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Blondel (surname)
Blondel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * André Blondel (1863–1938), French scientist and engineer * Antoine Blondel (1795–1886), French politician * David Blondel (1591–1655), French Protestant clergyman and scholar * François Blondel (1618–1686), French mathematician and engineer, author of ''Cours d'Architecture'' * Georges Blondel (1856–1948), French historian * Henri Blondel (1821–1897), French architect * Jacques-François Blondel (1705–1774), French architect * Jean Blondel (1929–2022), French political scientist * Jean-François Blondel (1683–1756), French architect * Jonathan Blondel (born 1984), Belgian footballer * Louis Blondel (1885–1967), Swiss archaeologist * Maurice Blondel (1861–1949), French Catholic philosopher * Vincent Blondel Vincent Daniel Blondel (born April 28, 1965) is a Belgian professor of applied mathematics and current rector of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and a visiting professor at the Massa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Blondel
André-Eugène Blondel (28 August 1863 – 15 November 1938) was a French engineer and physicist. He is the inventor of the electromechanical oscillograph and a system of photometric units of measurement. Life Blondel was born in Chaumont, Haute-Marne, France. His father was a magistrate from an old family in the town of Dijon. He was the best student from the town in his year. He went on to attend the École nationale des ponts et chaussées (School of Bridges and Roadways) and graduated first in his class in 1888. He was employed as an engineer by the Lighthouses and Beacons Service until he retired in 1927 as its general first class inspector.See IEEE Industry Applications Magazine May–June 2004 He became a professor of electrotechnology at the School of Bridges and Highways and the School of Mines in Paris.See Hebrew University of Jerusalem Very early in his career he suffered immobility due to a paralysis of his legs, which confined him to his room for 27 years, but he n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Blondel
Antoine Philippe Léon Blondel (16 November 1795 – 27 April 1886) was a French politician who was briefly Minister of Finance in the last cabinet of the French Second Republic. Life Antoine Léon Philippe Blondel was born in Paris on 16 November 1795. He followed an administrative career. During the July Monarchy he was made a knight of the Legion of Honour on 1 January 1834, officer on 12 March 1837 and commander on 14 April 1844. In 1844 he was a counselor of state and director general of the forest administration. Blondel was appointed Minister of Finance on 26 October 1851. On 23 November 1851 François-Xavier Joseph de Casabianca was transferred from the ministry of Agriculture to that of Finance. In the Second French Empire The Second French Empire (; officially the French Empire, ), was the 18-year Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 14 January 1852 to 27 October 1870, between the Second and the Third Republic of France. Historians in the 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Blondel
David Blondel (1591 – 6 April 1655) was a French Protestant clergyman, historian and classical scholar. Life He was born at Châlons-en-Champagne. Ordained in 1614, he had positions as parish priest at Houdan and Roucy. After 1644, he was relieved of duties, and supported free to study full-time. In 1650 he succeeded GJ Vossius in the professorship of history at the university of Amsterdam. His students included Francis Turretin, and Johann Georg Graevius. Works His works were very numerous. In some of them he took a strong critical line with mythological and counterfeit material current as fact in the early modern period. This brought him the admiration of major Enlightenment intellectuals. Jonathan Israel writes: ...the real work of discrediting and disposing of the '' Oracula Sibyllina'', Chaldean chronicles, and Orphic hymns, ... seemingly only began, as Diderot noted in 1751, in the 1650s when the Huguenot scholar David Blondel ... published his treatise on the ''O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Blondel
François Blondel ( June 1618 – 21 January 1686) was a soldier, engineer of fortifications, mathematician, diplomat, military and civil engineer and architect, called "the Great Blondel", to distinguish him in a dynasty of French architects. He is remembered for his ''Cours d'architecture'' which remained a central text for over a century. His precepts placed him in opposition with Claude Perrault in the larger culture war A culture war is a cultural conflict between social groups and the struggle for dominance of their values, beliefs, and practices. It commonly refers to topics on which there is general societal disagreement and polarization in societal valu ... known under the heading ''Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns, Querelle des anciens et des modernes''. If François Blondel was not the most highly reputed among the ''académiciens'' of his day, his were the writings that most generally circulated among the general public, the ''Cours de Mathématiques'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Blondel
Georges Blondel (8 March 1856 – 31 July 1948) was a French historian, specialising in the history of Germany and Austria before 1914. Born in 1856 in Dijon, France, Blondel received his doctorate in 1881 and in 1894 was named professor of letters at Lille University. He died in 1948 in Paris.After receiving his doctorate in 1881 and the rank of agrégé (highest teaching degree) in 1883, he was appointed to a chair of law at Lyon in 1884 and 10 years later was named professor of letters at Lille. He later taught at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales and the Collège de France The Collège de France (), formerly known as the ''Collège Royal'' or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment ('' grand établissement'') in France. It is located in Paris n ... in Paris. Published works *''L'Ouvrier allemand'' (1899; ''The German Worker'') *''L'Essor industriel et commercial du peuple allemand'' (1898; ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Blondel
Jean Henry Blondel (20 January 1821 – 14 September 1897) was a prolific French architect. Among his works were the Passage du Bourg l'Abbé entrance on the Rue Palestro (1863), the La Belle Jardinière store on Rue du Pont-Neuf (1866-7), Hotel Continental at the corner of Rue de Castiglione and Rue de Rivoli (1876), the Bourse de commerce building (1885-9) and the Rue du Louvre building at 15 Rue du Louvre (1889). Biography Blondel was born in Rheims early in 1821, during the period of economic hardships that followed the Napoleonic Wars. He was a pupil at the School of Arts and Crafts (''École des arts et métiers'') as it was then known) in nearby Châlons-sur-Marne, before moving to Paris where he embarked on an apprenticeship under Auguste Caristie. He continued his training period, working for the architect François Rolland (1806-1888), and then went on to work for Henri Labrouste (1801-1875) before establishing his own architecture practice around 1855. Blon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques-François Blondel
Jacques-François Blondel (8 January 1705 – 9 January 1774) was an 18th-century French architect and teacher. After running his own highly successful school of architecture for many years, he was appointed Professor of Architecture at the Académie Royale d'Architecture in 1762, and his ''Cours d'architecture'' ("Course of Architecture", 1771–1777) largely superseded a similarly titled book published in 1675 by his famous namesake, François Blondel, who had occupied the same post in the late 17th century. Career Born in Rouen, he initially trained under his uncle Jean-François Blondel (1683–1756), architect of Rouen. Jacques-François was in Paris by 1726 and continued his studies with Gilles-Marie Oppenord, from whom he acquired a knowledge of rococo. He also worked with Jean Mariette, contributing to the latter's ''L'Architecture françoise'' (1727, 1738), as a writer and as an architectural engraver. Blondel developed into a conservative and thorough architect, whos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Blondel
Jean Blondel (26 October 1929 – 25 December 2022) was a French political scientist specialising in comparative politics. He was Emeritus Professor at the European University Institute in Florence, and visiting professor at the University of Siena. Biography Blondel graduated the Institut d'Études Politiques of Paris in 1953 and then attended St Antony's College at Oxford University from 1953 to 1955. After graduating with a B.Litt, he had returned to France for his military service and only then could conclude his studies on central and local government at Manchester University. Blondel became a lecturer at the University College of North Staffordshire (now Keele University) from 1958 to 1963, a fellow at Yale University in 1963-4 and then moved to the University of Essex in 1964, where he founded the Department of Government. In 1969, he helped found the European Consortium for Political Research and directed it for ten years following its foundation meeting in 1970. He le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-François Blondel
Jean-François Blondel (1683 – 9 October 1756) was an 18th-century French architect. Biography Born in Rouen, Blondel was admitted in the Académie d'architecture in 1728. He was the master and uncle of Jacques-François. He also had another nephew as a student, Jean-Baptiste Michel Vallin de la Mothe, whom he took in his agency on his return from Rome. Main realisations * Maison Mallet, Geneva, 1724. * Maison de Saussure, , 1724-1730. * , 1736-1740 * , 1741-1747 (destroyed in 1944) * Hôtel des gardes du Roi, Versailles The Palace of Versailles ( ; french: Château de Versailles ) is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 1995 has been managed, ..., 1750-1754 Genthod campagne Creux-de-Genthod 2011-09-25 09 54 32 PICT4924.JPG, Morlaix (29) Manufacture des tabacs 03.jpg, References Bibliography * * External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Blon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Blondel
Jonathan Blondel (born 3 April 1984) is a retired Belgian footballer who last played as a midfielder for Club Brugge. Career Excelsior Mouscron Blondel started his career at Excelsior Mouscron, making his league debut as a substitute on a 1–0 loss against RSC Charleroi on 7 September 2001, making a total of 18 league appearances in the season. Blondel also helped Mouscron to finish as runners-up at the 2001–02 Belgian Cup, scoring the equaliser in their subsequent defeat by Club Brugge and helping his team to qualify for the 2002–03 UEFA Cup Tottenham Hotspur Blondel was signed by Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur on 7 August 2002, having rejected a move to Manchester United earlier in the year. He made his Premier League debut on 31 August 2002 as a substitute in a 2–1 win against Southampton at the age of 18 years and 150 days. Lacking first-team football and being relegated to the reserve team, Blondel considered to ask a loan move to Belgium. Royal Excelsior Mous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Blondel
Louis Blondel (24 November 1885, in Geneva – 17 January 1967) was a Swiss archaeologist, the first director of the cantonal archaeological service in Geneva, as well as one of the founders of Scouting in Switzerland. He served as Federal Scout Leader in 1934. Blondel also participated in local politics as administrative adviser of his town, Lancy, for 28 years. He was a member of the Liberal Party (right). During World War I he served as a first lieutenant in Battalion 13 of the Swiss Armed Forces, and he served in the "local guards" in Geneva during World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin .... Married to Claire Bonnard in 1920, he had two children. See also References Scouting and Guiding in Switzerland 1885 births 1967 deaths {{Switzerlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Blondel
Maurice Blondel (; 2 November 1861 – 4 June 1949) was a French philosopher, whose most influential works, notably ''L'Action'', aimed at establishing the correct relationship between autonomous philosophical reasoning and Christian belief. Biography Blondel was born in Dijon in 1861. He came from a family who were traditionally connected to the legal profession, but chose early in life to follow a career in philosophy. In 1881, he gained admission to the École Normale Supérieure of Paris. In 1893 he finished his thesis "L'Action" (Action), a critical essay of life and of a science of the practice. He was at this time refused a teaching post (as would have been his due) because his philosophical conclusions were deemed to be too Christian and, therefore, "compromising" of philosophical reason. In 1895, however, with the help of his former teacher Émile Boutroux, he became a ''Maître de Conférences'' at Lille, then shortly after at Aix-en-Provence, where he became a professo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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