Talk:Freies Deutsches Hochstift

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Did you know... that the Freies Deutsches Hochstift association acquired Goethe's birthplace in Frankfurt am Main in 1863, but did not fully restore it until 1926?

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The Freies Deutsches Hochstift[edit]

Gerda Arendt, the Hochstift's English language website and the English language sources I have found via Google books use an article with Freies Deutsches Hochstift, so I have added "the" back to the text. The website also gives the Goethe-Haus in Frankfurt and the Deutsches Romantik-Museum an article before each name.

https://freies-deutsches-hochstift.de/en/

"The Freies Deutsches Hochstift is one of the oldest cultural institutes in Germany and a non-profit research institution. It is the sponsor of the Goethe-Haus in Frankfurt, the Deutsches Romantik-Museum ..."

Landmarks in the History of the German Language (Geraldine Horan, ‎Nils Langer, ‎Sheila Watts · 2009)

"one of the founders of the Freies Deutsches Hochstift"

The Conservation Movement: A History of Architectural Preservation: Antiquity to Modernity (Miles Glendinning · 2013)

"the establishment in 1859 of a Freies Deutsches Hochstift (Free German Foundation)"

Writers' Houses and the Making of Memory (Harald Hendrix · 2012)

"the “Freie Deutsche Hochstift” (Free German Foundation) bought it"

Who Ran the Cities? City Elites and Urban Power Structures in Europe and North America, 1750-1940 (Robert Beachy, ‎Ralf Roth · 2007)

"the Freie Deutsche Hochstift, a society founded in the context of the anniversary of Schiller's birth in 1859"

TSventon (talk) 06:34, 28 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Freies Hochstift" means "Das freie Hochstift" - this is German grammar: the German article is already in the name. But, fine, English doesn't know that, accepted. However, saying "the "Freie Hochstift" - as the last sources do - is mixing German and English grammar in a way that hurts so please don't use that. To say "the Freies Hochstift assocation" as ALT0a in the DYK nom does is the best way out of the dilemma because then the article goes with "association". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:43, 28 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

History subheadings[edit]

Medarduss, I see you have started adding subheadings, I would use the early directors as headings, i.e Volger, Berg and Heuer (combined) and Beutler and then modern history. The modern history could be headed Deutsches Romantik-Museum if that is the only event we mention after Beutler. TSventon (talk) 13:43, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, feel free to change the headings if you want. I just wanted to put some to break up the wall of text. I haven't written it yet but will eventually have more modern history to add. Medarduss (talk) 14:19, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Pictures to the left or right[edit]

@Gerda Arendt, is there something wrong with having images on the left? I think it looks cleaner, and the text didn't seem sandwiched. Medarduss (talk) 08:04, 18 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Medarduss, Gerda Arendt may be able to answer in more detail, but MOS:IMAGELOC says that the default placement is on the on the right side of the page, which produces a consistent left margin. TSventon (talk) 17:47, 18 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for explaining. The almost only reason to have a pic left is a person pictured who looks right, but even then: if it displaces the text (by following immediately to a header) or if it displaces the following header (and always think of readers with a wide screen), then better not. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:28, 18 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thanks for the explanation guys. Medarduss (talk) 08:04, 19 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]