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Calas (surname)
Calas is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Jean Calas (1698–1762), Protestant executed for his faith * Georges Calas (born 1948), French mineralogist *Nicolas Calas Nicolas Calas ( el, Νικόλαος Κάλας) (May 27, 1907 – December 31, 1988) was the pseudonym of Nikos Kalamaris (), a Greek-American poet and art critic. While living in Greece, he also used the pseudonyms Nikitas Randos () and M. Sp ... (1907–1988), Greek-American poet and art critic * Raoul Calas (1899–1978), French politician See also * Chalas (surname) {{surname, Calas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Calas
Jean Calas (1698 – 10 March 1762) was a merchant living in Toulouse, France, who was tried, tortured and executed for the murder of his son, despite his protestations of innocence. Calas was a Protestant in an officially Catholic society. Doubts about his guilt were raised by opponents of the Catholic Church and he was exonerated in 1764. In France, he became a symbolic victim of religious intolerance, along with François-Jean de la Barre and Pierre-Paul Sirven. Background Calas, along with his wife, was a Protestant. France was then a Catholic country; Catholicism was the state religion, with no legal right for individuals to practice different faiths. While the harsh oppression of Protestantism initiated by King Louis XIV had largely receded, Protestants were, at best, tolerated. Louis, one of Calas' sons, converted to Catholicism in 1756. Death of Marc-Antoine Calas left, The arrest of Calas. On 13–14 October 1761, another of the Calas sons, Marc-Antoine, was found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Calas
Georges Calas is professor of mineralogy (Emeritus) at Sorbonne Université and an honorary Senior Member of Institut Universitaire de France, University Institute of France. Education Calas was educated at the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud (now École normale supérieure de Lyon) where he graduated in natural sciences and at Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University where he received his doctorate. Career Prior to his appointment at Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University, Calas has been researcher at CNRS then full professor (1981–2001) at Paris Diderot University where he chaired the Department of Earth Sciences. He was elected Senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, University Institute of France (IUF) in 2007 and renewed in 2012. He has been Allan V. Cox, Allan Cox visiting professor at Stanford University and Royal Society visiting scientist at the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh. He made major scientific contributions over the past 4.5 decades in geochem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Calas
Nicolas Calas ( el, Νικόλαος Κάλας) (May 27, 1907 – December 31, 1988) was the pseudonym of Nikos Kalamaris (), a Greek-American poet and art critic. While living in Greece, he also used the pseudonyms Nikitas Randos () and M. Spieros (). Biography Nicolas Calas was born Nikos Kalamaris in Lausanne, Switzerland, May 27, 1907, but grew up in Athens, the only son of Ioannis Kalamaris who descended from a family of ship-owners and landowners from the island Syros, and Rosa Caradja who was the great-granddaughter of Markos Botsaris, the military leader and hero of the Greek War of Independence, and a descendant from the Phanariot Caradja family, a noble family which supplied high officials to the Ottoman Empire and rotating rulers to Danubian principalities. Calas later rebelled against his wealthy family background by becoming a Trotskyist, strongly influenced in his turn to radical politics by witnessing the human tragedy of the refugees of the 1922 Asia Minor catas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raoul Calas
Raoul Calas (25 March 1899, Thézan-lès-Béziers Thézan-lès-Béziers (, ''Thézan Lès, near Béziers''; Languedocien dialect, Languedocien: ''Tesan de Besièrs'') is a Communes of France, commune in the Hérault Departments of France, department in the Occitania (administrative region), Occi ... - 23 December 1978) was a French politician. He represented the French Communist Party in the Constituent Assembly elected in 1945, in the Constituent Assembly elected in 1946 and in the National Assembly from 1946 to 1951 and from 1956 to 1958. References 1899 births 1978 deaths People from Hérault French Communist Party politicians Members of the Constituent Assembly of France (1945) Members of the Constituent Assembly of France (1946) Deputies of the 1st National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic Deputies of the 3rd National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic Members of Parliament for Hérault French military personnel of World War I French military pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
