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Munier
Munier () is a French surname, most prevalent in France. Notable people with this surname include: * Carlo Munier (1859–1911), Italian mandolinist * Émile Munier (1840–1895), French artist * Ernest Munier-Chalmas (1843–1903), French geologist * Henri Munier (1884–1945), French bibliographer * Laurent Munier (born 1966), French handball player * Mishuk Munier (1959–2011), Bangladeshi journalist * Nick Munier (born 1968), English maitre d'hotel * Roger Munier (1923–2010), French writer * Vincent Munier (born 1976), French wildlife photographer As given name * Munier Choudhury (1925–1971), Bangladeshi educationist See also * Meunier * Menier * Mounier Mounier is a surname, and may refer to: * Anthony Mounier (born 1987), French footballer * Emmanuel Mounier (1905–1950), French philosopher * Flo Mounier, drummer * Jean-Jacques Mounier (born 1949), French judoka * Jean Joseph Mounier (1758 ... References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émile Munier
Émile Munier (2 June 1840 – 29 June 1895) was a French academic artist and student of William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Biography Émile Munier was born in Paris on 2 June 1840 and lived with his family at 66 rue des Fossés, St. Marcel. His father, Pierre François Munier, was an artist upholsterer at the Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins and his mother, Marie Louise Carpentier, was a polisher in a cashmere cloth mill. Émile and his two brothers, François and Florimond, were talented artists and each spent some time at the Gobelins. At the factory Abel Lucas trained Munier as a draughtsman and he developed a close relationship with Lucas and his family, eventually marrying Lucas' daughter, Henriette, in 1861. In 1867, Henriette gave birth to a son, Emile Henri. Six weeks after the birth, having contracted severe rheumatism, Henriette died prematurely. Sargine Augrand, a student of Lucas and a close friend of Émile and Henriette (before she died), caught Émile's eye; the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Munier
Carlo Munier (1858–1911) was an Italian musician who advocated for the mandolin's acknowledgement among as an instrument of classical music and focused on "raising and ennobling the mandolin and plectrum instruments". He wanted "great masters" to consider the instrument and raise it above the level of "dilettantes and street players" where it had been stuck for centuries. He expected that the mandolin and guitar would be taught in serious orchestral music schools and incorporated into the orchestra. A composer of more than 350 works for the mandolin, he led the mandolin orchestra ''Reale circolo mandolinisti Regina Margherita'' named for its patron Margherita of Savoy and gave the queen instruction on the mandolin. As a teacher, he wrote ''Scuola del mandolino: metodo completo per mandolino'' (School for the mandolin, a complete method), published in 1895. Silvio Ranieri described Munier in 1925 as one of the principal pioneers in the revival of the mandolin repertoire - a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munier Choudhury
Munier Choudhury (27 November 192514 December 1971) was a Bangladeshi educationist, playwright, literary critic and political dissident. He was a victim of the 1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals, mass killing of Bangladeshi intellectuals in 1971. He was awarded Independence Day Award in 1980, by the then president Ziaur Rahman's government, posthumously. Early life and education Choudhury's ancestors were originated from Noakhali. He was born on 27 November 1925 in Manikganj. His father was Khan Bahadur Abdul Halim Chowdhury, a district magistrate and Aligarh Muslim University graduate. His mother was Umme Kabir Afia Begum (d. 2000). Because of his father's official assignment, Choudhury lived in Manikganj, Pirojpur and other parts of East Bengal. The family moved to Dhaka permanently in 1936. Then he grew up in the residence ''Darul Afia'', named after her mother, among 14 siblings. He completed his matriculation from Dhaka Collegiate School in 1941 and intermediate examinat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mishuk Munier
Ashfaque Munier (September 24, 1959August 13, 2011; known as Mishuk Munier) was a Bangladeshi media specialist and broadcast journalist. He was known for his photography direction and for being the cofounder of the global news channel The Real News Network. He was one of three sons of Munier Chowdhury. Mishuk served as the chief executive officer and chief editor of satellite TV channel ATN News. He died in a road accident, along with Tareque Masud, on August 13, 2011. He was awarded Ekushey Padak for his contribution to journalism in 2012 by the Bangladeshi government. Career Munier studied mass communication and journalism at Dhaka University. After completing his studies, he joined the faculty as a part-time lecturer in 1989. At the same time, he started to work for BBC as a freelance photographer. In 1999, Munier took a job as director of news operations of satellite TV channel Ekushey Television, playing a key role in broadcast journalism in Bangladesh. In 2002, he emigrated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Munier
Nick Munier (born 1968) is a Maitre d'Hotel and restaurant manager. He is best known in the United Kingdom as the Maitre d'Hotel of ITV's prime-time reality show Hell's Kitchen and in Ireland as co-presenter of MasterChef Ireland. He was also a former co-owner of Pichet restaurant in Dublin's Trinity Lane. Professional life Munier began his career with the Roux Brothers and was a commis waiter in Le Gavroche amongst other Roux establishments. In 1991, Munier left his native London for Ireland to join the K Club in County Kildare, a Michelin star restaurant and home to the Ryder Cup in 2006. From there, he began his 10 years working with Marco Pierre White, one of Britain's best known chefs and a recipient of 3 Michelin stars, before returning to Ireland. In 2002, Munier moved to Dublin to join U2's Clarence Hotel, and Ireland's only two Michelin Star restaurant, Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud. Shortly afterwards he moved into the world of consultancy, joining Conor Kenny & Associ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Munier
Vincent Munier (born 14 April 1976) is a French wildlife photographer and documentary filmmaker. Among his most notable works are his photographs of arctic wolves and snow leopards. He co-directed a film about snow leopards, ' (2021), which received the César Award for Best Documentary Film. Life and work Vincent Munier was born on 14 April 1976 in Épinal in Vosges, northeastern France. He began to photograph animals in the Vosges forests and mountains at the age of twelve, aided by his father. He went on to become a professional wildlife photographer. Munier prefers to create landscape photographs with animals that viewers might not discover immediately. He is known for photographing in snow, which he likes due to the lighting associated with it, how it omits non-essential details from the image and the fact that animals manage to live in remote and harsh environments. He is notable for his photographs of arctic wolves on Ellesmere Island in Canada, which he took during six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Munier
Henri Munier (14 July 1884, Meursault ( Côte-d'Or) – 19 August 1945, Cairo) was a 20th-century French bibliographer and scholar of Coptic culture. Biography The grandson of Antoine Mourès, publisher of François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette, and son of Jules Munier, a journalist based in Cairo, Henri Munier spent the first years of his life in Burgundy, where he studied Literature. In 1908, he was hired by Gaston Maspero, Director General of Antiquities in Egypt, as head of the Library of the new museum, which opened four years earlier. He engaged in an important work of bibliography by creating catalogs and museum index, especially Egyptology, Coptic language and archeology. In 1924, whereas Egyptian nationality had been established (up to then Egyptians were subjects of the Ottoman Empire), civil servants could not be foreigners. King Fuad Fuad (Arabic: فؤَاد ''fū’ād, fou’ād'') (also spelled Fouad, Foud, Fuaad or Foad) is a masculine Arabic given name, mean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Munier-Chalmas
Ernest Charles Philippe Auguste Munier-Chalmas (7 April 1843 – 9 August 1903) was a French geologist, born at Tournus in Burgundy, who is known for his contributions to the understanding of the Cretaceous, but who also isolated and defined the Priabonian stage of the Late Eocene, in a paper co-written with Albert de Lapparent in 1893. From 1864 he worked as an assistant in the geology department at the Sorbonne, and subsequently participated in geological missions to Austria-Hungary and the Venetian Alps. From 1882 he taught classes at the École Normale Supérieure, and in 1891 became a professor of geology at the Sorbonne. In addition, from 1892 to 1903, he was director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études.Munier-Chalmas, Charles Philippe Ernest Sociétés savantes de France In 1873 he described the |
Roger Munier
Roger Munier (21 December 1923, Nancy – 10 August 2010, Vesoul) was a French writer and translator. From 1953, Munier was one of the first to translate into French the work of his master and friend, the German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889–1976). Bibliography Partial list of works and translations, chronologically: Principal works * 1963: ''Contre l'image'', Éditions Gallimard, coll. «Le Chemin» ; éd. revue 1989 * 1970: ''Le Seul'' (suivi de) ''D'un seul tenant'', , ; rééd. Deyrolle, 1993. * 1973: ''L'Instant'', Gallimard, coll. «Voix ouvertes accessdate= 11/10/2016 read online* 1977: ''Le Contour, l'éclat'', coll. «Différenciation» * 1979: ''Le Parcours oblique'', La Différence, coll. «Différenciation», n°5 * 1979: ''Passé sous silence'', Parisod, coll. «Strates»,n°2 * 1980: ''Terre sainte'', * 1982: ''L'Ordre du jour'', * 1982: ''Le Moins du monde'', Gallimard * 1982: ''Mélancolie'', Le Nyctalope * 1983: ''Le Visiteur qui jamais ne vient'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Munier
Laurent Munier (born 30 September 1966 in Lyon) is a French handball player who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as .... In 1992 he was a member of the French handball team which won the bronze medal. He played all seven matches and scored 26 goals. External linksprofile 1966 births Living people French male handball players Olympic handball players of France Handball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for France Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics {{France-handball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meunier (other)
Meunier is a French surname meaning "miller". Meunier may also refer to: * Pinot Meunier, aka Meunier; a variety of wine grape * Meunier rifle, WWI French battle rifle * Mount Meunier, Kohler Range, Antarctica * Meunier Museum, Brussels, Belgium; named after sculptor Constance Meunier See also * * Menier (other) * Minier Minier is a French surname. Origin In French, the word means ''mining'', in the sense of ''pertaining or related to mining''. Notable people Notable people with this surname include: * Christine Minier (born 1964), French singer * Daniel D. M ... (surname) * Mounier (surname) * Munier (surname) {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menier (other)
Menier may refer to: Places: *Port-Menier, Quebec, a small fishing town located in Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada * Port-Menier Airport, (IATA: YPN, ICAO: CYPN), located 2.7 NM (5.0 km; 3.1 mi) east of Port-Menier, Quebec, Canada Chocolate: * Menier Chocolate, a French chocolate manufacturing business founded in 1816 *Menier family of Noisiel, France, was a prominent family of chocolatiers who began as pharmaceutical manufacturers in Paris in 1816 * Émile-Justin Menier (1826–1881), French pharmaceutical manufacturer, chocolatier, and politician, born in Paris *Antoine Brutus Menier (1795–1853), a French entrepreneur and founder of the Menier family of chocolatiers *Antoine Gilles Menier (1904–1967), a French businessman and municipal politician, member of the Menier family of chocolatiers *Henri Menier (1853–1913), a French businessman and adventurer, member of the Menier family of chocolatiers *Menier Chocolate Factory, a 180-seat fringe studio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
