Sentences with phrase «german nobility»

All privileges and immunities of the German nobility as a legally defined class were abolished on August 11, 1919 with the promulgation of the Weimar Constitution, recognising all Germans as equal before the laws of their country.

The Weimaraner, fondly called the Gray Ghost, was developed as a hunting dog and companion for German nobility.

They were used by German nobility for hunting bear, boar, and deer.

Max Emil Friedrich von Stephanitz was born in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony, into German nobility on December30, 1864.

The German nobility called them Englischer Hund.

I do this... as a duty of brotherly love, so that if any misfortune or disaster comes out of this matter, it may not be attributed to me, nor will I be blamed before God and men because of my silence... We have no one on earth to thank for this disastrous rebellion except you princes and lords, and especially you blind bishops and mad priests and monks whose hearts are hardened... The murder - prophets [a reference to Karlstadt, Muntzer and all the Schwarmerei] who hate me as they hate you, have come among these people... for more than three years, and no one has resisted and fought against them except me... I beseech you not to make light of this rebellion... The peasants have just published twelve articles some of which are so fair and just as to take away your reputation in the eyes of God... Because you made light of my To The German Nobility you must now listen to and put up with these selfish articles.

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In his Address to the Nobility of the German Nation (1520), Luther criticized the traditional distinction between the «temporal» and «spiritual» orders — the laity and the clergy — arguing that all who belong to Christ through faith, baptism, and the Gospel shared in the priesthood of Jesus Christ and belonged «truly to the spiritual estate»: «For whoever comes out of the water of baptism can boast that he is already a consecrated priest, bishop, and pope, although of course it is not seemly that just anybody shall exercise such office.»

Albertus Magnus (Albert the Great, c. 1193 or 1206 to 1280) was a German, possibly of the nobility, born in Swabia, an area which had been on the border of the Roman Empire.

If the German Appeal to the Nobility, written to the propertied, pedigreed, privileged and powerful in the German lands with their varieties of inherited responsibilities, created consternation, the new Latin piece written to the educated of all Europe brought the realisation that nothing less than a religious revolution was afoot.

It was still published in places when he decided to publish it and began delivering the pages of his written piece to the printer, heading the piece boldly To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation concerning the Reform of the Christian Estate.

It was a motley collection of Luther's German and Latin works, but it included both the German Appeal to the Nobility and the Latin Prelude to the Babylonian Captivity.

God give us all a Christian mind, and grant to the Christian nobility of the German nation in particular true spiritual courage to do the best they can for the poor church.

Ada German for «noble, nobility.»

In 1969, in the catalogue of his first retrospective, at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, he identified his parents as «an ascetic, remotely male, Irish Catholic truant officer, whose junior I am, and a stupid, fleshly tyrant of a woman who had descended from German royalty without a trace of nobility.»