Jean-Charles Houzeau's Escape from Texas - Christiaan Sterken, Amy Abercrombie King

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Jean-Charles Houzeau's Escape from Texas (eBook)

A Belgian Astronomer Caught in the American Civil War

Christiaan Sterken, Amy Abercrombie King (Autoren)

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2020 | 1st ed. 2020
XIII, 161 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-46538-4 (ISBN)

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Translated from the original French and annotated with figures, historical maps and commentary from the translators, this work is Jean-Charles Houzeau's account of his escape from Texas during the American Civil War. Houzeau was a Belgian astronomer who worked a couple of years as assistant astronomer at the Brussels Observatory, but eventually moved to the United States. He was living as a frontierman in Texas when the Civil War broke out, and because he took an abolitionist stance and helped slaves escape, he was forced to flee to Mexico, from where he sailed to New Orleans on board of a US military vessel. Originally titled La terreur blanche au Texas et mon 'evasion, Houzeau captured the details of his escape in 1862.The editors, an astronomer and a French language teacher, have added supplementary material to give the readers more depth and historical context to the story.

Christiaan Sterken obtained an MSc degree in Mathematics at the University of Ghent (Belgium), his PhD in Astronomy at the University of Brussels, and his Habilitation degree at the University of Liège. He is Emeritus Research Director at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research, and Emeritus Guest Professor at the University of Brussels. His principal field of research is the photometry of variable stars (luminous blue variables, massive binaries, pulsating main sequence stars, and cataclysmic variables), and comets. He also taught courses in observational astronomy, and on the history of natural sciences at the Universities of Brussels and Ghent. Christiaan Sterken is Vice-President of Commission C3 History of Astronomy, of the International Astronomical Union.

Amy Abercrombie King has a Bachelor of Arts degree in government from the University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor of Arts degree in French from The University of Texas at San Antonio. She holds a lifetime certification as a secondary school teacher in Texas, with certifications in French, English, English as Second Language (ESL), Social Studies and Information Technology. She was awarded Fulbright-Hays and American Association of Teachers of French scholarships to study the French language and culture, completing postgraduate programs at Université Laval and Université de Montréal. She also studied French language, culture, and teaching methods in Cameroon, Africa. A fifth-generation Texan, she was born in Victoria, Texas and grew up in Uvalde, near Fort Clark. She currently resides in San Antonio, and has recently retired from teaching French at Douglas MacArthur High School.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.6.2020
Reihe/Serie	Springer Biographies
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 161 p. 27 illus., 23 illus. in color.
Sprache	englisch
Original-Titel	Jean-Charles Houzeau’s La Terreur Blanche au Texas et mon ´Evasion
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
Schlagworte	Abolitionists • abolition of slavery • American Civil War • Astronomy Biography • Belgian Astronomer • Civil War Texas • Jean-Charles Houzeau • San Antonio History • texas history
ISBN-10	3-030-46538-1 / 3030465381
ISBN-13	978-3-030-46538-4 / 9783030465384

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