The man was King Leopold 2, of the Belgians, who in 1885 concluded that he had better grab a colony while the grabbing was still good.

Leopold was born in 1887 and educated at Yale University.

Leopold believed that harm was frequently done to natural systems out of a sense of ownership and this idea eclipsed community.

The Dowager Queen Constance was anxious for her son's life and she escaped with King Ladislaus to the court of Leopold VI, Duke of Austria.

As a student of Florian Leopold Gassmann, and a protégé of Gluck, Salieri was a cosmopolitan composer who wrote operas in three languages.

It was through Pacini that Salieri gained the attention of the composer Florian Leopold Gassmann, who, impressed with his talents and concerned for his future, took the young orphan to Vienna where he personally directed and paid for the remainder of his musical education.

For example, when Salieri was appointed Kapellmeister in 1788 he revived Figaro instead of bringing out a new opera of his own ; and when he went to the coronation festivities for Leopold II in 1790 he had no fewer than three Mozart masses in his luggage.

Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen (, also known as Karl von Österreich-Teschen ) ( Full name: Karl Ludwig Johann Josef Lorenz of Austria ) ( 5 September 1771 – 30 April 1847 ) was an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of emperor Leopold II and his wife Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain.

The Congo Free State was a corporate state privately controlled by Leopold II, King of the Belgians through the Association Internationale Africaine, a non-governmental organization.

Leopold was the sole shareholder and chairman.

The melody of the Deutschlandlied was originally adapted by Joseph Haydn in 1797 to provide music to the poem " Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser " (" God save Franz the Emperor ") by Lorenz Leopold Haschka.

Although the term " dominatrix " was not used, the classic example in literature of the female dominant-male submissive relationship is portrayed in the 1870 novella Venus in Furs by Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.

He found her a publisher, and her book was reviewed by Aldo Leopold, Joseph Grinnell, and Jean Delacour.

The historic emphasis and poetic naturalist writings for protection was on wild places, from notable ecologists in the history of conservation biology, such as Aldo Leopold and Arthur Tansley, were far removed from urban centres where the concentration of pollution and environmental degradation is located.

The word ' ester ' was coined in 1848 by German chemist Leopold Gmelin, probably as a contraction of the German Essigäther-acetic ether.

By May 1683 the Ottoman threat to Emperor Leopold I's capital, Vienna, was very real.

It was at Leopold I's camp where Eugene arrived in mid-August.

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.

With the signing of the Treaty of Ryswick in September / October 1697, the desultory war in the west was finally brought to an inconclusive end, and Leopold I could once again devote all his martial energies into defeating the Ottoman Turks in the east.

With the monarchy at the point of complete financial breakdown Leopold I was at last persuaded to change the government.

Also important was forester and ecologist Aldo Leopold, one of the founders of the Wilderness Society in 1935, who wrote a classic of nature observation and ethical philosophy, A Sand County Almanac, published in 1949.

Leopold was, from 1765 to 1790, the Grand duke | Grand Duke of Tuscany

Leopold quickly replaced the ambassador with a more sympathetic individual to carry out his plan.

After extensive performances at the coronation of Leopold II in Frankfurt in 1791, it was much performed in Europe until replaced by Weber's opera Oberon.

Leopold no longer needed the façade of the Association, and replaced it with an appointed cabinet of Belgians who would do his bidding.

After this last defeat, Charles was replaced by Leopold Josef Graf Daun and retired from military service.

LaFlamme was quickly replaced by jazz violinist " Symphony " Sid Page Vocalists Sherry Snow and Christine Gancher, guitarist John Weber, and bassist Jaime Leopold filled out the band, unusual in having no drummer.

He was replaced by his more conservative brother Leopold, which further undermined van Swieten's position.

They would be replaced by writer Budd Lewis and artist Leopold Sanchez after the first few stories.

When the Chief of the General Staff Erich von Falkenhayn was dismissed from office in 1916, von Hindenburg replaced him, and Prince Leopold of Bavaria was given control of the Ober Ost.

This proved Haas's undoing, as after World War II he was removed from the Bruckner project and replaced by the more scholarly, if less inventive, Leopold Nowak who went on to produce new editions of all Bruckner's symphonies.

Leopold II, the last ruling Grand Duke, was replaced by a republican constitution.

From left to right these were: Ferdinand I ( relief: Defense of the Castle at Eger ); Leopold I ( relief: Eugene of Savoy defeats the Turks at Zenta ), Charles III, Maria Theresa ( relief: The Hungarian Diet votes support " vitam et sanguinem ") and Franz Joseph ( relief: Franz Joseph crowned by Gyula Andrássy ) The monument was damaged in World War II and when it was rebuilt the Habsburgs were replaced by the current figures.

Similar to the view of Leopold Kronecker that " God made the integers ; all else is the work of man ," musicians drawn to the alphorn and other instruments that sound the natural harmonics, such as the natural horn, consider the notes of the natural harmonic series — particularly the 7th and 11th harmonics — to be God's Notes, the remainder of the chromatic scale enabled by keys, valves, slides and other methods of changing the qualities of the simple open pipe being an artifact of mere mortals.

* Sinfonia Pastorella for Alphorn and String Orchestra ( 1755 ) by Leopold Mozart

In the 1780s while Mozart lived and worked in Vienna, he and his father Leopold wrote in their letters that several " cabals " of Italians led by Salieri were actively putting roadblocks in the way of Mozart's obtaining certain posts or staging his operas.

In 1920, Thoralf Skolem simplified a previous result by Leopold Löwenheim, leading to the Löwenheim – Skolem theorem and, in 1930, to the notion of a Herbrand universe and a Herbrand interpretation that allowed ( un ) satisfiability of first-order formulas ( and hence the validity of a theorem ) to be reduced to ( potentially infinitely many ) propositional satisfiability problems.

In Florence on 8 September 1787 ( by proxy ) and again in Dresden on 18 October 1787 ( in person ), Anton married a second time with the Archduchess Maria Theresia of Austria ( Maria Theresia Josephe Charlotte Johanna ), daughter of the Grand Duke Leopold I of Tuscany, later Emperor Leopold II.

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.

Realising the danger, the Duke of Marlborough resolved to alleviate the peril to Vienna by marching his forces south from Bedburg and help maintain Emperor Leopold within the Grand Alliance.

* 1192 – Richard the Lion-Heart is captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England after signing a treaty with Saladin ending the Third crusade.

The strain told on Leopold and by the winter of 1791, he became ill.

* Notre Dame, romantic Opera in two acts, text after Victor Hugo by Franz Schmidt and Leopold Wilk ; comp.

After receiving a substantial inheritance upon his father's death in 1863, Cantor shifted his studies to the University of Berlin, attending lectures by Leopold Kronecker, Karl Weierstrass and Ernst Kummer.

These were lampworked by Leopold Blaschka and his son Rudolph, who never revealed the method he used to make them.

However, Melk was reoccupied, already in 985, by Leopold I, Margrave of Austria.

Gabbro was named by the German geologist Christian Leopold von Buch after a town in the Italian Tuscany region.

Performances by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra were recorded in 1931 and 1932 using telephone lines between the Academy of Music in Philadelphia and the labs in New Jersey.

Johann Georg Albrechtsberger portrait by Leopold Kupelwieser

The most influential of Severn's early Italian genre paintings are The Vintage, commissioned by the Duke of Bedford in 1825, and The Fountain ( Royal Palace, Brussels ) commissioned by Leopold I of Belgium in 1826.