Famous People with Name Caspar

Caspar Erasmus Duftschmid            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Caspar Erasmus Duftschmid: properly Kaspar was an Austrian naturalist and physician who made significant contributions to entomology, especially Coleoptera.His best known work, introducing many new genera and species is Fauna Austriaca. Oder Beschreibung der österreischischen Insekten für angehande Freunde der Entomologie. Volume 1 1804 1805?, Volume 2 1812, Volume 3 1825.

Caspar (or Gaspar) Netscher            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Caspar (or Gaspar) Netscher: was a Dutch portrait and genre painter, possibly German-born.Netscher's early years are shrouded in obscurity. He may have been born in Heidelberg. According to Arnold Houbraken's 17th century biographical study of Dutch painters, his father died when he was two years of age, and his mother, fleeing from the dangers of a civil war, carried him to Arnhem.

Caspar Wessel            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Caspar Wessel: was a Danish-Norwegian mathematician.It was the mathematical aspect of surveying that led him to exploring the geometrical significance of complex numbers. His fundamental paper, Om directionens analytiske betegning, was published in 1799 by the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. Since it was in Danish, it passed almost unnoticed, and the same results were later independently found by Argand and Gauss.

Caspar Bartholin The Younger            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Caspar Bartholin The Younger: was a Danish anatomist who first described the "Bartholin's gland" in the 17th century. Born in Copenhagen.He came from an eminent family and started his medical studies in 1671 at the age of 16. In 1674, at the age of 19, the King appointed him as Professor of Philosophy. He described the glands that bear his name in 1677.

Caspar Bartholin            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Caspar Bartholin: was born at Malmø, Denmark (modern Sweden) and was a polymath, finally accepting a professorship in medicine at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1613. He later taught theology at the same university.

Daniel Caspar            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Daniel Caspar: was a Baroque Silesian playwright, lawyer, diplomat, poet, and chief representative of the Second Silesian School. Daniel Caspar was the son of the imperial customs-officer, Akzisefälle-Einnehmers and Biergefälle-Einnehmers named Johann (Hans) Casper (c.1

Georg Caspari            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Georg Caspari: was a Baltic German academic. He studied at the University of Rostock, where he published De Descensu Christi ad Inferos in 1704 and De Testamentis Divinis in 1705. Caspari also published some of his father's papers after his death in 1702. After living for a while in Greifswald, Caspari returned to Riga in 1723 and served at the cathedral. He died in his hometown.

Leopold Caspari            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Leopold Caspari: was a French-born businessman and politician from Natchitoches, Louisiana, who, as a state representative in 1884 pushed for the establishment of Northwestern State University.In 1884, Caspari was elected as a Democrat to the Louisiana House of Representa

Ernst Gustaf Casparsson            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Ernst Gustaf Casparsson: was a Swedish horse rider who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Daniel Caspary            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Daniel Caspary: is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Baden-Württemberg. He is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party.