Johann Ernst Bach I
Johann Ernst Bach( born 1683; died 1739)( also known as" Johannes Ernestus Bach") was a German organist in the Bach family, and son of Johann Christoph Bach senior – twin brother of Johann Sebastian Bach's father, Johann Ambrosius Bach.
Like his cousin Johann Sebastian, Johann Ernst attended Ohrdruf Lyzeum.
From April 1701, he lived in Hamburg for half a year, to study the organ.
Johann Ernst visited Johann Sebastian when he moved from Arnstadt to Lübeck to hear the famous organist in Marienkirche, Buxtehude, and in 1707, he was named as Johann Sebastian's successor as organist in Arnstadt.
Johann Ernst Bach (musician at Saxe-Weimar)
Johann Ernst Bach (28 January 1722, Eisenach – 1 September 1777, Eisenach) was a German composer of the Bach family.
He was the son of Johann Bernhard Bach.
Johann Georg Bach
Johann Georg Bach( 30 September 1751 in Eisenach – 12 April 1797 in Eisenach) was a German Organist.
A member of the Bach family, as the son of Johann Ernst Bach.
From 1777 he was organist at Georgenkirche in Eisenach.
Georg Christoph Bach
Georg Christoph Bach( 6 September 1642 – 27 April 1697) was a German composer.
He was the son of Christoph Bach and the elder brother of Johann Sebastian Bach's father Johann Ambrosius Bach.
Theodred II (Bishop of Elmham)
Theodred II was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.
The date of Theodred's consecration unknown, but the date of his death was sometime between 995 and 997.
John Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach
Johann Ernst of Saxe-Eisenach (Gotha, 9 July 1566 – Eisenach, 23 October 1638), was a duke of Saxe-Eisenach and later of Saxe-Coburg.
He was the fourth (but second surviving) and youngest son of Johann Frederick II, Duke of Saxony and Countess Palatine Elisabeth of Simmern-Sponheim.
His grandfather, Johann Frederick I, had still held the title of Elector of Saxony, but after the Battle of Mühlberg he lost the title to his cousin Maurice, from the Albertine line.
His father tried since then to regain the Electorate again for the Ernestine line.
For this purpose he accepted an outlawed knight, Wilhelm von Grumbach, with himself, which led finally to the fact that also over his father the anger of the Emperor.
Only one year after his birth was besieged the castle of his father in Gotha by troops of the Elector Augustus of Saxony and finally conquered.
His father came into imperial prison from the rest of his life.
His mother, Johann Ernst and his older brothers had to flee from Gotha.
They found first admission with his uncle, the duke Johann Wilhelm of Saxe-Weimar, who took over also the guardianship for the princes -at the same time, he was granted by the Emperor with the lands of his brother Johann Frederick II-.
After a short time in Weimar, Johann Ernst, as well as his mother and his brothers, lived in Eisenach and Eisenberg.
Later, his uncle Johann Wilhelm of Saxe-Weimar lost the Imperial favour.
In the Diet of Speyer (1570), the Emperor decided to restore to the three sons of Johann Frederick II his hereditary rights.
In 1572 his older brother Frederick Heinrich died from typhus fever.
The same year, by the Division of Erfurt, the decision of the Diet of Speyer was made: The lands of his father were extracted again from the duchy of Saxe-Weimar, and created from them the new "Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach".
Johann Ernst and his older surviving brother, Johann Casimir, were made rulers of the new country.
During there minority, the lands were under the guardianship of the three Elector Princes: Frederick III of the Palatinate (also his maternal grandfather), Johann George of Brandenburg and Augustus of Saxony; also, they took the regency over Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach.
The duchess Elizabeth moved to Austria, where she should live themselves in the future in the proximity of her husband, still imperial prissioner.
The two young princes, Johann Casimir and Johann Ernst, moved to Coburg, the future residence of his new principality.
With only six years, Johann Ernst was separated from his parents forever and entrusted to the education of strange persons.
Since 1578 he visited the University of Leipzig then together with his brother.
In 1586, after the wedding of his brother with Anna of Saxony, the daughter of the Elector Augustus, the guardianship finalized, and Johann Casimir began, together with his brother, the independent ruling of Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach.
Johann Casimir and Johann Ernst governed together the principality for the next ten years; however, Johann Casimir carried the main responsibility for the government as an older brother.
Also, in order to had a separated residence from his brother too, Johann Ernst establishes himself in the small town of Marksuhl on 1587.
Since 1590 Johann Ernst withdrew himself from the government of the duchy, with his brother completely agreed it, that this should govern the duchy for five years alone, when this time had elapsed and finally agreed (in 1596) with its brother to a new divisionary treaty.
The duchy of Saxe-Eisenach was taken by Johann Ernst as independent principality separated from Saxe-Coburg, who remained with Johann Casimir.
Thus, Saxe-Eisenach, for the first time in his history, had his own independent political unit became within the Holy Roman Empire.
During his first year of reign, Johann Ernst still live in Marsuhl because Eisenach, the new capital of his country, was inhabited and, only with the establishment of his official residence
the citizens began to moved there.
In 1598 Johann Ernst created for his duchy his own "Landesregierung" (Federal State Government) and a" Konsistorium".
In 1633 his brother, the duke Johann Casimir of Saxe-Coburg, died childless.
For this, Johann Ernst inherited Saxe-Coburg, and until his own death he governed both countries in a personal union, but maintains, however, his residence in Eisenach.
In Wiener Neustadt on 23 November 1591 Johann Ernst married firstly with Elisabeth of Mansfeld-Hinterort.
She died four days after giving birth to their only son:
In Rotenburg on 14 May 1598 Johann Ernst married secondly with Christine of Hesse-Kassel.
The marriage was happy, but remained childless.
With the death of Johann Ernst ended the older line of Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach.
His principality was divided (under the rules of the Ernestine line) between Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Altenburg.
Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach
Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (24 May 1759 – 25 December 1845) was the eldest son of Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach and the only grandson of Johann Sebastian Bach to gain fame as a composer.
He was music director to Frederick William II of Prussia.
He said, "Heredity can tend to run out of ideas."
Ernst Bach received training in music from his uncle, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and from another uncle in England, Johann Christian Bach.
He was in London when Johann Christian Bach died there on New Year's Day, 1782.
Ernst Bach remained in England until 1784 before returning via Holland to Germany.
He held a few positions, namely those of "Kapellmeister" of Minden in 1786, and from 1788 to 1811 as "Kapellmeister" in Berlin with the blessing of King Friedrich Wilhelm II.
Ernst Bach retired from his position after prince Heinrich, the brother of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III granted him a pension.
Ernst Bach married twice.
He had two daughters by his first wife, who died young, and a son by his second wife.
When WFE's only son died in infancy, the event served to extinguish the long line of musical Bachs.
At the unveiling of the Bach Monument in Leipzig on 23 April 1843, Ernst Bach met Robert Schumann.
Schumann later described Ernst Bach as "a very agile old gentleman of 84 years with snow-white hair and expressive features."
One of Ernst Bach's most remarkable compositions was "Dreyblatt," a concerto for piano involving six hands.
He wrote it in such a way in that it was to be performed with one large male in the middle with a petite female on either side of him.
Ernst Bach indicated that the man was to stretch his arms around the ladies to play the outside parts, while the ladies performed the middle parts.
He is buried at the Friedhof II der Sophiengemeinde Berlin.
Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar
Johann Ernst of Saxe- Weimar( 25 December 1696 – 1 August 1715) was a German prince, son by his second marriage of Johann Ernst III, Duke of Saxe- Weimar.
Despite his early death he is remembered as a collector and commissioner of music and as a composer, some of whose concertos were arranged for harpsichord or organ by Johann Sebastian Bach, who was court organist in Weimar at the time.
Johann Bernhard Bach
Johann Bernhard Bach (23 May 1676 – 11 June 1749) was a German composer, and second cousin of J. S. Bach.
Etan Boritzer
Etan Boritzer( born 1950) is an American writer of children ’s literature who is best known for his book" What is God?" first published in 1989.
His best selling" What is?" illustrated children's book series on character education and difficult subjects for children is a popular teaching guide for parents, teachers and child- life professionals.
Boritzer gained national critical acclaim after" What is God?" was published in 1989 although the book has caused controversy from religious fundamentalists for its universalist views.
The other current books in the" What is?" series include
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The series is now also translated into 15 languages.
Boritzer was first published in 1963 at the age of 13 when he wrote an essay in his English class at Wade Junior High School in the Bronx, New York on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
His essay was included in a special anthology by New York City public school children compiled and published by the New York City Department of Education.
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