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Freiburg
(redirected from Freiburg im Breisgau)

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Frei·burg  (frbûrg, -brk)
also Freiburg im Breis·gau (m brsgou) A city of southwest Germany near the Rhine River at the edge of the Black Forest. Founded in 1120, it is a manufacturing, cultural, and tourist center. Population: 218,000.

Freiburg (German) [ˈfraibʊrk]
n
1. (Placename) a city in SW Germany, in SW Baden-Württemberg: under Austrian rule (1368-1805); university (1457). Pop.: 201 000 (1999 est.) Official name Freiburg im Breisgau [ɪm ˈbraisgau]
2. (Placename) the German name for Fribourg


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One might have expected the Basler student of Werner Kaegi to persist in an orientation that had become passe elsewhere in the German-speaking world, but the authors of the twelve essays in this volume work not only at the universities of Basel and Oxford, but at academies ranging from Berlin and Hamburg to Freiburg im Breisgau - although, it must be added, all but one of these excursions first appeared between 1970 and 1991.
One might have expected the Basler student of Werner Kaegi to persist in an orientation that had become passe elsewhere in the German-speaking world, but the authors of the twelve essays in this volume work not only at the universities of Basel and Oxford, but at academies ranging from Berlin and Hamburg to Freiburg im Breisgau - although, it must be added, all but one of these excursions first appeared between 1970 and 1991.
One might have expected the Basler student of Werner Kaegi to persist in an orientation that had become passe elsewhere in the German-speaking world, but the authors of the twelve essays in this volume work not only at the universities of Basel and Oxford, but at academies ranging from Berlin and Hamburg to Freiburg im Breisgau - although, it must be added, all but one of these excursions first appeared between 1970 and 1991.
 
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