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    Jean Curtius, also known as Jean De Corte and Juan Curcio, called Curtius (Liège, Holy Roman Empire 1551 –Liérganes, Spain, July 12, 1628) was a Liégeois...
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  • industrialist from Liége Curtius Museum, Jean Curtius's mansion, now a museum Julius Curtius (1877–1948), German politician Ludwig Curtius (1874–1954), archaeologist...
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    The Curtius Museum (Musée Curtius) is a museum of archaeology and decorative arts located on the bank of the river Meuse in Liège, Belgium. It is classified...
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    Bern home of Curtius, for whom her mother acted as housekeeper. Marie called him 'Uncle', and in many ways he was a father figure. Curtius used his skill...
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    into the home of local doctor Philippe Curtius (1741–1794), for whom Anne-Marie acted as housekeeper. Curtius, whom Marie would call her uncle, was skilled...
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    Casteau's book Ouverture de cuisine was published in 1604 and dedicated to Jean Curtius. The book is mentioned by multiple writers starting in the 18th century...
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    in Cantabria, Northern Spain. The foundry was established in 1622 by Jean Curtius with the support of Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares and became...
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    Bonaparte, First Consul (category Portraits by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres)
    Napoleon Bonaparte as First Consul by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The painting is now in the collection of the Curtius Museum in Liège. Posing the hand...
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    19 months. They had three daughters: Susy (1872–1896), Clara (1874–1962), and Jean (1880–1909). The Clemenses formed a friendship with David Gray, who worked...
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    had been founded by Dr Philippe Curtius as an adjunct to his main exhibition of waxworks in Paris in 1782. Here Curtius displayed wax figures of notorious...
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    to help. German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning and Foreign Minister Julius Curtius were eager for Franco-German reconciliation but were under siege on all...
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    Jean-Gilles Delcour (1632–1695), is a walloon painter of religious subjects, was born at Hamoir, near Liège. He was a scholar of Geraert Douffet, but went...
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    (Cornus mas). The knot was later described by Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus as comprising "several knots all so tightly entangled that it was...
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    (2nd ed.). London: English Universities Press. Rufus, Quintus Curtius. "Quintus Curtius Rufus, History of Alexander the Great" (in Latin). U Chicago....
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    children were sold into slavery. According to the Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus, Batis was killed by Alexander in imitation of Achilles' treatment...
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  • married twice: to Marguerite Noël in 1785 and then to Marie-Anne-Joseph Curtius in 1794. In 1786, he purchased a home in the seigneury of Vaudreuil, where...
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  • Curtius to display his exhibits in Paris. When moving to Paris, Curtius bought with him a housekeeper and her daughter, Marie Grosholtz, who Curtius then...
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    Revealed, And They're Heartbreaking". HuffPost. Retrieved 9 February 2018. Curtius, Mary; Sahagun, Louis (14 October 1997). "Musician John Denver Dies in...
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    (1885–1966) Marc Bloch (1886–1944) Robert Schuman (1886–1963) Ernst Robert Curtius (1886–1956) Hans Schlossberger (1887–1960) Friedrich Wilhelm Levi (1888–1966)...
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    "Augustin manichéen" in Rychar & Boehlich, eds., Freudesgabe fũr Ernest Robert Curtius (Bern 1956). "Les religions de l'Iran et l'ancien Testament" (Louvain,...
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    Pertinax, English translation at Lacus Curtius Herodian, History of the Roman Empire, English translation at Lacus Curtius Cassius Dio, Roman History, Book...
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    Routledge. ISBN 0-415-07248-4. Servian Wall entry on the Lacus Curtius website Lacus Curtius page including gates in the Servian Wall Map showing the "Servian"...
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    physician and research traveler Ernst Curtius (1814–1896), classical archaeologist and historian Georg Curtius (1820–1885), philologist Friedrich Matthias...
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  • Kurt; Temporini, Hildegard; Walser, Gerold (eds.). "The Date of Quintus Curtius Rufus". Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte. 37 (4). Stuttgart, Germany:...
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    to have it redone instead, with a head depicting the Roman hero Marcus Curtius. In 1668, Perrault wrote La Peinture (Painting) to honor the king's first...
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    hall of Liège; Floral still life (1758) and other works in museum Grand Curtius in Liège. Portrait of a canon The apostle Peter Ceiling painting, Maastricht...
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  • in historical-comparative and reconstructive linguistics such as Georg Curtius advocated the neo-grammarian manifesto according to which linguistic change...
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  • Postmodern Imagination (2008) p. 145. Colin Burrow's "Introduction" in E. R. Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, Princeton: Princeton University...
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    346. Curtius, p. 387; Koenigsberger, p. 368. Cantor, p. 546; Curtius, pp. 351, 378. Curtius, p. 396; Koenigsberger, p. 368; Jones, p. 258. Curtius, p....
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  • Carlebach Ernst Boris Chain Otto Detlev Creutzfeldt Rudolf Criegee Theodor Curtius Daniel Dahm Max Delbrück Otto Diels Gerhard Domagk Nikolai Eberhardt Christian...
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