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August Storck

August Storck, known as Oberwelland, was a German confectioner who founded the Werther'sche Zuckerwarenfabrik in Werther, Westphalia, in 1903, the origin of August Storck KG.

August Thyssen

August Thyssen (1842–1926) was a German steel industrialist who founded the Thyssen & Co. rolling mill near Mülheim in 1871 and built it into a conglomerate employing 77,000 by 1913.

August Uprising

The August Uprising was a large-scale anti-Soviet rebellion in Georgia that began on 28 August 1924, aimed to restore independence lost to Soviet occupation in 1921, and was crushed within weeks amid mass executions.

August von Kruse

August Freiherr von Kruse (1779–1848), Nassau lieutenant general and agricultural reformer. Led the 2nd Nassau Regiment in the Peninsular War, defected to the British at Bayonne in 1813, and commanded the Nassau brigade at Waterloo.

August von Mackensen

August von Mackensen (1849-1945), Prussian Generalfeldmarschall and WWI commander, broke the Russian front at Gorlice-Tarnow 1915, led Serbia and Romania campaigns; last WWI field marshal, the Last Hussar.

August Wilhelm Dieckhoff

August Wilhelm Dieckhoff (1823–1894) was a German confessional Lutheran theologian and professor of church history at the University of Rostock from 1860 until his death.

August Wilhelm Knobel

August Wilhelm Knobel (1807–1863) was a German Lutheran theologian and Old Testament exegete who was ordinary professor of theology at the University of Gießen from 1839 until his death.

August Zátka

August Zátka (1847–1935) was a Czech lawyer and politician who headed the founding committee of the Czech Joint Stock Brewery, predecessor of Budějovický Budvar, in 1894–1895.

Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein

Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (Auguste Viktoria, 1858–1921), called Dona, was German Empress and Queen of Prussia as wife of Kaiser Wilhelm II from 1888, mother of seven, church patron, and died in exile at Haus Doorn.

Augustan settlement with Parthia

The Augustan settlement with Parthia was a 20 BC agreement in which the Parthian king Phraates IV returned to Augustus the standards and prisoners Rome had lost since Carrhae.

Auguste Beernaert

Auguste Beernaert was a Belgian lawyer and statesman, prime minister and finance minister from 1884 to 1894, who shared the 1909 Nobel Peace Prize for his arbitration work.

Auguste Carayon

Auguste Carayon (1813–1874) was a French Jesuit historian, librarian, and bibliographer, best known for his 1864 Bibliographie historique de la Compagnie de Jésus and edited collections of unpublished Jesuit documents.

Auguste Comte

Auguste Comte (1798–1857), French philosopher, founder of positivism and coiner of 'sociology'; author of the Cours de philosophie positive, the law of three stages, and the Religion of Humanity.

Auguste Houzeau de Lehaie

Auguste Houzeau de Lehaie (1832–1922) was a Belgian professor, geographer, and politician who served in the Chamber of Representatives and the Senate, ending as its doyen.

Auguste Lichtenberger

Frédéric Auguste Lichtenberger (1832–1899) was a French Protestant theologian born in Strasbourg who refused a German chair after 1870 and became the first dean of the Faculté de théologie protestante de 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.

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 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 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.

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 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.