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De Pury Family
The de Pury (respectively Pury) is a Swiss noble family from Neuchâtel. The family, part of the Neuchâtel patriciate, were ennobled by Henri II d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville in 1651. In 1785 they were elevated to the Prussian nobility by Frederick the Great. History The de Pury family is originated in Val-de-Ruz in the County of Neuchâtel. Records of the family in Neuchâtel go back before 1396. The Pury were elevated into the French nobility in 1651 by Henri II d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville. In 1785, the family was elevated into the Prussian nobility by Frederick the Great. As part of the Neuchâtel patriciate, members of the family have held important positions in government, business and industry. In the 18th century, an American branch of the family was established by Jean-Pierre Pury, who founded the Colony of Purrysburg. Members of the American branch became planters in the Southeastern United States. In the 19th century, an Australian branch of the family was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrician (post-Roman Europe)
Patricianship, the quality of belonging to a patriciate, began in the ancient world, where cities such as Ancient Rome had a social class of Patrician (ancient Rome), patrician families, whose members were initially the only people allowed to exercise many political functions. In the rise of European towns in the 12th and 13th centuries, the patriciate, a limited group of families with a special constitutional position, in Henri Pirenne's view, was the motive force. In 19th century Central Europe, the term had become synonymous with the upper Bourgeoisie and cannot be interchanged with the Middle Ages, medieval patriciate in Central Europe. In the maritime republics of the Italian Peninsula as well as in Geographical distribution of German speakers#Europe, German-speaking parts of Europe, the patricians were as a matter of fact the ruling body of the medieval town. Particularly in Italy, they were part of the nobility. With the establishment of the medieval towns, Italian city-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southeastern United States
The Southeastern United States, also known as the American Southeast or simply the Southeast, is a geographical List of regions in the United States, region of the United States located in the eastern portion of the Southern United States and the southern portion of the East Coast of the United States, Eastern United States. The region includes a core of states that reaches north to Maryland and West Virginia, bordering the Ohio River and Mason–Dixon line, and stretches west to Arkansas and Louisiana. There is no official Federal government of the United States, U.S. government definition for the region, and it is defined variably among agencies and organizations. History The history of the present-day Southeastern United States dates to the dawn of civilization in approximately 11,000 BC or 13,000 BC. The earliest artifacts from the region were from the Clovis culture. Prior to the arrival of Colonial history of the United States, European colonialists, Native Americans in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Pury Family
The de Pury (respectively Pury) is a Swiss noble family from Neuchâtel. The family, part of the Neuchâtel patriciate, were ennobled by Henri II d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville in 1651. In 1785 they were elevated to the Prussian nobility by Frederick the Great. History The de Pury family is originated in Val-de-Ruz in the County of Neuchâtel. Records of the family in Neuchâtel go back before 1396. The Pury were elevated into the French nobility in 1651 by Henri II d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville. In 1785, the family was elevated into the Prussian nobility by Frederick the Great. As part of the Neuchâtel patriciate, members of the family have held important positions in government, business and industry. In the 18th century, an American branch of the family was established by Jean-Pierre Pury, who founded the Colony of Purrysburg. Members of the American branch became planters in the Southeastern United States. In the 19th century, an Australian branch of the family was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon De Pury
Abram Simon Léonor Christian de Pury colloquially Simon de Pury (born 21 November 1951) is a Swiss auctioneer, art dealer, curator, collector, DJ, and photographer. In 2002, he acquired the majority control of the auction house Phillips. He has appeared in several television programs and films, including the Bravo network reality series '' Work of Art: The Next Great Artist''. His book ''The Auctioneer: Adventures in the Art Trade'' was published in 2016. Early life De Pury was born 21 November 1951 into a Swiss noble family in Basel, Switzerland to Jean-Jacques de Pury (1911-1998), an attorney and president of Nippon Roche, the subsidiary of Roche in Japan, and Marguerite (née Miescher; 1916-2007), an expert for Ikebana. His older brother, David de Pury (1943-2000) was a former president of ABB and diplomat. He studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts in the 1970s. Art career De Pury began his art career in the early 1970s when he studied Japanese painting techniques at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David De Pury (diplomat)
Baron Patrice Lancelot "David" de Pury colloquially David de Pury (4 December 1943 – 27 December 2000) was a Swiss businessman and diplomat. He was the Swiss trade ambassador, representing Swiss interests at the General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade and at the Inter-American Development Bank. He was the chair of ABB, and chair and publisher of ''Le Temps''. Early life and education De Pury was born 4 December 1943 into nobility in Bern, Switzerland to Jean-Jacques de Pury (1911-1998), an attorney and president of Nippon Roche, the subsidiary of Roche in Japan, and Marguerite (née Miescher; 1916-2007), an expert for Ikebana. His paternal family that has been nobilitated in 1651 by Henri II. d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville and had their origins in Neuchatel. One of his brothers is Simon de Pury, auctioneer and former owner of Philips. His niece is Loyse de Pury, an actress and arts representative. On his maternal side he is of Bernese descent with his grandfather, H. Leona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert De Pury
Baron Albert de Pury (22 December 1940 – 5 June 2025) was a Swiss biblical scholar, historian and exegete. A specialist in biblical history, and the literary and religious traditions of the ancient Ancient Near East, he served on the faculty at the University of Geneva and the University of Neuchâtel as a professor of the Old Testament. Early life and education De Pury was a member of a Huguenot family from Neuchâtel that was ennobled by Frederick II of Prussia in 1785. He studied theology at the University of Basel and the University of Neuchâtel before enrolling at the École Biblique in Jerusalem. Career From 1966 to 1972, de Pury served on the faculty at the University of Neuchâtel's theology department as a professor of Biblical Hebrew. In 1975 he published his doctorate on the biblical figure Jacob. He taught classes on the Old Testament from 1972 to 1984. In 1984 he joined the faculty at the University of Geneva. He taught at Geneva for thirty years and served a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne De Pury
Marianne de Pury (born 3 April 1935) is a Swiss theatre artist and composer born in St. Gallen, Switzerland. She is best known as the musical composer of two 1966 anti-war plays, Jean-Claude van Itallie's social satire '' America Hurrah'' and Megan Terry's rock musical ''Viet Rock''. De Pury studied piano and composition at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève. She enjoyed the performing arts from a young age and, as a teen, she made frequent trips to Paris to see theatre. Later she moved to New York City, where she studied as an apprentice under the Open Theatre's director Joseph Chaikin. There she forged connections with artists active in New York's avant-garde theatre scene as well as the Black Panther Party. In 1965 she began a collaborative project with playwright and director Megan Terry who was working on a devised performance piece for the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club protesting the Vietnam War. Their ensemble improvisations at the Open Theatre laboratory resu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland De Pury
Roland (; ; or ''Rotholandus''; or ''Rolando''; died 15 August 778) was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the Matter of France. The historical Roland was military governor of the Breton March, responsible for defending Francia's frontier against the Bretons. His only historical attestation is in Einhard's ''Vita Karoli Magni'', which notes he was part of the Frankish rearguard killed in retribution by the Basques in Iberia at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass. The story of Roland's death at Roncevaux Pass was embellished in later medieval and Renaissance literature. The first and most famous of these epic treatments was the Old French ''Chanson de Roland">-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... ''Chanson de Roland'' of the 11th century. Two masterpieces of Italian Renaissance poetry, the ''Orlando Innamorato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Jean De Pury
Baron Edmond Jean de Pury (6 March 1845 – 7 November 1911) was a Swiss painter and engraver. Biography De Pury was born on 6 March 1845 in Neuchâtel. He was a member of a Prussian nobility, Prussian noble family and was a nephew of James-Ferdinand de Pury. He trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, studying painting and engraving. While at school in Paris, he was a student of Charles Gleyre In a composite group portrait of students in Gleyre's atelier, de Pury was painted in the nude by fellow student Alfred Lenglet. Another student, Paul Milliet, wrote of the image in his memoirs: "The fragment…shows the athletic torso of…de Pury. Alfred Lenglet's painting is solid and luminous, but to render completely the elegant vigor of the model would have required the chisel of a Greek sculptor." Although he painted landscapes, de Pury's main focus was portraiture. He was best known for his Italalian figure paintings, mainly of working-class people of Rome, Capri, and Veni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
