfreiherr von Erthal (1719-01-03 - 1802-07-25) was electoral prince and archbishop of Mainz from 1774-07-18 to 1802-07-04, shortly before the end of the archbishopric in the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss.
Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (August 20, 1757 - April 24, 1816) , was the son of Karl Anton August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, and Friederike von Dohna-Schlobitten.
Friedrich Kellner August Friedrich Kellner (pronounce) (February 1, 1885 - November 4, 1970) was a German social democrat, justice inspector and author of a diary in the time of the Nazi period in Germany. During the Third Reich he wrote his diary in secret, and after the war he explained his purpose:
Friedrich Kellner Diary August Friedrich Kellner (pronounce) (1885 - 1970), born in Vaihingen an der Enz, was a justice inspector in the courthouse in Mainz and a political activist for the Social Democratic Party of Germany between 1918 and 1933. His speeches against Hitler and the National Socialists made him many enemies.
Friedrich Kohlrausch Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch (October 14, 1840 – January 17, 1910) was a German physicist who investigated the conductive properties of electrolytes and contributed to the understanding of their behaviour. His research work covered also investigations of elasticity, thermoelasticity, and thermal conduction as well as magnetic and electrical precision measurements.
Friedrich LĂĽthi Friedrich LĂĽthi was a Swiss sports shooter who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century. He participated in Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won a gold medal with the Military pistol team for Switzerland.
Friedrich Löffler Friedrich August Johannes Löffler (June 24, 1852 – April 9, 1915) was a German bacteriologist at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald. Among his discoveries was the organism causing diphtheria (Corynebacterium diphtheriae), or the cause of foot and mouth disease.
Friedrich Loos The Austrian Biedermeier style painter, etcher and lithographer was born in Graz on 29 October 1797. He studied at the Vienna Academy with Joseph Mössmer and also went on study tours through the Austrian Alpine regions.
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, commonly known as Turnvater Jahn (roughly, "father of gymnastics"), (August 11 1778, Lanz (Prignitz) - October 15 1852, Freyburg) was a German Prussian gymnastics educator and nationalist.
Friedrich Lustig Friedrich Voldemar Lustig also known as Ashin Ananda (born 26 April 1912 in Narva, Estonia; 4 April 1989 in Rangoon, Myanmar) was an Estonian Buddhist, a Latvian Buddhist archbishop and Sangharja for Estonia and Lithuania.
Friedrich Maassen Friedrich Bernard Christian Maassen was a 19th century professor of law and Roman Catholic scholar; born on September 24, 1823 at Wismar, he died on April 9, 1900 at Wilten near Innsbruck. After studying the humanities in his native city, he studied jurisprudence at Jena, Berlin, Kiel and finally Rostock, where in 1849 as an advocate, he took his degree at the university there in 1851.
Friedrich Martens Friedrich Fromhold Martens, or Friedrich Fromhold von Martens, also known as Fyodor Fyodorovich Martens (Фёдор Фёдорович Мартенс) in Russian and Frederic Frommhold (de) Martens in French ( — ) was a Russian diplomat and jurist who made important contributions to the science of international law. He represented Russia at the Hague Peace Conference and helped to settle the first cases of international arbitration, notably the dispute between France and Great Britain over Newfoundland.
Friedrich MĂĽller (linguist) Friedrich MĂĽller (1834-1898) was a German linguist who originated the term Hamito-Semitic languages, in relation with Afro-Asiatic languages. According to the classification of the late Professor Friedrich MĂĽller (1834-98), of the University of Vienna, followed by Dr.
Friedrich MĂĽnzer Friedrich MĂĽnzer (22 April 1868 - 20 October 1942) was a German classical scholar noted for the development of prosopography, particularly for his demonstrations of how family relationships in ancient Rome connected to political struggles.
Friedrich Meinecke Friedrich Meinecke (October 30, 1862-February 6, 1954) was a liberal German historian; and probably the most famous German historian of his generation. As a representative of an older tradition still writing after World War II, he was an important figure to the end of his life.
Friedrich Miescher Johan Friedrich Miescher (13 August 1844, Basel, - 26 August 1895, Davos) was a Swiss biologist. He isolated various phosphate-rich chemicals, which he called nuclein (now nucleic acids), from the nuclei of white blood cells in 1869 at Felix Hoppe-Seyler's laboratory at the University of TĂĽbingen, paving the way for the identification of DNA as the carrier of inheritance.
Friedrich Naumann Foundation The Friedrich Naumann Foundation (Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung) (FNSt) is a German foundation for liberal politics, related to the Free Democratic Party. Established in 1958 by Theodor Heuss, the first president of the Federal Republic of Germany, it promotes individual freedom and liberalism.
Friedrich Neznansky Friedrich Neznansky (Born September 27, 1932) is a popular Russian crime novelist. He is a lawyer by education, practiced law in Moscow, and was an investigator at the Moscow Prosecutor General’s office for fifteen years; his hero in most of his books, Aleksandr Turetsky, reflects that experience.
Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) () was a Prussian-born philosopher. He began his academic career as a philologist and produced critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, and philosophy.
Friedrich of Limburg Stirum Friedrich Wilhelm Count of Limburg Stirum (born 1835, died 1912), son of Frederik Adrian of Limburg Stirum (1804-1874). He was Minister of Foreign Affairs of the German Empire from September 1880 until 25 June 1881.
Friedrich Olbricht Friedrich Olbricht (born 4 October 1888 in Leisnig, Saxony; died 21 July 1944 in Berlin) was a German general and one of the plotters involved in the attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia on 20 July 1944.
Friedrich Oskar Wannieck Friedrich Oskar Wannieck, died July 6 1912, was an Austrian/German and the son of Friedrich Wannieck. He, along with his father, were two of the initial signees creating the Guido-von-List-Gesellschaft in support of their good friend Guido von List.
Friedrich Paschen Friedrich Paschen (Schwerin, January 22, 1865 - February 25, 1947, Postdam), was a German 19th century physicist, known for his work on electrical discharges. He is also known for the Paschen series, a series of hydrogen spectral lines in the infrared region that he first observed in 1908.
Friedrich Paulsen Friedrich Paulsen (* July 16, 1846 - † August 14, 1908), German philosopher and educator, was born at Langenhorn (Schleswig) and educated at Erlangen, Bonn and Berlin, where he became extraordinary professor of philosophy and pedagogy in 1878. In 1896 he succeeded Eduard Zeller as professor of moral philosophy at Berlin.
Friedrich Peter Friedrich Peter (born July 13, 1921 in Attnang-Puchheim, Upper Austria, died September 25, 2005 in Vienna) was an Austrian politician who served as the chairman of the Freedom Party of Austria from 1958 to 1978.
Friedrich Pollock Friedrich Pollock (May 22, 1894 – 1970) was a German social scientist and philosopher. He was one of the founders of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, and a member of the Frankfurt School of neo-Marxist theory.
Friedrich Rainer Friedrich Rainer (born 28 July 1903 in Sankt Veit an der Glan; died 19 July 1947 (date unconfirmed) in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia – now in Slovenia) was a Nazi Gauleiter and an Austrian Landeshauptmann of Salzburg and Carinthia. Friedrich Rainer is thus far the only Austrian Landeshauptmann who has ever held this office in two Austrian Bundesländer.
Friedrich Risner Friedrich Risner (died 1580) was a German mathematician from Hesse who spent much of his scholarly life at the University of Paris. He is known for his 1572 publication of "Opticae thesaurus: Alhazeni Arabis libri septem, nuncprimum editi; Eiusdem liber De Crepusculis et nubium ascensionibus", a Latinicized translation of the works of Ibn al-Haitham and Erazmus Ciolek Witelo, who were both early pioneers in the study of optics.
Friedrich Rudolf Ludwig, Freiherr von Canitz Friedrich Rudolf Ludwig, Freiherr von Canitz (1654-1699), German poet and diplomatist, was born at Berlin on the 27th of November 1654. He attended the universities of Leiden and Leipzig, travelled in England, France, Italy and the Netherlands, and on his return was appointed groom of the bedchamber (Kammerjunker) to Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, whom he accompanied on his campaigns in Pomerania and Sweden.
Friedrich Sämisch Friedrich Sämisch (September 20, 1896, Berlin–August 16, 1975, Berlin) was a German chess grandmaster. He was the champion of Austria in 1921, and finished third at the Baden-Baden tournament 1925, after Alexander Alekhine and Akiba Rubinstein.
Friedrich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich (later: von) Schiller (November 10, 1759 – May 9, 1805), was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist. During the last several years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller struck a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang Goethe, with whom he discussed much on issues concerning aesthetics, encouraging Goethe to finish works he left merely as sketches; this thereby gave way to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism.
Friedrich Schorr Friedrich Schorr (September 2, 1888, Oradea (Nagyvarad at the time) - August 14, 1953, New York City) was an Austrian-Hungarian bass-baritone opera singer of Jewish origin. He later became a naturalized American.
Friedrich Schottky Friedrich Hermann Schottky (July 24, 1851 - August 12, 1935) was a German mathematician who worked on elliptic, abelian, and theta functions and invented Schottky groups. He was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) and died in Berlin.
Friedrich Sigmund Merkel Friedrich Sigmund Merkel (1845 – 1919) was a leading German anatomist and histopathologist of the late 19th century. In 1875 he provided the first full description of Tastzellen (touch cells) which occur in the skin of all vertebrates.
Friedrich Spanheim Friedrich Spanheim the elder (January 1, 1600 — May 14, 1649) was a Calvinistic professor at the University of Leiden. He entered in 1614 the University of Heidelberg where he studied philology and philosophy, and in 1619 removed to Geneva to study theology.
Friedrich Syrup Friedrich Heinrich Karl Syrup (born 9 October 1881 in LĂĽchow in LĂĽchow-Dannenberg district, Lower Saxony; died on or about 31 August 1945 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Oranienburg) was a German jurist and politician.
Friedrich Trendelenburg Friedrich Trendelenburg (May 24 1844 – December 15 1924) was a German surgeon and son of the philosopher Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg. A number of medical treatments and terminologies have been named for him.
Friedrich von Bernhardi Friedrich von Bernhardi (November 22, 1849, Russian Empire—December 11, 1930) was a German militarist, perhaps best known for his bellicose book Deutschland und der Nächste Krieg (Germany and the Next War), printed in 1912. He advocated a policy of ruthless aggression and complete disregard of treaties and regarded war as a "divine business".
Friedrich von Flotow Friedrich von Flotow (27 April 1812 – 24 January 1883) was a German composer. He is chiefly remembered for his opera Martha, which was popular at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, but is now rarely performed.
Friedrich von Ingenohl Admiral Gustav Heinrich Ernst Friedrich von Ingenohl (born Neuwied, 30 June, 1857 – Berlin, 19 December, 1933) was a commander of the German High Seas Fleet at the beginning of World War I. His intention of engaging the British Royal Navy in a quick, decisive battle was not supported by the German admiralty.
Friedrich von Knauss Friedrich von Knauss was an inventor in the 18th century, who build clockwork mechanisms which could, in a very simple way, play musical instruments, write short phrases, or conduct other individual, specialized tasks.
Friedrich von Matthisson Friedrich von Matthisson (1761-1831), German poet, was born at Hohendodeleben near Magdeburg, the son of the village pastor, on the 23rd of January 1761. After studying theology and philology at the university of Halle, he was appointed in 1781 master at the classical school Philanthropy in Dessau.
Friedrich von Mellenthin Friedrich Wilhelm von Mellenthin (30 August 1904 - 28 June 1997) was a generalmajor in the German Army during World War II. A participant in most of the major campaigns of the war, he became well-known afterwards for his memoirs Panzer Battles, first published in 1956 and regularly reprinted since then.
Friedrich von Spee Friedrich von Spee (born at Kaiserswerth on the Rhine on February 25, 1591, died at Trier on August 7, 1635) was a German Jesuit and poet, most noted as an opponent of trials for witchcraft. Spee was the first person in his time who spoke strongly and with arguments against torture in general.
Friedrich Von Roehm Friedrich Von Roehm, also known as the Black Rook is a Marvel Comics supervillain, and an adversary of the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Bill Sienkiewicz, he first appeared in New Mutants #22 (December 1984).
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (November 17, 1899, Osnabrück, Germany–December 19, 1962, Ulm, Germany) was a German Neo-plasticist (De Stijl) painter. He was one of the first painters to work for his entire career within an abstract style.
Friedrich Waismann Friedrich Waismann (March 21, 1896 - November 4, 1959) was an Austrian mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. He is best known for being a member of the Vienna Circle and one of the key theorists in logical positivism.
Friedrich Wannieck Friedrich Wannieck (father of Friedrich Oskar Wannieck) was a prostigous and wealthy Austrian/German industrialist most notable for his succesful business ventures of the organisation and publishing house Verein "Deutsche Haus" ("German House" Association) [http://www.google.
Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg (born 20 November 1875 in Kemberg, Saxony-Anhalt; died 10 November 1944 in Berlin) began his diplomatic career even before the First World War, serving as consul and ambassador in several countries. From 1908 to 1910, he was married to Elisabeth von Sobbe (1875-1955), with whom he had one daughter.
Friedrich Wettin von Sachsen Friedrich Wettin von Sachsen (born 26 October 1473 in Torgau - died 14 December 1510 in Rochlitz) was the 36th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights. He was the third (and youngest surviving) son of Albert, Duke of Saxony and Zedena of Bohemia, daughter of George of Podebrady.

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