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Anania (name)
Anania is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Anania Shirakatsi (610–685), mathematician, astronomer and geographer * Bartolomeu Anania (1921–2011), bishop, translator, writer and poet * George Anania (1941–2013), Romanian writer * Anania Muhingi (born 1994) businessman from Kashenyi Murongo-Karagwe Kagera, Tanzania * Michael Anania Michael Anania (August 5, 1939) is an American poet, novelist, and essayist. His modernist poetry meticulously evokes Midwestern prairies and rivers. His autobiographical novel, ''Red Menace'', captured mid-twentieth century cold war angst and the ... (born 1939), American poet, novelist, and essayist See also * Ananias (other) References {{given name, type=both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anania Shirakatsi
Anania Shirakatsi ( hy, Անանիա Շիրակացի, ''Anania Širakac’i'', anglicized: Ananias of Shirak) was a 7th-century Armenian polymath and natural philosopher, author of extant works covering mathematics, astronomy, geography, chronology, and other fields. Little is known for certain of his life outside of his own writings, but he is considered the father of the exact and natural sciences in Armenia—the first Armenian mathematician, astronomer, and cosmographer. Seen as a part of the Armenian Hellenizing School, the last lay scholar in Christian Armenia until the 11th century, Anania was educated primarily by Tychicus, in Trebizond. He composed science textbooks and the first known geographic work in classical Armenian (''Ashkharhatsuyts''), which provides detailed information about Greater Armenia, Persia and the Caucasus (Georgia and Caucasian Albania). In mathematics, his accomplishments include the earliest known table of results of the four basic operations, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartolomeu Anania
Bartolomeu Anania (; March 18, 1921 – January 31, 2011), born Valeriu Anania (), was a Romanian Orthodox bishop, translator, writer, and poet. He was the Metropolitan of Cluj, Alba, Crișana and Maramureș. Biography Early life Anania was born as Valeriu in Glăvile, Vâlcea County, to Vasile Anania and his wife Ana, the daughter of a priest. He attended primary school in Glăvile and entered the Bucharest Central Seminary in 1933.Official biography At the age of 15, Anania, while a student at the Seminary, joined the local organization of the Cross Brotherhood (''Frăția de Cruce''), part of the , being introduced to it by an older student. However, he claimed that within the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Anania
George Anania (; July 14, 1941 – April 5, 2013) was a Romanian science-fiction writer and translator. Born in Măgurele, Ilfov County, he graduated from the University of Bucharest The University of Bucharest ( ro, Universitatea din București), commonly known after its abbreviation UB in Romania, is a public university founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princel ... in 1964. Published books Novels * '' Corsarul de fier'' (1966) * '' Test de fiabilitate'' (1981), Editura Albatros * '' O experiență neobișnuită'' (1989), Editura Ion Creangă * '' Acțiunea Lebăda'' (1991), Editura Ion Creangă With Romulus Bărbulescu * '' Constelația din ape'' (1962), '' Colecția "Povestiri științifico-fantastice"'' nr. 174–179 (English: ''Constellations from the Waters'') * ''Captiv în inima Galaxiei'' (1964), CPSF 226 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Anania
Michael Anania (August 5, 1939) is an American poet, novelist, and essayist. His modernist poetry meticulously evokes Midwestern prairies and rivers. His autobiographical novel, ''Red Menace'', captured mid-twentieth century cold war angst and the colloquial speech of Nebraska, while the voice in his volumes of poetry distinctively reflects rural and urban Midwestern life in a "mixture of personal voice, historical fact, journalistic observation and a haiku-like format that pares lines down to the bare bones and pushes language to its limit." Biography Anania was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He grew up in a housing project and attended inner-city public schools in Omaha. He studied first at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and then completed his BA at the Municipal University of Omaha (now University of Nebraska Omaha). Seeking to work with the archives of the works of poet William Carlos Williams, Anania pursued graduate work in the 1960s at SUNY Buffalo. While in New York s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
