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Leopold and then
Then he moved to the Humboldt University of Berlin ( then called the Friedrich William University ) in 1878 where he continued his study of mathematics under Leopold Kronecker and the renowned Karl Weierstrass.
He then spent four months in Berlin, where he became well acquainted with August Leopold Crelle, who was then about to publish his mathematical journal, Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik.
His uncle Duke William of Inner Austria, then head of the rivaling Leopoldinian line, served as regent for his nephew, followed by his brothers Leopold IV and Ernest the Iron in 1406.
* Prince Charles of Belgium served as Prince Regent of Belgium from 1944 to 1950 during the German captivity and then exile to Switzerland of his elder brother, King Leopold III of Belgium.
Leopold then devised a plan to make the Philippines be independent and ruled by a Belgian.
Leopold then amassed a huge personal fortune by exploiting the Congo.
He was the second son of Leopold, then Grand-Duke of Tuscany, and his wife Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain.
Future Hollywood producer Armand Deutsch, the then 11-year-old grandson of Julius Rosenwald later claimed he might have been the intended victim of Loeb or Leopold.
It was then that its king, Leopold II created the International African Society.
In 1933, Lilian saw her future husband, King Leopold III of the Belgians, then still Crown Prince of Belgium, for the first time during a military review.
William then persuaded Leopold to make peace, and a treaty between France and the Holy Roman Empire was signed on the following 30 October.
Using first the multi-national AIA, then the " Committee for Studies of the Upper Congo " (), and finally the International Association of the Congo (), Leopold secured control of most of the Congo basin.
Hölder first studied at the Polytechnikum ( which today is the University of Stuttgart ) and then in 1877 went to Berlin where he was a student of Leopold Kronecker, Karl Weierstraß, and Ernst Kummer.
Sybel was educated at the local Gymnasium, and then at the University of Berlin, where he came under the influences of Friedrich Karl von Savigny and Leopold von Ranke, whose most distinguished pupil he was to become.
In the course of the monologue, Molly accepts Leopold into her bed, frets about his health, and then reminisces about their first meeting and about when she knew she was in love with him.
Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg ( 7 November 1750 – 5 December 1819 ), was a German poet born at Bramstedt in Holstein ( then a part of Denmark ).
Friedrich Leopold then became Danish envoy to the Court of Prussia, and contracted a second marriage with the Countess Sophie von Redern in 1789.
King Leopold II then asked him again to take charge of the Congo Free State.
The pilgrimage was abandoned halfway through, when the weary pilgrims succumbed to inebriation and rancour at the Bailey pub in the city centre, which Ryan then owned, and at which, in 1967, he installed the door to No. 7 Eccles Street ( Leopold Bloom ’ s front door ), having rescued it from demolition.
He was born in Charlottenburg ( then a town in the Prussian Province of Brandenburg, today a district of Berlin ) the son of jurist Julius Leopold von Caprivi ( 17971865 ), who later became a judge at the Prussian supreme court and member of the Prussian House of Lords.
Hamann was a lutenist, having studied this instrument with Timofey Belogradsky ( a student of Sylvius Leopold Weiss ), a Ukrainian virtuoso then living in Königsberg.
Later, while returning from the crusade in disguise, Richard was recognised by Meinhard II of Görz, who is described as Conrad's nephew ( which suggests the identity of his first wife ), and then imprisoned by Conrad's cousin, Leopold V of Austria.
Just days after the railway reached Nice in 1864, Tsar Alexander II of Russia visited on a private train, followed soon afterwards by Napoleon III and then Leopold II, the King of the Belgians.

Leopold and offered
A suitable premise for war arose in 1870, when the German Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was offered the Spanish throne, which had been vacant since a revolution in 1868.
He frequently sent letters to Nannerl ( at least one per week ) that usually began with the sentence " Leopoldl is healthy ", (" Leopoldl " is " Little Leopold ") and offered a full report on the child.
Caviglia offered to send the statue to Grand Duke of Tuscany, Leopold II, through the mediation of Ippolito Rosellini.
During the Duke's march to the Danube Emperor Leopold I offered to make Marlborough a prince of the Holy Roman Empire in the small principality of Mindelheim.
Shortly thereafter, a freshman member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, Leopold Caspari of Natchitoches, offered the convent site as a campus for the school with the anticipated approval of the citizens of Natchitoches.
Leopold offered to reform his regime, but few took him seriously.
In early 1870, the German Prince Leopold, of the Roman Catholic cadet branch Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, had been offered the vacant Spanish throne.
Nevertheless, chancellor Leopold Figl offered the party a ministerial position in the government and Karl Altmann was made Minister for Energy.
On 13 October 1698 at the Palace of Fontainebleau, Leopold married Élisabeth Charlotte d ' Orléans, the niece of Louis XIV, who had offered a dowry of 900, 000 Livres to the penniless Duke.
The key point was when the Council approached Emperor Leopold and offered to relieve the Imperial Second Fleet ( stationed at Marienburg ) and conduct the defence of the city themselves.
A nomination offered to Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen would trigger the Franco-Prussian War.

Leopold and France
Louis XIV of France sought to knock Emperor Leopold out of the war by seizing Vienna, the Habsburg capital, and gain a favourable peace settlement.
His grandfather, Thomas Francis, founder of the Carignano line of the House of Savoy, was the son of Catherine Michelle – a daughter of Philip II of Spain – and the great-grandson of the Emperor Charles V. But of more immediate consequence to Leopold I was the fact that Eugene was the second cousin of Victor Amadeus, the Duke of Savoy, a connection that the Emperor hoped might prove useful in any future confrontation with France.
Meanwhile, a new threat arose from abroad: Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, Frederick William II of Prussia, and the King's brother Charles-Philippe, comte d ' Artois, issued the Declaration of Pillnitz, which considered the cause of Louis XVI as their own, demanded his absolute liberty and implied an invasion of France on his behalf if the revolutionary authorities refused its conditions.
The Bourbon Philip of Anjou was designated heir to the throne of Spain as Philip V. The Habsburg Emperor Leopold opposed a Bourbon succession, because the power that such a succession would bring to the Bourbon rulers of France would disturb the delicate balance of power in Europe.
Philip of Anjou was confirmed as Philip V, king of Spain ; Emperor Leopold did not get the throne, but Philip V was barred from inheriting France.
Rising tensions in 1869 about the possible candidacy of Prince Leopold von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen to the throne of Spain caused a rise in the scale of animosity between France and Germany.
* Leopold von Hoesch: German Ambassador to France ( 1923 – 1932 ) and the United Kingdom ( 1932 – 1936 )
Joseph Clement was not only the candidate of Emperor Leopold I ( 1658 – 1705 ) but of all European rulers, with the exception of the King of France and his supporter, King James II of England ( 1685 – 88 ).
Guy's claim was challenged by Conrad of Montferrat, second husband of Sibylla's half-sister, Isabella: Conrad, whose defence of Tyre had saved the kingdom in 1187, was supported by Philip of France, son of his first cousin Louis VII of France, and by another cousin, Duke Leopold V of Austria.
This position changed in 1689 when Leopold secured William III of England's support to claim the undivided Spanish Empire in return for Leopold's aid against France in the War of the Grand Alliance ( 1688 – 1697 ).
Conrad of Montferrat, who has negotiated the surrender, raises the banners of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and of the Third Crusade leaders Richard I of England, Philip II of France, and Leopold V of Austria on the city's walls and towers.
Maria Theresa and her husband, Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, had sixteen children, including Queen Marie Antoinette of France, Queen Maria Carolina of Naples, Duchess Maria Amalia of Parma and two Holy Roman Emperors, Joseph II and Leopold II.
In August 1791, Frederick Augustus arranged a meeting with Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II and King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia at Pillnitz Castle that was intended partly to offer support for the French monarchy in the face of revolutionary agitation in France.
During the War of the Spanish Succession, parts of Lorraine, including the capital Nancy, were again occupied by France, but Duke Leopold Joseph continued to reign at the Château de Lunéville.
Although Leopold saw the Pillnitz Declaration as an easy way to appear concerned about the developments in France without committing any soldiers or finances to change them, the revolutionary leaders in Paris viewed it fearfully as a dangerous foreign attempt to undermine France's sovereignty.
Headed by Champollion and assisted by Rosellini his first disciple and great friend, the mission was known as the Franco-Tuscan Expedition, and was made possible by the support of the grand-duke of Tuscany, Leopold II, and the King of France, Charles X.
He was the second child of the reigning Belgian monarch, Leopold I, and his second wife, Louise, the daughter of King Louis Philippe of France.
Although French troops continued to fight the Germans, Flemish historians Valaers and Van Goethem wrote that Leopold III had become " The scapegoat of Reynaud " because the French Prime Minister was likely already aware that the Battle of France was lost.
Prince Philippe was the third ( second surviving ) son of Leopold I, the first King of the Belgians, and his wife, Marie-Louise of France, and the younger brother of King Leopold II of Belgium.
* Princess Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine ( 1711 – 1741 ) daughter of Élisabeth Charlotte d ' Orléans ( niece of Louis XIV of France ) and Leopold, Duke of Lorraine.
In return for this, when Richard arrived at Acre, he supported Guy against Conrad, who had the support of his kinsmen Philip II of France and Leopold V of Austria.
Francis was born in Nancy, Lorraine ( now in France ), the oldest surviving son of Leopold Joseph, duke of Lorraine, and his wife Élisabeth Charlotte d ' Orléans, daughter of Philippe, duc d ' Orléans.
Although Leopold saw the Pillnitz Declaration as a way of taking action that would enable him to avoid actually doing anything about France, at least for the moment, it was seen in France as a serious threat and was denounced by the revolutionary leaders.

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