Word: coburg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...physicist in the solar-power division of Munich's Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm aerospace plant; Karl Hauffe, 65, head of the organic chemistry department at Göttingen University; Günter Sänger, 32, an engineer with the giant Siemens electronics corporation in Coburg; and Gerhard Arnold, 43, an executive of a Munich computer company. None was as big a fish as Günter Guillaume, longtime former aide to Chancellor Willy Brandt, whose arrest for spying in 1974 eventually forced an embarrassed Brandt to resign. But all were professional specialists working in sensitive areas. Hauffe...
HENRY A. GRIFFIN Coburg, West Germany...
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was a careerist whose training and education had for years been directed toward one end: marriage with Victoria. How the union proceeded forms one of the most entertaining strands in Mrs. Woodham-Smith's book. Victoria had seen him before, but she first fell in love with this blue-and-blond Parsifal in 1839. "It was with some emotion that I beheld Albert-who is beautiful," she observed in her diary. Their correspondence from the beginning was a model of Victorian decorum and devotion ("Never, never did I think I could be loved...
...chase reached a peak of sorts on the great estates of 17th century Germany. Johann Casimir, Duke of Saxe-Coburg, was renowned particularly for his great bear and boar hounds, bred to the size of yearling steers. To record his chases, Duke Casimir hired a court painter named Wolfgang Birkner. The result was one of the most complete hunting chronicles ever produced...
Little is known about Birkner other than that he was born in Bayreuth in 1582. He was commissioned by Casimir to do eight designs for the baptismal font at the city church in Bayreuth, and between 1616 and 1630 he completed 24 oils that are now in the Coburg art collection. He painted a portrait of himself as a rifleman, and also one of the duke. But the hunting book was his most important work. He very likely sketched from life, since he often portrays himself sitting in a corner of the picture, sketch pad in hand...