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King Christian is the third ruler of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, to which House the Great Powers of Europe assigned the throne of Denmark on the death of the 16th King of the House of Oldenburg, Frederik VII, who died without issue. The first King of the present house, Christian IX, ascended the throne in 1863. He had previously married a niece of King Christian VIII of Denmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Their Majesties Receive | 8/27/1923 | See Source »

Died. Princess Helena Augusta Victoria, 77, aunt of King George V of England, and third daughter of Queen Victoria. She married (in 1866) Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, who died in 1917. She is survived by a son, who fought in the Prussian Army during the war, and two daughters. The Court of St. James will go into mourning for one month, but public engagements of the royal family will not be canceled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 18, 1923 | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

...opening chapter puts the conference in its setting and describes its methods of work, besides indicating the nature of the questions it had to settle. The principal problems are then passed in review Belgium and Schleswig, Alsace-Lorraine, the Left Bank of the Rhine, the Saar Valley, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia, Austria-Hungary, the Italian frontier and the states of the Balkans. The historical background is given in each case, but each problem is placed in the perspective of the negotiations at Paris and viewed primarily as one calling for practical solution in the treaties of peace. Particular attention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF -- REVIEWS -- JOTS AND TITLES | 6/12/1920 | See Source »

Another period of German culture is represented in the groups and statuettes elaborately carved in wood, from Bruggemann's altarpiece in the Cathedral of Schleswig, dating from the sixteenth century. Another good illustration of this class of sculpture is the elaborately carved doorway from the Hirschvogelsaal in Nuremberg which was presented to the Museum by the Deutscher Verein. Among other notable specimens in the exhibition may be mentioned a choirscreen from St. Michael's church, Hildesheim, twelfth century, presented to the Museum by Arthur P. Schmidt of Boston; baptismal font from the Cathedral at Hildesheim, twelfth century; model...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Germanic Museum Opened. | 1/9/1903 | See Source »

Professor Francke has also purchased various reproductions of famous German statues, and, as representative of North German art, fac-similes of three of the reliefs from the great altar of the Schleswig Cathedral, by Brueggemann-the "Ecce Homo," the "Establishment of the Passover," and the "Meeting of Abraham and Melchisedec...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gifts for Germanic Museum. | 10/29/1902 | See Source »

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