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Charlier Institute
Charlier may refer to: People * Anna Charlier, fiancée of North pole explorer Nils Strindberg * Carl Charlier (1862–1934), Swedish astronomer * Cédric Charlier, Belgian field hockey player * Guillaume Charlier (1854–1925), Belgian sculptor * Henri Charlier (1883–1975), French painter and sculptor * Jean-Joseph Charlier (1794–1886), Belgian artisan and revolutionary * Jean-Michel Charlier (1924–1989), Belgian scriptwriter and comic book author * Joseph Charlier (1816–1896), Belgian self-described jurist, writer, accountant and merchant * Léopold Charlier (1867–1936), Belgian violinist and music teacher * Olivier Charlier (born 1961), French violinist * Philippe Charlier (born 1977), French coroner, forensic pathologist and paleopathologist * Roger Charlier (1921–2018), Belgian Second World War resistance fighter, member of the prosecuting team at the Nuremberg trials and oceanographer Other uses * Charlier (lunar crater) named after Carl Charlier * Charlier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Charlier
Anna Albertina Constantia Charlier (/'ʃaljə/) ) (25 July 1871, Norra Åby, Skåne County, Norra Åby, Skåne County, Sweden – 1949) was a Sweden, Swedish woman, today most commonly remembered as the fiancée of Nils Strindberg, participant in the S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897, North Pole expedition of Salomon August Andrée, S. A. Andrée in 1897. Before the expedition Anna Charlier was one of eleven siblings and lost her parents early. She worked as a governess and met Nils Strindberg, who was a houseteacher for one of the families she worked for. She played the piano, he the violin. Anna and Nils Strindberg became engaged on 26 October 1896, eight months before the expedition left for Svalbard. After the expedition The expedition was not heard of in the following years and was presumed to have ended in disaster. Anna emigrated to the United States in 1910 and married Gilbert Henry Conserray Hawtrey. They moved to England in 1914. Miss Ulla Strindberg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Charlier
Carl Vilhelm Ludwig Charlier (1 April 1862 – 4 November 1934) was a Swedish astronomer. His parents were Emmerich Emanuel and Aurora Kristina (née Hollstein) Charlier. Career Charlier was born in Östersund. He received his Ph.D. from Uppsala University in 1887, later worked there and at the Stockholm Observatory and was Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Observatory at Lund University from 1897. He made extensive statistical studies of the stars in our galaxy and their positions and motions, and tried to develop a model of the galaxy based on this. He proposed the siriometer as a unit of stellar distance. Charlier was also interested in pure statistics and played a role in the development of statistics in Swedish academia. Several of his pupils became statisticians, working at universities and in government and companies. Related to his work on galactic structure, he also developed a cosmological theory based on the work of Johann Heinrich Lambert. In the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cédric Charlier
Cédric Daniel André Charlier (born 27 November 1987) is a Belgian field hockey player who plays as a forward for Racing Club de Bruxelles and the Belgian national team. Club career Charlier started playing hockey at Uccle and played there until he was 19 years old, when he went to Racing Bruxelles. In July 2019, he made a transfer to Dragons. After he won the Belgian national title with Dragons in the 2020–21 season he returned to Racing. In his first season back at Racing he won the league title again. International career At the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics, he competed for the national team in the men's tournament. At the 2016 Olympics, he was part of the Belgian men's team that won the silver medal. Charlier also won silver with Belgium at the 2013 EuroHockey Championship on home ground in Boom and at the 2017 EuroHockey Championships in Amstelveen. In 2019, he finally won a gold medal at the European championships. On 25 May 2021, he was selected in the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillaume Charlier
Guillaume Charlier (1854–1925) was a Belgian sculptor, most of whose works are now kept in the Charlier Museum in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode. Life Charlier was born in Ixelles, the eldest son of a large family. He was 15 years old in 1870 when his father died and he was obliged to become the family's breadwinner. In 1880, Henri Van Cutsem, an art collector and patron of artists, bought his first works. Charlier spent some months in Italy where he came into contact with ancient art. He was also interested in the ordinary man in the street. He was also a portraitist. He was a member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and became a member of the Groupe des XX in 1885, when the sculptor Jef Lambeaux Jef Lambeaux or Josef Lambeaux (14 January 18525 June 1908) was a Belgian sculptor. His best known work is '' Temple of Human Passions'', a colossal marble bas-relief. Early life and education Lambeaux was born in Antwerp, Belgium, on 14 January ... resigned from it. In 1904 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Charlier
Henri Charlier (19 April 1883 – 24 December 1975) was a French painter and sculptor, noted for his religious art. He also wrote essays on art and music. Early years Henri Charlier was born in the Montmartre quarter of Paris on 19 April 1883. His father, Charles Charlier, was a freemason and strongly anti-Catholic. Henri was not baptized and was raised without any religious instruction. He began to study the piano when he was eight, and music would always be an important part of his life. He attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly for his secondary education. During his childhood and adolescence he would spend his summer vacations with his maternal grandparents Clovis and Nathalie Bidet, winemakers at Cheny, Yonne. Painter He completed his first oil painting in 1899. In 1901 he studied law for a year in accordance with his father's wishes, but had no interest in the subject. He thought of becoming a historian, but then decided on Fine Arts. In 1902 he entered the studio of Jean-Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Joseph Charlier
Jean-Joseph Charlier (15 April 179430 March 1886) was a Belgian artisan and revolutionary who became an iconic figure in the Belgian Revolution. His participation as an amputee in the fighting near Brussels Park during the Dutch attack on Brussels in September 1830 was widely praised, and he gained the nickname Wooden Leg (french: Jambe de Bois). Biography Charlier was born in Liège on 15 April 1794. He worked as a weaver before enlisting in the French ''Grande Armée'' and served as an artilleryman. He is believed to have been wounded at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and had one of his legs was amputated. He subsequently lived with a wooden pegleg. After the outbreak of the Belgian Revolution on 25 August 1830, Charlier was among the 250 volunteers from Liège who left on 3 September to defend Brussels against an attack by a Dutch Army under Prince Frederick. He participated in fighting during the so-called September Days (''Journées de séptembre'') from 23 to 26 September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Michel Charlier
Jean-Michel Charlier (; 30 October 1924 – 10 July 1989) was a Belgian comics writer. He was a co-founder of the famed Franco-Belgian comics magazine ''Pilote''. Life Charlier was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1924.De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Jean-Michel Charlier". In België gestript, . Tielt: Lannoo. In 1945 he got a job as a draughtsman in Brussels with World Press, the syndicate of Georges Troisfontaines, which worked mainly for '' Spirou'' magazine. The following year he and artist Victor Hubinon created the four-page comic strip ''L'Agonie du Bismarck''. Charlier wrote the script and also drew the ships and airplanes. In 1947, Charlier and Hubinon began the long-running air-adventure comic strip ''Buck Danny''. After a few years, Charlier stopped all work on the drawings and concentrated only on the scenarios, on the advice of Jijé, then the senior artist at ''Spirou''. Unable to support himself writing comic scripts at a time when Dupuis concentrated almost solely on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Charlier
Joseph Charlier (20 June 1816 – 6 December 1896) was a Belgian self-described jurist, writer, accountant, and merchant. He was one of the earliest proponents of a citizen's income or guaranteed minimum income, preceding even the "state bonus" scheme published by British Dennis Milner (1892–1956) in 1920. Charlier was influenced by Charles Fourier. According to John Stuart Mill, Fourierism required that "in the distribution, a certain minimum is first assigned for the subsistence of every member of the community, whether capable or not of labour." Fourier and his foremost disciple Victor Prosper Considérant Victor Prosper Considerant (12 October 1808 – 27 December 1893) was a French utopian socialist philosopher and economist who was a disciple of Charles Fourier. Biography Considerant was born in Salins-les-Bains, Jura and studied at the Éco ... criticized civilization for failing to provide a minimum to the poor, but feared widespread idleness and a collapsing c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léopold Charlier
Léopold Charlier (November 8, 1867 – July 23, 1936) was a Belgian violinist and music teacher. Biography Léopold Charlier graduated from the Liège Conservatory (1888) in the class of Rodolphe Massart, nephew of the well-known Belgian violinist Lambert Massart. In 1887 he debuted as a soloist. Between 1892 and 1897, he led an amateur orchestra in Liège. From 1894 until the end of his life, he headed the well-known string quartet in the city who performed, in particular, the premiere of the first quartet of Joseph Jongen on March 6, 1895. From 1900 to 1906, he led the choir in Malmedy and from 1910 until the end of his life headed the city symphony orchestra. From 1898 to 1932, Charlier taught at the Liège Conservatory. Charlier is best known for his 1911 arrangement of the Chaconne in G minor by Tomaso Antonio Vitali. Although Charlier based his version on a previous arrangement by Ferdinand David Ferdinand is a Germanic name composed of the elements "protecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivier Charlier
Olivier Charlier (born 17 February 1961) is a French classical violinist. He plays on a violin by Carlo Bergonzi dated 1747. Biography Charlier was born in Albert, Somme and admitted at the age of 10 to the Conservatoire de Paris where he attracted attention from professionals in the field and earned a scholarship from Yehudi Menuhin and Henryk Szeryng in 1976. He received top prizes at many international competitions including:1st place in Munich at 17, Montreal at 18, the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki at 19, the two great French competitions Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition (2nd grand prize) and Georges Enesco of the SACEM at 20, the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis (4th prize) at 21, and first place at the Young Concert Artists International Audition in New York in 1989 at the age of 28. He is primarily known as a soloist. References Bibliography * , "Olivier Charlier", in Patrick Cabanel Patrick Cabanel (born 22 Februar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Charlier
Philippe Charlier is a French coroner, forensic pathologist and paleopathologist. Biography Charlier was born in Meaux on 25 June 1977. His father is a doctor, his mother a pharmacist. He made his first dig at the age of 10, when he found a human skull. He studied archaeology and art history at the Michelet Institute and was part of the forensic department at Raymond Poincaré University Hospital.. His work has focused on the study of the remains of Richard Lionheart, Agnès Sorel, Fulk III, Count of Anjou, Diane de Poitiers, relics of Louis IX scattered in France, false relics of Joan of Arc Joan of Arc (french: link=yes, Jeanne d'Arc, translit= an daʁk} ; 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronati ..., and the presumed head of Henry IV.. In 2017, he reconfirmed the authenticity of Adolf Hitler's dental remains. References 1977 bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Charlier
Roger Henri Louise Lievin Constance Charlier (10 November 1921, Antwerp, Belgium – 16 September 2018, Etterbeek, Belgium) was a Belgian resistance fighter, member of the prosecuting team at the Nuremberg trials, and oceanographer. His marriage to American Captain Marie Helen Glennon and administrative difficulties regarding his residency in the US was dramatised in the film ''I Was a Male War Bride'', with Cary Grant as Charlier. Early life and Second World War Charlier's paternal grandparents were from Wallonia and his maternal grandparents were from Flanders. He started out as a teacher at a secondary school in the early 1940s. During the Second World War, he was commissioned on 15 February 1945 and demobilised on 31 October 1945. He was briefly imprisoned by the Germans. After his release, he commanded a unit in Limburg. Working for the Belgian Ministry of Justice, he became a member of the prosecuting team for the Belgian and Luxembourg delegation to the Nuremberg trials ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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