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Blasius à Conceptione
Blasius may refer to: * various saints, including Saint Blaise (the French form of Blasius) * August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius (1845–1912), German ornithologist * Blasius of Parma (c. 1345–1416), natural philosopher, born in Parma * Frédéric Blasius (1758–1829), French opera composer and conductor * Gerard Blasius (1627–1682), Dutch anatomist * Heinrich Wilhelm Blasius (1818–1899), German meteorologist * Joan Blasius (1639–1672), Dutch playwright, Gerhard's younger brother * Johann Heinrich Blasius (1809–1870), German zoologist * Jörg Blasius (born 1957), German sociologist * Paul Richard Heinrich Blasius (1883–1970), German physicist * Rudolf Blasius (1842–1907), German physician, bacteriologist, naturalist and ornithologist See also * Blaise (other) * Saint Blaise (other) * Blasius boundary layer In physics and fluid mechanics, a Blasius boundary layer (named after Paul Richard Heinrich Blasius) describes the steady two-dimensional lam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Blaise
Blaise of Sebaste (, ''Hágios Blásios''; martyred 316 AD) was a physician and bishop of Sivas, Sebastea in historical Lesser Armenia (modern Sivas, Turkey) who is venerated as a Christian saint and martyr. He is counted as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers. Blaise is a saint in the Catholic Church, Catholic, Western Rite Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodox Churches, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches and is the patron saint of wool combers and of sufferers from Otorhinolaryngology, ENT illnesses. In the Latin Church, his feast falls on 3 February. In the Eastern Churches, it is on 11 February. According to the ''Acta Sanctorum'', he was martyred by being beaten, combing (torture), tortured with iron combs, and beheaded. Early records The first reference to Blaise is the medical writings of Aëtius Amidenus () where his aid is invoked in treating patients with objects stuck in the throat. Marco Polo reported on the place where "Messer Saint Blaise obtained the glorious cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius
August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius (5 July 1845 in Braunschweig – 31 May 1912 in Braunschweig) was a German ornithologist. Blasius belonged to a family of scientists: his father was the ornithologist Johann Heinrich Blasius (1809-1870) and his brother was the ornithologist Rudolf Heinrich Paul Blasius (1842-1907). In 1871 he became a professor of zoology and botany at the Braunschweig University of Technology. He also served as director of its natural history museum and botanical gardens. He was a member of the council for the ''Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft'' (German Ornithological Society). Selected writings * ''Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Vogelfauna von Borneo'', 1881 (with Adolph Nehrkorn) - Contribution to the knowledge of birds from Borneo. * ''Dr. Platen's ornithologische Sammlungen aus Amboina'', 1882 (with Adolf Nehrkorn) - Dr. Platen's ornithological collection from Amboina. * ''Über die letzten Vorkommnisse des Riesen-Alks (Alca impennis)'', 1883 - On the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blasius Of Parma
Biagio Pelacani da Parma; 1416), known in English as Blasius of Parma, was an Italian philosopher, mathematician and astrologer. He popularised English and French philosophical work in Italy, where he associated both with scholastics and with early Renaissance humanists. He was professor of mathematics at the University of Padua, where he taught from 1382 to 1388; he taught also at the University of Pavia (1374? to 1378, and again 1389 to 1407), and the University of Bologna (1389 to 1382). His students included Vittorino da Feltre. Works Blasius around 1390 wrote a work on Perspective (graphical), perspective; it drew on Alhacen, John Pecham, and Witelo. Filippo Brunelleschi may have known of the work of Blasius through Giovanni dell'Abbaco. His ''Tractatus de Ponderibus'' was based on Oxford theories on Classical mechanics, laws of motion taken up from the statics of Jordanus Nemorarius, and introduced them into Italy. He disagreed with the views of Thomas Bradwardine on Propor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédéric Blasius
Frédéric Blasius (24 April 1758, in Lauterbourg – 1829, in Versailles) was a French violinist, clarinetist, conductor, and composer. Born Matthäus ( French: Matthieu, Mathieu) Blasius, he used Frédéric as his pen name on his publications in Paris.Koch (2002), p. 13. Life and career Blasius was born in Lauterbourg, a town in the far northeast corner of France on the Rhineland border of Alsace. This frontier town had been fortified in the late 17th century by Louis XIV and had a large military presence, including many musicians. Both of his parents were German. His mother, a member of the Bugard family, was originally from the South Rhineland town of Schaidt, and his father, Johann Michael Blasius,Klein, Deanne Arkus. "Blasius, (Mathieu-)Frédéric athaeus, Matthäus in Sadie (2001). was from Rastatt in Baden. His father earned his living primarily as a master tailor, but was also a musician and gave his son his first lessons.Ostermeyer (ca. 2007). The young Blasius al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Blasius
Gerard "Gerrit" Leendertszoon Blasius (1627–1682) was a Dutch physician and anatomist. He was born in Amsterdam and was the eldest son of Leonhard Blasius (died 1644), who had worked as an architect in Copenhagen. Gerard started his studies there, but the family moved to Leiden after his father died. Around 1655, Blasius became a physician in Amsterdam. In October 1659, he was appointed to the Athenaeum Illustre but without being paid. In the next year, he became Amsterdam's first professor in medicine. At his home or in the hospital, corpses were dissected. In 1661, he claimed the discovery of Stensen's duct made by his pupil Nicolas Stensen. Blasius had married Cornelia van Ottinga in 1653. His younger brother was the poet Joan Blasius. Blasius died in Amsterdam in 1682. Works A list of works: on |
Heinrich Wilhelm Blasius
Heinrich Wilhelm Blasius (1818–1899), later known as William Blasius was a German-born American meteorologist. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1875. Biography Blasius was born in Eckenbach near Nümbrecht and his older brother was zoologist Johann Heinrich Blasius. He studied natural sciences, especially zoology, in Bonn from 1842 to 1847. After his studies he became a professor of natural history at the Lyceum in Hanover. In 1850 he emigrated to the United States for political reasons and lived in Cambridge near Boston. In 1852, Blasius put forward a theory about the genesis of storms similar in many points to the basic views of later adopted Norwegian frontal theory, following in the steps of Heinrich Wilhelm Dove. However, he found few supporters because he created his own terminology and did not substantiate his theories. His theses were soon largely forgotten. Blasius received US citizenship in 1860 and was elected to the American Philo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Blasius
Joan Leonardszoon Blasius (13 April 1639 – 6 December 1672) was a Dutch poet, playwright, translator and lawyer. Born near Cadzand in Oostvliet, a village now lost to the North Sea, he was the younger brother of the famous doctor Gerard Blasius. Blasius in 1670 became director of the Amsterdam Municipal Theatre, the Amsterdamse Schouwburg, but because of this powerful position as well as the romantic nature of his works for the theatre, he incurred the enmity of the tradition oriented theatre company "Nil volentibus arduum". When he put on Plautus's ''Menaechmi'' in translation, that theatre company promptly came out with a translation of its own. Their attacks, however, were fiercely answered by Blasius' friends, especially Thomases Asselyn. Blasius' work was in high repute amongst his contemporaries, but today critical opinion no longer holds it in high esteem. Blasius died in Amsterdam. His friends contributed to an ''Album amicorum'' for him, which included work by suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Heinrich Blasius
Johann Heinrich Blasius (7 October 1809 – 26 May 1870) was a German zoologist. His sons, Rudolf Heinrich Paul Blasius (1842-1907) and August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius (1845–1912) were ornithologists. Biography Blasius was born on 7 October 1809. In 1836, he was appointed as a professor at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig. In 1840, he founded the Botanischer Garten der Technischen Universität Braunschweig. In 1859, he was appointed as the director of the newly founded Naturhistorisches Museum (Braunschweig) and in 1866 also of the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum. Writings He was the author of two major books on vertebrates: "''Fauna der Wirbelthiere Deutschlands''" (1857), and "''Die wirbelthiere Europa's''" (Vertebrates of Europe, with Alexander von Keyserling, 1840). He also wrote "''Reise im Europäischen Russland in den Jahren 1840 und 1851''" (Journey to European Russia in the years 1840 & 1851). In 1862, ornithologist Alfred Newton (1829–1907) published "A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jörg Blasius
Jörg Blasius (born 1957) is a German sociologist, and Professor at the Institute of Political Science and Sociology of the University of Bonn. He became known through his earlier work on correspondence analysis in the social sciences.Borg, Ingwer, and Patrick JF Groenen. ''Modern multidimensional scaling: Theory and applications.'' Springer Science & Business Media, 2005. Life and work Born in Hamburg Blasius obtained his degree in sociology. From 1986 to 2001 he was researcher at the University of Cologne at the city's Central Archive for Empirical Social Research. In 2001 he was appointed Professor at the Institute of Political Science and Sociology of the University of Bonn. His research interests include the methods of empirical social research, the statistics used (in particular correspondence analysis), the urban sociology, lifestyles, media research, environmental sociology and political sociology Political sociology is an interdisciplinary field of study concerned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Richard Heinrich Blasius
Paul Richard Heinrich Blasius (9 August 1883 – 24 April 1970) was a German fluid dynamics physicist. He was one of the first students of Prandtl Ludwig Prandtl (4 February 1875 – 15 August 1953) was a German Fluid mechanics, fluid dynamicist, physicist and aerospace scientist. He was a pioneer in the development of rigorous systematic mathematical analyses which he used for underlyin .... Blasius provided a mathematical basis for boundary-layer drag but also showed as early as 1911 that the resistance to flow through smooth pipes could be expressed in terms of the Reynolds number for both laminar and turbulent flow. After six years in science he changed to ''Ingenieurschule Hamburg'' (today: University of Applied Sciences Hamburg) and became a Professor. On 1 April 1962 Heinrich Blasius celebrated his 50th anniversary in teaching. He was active in his field until he died on 24 April 1970. One of his most notable contributions involves a description of the steady two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Blasius
Rudolf Heinrich Paul Blasius (25 November 1842, Braunschweig - 21 September 1907, Braunschweig) was a German physician, bacteriologist, naturalist and ornithologist. left, 200px, Grave of Rudolf and Mally BlasiusBlasius was the son of Johann Heinrich Blasius, professor of natural history at the Collegium Carolinum and director of the Ducal Museum and Luise (née Thiele) (1822-1886). The family came from Sophiental and Rudolf became interested in natural history of the region while visiting his grandparents. His brother Wilhelm Blasius became an ornithologist. He later went on field trips with Adolph Nehrkorn and they published a list of the birds of the Braunschweig region. Rudolf studied at the Collegium Carolinum and then studied medicine at the University of Göttingen, the University of Zurich, and then Göttingen where he worked on his doctoral thesis. He studied the microstructure of bird eggs and obtained his degree on January 30, 1866. He joined military service as a do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blaise (other)
Blaise is a personal name (from Greek Βλασιος, the name of Saint Blaise) and a place name. It can refer to: People and fictional characters * Blaise (name), including lists of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname Places France * Blaise-sous-Arzillières, a village and commune in the Marne ''département'' of north-eastern France * Blaise, a former commune of the Ardennes ''département'', now part of Vouziers * Blaise, a former commune of the Haute-Marne ''département'', now part of Colombey-les-Deux-Églises * Blaise (Marne), a tributary of the Marne River, northeastern France * Blaise (Eure), a tributary of the Eure (river), northern France Switzerland * Gate of Blaise, an ancient city gate in Basel United Kingdom * Blaise Castle, a stately home in what is now the city of Bristol, England * Blaise Hamlet, built about 1811 for retired employees of the owner of Blaise Castle * Blaise High School, Bristol, England See also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
