Five years were spent with the Cologne Opera, after which he was called to Prague by Alexander von Zemlinsky, teacher of Arnold Schonberg and Erich Korngold.

If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.

His ideal was Alexander of Macedon, as Napoleon's was Julius Caesar.

In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

Alexander Vasilievitch Suvorov, now in his fifty-ninth year ( ten years Potemkin's senior ), was a thin, worn-faced person of less than medium height who looked like a professor of botany.

The country was now full of Gazettes and Samuel C. Atkinson and Charles Alexander, who had just taken over Franklin's old paper, desired a more distinctive name.

This was how Alexander Brandel expressed pure Zionism.

These carts were of a type devised in Pembina in the days of Alexander Henry the Younger about a decade before the Selkirk colony was begun.

When the mast was raised, Alexander gave the order for Small and Cromwell to be placed under arrest, and now three figures in irons sprawled upon the open deck and terror stalked the Somers.

And when he was alone again in the cabin, Alexander lowered his head into his arms and wept, for he knew full well what must be done, what in the end would be done.

`` I thought '', Midshipman Rogers had told Alexander, `` that Spencer was teaching him geometry ''.

This was a training ship and the training would continue, but there was an element of frightful absurdity here which Alexander recognized.

As for Cousin Alexander Carraway, the only thing Theresa could remember at the moment about him ( except his paper knife ) was that he had had exceptionally long hands and feet and one night about one o'clock in the morning the whole Stubblefield family had been aroused to go next door at Cousin Emma's call -- first Papa, then Mother, then Theresa and George.

Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

Soon after Hermias ' death, Aristotle was invited by Philip II of Macedon to become the tutor to his son Alexander in 343 BC.

Aristotle encouraged Alexander toward eastern conquest, and his attitude towards Persia was unabashedly ethnocentric.

Although his respect for Aristotle was diminished as his travels made it clear that much of Aristotle's geography was clearly wrong, when the old philosopher released his works to the public, Alexander complained " Thou hast not done well to publish thy acroamatic doctrines ; for in what shall I surpass other men if those doctrines wherein I have been trained are to be all men's common property?

Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.

He was born in Logierait, Perthshire, Scotland to Alexander Mackenzie Sr. and Mary Stewart Fleming.

` Alexander Mackenzie `, the Royal Military College of Canada March for bagpipes, was composed in his honour by Pipe Major Don M. Carrigan, who was the College Pipe Major 1973 to 1985.

James Clerk Maxwell, the founder of the modern theory of electromagnetism, was born here and educated at the Edinburgh Academy and University of Edinburgh, as was the engineer and telephone pioneer Alexander Graham Bell.

Alexander was born in London, England, to parents of noble heritage, and was educated at English public schools before moving on to Sandhurst for training as an army officer.

Khandi Alexander was born in New York City and educated at Queensborough Community College.

Alexander was an educated, intelligent man, who held that his task was to keep peace in Europe and Russia.

Alexander Helios was born and educated in Alexandria.

Born in Kingston, Jamaica and educated in Edinburgh, the senior Alexander was the Secretary of the Treasury under United States President James Madison, and was also briefly the Secretary of War.

A number of well-known people were educated at Dumfries Academy, among them Henry Duncan, founder of the world's first commercial savings bank, Sir James Anderson, who captained the SS Great Eastern on the Transatlantic telegraph cable laying voyages in 1865 and 1866, James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, missionary Jane Haining, international diplomat Alexander Knox Helm, John Laurie, actor ( Private Fraser in Dad's Army ), artist Robin Philipson, singer John Hanson, Alex Graham, cartoonist best known for the Fred Basset series and Jock Wishart, who in 1998 set a new world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powered vessel.

He was educated under Alexander Morrison at Scotch College, Melbourne, where he passed the matriculation examination when only 14 years of age.

Alexander Henry was born at New Brunswick, New Jersey to an educated merchant family said to be connected to Matthew Henry.

Wilson was born Alexander Galbraith Wilson in Sale, Greater Manchester, and was educated at Harrow School and Oriel College, Oxford.

Born in Amherst, the son of Robert McGowan Dickie and Eleanor Chapman, he was educated at Windsor Academy and later studied law with Alexander Stewart.

He was educated at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia, where he studied piano with Felix Blumenfeld, teacher of Vladimir Horowitz, and harmony and counterpoint with Alexander Glazunov, mentor to Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Lysimachus with his brothers grew up with the status of Macedonians ; he with his brothers enjoyed prominent positions in Alexander ’ s circle and Lysimachus with his brothers were educated at the court at Pella.

Born in Iaşi, Moldavia, and educated there at the Academia Mihăileană, he continued his studies in Germany, took part in the political movements of the time, and was private secretary to Prince Alexander John Cuza.

Prince Alexander was born in London, United Kingdom, to the Duke and Duchess of Teck, and was educated at Eton College before moving on to Sandhurst for training as an officer.

Many distinguished ecclesiastics, probably including the future Pope Alexander II and Saint Ivo of Chartres, were educated in the school at Bec.

It is located in New York City's Greenwich Village, and has educated artists and designers such as Adolph Gottlieb, Marc Jacobs, Alexander Wang, Proenza Schouler, Rick Owens, Donna Karan, Tom Ford, Steven Meisel, Anna Sui, Julie Umerle, Ryan McGinley, Paul Rand, Dean and Dan Caten ( of DSQUARED2 ), Stephen Gan ( of V ( American magazine ) and VMAN ), Julia Restoin Roitfeld ( daughter of Carine Roitfeld ), Amy Astley ( of Teen Vogue ), Jenna Lyons ( president of J. Crew ), Stephen Dwoskin, Alexandra von Fürstenberg ( daughter of Diane von Fürstenberg ), Jason Wu, Prabal Gurung, Narciso Rodriguez, Richard Chai, Norman Rockwell, Jane Frank, William Gropper, Tom Morrow among a long list of others.

Kilmarnock Academy is one of the few schools in the world to have educated two Nobel laureates: Alexander Fleming and John Boyd Orr.

Strandman was first educated by his father, until he went to the municipal school of Rakvere in 1886 and later to Emperor Alexander State High School in Tallinn and 5th and 7th High School in Saint Petersburg.

The son of Janet Stevenson and soldier Alexander Geddes, Patrick Geddes was born in Ballater, Aberdeenshire, and educated at Perth Academy.

His father suffered for his adherence to the Free Church at the Disruption of 1843, and moved to Edinburgh, where Alexander was educated, showing exceptional ability from the first.

Governor, Sir Alexander Bannerman, he was educated in Summerside, at St. Dunstan's College, King's College in Nova Scotia and the University of Edinburgh.

Born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, the son of Alexander and Clara ( Muttart ) Campbell, Campbell was educated at Summerside Public School and Prince of Wales College.

Alexander Cruden was born in Aberdeen in Scotland ( baptised on June 8, 1699, St. Nicholas Kirk, Aberdeen, according to recent research ) and was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and Marischal College, University of Aberdeen, and became an excellent Latin, Greek and Biblical scholar.