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François Rabelais University
The University of Tours (french: Université de Tours), formerly François Rabelais University of Tours (french: Université François Rabelais), is a public university in Tours, France. Founded in 1969, the university was formerly named after the French writer François Rabelais. It is the largest university in the Centre-Val de Loire region. As of July 2015, it is a member of the regional university association Leonardo da Vinci consolidated University. History The University of Tours was established as part of efforts to modernize and democratize higher education in France after the events of 1968. The university was created by grouping together a number of older educational institutions. Organisation The university has a number of campuses, often dedicated to a specific faculty, distributed across the city of Tours: * Plat d’Étain (administration and offices) * Tanneurs (languages and literature, arts and humanities) * Tonnellé (medicine) * Portalis/Deux-Lions (engin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tours
Tours ( , ) is one of the largest cities in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the prefecture of the department of Indre-et-Loire. The commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole metropolitan area was 516,973. Tours sits on the lower reaches of the Loire, between Orléans and the Atlantic coast. Formerly named Caesarodunum by its founder, Roman Emperor Augustus, it possesses one of the largest amphitheaters of the Roman Empire, the Tours Amphitheatre. Known for the Battle of Tours in 732 AD, it is a National Sanctuary with connections to the Merovingians and the Carolingians, with the Capetians making the kingdom's currency the Livre tournois. Saint Martin, Gregory of Tours and Alcuin were all from Tours. Tours was once part of Touraine, a former province of France. Tours was the first city of the silk industry. It was wanted by Louis XI, royal capital under the Valois Kings with its Loire castles and city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Germain (politician)
Jean Germain (11 September 1947 – 7 April 2015) was a French socialist politician. Biography Germain was the president of University of Tours from 1988 to 1993. In 1995 he was elected mayor of Tours and president of the agglomeration community of Tours, Tour(s) Plus. In September 2011 Germain was elected as a Senator from the department of Indre-et-Loire."Sénatoriales : le grand chelem tourangeau" (Senate: The Touraine Grand Slam) , Socialist Party of France, 26 September 2011, www.ps37.fr/ Germain was a member of the French Socialist Party. On 7 April 2015 he was found dead in his garage near his home in Tours, on the day that he was due to g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour (; 22 June 1947 – 9 October 2022) was a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist.Wheeler, Will. ''Bruno Latour: Documenting Human and Nonhuman Associations'' Critical Theory for Library and Information Science. Libraries Unlimited, 2010, p. 189. He was especially known for his work in the field of science and technology studies (STS). After teaching at the École des Mines de Paris ( Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation) from 1982 to 2006, he became professor at Sciences Po Paris (2006–2017), where he was the scientific director of the Sciences Po Medialab. He retired from several university activities in 2017. He was also a Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. Latour is best known for his books '' We Have Never Been Modern'' (1991; English translation, 1993), '' Laboratory Life'' (with Steve Woolgar, 1979) and '' Science in Action'' (1987).Heather Vidmar-McEwe"Anthropologists biographies: Bruno Latour" "Anthropologists biographies: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manitoba
, image_map = Manitoba in Canada 2.svg , map_alt = Map showing Manitoba's location in the centre of Southern Canada , Label_map = yes , coordinates = , capital = Winnipeg , largest_city = Winnipeg , largest_metro = Winnipeg Region , official_lang = English , government_type = Parliamentary constitutional monarchy , Viceroy = Anita Neville , ViceroyType = Lieutenant Governor , Premier = Heather Stefanson , Legislature = Legislative Assembly of Manitoba , area_rank = 8th , area_total_km2 = 649950 , area_land_km2 = 548360 , area_water_km2 = 101593 , PercentWater = 15.6 , population_demonym = Manitoban , population_rank = 5th , population_total = 1342153 , population_as_of = 2021 , population_est = 142022 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Stasiuk
Bishop Peter Stasiuk, C.Ss.R. ( uk, Петро Стасюк; born 16 July 1943 in Roblin, Manitoba, Canada) is an Australian Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch. He served as the second Eparchial Bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saints Peter and Paul of Melbourne from 16 December 1992 until 15 January 2020. Life Bishop Stasiuk was born to a family of ethnic Ukrainian Greek-Catholics in Canada. After attending the Eastern Redemptorists' minor seminary, he joined the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer in 1960, where he made his profession on 28 August 1962 and his solemn profession on 28 August 1965. Stasiuk was ordained as a priest on 2 July 1967, after studies at the Saint Paul University in Ottawa, Canada. Then he continued his studies in another Canadian university, University of Ottawa and in France in the François Rabelais University in Tours. After returning from studies, he had various pastoral assignments and served as parish assistant, professor, superior and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadreddin Elahi
Sadreddin Elahi (Persian: صدرالدین الهی; 4 December 1934 – 29 December 2021) was an Iranian journalist, professor, activist, and author. He is often referred to as the "Pioneer of Modern Iranian Journalism". He served as dean of the Department of Radio and Television Journalism at The College of Mass Communications in Tehran, and taught in the United States at the University of California, Berkeley and San Jose State University. Life and career Sadreddin Elahi was born on 4 December 1934, in the Sarcheshmeh neighborhood of Tehran. His family, who were originally from Lavasan-e Bozorg, settled in Tehran after it became the capital. After completing his primary and secondary education in Tehran, Elahi earned his bachelor's degree in Persian literature from the University of Tehran in 1959. While still in his last year of high school (1954), he joined the Kayhan newspaper (now Kayhan London), founded by his first-cousin, Mostafa Mesbahzadeh. He is known as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Schroder
Bruno Lionel Schroder (17 January 1933 – 20 February 2019) was a British banker and billionaire and a significant landowner in Scotland. He was a direct descendant of Johann Heinrich Schröder, co-founder of financial institution Schroders, and the longest serving non-executive board member of any company on the London FTSE 100. ''Forbes'' magazine estimated Schroder's family wealth at US$6.2 billion in August 2018. Schroder owned the 17,500 acre Dunlossit Estate on the island of Islay in Scotland's Inner Hebrides.Christine Seib. "Business big shot Bruno Schroder." ''The Times'', London, 24 May 2007: pg 55. Early life and education He was born on 17 January 1933, and educated at Eton, University of Tours, the School of Languages Hamburg, University College, Oxford, and Harvard Business School. Schroder received an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 2012. Career Schroder joined the commercial banking and corporate finance division of J. Henry Schroder Wagg & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben-Gurion University Of The Negev
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) ( he, אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has five campuses: the Marcus Family Campus, Beer Sheva; the David Bergmann Campus, Beer Sheva; the David Tuviyahu Campus, Beer Sheva; the Sede Boqer Campus, and Eilat Campus. Ben-Gurion University has about 20,000 students. Some of its research institutes include the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, the Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research with the Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies, and the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism. History Ben-Gurion University was established in 1969 as the University of the Negev with the aim of promoting the development of the Negev desert that comprises more than sixty percent of Israel. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moshe Prywes
Moshe Prywes (משה פריבס; January 3, 1914 - March 1998) was a Polish-Israeli physician and educator. He was the first President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (1973-1975). Biography Prywes was born in Warsaw, Poland. He studied medicine for two years at the University of Tours in France, and graduated from the University of Warsaw in 1939. After the outbreak of World War II and the German invasion of Poland, Prywes was drafted into the Polish army as a physician-officer in 1939. He was taken captive by the Russians and sent to a labor camp in Siberia where he was kept from 1940 to 1945. From 1945–46, he was head of surgery in the Kherson hospital in Ukraine. Next, he became a chief assistant in the department of surgery, University Hospital, Gdańsk, Poland. He emigrated to France and from 1947-51 was director of the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) Jewish Health Organization in Paris. In 1962 he was awarded a Knight of the French Legion of Honor. In 1951 Pry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Sotinel
Claire Sotinel is a Professor of Ancient History at l'Université de Paris-Est Créteil (Paris 12 Val de Marne University). She is an expert on Italy in late antiquity, religion, society, and prosopography. Education Sotinel received her PhD from Paris-Sorbonne University in 1993. Her doctoral thesis was entitled ''La Vénétie chrétienne au VIe siècle'' (''The Christian City of Venice in the Sixth Century''). Her PhD was supervised by Luce Pietri. Career Sotinel was a lecturer at the University of Bordeaux-III 1994-2004. She was appointed Professor of Roman History at the François Rabelais University, Tours, in 2004. She was appointed as Professor of Ancient History at l'Université de Paris-Est Créteil in 2008. Sotinel was a contributor to the ''Prosopographie chrétienne du Bas-Empire'', an international project to create a prosopography of early Christianity, initiated in 1951 by H. I. Marrou and continued by Andre Mandouze in 1978 after Marrou's deatThe ''Pros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilien Stengel
Kilien Stengel (born 1972 in Nevers (Nièvre)), is a French gastronomic author, restaurateur, and cookbook writer. He has worked at Gidleigh Park, Nikko Hotels, Georges V Hotel in Paris, and in a number of Relais & Châteaux restaurants (including Marc Meneau and Jacques Lameloise). He was a teacher of gastronomy at the Académie of Paris and of Orléans-Tours. Stengel works at the European Institute for the History and Culture of Food at François Rabelais University. He is captain of a culinary book fair, en directot of a collection book (L'harmattan éditor). Usually, he work for Ministère de l'Éducation nationale teacher competition, Meilleur Ouvrier de France award, and Masterchef France. In 2015 his PhD (Doctorat de 3e cycle) in information science was supervised by J-J. Boutaud. Works Actuality books * ''Alimentation Bio - Manger et boire bio'', Eyrolles publishing, 2009. * ''Gastronomie, petite philosophie du plaisir et du goût'', Bréal publishing, 2010. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éric De Chassey
Éric de Buretel de Chassey (born 1965, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is a French historian of French art, art critic, and professor of contemporary art history at François Rabelais University in Tours, France. He has had students from many different countries, one of whom is the Iranian artist Bahram Ahmadi. Born in the United States to French parents, Benoît de Buretel de Chassey (1941–2012) and Brit Michon du Marais (born 1943), he was raised in France. On 4 September 2009, he was named director of the French Academy in Rome, succeeding Frédéric Mitterrand. He has been married since 2013 to actress Anne Consigny Anne Consigny (; born 25 May 1963) is a French actress who has been active since 1981. She received a César Award nomination for Best Actress for her role in the film '' Not Here to Be Loved'' (2005). She is also known for her role as Claude in .... References 1965 births Date of birth missing (living people) Living people École Normale Supér ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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