Like many eventual conservatives, the composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949) began as a radical, effectively reinventing the orchestral tone poem in the late 19th century, then testing the limits of ...

JOSEPH FRIEPRICH FREIHERR VON MERING, who was born in Cologne a century ago on February 28, is remembered as a pioneer in the work on diabetes ; his paper, with Oscar Minkowski, in the Archiv für ...