100 Notable alumni of
University of Fribourg
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The University of Fribourg is 558th in the world, 203rd in Europe, and 7th in Switzerland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Fribourg sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Antonin Scalia
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- lawyerjuristjudgeprofessor
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Antonin Gregory Scalia was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016. He was described as the intellectual anchor for the originalist and textualist position in the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative wing. For catalyzing an originalist and textualist movement in American law, he has been described as one of the most influential jurists of the twentieth century, and one of the most important justices in the history of the Supreme Court. Scalia was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018, and the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University was named in his honor.
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Gianni Infantino Riovaldi
- Enrolled in the University of Fribourg
- Studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- sports official
- Biography
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Giovanni Vincenzo Infantino is a Swiss-Italian football administrator and the president of FIFA since February 2016. He was re-elected in June 2019 and in March 2023. In January 2020, he was also elected a member of the International Olympic Committee.
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Klaus Schwab
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- pedagogueinternational forum participanteconomist
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Klaus Martin Schwab is a German engineer, economist, and founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF). He has acted as the WEF's chairman since founding the organisation in 1971.
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Sérgio Vieira de Mello
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- diplomatpoliticianofficial
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Sérgio Vieira de Mello was a Brazilian United Nations diplomat who worked on several UN humanitarian and political programs for over 34 years. The Government of Brazil posthumously awarded the Sergio Vieira de Mello Medal to honor his legacy in promoting sustainable peace, international security and better living conditions for individuals in situations of armed conflict, challenges to which Sérgio Vieira de Mello had dedicated his life and career.
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Matthias Erzberger
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- journalistwriterpoliticiandiplomat
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Matthias Erzberger was a politician of the Catholic Centre Party, member of the Reichstag and minister of finance of Germany from 1919 to 1920.
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Simonetta Sommaruga
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- pianistpoliticianinternational forum participant
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Simonetta Myriam Sommaruga is a Swiss politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2010 to 2022. A member of the Social Democratic Party (SP/PS), she was President of the Swiss Confederation in 2015 and 2020.
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Clemens August von Galen
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- authorCatholic priestresistance fighterCatholic bishop
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Clemens Augustinus Emmanuel Joseph Pius Anthonius Hubertus Marie Graf von Galen, better known as Clemens August Graf von Galen, was a German count, Bishop of Münster, and cardinal of the Catholic Church. During World War II, Galen led Catholic protests against Nazi euthanasia and denounced Gestapo lawlessness and the persecution of the Church in Nazi Germany. He was appointed a cardinal by Pope Pius XII in 1946, shortly before his death, and was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2005.
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Frédéric Lenoir
- Enrolled in the University of Fribourg
- 1980-1985 studied philosophy
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- sociologistwriterlecturer
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Frédéric Lenoir is a French sociologist, philosopher and writer
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Angelo Scola
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- Catholic priesttheologianuniversity teacherCatholic bishop
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Angelo Scola is an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church, philosopher and theologian. He was Archbishop of Milan from 2011 to 2017. He served as Patriarch of Venice from 2002 to 2011. He has been a cardinal since 2003 and a bishop since 1991.
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Karin Keller-Sutter
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- interpreterinternational forum participantpoliticianteacher
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Karin Keller-Sutter is a Swiss politician who has served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council since 2019. A member of FDP.The Liberals, she is the head of the Federal Department of Finance. Keller-Sutter previously served as President of the Council of States for the 2017–2018 term, and has served as vice president of Switzerland for the 2024 term since 1 January.
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Viola Amherd
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- lawyernotary publicinternational forum participantpolitician
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Viola Patricia Amherd is a Swiss politician who has served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council since 2019, and as President of the Swiss Confederation for 2024 since 1 January. She is the head of the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport. Amherd was a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP/PDC) before it merged with the Conservative Democratic Party (BDP/PBD) to form The Centre (DM/LC) in 2021, which she joined.
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Karl Friedrich, Prince of Hohenzollern
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- entrepreneur
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Karl Friedrich Emich Meinrad Benedikt Fidelis Maria Michael Gerold is the eldest son of the late Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern and Princess Margarita of Leiningen. He became head of the Catholic Swabian branch of the House of Hohenzollern upon his father's death on 16 September 2010.
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Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
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- phenomenologistuniversity teacherphilosopher
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Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka was a Polish philosopher, phenomenologist, founder and president of The World Phenomenology Institute, and editor (from its inception in the late 1960s) of the book series, Analecta Husserliana. She had a thirty-two-year friendship and occasional academic collaboration with Pope John Paul II.
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Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas
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- literary criticpoetliterary historianwriter
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Vincas Mykolaitis, known by his pen name Putinas; 6 January 1893 – 7 June 1967), was a Lithuanian writer, poet and translator, accorded the honour of being a People's Writer of the Lithuanian SSR in 1963. He was also a Catholic priest, but renounced his priesthood in 1935.
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Józef Maria Bocheński
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- writertheologianuniversity teachermathematicianphilosopher
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Józef Maria Bocheński or Innocentius Bochenski was a Polish Dominican, logician and philosopher.
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Basil Hume
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- theologianCatholic priestCatholic bishop
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George Basil Haliburton Hume was an English Catholic bishop. He was a monk and priest of the English Benedictine monastery of Ampleforth Abbey and its abbot for 13 years until his appointment as Archbishop of Westminster in 1976. His elevation to a cardinal followed during the same year. From 1979, Hume served also as president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales. He held these appointments until his death from cancer in 1999. His final resting place is at Westminster Cathedral in the Chapel of St Gregory and St Augustine.
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Pierre Maudet
- Enrolled in the University of Fribourg
- Studied in 2006
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
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Pierre Maudet is a Swiss and French politician. A former member of FDP.The Liberals, he was the mayor of Geneva from 1 June 2011 to 31 May 2012.
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Šatrijos Ragana
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- translatorwriterteacher
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Šatrijos Ragana was the pen name of Marija Pečkauskaitė (Polish: Maria Pieczkowska; March 8, 1877 – July 24, 1930), a Lithuanian humanist and romantic writer and educator. Her most successful works are Sename dvare (In the Old Estate, 1922) and Irkos tragedija (Tragedy of Irka).
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Mahmut Esat Bozkurt
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- politician
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Mahmut Esat Bozkurt was a Turkish jurist, politician, government minister and academic. His birth name was Mahmut Esat. But after the adaptation of the Turkish Surname Law in 1934, he chose the surname Bozkurt in remembrance of the Grey Wolf, a symbol for Turkdom. The surname also refers to the Turkish steamer S.S. Bozkurt in the Lotus case. He was in the intellectual environment of the Turkish Hearths for almost two decades.
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René Fasel
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- ice hockey officialphysicianice hockey playerdentistsports official
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René Fasel is a Swiss-Russian retired ice hockey administrator. He served as president of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) from 1994 to 2021. He started his ice hockey career as a player for HC Fribourg-Gottéron, in 1960, and became a referee in 1972. He became president of the Swiss Ice Hockey Federation in 1985, then was elected president of the International Ice Hockey Federation in 1994. He also became an International Olympic Committee member and was elected to its executive board. Fasel was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2021.
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Daniel Risch
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- international forum participantpolitician
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Daniel Risch is a politician from Liechtenstein who has served as the Prime Minister of Liechtenstein since 2021. He was previously Deputy Prime Minister 2017 to 2021, under the government of Adrian Hasler.
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Oskar Freysinger
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- politicianwriterpoet
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Oskar Freysinger is a Swiss politician of the Swiss People's Party.
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Lionel Groulx
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- historianwriterCatholic priestuniversity teacheressayist
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Lionel Groulx was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, historian, professor, public intellectual and Quebec nationalist.
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Joseph Bech
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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Joseph Bech was a Luxembourgish politician and lawyer. He was the 15th prime minister of Luxembourg, serving for eleven years, from 16 July 1926 to 5 November 1937. He returned to the position after World War II, and served for another four years as the 17th prime minister, from 29 December 1953 until 29 March 1958. The 1982–1983 academic year at the College of Europe was named in his honour.
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Ruth Metzler
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- politicianmanager
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Ruth Metzler is a Swiss politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1999 to 2003. A member of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP/PDC), she headed the Federal Department of Justice and Police.
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Sami Aldeeb
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- lawyertranslatorwriteruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Sami Awad Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh is a Swiss Palestinian lawyer.
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Walter Mixa
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Walter Johannes Mixa is a German prelate of the Catholic Church who is the Bishop Emeritus of Augsburg and Ordinary Emeritus of the Bundeswehr. He resigned as bishop of Military and Bishop of Augsburg on 8 May 2010 at age 69 after accusations he severely beat children at a Schrobenhausen orphanage in the 1970s and misappropriated the orphanage’s funds. Mixa reportedly sexually abused minors, including an altar boy; the Office of Public Prosecution opened investigation which it closed, citing insufficient evidence. He was also accused also of sexually abusing seminarians between 1996 and 2005.
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Flavio Cotti
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- politicianinternational forum participantlawyer
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Flavio Cotti was a Swiss politician who served as member of the Federal Council from 1986 to 1999. He was a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party from the canton of Ticino. In the 1990s, Cotti led the Swiss government's unsuccessful attempts to further Switzerland's political integration into the European Union. He was President of the Confederation in 1991 and 1998 and headed the departments of Home Affairs and Foreign Affairs.
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Corina Casanova
- Enrolled in the University of Fribourg
- Studied in 1982
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- politicianinternational forum participantjurist
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Corina Casanova is a Swiss politician who was the Federal Chancellor of Switzerland between 2008 and 2015.
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Bill Press
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- journalistwritertelevision producerradio personality
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William H. Press is an American talk radio host, podcaster, liberal pundit and author. He was chairman of the California Democratic Party from 1993 to 1996, and is a senior political contributor on CNN. He hosts The Bill Press Pod podcast, and his weekly column is syndicated by Tribune Content Agency.
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Kariem Hussein
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- athletics competitor
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Kariem Hussein is a Swiss athlete who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles. His first major success was the gold medal at the 2014 European Championships in Zürich. His personal best in the event is 48.45, set at a meeting in Zug in 2015 and again at Weltklasse Zürich in 2017. It is also technically his fastest flat 400m because he has not attempted the distance since 2009 when his PR was 48.58.
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Christian Levrat
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- politiciantrade unionist
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Christian Levrat is a Swiss politician. He served as the President of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland from 2008 until 2020. He has served as a member of the Council of States from Fribourg since 2012. Prior to the Council of states, He was a member of the National Council in from 2003 to 2012.
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Joseph Deiss
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- university teacherinternational forum participanteconomistdiplomatpolitician
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Joseph Deiss is a Swiss economist and politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1999 to 2006. A member of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP/PDC), he first headed the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (1999–2002) before transferring to the Federal Department of Economic Affairs (2003–2006). Deiss was elected President of the United Nations General Assembly for its 65th session in 2010.
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Georges Cottier
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- theologianuniversity teacherCatholic priest
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Georges Marie Martin Cottier O.P., was a Swiss prelate and theologian of the Catholic Church who served from 1990 to 2005 as theologian to Pope John Paul II as Theologian of the Pontifical Household after a career as a theologian and teacher. He was made a cardinal in 2003.
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Kurt Furgler
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- politician
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Kurt Furgler was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1972–1986).
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Aurelia Frick
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- politicianinternational forum participantlawyer
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Aurelia Cäcilia Katharina Frick commonly known as Aurelia Frick is a Liechtensteiner politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Education and Culture from 2009 to 2019.
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Peter Hauk
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- forestry scientistpolitician
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Peter Hauk, is a German politician of the CDU party. He has been a member of the Landtag (state parliament) of Baden-Wuerttemberg since 1992. From 2005 until 2010 he was Minister for Nutrition and Rural Areas (Ländlicher Raum), and from 2010 until the election of Guido Wolf to faction leader in 2015, he was CDU group leader and leader of the opposition in the Baden-Württemberg state parliament. Since 12 May 2016 he is a member of the Cabinet Kretschmann II as Minister for Rural Affairs and Consumer Protection.
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Otto Bradfisch
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- economistjuristGestapo employee
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Otto Bradfisch was an economist, a jurist, an SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant colonel), leader of Einsatzkommando 8 of Einsatzgruppe B of the Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei or SiPo) and the SD, and Commander of the Security Police in Litzmannstadt (Łódź) and Potsdam.
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Gilberto Agustoni
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- theologianCatholic priestCatholic bishop
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Gilberto Agustoni was a Swiss prelate of the Catholic Church. He worked in the Roman Curia from 1950 to 1998, ending his career as head of the Apostolic Signatura from 1992 to 1998. He became a Cardinal in 1994.
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Òscar Ribas Reig
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- politicianbusinesspersonlawyer
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Òscar Ribas Reig was an Andorran politician, lawyer, and businessman who became the prime minister of Andorra in 1982. He twice served as head of government, first from 8 January 1982 to 21 May 1984 and again from 12 January 1990 to 7 December 1994.
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Giuseppe Motta
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- lawyerpoliticiannotarydiplomat
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Giuseppe Motta was a Swiss politician. He was a member of the Swiss Federal Council (1911–1940) and President of the League of Nations (1924–1925). He was a Catholic-conservative foreign minister and a staunch opponent of communism and Stalinism.
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Gerhard Pfister
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- politician
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Gerhard Michael Pfister is a Swiss educator and politician who currently serves as a member of the National Council for The Centre (previously Christian Democratic People's Party) since 2003. In 2016, he succeeded Christophe Darbellay as president of The Centre. Pfister is currently also co-president of the Swiss Private School Association and founder and controlling shareholder of the day school Elementa Zug which is deemed for highly gifted children.
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Christian Wiyghan Tumi
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- theologianCatholic priestCatholic bishop
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Christian Wiyghan Tumi was a Cameroonian prelate of the Catholic Church who was archbishop of Douala from 1991 to 2009. He was bishop of Yagoua from 1980 to 1982. After serving as coadjutor bishop of Garoua beginning in 1982, he was bishop there from 1984 to 1991. He was made a cardinal 1988. Tumi was the first and so far the only cardinal from Cameroon.
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Elmar Mäder
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- military officer
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Elmar Theodor Mäder was the thirty-third Commandant of the Pontifical Swiss Guards. He held the rank of colonel in the Guards.
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Arnold Koller
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- politicianuniversity teacher
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Arnold Koller is a Swiss professor and politician. He served as a member of the Federal Council (Switzerland) from 1987 to 1999 for the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP). Koller previously served as a member of the National Council (Switzerland) from 1971 to 1986. He did also serve two terms of the as President of the Swiss Confederation in 1990 and 1997. He is primarily known for Lex Koller, a Swiss Federal Act on Acquisitions of Real Estate by Persons Abroad, which he initiated.
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Filippo Lombardi
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- journalistsports officialpoliticianentrepreneur
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Filippo Lombardi is a Swiss politician. He represented Ticino in the Council of States from 2014 to 2019 and served as the President of the Council of States from 2012 to 2013. He is a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party.
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Charles Morerod
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- writertheologianuniversity teacherLatin Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Charles Morerod, O.P., is a Swiss Dominican prelate. Since 2011, he has been bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg. Previously, he served as Rector of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum), professor of dogmatic theology, and Secretary General of the International Theological Commission.
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Marc Aillet
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishopCatholic deacon
- Biography
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Marc Marie Max Aillet has been the bishop of Bayonne since 30 November 2008. He had previously served as vicar general of the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon.
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Hermann Volk
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- university teacherCatholic priestCatholic bishop
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Hermann Volk was a German cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Mainz from 1962 to 1982, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1973.
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Patrick Aebischer
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- physicianinternational forum participantuniversity teacherneuroscientist
- Biography
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Patrick Aebischer has been the president of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) from 17 March 2000 to 31 December 2016. He is also a professor in neuroscience and head of the Neurodegenerative Disease Laboratory at the EPFL.
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Ramon Saizarbitoria
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- sociologistwriterpoet
- Biography
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Ramon Saizarbitoria is a contemporary Basque writer and sociologist.
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Otmar Hasler
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- politicianteacher
- Biography
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Otmar Hasler is a politician from Liechtenstein who served as the Prime Minister of Liechtenstein from 2001 to 2009.
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Niklaus Meienberg
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- journalistfilm directorhistorianwriter
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Niklaus Meienberg was a Swiss writer and investigative journalist.
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Jacek Woroniecki
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- philosopher
- Biography
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Adam Marian Tomasz Pius Leon duke Korybut Woroniecki, religious name Jacek was a Polish Servant of God.
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Franz-Josef Wuermeling
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- politician
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Franz-Josef Wuermeling was a West German CDU politician and minister who served as Federal Minister for Family Affairs from 1953 to 1962.
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Panagiotis Pipinelis
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- diplomatpoliticianwriter
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Panagiotis Pipinelis was a Greek politician and diplomat.
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Urban Federer
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- Catholic priest
- Biography
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Monsignor Urban Federer is a Swiss prelate of the Catholic Church. A member of the Order of St. Benedict, he is the current Abbot of Einsiedeln Abbey and Fahr Convent. Prior to serving as abbot, Federer was the Prior and Vicar General of Einsielden Abbey and the editor-in-chief of Salve, the abbey's official magazine. In 2017, he was made a Knight of the Pontifical Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem.
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Christian Frei
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- film producerfilm directorscreenwriter
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Christian Frei is a Swiss filmmaker and film producer. He is mostly known for his films War Photographer (2001), The Giant Buddhas (2005) and Space Tourists (2009).
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Archduke Géza of Austria
- Enrolled in the University of Fribourg
- Studied in 1965
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- primate
- Biography
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Géza Ladislaus Euseb Gerhard Rafael Albert Maria von Habsburg is a Fabergé expert who has published books and articles on the jewellers Peter Carl Fabergé and Victor Mayer. He is the curator of several major international Fabergé exhibitions. Géza von Habsburg coined the term Fauxbergé. As a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, he holds the abolished but courtesy titles of Archduke of Austria, Prince of Hungary and Bohemia, with the style of Imperial and Royal Highness.
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Edward O'Rourke
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
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Edward O'Rourke, full name Eduard Alexander Ladislaus Graf O'Rourke was a Russian-born Roman Catholic priest, bishop of Riga and the first head of the bishopric of the Free City of Danzig (Gdańsk).
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Albert Pintat
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- diplomatpoliticianeconomist
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Albert Pintat Santolària is an Andorran citizen, who served as the prime minister of Andorra from 27 February 2005 to 5 June 2009.
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Aloisius Joseph Muench
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- Catholic priestuniversity teacherCatholic bishopnuncioCatholic theologian
- Biography
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Aloisius Joseph Muench was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Fargo from 1935 to 1959, and as Apostolic Nuncio to Germany from 1951 to 1959. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1959.
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Paul Aulagnier
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- Catholic priest
- Biography
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Paul Aulagnier was a French Traditionalist Catholic priest. Once a member of the Society of Saint Pius X, he then became one of the principal founders of the Institute of the Good Shepherd (French: Institut du Bon Pasteur), an organisation in full communion with the Pope which upholds the Tridentine Mass.
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Michael Bordt
- Enrolled in the University of Fribourg
- Graduated with habilitation
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- authoruniversity teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Michael Bordt SJ is a German philosopher and academic. He is a professor at the Munich School of Philosophy and specialized in the area of ancient philosophy, especially Plato and Aristotle. Since 2011 he has been the chair of the Institute of Philosophy and Leadership at Munich.
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Juli Minoves Triquell
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- economistwriterpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Juli Minoves i Triquell is an Andorran diplomat, author, and the 13th President of Liberal International.
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Andrea Gmür-Schönenberger
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- politicianteacher
- Biography
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Andrea Gmür-Schönenberger is a Swiss politician from The Centre, formerly of the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland.
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Arie de Jong
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- translatorphysicianvolapükistlinguist
- Biography
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Arie de Jong was a Dutch enthusiast and reformer of the constructed language Volapük by Johann Martin Schleyer, with whose help the Volapük movement gained new strength in the Netherlands. He not only revised Volapük, but also (together with other Volapükist contemporaries) began Volapükaklub Valemik Nedänik (Dutch Universal Volapük Club) and founded Diläd valemik Feda Volapükaklubas. He also founded and edited Volapükagased pro Nedänapükans, an independent newspaper in Volapük, which ran for thirty-one years (1932–1963). He wrote Gramat Volapüka, a grammar of the language completely in Volapük, and a German-Volapük dictionary, Wörterbuch der Weltsprache (World Language Dictionary). He translated the New Testament into Volapük from Greek, as well as many other pieces of literature. Arie de Jong is justly considered the most important Volapükist of a new age of Volapük history.
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Martin Gutzwiller
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- university teacherphysicist
- Biography
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Martin Charles Gutzwiller was a Swiss-American physicist, known for his work on field theory, quantum chaos, and complex systems. He spent most of his career at IBM Research, and was also an adjunct professor of physics at Yale University.
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Berend-Jan van Voorst tot Voorst
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- politician
- Biography
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Baron Berend-Jan Marie van Voorst tot Voorst was a Dutch politician and diplomat of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and jurist.
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Daniel Barbu
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- historiansociologistpublisher
- Biography
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Daniel-Constantin Barbu is a Romanian political scientist, publisher, essayist, journalist, and professor at the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Political Science. The head of the Research Institute at the University of Bucharest, and former dean of the Faculty, he was also director of Realitatea Românească, a daily newspaper, in 1991–1992. Barbu worked as a State Adviser for President Emil Constantinescu between 1997 and 1999. He is the author as of June 2007 of eight books and many more articles on political science, and a contributor to the magazine Sfera Politicii. He is also a member of the Romanian Senate from Bucharest and former Minister of Culture.
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Albert Tévoédjrè
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- university teacherpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Albert Tévoédjrè was a Beninese writer and politician. He was Information Minister of Dahomey (now Benin) from 1960 to 1963.
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Achille Casanova
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- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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Achille Casanova was a Swiss journalist and politician. He held the office of Vice-Chancellor of Switzerland between 1981 and 2005, and during this time became the first official spokesman for the Swiss Federal Council when that role was created on 1 September 2000.
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Henry Wansbrough
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- translatorBible translatorclassical scholar
- Biography
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Henry Wansbrough is an English biblical scholar, Catholic priest, and monk of Ampleforth Abbey. From 1990 to 2004, he served as Master of St Benet's Hall, Oxford.
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Christof Wetterich
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- physicisttheoretical physicistastrophysicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Christof Wetterich is a German theoretical physicist.
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Giorgio Orelli
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- literary criticpoettranslatorwriter
- Biography
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Giorgio Orelli was an Italian-speaking Swiss poet, writer and translator.
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Ernst Pfister
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- politician
- Biography
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Ernst Pfister was a German politician. A member of the Free Democratic Party, he served as Minister of Economics, Labour and Housing of Baden-Württemberg from 2004 to 2011.
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Elmar Ledergerber
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- politician
- Biography
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Elmar Ledergerber is a former Mayor of Zurich. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland and was once named one of the most outstanding mayors of the year by a London think-tank. However he has also been criticized for not seeing through projects. He is currently active in promoting tourism to Zurich.
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Urs App
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- humanities scholarhistorianhistorian of ideas
- Biography
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Urs App is a historian of ideas, religions, and philosophies with a special interest in the history and modes of interaction between East and West.
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Michel Plancherel
- Enrolled in the University of Fribourg
- Studied in 1903-1907
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Michel Plancherel was a Swiss mathematician.
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Markus Büchel
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Markus Büchel is a Swiss Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Saint Gallen since 2006.
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Fernand Gobet
- Enrolled in the University of Fribourg
- In 1992 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- artificial intelligence researcherchess playeruniversity teacherpsychologist
- Biography
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Fernand Gobet is a cognitive scientist and a cognitive psychologist, currently Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the London School of Economics. His research interests focus on the study of cognition, especially in the areas of cognitive architectures, perception, intuition, problem solving, learning and decision making. He has developed the CHREST cognitive architecture, an acronym for Chunk Hierarchy and REtrieval STructures, which is a complete architecture for the processes of learning and perception used by humans. He is a chess International Master, and played numerous times for the Swiss national team. He was co-editor of the Swiss Chess Review from 1981 to 1989. His Elo rating is 2400.
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John Wolf Brennan
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- jazz musiciancomposerconductormusic teacherrecording artist
- Biography
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John Wolf Brennan is an Irish pianist, organist, melodica player, and composer based in Weggis, Switzerland.
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Jürgen Martens
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Jürgen Martens is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saxony since 2017.
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Avraham Granot
- Occupations
- lawyereconomistpoliticianpedagogue
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Avraham Granot was a Zionist activist, Israeli politician and a signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence.
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Robert Le Gall
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Robert Jean Louis Le Gall O.S.B. is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who was Archbishop of Toulouse from 2006 to 2021. He was previously the Bishop of Mende from 2001 to 2006.
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Carlo Schmid
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Carlo Schmid-Sutter is a Swiss politician. Since 1984, he has been member of the cantonal government of Appenzell Innerrhoden. Schmid was a member of the Swiss Council of States from 1980 to 2007, and president of that chamber in 1999/2000. From 1992 to 1994, he presided the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland (CVP/PDC).
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Farhad Hafezi
- Occupations
- ophthalmologistsurgeon
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Farhad Hafezi is a prominent Swiss eye surgeon and researcher. Hafezi first gained recognition as a leading retina researcher in 1994, having been the first to discover a gene responsible for light-induced retinal degeneration. However, he changed his research focus to the cornea in 2003, and it is this work, particularly on corneal collagen cross-linking, which he helped pioneer, and advanced laser refractive surgery that he is internationally known for today. Hafezi's current clinical and laboratory research is focused on gaining a better understanding of the cornea. His research group at the University of Zurich has three main research foci:
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Maurice Zermatten
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- literary criticplaywrightwriterprofessor
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Maurice Zermatten was a French-speaking Swiss writer.
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Georges Delnon
- Occupations
- film directoruniversity teacherartistic directorintendant
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Georges Delnon is a Swiss theatre director, artistic director and professor. From 2006 to 2015 he was the artistic director of the Theater Basel and he took over the management of the Hamburg State Opera in 2015.
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Vincentas Borisevičius
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- university teacherCatholic priestCatholic bishop
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Vincentas Borisevičius was a Lithuanian Roman Catholic bishop of the Telšiai Diocese. The process of his beatification was initiated in 1990.
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Monika Stolz
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- politician
- Biography
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Monika Stolz is a German politician for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Baden-Württemberg and was Minister of Work, Social Order, Women and the Elderly from 2006 to 2011.
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Pranciškus Būčys
- Occupations
- Catholic priestwriterCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Pranciškus Petras Būčys was a Lithuanian Roman Catholic priest, university professor, titular bishop of the Eastern Catholic Church (consecrated in 1930), and Superior-General of the Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception (1927–1933, 1939–1951).
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Elisabeth Blunschy
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Elisabeth Blunschy was a Swiss politician. She served as the first woman President of the National Council of Switzerland and was one of the first women elected to the National Council of Switzerland.
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Anton Cottier
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anton Cottier was a Swiss politician with the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland (CVP).
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Valérie Piller Carrard
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- politician
- Biography
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Valérie Piller Carrard is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP) and a current member of the National Council.
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Motiejus Gustaitis
- Years
- 1870-1927 (aged 57)
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Motiejus Gustaitis was a Lithuanian Symbolist poet, who used numerous pseudonyms (among them Balandis, Bendrakelionis, Embė, G. M., K. M. G.). He was also a translator and educator, as well as a Catholic priest. A long-term chairman of the Žiburys Society, Gustaitis worked to establish Lithuanian schools and advocated girls' education. He worked as principal of girls' pro-gymnasium in Marijampolė and coed gymnasium in Lazdijai.
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Jean-Pierre Fragnière
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- sociologist
- Biography
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Jean-Pierre Fragnière was a Swiss academic and political scientist. He taught at the Haute école spécialisée de Lausanne and the University of Geneva at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences. He founded the Institut universitaire âges et générations and served as Scientific Director from 1998 to 2009 in Sion.
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Thérèse Meyer
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Thérèse Meyer-Kaelin is a Swiss politician. She is a member of the Swiss National Council and President of the National Council for 2005.
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Juozas Purickis
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- journalisteconomistpoliticiandiplomat
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Juozas Purickis was a prominent diplomat and journalist in interwar Lithuania and served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from June 1920 to December 1921, as well as the acting Prime Minister of Lithuania for two months at the end of 1921 during the leave of absence of Prime Minister Kazys Grinius
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Herman de Vries de Heekelingen
- Occupations
- university teacher
- Biography
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Herman de Vries de Heekelingen was a Dutch scholar and author who lived the latter half of his life in Switzerland. He was professor of palaeography at the Catholic University of Nijmegen (with specialization in archaeology, prehistory, and ancient history) and was director of its library from 1923–1927.
