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    Welser was a German banking and merchant family, originally a patrician family based in Augsburg and Nuremberg, that rose to great prominence in international...
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  • Welser is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bartholomeus V. Welser (c. 1475 – 1559), Augsburg merchant and banker Bartholomeus VI. Welser...
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    Leopold Maria Möst (born 16 August 1960), known professionally as Franz Welser-Möst, is an Austrian conductor. He is currently music director of the Cleveland...
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    Americas consisted of German Venezuela (German: Klein-Venedig, also German: Welser-Kolonie), St. Thomas and Crab Island in the 16th and 17th centuries. Klein-Venedig...
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    Philippine Welser (1527 – 24 April 1580) was the morganatic wife of Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria. She was granted the titles Baroness of Zinnenburg...
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    Mark Welser (1558–1614) was a German banker, politician, and astronomer, who engaged in learned correspondence with European intellectuals of his time...
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    Maria von Welser (born 26 June 1946 in Munich) is a German TV journalist and the President of UNICEF Germany. She is by marriage a member of the preeminent...
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    of its concerts at Severance Hall. Its current music director is Franz Welser-Möst. The Cleveland Orchestra was founded in 1918 by music-aficionado Adella...
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    Prince Bartholomeus Welser (25 June 1484 in Memmingen – 28 March 1561 in Amberg) was a German banker. In 1528 he signed an agreement with Charles V, emperor...
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    Klein-Venedig (category House of Welser)
    Carvajal had von Hutten and Bartholomeus VI. Welser executed. King Charles V revoked Welser's charter. Welser transported to the colony German miners, and...
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