Famous People with Name Salomon

Salomon Zeldenrust            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Salomon Zeldenrust: was a Dutch Olympic fencer. He won a bronze medal in the team sabre event at the 1920 Summer Olympics.[1][2]

Salomon Junior            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Salomon Junior: is a Beninese football player who currently plays in Benin for ASPAC Cotonou. Junior began his career with Université Nationale du Bénin, before joined in November 2009 to ASPAC Cotonou. He was part of the Benin national football team at 2010 African Cup

Salomon Reinach            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Salomon Reinach: was a French archaeologist. The brother of Joseph Reinach, he was born at St Germain-en-Laye and educated at the École normale supérieure before joining the French school at Athens in 1879. He made valuable archaeological discoveries at Myrina near Smyrna in 1880-82, at Cyme in 1881, at Thasos, Imbros and Lesbos (1882), at Carthage and Meninx (1883-84), at Odessa (1893) and elsewhere. He received honours from the chief learned societies of Europe.

Salomon Jadassohn            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Salomon Jadassohn: was a German composer and a renowned teacher of piano and composition at the Leipzig Conservatory. Because he was Jewish, Jadassohn could not qualify for the many church jobs as music directors or organists which were usually available to Christian graduates of a conservatory such as Leipzig, as they required deep knowledge of Christian liturgy and practice. Instead he worked for a Leipzig synagogue and a few local choral societies as well as teaching privately. Eventually, he was able to qualify for a position at the Leipzig Conservatory, teaching piano and composition.

Salomon Kalischer            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Salomon Kalischer: was a German composer, pianist, and physicist. After acting as tutor for a year at Amsterdam he returned to Berlin to study physics and chemistry. In 1876 he established himself as privat-docent at the Bauakademie of Berlin, subsequently connecting himself in the same capacity with the Technische Hochschule at Charlottenburg, at which institution he was appointed lecturer (1894) and professor (1896) of physics. He died in Mariánské Lázne (Marienbad).

Sebastián Salomón            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Sebastián Salomón: an Argentine football midfielder. He currently plays for Godoy Cruz in Argentina.

Joseph François Salomon            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Joseph François Salomon: was a French composer of the Baroque era. Born in Toulon he learnt to play the bass viol and the harpsichord and came to Paris to work as a musician for the royal family. He was 52 before he composed his first opera, the tragédie en musique Médée et Jason.

Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon: was a sculptor and pioneering photographer based in Paris, France. Following a brief career as a modeler for the Jacob Petit pottery factory in Fontainebleau, he received an official scholarship to study sculpture in Paris, as well as travelling to Switzerland and England.[1] His notable sculptures include busts of Victor Cousin, Odilon Barrot, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Alphonse de Lamartine, Gioachino Rossini, and Marie Antoinette.[2]

Johann Peter Salomon            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Johann Peter Salomon: was a German violinist, composer, conductor and musical impresario. While in England, Salomon composed two operas for the Royal Opera,[2] several art songs, a number of concertos, and chamber music pieces. He is perhaps best known today, however, as a concert organiser and conductor.

Edward Selig Salomon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edward Selig Salomon: was a German immigrant to the United States who served as a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War and later became governor of Washington Territory and a California legislator.