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Frankfurt Parliament

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1848–49, national assembly convened at Frankfurt on May 18, 1848, as a result of the liberal revolution that swept the German states early in 1848. The parliament was called by a preliminary assembly of German liberals in Mar., 1848, and its members were elected by direct manhood suffrage. They represented the entire political spectrum and included the foremost German figures of the time. The president of the parliament was Heinrich von Gagern . Its purpose was to plan the unification of Germany. Having suspended (June, 1848) the diet of the German Confederation , the assembly appointed Archduke John of Austria regent of Germany and head of the provisional (and virtually nonexistent) executive power. While the parliament was lengthily debating various schemes of union, it was diverted from its purpose by the war with Denmark over the Schleswig-Holstein question; the parliament commissioned Prussia to send troops to aid the duchies, but finally accepted (Sept., 1848) an armistice. It…
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1848–49, national assembly convened at Frankfurt on May 18, 1848, as a result of the liberal revolution that swept the German states early in 1848. The parliament was called by a preliminary assembly of German liberals in Mar., 1848, and its members were elected by direct manhood suffrage. They…
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Full text Article Frankfurt

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(frängk'fʊrt) or Frankfurt am Main (frängk'fʊrt äm mīn), city (1994 pop. 659,800), Hesse, central Germany, a port on the Main River. It is also known in English as Frankfort. The city is an industrial, media, and commercial center and a transportation hub. A world financial center and Germany's…
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Full text Article revolutions of 1848

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in European history. The February Revolution in France gave impetus to a series of revolutionary explosions in Western and Central Europe. However the new French Republic did not support these movements. The stage was set when the unrest caused by the economic effects of severe crop failures in…
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Full text Article Döllinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von

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1799-1890 German Catholic theologian Born in Bamberg, he was ordained in 1822, then was professor of ecclesiastical history and law at Munich almost continuously from 1826 to 1871, when he was elected rector. A staunch Ultramontane, he published Die Reformation (1846-48, "The Reformation"), but a…
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Full text Article Palacky, Frantisek

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Czech historian, critic, minor poet, and politician. A Protestant of humble background, he was instrumental in founding the important scholarly Journal of the Czech Museum , which still appears today. He was a conservative literary theorist whose monumental History of the Czech People in Bohemia and…
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Full text Article German Confederation

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1815–66, union of German states provided for at the Congress of Vienna to replace the old Holy Roman Empire, which had been destroyed during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. It comprised 39 states in all, 35 monarchies and 4 free cities. Its purpose was to guarantee the external and…
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Full text Article national assembly

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name of a number of past and present constituent or legislative bodies. In France, under the constitutions of the Fourth and Fifth republics, the lower house of parliament has been called the national assembly. Usually, however, the name national assembly has been applied to provisional bodies. …
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(yō'hän yō'zĕf ĭg'näts fӘn döl'ĭngӘr), 1799–1890, German theologian and historian, leader of the Old Catholics . Ordained in 1822, he was subsequently professor of church history and ecclesiastical law at the Univ. of Munich, chief librarian of the university, and a member of the Academy of…
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