Melchior
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Melchior is the name given in later legend to one of the Magi appearing in the Gospel of Matthew
. It may also refer to:
Gospel of Matthew
The Gospel According to Matthew is one of the four canonical gospels, one of the three synoptic gospels, and the first book of the New Testament. It tells of the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth...
. It may also refer to:
First name
- Melchior AndereggMelchior AndereggMelchior Anderegg , from Zaun, Meiringen, was a Swiss mountain guide and the first ascensionist of many prominent mountains in the western Alps during the golden and silver ages of alpinism...
(1828–1914), Swiss mountain guide. - Melchior BerriMelchior BerriMelchior Berri was a well-known Swiss architect.He was the son of Melchior Berri and Appollonia Streckeisen. In 1832 he married Margaretha Simone Burckhardt of Basel....
(1801-1854), Swiss architect. - Melchior BroederlamMelchior BroederlamMelchior Broederlam was one of the earliest Early Netherlandish painters to whom surviving works can be confidently attributed. He worked mostly for Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, and is documented from 1381 to 1409...
(c. 1350 – after 1409), a Dutch painter. - Melchior CanoMelchior CanoMelchior Cano was a Spanish Scholastic theologian.-Clerical life:He was born in Tarancón, New Castile, and joined the Dominican Order in Salamanca, where by 1546 he had succeeded Francisco de Vitoria to the theological chair in the university. A man of deep learning and originality, proud and a...
(1525-1560), Spanish theologian. - Melchior CibinensisMelchior CibinensisMelchior Cibinensis was a Hungarian alchemical writer active in the first part of the 16th century. He is known for the Processus sub forma missae, an alchemical mass, now dated to around 1525; it was published in the Theatrum Chemicum of 1602, and formed part of a celebrated later collection...
, 16th century Hungarian alchemical writer. - Melchior GoldastMelchior GoldastMelchior Goldast ab Haiminsfeld was a Swiss writer and an industrious though uncritical collector of documents relating to the medieval history and constitution of Germany....
ab Haiminsfeld (1576-1635), Swiss writer. - Melchior d'HondecoeterMelchior d'HondecoeterMelchior d'Hondecoeter , Dutch animalier painter, was born in Utrecht and died in Amsterdam. After the start of his career, he painted virtually exclusively bird subjects, usually exotic or game, in park-like landscapes...
(1636-1695), Dutch animalier. - Melchior de PolignacMelchior de PolignacMelchior de Polignac was a French diplomat, Roman Catholic cardinal and neo-Latin poet.A younger son of Armand XVI, marquis de Polignac, he was born at Lavoûte-sur-Loire, Haute-Loire, Auvergne. At an early age he achieved distinction as a diplomat...
(1661–1742), French diplomat, Roman Catholic cardinal. - Melchior de VogüéMelchior de VogüéEugène-Melchior, vicomte de Vogüé was a French diplomat, Orientalist, travel writer, archaeologist, philanthropist and literary critic.-Biography:...
(1848–1910), French diplomat, travel writer, archaeologist , philanthropist. - Melchior FranckMelchior FranckMelchior Franck was a German composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was a hugely prolific composer of Protestant church music, especially motets, and assisted in bringing the stylistic innovations of the Venetian School north across the Alps into Germany.-Life:Details of his...
(1579–1639), German composer of the very early Baroque era. - Melchior HoffmanMelchior HoffmanMelchior Hoffman was an Anabaptist prophet and a visionary leader in northern Germany and the Netherlands.-Life:Hoffman was born at Schwäbisch Hall in Franconia before 1500...
(c. 1495 – 1543), German-Dutch Anabaptist prophet. - Melchior InchoferMelchior InchoferMelchior Inchofer or Imhofer was a Hungarian Jesuit. He played an important part in the trial of Galileo, by his arguments that Galileo was an advocate of the Copernican system in Tractatus Syllepticus...
(Imhofer) (c. 1584-1648), Jesuit who took part in Galileo's trial. - Melchior KleslMelchior KleslMelchior Klesl was an Austrian statesman and cardinal of the Roman Catholic church during the time of the Counter-Reformation...
(Cleselius) (1552-1630), Austrian bishop statesman. - Melchior LengyelMelchior LengyelMelchior Lengyel was a Hungarian writer, dramatist, and film screenwriter.-Biography:Lengyel was born Lebovics Menyhért in Balmazújváros, Hungary. He started his career as a journalist...
(Lebovics Menyhért) (1880-1974), Hungarian writer. - Melchior LorckMelchior LorckMelchior Lorck was a renaissance painter, draughtsman, and printmaker of Danish-German origin. He produced the most thorough visual record of the life and customs of Turkey in the 16th century, to this day a unique source...
(Lorichs/Lorch) (1526-1583), Danish-German renaissance painter. - Melchior NdadayeMelchior NdadayeMelchior Ndadaye was a Burundian intellectual and politician. He was the first democratically elected and first Hutu president of Burundi after winning the landmark 1993 election...
(1953-1993), Burundian intellectual and politician. - Melchior SchildtMelchior SchildtMelchior Schildt was a German composer and organist of the North German Organ School. He came from a long line of church musicians who had served the town of Hanover for over 125 years...
(1592/93–1667), German composer and organist. - Melchior WańkowiczMelchior WankowiczMelchior Wańkowicz was a Polish writer, journalist and publisher. He is most famous for his reporting for the Polish Armed Forces in the West during World War II and writing a book about the battle of Monte Cassino....
(1892-1974), Polish writer, journalist and publisher. - Melchior WeiherMelchior WeiherMelchior Weiher was a Polish noble. Son of Ernest Weiher, he held several important offices in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was the Deputy Treasury of Royal Prussia and econom of Malbork from 1616 to 1624, castellan of Elbląg from 1619 to 1635, and voivode of Chełmno from 1626...
(1574-1643), Polish nobleman.
Family name
- Arne MelchiorArne MelchiorArne Melchior son of Marcus Melchior is a retired Danish politician of Jewish descent and supporter of Jewish causes.Melchior was active in the Social Democratic Party but left this party in 1973 to co-found the Centre Democrats....
, Danish politician, government minister and son of Marcus Melchior. - Carl MelchiorCarl MelchiorCarl Melchior was a German banker.Born in Hamburg, Melchior studied law and eventually was appointed a judge. In 1900 Melchior was made legal counsel to Hamburg banking concern, M.M.Warburg & CO. During World War I, he served with a Bavarian regiment of the German army and was seriously injured...
, German Banker, advisor for the financial and economic negotiations that began at the Paris Peace ConferenceParis Peace Conference, 1919The Paris Peace Conference was the meeting of the Allied victors following the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers following the armistices of 1918. It took place in Paris in 1919 and involved diplomats from more than 32 countries and nationalities...
. - Bent MelchiorBent MelchiorBent Melchior is a former chief rabbi of Denmark.Bent Melchior was born on 24 June 1929. His father Marcus Melchior was instrumental in the saving of the Danish Jews in 1943 and became chief rabbi of Denmark in 1947. From 1943 to 1945 Bent Melchior was a refugee in Sweden...
, chief rabbi of Denmark and also a son of Marcus Melchior. - Dan MelchiorDan MelchiorDan Melchior is a singer/songwriter/guitarist who grew up in Shepperton, Surrey, , England and is often labeled a 'garage rock' musician....
, British singer/songwriter/guitarist. - Eberhard MelchiorEberhard MelchiorEberhard Melchior is a German mathematician who provided the first proof of Sylvester's line problem in 1940. He also discovered the related inequality now named after him....
, German mathematician, PhD in 1937. - Eberhard Melchior (naturalist)Eberhard Melchior (naturalist)Eberhard Melchior was a writer who published a few works about German thermal spas around 1700.-Publications:* Hydrologia Brevis quidem, attamen fundamentalis [...] Das ist: Ein kurtzes doh gründliches Wasser-Gespräch/ Welches Neptunus mit seiner betrübten Schwalbacher Wasser-Göttin, der...
, active around 1700. - Ernst MelchiorErnst MelchiorErnst Melchior was an Austrian football player.-Club career:He played seven years for Austrian giants Austria Wien before moving to France where he played for FC Rouen and FC Nantes....
, (1920-1978), Austrian football player. - Friedrich Melchior, Baron von GrimmFriedrich Melchior, baron von GrimmFriedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm was a German-born French author.-Early years:Grimm was born at Regensburg, the son of a pastor...
(1723-1807), German author. - Hans MelchiorHans MelchiorHans Melchior was a German botanist.He studied botany at Berlin University, became assistant to G...
(1894-1984), German botanist. - Hans Bøchmann Melchior (1773--1831), Danish Naturalist.
- Ib MelchiorIb MelchiorIb Jørgen Melchior is a novelist, short story writer, film producer, film director, and screenwriter of low-budget American science fiction movies, most of them released by American International Pictures...
, Danish-born creator of low-budget American science-fiction films. - Lauritz MelchiorLauritz MelchiorLauritz Melchior was a Danish and later American opera singer. He was the pre-eminent Wagnerian tenor of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, and has since come to be considered the quintessence of his voice type.-Biography:...
, renowned Danish operatic tenor, especially noted for his Wagnerian roles. - Marcus MelchiorMarcus MelchiorMarcus Melchior was acting chief rabbi of Denmark in 1943 at the time of the rescue of the Danish Jews.Marcus Melchior came from a prominent Jewish family in Denmark...
, chief rabbi of Denmark. - Michael MelchiorMichael MelchiorA renowned Jewish leader, thinker and activist, Rabbi Michael Melchior is a leading advocate for social justice in Israel, quality education for all, Jewish-Arab reconciliation and co-existence, protection of the environment, Israel-Diaspora relations and the strengthening of Civic Society as a...
, Danish-Norwegian rabbi, Israeli politician and son of Bent Melchior. - Simone MelchiorSimone MelchiorSimone Melchior Cousteau was the wife and business partner of undersea explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau. The first woman scuba diver, Simone was at Jacques's side during his major underwater accomplishments...
Cousteau (1919-1990), wife of undersea explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau. - Tracy Melchior, American actress.
In fiction
- Melchior, a character in Tom Stoppard's On the Razzle (play)On the Razzle (play)On the Razzle is a play by Tom Stoppard. It is an adaptation of the Viennese play Einen Jux will er sich machen by Johann Nestroy, which previously was adapted twice by Thornton Wilder...
. - Melchior, one of three parts of the biological super computer in Neon Genesis EvangelionNeon Genesis Evangelion, commonly referred to as Evangelion, is a commercially and critically successful Japanese anime series that began airing in October 1995. The series was highly influential, and launched the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise. It garnered several major animation awards...
manga and anime. - Melchior, one of three sages of Shevat in the game XenogearsXenogearsis a science-fiction console role-playing game developed and published by Square for Sony's PlayStation. It was released on February 11, 1998 in Japan and on October 20, 1998 in North America. The game was never released in PAL territories...
. - Melchior, a Ceyah immortal from the Kohan (series) game.
- Melchior, an asteroid prison in Jack L. ChalkerJack L. ChalkerJack Laurence Chalker was an American science fiction author. Chalker was also a Baltimore City Schools history teacher in Maryland for 12 years, retiring in 1978 to write full-time...
The Rings of the Master series - Melchior, a cosmic being in the Ascended Master TeachingsAscended Master TeachingsThe students of "Ascended Master Teachings" organizations believe that the Presence of Life/God - Individualizes as the "I AM", and incarnates throughout the created universes until it achieves The Ascension . The "Teachings" as all Religious Teachings.....
of Joshua David StoneJoshua David StoneJoshua David Stone was an American author and teacher in the ascension movement. His father was Hal Stone. Joshua had a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology and was a Licensed Marriage, Family and Child Counselor in California....
, who is said to govern our sector (1/12) of the Milky Way Galaxy from the constellation of the Great BearGreat BearThe term Great Bear can refer to:* Ursa Major, the constellation, whose name is the Latin for "Great Bear".* Great Bear Lake, the largest lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada and the fourth largest in North America.... - Melchior, the Guru of Life in the game Chrono Trigger.
- Melchior Gabor, the lead male character in Spring Awakening (play) and the Spring Awakening (musical).
- Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim, protagonist in the Baroque German novel Simplicius Simplicissimus.
- Melcior, one of the minor characters in Teen Titans (animated series).
Other
- The Melchior systemMelchior systemThis is the named Melchior system, "a reference in all taxonomic courses", detailing the taxonomic system of the Angiospermae according to A. Engler's Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien 1964 ....
of taxonomy. - A melchior, a wine bottleWine bottleA wine bottle is a bottle used for holding wine, generally made of glass. Some wines are fermented in the bottle, others are bottled only after fermentation. They come in a large variety of sizes, several named for Biblical kings and other figures. The standard bottle contains 750 ml,...
holding 18 litres. - Melchior (alloy)Melchior (alloy)In metallurgy, melchior is an alloy of copper, mainly with nickel . Its name originates from , which in turn is distorted , honoring the french inventors of the alloy, Maillot and Chorier. The term melchior sometimes refers not only to the copper-nickel alloys, but also ternary alloys of copper...
, an alloy of copper and nickel used to manufacture cutlery.