Charpentier

Charpentier
Pronunciation	Shaur PAHN' t'yih
Origin
Meaning	worker or fixer of wood, builder of wood
Other names
Variant(s)	Carpenter, Zimmermann, Zimmerman, Carpentier, Zimerman

Charpentier (pronounced [ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tje]) is the French word for "carpenter" and a French surname. A variant spelling is Carpentier. In English the name is spelled Carpenter while in German it is Zimmermann.

The origin of the name dates to 900-1000 where Charpentier comes from Old French, Late Latin: carpentarius artifex or wainwright, equivalent to Latin carpent(um) two wheeled carriage ( < Celt; cf. OIr carpad chariot) + arius - ARY; see ER2.^[1]

Persons with the surname

Visual arts

Alexandre Charpentier (1856–1909), French sculptor
Constance Marie Charpentier (1767–1849), French painter
Jean-Marie Charpentier (1939-2010), French architect
Marguerite Charpentier (1848-1904), French art collector and salonist

Composers & musicians

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704), French composer of much sacred vocal music including Te Deum (Charpentier), and Molière's last collaborator
Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier (28 June 1734 – 6 May 1794) French organist and composer, father of Jacques-Marie (1766–1834), also an organist and composer
Gustave Charpentier (1860–1956), French composer of Louise (opera)
Gabriel Charpentier (born 1925), Canadian composer (see Canadian encyclopedia entry)
Jacques Charpentier (1933–1917), French composer and organist

Politicians

Victor-Therese Charpentier (1732–1776), French governor-general of Saint-Domingue

Scientists

Augustin Charpentier (1852–1916), French physician, investigator of size-weight illusion
Emmanuelle Charpentier (born 1968), French researcher in Microbiology, Genetics and Biochemistry
François Charpentier (1620–1702), French archaeologist and scholar
François-Philippe Charpentier (1734–1817), French engraver and inventor
Johann von or Jean de Charpentier (1786–1855), German-Swiss geologist, namesake of the Antarctic Charpentier Pyramid
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm de Charpentier (1738–1805), the father of both Toussaint and Johann/Jean
Marie Charpentier (1903–1994), mathematician
Toussaint de Charpentier (1779–1847), German geologist and entomologist

Soldiers

Henri François Marie Charpentier (1769–1831), French general of the Napoleonic Wars

Writers

Fulgence Charpentier (1897–2001), Canadian journalist, editor and publisher

Athletes

Sébastien Charpentier (born 1973), French motorcycle racer
Sébastien Charpentier (born 1977), Canadian ice hockey player

Other

Henri Charpentier (183?-1888), namesake of a lake and town in North Dakota
Georges Charpentier (1846-1905), 19th century French publisher

References

↑ Combined from several sources including: "Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary" 1996 by Barnes & Noble Books and "Concise Oxford Dictionary - 10th Edition by Oxford University Press.

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[1] Combined from several sources including: "Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary" 1996 by Barnes & Noble Books and "Concise Oxford Dictionary - 10th Edition by Oxford University Press.