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Cerf (surname)
Cerf or Le Cerf is a French-language surname, derived from ''cerf'', meaning "hind", "hart" or "deer". It is common for both Christians and Jews, an equivalent of Naphtali, to which the meaning of "hind" is attributed , and is thus also the equivalent of the same name translated into other European languages, for example Hirsch in German and Jellinek in Czech. Notable people with this surname include the following: * Bennett Cerf (1898–1971), publisher and co-founder of Random House ** Jonathan Cerf, his son, author of ''Big Bird's Red Book'' and the 1980 world champion of Othello, the board game * Camille Cerf (journalist) (a man, 1862 – 1936), Belgian journalist and camera operator who worked for the Lumière brothers as of 1895 * Camille Cerf (a woman, born 1994), recipient of the Miss France 2015 award * Cécile Cerf (1916–1973), French resistance fighter * Christopher Cerf (musician and television producer) (born 1941), American author, composer-lyricist, and recor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Language
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French ( Francien) largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the ( Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French. French is an official language in 29 countries across multiple continents, most of which are members of the ''Organisation internationale de la Francophonie'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Le Cerf
Ferdinand Le Cerf (3 October 1881, Paris – 1945, Paris) was a French entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He was a ''préparateur'' or technician in the entomological laboratories of Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris (where his collections are preserved). He wrote three volumes on Lepidoptera in the '' Encyclopedie Entomologique'' (Lechevalier Paris 1926, 1927 and 1929) and many scientific papers in the ''Bulletin of the Société entomologique de France The Société entomologique de France, or French Entomological Society, is devoted to the study of insects. The society was founded in 1832 in Paris, France. The society was created by eighteen Parisian entomologists on January 31, 1832. The first ...'' of which he was a member. A room within the Paris Museum was until recently dedicated to him, but was disassembled in the 2010s. References * Anonymous (1945). e Cerf, F.''Graellsia''. 3: 173. * Anonymous (1945). e Cerf, F.''Entomological News''. 56: 259 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerfbeer
Cerfbeer, Cerf Beer or Cerfberr is a French-language Jewish surname derived from the names Cerf and Beer. Notable people with this surname include the following: * Herz Cerfbeer of Medelsheim (or Cerf Beer), otherwise Naphtali Ben Dov-Beer (1730–1793), Alsatian-French Jewish philanthropist * Samson Cerfberr of Medelsheim Samson Cerfberr of Medelsheim (born at Strasburg about 1780; committed suicide at Paris, 1826) was a French soldier and author. Life A French Jew and relative of Herz Cerfbeer of Medelsheim, he was born in Strasbourg, France, and held office ... ( – 1826), Alsatian-French Jewish soldier and author * Frédéric Cerfberr (1786–1842), Alsatian-French Jewish diplomat * Max-Théodore Cerfbeer (1792–1876), French Jewish military officer * Maximilien Charles Alphonse Cerfberr of Medelsheim (1817–1883), French Jewish journalist, writer * Auguste Édouard Cerfberr (1811–1858), French Jewish author * Anatole Cerfberr (1835–1896), French Jewish journa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vint Cerf
Vinton Gray Cerf (; born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of " the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Bob Kahn. He has received honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award,Cerf wins Turing Award February 16, 2005 the ,2005 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients from the White House webs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllis Cerf
Phyllis Cerf Wagner (born Helen Brown Nichols; April 13, 1916 – November 24, 2006), also known as Phyllis Fraser, was an American socialite, writer, publisher, and actress. She was a co-founder of Beginner Books. Early life Fraser was born Helen Brown Nichols in Kansas City, Missouri. Her mother was Verda Virginia Clendenin (née Owens), daughter of Walter and Saphrona Owens (née Ball), who were of Welsh ancestry. Her two maternal aunts were Jean Owens, wife of radio actor Vinton Hayworth (uncle of Rita Hayworth), and Lela (Owens) McMath, mother of Ginger Rogers. Not long after her birth, her mother moved to Oklahoma City, where Fraser resided until age 16.People: "Chris & Genevieve Cerf: She's Throwing Off Her Chains, but the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas J
Nicolas or Nicolás may refer to: People Given name * Nicolas (given name) Mononym * Nicolas (footballer, born 1999), Brazilian footballer * Nicolas (footballer, born 2000), Brazilian footballer Surname Nicolas * Dafydd Nicolas (c.1705–1774), Welsh poet * Jean Nicolas (1913–1978), French international football player * Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1799–1848), English antiquary * Paul Nicolas (1899–1959), French international football player * Robert Nicolas (1595–1667), English politician Nicolás * Adolfo Nicolás (1936–2020), Superior General of the Society of Jesus * Eduardo Nicolás (born 1972), Spanish former professional tennis player Other uses * Nicolas (wine retailer), a French chain of wine retailers * ''Le Petit Nicolas'', a series of children's books by René Goscinny See also * San Nicolás (other) * Nicholas (other) * Nicola (other) * Nikola Nikola () is a given name which, like Nicholas, is a version of the Greek ''Nikolaos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muriel Cerf
Muriel Cerf (4 June 1950 – 19 May 2012) was a French novelist and travel writer. Her first book, ''L'Antivoyage'', was inspired by her travels in Southeast Asia, and was a major critical success. She was awarded the Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud in 1975 for ''Le Diable vert''. Selected works *''L'Antivoyage'' (1974) *''Le Diable vert'' (1975) *''Marie Tiefenthaler'' (1982) *''Julia M. ou le Premier Regard'' (1991) *''La Petite Culotte'' (2005) References Sources * France, Peter (Ed.) (1995). ''The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French.'' Oxford: Clarendon Press. . 1950 births 2012 deaths Writers from Paris 20th-century French novelists 21st-century French novelists French travel writers École du Louvre alumni 20th-century French women writers Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 21st-century French women writers Women travel writers {{France-novelist-20thC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Friedrich Cerf
Karl Friedrich Cerf (27 February 1771, Unter-Eisenheim-on-the-Main, Landkreis Würzburg, Germany - 6 November 1845, Berlin) was a German theatrical manager. Cerf was born Jewish but embraced Christianity when very young. He had to support his father's family when only 17 years old. After having been engaged for many years in the horse trade at Dessau, he rose to the post of chief military agent, and in this capacity took part in the campaign of 1813-15, under Count Peter Wittgenstein, general of the Imperial Russian army. The courage and fidelity displayed by Cerf won for him the favor of Emperor Alexander I, who conferred on him a gold medal. Cerf then settled at Berlin, and in 1822 obtained from Friedrich Wilhelm III a perpetual grant for the erection of the ''Königsstädtisches Theater''. The theater opened on 4 August 1824 in the street ''Alexanderstraße''. It was devoted to French comedy and Italian opera. Cerf managed it until his death. His son Rudolf Cerf was also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Laurent Le Cerf De La Viéville
Jean-Laurent Le Cerf de La Viéville, seigneur de Fresneuse, (born 1674 in Rouen where he died 9 November 1707) was a French magistrate and musicographer. Le Cerf de La Viéville entered the magistracy and became keeper of the seals of the Parliament of Normandy. Works He is the author of some polemical writings on musical, historical and literary questions including: * ''Comparaison de la musique italienne et de la musique française, où, en examinant en détail les avantages des spectacles et le mérite des deux nations, on montre quelles sont les vraies beautés de la musique''; Brussels, 1704 and 1705, in-12, two parts containing: ** ''Réfutation du Parallèle des Italiens et des Français, published in 1702 by abbot Raguenet'', ** ''Recueil de vers chantants et trois nouveaux Dialogues, dans lesquels sont renfermés une histoire de la musique et des opéras''; ''Vie de Lully''; ''Réfutation du Traité de Perrault sur la musique des anciens'', and ''Traité du bon goût ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerf Theory
In mathematics, at the junction of singularity theory and differential topology, Cerf theory is the study of families of smooth real-valued functions :f\colon M \to \R on a smooth manifold M, their generic singularities and the topology of the subspaces these singularities define, as subspaces of the function space. The theory is named after Jean Cerf, who initiated it in the late 1960s. An example Marston Morse proved that, provided M is compact, any smooth function f\colon M \to \R can be approximated by a Morse function. Thus, for many purposes, one can replace arbitrary functions on M by Morse functions. As a next step, one could ask, 'if you have a one-parameter family of functions which start and end at Morse functions, can you assume the whole family is Morse?' In general, the answer is no. Consider, for example, the one-parameter family of functions on M=\mathbb R given by :f_t(x)=(1/3)x^3-tx. At time t=-1, it has no critical points, but at time t=1, it is a Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Cerf
Jean Cerf (born in 1928) is a French mathematician, specializing in topology. Education and career Jean Cerf was born in Strasbourg, France, in 1928. He studied at the École Normale Supérieure, graduating in sciences in 1947. After passing his ''agrégation'' in mathematics in 1950, he obtained a doctorate with thesis supervised by Henri Cartan. Cerf became a ''maître de conférences'' at the University of Lille and was later appointed a professor at the University of Paris XI. He was also a director of research at CNRS. Cerf's research deals with differential topology, cobordism, and symplectic topology. In 1966 he was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in Moscow. In 1968 Cerf proved that every orientation-preserving diffeomorphism of S^3 is isotopic to the identity.J. Cerf, Sur les difféomorphismes de la sphère de dimension trois (Γ4=0), Lecture Notes in Mathematics, No. 53. Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York 1968. (See Cerf theory.) In 1970 Cerf proved the pseudo-isotopy theo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Zerffi
George Gustav (or Gustavus) Zerffi, born with the surname Cerf or perhaps Hirsch (21 May 1820 – January 28, 1892) was a journalist, revolutionist and spy. Biography Born in Hungary, Zerffi was educated in Budapest. He became a journalist at the age of eighteen. He was the author of ''Wiener Lichtbilder und Schattenspiele,'' with twelve caricatures (Vienna, 1848); and as editor of the liberal ''Der Ungar'' (Reform) in 1848, he became conspicuous by his attacks upon the Germans and the imperial family. With Csernatoni, Stancsits, Zanetti, Steinitz, and others he set the tone for the revolutionists, and in 1848 he was József Schweidel's captain and adjutant in the Honvéd army. He also acted for a time as Kossuth's private secretary. On the failure of the revolution he fled to Belgrade (1849) where he entered the service of the French consul. By this time, however, he had become a member of the Austrian secret service, reporting on Hungarian émigré activities (and even o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
