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Curtia gens The gens Curtia was an ancient but minor noble family at Rome, with both patrician and plebeian branches. The only member of the gens invested with the consulship under the Republic was Gaius Curtius Philo, in 445 BC. A few Curtii held lesser mag ...

, the clan to which the Curtii family belonged **

Marcus Curtius Marcus Curtius is a mythological young Roman who offered himself to the gods of Hades. He is mentioned shortly by Marcus Terentius Varro, Varro and at length by Titus Livius, Livius. He is the legendary namesake of the Lacus Curtius in the Roman ...

, a noble of early Rome who rode his horse into the

Lacus Curtius The Lacus Curtius ("Lake Curtius") was a pit or pool in the ground of the Forum Romanum. The area where the Forum would be built was likely once a lake, as the wider area is known to have been surrounded by brooks and marshes. One part was never ...

, which was then named after him **

Quintus Curtius Rufus Quintus Curtius Rufus (; ) was a Ancient Rome, Roman historian, probably of the 1st century, author of his only known and only surviving work, ''Historiae Alexandri Magni'', "Histories of Alexander the Great", or more fully ''Historiarum Alex ...

, 1st century CE historian **

Curtius Rufus Curtius Rufus () was a Roman professional magistrate of senatorial rank mentioned by Tacitus and Pliny the Younger for life events occurring during the reigns of the emperors Tiberius and Claudius. In all probability, he is to be equated wi ...

. 1st century CE politician, possibly the same as Quintus Curtius Rufus * Curtius baronets, a title in the Baronetcy of England *

Albert Curtz Albert Curtz (''Curtius'' in Latin; 1600, Munich – December 19, 1671, Munich), was a German astronomer and member of the Society of Jesus. He expanded on the works of Tycho Brahe and used the pseudonym of ''Lucius Barrettus''. Background The L ...

(1600–1671), German astronomer and member of the Society of Jesus *

Alexander Curtius Alexander Carolus Curtius () was a Lithuanian nobleman and scholar purported to be the first Lithuanian immigrant to The New World. He founded the first Latin school in New Amsterdam in 1659 and became its headmaster. Due to disciplinary proble ...

, Lithuanian nobleman and scholar * Alfred Schulz-Curtius (1853–1918), aka Alfred Curtis, a German classical music impresario * Dirk Donker Curtius (1792–1864), Dutch politician *

Ernst Robert Curtius Ernst Robert Curtius (; 14 April 1886 – 19 April 1956) was a German literary scholar, philologist, and Romance languages literary critic, best known for his 1948 study ''Europäische Literatur und Lateinisches Mittelalter'', translated in E ...

(1886–1956), German scholar, philologist *

Ernst Curtius Ernst Curtius (; 2 September 181411 July 1896) was a German archaeologist, historian and museum director. Biography He was born in Lübeck. On completing his university studies he was chosen by Christian August Brandis, C. A. Brandis to acco ...

(1814–1896), German archaeologist, historian *

Georg Curtius Georg Curtius (April 16, 1820August 12, 1885) was a German philologist and distinguished comparativist. Biography Curtius was born in Lübeck, and was the brother of the historian and archeologist Ernst Curtius. After an education at Bonn and ...

(1820–1885), German philologist *

Jacob Curtius Jacob, later known as Israel, is a Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions. He first appears in the Torah, where he is described in the Book of Genesis as a son of Isaac and Rebecca. Accordingly, alongside his older fraternal twin brother E ...

(1554–1594), Imperial Pro-Chancellor for Emperor Rudolph II, astronomer, mathematician and instrument maker *

Janus Henricus Donker Curtius Jan Hendrik Donker Curtius (21 April 1813 – 27 November 1879) was the last ''Opperhoofd'' of the Dutch trading post in Japan (1852-1855), located at Dejima an artificial island in the harbor of Nagasaki. To negotiate with the Japanese governm ...

(1813–1879), the last Dutch chief of Dejima, Japan * Jean Curtius, also known as Jean De Corte and Juan Curcio (1551–1628), an industrialist from Liége **

Curtius Museum The Curtius Museum () is a museum of archaeology and decorative arts located on the bank of the river Meuse in Liège, Belgium. It is classified as a ''Major Heritage'' of Wallonia. It was built sometime between 1597 and 1610 as a private mansio ...

, Jean Curtius's mansion, now a museum * Julius Curtius (1877–1948), German politician *

Ludwig Curtius Ludwig Curtius (December 13, 1874 – April 10, 1954) was a German archaeologist born in Augsburg. He is remembered for his investigations involving the development of ancient Greek and Roman art. He studied classical archaeology in Munich under ...

(1874–1954), archaeologist *

Philippe Curtius Philippe Curtius (1737–1794) was a Swiss people, Swiss physician and wax modeler who taught Marie Tussaud the art of wax modelling. Marie Grosholtz, the future Marie Tussaud, lived in the Bern home of Curtius, for whom her mother acted as hous ...

(1737–1794), Swiss physician and wax modeller; uncle and teacher of Marie Tussaud *

Theodor Curtius ''Geheimrat'' Julius Wilhelm Theodor Curtius (27 May 1857 – 8 February 1928) was professor of Chemistry at Heidelberg University and elsewhere. He published the Curtius rearrangement in 1890/1894 and also discovered diazoacetic acid, hydra ...

(1857–1928), German chemical scientist * Sir William Curtius FRS (1599–1678), German magistrate, official resident of the English Crown in the Holy Roman Empire

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Curtius (crater) Curtius is a Lunar craters, lunar impact crater that is located in the southern part of the Moon. From the Earth the crater appears foreshortened, making it more difficult to observe detail. Nevertheless, this is a large crater that can be readil ...

, a lunar crater * Curtius (beer), a Belgian beer * Curtius, a spring of the

Aqua Claudia Aqua Claudia ("the Claudius, Claudian water") was an ancient Roman aqueduct that, like the Aqua Anio Novus, was begun by Emperor Caligula (37–41 AD) in 38 AD and finished by Emperor Claudius (41–54 AD) in 52 AD. It was the eighth aqueduct to ...

* ''Curtius'' (bug), a genus of bugs in the family

Coreidae Coreidae is a large family (biology), family of predominantly sap-sucking insects in the Hemipteran suborder Heteroptera. The name "Coreidae" derives from the genus ''Coreus'', which derives from the Ancient Greek () meaning bedbug. As a fam ...

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