alois

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{i} male first name
Alois Alzheimer
{i} (1864-1915) German neurologist who identified a degenerative disease of the central nervous system now known as Alzheimer's disease
Joseph Alois Ratzinger
{i} Pope Benedict XVI (born 1927 in Germany), 265th Pope elected on April 19th 2005
Joseph Alois Schumpeter
born Feb. 8, 1883, Triesch, Moravia died Jan. 8, 1950, Taconic, Conn., U.S. Moravian-U.S. economist and sociologist. Educated in Austria, he taught at several European universities before joining the faculty of Harvard University (1932-50). He became known for his theories of capitalist development and the business cycle. His popular book Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1942) argued that capitalism would eventually perish of its own success. His posthumous History of Economic Analysis (1954) is an exhaustive study of the development of analytic methods in economics
Ludwig Alois Ferdinand von Köchel
born Jan. 14, 1800, Stein, near Krems, Austria died June 3, 1877, Vienna Austrian scholar and musicologist. After gaining a law degree, he tutored children of wealthy families and traveled, researching books on a number of different topics, including botany, mineralogy, and music. He is best known for his 1862 thematic catalog of Mozart's works (which are still identified by their "K numbers"), a monument of music scholarship. He also edited Ludwig van Beethoven's letters
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