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Considered among the most depraved and psychotic of Roman emperors, his birth name was Lucius Septimus Bassianus; Caracalla was a name given to him and referred to the loose, short-sleeve coat he habitually wore and which he made fashionable, it’s style coming from Syria – his mothers place of origin. It is still worn today…

Brom Born possibly in Waiblingen, son of Duke Friederich of Swabia. In 1147 he became Duke of Swabia and was crowned, Holy Roman Emperor in 1155. It was said of him ‘His character was such that not even those envious of his power can belittle its praise’. He died in 1190 while crossing the Goksu River in south-eastern Anatolia,…

Greek sculpture now in the Vatican of Laocoön, priest of Apollo, who warned the Trojans not to touch the Wooden Horse. The discovery of The Laocoön in Rome in 1506 influenced Italian Renaissance art, notably Michelangelo, who is known to have been impressed by the massive scale of the work and its sensuous Hellenistic style.When…

Born Langenargen am Bodensee. Painter of the Baroque style, his work spanned the second half of the 18th century in both oil painting and fresco on themes religious, mythological and sometimes worldly. Working as he did at the end of the Baroque artistic tradition and at the time of the onset of Neo- classicism put him…

Celebrated Poet, dramatist, novelist and scientist. He travelled and studied widely including Tübingen, where he was reputedly sick from drinking too much in the local bars, (one of which sports a plaque bearing the legend, „Hier kotzte Goethe“ (Goethe puked here). Apart from his many literary achievements he made important scientific discoveries and evolved a non-Newtonian…

Poet, philosopher, historian and dramatist. Born in Marbach a. Neckar, his childhood and youth were spent in relative poverty although he attended both village and Latin schools. Coming to the attention of Karl Eugen Duke of Wuerttemberg led him into entering the Karlsschule Stuttgart in 1779 where he eventually studied medicine. While at the school he wrote his…

One of the greatest German lyric poets fusing classical and Christian themes in his works. Born in Lauffen am Neckar, he started writing poems at the age of 14 and entered the University of Tübingenin1788, where he studied theology obtaining a masters degree. In 1793 he met Friedrich von Schiller who published some of his poems. Hölderlin’s…

Born in Stuttgart and educated in Tübingen, Hegel was a philosopher who devoted his life wholly to academic pursuits. His absolute idealism criticised the epistemological distinction of objective from subjective and it has been frequently suggested that his philosophy provided an intellectual foundation for modern nationalism. In ‚A Defence of the Boulevardier‘, Emmett Williams compares Hegel, with his…

Duke Paul von Württemberg received Mergentheim Palace, Bad Mergentheim in 1827 following his marriage to Princess Sophie Dorothee Caroline von Thurn und Taxis. During his numerous travels in Europe and abroad he completed his ethnographic collections, which he kept at the palace. He was one of the most important naturalists of the 19th century. Only a fraction…

Eduard Mörike was born in Ludwigsburg and studied Theology at the Seminary of Tübingen. He was appointed pastor of Kleversulzbach near Weinsberg in 1834. Between 1844 and 1851 he lived in the town of Bad Mergentheim at the same time as Duke Paul von Württemberg was residing there in the Palace.In 1851 he became Professor of German Literature at the Katharinenstift in Stuttgart.…