WorksheetsFamous people from Luxembourg
Total questions: 9
Worksheet time: 9mins
This person was particularly interested in environmental issues, the protection of fauna and flora and loved sports, photography and music. In 1945, he was named the Chief Scout of the Luxembourg Boy Scouts Association. He was a unanimously respected and beloved personality Luxembourg.
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In his paintings, the subjects often stand in the foreground as if being photographed.
His portraits typically show figures with excessively large noses, always attracting attention.
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He won the 1500m race at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games.
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This person wrote the most frequently quoted sentence in Luxembourg literature : « Mir wëlle bleiwe wat mer sinn ».
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This person was a person of letters, created the Association for the Interests of Women in 1906 with the objective of helping the most disadvantaged and promoting the education of young girls and gave her name to a high school.
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He is best known for the technical and economic improvements. He has made the lead-acid battery.
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This person was a politician, industrialist and engineer. He was manager of the Dudelange foundry, the S.A. des Hauts Fournaux et Forges de Dudelange, which was established in 1881 to produce steel.
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This person died in America - shortly before his 94th birthday. He came to art through an apprenticeship in lithography (art printing process), which he began at the age of 15. was a painter, photographer, film director, exhibition organizer, and even bred plants (larkspur), with which he even had an exhibition at the MoMA.
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He won the Nobel Prize in Physics of 1908 for his method of reproducing colors in photography.
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