Famous People with Name Christoffel

Christoffel Paul (Tof) Thissen            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Christoffel Paul (Tof) Thissen: is a Dutch politician. Since 2004 he is member of the Senate for GreenLeft. Between 1976 and 1977 he was a member of the centre-left Labour Party. In 1977 however he switched to the more leftwing Pacifist Socialist Party. Betwedeen 1977 and 1982 he studied theology at the Higher School for Theology and Pastoral Studies in Heerlen. He reached his kandidaats examen (roughly equivalent to a Bachelor of Arts). Between and after his study he worked at the Limburg Centre for Development Cooperation. Between 1979 and 1985 he also was the Limburg provincial coordinator for peace activities and member of the national working group for local peace groups of the oecumenical Christian pacifist Interkerkelijk Vredesberaad. After his study Thissen worked as an RE teacher at a secondary school. In this period he was chair of the Roermond PSP between 1982 and 1986. Between 1986 and 2002 Thissen was a member of the Roermond city council. First for Roermond Left, an alliance the PSP and the progressive Christian Political Party of Radicals and later for GreenLeft, formed by a merger of the two parties merged. Between 1987 and 1990 he returned to studying theology, now at the Catholic University Nijmegen.

Elwin Bruno Christoffel            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Elwin Bruno Christoffel: was a German mathematician and physicist. Christoffel attended the Jesuit Gymnasium and Friedrich-Wilhelms Gymnasium in Cologne and studied at the University of Berlin with Dirichlet, among others, where he received a doctorate in 1856 for a thesis on the