Adamantios Korais

Adamantios Korais

male, deceased (1833)
Greek War of Independence, Modern Greek writer, greek, freedom, byzantine, linguistics…UniversityofMontpellier
Adamantios Korais (Coraïs) (Greek Αδαμάντιος Κοραής was born in Smyrna, in 1748. He was exceptionally passionate about philosophy, literacy and ling...
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

male, 80 years old
historian, history from below, l'histoire immobile, Les paysans de Languedoc, Les Moutiers-en-Cinglais, The Peasants of Languedoc…UniversityofMontpellier, University of Paris, Alumni of the École Normale Supérieure
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (born 1929) is a noted French historian whose work is mainly focused upon Languedoc in the "ancien regime", focusing on the...
De Jussieu

De Jussieu

male
sixteenth century, Botanist, J. P. de Tournefort, Christophe de Jussieu, Institutiones rei herbariae, Jardin du Roi…UniversityofMontpellier, montpellier
De Jussieu, the name of a French family which came into prominent notice towards the close of the sixteenth century, and for a century and a half...
Guillaume Rondelet

Guillaume Rondelet

male, deceased (1566)
Rondeletia, French, physician, medicine, UniversityofMontpellier, Libri de Piscibus Marinis
Guillaume Rondelet, known also as Rondeletius, was professor of medicine at the University of Montpellier in southern France. Famed as a teacher,...

Frédéric Passy

male, deceased (1912)
louis philippe, Pacifist, Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, franco-prussian war, Nobel Peace Prize, French…UniversityofMontpellier
Frédéric Passy was a French economist and a joint winner (together with Henry Dunant) of the first Nobel Peace Prize awarded in 1901. Born in Pa...
Albert Zafy

Albert Zafy

male, 82 years old
Supreme Revolutionary Council, Living Forces, Francisque Ravony, Panorama Convention, National Union for Development and Democracy, Political minister…UniversityofMontpellier
Albert Zafy (born 1927) is a Malagasy political figure. He was the president of Madagascar from March 27, 1993 to September 5, 1996. Zafy studied...

Édouard Roche

male, deceased (1883)
Comets, natural satellite, French, orbit, gravitational, moon…montpellier, UniversityofMontpellier
Édouard Albert Roche was a French scientist, who is best known for his work in the field of celestial mechanics. He gave his name to the concepts o...

Raymond de Gaufredi

male, deceased (1310)
Franciscan, provence, UniversityofMontpellier, alchemical, Pierre Jean Olivi, Franciscan spirituals…Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor
Raymond de Gaufredi (died 1310) was a Franciscan from Provence. A sympathizer with the Franciscan Spirituals, he became Minister General of the...

Jules Émile Planchon

male, deceased (1888)
Botanist, Entomologist, French, ghent, montpellier, nancy…UniversityofMontpellier
Jules Émile Planchon was a French botanist. After receiving his Doctorate of Sciences degree at the University of Montpellier in 1844, he worked f...
Benoît Jules Mure

Benoît Jules Mure

male, deceased (1858)
Alexandria, anarchist, socialist, Utopian socialist, Tuberculosis, French…UniversityofMontpellier
Benoît Jules Mure was a French homeopath and anarcho-communist. After finishing medicine studies at the University of Montpellier, he travelled t...