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Rich·ter

 (rĭk′tər, rĭKH′-), Jean Paul Friedrich Pen name Jean Paul. 1763-1825.
German writer whose humorous and sentimental novels include Titan (1800-1803) and Years of Indiscretion (1804-1805).

Richter

, Sviatoslav Teofilovich 1915-1997.
Ukrainian-born pianist noted for both his technique and his poetic sensibility. His diverse repertoire ranged from the Romantic symphonies of Schubert and Schumann to the modern works of Prokofiev.
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Richter

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1. (Biography) Burton. born 1931, US physicist: shared the 1976 Nobel prize for physics with Samuel Tring for discovering the subatomic particle known as the J/psi particle
2. (Biography) Johann Friedrich (joˈhan ˈfriːdrɪç), wrote under the name Jean Paul. 1763–1825, German romantic novelist. His works include Hesperus (1795) and Titan (1800–03)
3. (Biography) Sviatoslav (svɪtaˈslaf). 1915–97, Ukrainian concert pianist
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Those who can read German will find an excellent guide, in this respect, in Frau Foerster-Nietzsche's exhaustive and highly interesting biography of her brother: "Das Leben Friedrich Nietzsche's" (published by Naumann); while the works of Deussen, Raoul Richter, and Baroness Isabelle von Unger- Sternberg, will be found to throw useful and necessary light upon many questions which it would be difficult for a sister to touch upon.
French and German works predominated, the old French dramatists, sundry modern authors, Thiers, Villemain, Paul de Kock, George Sand, Eugene Sue; in German--Goethe, Schiller, Zschokke, Jean Paul Richter; in English there were works on Political Economy.
There is much food for thought in Richter. You have not a pistol, have you?"
One of the most important forces in this period of his slow preparation was his study of German and his absorption of the idealistic philosophy of Kant, Schelling, and Fichte, of the broad philosophic influence of Goethe, and the subtile influence of Richter. A direct result was his later very fruitful continuation of Coleridge's work in turning the attention of Englishmen to German thought and literature.
What else did Jean Paul Richter signify, when he said to music, "Away!
Richter believes that there is something characteristically German about afterness, and most of his subject matter is taken from the canon of German literature and philosophy that has been established over the past two hundred years, although not to the exclusion of other work that falls within the European continental tradition.
The earthquake of magnitude 4.8 on the Richter scale was felt with its epicenter 28 kilometres north of Murghob in Tajikistan reported the US Geological Survey.
Richter. (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2011.
"Biology works in strange ways," said Joel Richter, PhD, professor of molecular medicine at UMMS and senior author on the study.
Diana Richter told CBS4 that she had opened her window owing to the nice weather and had fallen asleep.
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QUETTA -- An aftershock earthquake measuring 6 on Richter scale hit the Mashkel Tehsil of Washuk district of Balochistan located on the Pak-Iran border Wednesday morning, reports reaching here said.