Famous People with Name Ambrosius

Ambrosius Bosschaert            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Ambrosius Bosschaert: was a still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age

Ambrosius Bosschaert The Elder            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Ambrosius Bosschaert The Elder: was a still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age. He started his career in Antwerp, but spend most of it in Middelburg (1593–1613), where he became dean of the painters' guild. He later worked in Amsterdam (1614), Bergen op Zoom (1615–1616), Utrecht (1616–1619), and Breda (1619). He specialised in painting still lifes with flowers.

Ambrosius Beber            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Ambrosius Beber: was a German composer. Very little is known about is life. He lived and worked in the first part of the 17th century. He is mentioned as musician of Naumburg. The only work survived is a St. Mark Passion from ca. 1610.

Ambrosius Pelargus            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Ambrosius Pelargus: was a German Dominican theologian. He was skilled in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. His polemical efforts were directed principally against the Anabaptists, the Iconoclasts, and those who rejected the Mass. Pelargus was a humanist name, from the Greek pelargon, meaning stork; his real name is given as Storch.[1]

Ambrosius Arnold Willem Hubrecht            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Ambrosius Arnold Willem Hubrecht: was a Dutch zoölogist. He was born in Rotterdam, was educated at the universities of Utrecht, Leyden, Erlangen, and Heidelberg, was Selenka's assistant in zoölogy at Erlangen in 1874, in 1875–1882 was in the Leyden Zoölogical Museum, and in 1882 became professor at Utrecht. In 1890–1891 he traveled in Java, Sumatra, and Borneo, where he made embryological studies, notably on the tarsier. He visited the United States in 1896 and 1907. Honorary degrees were conferred on him by Princeton, St. Andrews, Dublin, Glasgow, and Giessen. His most important work was in embryology and placentation of the mammals. In papers in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopial Science in 1883 and 1887 he put forth the theory—also held by Sir E. Ray Lankester—that the vertebrates originated in a Nemertine form,