Famous People with Name Joachim

Joachim Mununga            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Joachim Mununga: is a Belgian football player from Congolese descent. Mununga promoted with AFC Tubize to the highest level of Belgian football in 2008. He decided however to leave the team and to sign for KV Mechelen, as a lot of other players left Tubize.

Joachim Ferdinand Richardt            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Joachim Ferdinand Richardt: Danish-American artist, in Denmark known for his drawings of manor houses, and in the U.S. for his paintings of Niagara Falls and other landscapes.Ferdinand Richardt, the son of Johan Joachim Richardt and Johanne Frederikke née Bohse, was born in Brede, north of Copenhagen in 1819. His father ran the inn/company store at the Brede factory. In 1832 the family relocated to nearby Ørholm to operate the inn at the paper-factory there. In 1839, they moved to Copenhagen.

Joachim Brøchner Olsen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Joachim Brøchner Olsen: is a former world class shot putter.With ten straight international finals, Joachim holds the longest string of appearances in finals at Olympic, World and European Championships among throwers.From October 2003, Olsen was coached by former olympic finalist Vesteinn Hafsteinsson.

Joachim Standfest            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Joachim Standfest: is an Austrian footballer who currently plays as a midfielder / defender for FK Austria Wien in the Austrian Bundesliga. Standfest made his professional debut for Grazer AK in the 1998/1999 season. He stayed 9 seasons with GAK, winning a league title and three domestic cups. He left GAK for Austria Wien in January 2007, just before GAK were demoted to the Regionalliga Mitte because of financial difficulties. He made his debut for Austria in October 2003 against the Czech Republic and was a participant at EURO 2008. Until August 21st, he earned 32 caps, scoring 2 goals.

Joachim Gasquet            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Joachim Gasquet: was a French writer, poet, and art critic born in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône. He is best known for his writing about the artists of his era, particularly Paul Cézanne, who was his friend.[1] His 1921 book Cézanne is a testament to the life of the artist, whose work Gasquet had known since an 1895 exhibition at Aix-en-Provence.

Dorothea Tanning            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dorothea Tanning: is an American painter, printmaker, sculptor and writer. She has also designed sets and costumes for ballet and theatre.Tanning lived in Paris for twenty-eight years. Having moved to New York, she exhibited with the Julien Levy Gallery prior to meeting the German painter Max Ernst in 1942; she married Ernst four years later (becoming his fourth wife, after Luise Straus-Ernst in 1918, Marie-Berthe Aurenche in 1927 and Peggy Guggenheim in 1942). Ernst introduced her to the circle of the Surrealists. Her best-known work, Eine kleine Nachtmusik (a dark painting laden with symbolism; ironically named after Mozart's light-hearted serenade), shows that she became a member of that group for a while, but later her painting style became prismatic and lyrical.

Otto Joachim            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Otto Joachim: is a German-born Canadian musician and composer of electronic music.he trained as a violinist at Düsseldorf and Cologne. In 1934 he left Germany and played in Singapore and Shanghai during the war years. He settled permanently in Montreal in 1949. For the next 15 years Joachim worked as a player, teacher, instrument builder and composer. Since the 1960s he has concentrated on his compositions which are a mix of aleatoric and electroacoustic works.

Paulin Joachim            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Paulin Joachim: is a Beninese poet, journalist, and editor. He was educated in several places including Lyon and by 1971 was a French citizen. He also worked with French poet Philippe Soupault. His two volumes of poetry are Un nègre raconte in 1954 and Anti-grâce in 1967

Benoît Joachim            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Benoît Joachim: is a professional road racing cyclist from Luxembourg.Joachim started his professional career at the age of 18 for a small Italian cycling team, Sonego Sport, After racing with them for three months, he was noticed by a bigger, De Nardi who were interesting him. After riding with De Nardi for 3 years, he joined the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team and rides as a super-domestique for the team.

Joseph Henri Joachim            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Joseph Henri Joachim: was a French lawyer and politician. he became a successful lawyer in Paris. In 1793 he was named administrator of the district of La Réole, returning to work as a lawyer under the French Directory. In 1808 he became a member of the Legislative Corps; he was again deputy after the Restoration, being chosen as Minister of Interiors between 1816 and 1818