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Auguste Van De Verre

Auguste Van De Verre was a Belgian archer who won two team gold medals at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics in pole archery, placing sixth in both individual bird-target events.

Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838–1889), French symbolist-era writer, comte, author of Contes cruels and L'Ève future, an early science-fiction novel featuring Thomas Edison and an android; died poor in Paris.

Auguste-Joseph-Alphonse Gratry

Auguste-Joseph-Alphonse Gratry (1805–1872) was a French Catholic priest, philosopher, and educator who restored the Oratory of France, taught at the Sorbonne, joined the Académie française, and opposed papal infallibility.

Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie

Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie (1834–1895) was a French Catholic priest, a former naval officer from the noble de Broglie family, and professor of apologetics at the Institut Catholique de Paris.

Augusten Burroughs

Augusten Burroughs, born Christopher Richter Robison in 1965, is an American memoirist and novelist best known for Running with Scissors (2002), an account of his unconventional childhood in his mother's psychiatrist's household.

Augusteum, Antioch in Pisidia

Augusteum of Pisidian Antioch (Colonia Caesarea): imperial cult sanctuary with Corinthian temple, semicircular two-storey portico, triple-arched propylon, and a stone copy of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti, excavated by Ramsay (1913) and Michigan (1924).

Augusteum, so-called Basilica at Herculaneum

Augusteum, so-called Basilica at Herculaneum: Roman imperial-cult shrine in Herculaneum, Italy, explored via 18th-century Bourbon tunnels, still buried; distinct from the Sede degli Augustali and Basilica Noniana.

Augustiana

Augustiana (also Augustianis), Roman auxiliary cavalry fort at Traismauer, Austria, on the Norican Danube Limes, home of the Ala I Augusta Thracum, occupied from the mid-1st to the 5th century AD; distinct from the Domus Augustana in Rome.

Augustin Barruel

Augustin Barruel (1741–1820) was a French Jesuit priest and journalist whose four-volume Memoirs blamed the French Revolution on a conspiracy of Illuminati, Freemasons, and philosophers, translated into nine languages by 1812.

Augustin Calmet

Augustin Calmet, born Antoine Calmet (1672–1757), was a Lorraine Benedictine whose literal Bible commentary ranked as the quasi-official Catholic commentary of its era, and whose 1746 treatise on apparitions made him central to the vampire debate.

Augustin Hadelich

Augustin Hadelich (born 1984, Cecina, Italy) is a German-American classical violinist, 2006 Indianapolis Gold Medalist, 2016 Grammy winner, playing the 1744 'Leduc, ex Szeryng' Guarneri del Gesù, teaching at Yale.

Augustin Jordan

Augustin Jordan (1910-2004), French soldier and diplomat, Compagnon de la Libération, Free French SAS (French Squadron) commander captured in Tunisia 1943 and held at Colditz; later ambassador to Warsaw and Vienna.

Augustin Kažotić

Augustin Kažotić, also written Gazotti, was a Dominican friar from Trogir who served as bishop of Zagreb from 1303 to 1322 and was beatified in 1702.

Augustin Meurmans

Augustin Meurmans (born 1997, Ottignies) is a Belgian field hockey midfielder for Racing Club de Bruxelles; 2018 World Cup champion and Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medalist with Belgium.

Augustin Nicolas Gilbert

Augustin Nicolas Gilbert (1858–1927) was a French physician and professor of clinical medicine at the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris, known for describing Gilbert's syndrome, a benign familial jaundice.

Augustin Theiner

Augustin Theiner (1804–1874) was a German Oratorian priest and church historian, prefect of the Vatican Archives from 1855 to 1870 and the first non-Italian to hold the office.

Augustin-Jean Fresnel

Augustin Fresnel (1788–1827) was a French physicist and civil engineer who established the wave theory of light quantitatively and invented the stepped Fresnel lighthouse lens.

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789–1857) was a French mathematician, professor at the École Polytechnique and the Sorbonne, who gave the calculus rigorous foundations, founded complex analysis, and developed elasticity theory.

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Augustinas Voldemaras

Augustinas Voldemaras (1883–1942) was a Lithuanian historian and statesman who headed Lithuania's first independent government in 1918 and served again as prime minister from 1926 to 1929.

Augustine Guschi Hargus

Augustine Guschi Hargus was a German athlete who set three women's javelin world records between 1927 and 1928, won the German title three times, and later played field hockey.

Augustine Kiprono

Augustine Kiprono Choge, Kenyan distance runner born 1987, 2006 Commonwealth 5000m champion, World Indoor 3000m silver and bronze medallist, 4x1500m relay world record anchor, 1500m best 3:29.47.

Augustine M.K. Choi

Augustine M.K. Choi is a pulmonary physician-scientist known for research on heme oxygenase-1 and therapeutic carbon monoxide, who served as dean of Weill Cornell Medicine from 2017 to 2022.

Augustine of Canterbury

Saint Augustine of Canterbury was a Roman monk sent by Pope Gregory the Great in 596 to convert the Anglo-Saxons, becoming the first Archbishop of Canterbury.

Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo (Aurelius Augustinus) was a North African bishop and theologian who converted in Milan in 386, wrote the Confessions and City of God, and shaped Western Christianity.

Augustine Therapeutics

Augustine Therapeutics is a Belgian biotechnology company founded in 2019 as a VIB-KU Leuven spin-off, based in Leuven, developing selective HDAC6 inhibitors for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.

Augustine Washington

Augustine Washington (1694-1743), Virginia tobacco planter and iron entrepreneur with the Principio Company, father of George Washington and original owner of the Mount Vernon property; married Jane Butler then Mary Ball, died at Ferry Farm when George was eleven.

Augustinian theodicy

Augustinian theodicy, from Augustine of Hippo, explains evil as the privatio boni caused by the Fall and misuse of free will; John Hick contrasted it with his Irenaean soul-making type.

Augustinianism

Augustinianism, also called Augustinism, is the tradition of philosophical, theological, and political positions derived from Augustine of Hippo (354–430): divine illumination, original sin, primacy of grace, and anti-Aristotelian and anti-Pelagian schools from the 1277 condemnations to Luther and modern political theology.

Augustinians

The Augustinians, also known as the Augustine Order or Black Canons, are a Christian religious family following the Rule of St Augustine, spanning canons, mendicant friars, nuns, and lay fraternities.