Charpentier () is the

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carpenter Carpentry is a skilled trade and a craft in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, Shipbuilding, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc. ...

", and it is also a French

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Carpentier Carpentier is a Norman- Picard surname, variant form of French Charpentier and is similar to the English Carpenter, that is borrowed from Norman. In Basse Normandie, the most common form is Lecarpentier. The words ''carpentier, charpentier, c ...

. In English, the equivalent word and name is "

Carpenter Carpentry is a skilled trade and a craft in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, Shipbuilding, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc. ...

"; in German, "

Zimmermann Zimmermann is a German occupational surname for a carpenter. The modern German terms for the occupation of carpenter are Zimmerer, Tischler, or Schreiner, but Zimmermann is still used. ''Zimmer'' in German means room or archaically a chamber wi ...

"; in Dutch, " Timmerman". The origin of the name dates to 900–1000, when the

Old French Old French (, , ; Modern French: ) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France from approximately the 8th to the 14th centuries. Rather than a unified language, Old French was a linkage of Romance dialects, mutually intelligib ...

"Charpentier" derived from the

Late Latin Late Latin ( la, Latinitas serior) is the scholarly name for the form of Literary Latin of late antiquity.Roberts (1996), p. 537. English dictionary definitions of Late Latin date this period from the , and continuing into the 7th century in t ...

''carpentarius artifex'' ("carpenter" or "wainwright"), equivalent to

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

''carpent(um)'', meaning "two-wheeled carriage" (perhaps ultimately derived from Celtic—consider Old Irish ''carpad'', "chariot"), suffixed with ''arius'' ("-ary"); see ER2.Combined from several sources including: "Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary" 1996 by Barnes & Noble Books and "Concise Oxford Dictionary - 10th Edition by Oxford University Press.

Persons with the surname

Visual arts

Alexandre Charpentier Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier (1856–1909) was a French sculptor, medalist, craftsman, and cabinet-maker. Life and work From working-class origins and apprenticed to an engraver as a young man, he became a studio assistant to the innov ...

(1856–1909), French sculptor *

Constance Marie Charpentier Constance Marie Charpentier (born 4 April 1767 Paris, – 3 August 1849 Paris) was a French painter. She specialized in genre scenes and portraits, mainly of children and women. She was also known as Constance Marie Blondelu. Life and career ...

(1767–1849), French painter *

Elisa Beetz-Charpentier The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) (, ) is a commonly used analytical biochemistry assay, first described by Eva Engvall and Peter Perlmann in 1971. The assay uses a solid-phase type of enzyme immunoassay (EIA) to detect the presence ...

(1859-1949), French sculptor *

Jean-Marie Charpentier Jean-Marie Charpentier (27 April 1939 – 24 December 2010) was a French architect and urban planner. He founded ''Arte Charpentier' in Paris in 1969. Biography Jean-Marie Charpentier was born in Paris, France. Jean-Marie Charpentier gradua ...

(1939-2010), French architect *

Marguerite Charpentier Marguerite Charpentier (1 March 1848 – 30 November 1904) was a French salonist and art collector who was one of the earliest champions of the Impressionists, especially Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Biography She was born Marguerite Louise Lemonnier ...

(1848-1904), French art collector and salonist

Composers & musicians

Marc-Antoine Charpentier Marc-Antoine Charpentier (; 1643 – 24 February 1704) was a French Baroque composer during the reign of Louis XIV. One of his most famous works is the main theme from the prelude of his ''Te Deum'', ''Marche en rondeau''. This theme is still us ...

(1643–1704), French composer of much sacred vocal music including

Te Deum (Charpentier) Marc-Antoine Charpentier composed six ''Te Deum'' settings, although only four of them have survived. Largely because of the great popularity of its prelude, the best known is the ''Te Deum'' in D major, H.146, written as a ''grand motet'' for so ...

, and Molière's last collaborator *

Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier (28 June 1734 – 6 May 1794) was a celebrated French organist and composer. He was born in Abbeville. From 1763, he was a member of the Académie des Beaux Arts de Lyon (now École des Beaux-Arts). Then, from ...

(28 June 1734 – 6 May 1794) French organist and composer, father of Jacques-Marie (1766–1834), also an organist and composer *

Gustave Charpentier Gustave Charpentier (; 25 June 1860 – 18 February 1956) was a French composer, best known for his opera ''Louise''.Langham Smith R., "Gustave Charpentier", ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera.'' Macmillan, London and New York, 1997. Life and ca ...

(1860–1956), French composer of

Louise (opera) ''Louise'' is a “musical novel,” or “,” in four acts and five scenes by Gustave Charpentier. It can be considered an opera. The composer himself penned the French libretto with contributions from Saint-Pol-Roux, a symbolist poet and inspir ...

* Gabriel Charpentier (born 1925), Canadian composer (se
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* Jacques Charpentier (1933–2017), French composer and organist

Politicians

* Gilles Charpentier (born 1927), French politician * Léon Charpentier (1859–1945), French politician * Victor-Therese Charpentier (1732–1776), French governor-general of

Saint-Domingue Saint-Domingue () was a French colony in the western portion of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, in the area of modern-day Haiti, from 1659 to 1804. The name derives from the Spanish main city in the island, Santo Domingo, which came to refer ...

Scientists

Augustin Charpentier Augustin Charpentier (1852 – 4 August 1916) was a French physician. In 1891 he carried out the first experiment providing evidence of the size-weight illusion. He carried out a various number of procedures comparing what people thought was t ...

(1852–1916), French physician, investigator of size-weight illusion *

Emmanuelle Charpentier Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier (; born 11 December 1968) is a French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics, and biochemistry. As of 2015, she has been a director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin. In 2018, sh ...

(born 1968), French researcher in Microbiology, Genetics and Biochemistry *

François Charpentier François Charpentier (15 February 1620 – 22 April 1702) was a French archaeologist and man of letters. Biography Charpentier was born in Paris, and intended for the bar, but was employed by Colbert, who had determined on the foundation of a F ...

(1620–1702), French archaeologist and scholar * François-Philippe Charpentier (1734–1817), French engraver and inventor * Johann von or

Jean de Charpentier Jean de Charpentier or Johann von Charpentier (8 December 1786 – 12 December 1855) was a German-Swiss geologist who studied Swiss glaciers. He was born in Freiberg, Saxony, Germany and died in Bex, Switzerland. Life After following in his f ...

(1786–1855), German-Swiss geologist, namesake of the Antarctic

Charpentier Pyramid Charpentier Pyramid () is a pyramid-shaped summit (topography), peak rising to in the northwest part of the Herbert Mountains, Shackleton Range. In association with the names of glacial geologists grouped in this area, it was named by the UK Antar ...

* Johann Friedrich Wilhelm de Charpentier (1738–1805), the father of both Toussaint and Johann/Jean *

Marie Charpentier Jeanne Radegonde Marie Charpentier (30 October 1903 – 9 October 1994) was a French mathematician. She was the first woman to obtain a doctorate in pure mathematics in France, and the second woman, after Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin, to obtain a ...

(1903–1994), mathematician *

Toussaint de Charpentier Toussaint von Charpentier (22 November 1779 – 4 March 1847) was a German geologist and entomologist. He was the author of ''Libellulinae europaeae descriptae e depictae'' (1840). Biography Toussaint von Charpentier was born in Freiberg, Saxony ...

(1779–1847), German geologist and entomologist

Soldiers

* Henri François Marie Charpentier (1769–1831), French general of the Napoleonic Wars

Writers

Fulgence Charpentier Fulgence Charpentier, OC (June 29, 1897 – February 6, 2001) was a French Canadian journalist, editor and publisher. Born in Sainte-Anne-de-Prescott, Ontario, Charpentier's career included diplomatic, political and bureaucratic positions, ...

(1897–2001), Canadian journalist, editor and publisher

Athletes

* Sébastien Charpentier (born 1973), French motorcycle racer * Sébastien Charpentier (born 1977), Canadian ice hockey player * Gabriel Charpentier (born 1999), Congolese-born French association football player

Other

* Henri Charpentier (183?-1888), namesake of a lake and town in

North Dakota North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the Native Americans in the United States, indigenous Dakota people, Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north a ...

Georges Charpentier Georges Charpentier (December 22, 1846 - November 15, 1905) was a 19th-century French publisher who became known as a champion of naturalist writers, especially Émile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, and Guy de Maupassant. He also promoted Impressionist ...

(1846-1905), 19th century French publisher

References

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