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Pierre Gemayel (last name also spelt Jumail or Jumayyil) was a Lebanese statesman. He is remembered as the founder of the Kataeb Party (also known as the Phalange Party, as a parliamentary powerbroker, and as the father of Bachir Gemayel and Amine Gemayel, both of whom were elected President of the Republic in his lifetime. Gemayel was known for his opposition to foreign domination of Lebanon - whether by the Ottomans, France, or any other power, for his belief in the coexistence of Christians and Moslems in a single state, and for his abhorrence of Lebanon being used as a proxy battleground in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A controversial politician, he survived several assassination attempts. 1 Early Life
Pierre Gemayel was born in Bifkaya , Lebanon, on 6 November 1905. A Maronite Catholic, he was educated at Jesuit schools, and went on to study PharmacologyPharmacology (Greek: pharmacon is drug, and logos''is science) is the study of how chemical substances interfere with living systems. If these substances have medicinal properties, they are referred to as pharmaceuticals . The field encompasses drug compo at the French Faculty of Medicine in BeirutCapitals in Asia There is a drinking game which is alternately referred to as either "Beirut" or " Beer Pong. Beirut is the capital, largest city and chief seaport of Lebanon. Beirut is the home of about 1. 8 million people (2. 1 million if the surroundin, where he later opened a pharmacy.
It was often said of Gemayel that politics was in his blood. His family was one of the traditional leading families of the Maronite Community, and had played a prominent role in the town of Bifkaya since 1540Events January 6 King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves, his fourth Queen consort. July 9 King Henry VIII of England divorces Anne of Cleves, his fourth Queen consort. July 28 One of the most important political figures of the reign of Henry VI. Pierre Gemayel himself got his first taste of politics at an early age, when his father and uncle, who had opposed OttomanOsmanlı İmparatorluğu Devlet-i Aliye-i Osmaniye The Ottoman Coat of Arms Imperial motto: unknown The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power Official language Ottoman Turkish Capital İstanbul ( Constantinople) Sovereigns Sultans control of Lebanon, were sentenced to death in 1914Events January 4 77 seal hunters freeze to death on ice near Labrador January 5 Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor February 13 Copyright: In New York City the ASCAP (for American Society of Compos and were forced to flee into exile in EgyptJumhuriyat Misr al-Arabiyah ( In Detail) Official language Arabic Capital Cairo Largest City Cairo President Hosni Mubarak Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif Area Total % water Ranked 29th 1,001,450 km² 0. 6% Population Total (2003) Density Ranked 15th 74,718,797. The family returned to Lebanon at the end of World War IWorld War I (also known as the First World War , the Great War the War of the Nations and the "War to End All Wars") was a world conflict occurring from 1914 to 1918. No previous conflict had mobilized so many soldiers, or involved so many in the field of, and Gemayel's uncle became a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, which led to the Treaty of Versailles and the establishment of the League of Nations. In 1935, Gemayel was appointed to lead Lebanon's Olympic team at the Olympic Games in Berlin. There he had a chance to study the organization of Germany's Nazi Party. Gemayel strongly opposed Nazi ideology, but admired their formidable and efficient organization, and concluded that to have any hope of success, any Lebanese nationalist movement would have to be structured similarly. Accordingly, on his return to Lebanon in 1936, he founded the Kataeb Party together with four colleagues, one of whom was Charles Hélou, who later served as Lebanon's President from 1964 to 1970.
