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Alt (surname)
Alt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Albrecht Alt (1883–1956), German bible scholar and Protestant theologian *Carol Alt (born 1960), American model and actress * Don Alt (1916-1988), American politician and businessman * Ernst Alt, German Roman Catholic priest and exorcist * Helmut Alt, German computer scientist * J. Kenji López-Alt, American chef and food writer * Jakob Alt (1789–1872), Austrian painter, father of painters Franz and Rudolf *Franz Alt (mathematician) (1910–2011), Austrian-born American mathematician * Franz Alt (painter) (1821–1914), Austrian painter, brother of Rudolf *Renata Alt (born 1965), German politician *Rudolf von Alt (1812–1905), Austrian painter *Salome Alt Salome Alt (21 November 1568 – 27 June 1633), was the mistress to Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, reigning Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, from about 1593 until 1617. Life Born in Salzburg, Salome was the daughter of the merchant and city councill ... (1568–1633), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albrecht Alt
Albrecht Alt (20 September 1883, in Stübach (Franconia) – 24 April 1956, in Leipzig), was a leading German Protestant theologian. Eldest son of a Lutheran minister, he completed high school in Ansbach and studied theology at Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen and the University of Leipzig. From 1907 to 1908 he was a candidate for the office of lecturer at Munich Predigerseminar (Lutheran preachers seminary). In 1908 he was a scholarship holder of the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology of the Holy Land in Jerusalem and undertook his first Palestine journey. In the same year he became a supervisor of the theological College in Greifswald. In 1909 he wrote ''Israel und Aegypten'' ("Israel and Egypt") as part of his doctorate at the University of Greifswald. In 1912 he became an associate professor in Greifswald, and in 1914 was named by Bernhard Duhm as a professor at the University of Basel. During the First World War he served as a leader in the cartography d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Alt
Carol Ann Alt (born December 1, 1960) is an American model and actress. Early life Alt was born in Flushing, Queens, New York, the daughter of Muriel, an airline employee and model, and Anthony Alt, a fire chief in the Bronx. She was noticed waiting tables in East Williston, Long Island, and decided at age 18 to give modeling a try as a summer job to save money for college. She is the third of four children. She has an older brother, Anthony Jr. (1955–2005), an older sister Karen and a younger sister, Christine. Alt's maternal grandparents were German immigrants, while her paternal grandmother was Irish. Career Alt's first big break in modeling was in 1979, when she was featured on the cover of '' Harper's Bazaar'' magazine, but garnered publicity in 1982 when she was featured on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. During the 1980s, she appeared on over 500 magazine covers, becoming one of the most famous models of her era, attaining supermodel status. Alt gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Alt
Don D. Alt (December 15, 1916 – August 18, 1988) was an American politician and businessman. Born in St. Joseph, Missouri, Alt went to the Des Moines, Iowa public schools and graduated from Roosevelt High School. He served in the United States Army during World War II. Alt went to Drake University and Iowa State University. He worked at the Home Federal Loan and Savings in Des Moines and was a vice-president. Alt served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1969 to 1973 and was a Republican. In 1985, Alt moved to Las Cruces, New Mexico Las Cruces (; "the crosses") is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of New Mexico and the seat of Doña Ana County. As of the 2020 census the population was 111,385. Las Cruces is the largest city in both Doña Ana County and southern New .... He died in Las Cruces, New Mexico.'Don D. Alt-obituary,' The Des Moines Register, August 18, 1988, pg. 7M Notes 1916 births 1988 deaths Politicians from St. Joseph, Missouri Politici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Alt
Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Ernest. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Adolf Ernst (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst" * Anton Ernst (1975-) South African Film Producer * Alice Henson Ernst (1880-1980), American writer and historian * Britta Ernst (born 1961), German politician * Cornelia Ernst, German politician * Edzard Ernst, German-British Professor of Complementary Medicine * Emil Ernst, astronomer * Ernie Ernst (1924/25–2013), former District Judge in Walker County, Texas * Eugen Ernst (1864–1954), German politician * Fabian Ernst, German soccer player * Gustav Ernst, Austrian writer * Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Moravian violinist and composer * Jim Ernst, Canadian politician * Jimmy Ernst, American painter, son of Max Ernst * Joni Ernst, U.S. Senator from Iowa * K.S. Ernst, American visual poet * Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst, German writer (1866–1933) * Ken Ernst, U.S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmut Alt
Helmut Alt (born 1950) is a German computer scientist whose research concerns graph algorithms and computational geometry. He is known for his work on matching geometric shapes, including methods for efficiently computing the Fréchet distance between shapes. He was also the first to use the German phrase "Algorithmische Geometrie" lgorithmic geometryto refer to computational geometry. He is a professor of computer science at the Free University of Berlin. Education and career Alt was born in 1950 in Wolfersweiler, a town in Saarland that later became incorporated into Nohfelden. He became a student of Kurt Mehlhorn at Saarland University, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1976 on algorithms for parsing context-free languages. At the Free University of Berlin, he became the doctoral advisor of many successful students, including Otfried Cheong (1992), Johannes Blömer (1993), Christian Knauer (2002), Carola Wenk (2002), and Maike Buchin (2007). Recognition The Free University o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakob Alt
Jakob Alt (27 September 1789 – 30 September 1872) was a German painter and lithographer. Life Alt was the son of Barbara Alt, nee Horst, and Frankfurt carpenter Johann Leonhart Alt. He was born at Frankfurt am Main in 1789, where he received his early artistic education. Later he moved to Vienna and entered the Academy. He soon became noted as a landscape painter and made various journeys throughout Austria and Italy, painting, as he went along, views in the neighborhood of the Danube and in the city of Vienna. In later life Alt painted a lot in watercolor; he was also a lithographer. In 1830 the future Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria began a project to commission paintings of the most beautiful views in the Empire. Alt, and his eldest son, Rudolf von Alt painted about 170 of the 300 works executed before the scheme came to an end in 1849. Alt's extensive herbarium is now in the Lower Austrian State Museum . He died in Vienna in 1872. Gallery File:Jakob Alt - Die Blaue Gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Alt (mathematician)
Franz Leopold Alt (November 30, 1910 – July 21, 2011) was an Austrian-born American mathematician who made major contributions to computer science in its early days. He was best known as one of the founders of the Association for Computing Machinery, and served as its president from 1950 to 1952. Vienna Alt was born in Vienna, Austria, on November 30, 1910 to a secular Jewish family. He received a PhD in mathematics in 1932 from the University of Vienna, with a thesis entitled ''Metrische Definition der Krümmung einer Kurve'' ("Metrical Definition of the Curvature of a Curve"). His principal teachers were Hans Hahn and Karl Menger. He was one of the regular participants in, and contributors to, Menger's "Mathematisches Kolloquium." fterword, Karl Menger, Ergebnisse eines Mathematischen Kolloquiums, Springer-Verlag/Wien, 1998Alt engaged in research in set-theoretic topology and logical foundations of geometry. In addition, in the next few years he became interested ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Alt (painter)
Franz Alt (1821–1914) was an Austrian landscape painter, son of Jakob Alt and the younger brother of Rudolf von Alt. His work is included in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cooper Hewitt Museum (Smithsonian), the Albertina Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest The Museum of Fine Arts ( hu, Szépművészeti Múzeum seːpmyveːsɛti ˈmuːzɛum is a museum in Heroes' Square, Budapest, Hungary, facing the Palace of Art. It was built by the plans of Albert Schickedanz and Fülöp Herzog in an eclecti ... and other international collections. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Alt, Franz 1821 births 1914 deaths 19th-century Austrian painters 19th-century Austrian male artists Austrian male painters 20th-century Austrian painters 20th-century Austrian male artists Austrian landscape painters Place of birth missing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renata Alt
Renata Alt (born 27 August 1965) is a German chemical engineer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg since 2017. Early life and career Renata (née Formánková) Alt was born in Skalica (western Slovakia). From 1993 until 1994, Alt worked as economic attaché at the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Munich. Since 1994, she has been operating her own consulting firm. Political career Alt became a member of the German Bundestag in the 2017 federal elections, representing the German state of Baden-Württemberg. She has since been serving on the Committee on Foreign Affairs – where she is her parliamentary group's rapporteur on relations with Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, and the Balkans – and on its Sub-Committee for Civilian Crisis Prevention. Since 2021, Alt has been serving as chairwoman of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid. In addition to he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Von Alt
Rudolf Ritter von Alt (; 28 August 1812 – 12 March 1905) was an Austrian landscape and architectural painter. Born as Rudolf Alt, he could call himself von Alt and bear the title of a Ritter (knight) after he gained nobility in 1889. Biography Born in Vienna, he was the son of the lithographer Jakob Alt (1789–1871) and the brother of the painter Franz Alt (1821–1914). He studied at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna. Hiking-trips through the Austrian Alps and northern Italy awoke a love for landscapes, and he painted with his brush using watercolors in a very realistic and detailed style. In 1833, inspired by a visit to Venice and neighbouring cities, he also made a number of architectural paintings. Alt demonstrated a remarkable talent for expressing certain peculiarities in nature. He managed to paint nature authentically by focusing on the different hues of sky, the colour-tone of the air and the vegetation. His later works came closer to Impressionism. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salome Alt
Salome Alt (21 November 1568 – 27 June 1633), was the mistress to Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, reigning Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, from about 1593 until 1617. Life Born in Salzburg, Salome was the daughter of the merchant and city councillor Wilhelm Alt and a granddaughter of Ludwig Alt, who had been mayor of Salzburg in 1523. She was the niece of Barbara Thenn. Contemporary sources describe her as a tall grown woman, with red-brown hair and clear grey eyes, a broad forehead, and as the most beautiful woman of the city. Wolf Dietrich Raitenau's mistress Salome Alt met the Archbishop at a festivity in the , whereafter Raitenau took her, initially in secret, to his Salzburg residence. It is said that she never again set foot in the town-house of her parents, in Sigmund-Haffner-Alley. After Raitenau was chosen as prince-archbishop he repeatedly petitioned Rome for a papal dispensation to marry her. The family even claimed that Raitenau and Alt had become partners bef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolf Dietrich Raitenau
Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau (26 March 1559 – 16 January 1617) was Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg from 1587 to 1612. Life Raitenau was born at Hofen Castle in Lochau, near Bregenz in Further Austria, the son of the Habsburg colonel Hans Werner von Raitenau (1525-1593) and Helene von Hohenems (1535-1586), a niece of Pope Pius IV and sister of Mark Sittich von Hohenems Altemps, who was consecrated Bishop of Constance in 1561, as well as sister-in-law of Cardinal Charles Borromeo. Wolf Dietrich received an ecclesiastical education at the Collegium Germanicum in Rome and became a member of the Salzburg cathedral chapter in 1578. His predecessor, Archbishop George of Kuenburg, had long served as a coadjutor bishop and had found himself in constant conflict with the chapter. Upon his death in 1587, Raitenau was elected as a compromise candidate and was ordained by the Passau bishop Urban of Trennbach. He continued the harsh measures of the Counter-Reformation initiated by his prede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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