Charles xavier thomas colmar biography

Charles-Xavier Thomas was born in Colmar on May 5th, 1785.

After the beginning career in the military administration under the First Empire, he has to the fame in the invention of the arithmometer,   the first industrial calculator.

This machine, patented in 1820, knew an universal success which made the fortune of its inventor.

Become rich, THOMAS dedicated himself to the world of insurances and he based companies "Phénix" and "Eagle" in Paris where he dead on March 12th, 1870 at the age of 85 .

Realized by René HETZEL it is installed on March 3rd, 1933. It contained originally a bronze reproduction of a bust of the inventor realized according to a marble of the sculptor Jean-Baptiste CLESINGER.

Now this bronze was stolen in the night from July 31 till August 1-st, 1986 and was found never.

In 1998, the conservative of Unterlinden's museum made the discovery of a bronze copy of this bust in capital not still become identified of the museum.

So, the municipality in so been able to to order of a new statue in white stoneware that we can again admire from October 22, 1999.

English, French, Walloon, Breton, German, Dutch, Flemish, Danish, Greek, West Indian (mainly Haiti and Jamaica), and African (mainly Tanzania and Nigeria): from the personal name Thomas, of Biblical (New Testament) origin, from Aramaic t’ōm’a, a byname meaning ‘twin’. It was borne by one of the disciples of Christ, known for his scepticism about Christ's resurrection (John 20:24–29). The Th- spelling is organic, the initial letter of the name in the Greek New Testament being a theta. The English pronunciation as t rather than th- is the result of French influence from an early date. In Britain, the surname is widely distributed throughout the country, but especially common in Wales and Cornwall. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed many cognates from other languages (e.g. Assyrian/Chaldean or Arabic Toma and Tuma , Albanian Toma and Thoma , and Slavic surnames listed in 3 below), and their patronymics and other derivatives (e.g. Polish Tomaszewski and Slovenian Tomažič; see Tomazic ). In France, this surname is most common in the Vosges and Brittany. The name Thomas is also found among Christians in southern India (compare Machan , Mammen ,

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