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Eugénie Clermont
Eugénie is the French version of the female given name Eugenia. Eugénie or Eugenie may refer to: People * Eugénie d'Alsace (died 735), Second abbess of Mont Sainte-Odile Abbey * Eugénie de Montijo (1826–1920), 9th Countess de Teba; later Empress Eugénie, Empress Consort to Napoléon III * Eugénie du Colombier (1806–1888) French painter * Princess Eugenie of Sweden and Norway (1830–1889), of the House of Bernadotte * Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887-1969), Queen consort of Spain and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria * Princess Eugénie of Bourbon (born 2007), French-Spanish royal * Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark (1910–1989) * Princess Eugenie of York (born 1990), British princess, daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York * Eugenie Anderson (1909–1997), US ambassador, first woman appointed chief of mission at the ambassador level in US history * Eugenie Besserer (1868–1934), French silent film actress * Eugénie Blanchard (1896–2010) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenia (name)
Eugenia is a feminine first name related to the masculine name Eugene (given name), Eugene that comes from the Greek language, Greek ''eugenes'' 'well-born', from ''eu''- 'well' + ''genes'' 'born' (from ''genos'').Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'''s.v.''/ref> Variants include Eugénia (Portuguese language, Portuguese), Eugénie (French language, French), Eugènia (Catalan language, Catalan), Uxía (Galician language, Galician), Evgenia (), Eugenija (Lithuanian language, Lithuanian) and Yevgenia or Yevgeniya (; also transliterated as Evgenia or Evgeniya), In Ukraine the russianized form is Yevheniia, but the folk form of the name is Yivha (:uk:Євгенія, Євгенія). Notable people * Eugenia of Rome (died c. 258), Roman Christian martyr * Eugenia Smet (1825–1871), French nun, founder of the Society of the Helpers of the Holy Souls * Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg (1845–1925) * Eugenia Abu, Nigerian journalist * Eugenia B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenie Clark
Eugenie Clark (May 4, 1922 – February 25, 2015), popularly known as The Shark Lady, was an American ichthyologist known for both her research on shark behavior and her study of fish in the order Tetraodontiformes. Clark was a pioneer in the field of scuba diving for research purposes. In addition to being regarded as an authority in marine biology, Clark was popularly recognized and used her fame to promote marine conservation. Early life and education Eugenie Clark was born and raised in New York City. Her father, Charles Clark, died when Eugenie was almost two years old, and her mother, Yumico Motomi, later married Japanese restaurant owner Masatomo Nobu. Clark attended elementary school in Woodside, Queens, and graduated from Bryant High School in Queens, New York. She was the only student of Japanese descent in her schools. From an early age, Clark was passionate about marine science, with many of her school reports covering topics in marine biology. An initial visit to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie Rocherolle
Eugénie Ricau Rocherolle is an American composer, pianist, lyricist, and teacher who began her composing career with choral and band music.Hal Leonard Corporatio''Eugenie Rocherolle Series'' Biography Rocherolle grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, New Orleans. She graduated from St. Martin's Episcopal School and graduated with a BA in music from the Newcomb College of Tulane University. She spent her Junior Year of college in Paris where she also had a class with Nadia Boulanger Juliette Nadia Boulanger (; 16 September 188722 October 1979) was a French music teacher, conductor and composer. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organis .... She released her first piano solo collection in 1978 with great success and soon established herself as one of the leading American composers of piano repertoire. Throughout her lifetime she has composed works for solo voice, chorus, and orchestra, musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie Potonié-Pierre
Eugénie Potonié-Pierre (5 November 1844 – 12 June 1898 Paris) was a French feminist who founded the Federation of French Feminist Societies in 1892. She joined the Society for the Amelioration of Women's Condition with Léon Richer and Maria Deraismes in the 1870s. She served as the secretary and wrote for the organization's publication '' Le Droit des femmes (Women's Rights)''. In 1880, with Léonie Rouzade, she founded Union des Femmes. She was secretary of the committee of the International Congress for Women's Rights, in 1892, and 1896. In her speech to the International Congress of 1896 in Berlin, Potonié-Pierre credited herself and French feminist peers with coining the term ''féminisme''. Death She died 12 June 1898, from a cerebral hemorrhage at age 54. She is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery Père Lachaise Cemetery (, , formerly , ) is the largest cemetery in Paris, France, at . With more than 3.5 million visitors annually, it is the most visited nec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenie Leontovich
Eugenie Leontovich (born Yevgeniya Konstantinovna Leontovich; ; March 21 or April 3, "Eugenie Leontovich, 93; actress, writer, director", ''Chicago Tribune'', April 4, 1993, pg. 6."Eugenie Leontovich, 93, Actress, Playwright and Teacher, Is Dead". Glenn Collins, ''The New York Times'', pg. 11, April 3, 1993; accessed October 20, 2015. interactive.ancestrylibrary.com; accessed October 20, 2015. – April 3, 1993) was a Russian-American actress with a distinguished career in , |
Eugenie Lautensach-Löffler
Eugenie Lautensach-Löffler (6 August 1902 in Ramstein – 11 July 1987 in Munich) was a German geographer and local historian. Biography Eugenie Lautensach-Löffler was the daughter of senior teacher Georg Löffler and his wife Martha (née Pletsch). She grew up in Ramstein, Germany, and attended the local elementary school, then the higher female educational institution in Kaiserslautern. In 1922 she graduated from the humanistic Luisengymnasium in Munich. She then studied German, history and geography at the university there. In 1926, she completed her doctoral studies with a dissertation under Erich von Drygalski titled ''The surface design of the Palatinate Stepped Country''. After serving as an assistant to Drygalski, she worked as a specialist editor for geography in Freiburg from 1931. She worked in the map department of the German Foreign Institute in Stuttgart for a year in 1935 and then she returned to Ramstein in 1936 due to a research grant for research from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie De Keyser
Eugénie De Keyser (17 May 1918, Brussels - 4 April 2012) was a Belgian writer and art critic. She was Professor Emeritus at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve) and at Saint-Louis University, Brussels (Brussels), specializing in contemporary art and sculpture. She was a member of the Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium (RASAB) is a non-governmental association that promotes and organises science and the arts in Belgium by coordinating the national and international activities of its constituent academies su .... She wrote one of the books for Editions d'Art Albert Skira 10 volume series "Art, Ideas, History" titled "The Romantic West, 1789-1850". In 1966 she was awarded the Prix Rossel for her novel ''La surface de l'eau''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie Hunsicker
Eugénie Lee Hunsicker is an American mathematician who works at Loughborough University in England as a senior lecturer in pure mathematics and as director of equality and diversity for the school of science. Her research in pure mathematics has concerned topics "at the intersection of analysis, geometry and topology"; she has also worked on more applied topics in data science and image classification. Education and career Hunsicker grew up in Iowa City, and was inspired to do mathematics in part by a high school teacher who was married to a mathematics professor at the University of Iowa. She went to Haverford College, where she was mentored by mathematician Curtis Greene, including two summers of mathematical research with Greene. She also visited the University of Oxford as an exchange student, and earned an honorable mention for the 1992 Alice T. Schafer Prize for excellence in mathematics by an undergraduate woman, won that year by Zvezdelina Stankova. Hunsicker graduated f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie Henderson
Eugénie Jane Andrina Henderson (2 October 1914 – 27 July 1989) was a British linguist and academic, specialising in phonetics. From 1964 to 1982, she was Professor of Phonetics at the University of London. She served as Chair of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain from 1977 to 1980, and President of the Philological Society from 1984 to 1988. Early life and education Henderson was born on 2 October 1914 at Rose Villa, Archbold Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne, England. R. H. Robins, "Henderson , Eugénie Jane Andrina (1914–1989)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 200accessed 26 Nov 2017/ref> She was the daughter of William Alexander Cruickshank Henderson, a civil engineer, and his wife Pansy Viola (''née'' Schürer)."Henderson, Prof. Eugénie Jane Andrina", ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 201accessed 26 Nov 2017/ref> She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie D'Hannetaire
Marie-Louis-Philippine-Eugénie Servandoni (6 January 1746, Brussels - 22 February 1816, Paris), stage name Eugénie D'Hannetaire, was a French actress. She was the daughter of the actor-director D'Hannetaire and the actress Marguerite Huet (stage name Mlle Eugénie). She made her debut at the Théâtre de la Monnaie aged 8, in child roles, then from 15 as a dancer. She is reported to have succeeded her mother in her roles as a soubrette. She left Brussels in 1773 and in Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ... married the comic-actor Larive, from whom she divorced 20 years later. Prince Charles-Joseph de Ligne vowed her his boundless admiration and dedicated his ''Lettres à Eugénie sur les spectacles'' (1774) to her. Bibliography * Henri Liebrecht: Histoire d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie De Guérin
Eugénie de Guérin (; 29 January 1805 – 31 May 1848) was a French writer and the sister of the poet Maurice de Guérin. Her ''Journals'' (1861, Eng. trans., 1865) and her ''Lettres'' (1864, Eng. trans., 1865) indicated the possession of gifts of as rare an order as those of her brother, though of a somewhat different kind. In her case mysticism Mysticism is popularly known as becoming one with God or the Absolute (philosophy), Absolute, but may refer to any kind of Religious ecstasy, ecstasy or altered state of consciousness which is given a religious or Spirituality, spiritual meani ... assumed a form more strictly religious, and she continued to mourn her brother's loss of his early Catholic faith. Five years older than he, she cherished a love for him which was blended with a somewhat motherly anxiety. After his death she began the collection and publication of the scattered fragments of his writings. She died, however, before her task was completed. See Sainte-Beu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie De Gramont
Eugénie de Gramont (17 September 1788, Versailles – 19 November 1846, Paris) was a French nun of the Society of the Sacred Heart. Life She became a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart in 1806, encountering it at Amiens. Her aristocratic mother also joined it a few years afterwards, and made her novitiate under the guidance of her own daughter. In 1815, despite her relative youth and the drawback of a slight physical deformity, de Gramont was placed in charge of the first school of the Sacred Heart, opened in Paris, Rue des Postes, afterwards transferred to the Rue de Varenne. The school flourished under her care and, after a short interruption of her work by the revolution of 1830, she was sent back to govern the house as superioress and continued to do so until her death in 1846. Madeleine Sophie Barat, founder of the Society, had concerns, however. The two women were divided over the role of Louis de Sambucy de Saint-Estève; and in 1839 de Gramont opposed Barat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
