Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Jacob Johnson ( 1778 – 1812 ) and Mary (" Polly ") McDonough ( 1783 – 1856 ), a seamstress and the daughter of Andrew McDonough.

Johnson's grandfather William was poverty stricken, and was unable to educate his son Jacob or pass on any land to him.

Situated near the mouth of the Columbia River, the city was named after the American investor John Jacob Astor.

Washington Irving, a prominent American writer with a European reputation, was approached by John Jacob Astor to mythologize the three-year reign of his Pacific Fur Company.

Arthur Phillip was born in 1738, the son of Jacob Phillip, a Frankfurt-born language teacher, and his English wife, Elizabeth Breach.

He was a descendant of Meshullam ben Jacob of Lunel, one of whose five sons was Joseph, the grandfather of Abba Mari, who, like his son Moses, the father of Abba Mari, was highly respected for both his rabbinical learning and his general erudition.

On a Sabbath in September, 1304, the letter was to be read before the congregation, when Jacob Machir Don Profiat Tibbon, the renowned astronomical and mathematical writer, entered his protest against such unlawful interference by the Barcelona rabbis, and a schism ensued.

These controversies, though forced on him, provoked resentment, and it is even related that his physician, Jacob the Schismatic ( Minaah ), was slowly poisoning him, but R. Ammi and R. Assi discovered the crime in time ( Av.

Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, his father, was a portraitist.

While it is assumed that the younger Cuyp did work with his father initially to develop rudimentary talents, Aelbert became more focused on landscape paintings while Jacob was a portrait painter by profession.

Adding to the confusion that is, Aelbert ’ s stylistic development and the problem of attribution is of course the fact that Jacob ’ s style was not stagnant either.

His highly influenced style which incorporated Italianate lighting from Jan Both, broken brush technique and atonality from Jan van Goyen, and his ever-developing style from his father Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp was studied acutely by his most prominent follower, Abraham van Calraet.

The element was isolated independently by two chemists, Carl Jacob Löwig and Antoine Jerome Balard, in 1825 – 1826.

Bromine was discovered independently by two chemists, Carl Jacob Löwig and Antoine Balard, in 1825 and 1826, respectively.

According to the Torah, Benjamin's ( or in some countries, Biniam's ) name arose when Jacob deliberately corrupted the name Benoni, the original name of Benjamin, since Benoni was an allusion to Rachel's dying just after she had given birth, as it means son of my pain.

Some classical rabbinical literature argues that this was the original form of the name and was a reference to the advanced age of Jacob when Benjamin was born.

It was recorded in her presence on October 21, 1958, at Decca's Pythian Temple, with Dick Jacob, Coral-Brunswick's new head of Artists and Repertoire, serving as both producer and conductor of the 18-piece orchestra, which included members of the New York Symphony Orchestra, NBC Television's house orchestra and Abraham " Boomie " Richman, formerly of Benny Goodman's band.

This situation was resolved due to the efforts of Cyrus Adler, professor of Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins University and founder of the Jewish Publication Society, who convinced a number of wealthy German Reform Jews including Jacob Schiff, David and Simon Guggenheim, Mayer Sulzberger, and Louis Marshall, to contribute $ 500, 000 to the faltering JTS.

Jacob Burckhardt, in his cultural classic The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, observed that hierarchy, exclusionary and inherited caste structure was pervasive in Italy, from the nobili caste to the merchants to the peasants.

Barks was the descendant of Jacob Barks who came to Missouri from North Carolina around 1800.

Jacob appointed Ephrem as a teacher ( Syriac, a title that still carries great respect for Syriac Christians ).

Henry provided a second-story room over his local printing shop for classes while John lodged and fed the college's first teacher, Jacob M. Zuck, free for one year.

He had many pupils from different countries, among whom should be mentioned Eleazar ben Isaac ( ha-Gadol =" the Great "), nephew of Simeon ha-Gadol ; and Jacob ben Yakar, teacher of Rashi.

In 1987, Jacob returned to Paris, where the 21-year-old drama student obtained her first movie role in the Louis Malle film Au revoir, les enfants, playing the part of a piano teacher.

However, he soon joined the faculty of the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School ( RJJ ) and sometime between 1935 – 1936 was appointed first as a teacher then as principal of the newly established high school division of the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin known as Mesivta Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin.

* Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi ( 1804 – 1851 )-Prussian mathematician and teacher

The UPCS collaborative is one of several sponsored by Clark's Jacob Hiatt Center for Urban Education focused on urban teacher education and school reform.

The Jacob Hiatt Center for Urban Education develops models of urban schooling, teaching and teacher education through local partnership, in order to learn from these models and expand the knowledge-base of effective practice through research.

Besides his father, who was his principal teacher, Jacob quotes very often in the Turim his elder brother Jehiel ; once his brother Judah ( see Tur Orach Chaim, § 417 ), and once his uncle Rabbi Chaim ( ib.

But Isaac ben Asher's tosafot were revised by his pupils, who, according to Jacob Tam (" Sefer ha-Yashar ," No. 282 ), sometimes ascribed to their teacher opinions which were not his.

His mother was Cornelia M. Francken and his father Jacob Luyten, a French teacher.

The release includes audio commentary by Annette Insdorf, author of Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieślowski ; three short documentary films by Kieślowski: Factory ( 1970 ), Hospital ( 1976 ), and Railway Station ( 1980 ); The Musicians ( 1958 ), a short film by Kieślowski ’ s teacher Kazimierz Karabasz ; Kieślowski ’ s Dialogue ( 1991 ), a documentary featuring a candid interview with Kieślowski and rare behind-the-scenes footage from the set of The Double Life of Véronique ; 1966-1988: Kieślowski, Polish Filmmaker, a 2005 documentary tracing the filmmaker ’ s work in Poland, from his days as a student through The Double Life of Véronique ; a 2005 interview with actress Irène Jacob ; and new video interviews with cinematographer Slawomir Idziak and composer Zbigniew Preisner.

He was a popular teacher and his pupils were Abraham Begeyn, Johannes van der Bent, his son Nicolaes, Isaack Croonenbergh, Simon Dubois, Karel Dujardin, Johannes Glauber, Pieter de Hooch, Jacob van Huchtenburg, Justus van Huysum, Dirk Maas, Hendrick Mommers, Jacob Ochtervelt, and Willem Romeyn.

* Jacob Ettlinger ( editor of Der Treue Zionswachter, teacher of Samson Raphael Hirsch and Azriel Hildesheimer and author of Aruch la-Ner )

She then was married to actor and acting teacher Luther Adler from 1938 until 1947, by whom she had a son, Jacob ( Jody ) ( October 22, 1939 – 1987 ) who died of Lou Gehrig's disease.

Known as " Rabbeinu " ( our teacher ), he acquired the Hebrew suffix " Tam " meaning straightforward ; it was originally used in the Book of Genesis to describe his biblical namesake, Jacob.

* Jacob Praetorius ( 1586 – 1651 ), composer, organist and teacher, and son of Hieronymus

Contrary to popular belief, however, Ramak was not one of the rabbis who received the special semicha (" ordination ") from Rabbi Jacob Berab in 1538, alongside Rabbi Yosef Karo ( Cordovero's teacher in Halakha ), Rabbi Moshe of Trani, Rabbi Yosef Sagis, and Rabbi Moshe Alshich.

Yankev Shternberg ( in English language texts occasionally referred to as Jacob Sternberg ; ; ) ( 1890, Lipcani, Bessarabia – 1973, Moscow, USSR ) was a Yiddish theater director, teacher of theater, playwright, avant-garde poet and short-story writer, best known for his theater work in Romania between the two world wars.

One of his ancestors was Jacob ben Jehiel Loans, personal physician to emperor Frederick III, ennobled for his medical achievements, and also Hebrew teacher of the well-known humanist, lawyer and philosopher Johannes Reuchlin.

In several of these manuscripts Ibn Tamim is expressly referred to as the author ; in one instance he is named again, but with his teacher, while in another Jacob ben Nissim is named, who lived in Kairouan at the end of the Tenth century.