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#6601

Friedrich Ludwig

1872 - 1930 (58 years)

Friedrich Ludwig was a German historian, musicologist, and college instructor. His name is closely associated with the exploration and rediscovery of medieval music in the 20th century, particularly the compositional techniques of the Ars Nova and the isorhythmic motet.

#6602

Oscar Albert Johnsen

Oscar Albert Johnsen

1876 - 1954 (78 years)

Oscar Albert Johnsen was a Norwegian historian. He published a number of books on historical topics. Life Johnsen became a student a 1896; he graduated with a master's degree in 1898, and in 1906 he received a PhD with his dissertation De norske stænder . In 1906 and 1907 he studied as a government scholar in Copenhagen, Paris, and Berlin. Later, he made a number of study trips abroad, including to England, Germany, and the Baltic countries. He was professor of history at the University of Oslo from 1913 to 1945.

#6603

Johann Wilhelm Hoffmann

1710 - 1739 (29 years)

Johann Wilhelm Hoffmann was a German historian, jurist and writer. Life Johann Wilhelm Hoffmann was born in 1710 in Zittau, Electorate of Saxony, the son of school rector Gottfried Hoffmann. After the early death of his father in 1712, his mother and later his brother, Christian Gottfried Hoffmann, took over his upbringing. After he completed his education in 1728, he moved on to the University of Frankfurt to pursue studies in law.

#6604

John Logan

1748 - 1788 (40 years)

Rev John Logan FRSE was a minister in Leith, Scotland, a popular preacher known also as a historian. Self-destructive behaviour saw him end his life as a hack writer in London. Early life He was born at a farm in Soutra, near Fala, Midlothian to George Logan, a farmer, and his wife Janet Waterston, daughter of John Waterston in the parish of Stow. The family moved to Gosford Mains, near Aberlady in East Lothian. In terms of their religious belief they were dissenters: members of the Burgher branch of the First Secession. They attended the church of John Brown in Haddington. John then went to...

#6605

Ernst Levy

1881 - 1968 (87 years)

Ernst Levy was a German American legal scholar and historian of law. He was a Professor of Roman Law at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Heidelberg . Being Jewish, he was forced to retire in 1935, and decided to emigrate from Nazi Germany to the United States. At the University of Washington, he was a Professor of Law and History from 1937 to 1952.

#6606

Fortunatus Hueber

1639 - 1706 (67 years)

Fortunatus Hueber was a West German Franciscan historian and theologian. Life He entered the Bavarian province of the Franciscan Reformati on 5 November 1654. He was general lector in theology; cathedral preacher in Freising from 1670 to 1676; then in 1677 Provincial of Bavaria.

#6607

Alexander Cartellieri

1867 - 1955 (88 years)

Alexander Cartellieri was a German historian, principally of the High Middle Ages. Between 1904 and 1934 he held a full professorship for Medieval and Modern History at the University of Jena. After his retirement in 1934, he continued to live in Jena through the National Socialist years, the war, Soviet occupation and the early years of German partition.

#6608

Herman Scholliner

1722 - 1795 (73 years)

Herman Scholliner was a German Benedictine theologian and historian. Biography He entered the Benedictine abbey of Oberaltaich in 1738; studied philosophy and theology at Erfurt and Salzburg. He was director of the house of studies of the Bavarian Benedictines from 1752 to 1757; professor of dogmatic theology at Salzburg from 1759 to 1766. He traveled to Vienna in the interests of his monastery in 1770 and became prior of his monastery in 1772. He taught dogmatic theology at Ingolstadt from 1776 to 1780 and became provost at in 1780. From 1759 he was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Scien...

#6609

Joe Murphy

1895 - 1920 (25 years)

Joseph Patrick Murphy was one of 22 Irish Republicans who died on hunger strike in the 20th century. He was an Officer in the Irish Republican Army who died as a result of his participation in the 1920 Cork hunger strike at Cork Gaol.

#6610

Orest Miller

1833 - 1889 (56 years)

Orest Fyodorovich Miller was a Russian folklorist, professor in Russian literature, of Baltic German origin from Estonia. He is the author of the book "Муромец и богатырство киевское"

#6611

Johann Philipp Murray

Johann Philipp Murray

1726 - 1776 (50 years)

Johann Philipp Murray was a German historian who was mainly interested in early Nordic studies and the relations between England and Scandinavia. Biography Johann Philipp Murray was born on 30 July 1726 in Schleswig. He was the oldest son of the Prussian-born preacher and theologian Andreas Murray . His brothers were the professors Johann Andreas Murray and Adolph Murray , and the Bishop Gustaf Murray . Murray was a student in Königsberg in 1742, Uppsala in 1746 and Göttingen in 1747. In 1748 he became a Master of Arts at the University of Göttingen, assistant professor in 1755 and full professor in 1762.

#6612

Lorenzo Sears

1838 - 1916 (78 years)

Lorenzo Sears was an American historian and biographer. He was born in Searsville, Massachusetts . He graduated from Yale College in 1861 and from the General Theological Seminary, New York in 1864. He was rector of various Episcopalian parishes in New England until 1885. From 1885 to 1903 he served as professor at the University of Vermont and at Brown University .

#6613

Paul Seabury

1923 - 1990 (67 years)

Paul Seabury was an American political scientist and foreign policy consultant. Life Born in Hempstead, Long Island, Seabury was a native New Yorker. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1946, and from Columbia University with a Ph.D. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley starting in 1953. Once a national official of the liberal Americans for Democratic Action, after the tumultuous era of student revolt at Berkeley, he became a leading spokesman for the first American neo-conservatives. He was part of the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence, which fostered intelligence studies in American universities.

#6614

Richard Otto Zöpffel

1843 - 1891 (48 years)

Richard Otto Zöpffel was a Baltic German church historian and theologian born in Arensburg, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire . He studied theology at the University of Dorpat, and history at the University of Göttingen under Georg Waitz . In 1871 he published Die Papstwahlen und mit ihnen im nächsten Zusammenhange stehenden Ceremonien in ihrer Entwickelung vom 11. bis zum 14. Jahrhundert , and based on this work, received his doctorate in Göttingen. Shortly afterwards, he was appointed associate professor of church history at the University of Strasbourg, becoming a full professor in 1877.

#6615

John Musser

1889 - 1949 (60 years)

John Musser was an American historian and educator who was dean of the graduate school at New York University and an instructor of American History. Musser attended Franklin and Marshall College before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania, from which he received his bachelor's degree. He went on to also earn his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania under the direction of Herman Vandenburg Ames. An authority on Benjamin Franklin, in 1937 Musser debunked a claim made by the Nazi Party that Charles Pinkney had once recorded in his diary that Franklin had made an anti-Semitic prophecy about a future...

#6616

Aleksandre Pirtskhalaishvili

1888 - 1965 (77 years)

Aleksandre Pirtskhalaishvili was a Georgian, Soviet historian, Doctor of Philosophy , and professor . In 1915, he graduated from Kiev University, on Historical Faculty of Philology. In 1912 Pirtskhalaishvili went to Germany, and attended courses at Heidelberg University. After returning to Georgia he worked in pedagogy. In 1929 he was invited by the Tbilisi State University, where he lectured until his last days. He was exploring the history of 19th-century Georgia and Russian-Georgian relations.

#6617

Andreas Kobler

1816 - 1892 (76 years)

Andreas Kobler was a Catholic historian. He made his preliminary studies at Landshut, and studied theology at Munich, where Johann Adam Möhler and Joseph Görres appear to have awakened in the young theologian his preference for the study of history.

#6618

Xiahou Xuan

209 - 254 (45 years)

Xiahou Xuan , courtesy name Taichu, was a Chinese essayist, historian, military general, philosopher, and politician of the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of China. Family background Xiahou Xuan was a son of Xiahou Shang. His mother was Princess Deyang , and thus Xiahou Xuan was close to Cao Shuang's faction. Xiahou Xuan had a sister Xiahou Hui, the wife of Sima Shi. One of Xiahou Xuan's daughters became the wife of He Jiao , the grandson of He Qia and the son of He Jiong .

#6619

Johann Franz Bessel

Johann Franz Bessel

1672 - 1749 (77 years)

Johann Franz Bessel was a German Benedictine abbot and historian. Life He made his course in the humanities at Aschaffenburg, Würzburg, and Bamberg, and in 1690 entered the University of Salzburg, conducted by the Benedictines, where he specialized in philosophy, also attending lectures on theology and jurisprudence. He entered the Benedictine Order at Göttweig on the Danube, Lower Austria, 15 June 1692. After making his vows , he completed his theological course at Vienna, was ordained , and on 23 May was granted the degree of Doctor of Theology, being shortly afterwards appointed Lector in ...

#6620

William Sanderson

1586 - 1676 (90 years)

William Sanderson was an English historian. Career Sanderson was secretary to Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, when Holland was chancellor of the university of Cambridge. James Howell describes him as being from his youth bred up at court, and "employed in many negotiations of good consequence both at home and abroad". He suffered in the cause of Charles I, and was made a gentleman of the privy chamber by Charles II and knighted. Holland had made him a grant of the Paddock Walk, Windsor Park, which was confirmed at the Restoration. On 7 June 1671 a pension of £200 per annum was granted to Sanderson and his wife jointly.

#6621

Emeric, King of Hungary

Emeric, King of Hungary

1174 - 1204 (30 years)

Emeric, also known as Henry or Imre , was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1196 and 1204. In 1184, his father, Béla III of Hungary, ordered that he be crowned king, and appointed him as ruler of Croatia and Dalmatia around 1195. Emeric ascended the throne after the death of his father. During the first four years of his reign, he fought his rebellious brother, Andrew, who forced Emeric to make him ruler of Croatia and Dalmatia as appanage.

#6622

Octav Botez

1884 - 1943 (59 years)

Octav Botez was a Romanian literary critic and historian. Born in Iași, his father Panait was a general in the Romanian Army, his mother was Smaranda and his brother was Eugeniu Botez. He attended primary school in the Sărărie neighborhood, followed by the National College and then the literature faculty of the University of Iași, where he studied between 1901 and 1906. His first published work appeared in 1904 in Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol's Arhiva review. He passed a qualifying examination in 1909 for French and philosophy, and taught high school from 1909 to 1913. In 1923, he earned a doc...

#6623

Hu Hua

1921 - 1987 (66 years)

Hu Hua was a Chinese historian. A native of Fenghua, Zhejiang, Hu Hua was born in December 1921. He began working alongside the Communist Party of China to oppose Japanese forces in 1937, shortly after the Second Sino-Japanese War had started. Hu was assigned to the Eighth Route Army in 1938, and was active in Wuhan and Changsha. Hu formally joined the Communist Party of China in February 1939, by which time he had relocated to northern Shanxi. Hu began his teaching and research career in April 1940, at the North China United University. Throughout the 1940s, Hu taught at several educational institutions in North China.

#6624

François-Joseph Bérardier de Bataut

1720 - 1794 (74 years)

François-Joseph Bérardier de Bataut was a French teacher, writer and translator living in the Age of Enlightenment. Biography François-Joseph Bérardier de Bataut is born in Paris in 1720. Having studied theology, he became professor of rhetoric at the Collège du Plessis a part of the University of Paris. He is the author, notably, of a Précis de l'histoire universelle which was very much appreciated by his contemporaries, and of the Essai sur le récit , a fictional dialogue on how to tell good stories, as well as the translator of Melchior de Polignac's L'Anti-Lucrèce.

#6625

Louis Dyer

1851 - 1908 (57 years)

Louis Dyer was an American educator and writer born in Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois. He graduated at Harvard University in 1874, and at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1878. He was assistant professor of Greek at Harvard , lecturer at Lowell Institute and at Balliol College, Oxford , and acting professor of Greek at Cornell University . Dyer lectured before the Royal Institution in 1896 and in 1900 gave a series of lectures at the University of California which was repeated at many colleges and universities. He published a translation of Luigi Cossa's An Introduction to the Study of ...

#6626

Seweryn Wysłouch

Seweryn Wysłouch

1900 - 1968 (68 years)

Seweryn Wysłouch was a legal historian and vice-rector of Wrocław University. Biography Seweryn was born in Pirkowicze near Drohiczyn , the Wysłouch family manor. In 1927 he graduated from the School of Law and Social Sciences of the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius and began to work there as an academic. His career was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War, but he continued it from 1945 at the University of Wrocław as a professor. During the years of 1947 to 1952 he was the vice-rector of the university and from 1956 to 1958 he headed its School of Law

#6627

Agnes Wergeland

Agnes Wergeland

1857 - 1914 (57 years)

Agnes Mathilde Wergeland was a Norwegian-American historian, poet and educator. Agnes Mathilde Wergeland was the first woman ever to earn a doctoral degree in Norway. Early life and education Agnes Mathilde Wergeland was born in Christiania , Norway to Sverre Nicolai Wergeland and Anne Margrethe Larsen . She was from a prominent, distinguished Norwegian family. Wergeland's family hailed from Brekke in Sogn. Her brother was Norwegian painter, Oscar Wergeland. She was the great-niece of Norwegian writer and politician, Nicolai Wergeland; hence Henrik Wergeland, Camilla Collett and Joseph Frant...

#6628

Albert Vandal

1853 - 1910 (57 years)

Albert Count Vandal was a French historian, born in Paris. He wrote:En karriole à travers la Suède et la Norvège Louis XV et Elizabeth de Russie Ambassade française en Orient sous Louis XV Napoléon et Alexandre Ier , awarded the Vaubert prizeLes voyages du Marquis de Nointel L'avènement de Bonaparte Vandal was elected to the Académie française in 1897, and he succeeded his teacher and friend, Albert Sorel as professor at the school of political science.

#6629

Johann Erhard Kapp

Johann Erhard Kapp

1696 - 1756 (60 years)

Johann Erhard Kapp was a German rhetorician and historian. Life Johann Erhard Kapp was born in Oberkotzau, a small market town in the hill country between Leipzig and Nuremberg. His father was a carter . In 1796 he enrolled at the secondary school in Hof, a couple of hours to the north of Oberkotzau. However, according to at least one source he was removed from the school after six months and instead taught privately. In 1714 he moved away from home to study at Leipzig, where he would make his career. Among his more noteworthy teachers, Christian Friedrich Börner taught him Biblical Exegesis and aspects of Church History.

#6630

Ramón Carande

1887 - 1986 (99 years)

Ramón Carande Thovar was a Spanish historian. Bibliography Spanish translation of Los principios filosóficos de la historia del derecho .Spanish translation of Los fundamentos teóricos del marxismo .The Bank of England cumple 252 años S/l, March 1946 .La hacienda real de Castilla .Larguezas de las Cortes .El crédito de Castilla y el precio de la política imperial .Gobernantes y gobernados en la Hacienda de Castilla .El Obispo, el Concejo y los Regidores de Palencia .La economía y la expansión de España bajo el Gobierno de los Reyes Católicos .La huella económica de las capitales hispano-mu...

#6631

Heinrich Ritter von Zeissberg

Heinrich Ritter von Zeissberg

1839 - 1899 (60 years)

Heinrich Ritter von Zeissberg was an Austrian historian. He studied history at the university of Vienna, receiving his PhD in 1862. In 1865, became a professor of history at the university of Lemberg, and in 1871 relocated as a professor to Innsbruck. In 1872, he was appointed professor at the university of Vienna, and here he was a tutor of history to the crown prince Rudolph. In 1892, he was named director of the Vienna institute for historical research, and in 1896 director of the imperial court library at Vienna. He resigned his professorial chair at Vienna in 1897.

#6632

W. L. Newman

1834 - 1923 (89 years)

William Lambert Newman, FBA was a British ancient historian and philosopher. Early life and education Born on 21 August 1834, Newman was the son of a solicitor from Cheltenham. In 1851, he went up to Balliol College, Oxford, as a scholar ; he took first class honours in literae humaniores in 1855 and graduated the following year with a BA.

#6633

Auguste Carrière

1838 - 1902 (64 years)

Auguste Carrière was a linguist, grammarian and French historian, specializing in comparative grammar and Armenian culture. He was a professor at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales in Paris, and was an advocate of Armenian language studies, establishing an Armenian Chair at the school.

#6634

Johan Kõpp

1874 - 1970 (96 years)

Johan Kõpp was an Estonian bishop and head of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church 1939–1944. Biography Kõpp went to high school at the Hugo Treffner Gymnasium in Tartu and then studied theology at the University of Tartu. He graduated from university in 1906. After his studies he initially worked as a high school teacher in Pärnu but from 1909 to 1922 was pastor in Laiuse. Already in 1916 he had however taken up a teaching position at the University of Tartu as one of the first ethnic Estonians to do so after the Estonian Declaration of Independence. From 1920 to 1927 he was deputy rector of the university, and from 1928 to 1937 rector.

#6635

Rachel Elfreda Fowler

1872 - 1951 (79 years)

Rachel Elfreda Fowler was an English literary scholar and lecturer in art and history at the University of Oxford. Early life Rachel Fowler was born in London on 10 December 1872, the youngest daughter of Sir Robert Fowler , member of parliament and Lord Mayor of London, and his wife Sarah Charlotte Fowler, née Fox. Elfreda was one of eleven children. She received her advanced education at Westfield College and then at the University of Oxford where she studied modern languages.

#6636

Paul Smith

1906 - 1985 (79 years)

Paul J. Smith was an American music composer and violinist best known for his work at Disney. Life and career Smith was born in Calumet, Michigan on October 30, 1906. Upon graduating high school, he studied music at The College of Idaho from 1923 to 1925 before he was accepted into the Bush Conservatory of Music in Chicago, Illinois. His abilities in theory and composition earned him a scholarship to study music theory at Juilliard, however, it is unclear if he ever pursued this invitation.

#6637

Frederic George Young

Frederic George Young

1858 - 1929 (71 years)

Frederic George Young was an educator in the U.S. state of Oregon. He was born in Burnett, Wisconsin on June 3, 1858, and after graduating from Johns Hopkins University in 1886, he taught in Wisconsin and South Dakota. He moved to Portland in 1890, and served as principal at its high school and as president of Albany College before being appointed professor of economics and history at the University of Oregon in 1895. He was a founding officer of the Oregon Historical Society in 1898, and as editor of its Oregon Historical Quarterly from its founding in 1900 through the December 1928 issue. He served on the Oregon Commission for the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition.

#6638

Edward Ambrose Burgis

1673 - 1747 (74 years)

Edward Ambrose Burgis was an English Dominican historian and theologian. Biography He was born in England 1673. When a young man he left the Church of England, of which his father was a minister, and became a Catholic, joining the Dominican Order at Rome, where he passed his noviceship in the convent of Saints John and Paul on the Caelian Hill, then occupied by the English Dominicans. After his religious profession he was sent to Naples to the Dominican school of St. Thomas, where he displayed unusual mental ability.

#6639

Dmytro Bahalii

1857 - 1932 (75 years)

Dmytro Ivanovych Bahalii was a Ukrainian historian and public and political figure, one of founding members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society since 1923. He was also a professor and rector at Kharkiv University , and mayor of Kharkiv .

#6640

Jules Flammermont

1852 - 1899 (47 years)

Jules Gustave Flammermont was a French historian, largely known for his writings on history of the 18th century. He studied at the École pratique des Hautes Études and École des Chartes in Paris, receiving his diploma as an archivist-palaeographer in 1878. He worked as a librarian and archivist in the town of Senlis, and afterwards served as secretary to the Duke of Aumale at the Château de Chantilly. In 1883/84 he conducted archival research in Vienna and Berlin, and in 1884 received his doctorate of letters at the Sorbonne. He successively taught classes in history at the universities of Poitiers , Douai and Lille .

#6641

Charles Alexander McMurry

1857 - 1929 (72 years)

Early life Charles Alexander McMurry was an American educator, pioneer in American Herbartianism, and brother to Frank Morton McMurry. In 1857, McMurry was born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, but following the premature death of his father, his mother moved the family to rural Illinois where he and his siblings would begin attending Normal schools, specifically in Normal, Illinois. This is where Charles McMurry would meet Edmund J. James, a prominent educational figure in economics and academia throughout Illinois universities and schools.

#6642

Helge Dahl

1926 - 1989 (63 years)

Helge Dahl was a Norwegian educationalist. He was born in Rjukan as the son of labourers. He finished his secondary education in his hometown in 1940 and graduated with the cand.philol. degree in 1946 at the University in Oslo. From 1947 to 1957 he was a teacher at Tromsø Teacher's College, and took the dr.philos. degree in 1957 with the thesis Språkpolitikk og skolestell i Finnmark 1814–1905. He specialized in the history of education, and wrote Norsk lærerutdanning fra 1814 til i dag , Lærerutdanningen ved Universitetet i Oslo fra 1814 til i dag , Klassisisme og realisme. Den høgre skolen i Norge 1809–1869 , Norsk Lærerskolelag gjennom 75 år .

#6643

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

1620 - 1688 (68 years)

Sir Winston Churchill , known as the Cavalier Colonel, was an English soldier, historian, and politician. He was the father of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and a direct ancestor and namesake of Winston, who served as British prime minister in the 20th century during the Second World War.

#6644

Arrigo Pacchi

1933 - 1989 (56 years)

Arrigo Pacchi was an Italian historian of philosophy. He graduated in philosophy at the University of Milan with an academic thesis in Medieval Philosophy. He dedicated his studies in particular to the natural philosophy of Thomas Hobbes and to the influence of Cartesianism in England.

#6645

Andrew Browning

1889 - 1972 (83 years)

Andrew Browning, FBA was a Scottish historian. He was Professor of History at the University of Glasgow from 1931 to 1957. Early life and education Born in Dennistoun in Glasgow on 28 March 1889, Browning was the son of Daniel Browning, JP, the managing director of a picture frame manufacturing firm and the Liberal candidate for a Glasgow parliamentary constituency in the 1918 general election. Daniel Browning was a book collector, with over 4,000 volumes in his library. Among Andrew Browning's siblings was Robert, a journalist, and David, a lexicographer.

#6646

David Keir

1895 - 1973 (78 years)

Sir David Lindsay Keir was a British historian and educator. From 1949 to 1965, he was Master of Balliol College, Oxford. Life Keir was born at Bellingham, Northumberland, the eldest of six children to William Keir and Elizabeth Keir. His Scottish father was a Presbyterian minister, originally from Aberuthven, and moved several times during Keir's childhood, from Bellingham to Newcastle, Birkenhead, and finally Glasgow, where Keir attended the Glasgow Academy, an independent school.

#6647

Anthony Steel

1900 - 1973 (73 years)

Anthony Bedford Steel was a British historian, specialising in medieval England. He was a fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and principal of Cardiff University from 1949 to 1966. Among his publications were a monograph on the reign of Richard II, as well as a biography of the 19th-century writer Robert Smith Surtees, titled Jorrick's England. He also translated Albert Sorel's L'Europe et la Revolution Francaise into English .

#6648

Wilhelm Junghans

1834 - 1865 (31 years)

Wilhelm Junghans was a German historian who was a native of Lüneburg. He studied under Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl at the University of Bonn, and with Georg Waitz at the University of Göttingen. In 1862 he was appointed professor at the University of Kiel, a position he held until his death in 1865 at the age of 30. At Kiel he was also secretary of the Schleswig-Holstein Historical Society.

#6649

Abraham Halkin

1903 - 1990 (87 years)

Abraham Solomon Halkin was a Jewish history professor who was the brother of Simon Halkin and cousin of Shmuel Halkin. Biography Halkin was born in 1904 in the Russian Empire, the younger brother of Simon Halkin. He is also the cousin of Shmuel Halkin.

#6650

Jean Chapeauville

1551 - 1617 (66 years)

Jean Chapeauville was a theologian, historian and vicar general in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège. Life Born in Liège, capital of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, Chapeauville made his philosophical studies at the University of Cologne and University of Louvain, and at the latter received the degree of Licentiate of Theology. He then entered the priesthood, and in 1578 was appointed one of the synodal examiners for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Liège, and in 1579 parish priest of St. Michael's in Liège. He performed the functions of the latter office for about ten years.

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