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Eugénie Schellen
Eugénie is the French version of the female given name Eugenia. Eugénie or Eugenie may refer to: People * Eugénie de Montijo (1826–1920), 9th Countess de Teba; later Empress Eugénie, Empress Consort to Napoléon III * * Princess Eugenie of Sweden and Norway (1830–1889), of the House of Bernadotte * Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887-1969), Queen consort of Spain and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria * Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark (1910–1989) * Princess Eugenie of York (born 1990), British princess, daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York * Eugenie Anderson (1909–1997), US ambassador, first woman appointed chief of mission at the ambassador level in US history * Eugenie Besserer (1868–1934), French silent film actress * Eugénie Blanchard (1896–2010), French supercentenarian * Eugenie Bonaparte (1872–1949), aristocrat * Eugenie Bouchard (born 1994), Canadian tennis player * Eugenie Clark (1922–2015), American ichthyologist * Eugenie M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenia (name)
Eugenia is a feminine first name related to the masculine name Eugene that comes from the Greek ''eugenes'' 'well-born', from ''eu''- 'well' + ''genes'' 'born' (from ''genos'').Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'''s.v.''/ref> Variants include Eugénia (Portuguese), Eugénie ( French), Eugènia ( Catalan), Uxía ( Galician), Evgenia ( el, Ευγενία), Eugenija ( Lithuanian) and Yevgenia or Yevgeniya (russian: Евгения; also transliterated as Evgenia or Evgeniya) as well as Yevheniia in Ukraine. People Notable people with the name include: * Saint Eugenia of Rome (died 258) * Blessed Eugenia Smet (1825–1871), French nun, founder of the Society of the Helpers of the Holy Souls * Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg * Eugenia Abu, Nigerian journalist * Eugenia Bonetti, Italian nun * Eugenia Bujak, Lithuanian-Polish cyclist * Eugenia Calle (1952–2009), American cancer epidemiologist * Eugênia Câmara (1837–1879), Portug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie De Gramont
Eugénie de Gramont (17 September 1788, Versailles – 19 November 1846, Paris) was a French nun of the Society of the Sacred Heart. Life She became a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart in 1806, encountering it at Amiens. Her aristocratic mother also joined it a few years afterwards, and made her novitiate under the guidance of her own daughter. In 1815, despite her relative youth and the drawback of a slight physical deformity, Mother de Gramont was placed in charge of the first school of the Sacred Heart, opened in Paris, Rue des Postes, afterwards transferred to the Rue de Varenne. The school flourished under her care and, after a short interruption of her work by the revolution of 1830, she was sent back to govern the house as superioress and continued to do so until her death in 1846. Madeleine Sophie Barat, founder of the Society, had concerns, however. The two women were divided over the role of Louis de Sambucy de Saint-Estève; and in 1839 de Gramont opposed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie Söderberg
Eugenie Söderberg (1903–1973) was a Swedish-American writer and journalist born in Heidelberg, Germany noted for her profound concern with women's issues which she addressed in her novels and short stories. Early years In 1912, her father, Alexander Riwkin, a Russian-Jewish immigrant who had studied philosophy established himself in Stockholm, Sweden, as an industrialist following a short return to the family's home town, Gomel in Russia. The Riwkin home flourished as a center for culture, attracting both established and upcoming literary figures from Scandinavia and abroad. Eugenie, the eldest daughter was encouraged by her philosopher father who was also a lecturer and writer of short stories in Russian and Yiddish. Eugenie's younger brother Joseph Riwkin also followed a similar path, acting for a while as a stimulating nucleus within a group of the most aspiring young writers of Sweden. These included Gunnar Ekelöf, Harry Martinson, Karin Boye, Ebbe Linde, who with many ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenie Mikhailovna Shakhovskaya
Princess Eugenie Mikhailovna Shakhovskaya (St. Petersburg, Russian Empire), 1889 – Kiev (Ukraine), 1920) (''Евгения Михайловна Шаховская, Yevgeniya Mikhaylovna Shakhovskaya'') was a Russian Empire pioneering aviator. She was the first woman to become a military pilot when she flew reconnaissance missions for the Tsar Tsar ( or ), also spelled ''czar'', ''tzar'', or ''csar'', is a title used by East and South Slavic monarchs. The term is derived from the Latin word ''caesar'', which was intended to mean "emperor" in the European medieval sense of the ter ... in 1914. She started taking flying lessons in 1911, and was awarded her flying licence in 1912. However, she gave up flying in 1913 after her instructor died mid-flight. She was convinced to start flying again and flew reconnaissance missions in World War 1. Eugenie was accused of being a spy, arrested, and sentenced to death. However, she was shown mercy by the Tsar, her cousin, and se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenie Scott
Eugenie Carol Scott (born October 24, 1945) is an American physical anthropologist, a former university professor and educator who has been active in opposing the teaching of young Earth creationism and intelligent design in schools. She coined the term "Gish gallop" to describe a fallacious rhetorical technique which consists in overwhelming an interlocutor with as many individually-weak arguments as possible, in order to prevent rebuttal of the whole argument. From 1986 to 2014, Scott served as the Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit science education organization supporting teaching of evolutionary science. Since 2013, Scott has been listed on their advisory council. Scott holds a Ph.D. in biological anthropology from the University of Missouri. A biologist, her research has been in human medical anthropology and skeletal biology. Scott serves on the Board of Trustees of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Scott is a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenie Schwarzwald
Eugenie Schwarzwald, (née Nußbaum) (4 July 1872, in Polupanivka near Zbruch River in Austria-Hungary (now Ternopil Raion, Ukraine)) and died on 7 August 1940, in Zurich, founded the innovative Schwarzwald school. A progressive Austrian philanthropist, writer and pedagogue, she developed education for girls in Austria and was one of the most learned women of her time. Early life Eugenie Nußbaum left home in 1895 and studied German and English literature, philosophy and pedagogy at the University of Zurich. She received her doctoral degree in 1900. At that time, women were not allowed to study at Austrian high schools and universities and Eugenie was one of the first academically educated women in Austria-Hungary. In 1900 she married Dr. Hermann Schwarzwald (1871–1939). Innovative educator Schwarzwald was known as an innovative educator. In Austria, in 1901 she became head of the Girls' Secondary School and in 1911 of the Girls' College. Her aim was to offer an adequa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenie Sage
Eugenie Meryl Sage (born 1958) is a New Zealand politician and environmentalist. Since the , she has been a Green Party list MP in the House of Representatives and served as the Minister of Conservation and Land Information and the Associate Minister for the Environment from 2017 to 2020. Political career Local politics Sage was a field officer and spokesperson for Forest and Bird before being elected as councillor for the Selwyn-Banks Peninsula Regional Constituency of Environment Canterbury at the 2007 local elections. She lost her seat when the Environment Canterbury Council were replaced by Commissioners on 1 May 2010. In October 2010 she was appointed as a community member to the Selwyn-Waihora Zone Water Management Committee of Canterbury Water Management Strategy (CWMS). Fifth National Government, 2011–2017 Sage contested the Selwyn electorate at the 2011 general election for the Green Party. Although she did not win the electorate, she was ranked at sixt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie Rocherolle
Eugénie Ricau Rocherolle is an American composer, pianist, lyricist, and teacher who began her composing career with choral and band music.Hal Leonard Corporatio''Eugenie Rocherolle Series'' Biography Rocherolle grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, New Orleans. She graduated from St. Martin's Episcopal School and graduated with a BA in music from the Newcomb College of Tulane University. She spent her Junior Year of college in Paris where she also had a class with Nadia Boulanger. She released her first piano solo collection in 1978 with great success and soon established herself as one of the leading American composers of piano repertoire. Throughout her lifetime she has composed works for solo voice, chorus, and orchestra, musical theater, as well as chamber music for a variety of instruments. She was one of seven composer members of the National League of American Pen Women whose works were chosen to be presented in concert at the Terrace Theater in the John F. Kennedy Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie Potonié-Pierre
Eugénie Potonié-Pierre (1844–1898 Paris) was a French feminist who founded the Federation of French Feminist Societies in 1892. She joined the Society for the Amelioration of Women's Condition with Léon Richer and Maria Deraismes in the 1870s. She served as the secretary and wrote for the organization's publication '' Le Droit des femmes (Women's Rights)''. In 1880, with Léonie Rouzade, she founded Union des Femmes. She was secretary of the committee of the International Congress for Women's Rights, in 1892, and 1896. In her speech to the International Congress of 1896 in Berlin, Potonié-Pierre credited herself and French feminist peers with coining the term ''féminisme''. Death She died June 12, 1898 from a cerebral hemorrhage at age 54. She is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery Père Lachaise Cemetery (french: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise ; formerly , "East Cemetery") is the largest cemetery in Paris, France (). With more than 3.5 million visitors annually, it is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenie Leontovich
Eugenie Leontovich (born Evgenia Konstantinovna Leontovich; russian: Евге́ния Константиновна Леонто́вич, tr. ; March 21 or April 3 "Eugenie Leontovich, 93; actress, writer, director", ''Chicago Tribune'', April 4, 1993, pg. 6."Eugenie Leontovich, 93, Actress, Playwright and Teacher, Is Dead". Glenn Collins, ''The New York Times'', pg. 11, April 3, 1993; accessed October 20, 2015. interactive.ancestrylibrary.com; accessed October 20, 2015. – April 3, 1993) was a n-born |
Eugénie De Keyser
Eugénie De Keyser (17 May 1918, Brussels - 4 April 2012) was a Belgian writer and art critic. She was Professor Emeritus at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve) and at Saint-Louis University, Brussels (Brussels), specializing in contemporary art and sculpture. She was a member of the Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium (RASAB) is a non-governmental association which promotes and organises science and the arts in Belgium by coordinating the national and international activities of its constituent academies su .... She wrote one of the books for Editions d'Art Albert Skira 10 volume series "Art, Ideas, History" titled "The Romantic West, 1789-1850". In 1966 she was awarded the Prix Rossel for her novel ''La surface de l'eau''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie Hunsicker
Eugénie Lee Hunsicker is an American mathematician who works at Loughborough University in England as a senior lecturer in pure mathematics and as director of equality and diversity for the school of science. Her research in pure mathematics has concerned topics "at the intersection of analysis, geometry and topology"; she has also worked on more applied topics in data science and image classification. Education and career Hunsicker grew up in Iowa City, and was inspired to do mathematics in part by a high school teacher who was married to a mathematics professor at the University of Iowa. She went to Haverford College, where she was mentored by mathematician Curtis Greene, including two summers of mathematical research with Greene. She also visited the University of Oxford as an exchange student, and earned an honorable mention for the 1992 Alice T. Schafer Prize for excellence in mathematics by an undergraduate woman, won that year by Zvezdelina Stankova. Hunsicker graduate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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