Friedrich Bogislav von Tauentzien
Friedrich Bogislav von Tauentzien( 18 April 1710 – 21 March 1791) was a Prussian general who served during the wars of King Frederick the Great.
Tauentzien hailed from the von Tauentzien family and was born in the village of Tauentzien near Lauenburg in Farther Pomerania.
He participated throughout the Silesian Wars.
Tauentzien fought alongside Frederick in many of the king's great battles, including Mollwitz, the capture of Prague, Hohenfriedberg, and Kolin.
He distinguished himself during the defense of Breslau against Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon in 1760 during the Seven Years' War.
Tauentzien married Charlotte von dem Knesebeck, with whom he had two sons and four daughters.
One of his sons was Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien, a Prussian general during the Napoleonic Wars.
Tauentzien died in Breslau; his funerary monument was designed by Carl Gotthard Langhans and Johann Gottfried Schadow.
It was located in the middle of Breslau's Tauentzienplatz( now" Plac Tadeusza Kościuszki") near the Schweidnitz Gate where the general had personally defended against Austrian troops in 1760.
The plaza experienced Breslau's densest traffic until 1945.
With the transfer of the city to Poland following World War II, the monument was leveled.
Friedrich Gilly
Friedrich David Gilly( 16 February
1772 – 3 August 1800) was a German architect and the son of the architect David Gilly.
Born in Altdamm, Pomerania,( today Dąbie, district of Szczecin, Poland), Gilly was known as a prodigy and the teacher of the young Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
In 1788 he enrolled at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Berlin.
His teachers there included Carl Gotthard Langhans and Johann Gottfried Schadow.
In 1797 Gilly travelled extensively in France, England, and Austria.
The drawings he made in France reveal his interests in architecture and reflect the intellectual climate of the Directoire.
They include views of the Fountain of Regeneration, the Rue des Colonnes—an arcaded street of baseless Doric columns leading to the Théâtre Feydeau —the chamber of the Conseil des Anciens in the Tuileries and Jean- Jacques Rousseau ’s grotto in its landscaped setting at Ermenonville, Oise.
His 1797 design for the Frederick II monument reveals his debt to French neoclassicism, in particular Etienne- Louis Boullée, his explanatory notes indicate he intended the building to be spiritually uplifting.
Beginning in 1799 Schinkel lived in the Gilly household at Berlin and was taught by Friedrich and Friedrich's architect father David Gilly.
Gilly was appointed professor at the Berlin Bauakademie at the age of 26.
Of his built designs, only one survives: the ruinous Greek Revival mausoleum( 1800 – 02; mostly destr. after 1942) at Dyhernfurth near Breslau( now Brzeg Dolny near Wrocław, Poland), in the form of a prostyle Greek temple.
Gilly died from tuberculosis at the age of 28 in Karlsbad.
Rożnów, Opole Voivodeship
Rożnów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wołczyn, within Kluczbork County, Opole Voivodeship, in southwestern Poland.
There is an interesting pyramid- shaped tomb here, built in 1780 during the German- Prussian era when the village was called" Ober- Rosen".
It was designed by Carl Gotthard Langhans( who also designed the Brandenburg Gate) and housed the tombs of Prussian general Karl Adolf August von Eben und Brunnen and his closest relatives.
The graves were desecrated by Soviet troops in 1945.
Żeliszów
Żeliszów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bolesławiec, within Bolesławiec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south- western Poland.
Prior to 1945 it was in Germany.
It lies approximately south- east of Bolesławiec, and west of the regional capital Wrocław.
The village houses a Protestant church designed in 1796- 1797 by Carl Gotthard Langhans, which is currently undergoing renovation overseen by the Your Heritage Foundation( Fundacja Twoje Dziedzictwo).
Marizza Faría
Marizza Alejandra Faría Servin( born 20 August 1983) is a Paraguayan handball player for club Liberbank Gijón and the Paraguayan national team.
She represented Paraguay at the 2013 World Women's Handball Championship in Serbia, where the Paraguayan team placed 21st.
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
Mary Proctor
Mary Proctor (1862 – September 11, 1957) was an American popularizer of astronomy.
While not a professional astronomer, Proctor became well known for her books and articles written for the public – particularly her children's fiction.
Despite various claims as being an American, there is a passenger list of about 1924 where she gives nationality as British.
Carl Gotthard Langhans
Carl Gotthard Langhans( 15 December 1732 – 1 October 1808) was a Prussian master builder and royal architect.
His churches, palaces, grand houses, interiors, city gates and theatres in Silesia( now Poland), Berlin, Potsdam and elsewhere belong to the earliest examples of Neoclassical architecture in Germany.
His best- known work is the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, national symbol of today ’s Germany and German reunification in 1989/90.
Alexandros Margaritis
Alexandros( Alex, Alexander) Margaritis;( born 20 September 1984) is a racing driver who is best known for competing in the German- based Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters touring car championship.
Prior to that, his career had focused on formula single seater racing in Europe.
Margaritis has dual nationality as a result of his place of birth and Greek parentage.
Carl Ferdinand Langhans
Carl Ferdinand Langhans( 14 January
1782 – 22 November 1869) was a Prussian architect with a special interest in theatre architecture.
Born in Breslau( Wrocław), Silesia, Langhans was the son of the architect Carl Gotthard Langhans.
Langhans' designs included opera houses in Berlin and Leipzig, theatres in Breslau and Liegnitz, and the Berlin palace(" Altes Palais") of Kaiser Wilhelm I.
He is also remembered for his innovative pleorama entertainment.
Langhans died in Berlin.
His grave is preserved in the Protestant" Friedhof III der Jerusalems- und Neuen Kirchengemeinde"( Cemetery No. III of the congregations of Jerusalem's Church and New Church) in Berlin- Kreuzberg, south of Hallesches Tor.

Question: Does Carl Gotthard Langhans have the same nationality as Marizza Faría?
Answer: no