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In 1892 Cotta introduced formal two-year courses at the lyceum in both German and history. This followed a growing realisation that
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Berhard von Cotta and Ilsabe Ida von Orges. She and her two sisters spoke English and her father was a professor of geology. An 1866 paper written by her father was translated into English by a solicitor Philip Lawrence. Lawrence had a daughter named Penelope. Cotta was fluent in
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