Famous People with Name Achard

Marcel Achard            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Marcel Achard: was a French playwright and screenwriter whose popular sentimental comedies maintained his position as a highly-recognizable name in his country's theatrical and literary circles for five decades. He was elected to the Académie Française in 1959.

Emile Achard            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Emile Achard: was a French internist born in Paris. In 1893 he became médecin des hôpitaux, and later a professor of general pathology and therapeutics. In 1910 he was appointed professor of internal medicine at the University of Paris. He also was also a physician at Hôpital Cochin in Paris.

Louis Amédée Eugène Achard            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Louis Amédée Eugène Achard: was a prolific French novelist. After a short stay near Algiers, where he supervised a farm, he went to Toulouse, and then Marseille, where he became a journalist and wrote for the Sémaphore. He moved to Paris, where he wrote for the Vert-Vert, the Entracte, the Charivari, and the Époque. Achard wrote extensively for the Époque, even writing for his colleagues when they lacked inspiration.

Franz Karl Achard            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Franz Karl Achard: was a German (Prussian) chemist, physicist and biologist. His principal discovery was the production of sugar from sugar beets.[1] Achard was a favorite of King Frederick II of Prussia, and was directly reported to the King on his research twice a week. About a study on the influence of electricity on mental capabilities, Frederick II was reported to have said: If he is able to provide reason for the half wits in my Prussian states using electricity, then he is worth more than his own weight in gold.