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Gérard Leman

1851 - 1920

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Gerard Mathieu Joseph Georges, count Leman (8 January 1851 – 17 October 1920) was a Belgian general. He was responsible for the military education of King Albert I of Belgium. During World War I he was the commander of the forts surrounding the Belgian city of Liège. The German Forces had to use heavy artillery to break through the defences and capture Leman as a prisoner of War. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gérard Leman is the 1,730th most popular military personnel (down from 1,707th in 2019), the 625th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 576th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Belgian Military Personnel.

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Among military personnels, Gérard Leman ranks 1,730 out of 2,058Before him are Walther Reinhardt, James Jesus Angleton, Gustaf Dyrssen, Issam Zahreddine, Andrei Sukhovetsky, and Dragan Vasiljković. After him are Ruben Lagus, Nazım Pasha, Tom Phillips, James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, Benjamin Briggs, and Reinhard Hardegen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Gérard Leman ranks 80Before him are Manuel Curros Enríquez, Maksim Kovalevsky, Karl Moritz Schumann, Edward Robert Hughes, Ernst Hartwig, and Arnold Pick. After him are Ekaterine Gabashvili, Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov, Carl Gustav Axel Harnack, Carl Locher, Bedros Tourian, and Spyridon Lambros. Among people deceased in 1920, Gérard Leman ranks 100Before him are Teresa of the Andes, Arturo Soria y Mata, Théodore Flournoy, Zygmunt Gorazdowski, Theodor Philipsen, and Luc-Olivier Merson. After him are Edmund Reitter, Dan Andersson, Gabrielle Réjane, Aleksey Shakhmatov, Panas Myrny, and William de Wiveleslie Abney.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Gérard Leman ranks 625 out of 1,190Before him are Henri De Deken (1907), Jean-Baptiste Nothomb (1805), Jean Dockx (1941), Joseph De Combe (1901), Willem Elsschot (1882), and Ulu Grosbard (1929). After him are Hadja Lahbib (1970), Willy Vandersteen (1913), Prosper Poullet (1868), Julien Cools (1947), Sylvain Van de Weyer (1802), and Gérard Corbiau (1941).

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