Famous People with Name Blasius

Blasius Merrem            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Blasius Merrem: was a German naturalist.Merrem was born at Bremen, and studied at the university of Göttingen under Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. He developed an interest in zoology, particularly ornithology. He is remembered chiefly as the first ornithologist to propose a division of birds into Ratitae (ratites or running birds, with a flat sternum) and Carinatae (carinates or flying birds, with a keeled sternum), which formed part of his classification of birds in Tentamen Systematis Naturalis Avium, published in Berlin in 1816 (in Abhandlugen Akad. Wiss.

Blasius M. D'Souza            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Blasius M. D'Souza: was an Indian politician from Mangalore. A member of the Indian National Congress from Mangalore, he was the first Roman Catholic minister in the Karnataka state government. Blasius D'Souza entered politics as a Mangalore City Council member in 1962 from

Johann Heinrich Blasius            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Johann Heinrich Blasius: a German zoologist. In 1836 he was director of a museum in Brunswick. He was the author of two books on vertebrates: Fauna der Wirbelthiere Deutschlands (1857) and Die wirbelthiere Europa's (1840) (with Alexander Keyserling). In 1840, he founded the Botanic Garden of the Technical University of Braunschweig.

August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius            Origin/Culture/Country: German

August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius: was a German ornithologist.Blasius belonged to a family of scientists: his father was the ornithologist Johann Heinrich Blasius and his brother was the ornithologist Rudolf Heinrich Paul Blasius (1842-1907).

Joan Leonardsz Blasius            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Joan Leonardsz Blasius: was a Dutch poet, playwright, translator and lawyer. Born near Cadzand in a village now lost to the North Sea, he was the younger brother of the famous doctor Gerhard Blasius.Blasius in 1670 became director of the Amsterdam Municipal Theatre, the Amsterdamse Schouwburg, but because of this powerful position as well as the romantic nature of his works for the theatre, he incurred the enmity of the tradition oriented theatre company "Nil Volentibus Arduum". When he put on Plautus's Menaechmi in translation, that theatre company promptly came out with a translation of its own. Their attacks, however, were fiercely answered by Blasius' friends, especially Thomases Asselyn.

Paul Richard Heinrich Blasius            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Paul Richard Heinrich Blasius: was a German fluid dynamics engineer. He was one of the first students of Prandtl who provided a mathematical basis for boundary-layer drag but also showed as early as 1911 that the resistance to flow through smooth pipes could be expressed in terms of the Reynolds number for both laminar and turbulent flow.