Egide
Egide or Égide is a masculine given name which may refer to: * Égide de Boeck (1875–1944), Belgian Catholic priest, bishop, Apostolic Vicar and linguist in the then Belgian Congo * Egide Duny or Egidio Duni (1708–1775), Italian opera composer * Egide Fologne (1830–1919), Belgian entomologist * Egide François Leemans (1839–1883), Belgian painter, draughtsman and engraver * Egide Linnig (1821–1860), Belgian painter, draughtsman and engraver * Egide Nzojibwami, Burundian geologist and academic, first Burundian member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) * Égide Rombaux (1865–1942), Belgian sculptor * Egide Walschaerts (1820–1901), Belgian mechanical engineer and inventor * Egide Charles Gustave, Baron Wappers or Gustave Wappers (1803–1874), Belgian painter See also * Egidio Egidio is an Italian masculine given name. People with the name include: Given name * Egidio (saint) (circa 650–710), Christian hermit saint * Egidio Colonna, Giles of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Egide François Leemans
Egide François Leemans or Egide Leemans (Antwerp, 28 April 1839 – Antwerp, 2 January 1883) was a Belgian painter, draughtsman and engraver.LEEMANS, Egide François (1839 - 1883), Engraver in: Benezit Dictionary of Artists He is best known for his paintings and prints of waterscapes, harbours and seascapes in the evening or at night. His work represents a break with the tradition of grand themes in Belgian marine art in favour of a realist representation of nature.Pol de Mont, 'De schilderkunst in België van 1830 tot 1921', The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, p. 160-161, 165-168 Life and work Leemans studied at the[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Egide Linnig
Egide Linnig or Egidius Linnig (25 August 1821 – 13 October 1860) was a Belgian painter, draughtsman and engraver who is best known for his marine art and occasional genre scenes. He was one of the first realist engravers in Belgium.N. Hostyn, "LINNIG, Egide, marineschilder en scheepsportrettist", in ''Nationaal biografisch woordenboek'', (1970), IX 481–486 Life Egide Linnig was born in Antwerp as the son of Pieter-Josef Linnig (born in Aschbach, Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany) and Catharina Josephina Leys. His father was a cabinetmaker. He had two older brothers (Jan Theodoor) Jozef Linnig and Willem Linnig the Elder who both became painters and engravers. From 1834 Linnig studied at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts. Linnig was not happy with the emphasis placed on history painting by Mattheus Ignatius van Bree, the director of the Academy. Linnig was from the start more attracted to the marine genre and took advantage of van Bree’s death in 1839 to change his t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Égide Rombaux
Égide Rombaux (19 January 1865 – 11 September 1942) was a Belgian symbolist sculptor. Rombeaux was born in Schaerbeek on 19 January 1865. the son of the sculptor Felix Rombaux and Emerence–Rosalie Lemmens. He studies at the Academie des Beaux Arts in Brussels from 1879 while simultaneously working as an assistant to Albert Desenfans. He received his first commission in 1887; sculptures of Antoine van der Noot and Antoine van Grimbergen for Brussels Town Hall. He worked in Florence from 1889 to 1992. He returned to Brussels in 1895, and taught at the academies in Antwerp and Brussels. Rombaux died in Uccle on 11 September 1942. ''The First Morning,'' a 1913 marble by Rombaux is in the collection of the Tate Britain. The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, which have a large selection of his work, have a study. Honours * 1911: Member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium. * 1919: Commander of the Order Leopold. * 1931: Grand Officer in the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Egide Walschaerts
Egide Walschaerts (21 January 1820 – 18 February 1901) was a Belgian mechanical engineer, best known as the inventor of the Walschaerts valve gear used in steam locomotives. He was born in Mechelen, Belgium. In 1838 he was recognised as an excellent modeller, presenting his work at a local exhibition in Mechelen. Minister Rogier, who opened the exhibition, was so impressed that he arranged a place for Walschaerts at Liège University. Career In 1842 he joined the Belgian State Railways and two years later had reached the rank of foreman. He was made chief superintendent of the works shortly after but mysteriously, for such a meteoric early career, never rose any higher. He held this position for the rest of his life, first at Mechelen and then at Brussels South. Walschaerts valve gear Whilst at Mechelen in 1844 he developed a new type of valve gear (a mechanism that allows for adjustment of the travel of the valves that distribute the steam to the cylinders and enables a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Egide Charles Gustave, Baron Wappers
Egide Charles Gustave, Baron Wappers (23 August 18036 December 1874) was a Belgian painter. His work is generally considered to be Flemish and he signed his work with the Dutch form of his name, Gustaaf Wappers.Note: The painter is known by one or by several forenames, in English mainly in their French language versions: ''Gustave'' or less frequently in full ''Egide Charles Gustave'' – though born in the Flemish city of Antwerp as ''Egidius Karel Gustaaf Wappers'', and internationally also known as such though more often a''Gustaaf Wappers'' Biography He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, and during 1826 in Paris. The Romantic movement with its new ideas about art and politics was astir in France. Wappers was the first Belgian artist to take advantage of this state of affairs, and his first exhibited painting, "The Devotion of the Burgomaster of Leiden," appeared at the appropriate moment and had great success in the in 1830, the year of the Belgian Rev ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Egide Fologne
Egide Fologne (1830–1919) was a Belgian entomologist who specialised in microlepidoptera. He was a member of the ''Société entomolologique de Belgique'' (Royal Belgian Entomological Society The Royal Belgian Entomological Society (french: Société royale belge d'Entomologie; nl, Koninklijke Belgische Vereniging voor Entomologie) is a learned society based in Brussels. It is devoted to entomology, the study of insects. It was founde ...). Works Partial list *Fologne, E. 1860. Lépidoptères et chenilles observés en Belgique. ''Annales de la Société Entomologique Belge'' 4: 108-112. *Fologne, E. 1863. Addenda au catalogue des Lépidoptères de Belgique. ''Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique'' 7:87–93. ReferencesGaedicke in Groll, E. K. (Hrsg.): Biografien der Entomologen der Welt : Datenbank. Version 4.15 : Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, 2010. [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Egide Nzojibwami
Egide Nzojibwami is a geologist and academic who was the first Burundian national to become a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Nzojibwami was educated at the University of Liège in Liège, Belgium, and he and his wife were baptised into the LDS Church there on 14 April 1985. He returned to Burundi and eventually became dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Burundi. Nzojibwami holds a PhD in geology from the University of Liège, Belgium and a MSc in civil engineering from the University of Calgary, Canada. On 27 November 1992, Nzojibwami was set apart as the first branch president of the LDS Church in Burundi. In November 1993, at the beginning of the Burundi Civil War, Nzojibwami left Burundi and emigrated to Canada. Settling in Calgary, Alberta, Nzojibwami established Technosol Engineering Ltd., a consulting corporation in groundwater and environmental assessment that works in the oil and gas industry and for municipal ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Égide De Boeck
Égide de Boeck was born on 13 November 1875 in Oppuurs, Belgium. He was a priest, religious and linguist in the then Belgian Congo. He died on 20 December 1944. Life De Boeck grew up in Flanders. His father was a primary school teacher, his mother a very devout woman. He had several younger brothers and sisters: Alphonse, a priest in Belgium, Marlo, Achilles and Jules, both missionaries in Scheut, a sister who worked as a nun in the Philippines and a brother who married. After secondary school in Malines, he entered the novitiate of the missionaries of Scheut in 1894. He was ordained a priest on July 1, 1900 and was sent to New Antwerp (now Makanza) in the Congo on September 1 of the same year. From 1913 to 1916 he was Apostolic Prefect of Kasaï Supérieur. On 8 May 1921 he was ordained Bishop and Titular Bishop of Azotus. Already on 4 January 1921 he took up the office of Apostolic Vicar of New Antwerp, which he held until 27 January 1936. On that day he was appointed Aposto ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Egidio Duni
Egidio Romualdo Duni (or ''Egide Romuald Duny''; 11 February 1708 – 11 June 1775) was an Italian composer who studied in Naples and worked in Italy, France and London, writing both Italian and French operas. Biography Born in Matera, Duni was taught music by his father, Francesco Duni, and two sisters. At the age of nine, he was accepted at the ''Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto'', near Naples. There he worked with Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Giovanni Paisiello, and other masters of Italian opera. His first success was with the opera ''Nerone'' presented at the Rome Carnival in 1735. Thereafter he was in London (''Demofoonte'', 1737), returning to Italy where he eventually became ''maestro di cappella'' in Parma in 1749. The latter part of his career was spent in France where he played a key role in the development of the ''comédie mêlée d'ariettes'' (an early form of opéra comique), with such works as ''Le peintre amoureux de son modèle'' (Paris, 1757), ''La fée ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Egidio
Egidio is an Italian masculine given name. People with the name include: Given name * Egidio (saint) (circa 650–710), Christian hermit saint * Egidio Colonna, Giles of Rome (circa 1243–1316), European intellectual, archbishop * Egidio da Viterbo, Giles of Viterbo (1469?–1532), Italian theologian and humanist * Egidio Ariosto (1911–1998), Italian politician * Egidio Calloni (born 1952), Italian former football striker * Egidio Forcellini (1688–1768), Italian philologist * Egidio Gennari (1876–1942), Italian politician * Egidio Notaristefano (born 1966), Italian football player and manager * EgÃdio Pereira Júnior (born 1986), Brazilian footballer * Egidio Arévalo Rios (born 1982), Uruguayan football player * Egidio Romualdo Duni (1708–1775), Italian composer * Egidio Vagnozzi (1906–1980), Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church Middle name * Luis Egidio Meléndez (1716–1780), Spanish painter See also *Giles (given name) Giles or Gyles is a masculine give ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |