Charles xavier thomas biography

  • Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar (May 5, – March 12, ) was a.
  • Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar was a French inventor and entrepreneur best known for designing, patenting, and manufacturing the first commercially successful mechanical calculator, known as the Arithmometer.
  • Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar was a French mathematician.

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    Charles Xavier Thomas ( - )

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    Born in Colmar, Alsace, France

    Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

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    [spouse(s) unknown]

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    Died at age 84in Paris, Seine, France

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    Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar was a French inventor and entrepreneur best known for designing, patenting and manufacturing the first commercially successful mechanical calculator, the Arithmometer, and for founding the insurance companies Le Soleil and L'aigle which, under his leadership, became the number one insurance group in France at the beginning of the Second Empire.

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    * Translation by Serge Roube

    Thomas de Colmar
    by  J. Joly

    Excerpts from “La vie en Alsace, ”

     

    “Charles-Xavier Thomas,  also known as de Colmar, was born on 5 May at number 8 Kapp Street in the quiet and peaceful town of Colmar.  He was to become one of the most active and entrepreneurial men of his time.

    An innovator in many diverse fields, his ground-breaking initiatives helped modernize the insurance industry and he rekindled the French genius with his superb invention that was to be the first industrial calculator: the Thomas arithmometer.

    His family, originally from Burgundy, moved to Guebwiller in the Alsace region during the 30 year war, around


    Thomas de Colmar in

     

    His father, Sir Thomas, practiced medicine in Colmar and then at the Hospice in the town of Rouffach where he died in   He was a member of Rouffach's town counsel.
    After finalizing his studies and after a quick passage through the administration of the French Regie, Ch.-X. Thomas joined the French army during the and campaigns in Portugal and Spain.  He was Cashier General for supplies in Portugal and Spain in , then General Manager of the supply store of the army's headquarters in Seville in He was then General Manager of the suppl