Translation of "Grand old man" in German

We did this in close collaboration with Son San, a grand old man of Cambodian democracy, who was a frequent visitor to this House.

He discovered fraud perpetrated on the Great North Railway by Leopold Redpath, invented a system for railway accounts that protected investors from mismanagement of funds, and was to become the grand old man of the profession.

Upon his death, Beltran was lauded by his colleagues in the labor sector as the ""Grand Old Man of Philippine labor"".

In Melbourne as in Launceston, Fawkner made many enemies, before dying as the grand old man of the colony on 4 September 1869 in Smith Street, Collingwood at the age of 77.

Austria´s grand old man of the anti-atom resistance would be inclined to pass on praise to the many undeterred who fought to ensure that the Alpine republic became the solitary peak of freedom from atomic energy.

At the Nature Night we will meet the author, grand old man of Estonian nature films, Rein Maran .

The photo contest this year is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Eesti Looduskaitse Selts and 75th jubilee of the grand old man of Finnish nature photography, Hannu Hautala.

Do not hesitate to ask the 'grand old man' of the Estonian wine scene, Mr Rein Kasela (affectionately known to everyone as Papa Kasela), for recommendations, as the list of wines available by the glass could overwhelm those oenophiles who do not possess an encyclopaedic knowledge of every grape-based beverage ever produced in the world.

I remember too that the grand old man of fungi, Erast Parmasto, found new and rare species of fungi there some of which were completely absent in the nearby protected area.

A few years ago American archaeologists discovered some three miles inland the palace of King Nestor, grand old man of the Trojan war, and excavations are still going on.

Zbigniev Brzezinski, Grand Old Man of the strategists of US-imperialism, sees the "problem of poverty" as follows: "New is that the poorest parts of the world population live today under circumstances, in which they are painfully aware of their relative poverty, and therefore get a feeling of hostility and envy against the rich.

EQUITANA 2019 provides the rare opportunity of experiencing the grand old man of horsemanship live in Germany again.

Tiit Randla, Grand Old Man of our eagles, says that when he inspected eagle nests some decades ago, the white-tailed eagles laid their eggs on the days following the beginning of calendar spring.

The unheard of insult of the grand old man created a storm of anger among the academic youth and throughout wide circles in Germany.

To understand what happened to German philosophy since Adorno's death — and what eventually led to its new media-friendly enfants terribles — we need to consider the grand old man of German intellectual life, the 88-year-old Jürgen Habermas.

To understand what happened to German philosophy since Adorno's death — and what eventually led to its new media-friendly enfants terribles — we need to consider the grand old man of German intellectual life, the 88-year-old JÃ1?4rgen Habermas.

In a film adaptation loosely based on his own novel, “America, America”, the grand old man of Indian auteur cinema, Buddhadeb Dasgupta, tells the story of a family living in modern-day Calcutta – focussing in particular on the complicated relationship between father and son.

Letters and statements tumbled out of his Princeton study, and in the public eye Einstein the physicist dissolved into Einstein the world citizen, a kind "grand old man" devoting his last years to bringing harmony to the world.

In its political acuteness and disdain for aesthetic compromise, his filmic triptych of the three "Kingdoms" (Hell, Purgatory, Paradise) of human inadequacy offered renewed confirmation of Godard's status as Grand Old Man of Nouvelle Vague.