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37 unusual facts about Pantheon


Alexandre-Antoine Hureau de Sénarmont

In 1811 an urn with his heart was interred in the Panthéon, Paris.

Andreas Kaplan

Furthermore, Professor Kaplan did his Habilitation (French post-doctoral qualification for Ph.D. supervisor) at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University.

Athies-sous-Laon

His name appears in the Panthéon among dead writers of the Field of Honour during the 1914-1918 war.

Beaumont Newhall

Newhall continued his graduate studies at the Institute of Art and Archaeology of the University of Paris, and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.

Denis Hennequin

He earned a Bachelor's degree in economics and a Master's degree in Private International and Social Law from Panthéon-Assas University.

Dimitrije Popović

His crucifixions entitled “Corpus mysticum” were exhibited in Rome in Sant Andrea al Quirinale, Santa Maria del Popolo, and the Pantheon in the occasion of the celebration of two thousand years of Christianity.

Elisabeth Kehrer

In 1984 Kehrer was awarded a Doctorate of Laws (LL.D.) from the University of Vienna, and during 1984 and1985 undertook postgraduate studies in Comparative Constitutional Law for which she was awarded a Diplôme Supérieur by Panthéon-Assas University in France.

Emmanuelle Jouannet

Jurist and philosopher, Emmanuelle Jouannet followed both program academics law and philosophy respectively at the Panthéon-Assas University and Paris-Sorbonne University.

She also assures the functions of researcher-partner at L’Université mixte de recherche (university of research) of Compared law of University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and at the Institut Michel-Villey pour la culture juridique et la philosophie du droit of Panthéon-Assas University.

Eric Barendt

He has been a visiting professor at the universities of Rome, Siena, Melbourne, and Panthéon-Assas University.

Fabrizio Marrella

He was formerly Adjunct Professor of International Business Law at the IHEAL (Institute for Advanced Studies on Latin America) of the Université de Paris III-La Sorbonne Nouvelle and lecturer at the Paris Institute of Comparative Law (Panthéon-Assas University).

Franck R. Boulin

Franck Boulin holds a master’s degree in law from Sorbonne University and a doctorate in political studies from Panthéon-Assas University, both in Paris.

Frédéric Péchenard

Péchenard teaches at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Police, and gives occasional lectures at the Institute of Criminology of Panthéon-Assas University

Haris Pamboukis

From 1984 until 1987 Pamboukis worked as a researcher at the Panthéon-Assas University's Centre de Recherches de droit international.

He graduated from Pantheon-Sorbonne University, obtaining D.E.A. and a Ph.D. in Private International Law and International Trade Law.

Hugues Portelli

Portelli is also the mayor of Ermont, a city located in the North of Paris (Val d'Oise department) as well as a Professor of Political science and Constitutional Law at the prestigious Panthéon-Assas University.

Ilvo Diamanti

Since 1995, Diamanti has taught the course Comparative Political Systems (Régimes Politiques Comparées) within the Master in Political Studies (Études Politiques) at Panthéon-Assas University.

Jan Willem de Winter

He had a splendid public funeral and was buried in the Panthéon.

Jean-Louis Scaringella

Scaringella is also a board member of the EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development), a board member of the Diplomatic and Strategic Studies Centre (CEDS), a member of the editorial board of the European Management Journal and the Expansion Management Review, an associate professor at the Panthéon-Assas University, and a Defence Advisor to the Secretary General of National Defence.

Lee Ann Martin

Judge Martin studied law at the Panthéon-Assas University, France in 1991, obtaining a civil law degree and practising in France before returning to Winnipeg.

Mustafa F. Özbilgin

He holds visiting professorships at Panthéon-Assas University, St Gallen University, Cornell University, Japan Institute of Labour Policy, CEPS-INSTEAD, and Istanbul Bilgi University among others.

Nassour Guelendouksia Ouaido

He later completed his education by receiving a diploma at Yaoundé and, lastly, at the Paris Demography Institute.

Nestor Courakis

Born May 21, 1947 in Athens he attended the Law Faculty, University of Athens (LL.M. 1971), Law Faculty, University of Freiburg/Germany (Ph.D. on Penal Law 1978 with "summa cum laude"), Law Faculty, Panthéon-Assas University ("Diplôme d' Études approfondies" in Criminology, 1977), Paris Institute of Criminology (Diploma 1979); research work at Max-Planck Institute of Foreign and International Criminal Law (Freiburg, Germany) 1978-80.

Oleg Makara

Daughter, Marcela Makarová studied at Panthéon-Assas University also works in media for a TV production company Shine France in Paris, part of Shine Group.

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

The scene at the Cairo airport was filmed in the entrance hall of a campus of Panthéon-Assas University.

Pantheon, London

The artists and craftsmen involved included the plasterer Joseph Rose, the sculptor Joseph Nollekens, who was paid £160 for four statues of Britannia, Liberty, the King and the Queen, and John Stretzle, who built the organ for £300.

Horace Walpole compared Wyatt's work favourably with that of better established and very fashionable Robert Adam, "the Pantheon is still the most beautiful edifice in England" he said.

Writing to Sir Horace Mann in May 1770 Horace Walpole asked "What do you think of a winter Ranelagh erecting in Oxford Road, at the expense of sixty thousand pounds?".

Pantheon, Moscow

The decision to build the Pantheon was taken by the Central Committee of the CPSU and Council of Ministers in a joint decision of March 6, 1953, the day following Joseph Stalin's death.

The tomb was planned to serve as the final resting place for prominent Communist figures along with the remains of Communists who had been buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.

A likely location would probably have been opposite the Kremlin, on the Sophie quay by the Moscow River.

Pascal Lorot

Pascal Lorot is an economics PhD from the l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris (IEP) and a political science PhD from Panthéon-Assas University.

Philippe Gas

After studying law at Panthéon-Assas University and spending two years with General Motors, Philippe Gas joined Disney in 1991 as finance controller and served on the team that opened Disneyland Paris in April 1992.

Randall Wright

In addition to his academic position, Wright is a Research Associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Bank of Canada, NBER, and Panthéon-Assas University.

Saddek Rabah

Graduate of ISIC (Institute of Information and Communication Science, University of Algiers) and Panthéon-Assas University, Saddek Rabah is a researcher in information science and communication.

Serge Guinchard

He is a French jurist and Professor emeritus at Panthéon-Assas University, a post he assumed after leaving positions at the Law School of Dakar and Jean Moulin University Lyon 3.

Suzanne Scotchmer

Scotchmer has held visiting and teaching positions at Harvard University, University of Auckland, Cergy-Pontoise University, Tel Aviv University, Pantheon-Sorbonne University, the University of Toronto Law School, University of Southern California, New School of Economics, Moscow, and the Stockholm School of Economics.


Abasi

Abassi, creator god in the pantheon of the Nigerian Efik people

Armenian mythology

Aralez - Aralezner - The oldest gods in the Armenian pantheon, Aralez are dog-like creatures with powers to resuscitate fallen warriors and resurrect the dead by licking wounds clean.

Bathilde d'Orléans

In 1822, while she was taking part in a march towards the Panthéon, she lost consciousness, and drew her last breath in the home of a law professor who taught at the Sorbonne.

Bucranium

Garlanded bucrania provide a repetitive motif in the plasterwork of the fine 18th century Staircase Hall of The Vyne (Hampshire), inside the Pantheon at Stourhead (Wiltshire) and at Lacock Abbey (Wiltshire).

Can We Go Back

The video ends with Koda and her compatriots raising up a flag, in the style of French artist Jules Eugène Lenepveu's famous 1890 artwork Panthéon II.

Coat of arms of the Department of Magdalena

The shield is divided in two by a horizontal band which bears the flag of the Department of Magdalena in the background and in front of it the National Pantheon which is a structure located in Magdalena in the Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino that honours the Libertador and the fallen heroes of the nation, the superimposition of the structure on the flag symbolizes the integrity and firmness in the souls of the Magdalenenses as well as keeping alive his dream.

Dagon

There are differences between the Ugaritic pantheon and that of Phoenicia centuries later: according to the third-hand Greek and Christian reports of Sanchuniathon, the Phoenician mythographer would have Dagon the brother of Ēl/Cronus and like him son of Sky/Uranus and Earth, but not truly Hadad's father.

David Naccache

David Naccache is a cryptographer, currently a professor at Panthéon-Assas University and member of the École normale supérieure's Computer Laboratory.

Druaga

In the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, Druaga is listed part of the Babylonian pantheon and is the god of devils.

Elion

Elyon - the highest God in the Canaanite pantheon (along with El)

ESCP Europe

In 2011, ESCP Europe became a founding partner of HESAM, a cluster of well known institutions for research and higher education in the humanities and social sciences such as the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA), the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (CNAM), or the Pantheon-Sorbonne University.

Ferdinand I of Aragon

He is buried in the Aragonese royal pantheon of the monastery of Poblet, in a magnificent tomb ordered by his son Alfonso to Pere Oller in 1417.

Heldenberg Memorial

The Heldenberg Memorial is an open-air pantheon in the grounds of the castle at Kleinwetzdorf, Heldenberg, Lower Austria.

Hypaethros

In the conjectural restoration of the opaion or opening in the roof shown in Cockerells drawing, it has been made needessly large, having an area of about one quarter of the superficial area of the celia between the coltirnns, and since in the Pantheon at Rome the relative proportions of the central opening in the dome and the area of the Rotunda are I: 22, and the light there is ample, in the clearer atmosphere of Greece it might have been less.

John Crosdill

The Pantheon series included numerous performances by the Maras; vocalist Gertrud Elisabeth Mara and her husband violoncellist Johann Baptist Mara (1744–1808).

Maria Francisca of Orléans-Braganza, Duchess of Braganza

Maria Francisca died in Lisbon was buried at the Chagas de Cristo (Jesus's Five Sacred Wounds) Convent, in Vila Viçosa, the pantheon of the duchesses of Braganza.

Michel Suret-Canale

After his secondary education at the Lycée Claude Bernard in Paris, Michel enrolled at the University of Arts and Sciences of Art, Department of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, eventually earning a doctorate in Arts and Sciences of Art with honors by unanimous decision of the jury.

My Life with Morrissey

The film chronicles the adventures of an off-kilter career girl whose life goes completely berserk after she meets her idol, British rock star Morrissey who, as the former Smiths frontman remains a towering figure in the Britrock pantheon.

Nyorai

The most important Nyorai of the Japanese Buddhist pantheon (apart from the historical Buddha, Shaka Nyorai) are Amida Nyorai (Amitābha), Dainichi (or Birushanabutsu) Nyorai (Vairocana), and Yakushi Nyorai (Bhaisajyaguru).

Odinani

The top four Alusi of the Igbo pantheon are Ala, Igwe, Anyanwu, and Amadioha (or Kamalu); other less important Alusi exist after these, some depending on the community.

Panteón de Gil

Panteón de Gil (Pantheon of Gil) is a monument in memory of General Dionisio Gil, which was inaugurated on May 28, 1911 in Cienfuegos, Cuba.

Pierre Brossolette

Buildings in Paris such as the former bookstore and nearby Lycée Janson de Sailly's court at Rue de la Pompe, the residence at Rue de Grenelle, his birthplace at rue Michel-Ange, the Maison de Radio France and the Ministry of the Interior's court at Rue des Saussaies all feature commemorative plaques and his name is mentioned on a floor plaque at the Panthéon.

Pierre Julien

While fulfilling commissions in Paris, for the Church of Sainte-Geneviève (now the Panthéon, Paris), or at the Pavillon de Flore of the Louvre, he sculpted in 1785 a virtuoso marble ensemble of the nymph Amalthea and the goat that nurtured Jupiter for the Queen's fastidiously-appointed Dairy (La Laiterie) at the Château de Rambouillet; for his model, he adapted the pose of the famous Capitoline Venus.

Pontifical Academy of Archaeology

The Academy succeeded in obtaining, from Pope Pius IX, a decree for the demolition of the houses on the left side of the Rotonda (Pantheon), and also protested against the digging of new holes in the walls.

Shawnee Mission East Choraliers

The choir has performed at Carnegie Hall, Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, Germany, Great St. Mary's Cathedral in Cambridge, the Pantheon and at the Thomaskirche (St. Thomas Lutheran Church), a church in Leipzig, Germany where Johann Sebastian Bach held the position of cantor.

Suphankanlaya

During and after the 1997 Asian financial crisis, she became part of the "pantheon" of Thai national deities.

The Silent Enigma

The album was originally titled Rise Pantheon Dreams, a title later used by White for his post-Anathema project The Blood Divine.

Vasily Grossman

A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945 by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova (Pantheon, 2006 - ISBN 0-375-42407-5 ) - Based on Grossman's notebooks, war diaries, personal correspondence and articles.

Victoria Technical Institute

The Victoria Technical Institute was opened in Pantheon Road, Egmore, Madras in the year 1889 in commemoration of the silver jubilee celebrations of Queen Victoria.