Jena meaning

yā'nə
A city of central Germany southwest of Leipzig. Napoleon I decisively defeated the Prussians here on October 14, 1806.
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City in central Germany, in the state of Thuringia: site of a battle (1806) in which the Prussian forces were routed by Napoleon.
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Jena (independent city in Thuringia, Germany)
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A female given name, a rare variant of Gina.
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Sentence Examples

  • From 1816 to 1819 Leo studied at the universities of Breslau, Jena and Göttingen, devoting himself more especially to history, philology and theology.

  • Leaving the service after the war, he studied jurisprudence at Heidelberg, Göttingen and Jena, and in 1819 went for a while to Geneva to complete his studies.

  • von Hahn, Albanesische Studien (Jena, 1854), Reise durch die Gebiete des Drin and Vardar (Vienna, 1867); F.

  • Vogel, Peter Damiani (Jena, 1856); A.

  • At Jena, where he lectured as a Privatdozent at the university, he contributed to the Athenaeum the aphorisms and essays in which the principles of the Romantic school are most definitely stated.

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