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Charles-Édouard Hocquard
Charles-Édouard Hocquard ( Nancy 1853 - Lyons 1911) was a French medical doctor and explorer, famous for being a photographer. Biography Born in Nancy, he studied military medicine in Paris at Val-de-Grâce Hospital. He volunteered for the French expedition in Tonkin (now North of Vietnam) in 1883 and explored Indochina, from the Chinese frontiers to the delta of Saigon. His photographs were displayed at the Antwerp Universal Exhibition in 1885 where they were awarded by a gold medal. He published ''Trente mois au Tonkin'' (Thirty Months in Tonkin) in ''Le Tour du Monde'' (1889 and 1891) and ''Une campagne au Tonkin'' in 1892. Hocquard travelled to Madagascar and Comores in 1894, and became director of the military health service of the French expeditionary troops in Madagascar. He published in 1896 ''L'Expédition de Madagascar, journal de campagne''. He died in Lyons in 1911 from influenza. Photographs File:Hocquard1.jpeg, Soldiers of the Yellow Flag Army, enlisted b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Edouard Hocquard (1892)
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (James (< Latin ''-us'', see Spanish/ Portuguese ''Carlos''). According to Julius Pokorny, the historical linguist and Indo-European studies, Indo-Europeanist, the root meaning of Charles is "old man", from Proto-Indo-European language, Indo-European *wikt:Appendix:Proto-Indo-Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |