Who is the Father / Mother of your current or future profession?

[Dwarfman]

As a chef I have many but the main influences would be Georges Auguste Escoffier the founder of the Kitchen brigade and the man chiefly responsible for modern cooking methods. Marie-Antonin Carem ( The King of Chefs and Chef of Kings) He was the guy who came up with the chef's uniform and is the father of haute cuisine.

The position of chef would still exist but not like how we know it without these two people.

 

[Dwarfman]

A caveman somewhere.

Burying people has always been a tradition.

I'm almost scared to ask. Burying people? You're an undertaker...

 

[Player 2]

Robert Peel

 

[tigermilk]

Erm... Who invented the call centre?

 

[Ultress]

I'm going to go with Egypt,they were embalming via mummification.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Claiming a single person is responsible for any achievement or profession is simply ridiculous, it takes alot of different people and their work/ideas to bring something to fruition.

 

[AmayaOnnaOtaku]

Larry Ellison. Since he created ORACLE and I am a slave to the database

 

[Dwarfman]

A caveman somewhere.

Burying people has always been a tradition.

I'm almost scared to ask. Burying people? You're an undertaker...

No. I'm a serial killer.

...

Yeah, I'm an undertaker. =p

Bwahahahah! Always great to meet someone who can have a laugh about their profession >

 

[Ophiuchus]

If I follow my degree into a profession I'll have to say Wilhelm Wundt or Sigmund Freud, depending on which way I go with it. Luckily I don't intend to do that.

I'm not sure there is a 'father of sitting around watching TV'. Apart from perhaps my father. That'll do.

 

[Undeadlifter]

In terms of what my company does- we're in the water industry (as in supplying drinking water, treating sewage etc). So strictly it should be whichever of the ancient civilisations first started building plumbing and aquaducts. I know the Romans did a lot of it, but I'm not 100% sure they were the first.

In terms of what I do there, a lot of it is based around book-keeping and audit which is just as ancient. Sure computers allow us to do a lot more, faster and more accurately, and modern pipes and digging equipment are a real boon, but somewhere in ancient Rome, a clerk had basically the same job as me.

 

[Vie]

The Greeks invented the concept of theatre, though their use of it is alien to modern theatre. So I'm going to take the development of what we today would call theatre, i.e. the realistic portrayal of charicters. I'll leave non naturalistic theatre aside for now as I'll end up writing an entire essay on the subject otherwise.

The first, known, advocate of a more naturalistic style of acting would be David Garrick. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Garrick ) The man was more than just an actor however, and also brought together the various special effects and design elements of a show into a single cohesive whole. By that I mean he gave a show an overall design direction and lead, rather than each separate department running as they wished with little or no input from the others. Before him costume design, set design and lighting could have each followed their own ideas for how a show should look - leading to a design mess that denigrated the work of all.

He also modernised Shakespeare for audiences of his time, something that stands as a core part of modern theatre. Without the ability to take a script and change it to suit the audience, modern theatre would be a far poorer thing. And while he was not the first to do this, he is was well known for it in his time.

In essence Garrick created the foundation of modern theatre and modern acting.

However; the modern stage has far more contributors than a single man. It would be remiss of me to suggest otherwise. So I'll also mention the work of Stanislavsky, and the playwrites of his time such as Chekhov. Though I'll only mention rather than go into detail, their contribution to theatre is better known and recognised than Garrick's is today.

 

[Skuffyshootster]

Well, I've considered careers in architecture, psychology, history, astronomy, astrophysics, anthropology....

I haven't even entered college yet, so I still have a while to go.

Anyway, I guess in order it would be Callicrates and Iktinos with the Parthenon, Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt, Herodotus, Galileo Galilei, Einstein, and Indiana Jones Herodotus...again...

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

Hm. Hard to pick one, but after a bit of digging, I'd have to go with 19th-century Polish philosopher Wincenty Lutosławski, who coined the term "stylometry" in 1890. (I'm one of those sad academics who's working in authorship studies.)

 

[Serenegoose]

I'm not entirely sure who invented writing. Oh, wait, it was me, on turn 32, as the Queen of the Sumerians, not a few scant centuries after I invented animal husbandry. Sorry, that's all the answer I have!

 

[Species5618]

Hmmm, who first tried to become supreme emperor of the entire world?

Alexander the Great probably.

But as for the way im gonna do it, probably Niccolo Machiavelli.

 

[BENZOOKA]

Well, that'd be graphic design, so... i dunno, Gutenberg, I guess?

I have done a bit of studying of graphic design, even done some such work too and would love to have it as a profession, I'd stick with Gutenberg as well, in lack of better knowledge.

I'm currently unemployed so I suppose a lazy caveman would be the father of that? This year I did eight or so months of industrial cleaning, either with shooting very very high pressure water or with huge up to 6" suction hoses that could suck a hand off your shoulder. For that kind of work I have no idea who'd be a parental figure...

[small]Your avatar looks like it's having a battle against the avatar of Swollen Goat.
I can't get that image off my head.[/small]

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

You graphic designers might also want to take a look at Aldus Manutius [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldus_Manutius]:

His publishing legacy includes the distinctions of inventing italic type, establishing the modern use of the semicolon, and introducing inexpensive books in small formats bound in vellum that were read much like modern paperbacks.

 

[Shock and Awe]

Well I want to be a Pilot(hopefully of the Fighter variety) so probably these guys,