Famous People with Name Theodoric

Theodoric Of Freiberg            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Theodoric Of Freiberg: was a German member of the Dominican order and a theologian and physicist. He was named provincial of the Dominican Order in 1293, Albert the Great's old post. While 13th century authors failed to provide an explanation for the rainbow, at the turn of the fourteenth century Theodoric was able to give the first correct geometrical analysis of this phenomenon, which was "probably the most dramatic development of 14th- and 15th-century optics". [1]

Theodorich Canisius            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Theodorich Canisius: was a Jesuit academic.Canisius was a half-brother of St. Peter Canisius. After winning, at the age of twenty-two, the highest academic distinction at Louvain, he decided to follow his stepbrother and enter the Society of Jesus, and was sent to St. Ignatius of Loyola in Rome, who received him into the Society.

Theodorick Bland            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Theodorick Bland: was a Virginia politician, merchant and planter. He was the father of Richard Bland[3], the grandfather of Richard Bland II[3], the great-grandfather of Congressman Theodorick Bland, and the great-great-grandfather of John Randolph of Roanoke.Sir John Paw