EXCELLENCE: Worthy goal or dangerous desire? Is excellence a destination or a journey or an attitude? In a world and a society where the expectation is for achievement, success and winning, what should be a Lutheran school’s approach to pursuing excellence? Is excellence about achieving and surpassing standards? Or is it about the process of teaching and learning to the best of one’s ability? O...

J Postgrad Med 2004;50:82-83 hristian Albert Theodor Billroth was the first of five sons born to Carl Theodor Billroth, a priest in the Lutheran church and his wife Johanna Christina. He was born on April 26, 1829, at Bergen, on the island of Rügen, Prussia. The family lived in Klosterstrasse, later renamed Billrothstrasse. Three years after Billroth's birth, the family moved from the fishing v...

Few long-term statistical series exist that can document the mortality transition in Africa. This paper uses data from the parish registers of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia to study morality in Ovamboland between 1930 and 1990. The paper identifies significant discontinuities and reversals in the trend in mortality. Much of the mortality transition occurred in a rapid breakthrough ...

Abstract The paper examines the very beginnings of Bible Mission in Hungary within Habsburg Empire first part nineteenth century. It divides thirty years into two major epochs: one before Gottlieb August Wimmer, Lutheran pastor Felsőlövő (Oberschützen) and agent British Foreign Society (BFBS) characterized by his work until revolution 1848. In paper, I summarize main obstacles both political re...

The region of Latgale/Polish Livonia lies on the intersection between Lutheran northern half Baltic and Roman Catholic southern part. Almost all local German nobility had accepted Lutheranism, but was politically a part Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Jesuit missionaries tried to re-Catholicise this region. religious contact surrounding pagan countryside diligently noted in reports, which becam...

Flowers are a common element in Danish funerals. Drawing on fieldnotes, interviews and survey data funeral practices the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark as well theories ritualization, meaning-making practices, this article shows that flowers not only sine qua non funerals but also used to make them more personal produce reproduce social relations. Additionally, material objects acquire ...

Interpretation. The basic idea of abstract interpretation is to simplify and omit all calculations that do not directly influence the execution costs. For example, instead of computing a numeric value, it is only computed whether it is positive or negative, thereby speeding up the execution of the program to be examined. While having the attraction of being very general, one major disadvantage

Abstract Corpulence is an area of body-history which receiving increased attention in line with current concerns about rising obesity as well social movements champion body positivity and fat acceptance. Historians have challenged the traditional narrative that past societies being ‘fat’ was simply viewed a positive sign wealth prosperity, showing instead fatness could be criticized early sixte...