joachim

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Definition of joachim in English English dictionary

The father of Virgin Mary in apocryphal gospels

A male given name, always rare in English

Joachim of Fiore Joachim Joseph Kändler Johann Joachim Murat Joachim Palme Sven Olof Joachim Patinir Joachim de Joachim de Patenier Joachim de Patinier Ribbentrop Joachim von Winckelmann Johann Joachim

always rare in English

{i} male first name; family name; king of Judah (Old Testament)

Hungarian violinist and composer (1831-1907)

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Joachim Murat

born March 25, 1767, La Bastide-Fortunière, France died Oct. 13, 1815, Pizzo, Calabria French soldier and king of Naples (1808-15). He served in Italy and Egypt as a daring cavalry commander, and later he aided Napoleon in his coup d'état (1799) and married Napoleon's sister Caroline Bonaparte. He helped win the Battle of Marengo (1800). Appointed governor of Paris, he was promoted to marshal in 1804. After victories at the Battles of Austerlitz (1805) and Jena (1806), he was made king of Naples (1808), where he carried out administrative and economic reforms and encouraged Italian nationalism. He led troops in Napoleon's Russian campaign at the Battle of Borodino (1812) but left the army during its retreat from Moscow. He supported Napoleon again during the Hundred Days in 1815, but he was defeated with his Neapolitan forces at the Battle of Tolentino and was later taken prisoner and shot

Joachim Patinir

or Joachim de Patinier or Joachim de Patenier born 1485, Bouvignes, Namur died Oct. 5, 1524, Antwerp Netherlandish painter. Nothing is known of his early life, but his work reflects knowledge of the paintings of Gerard David. He is the first Western artist known to have specialized in landscape painting, though his work has a nominal religious subject and he never painted pure landscapes. His novelty lay in the fact that the religious motif in such works as Flight into Egypt (1515-20) was overshadowed by the phenomena of the natural world. He apparently made a practice of supplying landscape settings for figure compositions painted by other Flemish masters. His landscapes combine realistic detail with a sense of fantasy that suggests his familiarity with the works of Hië ronymus Bosch

Joachim de Patinir

or Joachim de Patinier or Joachim de Patenier born 1485, Bouvignes, Namur died Oct. 5, 1524, Antwerp Netherlandish painter. Nothing is known of his early life, but his work reflects knowledge of the paintings of Gerard David. He is the first Western artist known to have specialized in landscape painting, though his work has a nominal religious subject and he never painted pure landscapes. His novelty lay in the fact that the religious motif in such works as Flight into Egypt (1515-20) was overshadowed by the phenomena of the natural world. He apparently made a practice of supplying landscape settings for figure compositions painted by other Flemish masters. His landscapes combine realistic detail with a sense of fantasy that suggests his familiarity with the works of Hië ronymus Bosch

Joachim of Fiore

born 1130/35, Celico, Kingdom of Naples died 1201/02, Fiore Italian mystic, theologian, and philosopher of history. After a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, he became a Cistercian monk, and by 1177 he was abbot at Corazzo, Sicily. He retired into the mountains to follow a contemplative life in 1191, and in 1196 he founded the order of San Giovanni in Fiore. His Book of Harmony of the New and Old Testaments outlined a theory of history and traced correspondences in the Old and New Testaments. In his Exposition of the Apocalypse he examined the symbols of the Antichrist, and in Psaltery of Ten Strings he expounded his doctrine of the Holy Trinity. A man of vivid imagination, he was both acclaimed as a prophet and denounced as a heretic

Joachim von Ribbentrop

{i} (1893-1946), German leader in the Nazi party and minister of foreign affairs (1938-1945) who was executed for war crimes

Joachim von Ribbentrop

a German Nazi official who became Hitler's foreign minister and advised him on foreign policy. After World War II Ribbentrop was found guilty of war crimes, and was hanged (1893-1946). born April 30, 1893, Wesel, Ger. died Oct. 16, 1946, Nürnberg German diplomat and foreign minister under the Nazi regime. After serving in World War I, he became a wine merchant. He met Adolf Hitler in 1932 and became his chief adviser on foreign affairs. He negotiated the Anglo-German Naval Agreement and served as ambassador to Britain (1936-38), advising Hitler that Britain could not aid Poland effectively. As foreign minister (1938-45), he negotiated the Pact of Steel with Italy, the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, and the Tripartite Pact with Japan and Italy. His influence waned in World War II, after which he was found guilty at the Nürnberg trials and hanged

Johann Joachim Kändler

born 1706, Fischbach, Saxony died May 18, 1775, Meissen German Baroque sculptor. In 1731 he was engaged to reorganize the modeling department of the porcelain factory at Meissen; he held the position of chief modeler there from 1733 until his death. It was largely through Kändler's genius that Meissen porcelain gained world renown. Among his best-known works are his commedia dell'arte figurines, largely done between 1736 and 1744

Johann Joachim Winckelmann

born Dec. 9, 1717, Stendal, Prussia died June 8, 1768, Trieste, Austria German archaeologist and art historian. The son of a cobbler, he studied theology and medicine before he discovered Greek art. His essay Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks (1755) became a manifesto of the Greek ideal in education and art and was soon translated into several languages. After converting to Roman Catholicism, he moved to Rome (1755) and held important posts in the Vatican. There he wrote History of the Art of Antiquity (1764), which inaugurated the study of art history as a discipline and of archaeology as a humane science. His writings reawakened the popular taste for Classical art and were instrumental in generating the Neoclassical movement in the arts

Joseph Joachim

{i} (1831-1907) Hungarian composer and violinist

Joseph Joachim

born June 28, 1831, Kittsee, near Pressburg, Austria-Hungary died Aug. 15, 1907, Berlin, German Empire Austro-Hungarian violinist. A prodigy, he began study as a child in Pest, continuing later in Vienna and Leipzig, where he was associated with Felix Mendelssohn. He was concertmaster at Weimar under Franz Liszt (1850-52), but their tastes in music diverged radically. He became close to Johannes Brahms, who sought Joachim's advice about his violin concerto. Joachim wrote cadenzas that are still used for a number of concertos. As the longtime head of Berlin's Hochschule (1868-1905), he developed it into a first-rank conservatory

Sven Olof Joachim Palme

born Jan. 30, 1927, Stockholm, Swed. died Feb. 28, 1986, Stockholm Swedish prime minister (1969-76, 1982-86). After studying in Sweden and the U.S., he was elected to the Swedish parliament (1958) and became a leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party. He served in ministerial posts from 1963 and became prime minister in 1969. A strong pacifist, he attacked U.S. policy in the Vietnam War and later acted as a UN special envoy to mediate in the Iran-Iraq War. After his reelection in 1982, he tried to reinstate socialist economic policies in Sweden. He was shot to death by an assassin in 1986; his murder remains unsolved

Hyphenation

Jo·a·chim

Turkish pronunciation

yōäkîm

Pronunciation

/ˌyōˈäkəm/ /ˌjoʊˈɑːkɪm/

Etymology

() Biblical Jehoiachim (2 Kings 24), Hebrew "may Yahweh raise".