Frederick the Great

When in 1767 Johann G. Wallerius, professor of chemistry at Upsala, resigned his chair, Bergman presented himself as a candidate for the vacancy and, not without spirited rivalry, wras elected. This position he held till his death, though in 1776 Frederick the Great of Prussia made him a tempting offer to join the Academy of Sciences at Berlin. Notwithstanding Bergman s comparatively early death, in his forty-ninth year, he succeeded... 

Benedictine Monk of the Congregation of Saint-Maur, Abbot of Burg el in Thuringe, Librarian of Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, etc. 

Hans Aarsleff, The Berlin Academy under Frederick the Great, History of the Human Sciences 2, 1989, 193-206. 

The boy carries the name Fritz, the most German of names. It recalls old Fritz, Frederick the Great, Prussian leader of the previous century. 

Poland, and thence found its way into the army of Frederick the Great, and into the Austrian servlee, where its name (w/an from Tuikish ofian, a youth) indicates its derivation. See Lancb... 

Frederick II of Prussia, popularly known as Frederick the Great, issues his Charter for the Jews of Prussia We herewith establish, regulate, and order earnestly that in the future no Jew shall presume to engage in any manual trade. ... 

Another Et in Arcadia Ego painting in Frederick the Great s Sans Souci palace in Potsdam shows only one shepherd with a group of goddesses. The three goddesses represent the goddess triplet of marriage, birth and death. 

Like Frederick the Great (left), Charles V, Fienry VIII (right) and Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wald stein (Wallenstein, a Bohemian military leader and politician) also suffered from rheumatism and gout. It is fair to assume that they made use of willow bark and meadowsweet, in order to treat their "minor ailments"or "rheumatic pain", as gout was popularly called. 

The "Tabakskollegiurrf of Frederick I of Prussia, around 1710 and a snuff-box of Frederick the Great. 

Note inserted in the edition of 1820-4 ] There exists at present under the same title of Anti-Machiavelli a work by the king of Prussia, known as Frederick the Great, and who was then only a royal prince. Voltaire edited it. 

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