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unusual facts about Albertus



A. L. Freehafer

Albertus LeRoy (A.L.) Freehafer (February 12, 1868 in Butler, Richland County, Ohio – October 28, 1940 in Payette, Idaho).

Albertus Magnus High School

Albertus Magnus High School is administered by the Dominican Congregation of Our Lady of the Rosary Sparkill, New York, which was founded on May 6, 1876 in New York City by Mother Catherine Mary Antoninus Thorpe.

Albertus Magnus High School is a Catholic, co-educational high school located in Bardonia, New York, named after the German philosopher and theologian of the same name.

Albertus Pictor

Albertus was originally called Albertus Immenhusen, after the German town of Immenhausen in Hessen of which he was a native.

Albertus's illustration of Death playing chess from Täby kyrka inspired the famous scene in Ingmar Bergman's 1957 film The Seventh Seal, in which a knight (Antonius Block) plays chess with personified Death.

Albrecht Meyer

Albrecht Meyer also known as Albertus Meyer in Latinised form, was a botanical illustrator noted for his more than 500 plant images in Leonhart Fuchs's epic pre-Linnean publication of 1542, De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes, published in Latin and Greek, and almost immediately translated into German.

Bart Verbrugh

Albertus Johannes (Bart) Verbrugh (born July 19, 1916 in The Hague - died February 5, 2003 in Dordrecht) was a Dutch politician.

Benny Neyman

Wilhelmus Albertus "Benny" Neyman (9 June 1951 in Maastricht, Netherlands - 7 February 2008 in Soesterberg, Netherlands) was a Dutch singer.

Carter Sans

This is a relatively rarer style, and Carter states that he was particularly influenced by Albertus (1932–40) by Berthold Wolpe, also of Monotype.

Cedar Swamp, Michigan

Cedar Swamp was a village in Ottawa County, Michigan founded in 1848 by Albertus C. Van Raalte.

Gerrit Beneker

Beneker was born on January 26, 1882 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son of Bartel Albertus Beneker, who had immigrated from Serooskerke in the Netherlands, and Pauline Catherine Steketee.

Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz

Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz (Oudewater, 18 September 1871 – Klerksdorp (South Africa), 2 September 1944) was a Dutch explorer in New Guinea and diplomat in South Africa.

Puncak Jaya

The now highest Carstensz Pyramid summit was not climbed until 1962, by an expedition led by the Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer (of Seven Years in Tibet fame, and climber of the Eiger North Face) with three other expedition members – Philip Temple, Russell Kippax and Albertus Huizenga.

Sijthoff

Bob Sijthoff, descendant of Albertus Willem Sijthoff who sued Wikimedia in the Netherlands in 2008

Albert Georg Sijthoff (1853–1927), son of Albertus Willem Sijthoff and publisher of the Haagsche Courant


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