* Damião de Góis, a humanist, a close friend and pupil of Erasmus

After his early piano lessons with Otto Cossel, Brahms studied piano with Eduard Marxsen, who had studied in Vienna with Ignaz von Seyfried ( a pupil of Mozart ) and Carl Maria von Bocklet ( a close friend of Schubert ).

He owed his elevation partly to the fact that no one was eager to accept an office the duties of which were at the time so difficult and dangerous, but chiefly to his being the friend and pupil of Bernard of Clairvaux, the most influential ecclesiastic of the Western Church and a strong assertor of the pope's temporal authority.

There he became a pupil and friend of Georg von Peurbach.

When he reached Jerusalem, he received a message from the Venetian senate requesting him again to accept the Paduan professorship, which had become vacant by the death of his friend and pupil Fallopius.

In 1502 he went to Siena at the invitation of another pupil of Perugino, Pinturicchio, " being a friend of Raphael and knowing him to be a draughtsman of the highest quality " to help with the cartoons, and very likely the designs, for a fresco series in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral.

He later continued studying in Vienna with Georg Joseph Vogler, known as Abbé Vogler, founder of three important music schools ( in Mannheim, Stockholm, and Darmstadt ); another famous pupil of Vogler was Giacomo Meyerbeer, who became a close friend of Weber.

The sole source of the story is credited to one Matthew Bloxam ( a former pupil, but not a contemporary of Webb Ellis ) in October 1876 ( four years after the death of Webb Ellis ) in a letter to the school newspaper ( The Meteor ) wherein he quotes some unknown friend relating the story to him.

He was the prize pupil, and later friend and colleague, of stride pianist James P. Johnson.

He received his first education from a country priest, and had for a fellow pupil his friend and future biographer, Henri Lebret.

At a formal commemoration on 8 April 1788 his friend and pupil Salieri conducted Gluck's De profundis and a requiem by the Italian composer Niccolò Jommelli was given.

1890 ), a friend and former pupil, suggests the melancholy of a complex personality, and has been called " the finest of all American portraits ".

Two Homeric studies, executed for a friend, were shown to John Flaxman, who bestowed on them such high commendation that in 1807 Baily came to London and placed himself as a pupil under the great sculptor.

It was Alexander II, possibly a pupil of Lanfranc's and certainly a close friend, who gave the Norman Conquest the papal benediction — a notable advantage to William at the moment, but subsequently the cause of serious embarrassments.

David Garrick ( 19 February 1717 – 20 January 1779 ) was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice throughout the 18th century and was a pupil and friend of Dr Samuel Johnson.

The chief authorities for the biography of Malherbe are the Vie de Malherbe by his friend and pupil Racan, and the long Historiette which Tallemant des Réaux has devoted to him.

Daniel Heinsius, at first his favourite pupil, became his most intimate friend.

He also wrote stories for his friend and pupil Milo Manara for Tutto ricominciò con un ' estate indiana and El Gaucho.

Crantor moved to Athens in order to study philosophy, where he became a pupil of Xenocrates and a friend of Polemo, and one of the most distinguished supporters of the philosophy of the older Academy.

There he made a friend of a fellow pupil, Henry Yorke, later to become known as the novelist Henry Green.

In 1870, he was elected Master of his old college at Oxford, and in August 1881 he was made Dean of Westminster in succession to AP Stanley, whose pupil and intimate friend he had been, and whose biographer he became.

Crito is also the name of a pupil and friend of the Greek philosopher Socrates, as well as the name of an imaginary dialogue about justice written by the philosopher Plato in the context of the execution of Socrates.

For many years Du Bois-Reymond and his friend Hermann von Helmholtz, who like him had been a pupil of Johannes Peter Müller, were prominent scientists and professors in the Prussian capital.

From Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Gainsborough and Charterhouse School he progressed to Oriel College, Oxford in 1825, where he became the pupil, and subsequently the intimate friend, of John Henry Newman.

After luncheon we took advantage of the siesta period to try to get in touch with a few people to whom our dear friend Deppy had written.

In Tokyo Richard took up a life similar to that which he had lived in New York, except that he had replaced his biwa with a friend.

Events in the political world having come to a temporary lull, he returned to Rome ; but his health being impaired from arduous application, he took a journey through a part of Germany, in company with his friend Prince Rezzonico.

He also took Bennelong and his friend Yemmerrawanyea, another young Indigenous Australian who, unlike Bennelong, would succumb to English weather and disease and not live to make the journey home.

He took time to remember Bo Diddley, his friend of a half-century, performing his namesake tune in his honor.

One of the club's directors Henry Norris, and his friend William Hill, took over Arsenal in the early 1910s, the plan being to merge Fulham with Arsenal, to form a " London superclub " at Craven Cottage.

About the time he was six or seven, he and a close friend took trips to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

As a child, Cukor appeared in several amateur plays and took dance lessons, and at the age of seven he performed in a recital with David O. Selznick, who in later years would become a mentor and friend.

His friend Matthew Boulton took out a British patent on his behalf in 1797.

One of Barlaam's friends, Gregory Akindynos, who originally was also a friend of St Gregory Palamas, took up the controversy, which also played a role in the civil war between the supporters of John Cantacuzenus and John V Palaeologus.

Wounded feelings gave rise to a bitter three-way quarrel between Rousseau and Madame d ' Epinay ; her lover, the philologist Grimm ; and their mutual friend, Diderot, who took their side against Rousseau.

After the armistice of 1940, the family of Simone and Jacques-Yves Cousteau took refuge in Megève, where he became a friend of the Ichac family who also lived there.

She was also a friend to figures such as Luigi Pulci and Agnolo Poliziano and became her son's advisor when he took over power.

A friend of the family, a Russian sculptor, Naum Gabo, took Michael under his wing, so to speak.

Her work in Egyptology took place largely alongside her mentor and friend, the archaeologist Sir Flinders Petrie, whom she worked alongside at University College London.

Born Beau De Glen Lipscomb near Navasota, Texas, United States, he as a youth took the name of ' Mance ' from a friend of his oldest brother Charlie (" Mance " being short for emancipation ).

Ninon took the money, and sent a friend instead.

In the fall of 1985, Bailey took Twain down to Nashville to stay with a friend, record producer Tony Migliore, who at the time was producing an album for fellow Canadian singer Kelita Haverland and Twain was featured on the backing vocals to the song Too Hot to Handle.

Saddam's only visit to a Western country took place in September 1975 when he met with his friend, Prime Minister Jacques Chirac in Paris, France.

A close friend at the time, John Wholly, took Hughes to the Crookhill estate above Conisbrough where the boys spent great swathes of time.

The Marquess of Queensberry, the father of Wilde's intimate friend Lord Alfred Douglas ( who was on holiday in Algiers at the time ), had planned to disrupt the play by throwing a bouquet of rotten vegetables at the playwright when he took his bow at the end of the show.

Williams took the chance to duet with his long-time friend Jonathan Wilkes, Little Voice star Jane Horrocks, Saturday Night Live star Jon Lovitz, Rupert Everett and actress Nicole Kidman.

He arrived on Cape Cod and played a role at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts ; a friend took him over to Falmouth, where he quickly became a valued member of the new University Players, an intercollegiate summer stock company.

Hitler loved the music of Richard Wagner, and he became a close friend of Winifred Wagner after she took over the festival.

He had been himself a resident in Lageba and calls himself the friend of Tuineau, the chief of Lageba and as such he took possession of the present intended for the Fijian chief .</ P >