June 22

© 1997, 1998 by Paul A. Schons

June 22, 1767

Birth of Wilhelm von Humboldt in Potsdam, Germany. He was a key figure in founding the Friedrich Wilhelm University, now the Humboldt University, in Berlin.

June 22, 1803

Death of Wilhelm Heinse in Aschaffenburg, Germany. Heinse was a novelist and literary critic who wrote in the Sturm und Drang style. His novel, Ardinghello und die glückseligen Inseln (1787) is the most remembered of his works.

June 22, 1805

Birth of poet and novelist, Ida Gräfin von Hahn-Hahn, in Tressow, Germany.

June 22, 1898

Birth of the novelist, Erich Maria Remarque in Osnabrück, Germany. His most known novel is Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front).

June 22, 1906

Birth of Billy (originally Samuel) Wilder in Sucha, Austria. He immigrated to the U. S. A. where he became a renowned movie director. Among his best known films are Sabrina, The Seven Year Itch, Some like it Hot and One, Two, Three. Wilder died in California on March 28, 2002.

June 22, 1910

The first passengers are taken up in an airship, the German Zeppelin (invented by and named after Ferdinand von Zeppelin.)

June 22, 1936

Death of Moritz Schlick in Vienna, Germany. Schlick was a philosopher of the Positivist school. He studied at the Universities of Heidelberg, Switzerland and Berlin. His doctorate from Berlin was in physics. He became a professor of philosophy at the University of Vienna. In his work he attempted to bring the methods of the natural sciences to bear on philosophy. Among his books are, Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre (1918) Raum und Zeit in der gegenwärtigen Physik (1919), Fragen der Ethik (1930), and Grundzüge der Naturphilosophie (1948).

June 22, 1941

Germany attacks the Soviet Union in WWII.