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Anzhelika Ptashuk
Angelika is a variant of Angelica, derived from Latin ''angelicus'' meaning "angelic", ultimately related to Greek ''ἄγγελος'' (''ángelos'') – "messenger". The poets Boiardo and Ariosto used this name in their 'Orlando' poems (1495 and 1532), where it belongs to Orlando's love interest. It has been used as a given name since the 18th century. Angelika is used in Polish, German, Slovak and Czech. Notable people with the name include: * Angelika Amon, Ph.D. (1967–2020), Austrian American molecular and cell biologist, professor at MIT *Angelika Bachmann (born 1979), professional German tennis player *Angelika Bahmann (born 1952), East German slalom canoeist who competed in the 1970s *Angelika Beer (born 1957), German politician * Angelika Brunkhorst (born 1955), German politician and member of the FDP *Angelika Buck (born 1950), German figure skater *Angelika Bunse-Gerstner, German mathematician * Angelika Dünhaupt (born 1946), West German luger * Angelika de la Cruz (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelica (given Name)
Angelica is a female given name and a variant of Angelika. Meaning Angelica comes from the Latin ''angelicus'' ("angelic"), which in turn is descended from the Greek (''ángelos'') meaning "messenger of God" or "angel". Variations Angélica (Spanish), Angelika (German, Polish), Angelika, Angyalka, Angyal ( Hungarian), Angélique (French), Anjelica, Angelica ( Brazilian, English), Anxélica ( Galician), Angeliki or Aggeliki (, Greek). Notable Angelicas Historical * Angélica de Almeida (born 1965), Brazilian long-distance runner *Angélica Aragón (born 1953), Mexican film and telenovela actress *Angelica Balabanoff (1878–1965), Ukrainian Jewish-Italian socialist *Angellica Bell (born 1976), British television and radio presenter *Angelica Bella (active on 1990s), Hungarian pornographic actress *Angelica Bengtsson (born 1993), Swedish pole vaulter *Angelica Bridges (born 1970), American actress * Angelica Burevik (born 1958), Swedish association footballer * Aggeliki Dalia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder Of Angelika Kluk
Peter Britton Tobin (27 August 1946 – 8 October 2022) was a Scottish convicted serial killer and sex offender who served a whole life order at HM Prison Edinburgh for three murders committed between 1991 and 2006. Police also investigated Tobin over the deaths and disappearances of other young women and girls. Tobin served ten years in prison for the rape, buggery and indecent assault of two girls in 1993, following which he was released in 2004. Three years after his release, he was sentenced to life with a minimum of twenty-one years for the rape and murder of Angelika Kluk in Glasgow in 2006. Remains of two teenagers who went missing in 1991 were subsequently found at his former home in Margate, Kent. Tobin was convicted of the murder of Vicky Hamilton in December 2008, resulting in his minimum sentence being increased to thirty years, and of the murder of Dinah McNicol in December 2009, resulting in a whole life order. Tobin was identified as a psychopath by a senior ps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floruit
''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicating the time when someone flourished. Etymology and use la, flōruit is the third-person singular perfect active indicative of the Latin verb ', ' "to bloom, flower, or flourish", from the noun ', ', "flower". Broadly, the term is employed in reference to the peak of activity for a person or movement. More specifically, it often is used in genealogy and historical writing when a person's birth or death dates are unknown, but some other evidence exists that indicates when they were alive. For example, if there are wills attested by John Jones in 1204, and 1229, and a record of his marriage in 1197, a record concerning him might be written as "John Jones (fl. 1197–1229)". The term is often used in art history when dating the career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelika Tagwerker
Angelika Tagwerker ( fl. 1990s) is an Austrian luger who competed in the early 1990s. She won the silver medal in the mixed team event at the 1991 FIL World Luge Championships in Winterberg, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe .... ReferencesHickok sports information on World champions in luge and skeleton. Austrian female lugers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) {{Austria-luge-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelika Speitel
Angelika Speitel (born 12 February 1952) is a former member of the West German terrorist Red Army Faction (RAF). Life Speitel worked as a clerk in the office of lawyer Klaus Croissant, alongside her husband Volker Speitel (who was also an RAF terrorist). During this time she helped form an information system of communication between many imprisoned terrorists across Germany. Volker went underground in 1974, and Angelika followed suit when she was suspected of involvement in the Jürgen Ponto murder in 1977. She became an active member of the second generation RAF, taking part in bank robberies and was suspected to have been directly involved with the Hanns-Martin Schleyer kidnap-murder. In a forest in Dortmund, on 24 September 1978, Speitel was involved in target practice with some other RAF members (Michael Knoll and Werner Lotze) when they were ambushed by police. A shoot-out followed where one policeman (Hans-Wilhelm Hans) was shot dead, and Speitel and Knoll were both sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelika Schafferer
Angelika Schafferer (born 1960) is an Austrian luger who competed during the late 1970s and early 1980s. She won the bronze medal in the women's singles event at the 1978 FIL World Luge Championships in Imst, Austria. Schafferer also competed in three Winter Olympics in women's singles, earning her best finish of seventh at Lake Placid, New York in 1980. She won the overall women's singles Luge World Cup The Luge World Cup season is a yearly competition first organized by the International Luge Federation The International Luge Federation ( French: Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course (FIL); German: Internationaler Rennrodelverband) is ... title three times (1978-9, 1979–80, 1980–1). References External linksHickok sports information on World champions in luge and skeleton. *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927035 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelika Raubal
Angela Maria "Geli" Raubal (; 4 July 1908 – 18 September 1931) was an Austrian woman who was the half-niece of Adolf Hitler. Born in Linz, Austria-Hungary, she was the second child and eldest daughter of Leo Raubal Sr. and Hitler's half-sister, Angela Raubal. Raubal lived in close contact with her uncle Adolf from 1925 until her presumed suicide in 1931. Life Angela Maria "Geli" Raubal was born in Linz, Austria-Hungary, where she was raised with her brother Leo and sister Elfriede. Her father died at the age of 31 when Geli was two. She and Elfriede accompanied their mother when she became Hitler's housekeeper in 1925; Raubal was 17 at the time and spent the next six years in close contact with her half-uncle, who was 19 years her senior. Her mother was given a position as housekeeper at the Berghof near Berchtesgaden in 1928. Raubal moved into Hitler's Munich apartment in 1929 when she enrolled in medicine at Ludwig Maximilian University but she did not complete her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelika Overath
Angelika Overath (born 17 July 1957 in Karlsruhe) is a German author and journalist. Overath studied German literature, History, Italian Studies, and Cultural Studies at the University of Tübingen and wrote a PhD-thesis in 1986 about the colour blue in modern literature. She regularly works as Writer in Residence for thGerman Sectionin thSchool of Modern Languages Newcastle University, and at Queen Mary's College, London. She also teaches creative writing for the SwisHyperwerkand has founded thSchreibschule Sentwhich offers seminars in creative writing both in German and Rumantsch. Prizes *1996 Egon-Erwin-Kisch Prize for literary reportage *2002/2003 One-year scholarship of the Deutscher Literaturfonds, Darmstadt *2005 Thaddäus-Troll Prize *2006 Ernst-Willner-Prize at the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Competition *2007/2008 Writer in Residence at Queen Mary and Westfield College London *2008 Swiss prize for independent journalism *2009 Longlist for the German Book Prize by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelika Noack
Angelika Noack (born 20 October 1952) is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics. She was born in Angermünde. In 1976 she and her partner Sabine Dähne Sabine Dähne (born 27 February 1950) is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics. She was born in Colditz. In 1976 she and her partner Angelika Noack Angelika Noack (born 20 October 1952) is a German rower ... won the silver medal in the coxless pairs event. Four years later she was a crew member of the East German boat which won the gold medal in the coxed pairs competition. References External links * * * 1952 births Living people East German female rowers People from Angermünde Olympic rowers of East Germany Olympic gold medalists for East Germany Olympic silver medalists for East Germany Olympic medalists in rowing Rowers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1980 Summer Olympics Medalis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelika Niebler
Angelika Niebler (née Rupertseder; born 18 February 1963) is a German lawyer and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 1999. She is a member of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, part of the European People's Party. Since 2015, she has been serving as her party's deputy chairwoman, under the leadership of successive chairmen Horst Seehofer and Markus Söder. Education * 1988: First state law examination * 1991: Second state law examination * 1992: Doctor of law, dissertation: ''Der Einsatz einer Expertensystemshell im Gesetzgebungsverfahren'' (English: "The use of expert systems in legislative procedure") Professional career Niebler practiced with Lovells from 1991 to 1997 and – as Salary Partner – with Beiten Burkhardt from 1997 to 2004. From 2004 to 2015, she worked at Bird & Bird’s Munich office. In September 2015, she joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Munich office as of counsel, where she supports the firm's Media, E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelika Neuner
Angelika Neuner (born 23 December 1969) is an Austrian luger who competed from 1987 to 2002. Competing in four Winter Olympics, she won two medals in the women's singles event with a silver in 1992 and a bronze in 1998. Her younger sister, Doris, won the gold medal in the same event at Albertville in 1992. Neuner also won six medals at the FIL World Luge Championships, including two gold (Mixed team: 1996, 1997), one silver (Mixed team: 1993), and three bronzes (Women's singles: 1997, Mixed team: 1995, 2000). She won five medals at the FIL European Luge Championships, earning them in 1992 (silver: Mixed team), 1996 (silver: Mixed team, bronze: Women's singles), 1998 (bronze: Mixed team) and 2002 (bronze: Mixed team). Neuner's best finish in the overall Luge World Cup was second in 1996–7. She carried the Austrian flag during the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the Cap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelika Muharukua
Angelika Kazetjindire Muharukua (12 January 1958 Opuwo, Kunene Region – 1 October 2017) was a Namibian politician. An ethnic Herero from northwestern Namibia, Muharukua joined the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) in 1979. She was a surprise choice by President Sam Nujoma for the 2nd National Assembly of Namibia in 1995 and remained in the National Assembly since. In May 2004, she was chosen to replace Marlene Mungunda as deputy minister of Women Affairs and Child Welfare, later renamed the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare. In September 2012 Angelika Muharukua contradicted international human rights laws such as the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples when she publicly announced that indigenous peoples such as the Himba and Zemba would not have the right to choose their own traditional leaders. On 27 March 2013, Angelika Muharukua publicly opposed protest by about a thousand indigenous Himba and Zemba who were manifestin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
