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...There, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe mingled with philosophers Friedrich Schelling and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the scientist-explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the playwright Friedrich Schiller during...
...Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was and is a cultural colossus, a figure to rank alongside Dante and Shakespeare. But he is also a somewhat forbidding figure....
...Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self by Andrea Wulf – An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong Special offers for FT Weekend listeners, from...
...The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh, John Murray £20, 352 pages Andrea Wulf is the author of ‘The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost...
...Frederick StudemannAnd it’s a book called Magnificent Rebels, and it is a book by Andrea Wulf, who’s a writer who wrote a very much celebrated biography of the explorer, polymath, whatever, Alexander von...
...The former Deutsche Börse executive said he pushed for the audit after the Financial Times in October 2019 raised doubts about whether key customers in Asia existed and after Wirecard’s then-chair Wulf Matthias...
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf, which is about Alexander von Humboldt, an 18th/19th-century naturalist and explorer who travelled the world collecting...
...Alexander von Knoop, joined the company in 2005 and was made chief financial officer in 2018. Susanne Steidl joined in 2006 and has been chief product officer since 2018....
...Mr von Knoop declined to comment through Wirecard’s press office....
...Former Deutsche Börse chief financial officer Thomas Eichelmann has been named new chairman of Wirecard after his longstanding predecessor Wulf Matthias resigned “for personal reasons” with immediate effect...
...The city is “completing what was done in 1938,” said Wulf Gordian Hauser, a lawyer representing the heirs, referring to the Nazi confiscation of the Austrian Rothschilds’ assets and bequests following the...
...The company’s longstanding chairman Wulf Matthias was deeply sceptical....
...“Alexander von Humboldt saw himself as a citizen of the world,” says Andrea Wulf, author of an acclaimed biography of him. “He is the forgotten father of the environmental movement.”...
...“At the moment, most supervisory boards are discussing fixed pay separately from their long-term incentive schemes and their pension plans,” said Wulf von Schimmelmann, a member of the commission, adding...
...In one of 2015’s best-selling biographies the author Andrea Wulf has traced the idea in the life of the 18th-century German aristocrat Alexander von Humboldt....
...von Humboldt’s New World’ (John Murray)...
...Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was one of the most famous people of his time....
...The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution, by David Wootton, Allen Lane, RRP£30, 784 pages Andrea Wulf’s ‘The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the...
...A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design, by Frank Wilczek, Allen Lane, RRP£25/Penguin Press, RRP$29.95, 448 pages Andrea Wulf’s ‘The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt...
...Deutsche Postbank, Germany’s biggest retail bank, on Monday appointed Wolfgang Klein to replace Wulf von Schimmelmann as chief executive. The bank said Mr von Schimmelmann would step down on June 30....
...On Saturday, he hosted a lunch for Ms Merkel during the World Equestrian Festival in Aachen, where she met executives and managers ranging from Klaus Kleinfeld, Siemens chief executive, and Wulf Bernotat...
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