He reversed some of the liberal measures of his predecessor, his father, Alexander II.

In disposition Alexander bore little resemblance to his soft-hearted, liberal father, and still less to his refined, philosophic, sentimental, chivalrous, yet cunning granduncle, emperor Alexander I of Russia, who could have been given the title of " the first gentleman of Europe ".

In 1889 Alexander's father, King Milan, unexpectedly abdicated and withdrew to private life, proclaiming Alexander king of Serbia under a regency until he should attain his majority at eighteen years of age.

On attaining his majority at the age of 21 in 1262, Alexander declared his intention of resuming the projects on the Western Isles which the death of his father thirteen years before had cut short.

The inscription honours his father, also called Alexander and also a philosopher.

Alexander Grothendieck was born in Berlin to anarchist parents: a Ukrainian father from an ultimately Hassidic family, Alexander " Sascha " Shapiro aka Tanaroff, and a mother from a German Protestant family, Johanna " Hanka " Grothendieck ; both of his parents had broken away from their early backgrounds in their teens.

Bonaventure, who may not have sat under Alexander directly, nevertheless referred to Alexander as his " father and master " and wished to " follow in his footsteps.

Other famous victims are Philip II of Macedon ( 336 BC ), the father of Alexander the Great, and Roman consul Julius Caesar ( 44 BC ).

Charles ' wife Georgiana died in Worcester on 1 September 1827, the same year as his father, their second son ( also named Charles ) and their newborn son Alexander.

Cesare's father, Pope Alexander VI, was the first pope who openly recognized his children by a lover.

Quellek later confides to Alexander that he has always viewed " Dr. Lazarus " as a father.

Unlike his father, the new tsar Alexander III ( 1881 – 1894 ) was throughout his reign a staunch reactionary who revived the maxim of " Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and National Character ".

Following the visit of a diplomatic mission from the Eastern Roman Empire led by Alexander, Huneric restored properties seized by his father from the merchants of Carthage.

* 1917 – King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father Constantine I abdicates under pressure by allied armies occupying Athens.

Her mother was Vannozza dei Cattanei, one of the many mistresses of Lucrezia's father Rodrigo Borgia, who is better known as Pope Alexander VI.

After the death of her second husband, Lucrezia's father, Pope Alexander VI, arranged a third marriage.

His father was Herman Alexander Neumann, originally from the German city of Bromberg ( now in Poland ) who had emigrated with his family to London at the age of 15.

Moreover, from 1502 to 1503 he witnessed the brutal reality of the state-building methods of Cesare Borgia ( 1475 – 1507 ) and his father Pope Alexander VI, who were then engaged in the process of trying to bring a large part of central Italy under their possession.

* 1894 – Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.

Alexander Von Humboldt, considered to be the founding father of physical geography.

* Alexander Von Humboldt ( 1769 – 1859 ), considered the father of modern geography.

In 338 BC, the Peloponnesian League was disbanded, when Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great, formed the League of Corinth after defeating Thebes and Athens.

Johannes Brahms, whose father was a double bass player, wrote many difficult and prominent parts for the double bass in his symphonies.

In 1948, the year when the NP swept to power in whites-only elections on an apartheid platform, F. W. de Klerk's father, Johannes " Jan " de Klerk, became secretary of the NP in the Transvaal province and later rose to the positions of cabinet minister and President of the Senate, becoming interim State President in 1975.

King Matthias favoured ancient artillery ( catapults ) as opposed to cannons, which were the favourite of his father, Johannes Hunyadi, former Regent of Hungary.

His father, Heinrich Kepler, earned a precarious living as a mercenary, and he left the family when Johannes was five years old.

* 1828 – Casparus van Houten Sr. ( father of Coenraad Johannes van Houten ) patents an inexpensive method for pressing cocoa butter from roasted cocoa beans, leaving cocoa solids.

His name fell into neglect during the 19th century, with Robert Schumann notoriously opining that " as a creative musician he remained very far behind his father "; in contrast, Johannes Brahms held him in high regard and edited some of his music.

He belonged to an aristocratic Roman family ; his father Johannes is identified as a consul in the Liber pontificalis, having received that title from the emperor.

He was born in Västerås, the son of Bishop Johannes Rudbeckius, who was personal chaplain to King Gustavus Adolphus, and the father of botanist Olof Rudbeck the Younger.

His father, Johannes den Uyl, was a shopkeeper and a basketweaver who died when Den Uyl was only 10.

Johannes took on the nickname Dantiscus in order to show that he was a burgher of Danzig () where his father was a brewer and merchant.

Although Alberti is usually considered the father of polyalphabetic cipher, it has been claimed that polyalphabetic ciphers may have been developed by the Arab cryptologist Al Kindi 600 years before Alberti. Johannes Trithemius, in a book published after his death, invented a progressive key polyalphabetic cipher called the Trithemius cipher.

These conclusions, published anonymously in his book Arcanum punctuationis revelatum ( Leiden, 1624 ), were hotly contested by Johannes Buxtorf, since they conflicted with those of his father, Johannes Buxtorf senior ; Elias Levita had already disputed the antiquity of the vowel points, with which neither Jerome nor the Talmud showed any acquaintance.

Matthias Corvinus ' court historian Antonio Bonfini flattered his king by tracing the family's ancestry to the Roman gens Corvina, or Valeriana, while adding: " for this man was indeed born of a Romanian father and a Hungarian mother " A contemporary Hungarian historian Johannes de Thurocz, similarly flattering his king, wrote in the Chronicle of the Hungarians ( Chronica Hungarorum ) that the Hunyadi family was of Hunnic origin, even calling Matthias Corvinus the " Second Attila ".

His father, Johannes Hummel, was the director of the Imperial School of Military Music in Vienna and the conductor there of Emanuel Schikaneder's theater orchestra at the Theater auf der Wieden ; his mother, Margarethe Sommer Hummel, was the widow of the wigmaker Josef Ludwig.

When Johannes was still an infant his father Johann von Heidenburg died.

* Johannes Voigt, German historian and father of Georg ( e )

The letter begins: " Many hundred thousand good-nights, dearly beloved daughter Veronica ," and ends " Good night, for your father Johannes Junius will see you no more.

Good night, for your father Johannes Junius will never see you more.

Johannes Reidt, a Hessian soldier from Raboldshausen, Germany, Born, January, 06, 1757, Salzberg Hesse Cassel Germany, mother, Anna Elizabeth Reid Her father, Johannes Reidt and mother, Anna Catherine Engel were married August 5, 1764 in Germany and his father, Johann Jacob Helmerich d. May 28, 1845, in Cabarrus County, N. C., served during the American Revolution in Company C ( Col. Friedrich von Porbeck ) of the Garrison Regiment von Wissenbach.

A Johannes Ciconia, probably the composer's father, worked in Avignon in 1350 as a clerk for the wife of the nephew of Pope Clement VI.