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Emeritus (/ ə ˈ m ɛr ɪ t ə s /; female version: emerita) [Note 1] is an honorary title granted to someone who retires from a position of distinction, most commonly an academic faculty position, but is allowed to continue using the previous title, as in "professor emeritus".
Posthumus is a surname mostly stemming from the Dutch province of Friesland.Among variants are Posthuma and Postmus.The surname may have originated in the same way Romans called boys and girls born after the death of their father Postumus and Postuma, and the common Frisian name Postma sometimes is a derivative of such a name.
Popular etymology connects this praenomen with the modern adjective posthumous, meaning "after death", from the Latin roots for "after" and "earth" (as a metaphor for burial), and assume that it was given to children born after the death of their fathers. Such associations date from at least the time of Varro, and probably contributed to the ...
Posthumous may refer to: Posthumous award – an award, prize or medal granted after the recipient's death; Posthumous publication – publishing of creative work ...
Posthumous marriage ... and the church permits a sealing to take place any time there was a valid marriage between an opposite-sex couple. One possibility is that ...
A retrospective diagnosis (also retrodiagnosis or posthumous diagnosis) is the practice of identifying an illness after the death of the patient (sometimes a historical figure) using modern knowledge, methods and disease classifications.
Russo's first posthumous solo album O Último Solo was released in October 1997, a year after his death. His second posthumous solo album Presente was released on March 27, 2003, six years and five months after his death. Laura Nyro's album Angel in the Dark was released on March 20, 2001, four years after her death in 1997.
The Posthumous" is an epithet for: Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw (1590–1624), Prince-Bishop of Wrocław (Breslau), Prince-Bishop of Brixen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order and ruler of the Bohemian County of Kladsko; John I of France (born and died in 1316), King of France and Navarre