His father was a cultured man, and his mother was the sister of Raphael Georg Kiesewetter ( 1773 – 1850 ), the musical archaeologist and collector.

Handel and his father travelled to Weissenfels to visit either Handel's half-brother, Carl, or nephew, Georg Christian, who was serving as valet to Duke Johann Adolf I. Handel and the duke convinced his father to allow him to take lessons in musical composition and keyboard technique from Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, the organist of Halle's Marienkirche.

Niels Henrik Abel's father, Søren Georg Abel, had a degree in theology and philosophy and served as pastor at Finnøy.

German scientist Georg Agricola ( 1494 – 1555 ), known as " the father of mineralogy ", published his great work De re metallica.

He was born Philipp Schwartzerdt ( of which " Melanchthon " is a Greek translation ) on 16 February 1497, at Bretten, near Karlsruhe, where his father Georg Schwarzerdt was armorer to Philip, Count Palatine of the Rhine.

Georg Forster joined his father in the expedition again and was appointed as a draughtsman to his father.

Supervised by his father, Georg Forster first took up the studies of zoology and botanics of the southern seas, mostly by drawing animals and plants.

Description of actual travel logs by W. Bligh, published 1791 and 1793 by Georg Forster and his father in Berlin as " Magazin von merkwürdigen neuen Reisebeschreibungen ".

Johann Georg succeeded his father as Elector of Saxony when he died, in 1680 ; he was also appointed Marshal of the Holy Roman Empire.

In character he resembled his father, the Elector Johann Georg II.

# Johann Georg IV ( b. Dresden, 18 October 1668-died of smallpox, Dresden, 28 May 1694 ), successor of his father as Elector.

He was also known for his recurring roles, such as Beldar, father in the Coneheads family ; with Steve Martin, Georg Festrunk, one of the " Two Wild and Crazy Guys " Czech brothers ; sleazy late-night cable TV host E. Buzz Miller and his cousin, corrupt maker of children's toys and costumes Irwin Mainway ( who extolled the virtues and defended the safety of the " Bag-o-Glass " toy, perhaps the retail leader of the " Bag-o " series of toys ); Fred Garvin – male prostitute ; and high-bred but low-brow critic Leonard Pinth-Garnell.

His second name was given in honor of his godfather Georg Philipp Telemann, a friend of Emanuel's father.

His father, Alexander Georg von Humboldt, belonged to a prominent Pomeranian family ; a major in the Prussian Army, he was rewarded for his services in the Seven Years ' War with the post of Royal Chamberlain.

Born in Schwetzingen and raised in Mannheim, Danzi studied with his father and with Georg Joseph Vogler before he joined the superlative orchestra of the Elector Karl Theodor in 1778 as a teenager.

He was the father of the historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, who published an account of his father's life in 1817.

It is often claimed that the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel ( 1802 – 1829 ) was born on Finnøy, since his father Søren Georg acted as rector there.

He was born at Petershagen, near Minden, where his father, Georg Christof Friedrich, was preacher.

He was born at Meiningen, where his father, Georg Walch, was general superintendent.

His father, Johann Georg Martin, also built guitars.

* Georg Agricola ( 1494-1555 ), German scholar and scientist, and the ' father of mineralogy '

Barthold Georg Niebuhr ( August 27, 1776, Copenhagen – January 2, 1831, Bonn ) was a Danish-German statesman and historian who became Germany's leading historian of Ancient Rome and a founding father of modern scholarly historiography.

Karl was an almost exact copy of his father physically and it was strange to see the expected become the unexpected.

In 1835 Karl, then seventeen, began attending the University of Bonn, where he wished to study philosophy and literature, but his father insisted on law as a more practical field.

When he was two years old, his father was killed in a railway accident, and his name was changed to Karl Friedrich Benz in remembrance of his father .< ref > Karl Benz family gravestone Karl is the spelling of his first name on all of his official personal and municipal documents throughout his life, such as birth, school, honorary doctorate, the Baden State Metal certificate, and on his family grave marker as displayed to the right.

Radek was born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary ( now Lviv in Ukraine ), as Karol Sobelsohn, to a Jewish family, his father, Bernhard, worked in the post office and died whilst Karl was young.

His son, Karl Wilhelm Böttiger ( August 15, 1790-November 26, 1862 ; not to be confused with the Swedish writer Carl Wilhelm Böttiger ), was a historian and biographer of his father.

His father, Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Bismarck ( Schönhausen, 13 November 1771 – 22 November 1845 ), was a Junker estate owner and a former Prussian military officer ; his mother, Wilhelmine Luise Mencken ( Potsdam, 24 February 1789 – Berlin ), the well-educated daughter of a senior government official in Berlin.

He was the father of the philosopher Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach and the mathematician Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach ; and the grandfather of the painter Anselm Feuerbach.

The ideology was Marxism-Leninism ; this reflected the fact that Stalin himself was not a Communist theoretician, in contrast to Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, and that he prided himself on maintaining the legacy of Lenin as a founding father for the Soviet Union and the future Communist world.

His father Karl Ernst Emil Hennig was a rail worker.

* May 19 – Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, father of Archduke Ferdinand ( b. 1833 )

* April 5 – Karl XII becomes king of Sweden upon the death of his father, Karl XI.

He formally established the academic discipline and, with Karl Marx and Max Weber, is commonly cited as the principal architect of modern social science and father of sociology.

Friedrich Engels (; 28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895 ) was a German-English industrialist, social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, alongside Karl Marx.

His father Carl ( Karl ) Alexander Frege ( 3 August 1809 – 30 November 1866 ) was the co-founder and headmaster of a girls ' high school until his death.

Franz Joseph was soon joined by three younger brothers: Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian ( born 1832, the future Emperor Maximilian of Mexico ); Archduke Karl Ludwig ( born 1833, and the father of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria ), and Archduke Ludwig Viktor ( born 1842 ), and a sister, Maria Anna ( born 1835 ), who died at the age of four.

It was thus at Olmütz on 2 December that, by the abdication of his uncle Ferdinand and the renunciation of his father, the mild-mannered Franz Karl, Franz Joseph succeeded as Emperor of Austria.

Influenced by American revivalistic teachings, Livingstone's reading of the missionary Karl Gützlaff's " Appeal to the Churches of Britain and America on behalf of China " enabled him to persuade his father that medical study could advance religious ends.

Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, ( September 14, 1769 – March 27, 1843 ), German jurist, was born at Meissen in Saxony, the son of a lawyer and was the father of Karl Eduard Zachariae.

His father had Benjamin baptised in July 1817 following a dispute with their synagogue.

Isaac D ' Israeli, father of Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin is treated as a young child in most of the Biblical narrative, but at one point is abruptly described as the father of ten sons.

According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was also originally part of this single tribe, but the biblical account of Joseph as his father became lost.

Carreras ' father, Benjamin Nunez, also served as the Costa Rican ambassador to Israel.

Babbage's father, Benjamin Babbage, was a banking partner of the Praeds who owned the Bitton Estate in Teignmouth.

His father, Elias Boudinot III, was a merchant and silversmith ; he was a neighbor and friend of Benjamin Franklin.

Bulwer-Lytton admired Benjamin ’ s father, Isaac D ' Israeli, himself a noted author.

Three of the board members include a founding father of modern chemistry Antoine Lavoisier, Benjamin Franklin and an expert in pain control Joseph-Ignace Guillotin.

Israel ’ s youngest son Benjamin, born from Rachel, stayed behind by his father ’ s order to keep him safe.

When Reuben, the eldest, mentioned that they needed to bring Benjamin to Egypt to prove their word as honest men, their father became furious with them.

This time, Judah spoke to his father in order to persuade him about having Benjamin accompany them, so as to prevent Egyptian retribution.

It is said in Muslim tradition that Jonah came from the tribe of Benjamin and that his father was Amittai.

His parents, Rose and Benjamin Kurtzberg, were Austrian Jewish immigrants, and his father earned a living as a garment factory worker.

* 1910 – Benzion Netanyahu, Israeli historian, father of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu ( d. 2012 )

On 12 August 2008, Benjamin Boukpeti ( born to a Togolese father and a French mother ) won a bronze medal in the Men's K1 Kayak Slalom, the first medal ever won by a member of the Togolese team at the Olympics.

Eventually, in honor of the studio's contributions to the war cause, the United States Government named a Liberty ship after the brothers ' father, Benjamin Warner, and Harry Warner was given the honor of christening the ship.

In Hurst's novel, Bea Chipley is a quiet, mousey, Atlantic City teenage girl whose mother passes away, leaving her to keep house for her father ( Mr. Chipley ) and Benjamin Pullman, a boarder who peddles ketchup and relish on the boardwalk and sells maple syrup door-to-door on the side.

A veteran of the French and Indian War as the " hero " of the fictional " Fort Wilderness " and widowed father of seven children, Benjamin does what he can to avoid fighting in the Revolutionary War knowing the implications surrounding it.

Her feelings towards her father change radically as the film progresses, and after Benjamin leaves from the furlough to rejoin his militia, in a very emotional scene, she seemingly forgives him and tells him she'll say anything he wants to make him stay, to which Benjamin can only promise to return, which Susan accepts.

When Gabriel is taken prisoner and Thomas is killed, he helps his father, Benjamin, rescue Gabriel by killing several British soldiers, even though he doesn't want to kill.

His father Benjamin Clemenceau ( 1810 – 1897 ) came from a long line of physicians, but he lived off his lands and investments and did not practice medicine.

In the Biblical account, Joseph is one of the two children of Rachel and Jacob, a brother to Benjamin, and father to both Ephraim, and his first son, Manasseh ; Ephraim received the blessing of the firstborn, although Manasseh was the eldest, because Jacob foresaw that Ephraim's descendants would be greater than his brother's.

Some critics, however, view this as a postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation In the Biblical account, Joseph is one of the two children of Rachel and Jacob, a brother to Benjamin, and father to both Ephraim, and his first son, Manasseh ; Ephraim received the blessing of the firstborn, although Manasseh was the eldest, because Jacob foresaw that Ephraim's descendants would be greater than his brother's.