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App (surname)
App is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Austin App Austin Joseph App (24 May 1902 – 4 May 1984) was an American professor of medieval English literature who taught at the University of Scranton and La Salle University. App defended Nazi Germany during World War II. He is known for his work d ... (1902–1984), German-American academic and Holocaust denier * Timothy App (born 1948), American painter * Urs App (born 1949), Swiss academic See also * Apps (surname) {{surname, App ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austin App
Austin Joseph App (24 May 1902 – 4 May 1984) was an American professor of medieval English literature who taught at the University of Scranton and La Salle University. App defended Nazi Germany during World War II. He is known for his work denying the Holocaust, and he has been called the first major American Holocaust denier. Life and career Born in Milwaukee to German immigrant parents who were farmers, he attended St. Francis Seminary near Milwaukee and graduated in 1923. He studied English Literature at the Catholic University of America and received the Ph.D. in 1929. He served as an instructor of English at that university from 1929 to 1935. From 1935 to 1942 he served as the head of the English Department at the University of Scranton, publishing widely in scholarly and popular journals. Among the latter, he often wrote for ''The Catholic Home Journal'', ''Magnificat'', ''Queen's Work'', and '' The Victorian.'' By his own account, he was particularly devoted to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy App
Timothy App (born 1947) is a contemporary American painter whose works are in numerous private and public collections including the Baltimore Museum of Art. Biography Timothy App attended Kent State University in Ohio, where he received a BFA degree in painting in 1970. He continued his study of painting at Tyler School of Art of Temple University and in 1974 received an MFA. During his thirty-two years of teaching, he has taught at Pomona College in California, the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and since 1990 at MICA. With many one-person and group exhibitions, he has shown his abstract paintings regionally, nationally, and abroad. In 1988, his work was the focus of a 20-year survey exhibition. Most recently, his work from the last seven years was the subject of an exhibition with a catalog at Goya Contemporary in Baltimore, where his paintings and prints are represented. His work is included in many private and public collections. He is a recipient of a NEA f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urs App
Urs App (born 1949 in Rorschach, Switzerland) is a historian of ideas, religions, and philosophies with a special interest in the history and modes of interaction between East and West. Biography Urs App was born in 1949 in Rorschach on the Swiss shore of the Lake of Constance and studied in Freiburg, Kyoto and Philadelphia psychology, philosophy and religious studies. In 1989 he obtained a Ph.D. in Religious Studies (Chinese Buddhism) from Temple University in Philadelphia. From 1989 to 1999 he was full professor of Buddhism at Hanazono University in Kyoto and Associate Director of the International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism at Hanazono University (Director Seizan YANAGIDA). He has since devoted himself to writing books and producing documentaries while engaging in research at various academic institutions in Asia and Europe, most recently at the Research Institute for Zen Culture (Zenbunka kenkyujo, Kyoto; 2005–2007), the Swiss National Science Foundati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
