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When did the term "Lie group" first appear?

Does anyone know who was the first to coin the term "Lie group"? The following thesis from 1928 suggests that the term was already in use by that time: "Systems of Two Differential Equations from the …
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What is the difference between an automorphic form and a modular form?

This is more of a question about terminology than about math. The term "automorphic form" is clearly a generalization of the term "modular form." …
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