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AUGSBURG, a city and episcopal see of Germany, in the kingdom of Bavaria, chief town of the district of Swabia. Pop. (1885) 65,905; (1900) 89,109; (1905) 93,882. It lies on a high plateau, 1500 ft. above the sea, between the rivers Wertach and Lech, which unit ...

AUGSBURG. WAR OP THE LEAGUE OF. the name applied to the European war of 1688-1697. The league of Augsburg was concluded on the gth of July 1686 by the emperor, the elector of Brandenburg and other princes, against the French. Spain, Sweden, England and other n ...

... es. The Latin tale is preserved in about 100 MSS., and was printed by M.Velser (Augsburg, 1595), by J. Lapaumein Script. Erot. (Didot,. Paris, 1856), and by A. Riese in the Bibl. Teubneriana (1871, new ed. 1893). The most widespread versions in the middle ages ...

... pologia contra insipientem Gaunilonem (c. noo); or the Lutheran Apology for the Augsburg Confession (1531); or J. H. Newman's Apologia pro vita sita (1864); or A. B. Bnice's Apologetics; or Christianity Defensively Staled (1802). Of course, defence easily pass ...

... paedia. AQDILA, CASPAR [KASPAR ADLER] (1488-1360), German reformer, was born at Augsburg on the 7th of August 1488, educated there and at Ulm (1502), in Italy (he met Erasmus in Rome), at Bern (1508), Leipzig (1510) and Wittenberg (1513)According to his son, h ...

... uments were on a scale and of a type unknown since the days of Nasir ud-din. At Augsburg, in 1569, he ordered the construction of a ig-ft. quadrant, and of a celestial globe 5 ft. in diameter; he substituted equatorial for zodiacal armillae, thus definitively ...

... on as (Mg, Fe") (Al, Fe")i SiO,; the acmite (NaFe"SiA) Fie. i. FIG. 2. AUGMENT— AUGSBURG and jadeite (NaAlSijO«) molecules are also sometimes present. Variations in the amount of iron in mixtures of these isomorphous molecules are accompanied by variations in ...

... are now only I -9 %. In 1900, 365.505 of them were returned as belonging to the Augsburg Confession (Lutheran), •28,557 to the Helvetic (Reformed). Other Christian Confessions in Austria are Hcrrnhuters (Moravian Brethren) in Bohemia, Mennonitcs in Galicia, Li ...

... Jocham, Geschichte des Lebens u. der Verehrung des seligen Papstes Eugen III. (Augsburg, 1873); G. Sainaci, Vita del beato Eugenia III (Pisa, 1868); J. Jastrow and G. Winter, Deutsche Geschichte im Zeitalter der Hohenstaufen, i. (Stuttgart, 1897) ; C. Neumann ...

... he Fern) in the Bavarian Alps had to be crossed and the Rhine valley reached by Augsburg, and thence either by way of Ulm or Frankfort. From Genoa the routes in the early middle ages were by way of Milan to the Lake of Constance, and thence by way of Ulm if th ...

... ism we have to leave Melanchthon's system (and his great Reformation creed, the Augsburg Confession) for the Formula of Concord and the lesser men of that later period. In Calvin, indeed, Calvin tne Reformed 2 theology possessed a master of system. We notice i ...

... he second Restoration to Lausanne. During his exile he lived in Vienna, Prague, Augsburg and Brussels, occupying himself with his Mtmoires sur la Contention et le Directoire (Paris, 2 vols., 1824); Mtmoires sur le Consvlat: par un ancien conseiUer d'etat (Pari ...

... up here by Luther and his friends in 1530, were the basis of the confession of Augsburg. Torgau is particularly celebrated as the scene of a battle fought on the 3rd of November 1760, when Frederick the Great defeated the Austrians (see SEVEN YEARS' WAR). In ...