Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick
“Religion maybe linked to social inequality if the religion being practiced is not the dominant religion in a particular culture or society”
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Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick
Ernest Augustus was Duke of Brunswick from 2 November 1913 to 8 November 1918. He was a grandson of George V of Hanover, thus a Prince of Hanover and a Prince of the United Kingdom. He was also a maternal grandson of Christian IX of Denmark and the son-in-law of German Emperor Wilhelm II. The Prussians had deposed King George from the Hanoverian throne in 1866, but his marriage in 1913 ended the d…
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politics · Duke of Brunswick from 1913 to 1918 · monarch · also Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick, Ernst August I of Brunswick, Ernest Augustus, Ernest August I, Duke of Brunswick, Brunswick
Born 17 November 1887 · Died 30 January 1953 · Q57672
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Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith… We need believing people.
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Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick
“Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith… We need believing people.”
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1986· 1 entry
Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick
“By and large, conventional religion, as many humans accept it, is illogical in its attempt to conceive of entities lying outside the Universe. Since the Universe comprises everything, it is evident that nothing can lie outside it. The idea of a ‘god’ creating the Universe is a mechanistic absurdity clearly derived from the making of machines by men. I take it that we are in agreement about all this.”
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1953· 1 entry
Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick
Died 1953-01-30.
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1947· 1 entry
Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick
When her husband Paul became King of the Hellenes
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1938· 1 entry
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Princess Frederica married Prince Paul of Greece, brother and heir-presumptive of King George II of Greece
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1936· 1 entry
Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick
Edward VIII and his wife visited "the Cumberlands" at Cumberland Castle in Gmunden, Austria
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1923· 1 entry
Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick
Ernest Augustus did not succeed to his father's title of Duke of Cumberland
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1917· 1 entry
Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick
The British dukedom of Ernest Augustus's father, and his own title as a Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, were removed by the Titles Deprivation Act 1917, which took effect in 1919, as a result o
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1906· 1 entry
Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick
Ernest Augustus offered that he and his elder son, Prince George, would renounce their claims to the Duchy of Brunswick in order to allow Ernest Augustus, his only other surviving son, to take possession of the Duchy, bu
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1887· 1 entry
Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick
Born 1887-11-17.
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1884· 1 entry
Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick
His paternal great-granduncle the reigning Duke of Brunswick (a male line descendant of Henry, the older brother of William, his male line ancestor) died
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1866· 2 entries
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Following the end of the Austro-Prussian War (Hanover had sided with losing Austria)
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But his marriage in 1913 ended the decades-long feud between the Prussians and the Hanoverians
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1837· 1 entry
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Because Salic Law barred Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom, from inheriting the Hanoverian throne
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