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Jena| Town in the Land (administrative region) of Thuringia, Germany, southeast of Weimar; population (2005 est) 102,500. It is noted for its precision engineering; the Zeiss firm have manufactured optical instruments since 1846. French emperor Napoleon defeated the Prussians here in 1806, and the philosophers Schiller and Hegel taught at the Friedrich Schiller University, which dates from 1558. |
| The market area was the only part of the old town to escape destruction by Allied bombing during World War II. It has a Late Gothic Rathaus (town hall), with two hipped roofs and a clock-tower featuring mechanical figures on the clock face. The Zeiss Planetarium, built originally in 1926, was renovated in 1983. Other places of interest include the Optical Museum (1965); the Romantiker Haus, a museum of the early Romantic period in Germany; and an impressive botanical garden. |
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‘Jena’ Symphony
Abbe, Ernst
Barclay, Thomas
Besseler, Heinrich
Czermak, Johann Nepomuk
Döbereiner, Johann Wolfgang
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb
Frege, Gottlob
Germany: history 1519 - 1815
Glueck, Nelson
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Korsch, Karl
Kotzebue, August Friedrich Ferdinand von
Libavius, Andreas
Loewenberg, Alfred
Rhapsodie
Ritter, Johann Wilhelm
Saale
Strasburger, Eduard Adolf
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| Toward the end of 1806, when all the sad details of Napoleon's destruction of the Prussian army at Jena and Auerstadt and the surrender of most of the Prussian fortresses had been received, when our troops had already entered Prussia and our second war with Napoleon was beginning, Anna Pavlovna gave one of her soirees. these same Prussians who are so arrogant to-day, were three to one against you at Jena, and six to one at Montmirail. Madame Granson, widow of a lieutenant-colonel of artillery killed at Jena, possessed, as her whole means of livelihood, a meagre pension of nine hundred francs a year, and three hundred francs from property of her own, plus a son whose support and education had eaten up all her savings. |