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A male given name. Used in the 19th century but rare today

Any of several Kings of the Belgians

orig. Léopold-Louis-Philippe-Marie-Victor born April 9, 1835, Brussels, Belg. died Dec. 17, 1909, Laeken King of the Belgians (1865-1909). Succeeding his father, Leopold I, he led the first European efforts to develop the Congo River basin. In 1876 he founded an association to explore the Congo area, with Henry Morton Stanley as his main agent. Leopold formed the Congo Free State in 1885 and ruled as its sovereign. Under Leopold, the Congo became the scene of barbarous cruelty by the colonial masters; when news of the conditions there broke 1905, it provoked an international scandal. Under British and U.S. pressure, the region was removed from Leopold's personal rule and annexed to Belgium in 1908 as the Belgian Congo. Leopold was succeeded by his nephew, Albert I. born May 5, 1747, Vienna died March 1, 1792, Vienna Holy Roman emperor (1790-92). Son of Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I, he became duke of Tuscany in 1765. A practitioner of what has been termed enlightened despotism, he built an efficient state government and encouraged representative institutions. In 1790 he succeeded his brother Joseph II as emperor and retained many of Joseph's reforms. In 1792 he allied with Prussia against revolutionary France, precipitating the French Revolutionary Wars. orig. Léopold-Philippe-Charles-Albert-Meinrad-Hubertus-Marie-Miguel born Nov. 3, 1901, Brussels, Belg. died Sept. 25, 1983, Brussels King of the Belgians (1934-51). He succeeded his father, Albert I, and favoured an independent foreign policy but not strict neutrality. In World War II he assumed command of the Belgian army, but he surrendered his encircled forces 18 days after the German invasion in May 1940. The Belgian government repudiated his decision to surrender and remain with his forces rather than join the government-in-exile in London. Under house arrest through the war, he later went to Switzerland (1945-50) to await resolution of the controversy. Though 58% of voters voted for his return to the throne, he abdicated in 1951 in favour of his son Baudouin. orig. Léopold-Georges-Chrétien-Frédéric born Dec. 16, 1790, Coburg, Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld died Dec. 10, 1865, Laeken, Belg. First king of the Belgians (1831-65). The son of Francis, duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, he married Charlotte, daughter of the future English king George IV in 1816. After her death in 1817 Leopold continued to live in England until elected king of the newly formed Belgium. He helped strengthen the country's new parliamentary system and scrupulously maintained Belgian neutrality. Highly influential in European diplomacy, he used marriages to strengthen his ties. In 1832 he married the daughter of Louis-Philippe. In 1840 he helped arrange the marriage of his niece, Victoria, to his nephew, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. In 1857 he arranged the marriage of his daughter to Maximilian, archduke of Austria. born June 9, 1640 Vienna, Austria died May 5, 1705, Vienna Holy Roman emperor (1658-1705). Son of Ferdinand III, Leopold was a devout Catholic destined for the church, but, when his elder brother died unexpectedly (1654), he became heir apparent to the Austrian Habsburg lands. He was crowned successively king of Hungary (1655) and of Bohemia (1656), and with his father's death Leopold became emperor in 1658. During his lengthy reign Austria emerged from a series of struggles to become a great European power. In 1683 the Turks besieged Vienna and were repulsed; war continued until the Turks were defeated and ceded control of Hungary in the Treaty of Carlowitz (1699). Leopold also entered into the War of the Grand Alliance, but the unfavourable peace treaty ceded Strasbourg to France. He was drawn into the War of the Spanish Succession, and he died before its end. His third marriage, to Eleonore of Palatinate-Neuburg, was a happy union that produced 10 children, including the future emperors Joseph I and Charles VI. Friedrich Leopold Baron von Hardenberg Berchtold Leopold count von Bismarck Otto Eduard Leopold prince von Dvorák Antonín Leopold Ferdinand Karl Leopold Maria Leopold II Leopold I Leopold of Hohenzollern Sigmaringen Prince Leopold Rand Aldo Ranke Leopold von Leopold Ranke Zunz Leopold Leopold III Stokowski Leopold Anthony

A male given name of Germanic origin

{i} male first name; family name

Связанные Термины

Leopold Anthony Stokowski

orig. Antoni Stanislaw Boleslawawicz Stokowski born April 18, 1882, London, Eng. died Sept. 13, 1977, Nether Wallop, Hampshire British-born U.S. conductor and organist. He studied at the Royal College of Music and the University of Oxford. After holding organist positions and conducting a handful of concerts, he became conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony (1909-12), with great success. From there he moved to the Philadelphia Orchestra, and in the years 1912-38 he made it a world-class ensemble, creating the lush "Philadelphia sound." He programmed much contemporary music, and he grasped very early the importance of recording. He made three films with the Philadelphia Orchestra, including Walt Disney's Fantasia (1940), and he used his fame to help foster fledgling music organizations, including the American Symphony Orchestra, which he formed in 1962. His strong advocacy of new music did much to broaden American musical taste

Leopold Bloom

the main character in the novel Ulysses by James Joyce

Leopold II

King of Belgium (1865-1909) who also reigned in the Congo Free State (later Zaire, now Congo) from 1876 to 1904, when he was forced to abdicate because of his harsh treatment of the native population

Leopold Stokowski

a US conductor who helped to make classical music more popular in the US. As conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, he directed the music for, and appeared in, the Walt Disney film Fantasia (1940) (1887-1977). orig. Antoni Stanislaw Boleslawawicz Stokowski born April 18, 1882, London, Eng. died Sept. 13, 1977, Nether Wallop, Hampshire British-born U.S. conductor and organist. He studied at the Royal College of Music and the University of Oxford. After holding organist positions and conducting a handful of concerts, he became conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony (1909-12), with great success. From there he moved to the Philadelphia Orchestra, and in the years 1912-38 he made it a world-class ensemble, creating the lush "Philadelphia sound." He programmed much contemporary music, and he grasped very early the importance of recording. He made three films with the Philadelphia Orchestra, including Walt Disney's Fantasia (1940), and he used his fame to help foster fledgling music organizations, including the American Symphony Orchestra, which he formed in 1962. His strong advocacy of new music did much to broaden American musical taste

Leopold Zunz

Hebrew Yom-Tob Lippmann born Aug. 10, 1794, Detmold, Lippe died March 18, 1886, Berlin German historian of Jewish literature. After taking his doctorate at Halle, he spent much of his life in a precarious struggle with poverty. With the publication of his seminal work, On Rabbinic Literature (1818), he initiated (1819) the movement called Wissenschaft des Judentums ("Science of Judaism"), which stressed the analysis of Jewish literature and culture with the tools of modern scholarship. His On History and Literature (1845) places Jewish literary activity in the context of European literature and politics. Zunz is often considered the greatest Jewish scholar of the 19th century

Leopold count von Berchtold

born April 18, 1863, Vienna, Austria died Nov. 21, 1942, near Csepreg, Hung. Austro-Hungarian politician. One of the richest men in Austria-Hungary, he entered the diplomatic service in 1893 and became foreign minister in 1912. After the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand in 1914, Berchtold delivered an ultimatum to Serbia that led to the outbreak of World War I. He was forced to resign in 1915

Leopold von Ranke

orig. Leopold Ranke born Dec. 21, 1795, Wiehe, Thuringia, Saxony died May 23, 1886, Berlin German historian. Ranke taught at the University of Berlin (1825-71). Inspired by the scientific method of historical study used by Barthold Georg Niebuhr, he championed objective writing based on philological and textual criticism of source materials. His scholarly technique and way of teaching (he was the first to establish a historical seminar) had great influence on Western historiography. His many works covering a wide variety of topics typically are subtle accounts of particular limited periods in European state and political history that, like his source materials, take comparatively little notice of social and economic forces

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

{i} Chevalier Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895), Austrian author

Aldo Leopold

born Jan. 11, 1887, Burlington, Iowa, U.S. died April 24, 1948, near Madison, Wis. U.S. environmentalist. After attending Yale University, he worked for the U.S. Forest Service (1909-28), mainly in the Southwest. In 1924 the country's first national wilderness area (Gila Wilderness Area in New Mexico) was created at Leopold's urging. From 1933 to 1948 he taught at the University of Wisconsin. A fervent campaigner for the preservation of wildlife and wilderness areas, he was a director of the Audubon Society from 1935 and became a founder of the Wilderness Society in the same year. His Game Management (1933) was followed in 1949 by the posthumous A Sand County Almanac, which eloquently called for the preservation of ecosystems. Read by millions, it strongly influenced the budding environmental movement

Alexandre Cesar Leopold Bizet

{i} Georges Bizet (1838-1875), French composer known for for his famous opera "Carmen

Amon Leopold Goeth

{i} (1908-1946) born in Vienna (Austria), captain of the SS who was the commanding officer of the Nazi concentration camp at Plaszow (1943-1944)

Baron von Hardenberg Friedrich Leopold

orig. Friedrich Leopold, Baron von Hardenberg born May 2, 1772, Oberwiederstedt, Prussian Saxony died March 25, 1801, Weissenfels, Saxony German Romantic poet and theorist. Born into a noble family, he took his pseudonym from a former family name. He studied law and then mining and in 1799 became a mine inspector. His beautiful Hymns to the Night (1800) expresses his grief on the death of his young fiancée. In his last years before his own death from tuberculosis at age 28, he drafted a philosophical system based on idealism and produced his most significant poetic work. His mythical romance Heinrich von Ofterdingen (1802) describes a young poet's mystical and romantic searchings

Chevalier Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

{i} Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895), Austrian author

Elmer Leopold Rice

{i} Elmer Rice (1892-1967), United States playwright famous for his expressionist plays

Ferdinand Karl Leopold Maria

born Feb. 26, 1861, Vienna, Austria died Sept. 10, 1948, Coburg, Ger. King of Bulgaria (1908-18). Elected prince of Bulgaria in 1887, he proclaimed Bulgaria's independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1908 and assumed the title of king or tsar. He spearheaded the formation of the Balkan League (1912), which led to the first Balkan War. Bulgaria was defeated in the second Balkan War (1913), and Ferdinand's resentments against his former allies determined Bulgaria's participation in World War I on the side of the Central Powers. Following his country's military defeat in 1918, he was forced to abdicate in favour of his son, Boris III

Otto Eduard Leopold prince von Bismarck

born April 1, 1815, Schönhausen, Altmark, Prussia died July 30, 1898, Friedrichsruh, near Hamburg Prussian statesman who founded the German Empire in 1871 and served as its chancellor for 19 years. Born into the Prussian landowning elite, Bismarck studied law and was elected to the Prussian Diet in 1849. In 1851 he was appointed Prussian representative to the federal Diet in Frankfurt. After serving as ambassador to Russia (1859-62) and France (1862), he became prime minister and foreign minister of Prussia (1862-71). When he took office, Prussia was widely considered the weakest of the five European powers, but under his leadership Prussia won a war against Denmark in 1864 (see Schleswig-Holstein Question), the Seven Weeks' War (1866), and the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71). Through these wars he achieved his goal of political unification of a Prussian-dominated German Empire. Once the empire was established, he became its chancellor. The "Iron Chancellor" skillfully preserved the peace in Europe through alliances against France (see Three Emperors' League; Reinsurance Treaty; Triple Alliance). Domestically, he introduced administrative and economic reforms but sought to preserve the status quo, opposing the Social Democratic Party and the Catholic church (see Kulturkampf). When Bismarck left office in 1890, the map of Europe had been changed immeasurably. However, the German Empire, his greatest achievement, survived him by only 20 years because he had failed to create an internally unified people

Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

born Sept. 22, 1835, Krauchenweis, Prussia died June 8, 1905, Berlin, Ger. Prussian candidate for the Spanish throne. He was a member of the Swabian line of the Hohenzollern dynasty and the brother of Carol I of Romania. Chancellor Otto von Bismarck and Spain's de facto leader, Juan Prim (1814-70), persuaded the reluctant Leopold to accept the Spanish throne, left vacant in 1868. Under French diplomatic pressure, Leopold's candidacy was withdrawn, but Prussia refused to bow to French demands that it never be renewed. The Ems Telegram provoked the French into declaring war (see Franco-Prussian War)

Rand Aldo Leopold

born Jan. 11, 1887, Burlington, Iowa, U.S. died April 24, 1948, near Madison, Wis. U.S. environmentalist. After attending Yale University, he worked for the U.S. Forest Service (1909-28), mainly in the Southwest. In 1924 the country's first national wilderness area (Gila Wilderness Area in New Mexico) was created at Leopold's urging. From 1933 to 1948 he taught at the University of Wisconsin. A fervent campaigner for the preservation of wildlife and wilderness areas, he was a director of the Audubon Society from 1935 and became a founder of the Wilderness Society in the same year. His Game Management (1933) was followed in 1949 by the posthumous A Sand County Almanac, which eloquently called for the preservation of ecosystems. Read by millions, it strongly influenced the budding environmental movement

Расстановка переносов

Le·o·pold

Турецкое произношение

liıpōld

Произношение

/ˈlēəˌpōld/ /ˈliːəˌpoʊld/

Этимология

[ 'lE-&-"pOld ] (biographical name.) Old High German liut (“people”) + bald (“bold”).