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Houard
Houard is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Clodomir Houard (1873–1943), French botanist and entomologist * Marie-Claire Houard, Belgian civil servant See also * Howard Howard is a masculine given name derived from the English surname Howard. ''The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names'' notes that "the use of this surname as a christian name is quite recent and there seems to be no particular reason for ... {{surname French-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clodomir Houard
Clodomir Antony Vincent Houard (1873–1943) was a French botanist and entomologist whose chief interest was plant galls. He was Professor of Botany at the University of Strasbourg in 1940, and was the author of some 95 works on cecidology in 230 publications in 3 languages. Houard's interest in galls developed while he was studying in Paris. After assisting in a botanical laboratory, he was appointed as Inspector of Phytopathology and adjunct professor in Caen between 1911 and 1917, whereafter from 1919 to 1934 he was Director of the Institute of Botany and the Botanical Garden in Strasbourg. Despite retiring from this last position in 1934 he stayed on until Germany's WWII occupation of Strasbourg in 1940 made it prudent to leave. He travelled widely in Europe and North America, studying and gathering galls in herbaria and in nature, building up an extensive collection which is housed at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Claire Houard
Marie-Claire Houard is a Belgian civil servant from the city of Liège Liège ( ; ; ; ; ) is a City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the Liège Province, province of Liège, Belgium. The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east o ... committed to preserving the unity of Belgium amidst the ongoing political crisis. She organized a protest march of 35,000 on 18 November 2007 and her petition supporting Belgian unity was signed by more than 100,000 people. In 2000 she was dismissed from her job at the Post for having stolen 5000 euro from elderly people. References 21st-century Belgian civil servants Belgian women civil servants Belgian activists Belgian women activists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Belgium-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Surname
French names typically consist of one or multiple given names, and a surname. One given name, usually the first, and the surname are used in a person's daily life, with the other given names used mainly in official documents. Middle names, in the English sense, do not exist. Initials are not used to represent second or further given names. Traditionally, most French people were given names from the Roman Catholic Tridentine calendar, calendar of saints. However, given names for French citizens from immigrant communities are often from their own culture, and in modern France it has become increasingly common to use first names of (international) English or other foreign origin. Almost all traditional given names are gender-specific, but a few are not. Many female given names are feminine forms of traditional masculine French names. The prevalence of given names follows Fads and trends, trends, with some names being popular in some years, and some considered out-of-fashion. Compou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard
Howard is a masculine given name derived from the English surname Howard. ''The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names'' notes that "the use of this surname as a christian name is quite recent and there seems to be no particular reason for it except that it is the name of several noble families". The surname has a number of possible origins; in the case of the noble family, the likely source is the Norse given name Hávarðr, composed of the elements ''há'' ("high") and ''varðr'' ("guardian"). Diminutives include Howie and Ward. Howard reached peak popularity in the United States in the 1920s, when it ranked as the 26th most popular boys' name. As of 2018, it had fallen to 968th place. People with the given name * Howard Allen (1949–2020), American serial killer * Howard Duane Allman (1946–1971), American guitar virtuoso * Howard Anderson (other), name of several people * Howard Andrew (1934–2021), American poker player * Howard Ashman (1950–1991), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |