What is "barbiers"

Barbiers \Bar"biers\, n. (Med.) A variety of paralysis, peculiar to India and the Malabar coast; -- considered by many to be the same as beriberi in a chronic form.

n. (context medicine archaic English) A paralysis, peculiar to India and the Malabar coast, thought to be a chronic form of beriberi.

Barbiers is the surname of a large family of artists. Notable people with the surname include:

• Pieter Barbiers (I), (1717–1780) Dutch artist, father of Pieter Pietersz (II) and Bartholomeus (I)
  • Pieter Pietersz Barbiers (II) (1749-1842), Dutch artist, son of Pieter (I)
    • Bartholomeus Barbiers II, (1784–1816) Dutch painter, son of Pieter Pietersz (II)
  • Bartholomeus Barbiers (I), (1743–1808) Dutch painter, son of Pieter (I)
    • Pieter Bartholomeusz Barbiers (III), (1771–1837) Dutch artist, son of Bartholomeus (I)
    • Maria Geertruida Barbiers-Snabilie (1776 – 1838) Dutch artist, wife of Pieter (III)
      • Pieter Barbiers IV, (1798-1848) Dutch artist, son of Pieter Bzsn (III) and Maria Geertruida Snabilié
      • Maria Geertruida Barbiers (1801-1849) Dutch artist, daughter of Pieter Bzsn (III) and Maria Geertruida Snabilié; sister of the former, who married the painter Pieter de Goeje (1789-1859)

Category:Dutch engravers Category:18th-century Dutch painters