AUSTERLITZ

ôˈstərlĭts, Ger. ouˈ–, Czech Slavkov u Brna, town, S Czech Republic, in Moravia. An agricultural center, the town has sugar refineries and cotton mills. It became a seat of the Anabaptists in 1528. At Austerlitz, in the "battle of the three emperors," Napoleon I won (Dec. 2, 1805) his most brilliant victory by defeating the Russian and Austrian armies under Czar Alexander I and Emperor Francis II. The "sun of Austerlitz" (it was a cloudless day) became synonymous with the peak of Napoleon's fortunes. An armistice with Austria, concluded (Dec. 4) at Nikolsburg (now Mikulov), was followed by the Treaty of Pressburg. Russia continued the war but had to withdraw all troops from Austria. There is a famous description of the battle in Tolstoy's War and Peace. The town has an 18th-century castle, a 13th-century church, the Renaissance Church of the Resurrection, and the Monument of Peace (built 1910–11).

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Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics - Vol. 1
Book by Keith Brown, Anne H. Anderson, Laurie Bauer, Margie Berns, Graeme Hirst, Jim Miller; Elsevier, 2006
Subjects: Language And Languages--Encyclopedias, Linguistics--Encyclopedias
...of Natural History in New York City (Austerlitz, 1977: 16). During the summer of 1951, Austerlitz studied Korean at the University of California...shaman) albeit not in her original home. Austerlitz returned to Columbia in the fall of 1954...
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The Dictator's Dictation: The Politics of Novels and Novelists
Book by Robert Boyers; Columbia University Press, 2005
Subjects: Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Politics And Literature--History--20th Century, Politics In Literature
...take The Emigrants and the later novel Austerlitz to be books about the Holocaust, and...Of Sebalds four completed novels, Austerlitz surely seems the most insistently situated...obsessed with-a man named Jacques Austerlitz, whom he meets by chance one day in...
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Tolstoy and the Genesis of "War and Peace"
Book by Kathryn B. Feuer, Robin Feuer Miller, Donna Tussing Orwin; Cornell University Press, 1996
Subjects: Tolstoy, Leo, Graf, 1828-1910. War And Peace
simultaneous with Andreis death at Austerlitz--or so the outline indicates. Furthermore...is, within the few days just before Austerlitz, was to have given up his childhood...first part tightly around the Battle of Austerlitz. From the manuscripts he had accumulated...
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The Emperor's Friend: Marshal Jean Lannes
Book by Margaret Scott Chrisawn; Greenwood Press, 2001
Subjects: Ambassadors--France--Biography, France--Armee--History--Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Lannes, Jean--Duc De Montebello--1769-1809, Marshals--France--Biography, Napoleon--I--Emperor Of The French--1769-1821--Friends And Associates, Napoleon--I--Emperor Of The French--1769-1821--Relations With Marshals
...casualties, see Christopher Duffy, Austerlitz 1805 (London, 1977), 67. 44. Service...45. See Michel de Lombares, Devant Austerlitz sur les traces de la pens6e de 1Empereur...A Detailed Account of the Battle of Austerlitz, trans. Major Pine Coffin (London...
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Displacement, Asylum, Migration: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2004
Book by Kate E. Tunstall; Oxford University Press, 2006
Subjects: Emigration And Immigration, Human Rights
I felt, as I was saying, said Austerlitz, as if my father were still in Paris...And might it not be, continued Austerlitz, that we also have appointments to...so to speak. As I was saying, said Austerlitz, And might it not be, continued Austerlitz...
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Reconsidering Postmemory: Photography, the Archive, and Post-Holocaust Memory in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz
Journal article by Richard Crownshaw; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 37, 2004
Subjects: Benjamin, Walter, Derrida, Jacques, Literature--Criticism and interpretation, Photography
...Holocaust Memory in W.G. Sebalds Austerlitz. by Richard Crownshaw Theories of postmemory...acts. By examining W.G. Sebalds Austerlitz and its use of photography, this essay...relation to W.G. Sebalds 2001 novel Austerlitz. Austerlitz is essentially the fictional...
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A New Method of Estimating the Pollen Dispersal Curve Independently of Effective Density
Journal article by Juan J. Robledo-Arnuncio, Frédéric Austerlitz, Peter E. Smouse; Genetics, Vol. 173, 2006
Subjects: Density, Dispersal, Estimates, Pollen, Probability, Sample size, Studies
...Juan J. Robledo-Arnuncio , Frederic Austerlitz , Peter E. Smouse (ProQuest Information...ep^ and d^sub e^;4^sup 2^ (AUSTERLITZ and SMOUSE 2001a: Equations 15 and...Trying to circumvent this problem, AUSTERLITZ and SMOUSE (2002) developed a refined...
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The Jazz Tinge in Dominican Music: A Black Atlantic Perspective
Journal article by Paul Austerlitz; Black Music Research Journal, 1998
Subjects: Dominican Republic--Music, Jazz music--Social aspects, Music and society--Analysis
...BLACK ATLANTIC PERSPECTIVE. by PAUL AUSTERLITZ Since its inception, jazz has developed...Bourguignon 1951, 1969; Wilcken 1992; Austerlitz 1997, 7). After Spains retreat as...mangulina, bachata, and merengue (see Austerlitz 1997; Davis 1976, 1981; Hernandez...
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Bracelet, Hand Towel, Pocket Watch: Objects of the Last Moment in Memory and Narration
Journal article by Mona Korte; Shofar, Vol. 23, 2004
Subjects: Child development, Crime, Culture, England, Germany, History, Holocaust, Human relations, International, Interpersonal communication, Jews, Minority & ethnic groups, Museums, Parents & parenting, Personal relationships, Railroad transportation, Railroads, Transportation
...Stockholm, 1987, and W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz, 2001) there are numerous autobiographical...acclaimed -- , presented a new book, Austerlitz.(40) The author commented that...stories in the main character, Jacques Austerlitz, which he researched."(41) One...
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"What a Synoptic and Artificial View Reveals": Extreme History and the Modernism of W. G. Sebald's Realism
Journal article by Todd Samuel Presner; Criticism, Vol. 46, 2004
Subjects: Historical novels--Criticism and interpretation, Sebald, W.G.--Criticism and interpretation, Sebald, W.G.--Works
...of the Holocaust, The Emigrants and Austerlitz, and his essayistic reflections on...reality of the present and the past. In Austerlitz, through the interactions between the...two of the most important sections of Austerlitz and Luftkrieg und Literatur where the...
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Austerlitz
Magazine article by Tom Leclair; Book, November 2001
Subjects: Austerlitz (Book)--Reviews, Books--Reviews
Austerlitz by Tom Leclair W.G. SEBALD TRANSLATED...same names will reappear in reviews of Austerlitz, which shares qualities with Sebalds...elegiac, almost private. But in Austerlitz, Sebalds subject is--or becomes...
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Austerlitz: The Battle of the Two Emperors: The Greatest Battle of Napoleon's Career Took Place Two Hundred Years Ago, on December 2nd, 1805. Although It Is Often Called the Battle of the Three Emperors, Michael Adams Sees It as a Very Personal Clash between Two Men Struggling for the Mastery of Europe
Magazine article by Michael Adams; History Today, Vol. 55, December 2005
Subjects: Alexander I, Czar of Russia--Behavior, Battle of Austerlitz, 1805, French history, 1789-1815, Napoleon I, Emperor of France--Behavior
Austerlitz: The Battle of the Two Emperors: The...armies clashed near the small town of Austerlitz (modern Slavkov) in the eastern part...Franco-Spanish fleet. The name of Austerlitz will forever be linked with that of...
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Austerlitz
Magazine article; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 288, November 2001
Subjects: Fiction
Austerlitz. by W. G. Sebald, translated by...or, indeed, if they exist at all. Austerlitz looks more like a novel than anything...train station. At the start Jacques Austerlitz seems as detached from the personal...
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Only Connect
Magazine article by A.S. Byatt; New Statesman, Vol. 130, October 15, 2001
Subjects: Austerlitz (Book)--Reviews, Books--Reviews
...memory and forgetting of modern Germany AUSTERLITZ W G Sebald Hamish Hamilton, 432pp...Auerbach, Grunewald. His new novel, Austerlitz, returns to these themes. It is the story of a man called Austerlitz, narrated in various railway stations...
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W. G. Sebald: The Past Is Another Country
Magazine article by Tess Lewis; New Criterion, Vol. 20, December 2001
Subjects: Austerlitz (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Authors, German--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Characters and characteristics in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., History--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Sebald, W. G.--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Rings of Saturn (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Travel--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...the landscape. Sebalds latest novel, Austerlitz, (3) examines the corrosive effects...suppression on a more intimate level. Jacques Austerlitz has been haunted for decades by a past...dared go no further than that" Thus, Austerlitz, almost inconceivably, as he himself...
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A LUST FOR LIFE, LOVE AND VICTORY; How Far from Austerlitz: Napoleon 1805-1815 by Alistair Horne (Macmillan, [Pounds Sterling
Newspaper article; November 30, 1996
...LIFE, LOVE AND VICTORY; How Far from Austerlitz: Napoleon 1805-1815 by Alistair Horne...Austrians and the Russians at the Battle of Austerlitz, in what is now the Czech republic...for Napoleon. Because his success at Austerlitz made him feel he was invincible, he...
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Golf: Chris Back on Top Form; Paisley Wins in Austerlitz
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), August 12, 2008
...Chris Back on Top Form; Paisley Wins in Austerlitz. NORTHUMBERLANDS Chris Paisley bounced...win the Czech Amateur Championship in Austerlitz. Paisley, the No 1 English golfer...The other English players in action in Austerlitz, James Robinson and Adam Wainwright...
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Walking the Dark Side of Memory
Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, October 7, 2001
...moment in W.G. Sebalds new novel, "Austerlitz," in which the books young hero is...Yes, I can still see Adela, said Austerlitz . . ." The moment is to be treasured...for the missing people. Here Jacques Austerlitz, among other things a keen photographer...
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Revisiting a Historic Battle
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 23, 2005
...Re-enactors gather for battle of Austerlitz" (Nov. 30, World) about the bicentennial...it is time that the famous Battle of Austerlitz be renamed the Battle of Slavkov to...road maps show Slavkov u Brna but not Austerlitz - an Austrian-German name from the...
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THE FIGHT TO SAVE A PRINCESS; CAUGHT BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH: Paramedics, Doctors and Surgeons Tell How They Tried Everything They Knew to Rescue Diana in Those Final, Fateful Hours in Paris
Newspaper article by Jean-Marie Pontaut; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), August 26, 1998
...Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital, near Austerlitz station. In normal circumstances...says that the ambulance has stopped on Austerlitz Bridge and the doctors are carrying...specifies: "We stopped at the end of Austerlitz Bridge. The patients blood pressure...
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encyclopedia articles on: Austerlitz  - 19 results

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Austerlitz
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AUSTERLITZ o st rlits, Ger. ou , Czech Slavkov...seat of the Anabaptists in 1528. At Austerlitz, in the "battle of the three emperors...and Emperor Francis II. The "sun of Austerlitz" (it was a cloudless day) became...
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Brno
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Catholic Church. The city was besieged in 1645 by the Swedes and served as headquarters for Napoleon I during the battle of Austerlitz in 1805. The Spielberg castle, which was captured by Hapsburg forces during the Thirty Years War , became (1740 1855...
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Napoleon I
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Ulm, occupied Vienna, and won (Dec. 2, 1805) his most brilliant victory over the combined Russians and Austrians at Austerlitz . Austria, with the harsh Treaty of Pressburg (Dec. 26), was forced out of the coalition. Prussia, which entered the...
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Haugwitz, Christian August Heinrich, Graf Von
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...rikh graf f n houk vits, 1752 1832, Prussian foreign minister (1802 4, 1805 6). In 1805, after the French victory at Austerlitz, Haugwitz tried to appease Napoleon I by concluding treaties with France that involved humiliating Prussian subservience...
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Alexander I , Czar of Russia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...backward educational system. In 1805, Alexander joined the coalition against Napoleon I , but after the Russian defeats at Austerlitz and Friedland he formed an alliance with Napoleon by the Treaty of Tilsit (1807) and joined Napoleons Continental System...
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