Bonn Gallery

Germany, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Bonn, Arithmeum, museum of technology, science and art

Germany, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Bonn, Arithmeum, museum of technology, science and art, interior, Burroughs Number 11 adding machine, key detail, 1912

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Charles, 2nd Duke of Saxe-Coburg

Charles Edward, 2nd Duke of Albany, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha from from 30 July 1900 to 14 November 1918, (1884-1954). in the uniform of Ninth, Charlie became Duke of Saxe-Coburg in 1899. Prince Alfred's only son had died and although the succession naturally passed to Prince Arthur and then his son, they declined and so Charlie was was uprooted from Eton and England at the age of thirteen and sent to Germany, despite hardly knowing the language. At the Kaiser's suggestion he was sent to Lichterfield military academy at Potsdam and he went on from there to Bonn. He inherited the Coburg title a week after his sixteenth birthday.
1900

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Portrait of Beethovens Grandfather (oil on canvas)

XIR316371 Portrait of Beethoven's Grandfather (oil on canvas) by Radoux, Leopold (1754-81); Beethoven Haus, Bonn, Germany; (add.info.: Ludwig van Beethoven (1712-73), grandfather of the German composer and pianist Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827);); German, out of copyright

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Half Length, Hat, Male, Musical, Score, Sheet, Tassels, Turban, Written Music