Germans

Author: (German) Emil Ludwig
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: This book focuses on the rise and fall of Germany from 800 AD to the 1940s; Gutenberg, who invented movable type printing; Luther, who dedicated his life to the Reformation; Kepler, the astronomer who laid the foundation for Newton's law of universal gravitation; Goethe, the great literary figure who emerged during the Sturm und Drang movement; and Beethoven, the cynical genius of music. These are the "revered" aspects of the author: serious and earnest.