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Africanus (other)
Africanus is Latin for "African". It may refer to: People Ancient Roman cognomen * Africanus Fabius Maximus, the younger son of Quintus Fabius Maximus (consul 45 BC) and an unknown wife * Cresconius Africanus, a Latin canon lawyer of uncertain date and place * Julius Africanus, an orator in the time of Nero * Titus Sextius Africanus, a censor of Gaul in the 1st century * Lucius Apuleius ''Africanus'' Madaurensis (c. 124–c. 170 CE), a Latin-language prose writer * Titus Sextius Cornelius Africanus, a consul in the 2nd century under Trajan * Sextus Caecilius Africanus, a 2nd-century Roman legal scholar * Scipio Africanus (other) * Sextus Julius Africanus, a Christian traveller and historian of the 3rd century * Junillus Africanus (fl. 541–549), a Quaestor of the Sacred Palace in the court of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I * Constantine the African i.e. Constantinus Africanus (11th century) Given name or surname * George Africanus (1763—1834), a West African slave, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Africanus Fabius Maximus
Africanus Fabius Maximus was a Roman senator. His elder brother was Paullus Fabius Maximus (consul 11 BCE) and his sister was Fabia Paullina, who married Marcus Titius. It is believed that Africanus was named in honour of his famous family ancestor Scipio Africanus Aemilianus. Career The career of Africanus Fabius Maximus is much less clear than that of his brother. It is believed that Africanus' earliest post was as a military tribune in Spain, though this is not certain. His only two certain civilian posts were as ordinary consul in 10 BCE (with Iullus Antonius), and as proconsul of Africa in 6/5 BCE. He was admitted to the priesthood of the ''septemviri epulonum'' at some point after 25 BCE. It was during his tenure as proconsul of Africa that Africanus struck some coins that bore his own image. Possible family Although no wife is attested for Africanus, it is possible that he had a daughter named Fabia Numantina. Alternatively, she may have been the daughter of African ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Africanus
George John Scipio Africanus (c. 1763 – 19 May 1834) was a West African former slave who became a successful entrepreneur in Nottingham, England. Early years The early life of George Africanus is obscure. Calculating his birth year from his burial certificate, he was probably born in 1763. His obituary in the ''Nottingham Journal'' of 30 May 1834 states that he was born in a village in Sierra Leone, which became a British colony in 1787. It is believed that George arrived in England in early 1766. On 31 March 1766, he was baptised George John Scipio Africanus, and described as a boy belonging to Benjamin Molineux of Molineux House, in the Collegiate church of St Peter in Wolverhampton. When George was three years old Molineux began educating him. After Benjamin Molineux's death in 1772, his eldest son, George Molineux, inherited the estate and took responsibility for raising and educating the child. Growing up, Africanus probably worked as a servant in the Molineux family hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Africanae (other)
Africanae may refer to: * ''Primitiae Africanae Hendrik (Henk) Cornelis Dirk de Wit (24 October 1909 – 16 March 1999) was a Dutch Plant taxonomy, systematic botanist who contributed significantly to the knowledge of the Araceae, Aroid genus, genera ''Cryptocoryne'' and ''Lagenandra''. He ...'', a botanical book series by Hendrik de Wit See also * List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names#africanum {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Africana (other)
Africana may refer to: In arts and entertainment Music * ''Africana'', album by Chaino * ''Africana'', album by Teresa De Sio * "Africana", song by Romanian singer Delia Matache Publications * ''Encyclopedia Africana'' (1999), a compendium of Africana studies * ''Philosophia Africana'', a peer-reviewed academic journal of Africana philosophy established in 1998 * '' Polyglotta Africana'', an 1854 study comparing 156 African languages Other uses * Africana studies, the study of the histories, politics and cultures of peoples of African origin * Africana Museum (now MuseuMAfricA), historical museum in Johannesburg, South Africa * Africana (artifacts), cultural artifacts relating to African history and culture * Africana (coral), a genus of stony corals in the family Caryophylliidae * Africana (sheep), a breed of domesticated sheep found in Colombia and Venezuela * Galinha à Africana, a barbecued chicken dish of Portuguese origin * Hotel Africana, hotel in Kampala, Uganda * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australopithecus Africanus
''Australopithecus africanus'' is an extinct species of australopithecine which lived between about 3.3 and 2.1 million years ago in the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene of South Africa. The species has been recovered from Taung, Sterkfontein, Makapansgat, and Gladysvale. The first specimen, the Taung child, was described by anatomist Raymond Dart in 1924, and was the first early hominin found. However, its closer relations to humans than to other apes would not become widely accepted until the middle of the century because most had believed humans evolved outside of Africa. It is unclear how ''A. africanus'' relates to other hominins, being variously placed as ancestral to ''Homo'' and '' Paranthropus'', to just ''Paranthropus'', or to just '' P. robustus''. The specimen "Little Foot" is the most completely preserved early hominin, with 90% of the skeleton intact, and the oldest South African australopith. However, it is controversially suggested that it and similar speci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Africanus (journal)
''Africanus'' is a biannual academic journal published by University of South Africa, UNISA Press. The journal focuses on development problems with special reference to the Third World and Southern Africa. Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in Social Sciences Index, Ulrich's Periodical Directory, and African Urban and Regional Science Index. External linksOnline access to current articles on Sabinet 1971 establishments in South Africa African studies journals Biannual journals Development studies journals Multilingual journals Afrikaans-language journals English-language journals Academic journals established in 1971 {{Africa-journal-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Freeman Africanus King
Albert Freeman Africanus King (18 January 1841 – 13 December 1914) was an English-born American physician who was pressed into service at the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on 14 April 1865. He was one of a few physicians who served in both the Confederate States Army and the United States Army during the American Civil War. In addition, King was one of the earliest to suggest the connection between mosquitos and malaria. Early life On January 18, 1841, King was born in Ambrosden, a village near Bicester in the Cherwell District of north-eastern Oxfordshire in England. He was the youngest of three children of Edward King and Louisa Freeman. His sister was Stella Louisa Elizabeth King (born 1838) and brother was Claudius Edward Richard King (born 1839). His father was a doctor interested in the colonization of Africa. He was named Africanus "because of his father's admiration" for that continent. He attended Maley's School and the Bicester Diocesan School. His family left Live ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Africanus Horton
Africanus Horton (1835–1883), also known as James Beale, was a Krio African nationalist writer and an esteemed medical surgeon in the British Army from Freetown, Sierra Leone. Africanus Horton was a surgeon, scientist, soldier, and a political thinker who worked toward African independence a century before it occurred. In his varied career, he served as a physician, an officer in the British Army, a banker, and a mining entrepreneur. In addition, he wrote a number of books and essays, the most widely remembered of which is his 1868 ''Vindication of the African Race'', an answer to the white racist authors emerging in Europe. His writings look ahead to African self-government, anticipating many events of the 1950s and 1960s, and Horton is often seen as one of the founders of African nationalism and has been called "the father of modern African political thought". He wrote a book entitled ''West African Countries and Peoples'' (1868). A crater on Mercury is named after him. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Africanus
Joannes Leo Africanus (born al-Hasan Muhammad al-Wazzan, ar, الحسن محمد الوزان ; c. 1494 – c. 1554) was an Andalusian diplomat and author who is best known for his 1526 book '' Cosmographia et geographia de Affrica'', later published by Giovanni Battista Ramusio as '' Descrittione dell’Africa'' (''Description of Africa'') in 1550, centered on the geography of the Maghreb and Nile Valley. The book was regarded among his scholarly peers in Europe as the most authoritative treatise on the subject until the modern exploration of Africa. For this work, Leo became a household name among European geographers. He converted from Islam to Christianity and changed his name to Johannes Leo de Medicis (). Biography Most of what is known about his life is gathered from autobiographical notes in his own work. Leo Africanus was born as al-Hasan, son of Muhammad in Granada around the year 1494. The year of birth can be estimated from his self-reported age at the time of v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constantine The African
Constantine the African ( la, Constantinus Africanus; died before 1098/1099, Monte Cassino) was a physician who lived in the 11th century. The first part of his life was spent in Ifriqiya and the rest in Italy. He first arrived in Italy in the coastal town of Salerno, home of the Schola Medica Salernitana, where his work attracted attention from the local Lombard and Norman rulers. Constantine then became a Benedictine monk, living the last decades of his life at the abbey of Monte Cassino. It was in Italy where Constantine compiled his vast opus, mostly composed of translations from Arabic sources. He translated into Latin books of the great masters of Arabic medicine: Razes, Ibn Imran, Ibn Suleiman, and Ibn al-Jazzar; these translations are housed today in libraries in Italy, Germany, France, Belgium, and England. They were used as textbooks from the Middle Ages to the seventeenth century. The historians of Constantine The 12th-century monk Peter the Deacon is the first hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cresconius Africanus
Cresconius Africanus (Crisconius) was a Latin canon lawyer, of uncertain date and place. He flourished, probably, in the latter half of the 7th century. He was probably a Christian bishop of the African Church. Concordia canonum Cresconius made a collection of canons, known as ''Concordia canonum'', inclusive of the Apostolic Canons, nearly all the canons of the fourth- and fifth-century councils, and many papal decretals from the end of the fourth to the end of the fifth century. It was much used as a handy manual of ecclesiastical legislation by the churches of Africa and Gaul as late as the tenth century. Few of its manuscripts postdate that period. The content is taken from the collection of Dionysius Exiguus, but the division into titles (301) is copied from the ''Breviatio canonum'' of Fulgentius Ferrandus, a sixth-century deacon of Carthage. In many manuscripts the text of Cresconius is preceded by an index or table of contents (''breviarium'') of the titles, first edited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junillus Africanus
Junillus Africanus (''floruit'' 541–549) was Quaestor of the Sacred Palace (''quaestor sacri palatii'') in the court of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. He is best known for his work on biblical exegesis, ''Instituta regularia divinae legis''. According to M.L.W. Laistner, Junillus' work was based on the writings of one of the teachers of the School of Nisibis, Paul the Persian, and because Paul had been influenced by the writings of Theodore of Mopsuestia, Junillus' ''Instituta'' helped make Western theologians familiar with the Antiochene school of exegesis. Susan Stevens identifies Junillus with a kinsman of the aristocrat Venantia who had the same name; she was a correspondent of Fulgentius of Ruspe Fabius Claudius Gordianus Fulgentius, also known as Fulgentius of Ruspe (462 or 467 – 1 January 527 or 533) was North African Christian prelate who served as Bishop of Ruspe, in modern-day Tunisia, during the 5th and 6th century. He has been ca ..., and possibly a member of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
