Famous People with Name Hamel

Hendrick Hamel            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Hendrick Hamel: was the first Westerner to write about the Joseon Dynasty era in Korea (1666).Hendrick Hamel was a bookkeeper with the Dutch East India Company (the VOC). In 1653, while heading for Japan on the ship 'De Sperwer' (the Sparrowhawk), he was shipwrecked on Jeju Island off the southern coast of Korea along with thirty-five of his crewmates. 36 of the 64 members of the crew survived the shipwreck, and the men were promptly taken into custody and sent to Seoul. They were forbidden to leave the country, but they were given some freedom to move and mix with the different classes of Korean society.

Jean-Baptiste Du Hamel            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jean-Baptiste Du Hamel: was a notable French natural philosopher of the later seventeenth century, and secretary of the Academie Royale des Sciences. He was born at Vire, Normandy (now in the department of Calvados), the son of Vire lawyer Nicolas Du Hamel. He began his studies at Caen and completed them in Paris. In 1642, being only eighteen years of age, Duhamel published an explanation of the work of Theodosius of Bithynia called Spherics, to which he added a treatise on trigonometry. The following year he entered the Congregation of the Oratory, which he left ten years later to take charge of the parish of Neuilly-sur-Marne.

Lambert Hamel            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Lambert Hamel: is a German television and film actor.

Peter Michael Hamel            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Peter Michael Hamel: is a German composer. His works have been associated with the Minimalist style of composition, and in the late 1970s with the New Simplicity movement. Peter Michael Hamel ranks as one of the better known and successful German composers of his generation.[citation needed] He studied musical composition, psychology and sociology in Munich and Berlin with teachers including Günter Bialas and Carl Dahlhaus (Fricke 2001). He then attended workshops with Karlheinz Stockhausen[citation needed] and continued his education abroad, spending several extensive periods in Asia (Fricke 2001).

Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel: was a German mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory. He studied at Aachen, Berlin, Göttingen, and Karlsruhe. He taught at Brünn in 1905, Aachen in 1912, and at the Technical University of Berlin in 19