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His father, Johann Rudolf Gruner ( 1680 – 1761 ), was pastor of Trachselwald, in the Bernese Emmenthal ( 1705 ), and later ( 1725 ) of Burgdorf, and a great collector of information relating to historical and scientific matters ; his great Thesaurus topographico-historicus totius ditionis Bernensis ( 4 vols, folio, 1729 – 1730 ) still remains in manuscript, but in 1732 he published a small work entitled Deliciae urbis Bernae, while he possessed an extensive cabinet of natural history objects.
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The city is the birthplace of one of Johann Sebastian Bach's cousins, Johann Bernhard Bach, as well as Johann Sebastian Bach's father Johann Ambrosius Bach.
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.
Brahms's father, Johann Jakob Brahms ( 1806 – 72 ), came to Hamburg from Dithmarschen, seeking a career as a town musician.
Steiner's father, Johann ( es ) Steiner ( 23 June 1829, Geras or Trabenreith, Irnfritz-Messern and lived Geras Abbey, Waldviertel – 1910, Horn ), left a position as a gamekeeper in the service of Count Hoyos in Geras, northeast Lower Austria to marry one of the Hoyos family's housemaids, Franziska Blie ( 8 May 1834, Horn, Waldviertel – 1918, Horn ), a marriage for which the Count had refused his permission.
Around schooling age, his father, Johann Bernoulli, encouraged him to study business, there being poor rewards awaiting a mathematician.
Johann Georg succeeded his father as Elector of Saxony when he died, in 1680 ; he was also appointed Marshal of the Holy Roman Empire.
# Johann Georg IV ( b. Dresden, 18 October 1668-died of smallpox, Dresden, 28 May 1694 ), successor of his father as Elector.
In Hamburg he also presented a number of works by contemporaries, including his father, Telemann, Graun, Handel, Haydn, Salieri and Johann David Holland.
Van Schooten's father was a professor of mathematics at Leiden, having Christiaan Huygens, Johann van Waveren Hudde, and René de Sluze as students.
Johann's father tried to drown the baby, only to be stopped by the attending doctor ; he later committed suicide, leaving Johann an orphan.
Johann Strauss I's influence over the local entertainment establishments meant that many of them were wary of offering the younger Strauss a contract for fear of angering the father.
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Her maternal great-grandfather was jurist Victor Ehrenberg and her matrilineal great-grandmother's father was German jurist Rudolf von Jhering.
Newton-John's father was an MI. 5 officer on the Enigma project at Bletchley Park who took Rudolf Hess into custody during World War II.
The act was witnessed by one Humbert and his wife Ausilia — who were perhaps Amadeus's father and mother — and also by his brother Otto and by the King of Burgundy and his queen, Rudolf III and Ermengarda.
Born Julius Payer, his father Franz Anton Rudolf Payer was a retired officer who died when Julius was only fourteen.
William loathed the 1848 constitutional changes initiated by his father ( William II ) and Johan Rudolf Thorbecke.
Young Frederick could succeed his father in Baden, with his uncle Rudolf I as regent, and through his mother Gertrude was also claimant to the Austrian and Styrian duchies.
This should be done as the previous King Rudolf had taken away these territories from King Ottokar II of Bohemia, the father of Wenceslas.
Pauwels claims Karl Haushofer, the father of geopolitics whose protegee was Deputy Reich Führer Rudolf Hess, as one of the real " seekers after truth " described by Gurdjieff.
James speculated that her father was the pool player Rudolf " Minnesota Fats " Wanderone, and met him briefly in 1987.
She describes her violently anti-Semitic father, a law professor in Krakow ; her unwillingness to help him spread his ideas ; her arrest by the Nazis for smuggling food to her mother, who was on her deathbed ; and particularly, her brief stint as a stenographer-typist in the home of Rudolf Höss, the commander of Auschwitz, where she was interned.
In contrast with his deeply conservative father, Crown Prince Rudolf held distinctively liberal views, that were closer to those of his mother.
Bloomsday has also been celebrated since 1994 in the Hungarian town of Szombathely, the fictional birthplace of Leopold Bloom's father, Virág Rudolf, an emigrant Hungarian Jew.
Her mother Ineke is Dutch ; her father Rudolf, who died of a heart attack in the fall of 2001, was a German-speaking Swiss national.
The Szybalski family maintained close friendships with numerous leading representatives of the Polish intelligentsia in Lwów, including Professor Jan Czekanowski, the father of Polish anthropology, and the outstanding bacteriologist, Professor Rudolf Stefan Weigl.
Edward Johnston, CBE ( 11 February 1872 – 26 November 1944 ) was a British craftsman who is regarded, with Rudolf Koch, as the a father of modern calligraphy, in the form of the broad edged pen as a writing tool, a particular form of calligraphy.
Johann Rudolf Wyss ( March 4, 1782-March 21, 1830 ) was a Swiss author, writer, and folklorist who wrote the words to the former Swiss national anthem Rufst Du, mein Vaterland in 1811, and also edited the novel The Swiss Family Robinson, written by his father Johann David Wyss in 1814.
Beginning in 1919, his father, working in Japan on the Imperial Hotel, delegated some of the responsibilities to him and architect Rudolf Schindler for designing and supervising construction of the Hollyhock House, in Hollywood, California.
His father was Augustus Frederick Lehmann, a merchant and steel manufacturer whose brothers Henri and Rudolf were both noted academic artists.
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