Charles xavier thomas biography
Charles xavier thomas biography
Mr. Charles Xavier Thomas | IT History Society.
* Translation by Serge Roube
Thomas de Colmar
by J. Joly
Excerpts from “La vie en Alsace, 1932”
“Charles-Xavier Thomas, also known as de Colmar, was born on 5 May 1785 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 1634.
Thomas de Colmar in 1868
His father, Sir Thomas, practiced medicine in Colmar and then at the Hospice in the town of Rouffach where he died in 1831. He was a member of Rouffach's town counsel.
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