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Talk:Baden-Württemberg

Coordinates
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—2601:18D:880:C8E0:254F:8EE8:6445:9487 (talk) 05:40, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
 * You haven't said what you think is wrong with the coordinates in the article, and they appear to be correct. (The location is identified on Google Maps as "Landesmittelpunct von Baden-Württemberg".) If you still think that there is an error, you'll need to provide a clear explanation of what it is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deor (talk • contribs) 11:12, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

Alemannic separatism
I believe the link to Alemannic separatism in the dialects section to be a bit odd. Alemannic separatism has nothing to do with dialects spoken within Baden-Württemberg – btw not all dialects spoken are Alemannic. Furthermore Alemannic separatism is already mentioned in the article about Alemannic German. Regional sensitivities are a big deal in Germany (some would even like to see Baden to separate from Württemberg), so I do not want to delete the link right away. Since the creation of the state wasn't exactly a “love marriage” anyway a reference could be made somewhere else in the article?--Catflap08 (talk) 09:02, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Source of the Danube
There was an active rivalry between the municipalities of Furtwangen and Donaueschingen for the claim of being home to the "official" source of the Danube since the 1950s, sometimes with the involvement of the government of the state of Baden-Württemberg. Thus, in 1981 the state government granted Donaueschingen the request that the source in Furtwangen should no longer be labelled Donauquelle in official maps. (Quoted from the Source of the Danube wikipedia page). 71.220.219.16 (talk) 21:55, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Religion
The statistics shown in the article seem a bit at odds with the official data published in 2011 (https://www.statistik-bw.de/Service/Veroeff/Monatshefte/20140503). Any clues? The article does not seem to take into account a very peculiar German issue which differentiates between faiths recognised under public law and those who are not. Those who are recognised do finance themselves, next to other sources of income, via taxes.--Catflap08 (talk) 19:10, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Requested move 25 October 2021

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. per discussion consensus. 8 opposed, 4 in favor, with arguments most persuasive as MOS:ENBETWEEN, MOS:DASH, precedence in other numerous german states. (closed by non-admin page mover) — Shibboleth ink  (♔ ♕) 12:52, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

Baden-Württemberg → Baden–Württemberg – This place is a merger of Baden and Württemberg, so the place name should use a dash, not a hyphen, like the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and Minneapolis–Saint Paul. Please also see the closely-related RM at Talk:Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. This was one of several examples mentioned by Ale3353 in that discusssion. At the moment I'm just suggesting this one as a single-page move, as this one seems like a clear-cut case. — BarrelProof (talk) 14:29, 25 October 2021 (UTC) — Relisting. — Shibboleth ink  (♔ ♕) 12:42, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose per WP:DASH: Generally, use a hyphen in compounded proper names of single entities. Wilkes-Barre, a single city named after two people, but Minneapolis–Saint Paul, an area encompassing two cities. Cf. Austria-Hungary. Yes, Baden-Württemberg originated as a merger, but is now a single entity. (P.S. I'm not thrilled with that WP:DASH specification because of too much gray area, but since we have it, we may as well apply it). No such user (talk) 14:37, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Rather than Austria-Hungary (discussed in 2010 as recorded at Talk:Austria-Hungary/Archive 2), a better and more recent case to consider may be Brown–Forman (see Talk:Brown–Forman). Wilkes-Barre uses a hyphen for an entirely different reason – Wilkes-Barre is not a merged place, so it is off-topic (see discussion of that in the SMcCandlish commentary at Talk:Brown–Forman).  — BarrelProof (talk) 15:35, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Support – In other languages, the en dash may not be used the way we use it in English, but in English that's the right way to style parallel name parts. See the examples linked by nom. Dicklyon (talk) 19:29, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose As I have previously explained on Talk: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, German states use hyphens not dashes. Evidence that ‘Baden-Württemberg’ is in more common use can be found on Britannica, Columbia , Google Maps , The New York Times , The Washington Post , The Times , the tourism website and the official website . Ale3353 (talk) 08:34, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

 * Not really relevant. The use of a hyphen glyph to represent the grammatical role of the en dash is always more common, because most sources don't use a style that distinguishes them (largely due to the fact that when Windows came out, it didn't provide any easy way to type an en dash, unlike the Mac in 1984).  Page ranges, number ranges, other parallel relationships, are meaningfully different from the kind of compound relationship signalled by a hyphen, even if the typography doesn't distinguish them.  In WP, or style is to distinguish those grammatical roles by using the en dash where appropriate, such as in the joined names of two areas as we have here.  This has been discussed to death (back in 2010–2011 mostly iirc) and the current dash guidelines came out of that discussion.  Dicklyon (talk) 17:35, 30 October 2021 (UTC)
 * AFAIK, the dash is also generally not supported in telegraph code (as far back as optical telegraph in the 1700s), punched card codes such as Hollerith code, QWERTY (and Dvorak) keyboards (late 1800s – early 1900s), ASCII from the 1950s, EBCDIC from the 1960s or on the Apple I, Apple II, Commodore PET 2001, TRS-80, IBM PC and TI-99/4A keyboards. The idea of ignoring the dash wasn't a Windows innovation. — BarrelProof (talk) 15:00, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
 * So true; but with Windows and Mac, the field of typography was opened up to the masses, who later became the creators of web content. Teletypes and ASCII and such weren't about that at all.  Dashes were something that only typographers knew much about.  When Knuth got computer nerds into typography with TeX, he provided en dashes and em dashes because he wanted his books to look good.  His personal editor, whom I've also worked with, was a big proponent of getting those right, to convey meaning clearly. Dicklyon (talk) 19:29, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
 * At least in the case of Britannica, it is really relevant. They are quite anal concerning use of dashes and hyphens, and apparently have more intricate rules than ours: for example, they have Bourgogne–Franche-Comté (dash because Franche-Comté is a compound name itself) or Drobeta–Turnu Severin, for a similar reason; yet, guess what, Austria-Hungary and Baden-Württemberg, with a hyphen. No such user (talk) 13:24, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

 * Support—Ale3353, last time I looked, in English we don't use the second hyphen in location names like "Martin-Luther-Straße" (nor the "eszett" ß). German usage of hyphens differs from that in English; so we should use the en dash in a name that links two locations. Tony (talk)  21:51, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Tony, all of the sources I have provided are English language sources. Ale3353 (talk) 07:13, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose. "Baden-Württemberg" is a proper name, which is written with a hyphen. En dash would be applicable when talking about relations, roads, wars etc. between Baden and Württemberg, but this is a single name, consisting of two parts. See also MOS:ENBETWEEN. There are many more examples, see Castrop-Rauxel, Hoogezand-Sappemeer, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Emilia-Romagna. Markussep Talk 11:12, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Support. MOS:DASH exists for a reason. It's written with a hyphen sometimes and with a dash sometimes, and WP uses a dash for this function. What other publishers prefer is not our concern.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  17:37, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment For all of you saying to use the dash could you please provide some sources proving it’s more common. Ale3353 (talk) 15:47, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia has its own Manual of Style; it does not rely on a polling of sources for such stylistic matters. To do so would produce a rather inconsistent and unprofessional result. — BarrelProof (talk) 16:14, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
 * The manual of style says ‘Hyphenation rules in other languages may be different. Thus, in French a place name such as Trois-Rivières ("Three Rivers") is hyphenated, when it would not be in English. Follow reliable sources in such cases.’ Since ‘Baden-Württemberg’ is a German place name we should follow reliable sources as I have provided above, all of which use hyphens. Ale3353 (talk) 17:35, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
 * That's not what that section means. It means some languages use a short horizontal line where English would not. When English also does so, follow the English Wikipedia's style manual on how to write in English. We don't have MoS so people can pretend it doesn't exist.  It exists; follow it.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  03:11, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
 * No, it says to follow reliable sources for places that do not speak English such as Clermont-Ferrand and Vitoria-Gasteiz. Ale3353 (talk) 07:38, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

 * I agree with Ale3353 here. This discussion is not about following the MoS or not, it is about the interpretation of the MoS. If the MoS is not clear enough, it should be improved. Hyphenated place names are uncommon in English, the only cases I know of are modifiers like "-on-Trent" or "-upon-Avon". Place names that originate from a combination of two places are usually separated by a space, like "Ingleby Barwick" or "Sturminster Newton". In other languages like French, German, Polish, Italian and Dutch places that originated from a merger get a hyphen. What do the MoS and the NC say about these cases:
 * MOS:ENBETWEEN: "Generally, use a hyphen in compounded proper names of single entities." All examples given above that sentence refer to relationships between separate or independent elements, of the type "A–B route" and "C–D War" (hence also "Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex"), not for a single entity like Baden-Württemberg.
 * MOS:DUALNATIONALITIES: "Wrong: Austria–Hungary; the hyphenated Austria-Hungary was a single jurisdiction during its 1867–1918 existence" The same goes for Baden-Württemberg, which is a single jurisdiction.
 * WP:NCUE: "The title of an article should generally use the version of the name of the subject that is most common in the English language, as you would find it in reliable sources (for example other encyclopedias and reference works, scholarly journals, and major news sources)." See the 8 examples Ale3353 quoted above. WP:TITLECHANGES says something similar: "Wikipedia describes current usage but cannot prescribe a particular usage or invent new names."
 * The outcome of this discussion is not only relevant for Baden-Württemberg, but also for hundreds, maybe thousands of similar situations. It might make sense to invite users from relevant WikiProjects to contribute to this discussion. Markussep Talk 11:38, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
 * ask and ye shall receive — Shibboleth ink (♔ ♕) 12:43, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: WikiProject Germany has been notified of this discussion. — Shibboleth ink  (♔ ♕) 12:42, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: WikiProject Geography has been notified of this discussion. — Shibboleth ink  (♔ ♕) 12:42, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

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 * Oppose per Markussep. This is a single entity (actually the merger of three states, Baden, Württemberg-Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern). Are there any sources that use a dash? —Kusma (talk) 12:59, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
 * The example of Britannica (who carefully use dashes and hyphens) opting for a hyphen here closes the case for me. —Kusma (talk) 13:57, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose, per the above. Single entity, official local spelling, no sign of dashes being commonly used in English. Fut.Perf. ☼ 14:45, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose per all the arguments above and, respectfully, looking at the MOS too. To me it feels clearcut that it is a single thing, a compound word best made with a hyphen. It seems to me much more like Mountbatten-Windsor or Hispano-Suiza than it is like the Oder–Neisse line or the Danube–Oder Canal. I feel that Baden-Württemberg lacks the sense of connection, direction, movement etc that I want for an N-dash, but instead is just kludged together into a sort of Single-Entity Name Thing™ which to me makes it hyphenated. Best to all, DBaK (talk) 15:52, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose. It's a single entity and a proper name in its own right that is hyphenated in the sources; it's not a third party topic related to a place called Baden and a different place called Württemberg. Now if there had been an historical treaty between, say, the Duchy of Baden and the Kingdom of Württemberg, then it might be reasonable to argue for a long dash for the "Baden–Württemberg Treaty". Although frankly, most people won't spot the difference when reading it. Bermicourt (talk) 22:07, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose. It is a single jurisdiction, which is meaningfully distinct from the situation of Minneapolis and St. Paul or Dallas and Fort Worth. I also agree with No such user (showing that even a source which observes a distinction between dashes and hyphens gives Baden-Württemberg a dash hyphen). Adumbrativus (talk) 04:19, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment/query: –, just checking: in your last sentence did you mean gives Baden-Württemberg a dash or gives Baden-Württemberg a hyphen? I'm slightly confused by your statement in its present (dash) form. Thanks and best wishes DBaK (talk) 07:25, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Thanks! Adumbrativus (talk) 08:17, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

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 * The horn is flattened and given a turned up bell by applying heat to soften it. A hole is made from the tip of the horn to the natural hollow inside. Because this hollow is of irregular bore, the harmonics obtained when playing the instrument can vary: rather than a pure perfect fifth, intervals as narrow as a fourth, or as wide as a sixth may be produced.

I assume it was removed by mistake, and put it back (slightly rearraged) in the "construction" section. If it's faulty in any way, I'd appreciate fixes, of course. --Camembert

Re the portion of the article saying it's never used today outside of Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah services: I may be clueless about Jewish liturgy, but wasn't it used during the celebrations immediately after the capture of the Western Wall by the Israelis in 1967? Similarly, I've heard (apocryphally) of it being used as a signaling device by the Israelis in battle situations. -152.163.252.4 11:24, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * I don't know about that, but what the article says is that it's almost never used outside of those times, which I think is accurate. --Camembert

In the section on the performer, the article says "Every Jew is eligigble for any sacred office, providing s/he is acceptable...", and then goes on to say "If a potential choice will cause dissention, he should withdraw his candidacy...". Where would I find guidance on the use of "s/he" vs. "he" as a gender-neutral pronoun, particularly within a given paragraph? I'd expect them to at least be internally consistent. Shall I change the "he" to "s/he", or is the initial "s/he" understood to set the referent for the following pronouns? --AnthonySorace

didgeridoo style
Are there any players that play it didgeridoo style, i.e. with circular breathing and multiphonics?Myrtone (the strict Australian wikipedian)(talk)

I don't think so, a shofar requires a lot of air quantity, and a lot of pressure to sound, too much for circular (cheek) breathing. 71.199.123.24 21:40, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

And regarding multiphonics: a shofar does not make any sound if you just blow into it (like a flute or recorder) you need to purse your lips and make a sort of bzzzzz sound. You can change the tone by changing the tone of the bzzzz, so I don't see any way of making multiple sounds. 71.199.123.24 21:44, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Unique sound waves

 * Click on a computer representation of a "tekiah" . Note the second tkiya note is similar but not identical to the first. The second starts out the same, then the long note of the first note is more sustained (and perhaps more melodic). The second note below has a vibrating long note at nearly the same amplitude. The third part of the note trails off and is similar but not identical in the two examples.

I removed the section (above) from the article. While it is accurate to state that the Shofar has "unique sound waves," this statement would hold for any instrument. "Unique sound waves" are what make a shofar sound like a shofar, a violin sound like a violin, or my voice sound like me, when I speak. The second assertion, that a "computer representation" is not the identical to the real thing, would likewise hold up for a recording or "computer representation" of anything. --Dbolton 01:50, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

What type of horn may be used
This article goes around and around, and contradicts itself, on the subject of exactly which horns may be used, and in particular, whether the horns of non-kosher animals may be used. It's clear that there are differences of opinion on this point, but that could be presented a lot better - at present, several different views are presented, each as if it's the only authoritative one, and they're scattered through different sections of the article. I'd suggest creation of a new section for this issue, moving all the explanations into that one section, and summarizing the range of views that exist (with emphasis on the point that it depends which authority you follow) instead of giving them all in detail.129.97.79.144 16:22, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Silver trumpet vs. Shofar
From the article: "The shofar is prescribed for the announcement of the New Moon and solemn feasts (Num. x. 10; Ps. lxxxi. 4)"
 * The ref to Num 10 v 10 needs to be checked, I think it refers to the Silver trumpets and not the more humble rams horn. -- Paul Carley, 05:45, 16 November 2007.

Post-Biblical times
The first sentence under the "Post-Biblical times" section speaks of "the ban on playing musical instruments as a sign of mourning for the destruciton of the temple." Where can I learn more about the ban as a sign of mounring? The reference ending the paragraph (Heritage of Music, pp 44-45) does not address that issue. 4unity (talk) 02:05, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Bracha
What's a bracha? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.184.48.121 (talk) 02:22, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Blessing. Ariel. (talk) 10:26, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism
In the section on the usage of the shofar in the temple, the word "instrument" is interrupted by "POOOP." I'm not sure how to fix it, otherwise I would have.messor (talk) 22:25, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Golden calf
It should be remarked that, according to my jewish history teacher (therefore, I dont have references) who is a Rabbi the shofar can´t be a cow horn because that would be a reminder of the golden calf episode. That info it is not on the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.80.61.183 (talk) 00:31, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I've never heard that, but if you can find a reliable reference, go ahead and put it in the article. Tad Lincoln (talk) 16:26, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, I noticed that it is in the article already. It just doesn't say that it's because of the golden calf incident. Tad Lincoln (talk) 16:29, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * "The Impact of Shofar upon Prayer" by Rav Moshe Taragin discusses this. From its second paragraph: "The Gemara in Rosh Ha-shana (26a) cites a debate whether the horn of a cow may be used for shofar. One reason suggested by the Gemara for the stringent view argues that a cow's horn invokes memories of the Golden Calf..." Jonathunder (talk) 17:30, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

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So exactly where did the support come regarding women sounding the shofar only for other women. Having had the honor of sounding shofar for our congregation of 500+ for over 20 years, I find it amazing that the three Rabbis I worked with didn't know that detail.CwinterfieldCwinterfield (talk) 03:51, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

jubilee is every 49 years not 50
for a jubilee it's the 50th year, but the cycle 49 years; every 7th year is a sabbath, and the year after a 7th sabbath year is the jubilee;

The element in Jubilee would be Land returned to previosus owner; because of this, land purchases considered the time left to nex Jubilee in setting the price. The attached image, form a Swedish book about 'Israels historia', wants depicting 'Baal' meaning 'lord'. The Bible tale about EliJah, of Baal priests hurting themselves to bleed with knives, punches, has a contemporary copy in some Muslims doing this in Karbala and also some devotes in the Philipines. 'Nothing new under the Sun'. Blessings + --Caula (talk) 14:32, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Leviticus 25 http://www.biblestudytools.com/parallel-bible/passage/?q=leviticus+25&t=bbe&t2=ojb

8 And let seven Sabbaths of years be numbered to you, seven times seven years; even the days of seven Sabbaths of years, that is forty-nine years; 9 Then let the loud horn be sounded far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of taking away sin -- in the Yom HaKippurim -- let the horn be sounded through all your land. 10 And let this fiftieth year be kept holy, and say publicly that everyone in the land is free from debt: it is the Jubilee, and every man may go back to his heritage and to his family. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikipaddn (talk • contribs) 05:31, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

 * The Rambam says the opposite of what you think to be true, see Hilchot Shmita veYovlot, 10:7. Debresser (talk) 17:01, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

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Georg von Peuerbach

Georg von Peuerbach (also Purbach, Peurbach; Purbachius; 30 May 1423 – 8 April 1461 ) was an Austrian astronomer, poet, mathematician and instrument maker, best known for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Theoricae Novae Planetarum. Peuerbach was instrumental in making astronomy, mathematics and literature simple and accessible for Europeans during the Renaissance and beyond.

Biography
Peuerbach's life remains relatively unknown until he enrolled at the University of Vienna in 1446. He was born in the Austrian town of Peuerbach in upper Austria. A horoscope published eighty-nine years after his death places his date of birth specifically on 30 May 1423, though other evidence only indicates that he was born sometime after 1421. He received his Bachelor of Arts in 1448.

Georg's intellect was discovered by a priest of his hometown, Dr. Heinrich Barucher. Dr. Barucher recognized Peuerbach's academic abilities from a young age and put him in contact with the Augustinian provost of Klosterneuburg Monastery, Georg Muestinger. Georg Muestinger taught a course at the University of Vienna entitled Theoricae Planetarum. These lectures were the first that Georg von Peuerbach attended at the University of Vienna and inspired him to enroll.

During his time at University of Vienna, Georg received a master of philosophy in 1446 and a second master's degree in 1448, studying mathematics under the guidelines of Johann von Gmünden. His curriculum was composed primarily of humanities courses, as was usual at the time. His knowledge of astronomy derived from independent study, possibly from studying under followers of John von Gmünden. During his enrollment, there were no professors of astronomy at the University of Vienna. However, under his tutelage astronomic studies emerged at the University of Vienna throughout the 15th and 16th centuries.

Peuerbach observed the occultation of Jupiter by the Moon in 1451, signifying the beginning of his personal astronomy career. After this point Peuerbach essentially devoted his life to astronomy, he developed tools and theories, and collaborated with his pupil Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller von Königsberg) to make astrology more digestible to common people. Majority of Georg's astrological discoveries were made in the last ten years of his life.

Georg Peuerbach traveled through central and southern Europe, most notably in Italy, giving lectures on astronomy. His lectures led to offers of professorships at several universities, including those at Bologna and Padua. During this time he also met Italian astronomer Giovanni Bianchini of Ferrara, perhaps the leading astronomer at the time, and the Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa. He returned to the University of Vienna in 1453, earned his Masters of Arts, and began lecturing on Latin poetry. He is often credited as a leader in reviving classical Greek and Roman literature in arts and sciences.

Peuerbach attended many university lectures that focused on Roman poets, which led to him playing one of the leading roles in the revitalization of classical learning introduced by Aenaes Silvius Piccolomini. Peuerbach eventually followed the advice of the court astrologer to Emperor Friedrich III in Wiener-Nestadt, Johann Nihil, and took the position of court astrologer to the king of Hungary. After being court astrologer for a few years, Peuerbach eventually went on to become imperial astrologer.

While at Vienna in 1454, Peuerbach taught planetary motion to students at the university. Peuerbach's lectures were based on Ptolemaic teachings and became so famous that from 1472 they were printed under the title ‘Theoricae Novae Planetarum‘.

In 1454 Peuerbach was appointed court astrologer to King Ladislas V of Bohemia and Hungary. It was in this capacity that Peuerbach first met Ladislas' cousin Frederick who was then serving as guardian to the 14-year-old king and who would later become Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor. Ladislas resided primarily in Prague and Vienna, allowing Peuerbach to maintain his position at the University of Vienna. During this time Peuerbach met Regiomontanus, who was then a student at the university. After Regiomontanus graduated in 1452 at the age of 15, he began collaborating extensively with Peuerbach in his astronomical work. In 1457, following the assassination of two notable political figures, Ladislas fled Vienna and died in 1458. Peurbach did not receive an appointment from either of Ladislas' two successors. However he was asked to be the Astronomus caesaris for Emperor Frederick III, which is the position he held until his death.

Georg von Peuerbach died on 8 April 1461. His work set the path for future scholars, scientists, and astronomers for years to come; Peurbach’s early death was a serious loss to the progress of astronomy, although Regiomontanus, his successor, was able to continue his work.

Work

Peuerbach is best-known for his work Theoricae Novae Planetarum, written in 1454, and published by his disciple Regiomontanus in 1472. Theoricae Novae Planetarum presented a version of Claudius Ptolemy geocentric system in a more colloquial and comprehensible way. Based on a series of Peuerbach's lectures at Bürgerschule in Vienna that were transcribed by Regiomontanus. The book introduced the "New Planetary Theory of Georg von Peuerbach" based on the already successful Ptolemaic system, this new theory presented the physical realities of eccentric planetary spheres. In his model of the sun Peuerbach removed simple eccentric shells and added partial orbs, some of which were eccentric and some concentric to the center of the world. Similar models for the planets replaced the body of the sun with an epicycle sphere carrying each planet.

Peuerbach ideas replaced Theorica Planetarum Communis, a work credited to Gerardus Cremonensis, as the standard university text on astronomy and was studied by many influential astronomers including Nicolaus Copernicus and Johannes Kepler.

In 1457 Peuerbach observed an eclipse and noted that it had occurred 8 minutes earlier than had been predicted by the Alphonsine Tables, the best available astronomical tables at the time. He then computed his own set of eclipse tables, the Tabulae Eclipsium. Widely read in manuscript form beginning around 1459 and formally published in 1514, these tables remained highly influential for many years.

Peuerbach wrote various papers on practical mathematics and constructed various astronomical instruments. Most notably, he computed sine tables based on techniques developed by Islamicate mathematicians. Peuerbach's work was instrumental in establishing a more modern understanding of mathematics.

In 1460, Cardinal Johannes Bessarion, while visiting Frederick's court seeking assistance in a crusade to reclaim Constantinople from the Turks, proposed that Peuerbach and Regiomontanus create a new translation of Ptolemy's Almagest from the original Greek. Bessarion thought that a shorter and more clearly written version of the work would make a suitable teaching text. Peuerbach accepted the task and worked on it with Regiomontanus until his death in 1461, at which time 6 volumes had been completed. Regiomontanus completed the project, and the final version containing 13 volumes was published in 1496.

Accomplishments

 * In February 1453, Georg Von Peuerbach was awarded with the Magister Artium in Vienna.
 * Peuerbach began the translation of Ptolemy's Almagest from Greek into Latin, a task which was completed and published by his student Regiomontanus in 1496.
 * Expanded the Astronomy program at the University of Vienna.
 * Influenced many other European astrological and astronomical discoveries with his observations and ideologies

Legacy
Georg von Peuerbach work outlives him because of his ability to communicate astronomy, mathematics and art. His contributions simplified seeming difficult ideas, making them more digestible and inspiring critical thought. Through his tutelage he was able to create an astronomy program at his alma mater, further expanding the understanding of astronomy.

Peuerbach's and Regiomontanus's contribution expanded the European understanding of astronomy by translating Ptolemy's Almagest in a book that later influenced Nicolaus Copernicus. Though the work  was completed after Peuerbach's death in 1461, Regiomontanus carried on with the task and eventually the Epitome of the Almagest was published in 1496, nearly 35 years after his teacher’s passing, and 20 years after his own (Regiomontanus died in 1476). This book would go on to be an important reference for Nicholas Copernicus for the creation of his book De Revolutionibus.

Ironically Nicolaus Copernicus work, and later Sir Issac Newtons disproved many of the ideas that Peuerbach supported while defending the Ptolemaic system, nonetheless his advancement in technology and theory help modernize the study of astronomy.

A Peuerbach's input in Regiomontanus's trigonometric tables was used by future astronomers in the coming century. Though a fair amount of Peuerbach's work is believed to have circulated in academia, his full observations were only published by Johann Schöner nearly a century after Peuerbach's death. His Theoricae Novae Planetarum would be released in numerous editions between 1472 and 1596, with additions by scholars such as Regiomontanus, Peter Apian, Erasmus Reinhold, and Philip Melanchthon. It is believed that by 1653, at least 56 Latin printings of the text had been published with numerous editions in other languages as well.

Peuerbach’s Theoricae Novae Planetarum became one of the most common astronomy textbooks used to train future scholars. He is credited with being instrumental in the European understanding of astronomy and the Ptolemaic system. The descriptions of the solid spheres model (common to the Ptolemaic planetary system) seen in the Theoricae Novae Planetarum would remain the accepted view of the nature of the spheres until the time of Tycho Brahe, who disproved the existence of solid spheres. The Theoricae Novae Planetarum is also credited with helping to establish much of the technical vocabulary used by astronomers through the seventeenth century.

Peuerbach is also known to have developed and distributed tables that were capable of predicting eclipses of both the sun and the moon, and this practice was continued by Regiomontanus. The manuscript, titled Tabulae Eclipsium, saw continued use, as late as Tycho Brahe near the end of the sixteenth century. He is also believed to have overseen the collection and duplication of numerous astronomical manuscripts. This culminated in the development of a scientific printing press in Nuremberg by Regiomontanus. The printing press was further used to publish astronomical works such as Peuerbach's own Theoricae Novae Planetarum, as well as the Astronomicon written by the poet Manilius

Works

 * Tabulae eclipsium (in Latin). 1459 treatises based on elementary arithmetic, sine tables, calculating devices, and the astronomical instruments
 * Peurbach, Georg and Regiomontanus, Tractatus Georgi Peurbachii super propositiones Ptolemaei de sinubus & chordis (A treatise of George Peurbach on the propositions of Ptolemy concerning the sines and chords), Johann Petreius, Germany, 1468
 * Peurbach, Georg and Regiomontanus, Tractatus Georgi Peurbachii super propositiones Ptolemaei de sinubus & chordis (A treatise of George Peurbach on the propositions of Ptolemy concerning the sines and chords), Johann Petreius, Germany, 1468

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Larry Ellison

Lawrence Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is an American businessman and entrepreneur who cofounded software company Oracle Corporation. He was Oracle's chief executive officer from 1977 to 2014 and is now its chief technology officer and executive chairman.

As of June 2024, he is the ninth-wealthiest person in the world, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with an estimated net worth of US$137 billion, and the fifth-wealthiest in the world according to Forbes, with an estimated net worth of $152 billion. Ellison is also known for his ownership of 98% of Lānaʻi, the sixth-largest island in the Hawaiian Islands.

Early life and education
Ellison was born on August 17, 1944, in New York City to Florence Spellman, an unwed Jewish mother. His biological father was an Italian American United States Army Air Corps pilot. After Ellison contracted pneumonia at the age of nine months, his mother gave him to her aunt and uncle for adoption. He did not meet his biological mother again until he was 48.

Ellison moved to Chicago's South Shore, then a middle-class neighborhood. He remembers his adoptive mother, Lillian Spellman Ellison, as warm and loving, in contrast to his austere, unsupportive, and often distant adoptive father, who had chosen the name Ellison to honor his point of entry into the United States, Ellis Island. Louis Ellison was a government employee who had made a small fortune in Chicago real estate, only to lose it during the Great Depression.

Although Ellison was raised in a Reform Jewish home by his adoptive parents, who attended synagogue regularly, he remained a religious skeptic. At age thirteen, Ellison refused to have a bar mitzvah celebration. Ellison states: "While I think I am religious in one sense, the particular dogmas of Judaism are not dogmas I subscribe to. I don't believe that they are real. They're interesting stories. They're interesting mythology, and I certainly respect people who believe these are literally true, but I don't. I see no evidence for this stuff." Ellison says that his fondness for Israel is not connected to religious sentiments but rather due to the innovative spirit of Israelis in the technology sector.

Ellison attended South Shore High School in Chicago and later was admitted to University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and was enrolled as a premed student. At the university, he was named science student of the year. He withdrew without taking final exams after his sophomore year because his adoptive mother had just died. After spending the summer of 1966 in California, he then attended the University of Chicago for one term, where he studied physics and mathematics and also first encountered computer design. He then moved to Berkeley, California, and began his career as a computer programmer for different companies.

1977–1994
During the 1970s, after a brief stint at Amdahl Corporation, Ellison began working for Ampex Corporation. His projects included a database for the CIA, which he named "Oracle". Ellison was inspired by a paper written by Edgar F. Codd on relational database systems called "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks". In 1977, he founded Software Development Laboratories (SDL) with two partners and an investment of $2,000; $1,200 of the money was his.

In 1979, the company renamed itself Relational Software Inc. Ellison had heard about the IBM System R database, also based on Codd's theories, and wanted Oracle to achieve compatibility with it, but IBM made this impossible by refusing to share System R's error codes. The initial release of the Oracle Database in 1979 was called Oracle version 2; there was no Oracle version 1. In 1983, the company officially became Oracle Systems Corporation after its flagship product. In 1990, Oracle laid off 10% of its workforce (about 400 people) because it was losing money. This crisis, which almost resulted in the company's bankruptcy, came about because of Oracle's "up-front" marketing strategy, in which sales people urged potential customers to buy the largest possible amount of software all at once. The sales people then booked the value of future license sales in the current quarter, thereby increasing their bonuses. This became a problem when the future sales subsequently failed to materialize. Oracle eventually had to restate its earnings twice, and had to settle class-action lawsuits arising from its having overstated its earnings. Ellison would later say that Oracle had made "an incredible business mistake".

Although IBM dominated the mainframe relational database market with its DB2 and SQL/DS database products, it delayed entering the market for a relational database on Unix and Windows operating systems. This left the door open for Sybase, Oracle, Informix, and eventually Microsoft to dominate mid-range systems and microcomputers. Around this time, Oracle fell behind Sybase. From 1990 to 1993, Sybase was the fastest-growing database company and the database industry's darling vendor, but soon it fell victim to merger mania. Sybase's 1996 merger with Powersoft resulted in a loss of focus on its core database technology. In 1993, Sybase sold the rights to its database software running under the Windows operating system to Microsoft Corporation, which now markets it under the name "SQL Server".

In his early years at Oracle, Ellison was named an Award Recipient in the High Technology Category for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Program.

1994–2010
In 1994, Informix overtook Sybase and became Oracle's most important rival. The intense war between Informix CEO Phil White and Ellison was front-page Silicon Valley news for three years. In April 1997, Informix announced a major revenue shortfall and earnings restatements. Phil White eventually landed in jail, and IBM absorbed Informix in 2001. Also in 1997, Ellison was made a director of Apple Computer after Steve Jobs returned to the company. Ellison resigned in 2002. With the defeat of Informix and of Sybase, Oracle enjoyed years of industry dominance until the rise of Microsoft SQL Server in the late 1990s and IBM's acquisition of Informix Software in 2001 to complement their DB2 database. Oracle's main competition for new database licenses on UNIX, Linux, and Windows operating systems comes from IBM's DB2 and from Microsoft SQL Server. IBM's DB2 still dominates the mainframe database market.

In 2005, Ellison agreed to settle a four-year-old insider-trading lawsuit by offering to pay $100 million to charity in Oracle's name.

In 2005, Oracle Corporation paid Ellison a $975,000 salary, a $6,500,000 bonus, and other compensation of $955,100. In 2007, Ellison earned a total compensation of $61,180,524, which included a base salary of $1,000,000, a cash bonus of $8,369,000, and options granted of $50,087,100. In 2008, he earned a total compensation of $84,598,700, which included a base salary of $1,000,000, a cash bonus of $10,779,000, no stock grants, and options granted of $71,372,700. In the year ending May 31, 2009, he made $56.8 million. In 2006, Forbes ranked him as the richest Californian. In April 2009, after a tug-of-war with IBM and Hewlett-Packard, Oracle announced its intent to buy Sun Microsystems. On July 2, 2009, for the fourth year in a row, Oracle's board awarded Ellison another 7 million stock options. On August 22, 2009, it was reported that Ellison would be paid only $1 for his base salary for the fiscal year of 2010, down from the $1,000,000 he was paid in fiscal 2009.

2010–present
The European Union approved Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems on January 21, 2010, and agreed that Oracle's acquisition of Sun "has the potential to revitalize important assets and create new and innovative products". The Sun acquisition also gave Oracle control of the popular MySQL open source database, which Sun had acquired in 2008. On August 9, 2010, Ellison denounced Hewlett-Packard's board for firing CEO Mark Hurd, writing that: "The HP board just made the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many years ago." (Ellison and Hurd were close personal friends.) Then on September 6, Oracle hired Mark Hurd as co-president alongside Safra Catz. Ellison remained in his current role at Oracle.

In March 2010, the Forbes list of billionaires ranked Ellison as the sixth-richest person in the world and as the third-richest American, with an estimated net worth of US$28 billion. On July 27, 2010, The Wall Street Journal reported that Ellison was the best-paid executive in the last decade, collecting a total compensation of US$1.84 billion. In September 2011, Ellison was listed on the Forbes list of billionaires as the fifth richest man in the world and was still the third richest American, with a net worth of about $36.5 billion. In September 2012, Ellison was again listed on the Forbes list of billionaires as the third richest American citizen, behind Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, with a net worth of $44 billion. In October 2012, he was listed just behind David Hamilton Koch as the eighth richest person in the world, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Ellison owns stakes in Salesforce.com, NetSuite, Quark Biotechnology Inc. and Astex Pharmaceuticals. In June 2012, Ellison agreed to buy 98 percent of the Hawaiian island of Lānaʻi from David Murdock's company, Castle & Cooke. The price was reported to be between $500 million and $600 million. In 2013, according to The Wall Street Journal, Ellison earned $94.6 million. On September 18, 2014, Ellison appointed Mark Hurd to CEO of Oracle from his former position as president; Safra Catz was also made CEO, moving from her former role as CFO. Ellison assumed the positions of chief technology officer and executive chairman.

In November 2016, Oracle bought NetSuite for $9.3 billion. Ellison owned 35% of NetSuite at the time of the purchase making him $3.5 billion personally.

In 2017, Forbes estimated that Ellison was the 4th richest person in tech.

In June 2018, Ellison's net worth was about $54.5 billion, according to Forbes.

In December 2018, Ellison became a director on the board of Tesla, Inc., after purchasing 3 million shares earlier that year. Ellison left the Tesla Board in August 2022.

As of June 2020, Ellison is said to be the seventh wealthiest person in the world, with a net worth of $66.8 billion.

As of 2022, Ellison owns 42.9 percent of the shares of Oracle Corporation, and as of June 2023, 1.4 percent of the shares of Tesla.

Ellison's software startup, Project Ronin, that he co-founded with David Agus and Dave Hodgson closed down in 2024. The company aimed at transforming cancer care whose products were intended to quickly analyze data within electronic medical records systems.

Marriages
Ellison has been married and divorced four times:
 * Adda Quinn from 1967 to 1974
 * Nancy Wheeler Jenkins from 1977 to 1978. They married six months before Ellison founded Software Development Laboratories. In 1978, the couple divorced. Wheeler gave up any claim on her husband's company for $500.
 * Barbara Boothe from 1983 to 1986. Boothe was a former receptionist at Relational Software Inc. (RSI). They had two children, David and Megan, who are film producers at Skydance Media and Annapurna Pictures, respectively.
 * Melanie Craft, a romance novelist, from 2003 to 2010. They married on December 18, 2003, at his Woodside estate. Ellison's friend Steve Jobs, former CEO and co-founder of Apple Inc., was the official wedding photographer, and Representative Tom Lantos officiated. They divorced in 2010.

Movie cameo
Ellison made a brief cameo appearance in the 2010 movie Iron Man 2.

Cars
Ellison owns many exotic cars, including an Audi R8 and a McLaren F1. His favorite is the Acura NSX, which he was known to give as gifts each year during its production. Ellison is also reportedly the owner of a Lexus LFA.

Yachts
With the economic downturn of 2010, Ellison sold his share of Rising Sun, the 12th largest yacht in the world, making David Geffen the sole owner. The vessel is 453 ft long, and reportedly cost over $200million to build. He downsized to Musashi, a 288 ft yacht built by Feadship.

Ellison competes in yachting through Oracle Team USA. Following success racing Maxi yachts, Ellison founded BMW Oracle Racing to compete for the 2003 Louis Vuitton Cup.

In 2002, Ellison's Oracle's team introduced kite yachting into the America's Cup environment. Kite sail flying lasting about 30 minutes was achieved during testing in New Zealand.

BMW Oracle Racing was the "Challenger of Record" on behalf of the Golden Gate Yacht Club of San Francisco for the 2007 America's Cup in Valencia, Spain, until eliminated from the 2007 Louis Vuitton Cup challenger-selection series in the semi-finals. On February 14, 2010, Ellison's yacht USA 17 won the second race (in the best of three "deed of gift" series) of the 33rd America's Cup, after winning the first race two days earlier. Securing a historic victory, Ellison and his BMW Oracle team became the first challengers to win a "deed of gift" match. The Cup returned to American shores for the first time since 1995. Ellison served as a crew member in the second race. Previously, Ellison had filed several legal challenges, through the Golden Gate Yacht Club, against the way that Ernesto Bertarelli (also one of the world's richest men) proposed to organize the 33rd America's Cup following the 2007 victory of Bertarelli's team Alinghi. The races were finally held in February 2010 in Valencia.

On September 25, 2013, Ellison's Oracle Team USA defeated Emirates Team New Zealand to win the 34th America's Cup in San Francisco Bay, California. Oracle Team USA had been penalized two points in the final for cheating by some team members during the America's Cup World Series warm-up events. The Oracle team came from a 1–8 deficit to win 9–8, in what has been called "one of the greatest comebacks in sports history".

Oracle Racing lost the 2017 America's Cup to Team New Zealand.

In 2019, Ellison, in conjunction with Russell Coutts, started the SailGP international racing series. The series used F50 foiling catamarans, the fastest class of boat in history with regattas held across the globe. Ellison committed to five years of funding to support the series until it could become self sustaining. The first season was successful with global audiences of over 1.8 billion.

Aviation
Ellison is a licensed pilot who has owned several aircraft. He was cited by the city of San Jose, California, for violating its limits on late-night takeoffs and landings from San Jose Mineta International Airport by planes weighing more than 75,000 pounds (34,019 kg). In January 2000, Ellison sued over the interpretation of the airport rule, contending that his Gulfstream V aircraft "is certified by the manufacturer to fly at two weights: 75,000 pounds, and at 90,000 pounds for heavier loads or long flights requiring more fuel. But the pilot only lands the plane in San Jose when it weighs 75,000 pounds or less, and has the logs to prove it." US District Judge Jeremy Fogel ruled in Ellison's favor in June 2001, calling for a waiver for Ellison's jet, but did not invalidate the curfew.

Ellison also owns at least two military jets: the Italian training aircraft SIAI-Marchetti S.211, and a decommissioned Soviet fighter MiG-29, which the US government has refused him permission to import.

Tennis
In 2009, Ellison purchased the Indian Wells Tennis Garden tennis facility in California's Coachella Valley and the Indian Wells Masters tournament for $100 million, and has subsequently invested another $100 million into the club.

In 2010, Ellison purchased a 50% share of the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament.

Homes
Ellison styled his estimated $110 million Woodside, California, estate after feudal Japanese architecture, complete with a man-made 2.3 acre lake and an extensive seismic retrofit. In 2004 and 2005 he purchased more than 12 properties in Malibu, California, worth more than $180 million. The $65 million Ellison spent on five contiguous lots at Malibu's Carbon Beach made this the most costly residential transaction in United States history until banker Ronald Perelman sold his Palm Beach, Florida, compound for $70 million later that same year. His entertainment system at his Pacific Heights home cost $1 million, and includes a rock concert-sized video projector at one end of a drained swimming pool, using the gaping hole as a giant subwoofer.

In early 2010, Ellison purchased the Astors' Beechwood Mansion – formerly the summer home of the Astor family – in Newport, Rhode Island, for $10.5 million.

In 2011 he purchased the 249-acre Porcupine Creek Estate and private golf course in Rancho Mirage, California, for $42.9 million. The property was formerly the home of Yellowstone Club founders Edra and Tim Blixseth, and was sold to Ellison by creditors following their divorce and bankruptcy.

In December 2020, he left California and moved to Lānaʻi, of which he owns 98%.

In 2022, Ellison bought a 22-acre property in Manalapan, Florida for $173 million. He purchased it from Jim Clark, who in turn had acquired it from the Ziff family. It is the most expensive residential property purchase in Florida history.

Philanthropy
In 1992 Ellison shattered his elbow in a high-speed bicycle crash. After receiving treatment at University of California, Davis, Ellison donated $5 million to seed the Lawrence J. Ellison Musculo-Skeletal Research Center. In 1998, the Lawrence J. Ellison Ambulatory Care Center opened on the Sacramento campus of the UC Davis Medical Center.

To settle an insider trading lawsuit arising from his selling nearly $1 billion of Oracle stock, a court allowed Ellison to donate $100 million to his own charitable foundation without admitting wrongdoing. A California judge refused to allow Oracle to pay Ellison's legal fees of $24 million. Ellison's lawyer had argued that if Ellison were to pay the fees, that could be construed as an admission of guilt. His charitable donations to Stanford University raised questions about the independence of two Stanford professors who evaluated the case's merits for Oracle. In response to the September 11 terrorist attacks of 2001, Ellison made a controversial offer to donate software to the federal government that would have enabled it to build and run a national identification database and to issue ID cards.

Forbes' 2004 list of charitable donations made by the wealthiest 400 Americans stated that Ellison had donated $151,092,103, about 1% of his estimated personal wealth. In June 2006, Ellison announced he would not honor his earlier pledge of $115 million to Harvard University, claiming it was due to the departure of former president Lawrence Summers. Oracle spokesman Bob Wynne announced, "It was really Larry Summers' brainchild and once it looked like Larry Summers was leaving, Larry Ellison reconsidered ... [I]t was Larry Ellison and Larry Summers that had initially come up with this notion." In 2007 Ellison pledged $500,000 to fortify a community centre in Sderot, Israel, after discovering that the building was not fortified against rocket attacks. Other charitable donations by Ellison include a $10 million donation to the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces in 2014. In 2017 Ellison again donated to the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, this time for $16.6 million. His donation was intended to support the construction of well-being facilities on a new campus for co-ed conscripts.

In August 2010 a report listed Ellison as one of the 40 billionaires who had signed "The Giving Pledge".

In May 2016 Ellison donated $200 million to the University of Southern California for establishing a cancer research center: the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC. It was renamed the Ellison Institute of Technology, and an additional campus was established in Oxford in 2023 with the intention of providing a scholarship program for 20 students each year.

Health
Ellison abstains from alcohol and drugs, stating that "I can't stand anything that clouds my mind."

Political involvement
Ellison was critical of NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, saying that "Snowden had yet to identify a single person who had been 'wrongly injured' by the NSA's data collection". In 2012, he donated to both Democratic and Republican politicians, and in late 2014 hosted Republican senator Rand Paul at a fundraiser at his home.

Ellison was one of the top donors to Conservative Solutions PAC, a super PAC supporting Marco Rubio's 2016 presidential bid. As of February 2016, Ellison had given $4 million overall to the PAC. In 2020, Ellison allowed former president Donald Trump to have a fundraiser at his Rancho Mirage estate, but Ellison was not present. In January 2022, Ellison donated $15 million to the Opportunity Matters Fund super PAC associated with Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), which is one of the most significant financial contributions of the 2022 election cycle.

The Washington Post reported in May 2022 that Ellison participated in a conference call days after the 2020 presidential election that focused on strategies for challenging the legitimacy of the vote. Other participants on the call included Fox News host Sean Hannity, Senator Lindsey Graham, Trump personal attorney Jay Sekulow and James Bopp, an attorney for True the Vote. The Post cited court documents and a participant on the call.

Controversy
Larry Ellison has funded controversial annexation projects in occupied Palestine that received criticism from Palestinians as well as Israeli peace activists and archaeologists. Additionally, $1 billion lawsuit was filed by Palestinians against several Israel supporters, including Ellison. The lawsuit accuses them of conspiring to expel Palestinians from the occupied territories and committing war crimes.

Larry Ellison, who has close ties with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reportedly lobbied Israeli mogul Arnon Milchan to drop his lawyer so that Netanyahu, implicated in one of his corruption cases, could hire him. It was also revealed that Ellison offered Netanyahu a post at Oracle.

Recognition
In 1997, Ellison received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.

In 2013, Ellison was inducted into the Bay Area Business Hall of Fame.

In 2019, the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC honored Ellison with the first Rebels With A Cause Award in recognition of his generous support through the years.

Ellison was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2024.

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