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Zweig, Stefan
Austrian writer, b. in Vienna to a well-to-do Jewish family on 28 Feb. 1881, d. by suicide together with his wife at Petropolis on 23 Feb. 1942. In his early… -
Zwettl
Cistercian abbey in the diocese of St. Pölten (S. Ippolito), in Lower Austria. A daughter house of Heiligenkreuz (v.), of the line of Morimond, it was founded… -
Zwickau, Prophets of (ZWICKAU, PROFETI DI)
Three illuminati from this small town in Saxony, the weavers Nikolaus Storch, Thomas Drechsel and the student Marcus Thomae, called Stübner, who, claiming to… -
Zwingli, Huldrych
Initiator of the Protestant "reformation" in Switzerland, b. 1 Jan. 1484 at Wildhaus (lordship of Tonnenberg, domain of the abbey of St. Gall) into a… -
Zwolle
Dutch city (in 1952 it had about 45,000 inhabitants, of whom more than half were Catholics), famous for the house that the Congregation of Windesheim (v.) had…