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Geoffroy (surname)
Geoffroy is a surname. Notable persons with that surname include: * Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy (1601–1675), French composer * Jean-Nicolas Geoffroy (1633–1694), French harpsichordist and organist * Étienne François Geoffroy (1672–1731), French apothecary and chemist * Claude Joseph Geoffroy (1685–1752), French apothecary, chemist and botanist; younger brother of Étienne François Geoffroy * Étienne Louis Geoffroy (1725–1810), French entomologist * Claude François Geoffroy (1729–1753), French chemist, discoverer of bismuth * Julien Louis Geoffroy (1743–1814), French literary critic * Jean-Baptiste Lislet Geoffroy (1755–1836), French astronomer, botanist and cartographer * Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844), French naturalist * Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805–1861), French zoologist, son of Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire * Henri-Jules-Jean Geoffroy (1853-1924), French painter See also *Geoffrey (given name) *Jeffries *Jeffers Jeffers is a surn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy
Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy (born in the diocese of Clermont, 1601, and died in Paris, 30 Oct 1675) was a French composer. He entered the Jesuit order as a novice in 1621 and from 1660 until his death directed the music at the church attached to the Jesuit Professed house of Paris see A. de Backer and others: Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, ed. C. Sommervogel, iii, Brussels, 1892 (known today as the Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis church), where Marc-Antoine Charpentier later served. Besides a few vocal works in manuscript, three publications are known: *''Musicalia varia ad usum ecclesiae'' (1650, lost) *''Musica sacra ad vesperas aliasque in ecclesia preces'' for one, two and four voices with organ (1659) *''Musica sacra ad varias ecclesiae preces … pars altera'' (1661), for four voices, including a Mass recently reedited by the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles Sources *Nathalie Berton-Blivet, ''Catalogue du motet imprimé en France (1647-1789)''. Paris: , 2011. *Laure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Nicolas Geoffroy
Jean-Nicolas Geoffroy (1633 – 11 March 1694) was a French harpsichordist, organist and composer.The registration of baroque organ music Barbara Owen - 1997 "Jean-Nicolas Geoffrey (fl. 1633-94)" His birthplace is unknown; he died in Perpignan. His life before 1690 is unknown; he was probably a pupil of Nicolas Lebègue and served as titular organist of the Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet church in Paris. He was considered an expert in organ building and at some point in life settled in Perpignan where he played the organ of Perpignan Cathedral (''Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste''). Geoffroy's harpsichord oeuvre is, along with those of François Couperin and Jean-François Dandrieu, one of the most important contributions to French music of the Baroque era. A single collection of his pieces survives in manuscript A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand – or, once practical typewriters became avai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étienne François Geoffroy
Étienne François Geoffroy (13 February 16726 January 1731) was a French physician and chemist, best known for his 1718 affinity tables. He first contemplated a career as an apothecary, but then decided to practice medicine. He is sometimes known as ''Geoffroy the Elder''. Biography Geoffroy was born in Paris. After studying at Montpellier he accompanied Marshal Tallard on his embassy to London in 1698 and thence travelled to the Netherlands and Italy. Returning to Paris he became professor of chemistry at the Jardin du Roi and of pharmacy and medicine at the Collège Royal, and dean of the faculty of medicine. He died in Paris on 6 January 1731. His brother Claude Joseph, known as Geoffroy the younger, was also a chemist. Works His name is best known in connection with his tables of " affinities" (''tables des rapports''), which he presented to the French Academy of Sciences in 1718 and 1720. These were lists, prepared by collating observations on the actions of s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Joseph Geoffroy
Claude Joseph Geoffroy (8 August 1685, Paris – 9 March 1752, Paris) was the brother of Étienne François Geoffroy. Like his brother, he was an apothecary and chemist. Having a considerable knowledge of botany, he devoted himself especially to the study of the essential oils in plants. The son of Matthieu François Geoffroy and Louise Devaux, he was born in Paris on 8 August 1685. In 1703 he became a master apothecary, and in 1704/05 took scientific excursions throughout southern France. He then studied botany under Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1707). In 1708, following the death of his father, he took charge of the family pharmacy. In May 1711 he was elected a member of the Académie Royale des Sciences (botany section), subsequently transferring to the "chemistry section" in 1715. From 1718 to 1720 he was ''Garde des marchands-apothicaires'' in Paris, then later served as ''inspecteur de pharmacie'' at the Hôtel-Dieu. In 1731 he attained the title of alderman in Paris. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étienne Louis Geoffroy
Étienne Louis Geoffroy (October 12, 1725 – August 12, 1810) was a French entomologist and pharmacist. He was born in Paris and died in Soissons. He followed the binomial nomenclature of Carl Linnaeus, Carl von Linné and devoted himself mainly to beetles. Geoffroy was the author of ''Histoire abrégée des Insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris''. Paris : Durand Vol. 1 8 + 523 pp. 10 pls (1762) and co-author with Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, Antoine François of ''Entomologia Parisiensis, sive, Catalogus insectorum quae in agro Parisiensi reperiuntur ...'' (1785). References * Jean Gouillard (2004). ''Histoire des entomologistes français, 1750-1950. Édition entièrement revue et augmentée.'' Boubée (Paris): p. 287 * Jean Lhoste (1987). ''Les Entomologistes français. 1750-1950. INRA Éditions: p. 351 {{DEFAULTSORT:Geoffroy, Etienne Louis French entomologists 1725 births 1810 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude François Geoffroy
Claude François Geoffroy (1729 – 18 June 1753) was a French chemist. In 1753 he proved the chemical element bismuth to be distinct from lead, becoming the official discoverer of the element. Before this time, bismuth-containing minerals were frequently misidentified as either lead, tin, or antimony ores. His observations on the matter were published in the ''Mémoires de l’académie française'' in 1753. He became a master apothecary in 1748, and in 1752 he was admitted to the Académie des sciences as a supernumerary adjoint chemist. He died on 18 June 1753, (age 23 or 24). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julien Louis Geoffroy
Julien Louis Geoffroy (17 August 1743 – 27 February 1814) was a French literary critic. He was born at Rennes, and educated there and at the Collège Louis le Grand in Paris. He took orders and for some time was a mere usher, eventually becoming professor of rhetoric at the Collège des Quatre-Nations. His tragedy, ''Caton'', was accepted at the Théâtre Français, but was never performed. On the death of Élie Fréron in 1776 the other collaborators in the ''Année littéraire'' asked Geoffroy to succeed him, and he conducted the journal until its closure in 1792. Geoffroy was a bitter critic of Voltaire and his followers, and made for himself many enemies. An enthusiastic royalist, he published, with Fréron's brother-in-law, the abbé (1741–1792), a journal, ''L'Ami du roi'' (1790–1792), which possibly did more harm than good to the king's cause by its ill-advised partisanship. During the Reign of Terror, Geoffroy hid in the neighbourhood of Paris, only returning in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Baptiste Lislet Geoffroy
Jean-Baptiste Lislet Geoffroy (also known as Geoffrey L'Islet) (23 August 1755 – 8 February 1836) was a French astronomer, botanist and cartographer. Early life Lislet Geoffroy was born on 23 August 1755 in Saint-Pierre, Réunion and died on 8 February 1836 in Port-Louis (Mauritius). Lislet was the son of Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy a white, French engineer working in Mauritius (then called Ile de France) and Niama, an enslaved Senegalese princess. Lislet's father had freed his mother in order to ensure his son was not born enslaved. However, since Lislet was illegitimate, he took the name of the place of his birth for his last name. When he was 38 years old, his father legitimatized him, and he took the last name Lislet-Geoffroy.Schiebinger, Londa L. Nature's body: Gender in the making of modern science. Rutgers University Press, 1993. p195 His father was reputed to have been born in Paris and be of Breton ethnicity. Lislet Geoffroy stated that his mother was named Niama and was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (15 April 177219 June 1844) was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition". He was a colleague of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and expanded and defended Lamarck's evolutionary theories. Geoffroy's scientific views had a transcendental flavor (unlike Lamarck's materialistic views) and were similar to those of German morphologists like Lorenz Oken. He believed in the underlying unity of organismal design, and the possibility of the transmutation of species in time, amassing evidence for his claims through research in comparative anatomy, paleontology, and embryology. He is considered as a predecessor of the evo-devo evolutionary concept. Life and early career Geoffroy was born at Étampes (in present-day Essonne), and studied at the Collège de Navarre, in Paris, where he studied natural philosophy under M. J. Brisson. He then attended the lectures of Daubenton at the College de France and Fourcroy at the Jardin des Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (16 December 1805 – 10 November 1861) was a French zoologist and an authority on deviation from normal structure. In 1854 he coined the term ''éthologie'' (ethology). Biography He was born in Paris, the son of Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. In his earlier years he showed an aptitude for mathematics, but eventually he devoted himself to the study of natural history and of medicine, and in 1824 he was appointed assistant naturalist to his father. In 1829 he delivered for his father the second part of a course of lectures on ornithology, and during the following three years he taught zoology at the ''Athénée'', and teratology at the ''École pratique''. He was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1833, was in 1837 appointed to act as deputy for his father at the faculty of sciences in Paris. During the following year he was sent to Bordeaux to organize a similar faculty there. He became successively; inspector of the aca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Geoffroy
Henri-Jules-Jean Geoffroy, also known by the pseudonym Géo (1 March 1853, Marennes - 15 December 1924, Paris) was a French painter and illustrator, known primarily for his genre scenes with children. Some sources give his first names in reverse order. Biography His father, Jean-Baptiste (1822-1895), was a tailor and costume designer. His mother, Rosalie, was the eldest daughter of an English painter named John Dickinson (1791-1830). They moved to Paris when he was only two. In 1871, he began his studies at the École des Beaux-Arts; originally with Léon Bonnat, then with Eugène Levasseur (1822-1887) and Adolphe Yvon."Jean Geoffroy, une œuvre de généreuse humanité" @ Les Petits Maitres His first exhibition came in 1874, at the |
Geoffrey (given Name)
Geoffrey is an English and French masculine given name. It is generally considered the Anglo-Norman form of the Germanic compound 'god' and 'peace'. It is a derivative of Dutch Godfried, German Gottfried and Old English Gotfrith and Godfrith. Alexander MacBain considered it as being found in the Gaelic and Welsh forms; potentially before or contemporary to the Anglo-Saxon, with the examples of Goraidh, Middle Gaelic Gofraig (1467 MS.), Godfrey (do.), Irish Gofraidh (F.M.), Middle Irish Gothfrith, Gofraig (Tigernach, 989), Early Irish Gothfraid (Lib. Lein.), E. Welsh Gothrit (Ann. Camb.). Macbain suggested these Celtic forms of the name were closer related to the Anglo-Saxon Godefrid than the Norse Goðröðr, Gudrød or Góröðr; however he does not elaborate further on the origin or relation. The form as 'Geoffrey' was probably introduced to Norman England. It was also Anglicised as ''Jeffrey'' later after the name became more popular after the likes of Pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
