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Does the Braşov Coat of Arms still Pose Riddles?

Gibt das Kronstädter Wappenbild noch Rätsel auf?

Author(s): Klaus Popa / Language(s): German / Issue: 2/1992

Es wurde viel um die Herkunft des Kronstädter Wappenbildes gerätselt, vor allem um den Baumstumpf und um die Anzahl seiner Wurzeln. Es hat selbstverständlich auch sagenhafte Erklärungsversuche gegeben, beispielsweise die Herleitung der Krone von einer "Flachskrone", die auf dem späteren Stadtgebiet gefunden wurde!, oder von der Krone, welche der vor Feinden fliehende ungarische König Salomon auf einen Baumstumpf in der bewaldeten Zinnentalsenke niederlegte, wo später das alte Corona gegründet wurde. Die wohl gelehrten Schöpfer der "Salomons"-Sage gingen von der Voraussetzung aus, dass die Krone nur infolge Verleihung der Stadtrechte durch den König zum Sinnbild Kronstadts werden konnte (daher Königskrone auf dem Baumstumpf).

Evangelical social welfare in Masuria in the second half of the nineteenth century

Ewangelickie zakłady opiekuńcze na Mazurach

Author(s): Grzegorz Jasiński / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 7/2013

Keywords: Masuria; inner mission; Evangelical Church; 19-th century; care institutions

In the 1860s it seemed that the evangelical Inner Mission would be rec¬orded as an extremely interesting chapter in Masurian history, owing to Frie¬drich Salomon Oldenberg’s journey and Johann Hinrich Wichern, who was involved with it. However, a combination of events caused the Masurian is¬sue to vanish rapidly out of the sight of the Mission’s head office in Berlin. Left on its own, the East Prussian department of the Inner Mission was not capable on its own – in spite of the tenuous efforts of individuals – to take steps going beyond its standard work, and neither did it intend to do so. This work, together with the development the Inner Mission in Masuria in gen¬eral, was also paralysed by a lack of staff. It was not enough to lean on the overworked parish clergy, and lay people did not show much interest in it. The attempts to get through to Masuria’s population with the Mission’s ideas through the use of the press and literature were impeded by controversies concerning the Church’s policy on the German-speaking population and the pushing through of a radical Germanisation programme by some of the clergy connected with the Mission. The activity of the Mission reached other dimensions, aided by other institutions outside East Prussia, for the development of social services, chil¬dren’s homes and orphanages. Their rapid development in the second half of nineteenth century was on the one hand a reaction to the terrible situation in the years 1867-1868 and on the other hand channeled into the general Prus¬sian and German trend towards the modernization of the country, and was the consequence of economic and social improvement. Socially and industri¬ally neglected Masuria benefited from the situation because on its territory, either in the centre or on the outskirts, many significant social care institu¬tions were placed. It did not solve all the problems but provided protection for people in need. The Inner Mission, with relatively small but notable participation from the clergy, took part in the creation of many social care insti¬tutions, providing human resources.

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Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): German / Issue: 06/2005

The Pomaks in Greece and Bulgaria – a Model Case for Borderland Minorities in the Balkans. Erlangen, 15.-16. Juli 2005 Die Landwirtschaft Bulgariens und Rumäniens im Vorfeld des Beitritts zur Europäischen Union. Leipzig, 8.-10. September 2005 Agriculture in Bulgaria and Romania on the eve of the EU Accession Organisierte Kriminalität in Südosteuropa. Fakten und Gegenstrategien. Berlin, 21. Oktober 2005 Organized Crime in Southeast Europe. Facts and Strategies Geschichtskultur und Literatur im Staatssozialismus: Jugoslawien und Bulgarien. Lutherstadt Wittenberg, 9.-13. Januar 2005 Historical Culture and Literature in the Era of the State Socialism: Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. Migration, Probleme von Abwanderungsregionen, Identitätsfragen. Görlitz, 14.-17. April 2005 Migration, the Problems of Regions, Questions of Identity. VII. Weltkongress des International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES). Berlin, 25.-30. Juli 2005 VII: World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES). Ein Leipziger Blick auf den Balkan – Zum 75. Todestag Gustav Weigands. Leipzig, 7. Oktober 2005 A View to the Balkans from a Leipzig Perspective – The 75th Anniversary of the Death of Gustav Weigand

“Impossibilium nulla obligatio est of Celsus” (d. 50,17,185) and initial impossibility of performance in German law

Impossibilium nulla obligatio est celsusa (d. 50,17,185) a początkowa niemożliwość świadczenia prawie niemieckim

Author(s): Dagmara Skrzywanek-Jaworska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 81/2010

On 1 January 2002 the Act on the Modernisation of the Law of Obligations (Gesetz zur Modernisierung des Schuldrechts vom 26 November 2001, BGBl I, 3138 ff.) entered into force, which fundamentally changed large parts of the German law of obligations. The aim of the reform was not only a need of cover gaps in the over hundred years old German Civil Code (BGB) regulations concerning the national obligation law. Beyond that was the reform aimed at bringing some of the most outdated parts of the German Civil Code into line with modern international developments. According to this, during the preparation of the reform the stipulations of Community law (expecially the need of implementation by 1 January 2002 the Directive 1999/44/EC of the European Parliament and Council on certain aspects of the sale of consumer goods and associated guarantees) and the UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG) as well as the Principles of European Contract Law (PECL) were taken into consideration.

Rice-cultivation and Rice-growers (çeltükçi) in the Central and Eastern Parts of the Balkans (15-18th Centuries)

Reisanbau und Reisgewinner (çeltükçi) im mittleren und östlichen Teil des Balkans (15. bis 18.Jh.)

Author(s): Stefan Andreev,Elena Grozdanova / Language(s): German / Issue: 3-4/2003

On Political Righteousness (Otfried Höffe’s Political Philosophy) Part II

A politikai igazságosságról (Otfried Höffe politikai filozófiája) II. rész

Author(s): István Balogh / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 4/2003

In his theory of political justice Otfried Höffe focuses the attention on foundation of the legitimation and limitation of the power and expansion of modern state and law, which problems fall into the background of even such of outstanding contemporary philosophical conception as John Rawls’ theory of justice. Höffe develops his theory in three logically connected steps. First he argues for his starting assumption, that the legitimation and limitation of the state simultaneously constitute the basic problem of the modern political philosophy. The justification is achieved by a critical analysis of the philosophical and juridical positivism and of the theoretical anarchism. The second step is the construction of a suitable basic structure which is generally qualified for performing the requirement of legitimation and limitation of the power and expansion of the state. Höffe argues that this basic structure must be a real construction, and that is the modell of change, in contrast to the ideal contruction of the classical and modern contract theories as well. The third step is the definition of the basic principles and characterization of the institutional system focusing on the human and basic rights for the legitimation and limitation of the power and expansion of the contemporary modern state. Our study consists of two parts. The first part describes Höffes basic theoretical position, that is the „practical metaphysics” and follows his critical arguments for the necessity of construction of the basic structure. The second part provides a detailed analysis of Höffes considerations and starting points can be extracted for the foundation of the intercultural exercisable principles, predominatly the human rights. Finally we are argiung, that Höffes invention, on the antropological level definable modell of change, can be interpreted as the kernel of a relationantropology which can serve as the foundation for a reconsidered theory of justice.

EQUIVOCATION IN THE FOUNDATIONS OF LEIBNIZ’S INFINITESIMAL FICTIONS

EQUIVOCATION IN THE FOUNDATIONS OF LEIBNIZ’S INFINITESIMAL FICTIONS

Author(s): Tzuchien THO / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2012

Keywords: Leibniz; differential calculus; infinitesimal; foundations of mathematics; quadrature; apagogic proofs in mathematics

In this article, I address two different kinds of equivocations in reading Leibniz’s fictional infinite and infinitesimal. These equivocations form the background of a reductive reading of infinite and infinitesimal fictions either as ultimately finite or as something whose status can be taken together with any other mathematical object as such. The first equivocation is the association of a foundation of infinitesimals with their ontological status. I analyze this equivocation by criticizing the logicist influence on 20th century Anglophone reception of the syncategorematical infinite and infinitesimal. The second equivocation is the association of the rigor of mathematical demonstration with the problem of the admissibility of infinite or infinitesimal terms. I analyze this by looking at Leibniz’s constructive method and apagogic argument style in his quadrature method. In treating these equivocations, I critique some assumptions that underlie the reductive reading of Leibniz’s fictionalism concerning infinite and infinitesimals. In turn, I suggest that these infinitesimal “fictions” pointed to a problematic within Leibniz’s work that was conceived and reconsidered in Leibniz’s work from a range of different contexts and methods.

Questions and Methods in the Research of the Inter-religious Coexistence in South-East Europe

Întrebări şi metode ale cercetării coexistenţei interreligioase în Europa de Sud-Est

Author(s): Thede Kahl / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1 (02)/2006

Keywords: South-East Europe; inter-religious coexistence

Das Zusammenleben ethnisch unterschiedlicher Gruppen ist von entscheidender Bedeutung für den inneren und äußeren Frieden einer Region. Im Gegensatz zum übrigen Europa leben die Muslime Südosteuropas bereits seit gut einem halben Jahrtausend mit Christen auf engem Raum zusammen. Es konnten friedliche Symbiosen entstehen, aber es ist auch mehrfach zu kriegerischen Auseinandersetzungen zwischen einzelnen Volksgruppen gekommen. Bei einem Teil der Auseinandersetzungen handelt es sich um Konflikte, die sich an religiösen Unterschieden festmachen lassen. Viele Konflikte wurzeln in der Zeit nach der Gründung der Nationalstaaten, als das für das Osmanische Reich charakteristische „Prinzip interethnischer Koexistenz“ aufgegeben wurde. Bis in die heutige Zeit sind die südosteuropäischen Siedlungsverhältnisse immer wieder starken Veränderungen unterworfen gewesen. Große muslimische Bevölkerungsgruppen, die in Südosteuropa über Jahrhunderte hinweg gelebt und ihr Umfeld geprägt haben, sind teils freiwillig, teils gezwungen in jüngerer Zeit ausgewandert. Manche Gebiete, in denen bis vor kurzem gemischte Siedlungen existierten, sind durch Abwanderung einheimischer und durch Ansiedlung andersgläubiger Bevölkerungsgruppen heute konfessionell weitestgehend einheitlich. Die Verbreitung der muslimischen Bevölkerungsgruppen und ethnisch-religiös gemischter Siedlungen ist daher seit dem Zerfall des Osmanischen Reiches zurückgegangen. Dennoch gibt es in allen Ländern des Balkans bedeutende muslimische Minderheiten – im Fall Albaniens und Bosniens sogar muslimische Mehrheiten. Der Beitrag möchte Fragen der alltäglichen interethnischen Beziehungen zwischen orthodoxen Christen und Muslimen in religiös gemischten Siedlungen vorstellen und Methoden diskutieren, mit denen das Zusammenleben untersucht werden kann.

Freedom without alternatives. In search for a basis for moral responsibility

Wolność bez alternatyw. W poszukiwaniu podstaw moralnej odpowiedzialności

Author(s): Maja Kittel ,Leopold Hess / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 34/2012

Keywords: free will; moral responsibility; sense of agency; Principle of Alternative Possibilities; Leibniz; Frankfurt; Velleman; Gallagher

The problem of free will and the related problem of attributing moral responsibility are among the most discussed issues in contemporary philosophy. In the present paper we argue against the standard approach to this issue in terms of (in)compatibilism and the Principle of Alternate Possibilities. Invoking the arguments of Leibniz and some twentieth-century authors, we show that philosophers should focus on the issue of the conscious sense of agency that accompanies our voluntary actions. In the final part of the paper we point out some promising lines of research on the empirical grounds of the sense of agency conducted by neurobiologists, cognitive scientists, and advocates of the embodied cognition paradigm

THE EUROPEAN ARREST WARRANT, AS REFLECTED BY THE PRACTICE OF CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS

MANDATUL EUROPEAN DE ARESTARE ÎN JURISPRUDENŢA INSTANŢELOR CONSTITUŢIONALE

Author(s): Karoly Benke / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2007

The European Arrest Warrant, as reflected by the practice of constitutional courts. The European Arrest Warrant was introduced by the Council Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA of 13 June 2002, being the first concrete measure which implemented, at the European Union level, the principle of mutual recognition in the field of criminal matters. The Framework Decision simplifies and speeds up the surrender procedures between the Member States, as the political and administrative phase of the traditional extradition procedures have been replaced by a judicial mechanism. Taking into account that the Framework Decision was adopted in the field of the 3rd pillar of the European Union, the Member States had to mandatory implement it in their national legislation. In this context appeared some conflicts between the national laws of implementation and the Constitutions of some Member States. With this problem had to deal the constitutional courts, which in some countries, like Poland, Germany or Cyprus, found these laws unconstitutional as they were contrary to some constitutional texts regarding extradition or the role of the national Parliament, although they were an exact transposition of the Framework Decision. Other Member States, due to their Euro friendly orientation or to some specific constitutional provisions, like Czech Republic or Romania, had no problem to pass these laws by the constitutional courts scrutiny. Another interesting aspect raised by this topic is a recent judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Communities given in a constitutional procedure which regards the national Belgian implementation law of the Framework Decision. These are the main subjects that will be presented and debated in this paper. Nonetheless, it will emphasize the key role of the constitutional courts in the process of the European legislation implementation and application at the Member States level.

The Immigration Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany

Polityka imigracyjna Republiki Federalnej Niemiec

Author(s): Magdalena Szaniawska-Schwabe / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 04/2009

Contemporary Federal Republic of Germany is unarguably an immigrant state, German society being a vibrant multicultural conglomerate whose integral part are persons of immigrant descent. In spite of this, German immigration policy markedly departs from models implemented by classic immigrant states such as Canada or Australia. Many years German administration refused to acknowledge that Germany was in fact an immigration state, thereby hampering the crystallization of a comprehensive immigration policy, which was substituted by summary regulations. Political efforts focused on limiting the wave of immigrants and exercising strict control of the access of foreigners to the German labor market. Germans did not respond in an adequate way to the problems of foreigners and were reluctant to recognize they were a multicultural society. Political practice shaped a model of immigration in principle oriented towards short-term and rotational gainful immigration, which in consequence led to exclusion of foreigners from social and political life. The first immigration act that regulated the issue in a comprehensive way came into effect only fifty years after the signing of the first bilateral agreement on the recruitment of workforce in 1955. Deficits of immigration policy are evident in the phenomenon of „parallel societies”, meager acquisition of the German language by immigrants, conflicts on the labor market and in state schools as well as in invariably low rates of naturalization. In the face of negative demographic trends and an obvious shortage of specialists, the FRG is compelled to modify its by now obsolete immigration policy.

A topic sphere of representations in the coinage of Florian, the Roman emperor (276 AD.)

Sfera topiczna wyobrażeń w mennictwie cesarza rzymskiego Floriana (276 rok)

Author(s): Agata A. Kluczek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2011

The key to discuss the subject-matter in Florian’s coinage and differentiate the topic in the coinage in the second half of the third century was to take three following steps: 1) determine the typological structure of the coinage of Florian in percentages, based on the analysis of the content of the monetary treasures, 2) attach the monetary types to broader thematic categories, 3) compare the hierarchy of the thematic categories and monetary types in the coinage of Florian and others emperors governing in the years 268—276 AD. The basis for the analysis constituted the material covering 778 silver Florian’s coins coming from 11 big monetary hoards. A collection of 28 gold Florian’s coins, as well as his single medallions was the completion allowing for making conclusions precise. The material for retrospection and comparison constituted 46 186 silver coins minted in the times of Claudius II, Quintillus, Aurelian, and Tacitus. A comparative analysis of topics dealt with in Florian’s coinage and that of his predecessors proves that the coin-images made on behalf of Florian were reflected above all in conventional dreams on the ruler equipped with virtus and guaranteeing the prosperity in the empire. Moreover, the coins messages present a strong dependence of the emperor on the army.

Abbas Moros. Violent Gestures Between Brutality and Desire of Healing

Abbas Moros. Violent Gestures Between Brutality and Desire of Healing

Author(s): Ovidiu Olar / Language(s): English / Issue: 03/2006

Violence: justified and illegitimate. The purpose of the present study is to take a closer look at the former by reflecting on some particular ways of legitimizing violent actions. 1. A Crazy Abba 2. Ascets, Grazers, Fools 3. “I will mock the world” 4. Elijah the wise 5. The Beginning and the End 6. Violence as Monopoly 7. Another Fool I. Secular Violence - 1. The Daily Life — “bandits are lying in wait”; 2. War — “the worst of evils”; 3. The Law — setting the example; II. Sacred Violence - a). The Rhetoric of Violence; a) Heretics and martyrs - The Madrid Skylitzes; c) Eschatological Violence;

The Truth of Fallacy

Istina zablude

Author(s): Jürgen Mittelstrass / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 2-3/1990

Der Aufsatz befaßt sich mit einigen grundlegenden Fragen der Erkenntniskritik und Wissenschaftstheorie, vor allem aber mit den Konsequenzen, die sich für die Hermeneutik aus dem Begriff des Irrtums ergeben. Für die Theorie literaturwissenschaftlicher Interpretation sind dabei nach wie vor manche Probleme von Belang, die in der bekannten Heidegger-Staiger-Kontroverse erkennbar sind. Der Schlußteil dehnt die Fragestellung auf die allgemeinen Beziehungen zwischen Geisteswissenschaften und Naturwissenschaften aus.

„üsse laposra őket az istennyila”. Radnóti Miklós sajtópere

„üsse laposra őket az istennyila”. Radnóti Miklós sajtópere

Author(s): Katalin Varga / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 11/2009

1960s STUDIME FILOLOGJIKE

1960s STUDIME FILOLOGJIKE

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Albanian / Issue: 01-02/2014

Keywords: 1960s ; STUDIME FILOLOGJIKE

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LANGUAGE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS IN HUNGARY IN THE LUTHERTUM FROM 16TH TO 17TH CENTURY

SPRACHLICHE UND ETHNISCHE VERHÄLTNISSE IN UNGARNS LUTHERTUM AN DER WENDE VOM 16. ZUM 17. JAHRHUNDERT

Author(s): Zoltán Csepregi / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2017

Keywords: Lutheranians in Hungary; mutilingualism; 16th century;

Ein besonderer Zug des Luthertums in Ungarn ist dessen ethnische Vielfalt. In der Studie wird der Frage nachgegangen, welche jene Volkssprachen sind, in denen Ungarns lutherische Geistliche um das Jahr 1600 ihre Gottesdienste feierten, predigten, sangen und schrieben. Wenn man aus den Quellen erhebt, mit welchen ethnischen Attributen die Prediger der mehrsprachigen lutherischen Kirchengemeinden damals bezeichnet wurden, kommt folgende Liste zustande: böhmisch, deutsch, kroatisch, polnisch, sächsisch, slowakisch, ungarisch und windisch. Wenn man also die Predigtsprachen zusammenzählt, könnte man (abhängig von der Zuordnung einzelner Dialekte) zu einer Zahl von 6 bis 8 Sprachen gelangen. Die Anzahl der liturgischen Sprachen ist hingegen viel geringer, denn diese standen bereits mit der Buchkultur und den Schriftsprachen in Verbindung. Liturgische Literatur (vor allem Agenden, Gebet- und Gesangsbücher, sowohl gedruckte als auch handschriftliche) stand nämlich nur in vier Sprachen zur Verfügung: Tschechisch, Ungarisch, Deutsch und Slowenisch. Für die Pfarramtskandidaten war es darum nötig, sich andere V olkssprachen anzueignen. Der Fremdsprachenerwerb geschah nicht mit schulischen Methoden, sondern in der Praxis, in der Umgebung von Muttersprachlern. Der hier unternommene Rundblick über Ungarns Luthertum vom Übermurgebiet bis zum Burzenland bezieht sich auf die Zeit um 1600. Die Mehrsprachigkeit war hier damals noch alltägliche Praxis, heute existiert sie jedoch nur noch als kulturelle Erinnerung und als weitestgehend untergegangene Tradition. Die Lutheraner konnten sich aber dank ihrer historischen Wurzeln doch eine besondere Offenheit und ein Verhalten gegenseitigen Respekts und gegenseitiger Annahme aus dieser Zeit herüberretten.

Students Who Has Been Sent To Europe Regardıng Musıc Studıes in The Early Years of The Republıc of Turkey and Theır Effect To Modern Turkısh Musıc: Sample of Idıl Bıret and Suna Kan

Cumhuriyetin İlk Yıllarında Müzik Alanında Yurt Dışına Gönderilen Öğrenciler ve Çağdaş Türk Müziğine Etkileri: İdil Biret ve Suna Kan Örneği

Author(s): Tülay GÖKDEMİR,Erhan Alpaslan / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 2/2019

Keywords: Idil Biret; Suna Kan; Modernizm; Multi Voiced Music; Special Talented Children; Education Abroad;

Art is a way of expression the emotions and thoughtsby different ways in the narrow meaning. Every terms there has been self art types that reflects that term. Under the world changing conditions aktrists needed to make self inquiry and modern arts are occurend. At 19. century Europe was the beginning of the process. Turkeys way for modernizm has been to benefit from Europe foremost on military and then fields like economy and art. Music has been the most important field for modernizm of the societies. Regarding that Turkey sent studiens to abroad, these student contributed to modern Turkish musics occuring when they return to homeland. Foremost the music field, these improvements at the art has been effective to introduce new Turkey and shaping futures Turkey also. On this study the scope of activites for improving modern Turkish music in the early years of the Republic of Turkey related studies are spesificed and in this context the effects of these practises on modern Turkish musics improving is investigated via role model.

AGE AND SEX DIFFERENCES IN BIHEVIOURAL AND EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS IN CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN INSTITUTIONAL TREATMENT IN REPUBLIC CROATIA

PROBLEMI U PONAŠANJU I EMOCIJAMA KOD DJECE I MLADIH U INSTITUCIONALNOM TRETMANU U REPUBLICI HRVATSKOJ

Author(s): Ivana Jeđud Borić / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 1/2010

Keywords: voice quality; perceptual assessment of voice;

On total sample of 418 children and youth in institutional treatment in Republic Croatia, research was conducted with main goal to determin age and sex differences according to Child Behaviour Checklist (Achenbach, 2001). Discriminatory analysis shows statistically significant differences regarding both criteria. Results show that youngest children (up to 14 years old) and girls manifest highest level ofproblem on particular syndromes and on total problems. Qualitative analysis of one of the open-end variables also indicate multiple risk in girls, with outlined specific topics such as pliability, alchol and drug abuse, inadequate relationships with opposite sex, runnying away and promiscuity. These results give certain guidelines for direct work and development of new treatment programs, but they also indicate the need for further research especcially when it comes to girls in institutional treatment.

The Ethics of Responsibility

Hans Jonas’ Ethik der Verantwortung

Author(s): Robert Theis / Language(s): German / Issue: 64/2019

Keywords: technological progress;responsibility for the future;metaphysics;value;end;true human being

The Principle of Responsibility, which appeared 40 years ago, attempts to providean ethical basis for our technological civilization. The following article reconstructs thesystematic interconnections of this ethical basis. Jonas formulates a new ethical principle, i.e.that we should act so that the effects of our behaviour are compatible with the permanencyof true life on earth. In the reception of this work, it is particularly the idea of responsibilityfor the existence of future generations and thus the preservation of nature or creation, whichhas attracted attention. This basic idea has its roots in ontology, which studies the questionwhy human beings should exist at all. Jonas considers that justifying “ought” for a given “is”can only be done with the help of metaphysics; i.e. answering the fundamental question why“is” is of more value than “is not”.