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Occupations referred to in documents and commentaries

360 results

1
pacifist
2
paedagogical reformer
145
painter
1
Painter
3
palaeographer
2
palaeontologist
1
paleontologist
10
pamphleteer
4
pamphletist
1
papal scribe
3
papal secretary
1
Paraguayan journalist
1
Paris correspondent of the Morning Herald'
1
parliamentary agent
1
parliamentary clerk
3
parliamentary counsel
3
parliamentary draftsman
2
parliamentary official
3
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (1869-1871)
5
parodist
1
parson
2
pastor
4
patent agent
19
patent attorney
1
Patriarch of Constantinople (1621-1638)
4
patrician
6
patron of letters
1
patron of music
16
patron of the arts
1
patron of Virgil and Horace
2
patron of William Caxton
1
patroness of the arts
3
pedagogue
2
Peer of France
1
perfumer
1
permanent secretary of the Académie française 1817
1
permanent secretary of the Académie française 1826
3
Permanent Secretary of the Board of Trade
1
Permanent Secretary of the Treasury (1869-1885)
7
Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade (1867-1886)
1
permanent under-secretary at the Colonial Office (1836-1847)
1
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India (1883-1909)
1
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (1860-1871)
2
pharmacist
1
pharmacologist
21
philanthropist
21
philologist
1
philosophe (French Enlightenment)
215
philosopher
1
philosopher
1
philosopher of law
3
philosophical critic
2
philosophical writer
30
photographer
4
photographic pioneer
58
physician
1
physician in ordinary to Queen Victoria
14
physicist
2
physiognomist
8
physiologist
7
pianist
5
pioneer anthropologist
1
pioneer in electrophysiology
1
pioneer of cataract surgery
2
pioneer of scientific cinematography
1
pioneer of smallpox vaccination
1
pirate
2
plagiarist of Galileo
2
playing card manufacturer
187
playwright
4
playwright
1
plenipotentiary of the Republic of Liberia
537
poet
1
poet laureate
1
Poet Laureate (1730-1757)
1
poetess
38
polemicist
1
police officer
1
Polish composer
1
Polish-born American actress
12
political economist
1
political leader
7
political pamphleteer
17
political philosopher
2
political reformer
1
political refugee to England
1
political satirist
2
political scientist
1
political theorist
12
political writer
792
politician
15
politician
2
polymath
1
polytheist
2
Pope
1
Pope (1198-1216)
1
Pope (1484-1492)
1
Pope (1492-1503)
2
Pope (1503-1513)
5
Pope (1523-1534)
4
Pope (1531-1521)
1
Pope (1559-1565)
1
Pope (1572-1585)
1
Pope (1655-1667)
1
Pope (1769-1774)
1
Pope (402-417)
3
popular writer on natural history
16
portrait painter
1
Portuguese dramatist
1
poster artist
1
poster designer
3
postmaster
4
Postmaster General
1
pre-Darwinian evolutionist
1
Pre-Raphaelite painter
28
preacher
50
prelate
1
Premier of New Zealand (1879-1882)
1
Premier of Nova Scotia (1848-1854)
2
Presbyterian
4
Presbyterian church leader
9
Presbyterian minister
1
President at the Court of Cassation
1
President of Columbia College (1829-1842)
1
President of Columbia College (1842-1849)
1
President of Cornell University (1885-1892)
3
President of France (1848-1851)
1
President of Haiti (1879-1888)
1
President of Harvard College (1640-1654)
2
President of Harvard College (1869-1909)
10
President of Harvard University (1846-1849)
1
President of National Convention (July 1793)
1
President of New Jersey College (1868-1888)
6
President of South Carolina Senate
1
President of the Art Institute of Chicago
13
President of the Board of Trade
1
President of the Board of Trade (1878-1880)
1
President of the Board of Trade (1880-1885)
2
President of the Board of Trade (1886, 1892-1895)
1
President of the Börsenverein (1835-1838)
1
President of the Chicago Literary Club (1874-1898)
1
President of the Civil Chamber of the Court of Cassation
1
President of the Committee of Agriculture & Trade
2
President of the Confederate States of America (1861-1865)
3
President of the Continental Congress (1782-1783)
2
President of the Corps législatif (1865-)
1
President of the Council of State
4
President of the Court of Cassation
1
President of the Criminal Law Chamber of the Court of Cassation (1857-1868)
2
President of the French Republic (1879-1887)
1
President of the French Second Republic
3
President of the French Senate (1852-1869)
1
President of the Lower Austrian Provincial Government
1
President of the New Water-Colour Society
1
President of the New York Typographical Society
3
President of the Prussian Association of Literary Experts 1846
3
President of the Prussian Association of Musical Experts 1858
1
President of the Republic of Liberia (1884-1892)
5
President of the Royal Academy (1768-1792)
1
President of the Royal Academy (1820-1830)
3
President of the Royal Academy (1850-1865)
1
President of the Royal Academy (1866-1878)
1
President of the Royal Society
3
President of the Society of Painters in Water Colours
1
President of the South Carolina Senate (1783-)
1
President of the Swiss Confederation 1882
1
president of the Swiss Federal Council (1881-1887)
5
President of Yale College (1795-1817)
2
press censor
15
priest
4
Prime Minister (1721-1742)
1
Prime Minister (1770-1782)
2
Prime Minister (1783-1801, 1804-1806)
1
Prime Minister (1806-1807)
1
Prime Minister (1827-1828)
9
Prime Minister (1827-1830, 1834)
2
Prime Minister (1827)
12
Prime Minister (1834-1835, 1841-1846)
5
Prime Minister (1834, 1835-1841)
11
Prime Minister (1846-1852, 1865)
2
Prime Minister (1852, 1858-1859, 1866-1868)
10
Prime Minister (1855-1858, 1859-1865)
17
Prime Minister (1868-1874, 1880-1885, 1886, 1892-1894)
12
Prime Minister (1868, 1874-1880)
3
Prime Minister (1885-1886, 1886-1892, 1895-1902)
4
Prime Minister (1894-1895)
1
Prime Minister (Feb.-Dec. 1879)
1
Prime Minister of Canada (1873-1878)
1
Prime Minister of Cape Colony (1878-1881, 1886-1890, 1896-1898, 1900-1904)
1
Prince Consort to Queen Victoria
1
Prince of Wales (1841-1901)
1
Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg (1772-1803)
1
Prince-Bishop of Würzburg 1455
3
Prince-Bishop of Würzburg 1466
1
Prince-Bishop of Würzburg 1495
1
Principal Librarian at the British Museum (1856-1866)
3
Principal Librarian of the British Museum
1
principal of the Boston Latin School
1
print dealer
467
printer
1
printer for the Parlement of Paris
1
printer of Shakespeares plays
1
printer of the first German Bible (1466)
2
printer to the House of Commons
2
printer to the University of Cambridge
1
printer to the University of Oxford
1
printer, editor, humanist
8
printmaker
6
printseller
1
Prior of the Sorbonne
2
Prior of the Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers
1
prison reformer
1
Privy Councillor
1
Procurator-General of the Court of Cassation
3
Procuratore di San Marco
1
Professor at the Leipzig Conservatoire
2
Professor at the Royal Academy of Music
4
Professor of Anatomy at Royal College of Surgeons
5
Professor of Botany at Oxford
1
Professor of Chemistry at Edinburgh
1
Professor of Chemistry at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
1
Professor of Civil Law at Caen
1
Professor of Civil Law at Paris
1
Professor of commercial law at Bonn
1
Professor of English at Virginia
1
Professor of English Language and Literature at Yale (1871-1906)
1
Professor of German and English Literature at Washington
1
Professor of German at Harvard (1828-1835)
1
Professor of Greek at Basel
1
Professor of Greek at Venice
1
Professor of Greek philology (Collège de France)
1
Professor of Hebrew at New York
1
Professor of Hebrew at Prague University
8
Professor of history
1
Professor of history at Berlin
1
Professor of History at Jena
2
Professor of International Law at Paris
1
Professor of Languages at Cornell University
8
Professor of law at Berlin
1
Professor of Law at Erlangen
1
Professor of law at Franeker
1
Professor of law at Frankfurt
1
Professor of law at Geneva, Strasbourg, Heidelberg
3
Professor of law at Göttingen
10
Professor of Law at Göttingen
2
Professor of law at Halle
4
Professor of Law at Halle
3
Professor of law at Heidelberg
2
Professor of law at Heidelberg and Altdorf
2
Professor of law at Jena
2
Professor of Law at Jena
2
Professor of law at Leipzig
4
Professor of Law at Leipzig
3
Professor of Law at Orléans
1
Professor of law at Rostock
1
Professor of law at Strasbourg
9
Professor of law at Tübingen
2
Professor of law at Utrecht
3
Professor of law at Wittenberg
3
Professor of Law at Wittenberg
4
Professor of Law at Zurich
16
Professor of law in Heidelberg, Lund, Stockholm, Berlin
3
Professor of Literature at Columbia University
2
professor of maritime navigation
2
Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh
1
Professor of Mathematics at Glasgow
1
Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh
2
Professor of military science at West Point (1824-1871)
2
Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh
1
Professor of Moral Philosophy at St Andrews
1
Professor of music at Berlin
2
Professor of Natural Right and Philosophy in Halle
1
Professor of Oratory and English at Princeton
1
Professor of philosophy at Göttingen
2
Professor of Philosophy at Kiel
3
Professor of philosophy at Leipzig
2
Professor of Philosophy at Leipzig
1
Professor of Philosophy at Michigan
1
Professor of Poetry at Oxford
1
Professor of Poetry at Oxford (1741-1752)
1
Professor of Political Economy at Genoa
1
Professor of Rhetoric at Bologna
2
Professor of Rhetoric at Leipzig
1
Professor of Roman Law at Freiburg
1
Professor of Roman Law at Vienna
1
Professor of Scots Law at Edinburgh
1
Professor of theology
1
Professor of theology at Basel
1
Professor of Theology at Halle
1
Professor of theology in Wittenberg
2
Professor of Zoology at Strasbourg
7
profligate
6
proponent of utilitarianism
1
proprietor of the Novello & Co. publishing house
1
prosecutor at trial of Charles I
4
Prosecutor-General
9
protectionist
1
protectress of the Jansenists
1
protégée of Samuel Johnson
1
Protestant martyr
4
Protestant philosopher
5
Protestant reformer
1
prototype of Eugenie in Goethes 'Die Natürliche Tochter'
1
Provincial Secretary of New Brunswick
3
provost of Eton College
4
Provost of the Würzburg Cathedral Chapter
1
Prussian ambassador in London
3
Prussian civil servant
4
Prussian Director of Police
2
Prussian embassy clerk
1
Prussian judge
1
Prussian jurist
1
Prussian Minister for Foreign Affairs (1817-)
1
Prussian Minister for Foreign Affairs (1845-)
3
Prussian Minister of Culture and Education 1817
1
Prussian Minister of Education
1
Prussian Minister of Finance (1835-1842)
3
Prussian Minister of Justice
1
Prussian Minister of Justice (1825-1830)
2
Prussian Minister of Justice (1832-1844)
2
Prussian Minister of Justice 1832
1
Prussian Minister of the Interior (1814-1830)
2
Prussian Minister of the Interior (1834-1842)
1
Prussian Postmaster General
1
Prussian soldier
7
Prussian statesman
1
pseudonym of the author of the spurious second part of Don Quixote'
2
psychiatrist
5
psychologist
1
public benefactor
1
public lecturer
1
public reader
1
public servant
3
public speaker
14
publicist
477
publisher
1
Publisher
2
publisher
4
Publisher and Venetian patrician
1
publisher of Flora Londinensis' (1777-1798)
1
publisher of geography textbooks
2
Publisher of Jewish books
3
publisher of Kants works
1
publisher of Lacy's Acting Edition of Plays'
2
publisher of Mozarts works
1
publisher of new edition of the Bible
1
publisher of sacred music
1
publisher of Schubert songs
1
publisher of Schuberts songs
1
publisher of Sir Walter Scotts works
4
publisher of the paperback series Library of British and American Authors' (1841)
4
publishers widow
1
punch-cutter
1
puppet theatre manager
4
Puritan
1
Puritan clergyman
1
Puritan divine
6
Puritan pamphleteer
3
Puritan preacher
1
Puritan settler