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Castel (surname)
Castel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre (1658–1743), French writer * Jean-Gabriel Castel (1928–2023), Canadian law professor * Louis Bertrand Castel (1688–1757), French mathematician * Moshe Castel (1909–1991), Israeli artist * P. Kevin Castel (born 1950), U.S. District Judge, Southern District of New York * René Richard Louis Castel (1758–1832), French poet and naturalist * Robert Castel (1933–2013), French sociologist See also * Castel (other) * Castle (surname) * Castillo (surname) Castillo is a Spanish surname meaning "castle". The Portuguese version of this surname is Castilho. People Notable people with the surname include: Actors, singers, musicians *Alberto Castillo (performer) (1914–2002), Argentine tango singer ... {{surname, Castel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles-Irénée Castel De Saint-Pierre
Charles-Irénée Castel, abbé de Saint-Pierre (18 February 1658 – 29 April 1743) was a French author whose ideas were novel for his times. His proposal of an international organisation to maintain peace was perhaps the first in history, with the possible exceptions of George of Poděbrady's '' Tractatus'' (1462–1464) and Émeric Crucé. He influenced Rousseau and Kant. Biography Saint-Pierre was born at the château of Saint-Pierre-Église near Cherbourg, where his father, the Marquis de Saint-Pierre, was ''grand bailli'' of Cotentin. He was educated by the Jesuits. The youngest of five children and unsuited to a military career owing to poor health, he became a priest. He was introduced by family connections into the salons of Madame de la Fayette and the Marquise de Lambert in Paris. He was elected to the Académie française in 1695, although he had previously produced no notable work; his election was an episode in the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns, Sain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Gabriel Castel
Jean-Gabriel Castel (born 17 September 1928) is a French and Canadian law professor and Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University,Toronto. Biography Born in Nice, France, he served in the French Resistance during World War II receiving military decorations for his service. After the war, he received two law degrees in Paris. He was one of the first foreign Fulbright scholars. He received a J.D. in 1953 from the University of Michigan and a D. Juris. in 1958 from Harvard University. From 1954 to 1959, he taught at the Faculty of Law of McGill University, where he served as the first Faculty Advisor to the ''McGill Law Journal''. In 1959, he moved to Osgoode Hall Law School and taught there until his retirement in 1999. From 1957 to 1984, he was editor-in-chief of the ''Canadian Bar Review''. He is the author of ''Canadian Conflict of Laws'', the leading Canadian work on the conflict of laws. In 1985, he was made an Officer of the O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Bertrand Castel
Louis Bertrand Castel (5 November 1688 – 11 January 1757) was a French mathematician born in Montpellier, who entered the order of the Jesuits in 1703. Having studied literature, he afterwards devoted himself entirely to mathematics and natural philosophy. After moving from Toulouse to Paris in 1720, at the behest of Bernard de Fontenelle, Castel acted as the science editor of the Jesuit ''Journal de Trévoux''. He wrote several scientific works, that which attracted most attention at the time being his ''Optique des couleurs'' (1740), or treatise on the melody of colours. He also wrote ''Traité de physique sur la pesanteur universelle des corps'' (1724), ''Mathématique universelle'' (1728), and a critical account of the system of Sir Isaac Newton in 1743. Philosophical approach Castel wrote on areas as wide-ranging as physics, mathematics, morals, aesthetics, theology and history. His philosophical approach attempted to reconcile fields and viewpoints. Castel based much of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moshe Castel
Moshe Castel ( he, משה קסטל; 1909 – December 12, 1991) was an Israeli painter. Biography Moshe Elazar Castel born in Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine, in 1909, to Rabbi Yehuda Castel and his wife Rachel. The family was descended from Spanish Jews from Castile who immigrated to the Holy Land after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. His father was born in Hebron. He opened religious schools for Sephardi boys in the Nahalat Shiv'a and Bukharim quarters of Jerusalem. Moshe grew up in the Bukharim neighborhood, where he attended his father's school. At the age of 13, he was accepted to the Bezalel Art School, directed by Boris Schatz, where he studied from 1921 to 1925. His teacher, Shmuel Ben David, encouraged him to study art in Paris. Castel traveled to Paris in 1927, where he attended Académie Julian and Ecole du Louvre. He sat in the Louvre copying the works of Rembrandt, Velasquez, Delacroix and Courbet, intrigued by their paint-layering techniques ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Richard Louis Castel
René Richard Louis Castel (6 October 1758 in Vire – 15 June 1832 in Reims) was a French poet and naturalist. The genus '' Castela'' was named after him, honoring his works in botany. Associated works * ''Les Plantes, poëme'', Paris, Migneret, 1797. * ''Histoire naturelle des poissons : avec les figures dessinées d'après nature / par Bloch ; ouvrage classé par ordres, genres et espèces, d'après le systeme de Linné ; avec les caractères génériques par René-Richard Castel'', with Marcus Elieser Bloch, part of series: "Histoire naturelle de Buffon" ; t. 32–41. * ''La Forêt de Fontainebleau, poëme'', Paris : Deterville, an XIII-1805. * ''Le prince de Catane opéra en trois actes. Paroles de M. Castel'', 1813 by Nicolo Isouard, words by René Castel. Le prince de Cata ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Castel
Robert Castel (1 August 1933 – 12 March 2013) was a French sociologist and researcher at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. Academic career Castel was born in Saint-Pierre-Quilbignon, now part of Brest. He initially studied philosophy in the late 1950s. In the late 1960s, he met Pierre Bourdieu and began working with him in sociology. His initial work dealt with psychology and psychiatry, establishing a critical sociology of these issues and linking this work to Michel Foucault, particularly to his 'genealogical approach'. He further dealt with exclusion, or rather what he called the 'disaffiliation', which affects individuals 'by default'. His later and perhaps best known work examined how the wage system, which at first was despised, has gradually established itself as the reference model and has been progressively associated with social protections, and the concept of social property, creating a constitutive status of 'social identity'. Castel was resp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castel (other)
Castel may refer to the following places: in France Castel is the Occitan word for the Latin ''Castrum'' (small caserna military castrum) and occurs very often in southern France toponyms especially mixed with the adjective ''nau'' (which means ''new'' written ''nòu'' in Occitan). * , a village and former commune in Picardy, since 1965 part of Moreuil *Belcastel (other), ''Great Castle'' *Castelnaudary, ''Newcastle of Arry'' * Castelnau-le-Lez, ''Newcastle upon Lez'' * Castelsagrat, ''Holy castle'' *Castelsarrasin, ''Sarracen castle'' in Italy Castel, a short form of castello (''castle''), is a very common component in Italian place names: *Castel Baronia, in the province of Avellino * Castel Boglione, in the province of Asti *Castel Bolognese, in the province of Ravenna *Castel Campagnano, in the province of Caserta * Castel Castagna, in the province of Teramo *Castel Colonna, in the province of Ancona *Castel Condino, in the province of Trento * Castel d'Aiano, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle (surname)
Castle is an English surname denoting someone who worked at or resided at or near a castle. Notable people with the surname include: People *Andrew Castle, British television presenter and former tennis professional *Barbara Castle, British politician *Bruce Castle, New Zealand rugby league player * Charles Castle (1939–2013), South-African-born British tap dancer, television producer, biographer *Dalton Castle (born 1986), ring name of American professional wrestler Brett Giehl * Eduard Castle, Austrian-German professor of German studies * Florence Castle (1867–1959), British artist * Guy W. S. Castle (1879–1919), United States Navy officer and Medal of Honor recipient *Irene Castle, American ballroom dancer, wife of Vernon *Jo Ann Castle, American ragtime pianist *John Castle, British actor *John Castle (baseball) (1879–1929), American baseball player *Keisha Castle-Hughes, New Zealand actress *Louis Castle, American co-founder of Westwood Studios *Marlene Castle (born 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
