Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) - An Index to Kinships in Near Degrees between Persons Whose Achievements Are Honourable, and Have Been Publicly Recorded by Edgar Schuster;Francis Galton
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_fa_, Christian August BRANDIS, secretary of the Prussian Legation in Rome, 1818; afterwards Professor of Philosophy at Bonn; went to Athens, 1837-1839, as confidential adviser to King Otho, partly with regard to the organization of schools and colleges in Greece; author of a "History of Greek Philosophy." _me bro_, Friedrich HAUSMANN, Professor of Mineralogy and Geology at Göttingen; author of a "Handbook of Mineralogy." _bro_, Johannes BRANDIS, for many years Kabinetsrath of H.M. Empress Augusta, Queen of Prussia. _me si son_, Julius VON HARTMANN, commanded a cavalry division in the Franco-German War; after the war was Governor of Strasburg. Alexander Crum #BROWN# (b. 1838), M.D., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry at Edinburgh University since 1869; president of the Chemical Soc., London, 1892-1893.--["Who's Who."] _fa fa fa_, John BROWN (1722-1787), of Haddington, Biblical commentator; as a herd boy taught himself Latin, Greek, and learned Hebrew with the aid of a teacher, at one time a pedlar; served as a soldier in the Edinburgh garrison, 1745; minister to the Burgher congregation at Haddington, 1750-1787; acted as Professor of Divinity to Burgher students after 1767.--["Dict. N. Biog."] |
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