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...Founded in 1822 at Leipzig by learned Lorenz Oken (1779-1851) ; real name Ochenfuss, obstreperous editor of Isis, friend of Goethe. On the basis of Immanuel Kant's (1724-1804) critical philosophy and with clues from Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775-1854) he created the systematic plans upon which modern scientific knowledge is ranged. Protean, he lectured, at Jena, on general natural history, zoology, comparative anatomy, human, animal and plant physiology...
Sued for Divorce. By Prince Eitel Friederich, 51, second son of Kaiser Wilhelm II; Princess Sophie Charlotte, 47, daughter of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg. He alleged that "her continual efforts to secure employment in the motion picture industry have become a source of humiliation to the House of Hohenzollern." She promptly filed a counter suit accusing him of degeneracy. It was recalled that she married him in 1906, virtually at the command of the Kaiser, who wished to bring the vast wealth of the Oldenburgs within the Hohenzollern family. Should the divorce be granted she is expected to marry...
...York Philharmonic, Willem Mengelberg and Wilhelm...
Monarchists and Republicans alike spoke thrice with approbation last week of the abdicated Crown Prince Wilhelm because...
...never once detected in company with Geraldine Farrar-also in Berlin last week. Though lacking even a shred of evidence, the Communist newspaper, Welt am Abend, not only recalled onetime famed innuendoes respecting the intimacy of Geraldine and Wilhelm (circa 1902) but even remarked: "It is a very peculiar fact that his former imperial and royal highness and the American singer Farrar, arrived on the same...