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University Challenge S48E07
Original air date 4.9.2018
Paracelsus | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:48 1 Biography
00:02:59 1.1 Early career
00:03:34 1.2 Basel (1526–1528)
00:05:59 1.3 Later career
00:10:02 1.4 Death and legacy
00:11:27 2 Philosophy
00:12:33 3 Contributions to medicine
00:12:43 3.1 Chemistry
00:15:45 3.2 Hermeticism
00:18:19 3.3 Discoveries and treatments
00:24:21 3.4 Toxicology
00:25:22 3.5 Psychosomatism
00:26:13 4 Reception and legacy
00:26:23 4.1 Portraits
00:28:50 4.2 Paracelsianism and Rosicrucianism
00:30:40 4.3 In literature and drama
00:32:36 5 Works
00:43:20 5.1 Selected English translations
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- Socrates
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Paracelsus (; 1493/4 – 24 September 1541), born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (full name Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim), was a Swiss physician, alchemist, and astrologer of the German Renaissance.He was a pioneer in several aspects of the medical revolution of the Renaissance, emphasizing the value of observation in combination with received wisdom. He is credited as the father of toxicology.He also had a substantial impact as a prophet or diviner, his Prognostications being studied by Rosicrucians in the 1700s. Paracelsianism is the early modern medical movement inspired by the study of his works.
Alps
The Alps are one of the great mountain range systems of Europe stretching approximately 1,200 kilometres across eight Alpine countries from Austria and Slovenia in the east, France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and south east Germany, to the west. Monaco and Italy to the south. The mountains were formed over tens of millions of years as the African and Eurasian tectonic plates collided. Extreme shortening caused by the event resulted in marine sedimentary rocks rising by thrusting and folding into high mountain peaks such as Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn. Mont Blanc spans the French--Italian border, and at 4,810 m is the highest mountain in the Alps. The Alpine region area contains about a hundred peaks higher than 4,000 m , known as the four-thousanders.
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Afrikan Spir | Wikipedia audio article
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Afrikan Spir
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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Afrikan Aleksandrovich Spir (Russian: Африка́н Алекса́ндрович Спир; German: Afrikan (von) Spir; French: African (de) Spir; Italian: Africano Spir; 15 November 1837 – 26 March 1890) was a Russian Neo-Kantian philosopher of German-Greek descent who wrote primarily in German. His book Denken und Wirklichkeit (Thought and Reality) exerted a lasting impact on the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche.
History of Germany | Wikipedia audio article
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00:06:46 1 Prehistory
00:08:00 2 Germanic tribes, 750 BC – 768 AD
00:08:13 2.1 Migration and conquest
00:11:16 2.2 Stem Duchies and Marches
00:12:56 2.3 Frankish Empire
00:16:44 3 Middle Ages
00:16:52 3.1 Foundation of the Holy Roman Empire
00:18:17 3.2 Otto the Great
00:20:54 3.3 Hanseatic League
00:21:36 3.4 Eastward expansion
00:22:10 3.5 Church and state
00:26:25 3.6 Change and reform
00:28:11 3.7 Towns and cities
00:30:00 3.8 Women
00:31:15 3.9 Science and culture
00:32:56 4 Early modern Germany
00:33:11 4.1 Reformation
00:35:56 4.2 Thirty Years War, 1618–1648
00:37:55 4.3 Culture and literacy
00:39:54 4.4 Science
00:40:53 5 1648–1815
00:41:58 5.1 Wars
00:44:14 5.2 Smaller states
00:46:45 5.3 Nobility
00:47:38 5.4 Peasants and rural life
00:50:59 5.5 Bourgeois values spread to rural Germany
00:52:39 5.6 Enlightenment
00:55:39 5.6.1 Women
00:56:50 5.7 French Revolution, 1789–1815
01:00:44 6 1815–1867
01:00:55 6.1 Overview
01:01:53 6.2 German Confederation
01:02:50 6.3 Society and economy
01:02:59 6.3.1 Population
01:04:19 6.3.2 Industrialization
01:05:54 6.3.3 Urbanization
01:07:00 6.3.4 Railways
01:08:46 6.3.5 Newspapers and magazines
01:09:51 6.3.6 Science and culture
01:12:27 6.3.7 Religion
01:15:35 6.4 Politics of restoration and revolution
01:15:45 6.4.1 After Napoleon
01:17:43 6.4.2 1848
01:18:32 6.4.3 1850s
01:19:12 6.4.4 Bismarck takes charge, 1862–1866
01:21:13 6.4.5 North German Federation, 1866–1871
01:21:54 7 German Empire, 1871–1918
01:22:06 7.1 Overview
01:23:53 7.2 Age of Bismarck
01:24:01 7.2.1 The new empire
01:27:33 7.2.2 Classes
01:27:41 7.2.2.1 Aristocracy
01:29:50 7.2.2.2 Middle class
01:30:35 7.2.2.3 Working class
01:31:52 7.2.3 Kulturkampf
01:34:14 7.2.4 Foreign policy
01:37:06 7.3 Wilhelminian Era
01:37:14 7.3.1 Wilhelm II.
01:38:08 7.3.2 Alliances and diplomacy
01:41:05 7.3.3 Economy
01:43:20 7.3.4 Women
01:44:33 7.3.5 Colonies
01:45:24 7.4 World War I
01:45:33 7.4.1 Causes
01:47:13 7.4.2 Western Front
01:48:17 7.4.3 Eastern Front
01:49:13 7.4.4 1918
01:50:01 7.5 Homefront
01:51:17 7.6 Revolution 1918
01:54:40 8 Weimar Republic, 1919–1933
01:54:52 8.1 Overview
01:56:08 8.2 The early years
01:59:27 8.3 Reparations
02:00:47 8.4 Economic collapse and political problems, 1929–1933
02:02:58 8.5 Science and culture
02:04:48 9 Nazi Germany, 1933–1945
02:06:25 9.1 Establishment of the Nazi regime
02:10:20 9.2 Antisemitism and the Holocaust
02:12:30 9.3 Military
02:13:23 9.4 Women
02:15:27 9.5 Foreign policy
02:18:01 9.6 World War II
02:20:34 10 Germany during the Cold War, 1945–1990
02:21:45 10.1 Post-war chaos
02:26:02 10.2 East Germany
02:30:08 10.3 West Germany (Bonn Republic)
02:31:10 10.3.1 Economic miracle
02:32:28 10.3.2 1948 currency reform
02:34:38 10.3.3 Adenauer
02:35:34 10.3.4 Erhard
02:37:26 10.3.5 Grand coalition
02:38:06 10.3.6 Guest workers
02:39:09 10.3.7 Brandt and Ostpolitik
02:40:33 10.3.8 Economic crisis of 1970s
02:43:13 10.4 Kohl
02:43:59 10.5 Reunification
02:45:13 11 Federal Republic of Germany, 1990–present
02:45:24 11.1 Schröder
02:46:21 11.2 Merkel
02:49:01 12 Historiography
02:49:10 12.1 Sonderweg debate
02:50:38 13 See also
02:50:47 14 Notes
02:50:55 14.1 Footnotes
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- Socrates
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The concept of Germany as a distinct region in central Europe can be traced to Roman commander Julius Caesar, who referred to the unconquered area east of the Rhine as Germania, thus distinguishing it from Gaul (France), which he had conquered. The victory of the Germanic tribes in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (AD 9) prevented annexation by the Roman Empire, although the Roman provinces of Germania Superior and Germania Inferior were established along the Rhine. Following the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, the Franks conqu ...
Otto von Bismarck | Wikipedia audio article
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00:04:17 1 Early years
00:07:32 2 Early political career
00:07:41 2.1 Young politician
00:13:04 2.2 Ambassador to Russia and France
00:15:45 3 Minister President of Prussia
00:18:50 3.1 Blood and Iron speech
00:20:03 3.2 Defeat of Denmark
00:22:05 3.3 Defeat of Austria
00:27:28 3.4 Franco-Prussian War 1870–71
00:31:02 3.5 Unification of Germany
00:33:55 4 Chancellor of the German Empire
00:34:51 4.1 iKulturkampf/i
00:39:03 4.2 Economy
00:40:04 4.3 Germanisation
00:41:32 4.4 Socialism
00:42:33 4.5 Foreign policies
00:42:41 4.5.1 Early relations with Europe and its government
00:45:06 4.5.2 France
00:47:39 4.5.3 Italy
00:48:23 4.5.4 Russia
00:49:40 4.5.5 Triple Alliance
00:50:42 4.5.6 Colonies and imperialism
00:53:39 4.5.7 Avoiding war
00:56:50 4.6 Social legislation
00:56:59 4.6.1 Early legislation
01:00:15 4.6.2 Sickness Insurance Law of 1883
01:01:15 4.6.3 Accident Insurance Law of 1884
01:02:41 4.6.4 Old Age and Disability Insurance Law of 1889
01:03:28 5 Downfall
01:03:37 5.1 Final years and forced resignation
01:09:37 5.2 Last warnings and predictions
01:10:26 5.3 Death
01:11:47 6 Legacy and memory
01:11:56 6.1 Reputation
01:17:19 6.2 Memorials
01:18:36 6.3 Bismarck: memory and myth
01:21:10 6.4 Place names
01:21:44 7 Titles, styles, honours and arms
01:21:54 7.1 Titles and styles
01:22:50 7.2 Duke of Lauenburg
01:24:07 7.3 Honours
01:24:18 8 In popular culture
01:25:12 9 See also
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- Socrates
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Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg (Born von Bismarck-Schönhausen; German: Otto Eduard Leopold Fürst von Bismarck, Herzog zu Lauenburg; 1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898), known as Otto von Bismarck (German: [ˈɔto fɔn ˈbɪsmaʁk] (listen)), was a conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890 and was the first Chancellor of the German Empire between 1871 and 1890. In 1862, King Wilhelm I appointed him as Minister President of Prussia, a position he would hold until 1890, with the exception of a short break in 1873. He provoked three short, decisive wars against Denmark, Austria, and France. Following the victory against Austria, he abolished the supranational German Confederation and instead formed the North German Confederation as the first German national state in 1867, leading it as Federal Chancellor. This aligned the smaller North German states behind Prussia. Later receiving the support of the independent South German states in the Confederation's defeat of France, he formed the German Empire in 1871, unifying Germany with himself as Imperial Chancellor, while retaining control of Prussia at the same time. The new German nation excluded Austria, which had been Prussia's main opponent for predominance among the German states.
With Prussian dominance accomplished by 1871, Bismarck skillfully used balance of power diplomacy to maintain Germany's position in a Europe which, despite many disputes and war scares, remained at peace. For historian Eric Hobsbawm, it was Bismarck who remained undisputed world champion at the game of multilateral diplomatic chess for almost twenty years after 1871, [and] devoted himself exclusively, and successfully, to maintaining peace between the powers. However, his annexation of Alsace-Lorraine gave new fuel to French nationalism and promoted Germanophobia in France. This helped set the stage for the First World War. Bismarck's diplomacy of realpolitik and powerful rule at home gained him the nickname the Iron Chancellor. German unification and its rapid economic growth was the foundation to his foreign policy. He disliked colonialism but reluctantly built an overseas empire when it was demanded by both elite and mass opinion. Juggling a very complex interlocking series o ...