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Arne (name)
Arne is a common masculine given name for males in Scandinavia. It is also a surname in England. The name Arne originates from the old Norse name Árni, which in turn is derived from the old Norse name for "eagle", ''Ǫrn''. The oldest attestation of the name is from a runestone in Vagnhärad dating to the 11th century. The word arne also refers to the central stone on the floor of traditional Norwegian homes upon which the fire that provides the heating/cooking needs was lit. Similarly, "Arne" is Danish for the flame in a fireplace or old-fashioned oven or stove. Given name People * Arne Bang-Hansen, Norwegian actor * Arne Beurling, Swedish mathematician * Arne Borg, Swedish swimmer * Arne Carlson, American politician * Arne Dahl, American politician * Arne Duncan, American politician * Arne Friedrich, German professional footballer * Per-Arne Håkansson (1963), Swedish politician * Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect and designer, exemplar of the "Danish Modern" style. * Arne E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnt (given Name)
Arnt is a Scandinavian masculine given name, predominantly found in Norway. It is derived from either Old Norse, or German language, German and is either a short form of other names beginning with Arn-, meaning eagle, or a shortened form of Arnold (given name), Arnold, meaning "eagle" and "ruler." People bearing the name Arnt include: *Arnt Erik Dale (born 1960), Norwegian alpine skier *Arnt Dolven (1892–1954), Norwegian agronomist and politician *Arnt Eliassen (1915–2000), Norwegian meteorologist *Arnt Erickson (1866–1932), Norwegian-born American businessman and politician *Arnt Førland (born 1964), Norwegian motorcycle speedway rider *Arnt Gudleik Hagen (1928–2007), Norwegian politician *Arnt Haugen (1928–1988), Norwegian accordionist and music journalist *Arnt Kortgaard (born 1957), Norwegian footballer *Arnt J. Mørland (1888–1957), Norwegian ship-owner, World War II resistance member, and politician *Arnt J. C. Mørland (1921–1994), Norwegian ship-owner *Arnt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arne Nordheim
Arne Nordheim (20 June 1931 – 5 June 2010) was a Norwegian composer. Nordheim received numerous awards for his compositions, and from 1982 lived in the Norwegian government's honorary residence, Grotten, next to the Royal Palace in Oslo. He was elected an honorary member of the International Society for Contemporary Music in 1997. On 18 August 2006, Arne Nordheim received a doctor honoris causa degree at the Norwegian Academy of Music. He died at the age of 78 and was given a state funeral. Musical education At the then Oslo Conservatory of Music (now the Norwegian Academy of Music), where Nordheim studied from 1948 to 1952, he started out as a theory and organ student, but changed to composition, studying with Karl August Andersen (1903–1970), Bjarne Brustad, and Conrad Baden. Then in 1955 he studied with Vagn Holmboe in Copenhagen, and studied ''musique concrète'' in Paris. Later he studied electronic music in Bilthoven (1959), and paid many visits to the Studio Ekspe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arne Treholt
Arne Treholt (born 13 December 1942) is a Norwegian-born, Russia-based convicted felon and former KGB agent who was convicted of treason and espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union against Norway during the Cold War and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Before his arrest in 1984, he was successively a journalist, a junior Norwegian Labour Party politician and a medium-level official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Norway, while secretly working for the KGB. Treholt provided the Soviet Union with information on the Norwegian defense plans for northern Norway in the event of a Soviet invasion, material weaknesses in the Norwegian Armed Forces, mobilization plans, information on how to most effectively take out Norwegian soldiers, Norwegian emergency plans, the location of NATO allies' stored equipment in Norway, and the meeting minutes of the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. Treholt was found to possess a secret bank account in Switzerland with a substantial illicit amount ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arne Toonen
Arne Toonen (born 9 January 1975) is a Dutch film director. Several of his films won the Golden Film and Platinum Film awards. Career In 2010, he directed the film ''Dik Trom''. The film won both the Golden Film and Platinum Film awards. The film also won the Golden Calf for Best Production Design award at the 2011 Netherlands Film Festival. His short film ''Drop Dead'' won the Competition for the Short Film Award at the Osnabrück Independent Film Festival. In 2012, he directed the film '' Black Out''. In 2015, he directed the film ''The Little Gangster'' (''De Boskampi's''). The film won the ''Michel Award'' at the 2015 Filmfest Hamburg. In 2019, he directed the film ''Amsterdam Vice'' (''Baantjer: Het Begin'') based on the novels of A. C. Baantjer. The film won the Golden Film award two weeks later after having sold 100,000 tickets. He also directed a 2023 episode of the ''Van der Valk'' television series. Personal life Toonen married Birgit Schuurman in July 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arne Tiselius
Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius (10 August 1902 – 29 October 1971) was a Swedish biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1948 "for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of the serum proteins." Education Tiselius was born in Stockholm. Following the death of his father, the family moved to Gothenburg where he went to school, and after graduation at the local "Realgymnasium" in 1921, he studied at the Uppsala University, specializing in chemistry. Career and research Tiselius became a research assistant at Theodor Svedberg's laboratory in 1925 and obtained his doctoral degree in 1930 on the moving-boundary method of studying the electrophoresis of proteins. From then to 1935 he published a number of papers on diffusion and adsorption in naturally occurring base-exchanging zeolites, and these studies continued during a year's visit to Hugh Stott Taylor's laboratory in Princeton University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arne Thomas
Arne Thomas (born 1975) is a German chemist who researches porous and nanostructured materials for catalytic applications. Career Thomas studied chemistry at the University of Giessen, the University of Marburg, and at the Heriot-Watt University. He conducted his doctoral research under the direction of Markus Antonietti at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces and defended his PhD thesis in 2004. In 2005, following a postdoc position at Galen D. Stucky's lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he returned to the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces as a group leader. Since 2009, he has been full professor for inorganic chemistry (Functional Materials) at the Technical University of Berlin. Since 2019 he is the spokesperson of the Cluster of Excellence Unifying Systems in Catalysis (UniSysCat). Awards * 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher * 2019 Hollow Materials Young Innovator Award * 2011 ERC Starting Grant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Nations Security Council
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the Organs of the United Nations, six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international security, international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly, and approving any changes to the UN Charter. Its powers include establishing peacekeeping operations, enacting international sanctions, and authorizing military action. The UNSC is the only UN body with the authority to issue binding United Nations Security Council resolution, resolutions on member states. Like the UN as a whole, the Security Council was created after World War II to address the failings of the League of Nations in maintaining world peace. It held its first session on 17 January 1946 but was largely paralyzed in the following decades by the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union (and their allies). Nevertheless, it authorized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of The UN Security Council
The presidency of the United Nations Security Council is responsible for leading the United Nations Security Council. It rotates among the 15 member-states of the council monthly. The head of the country's delegation is known as the President of the United Nations Security Council. The presidency has rotated every month since its establishment in 1946, and the president serves to coordinate actions of the council, decide policy disputes, and sometimes functions as a diplomat or intermediary between conflicting groups. Role The presidency derives responsibility from the Provisional Rules of Procedure of the United Nations Security Council as well as the council's practice. The role of the president involves calling the meetings of the Security Council, approving the provisional agenda (proposed by the secretary-general), presiding at its meetings, deciding questions relating to policy and overseeing any crisis. The president is authorized to issue both Presidential Statements (subj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arne Sunde
Arne Toralf Sunde (6 December 1883 – 30 July 1972) was a Norwegian politician, Olympic shooter and army officer. He is best known for his participation in the 1940 Norwegian Campaign, his participation in Nygaardsvold's Cabinet during its 1940–1945 exile in London and three years as a United Nations ambassador. Sunde was President of the United Nations Security Council in June 1949 and July 1950. Before the Second World War Personal life Arne Sunde was born on 6 December 1883 in the Norwegian capital Kristiania. His parents were Director General of the Norwegian State Railways, Member of Parliament and Minister of Finance Elias Sunde and his wife Benedicte Louise Tjersland. On 26 July 1916 Arne Sunde married Sigrid Nicoline Aubert Lie (called "Didi", or "Titti"). His wife was a daughter of writer Bernt Lie. Thus, Arne Sunde was a brother-in-law of Emil Lie. Sunde's wife was also a second cousin of Jonas Lie, a Nazi police chief who joined the pretending government aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arne Sørensen (politician)
Arne Sørensen (2 October 1906 – 1 March 1978) was a Danish politician and author. He founded the Danish Unity party and was a resistance fighter during the occupation of Denmark. After World War II, Sørensen was a member of the Danish Parliament and Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs. Career Arne Sørensen was a member of the Social Democratic Party until 1936. He felt that the Cabinet of Stuning-Munch, which led the party, was parliamentary ineffective and was too sympathetic towards the Government of Nazi Germany. In response, Sørensen left the party and created the anti-parliamentary Danish Unity party, of which he was chairman until 1946. During the German occupation of Denmark, Sørensen was an active resistance fighter in the Holger Danske group and in 1943 he became a key member of the Danish Freedom Council. After the war, he was appointed the Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs and was an advisor to the US military government in Germany in 1948. In 1949, he la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arne Søby Christensen
Arne Søby Christensen (born 1945) is a Danish historian. He is an associate professor in history at the University of Copenhagen. Biography Arne Søby Christensen was born in Copenhagen in 1945. He received a cand.mag. in history from the University of Copenhagen in 1975. His book ''Lactantius the Historian'' was published in 1980. From 1989 to 1998, Christensen was a member of the Danish Historical Society. Christensen received his PhD in history from the University of Copenhagen in June 2002. His disputation was supervised by Ian N. Wood and Niels Lund. His thesis, ''Cassiodorus, Jordanes and the History of the Goths'', concerned the reliability of ''Getica'' by Jordanes and the latters alleged chief source, the now lost '' Origo Gothica'' by Cassiodorus. In his thesis, Christensen claims that the ''Origo Gothica'' and ''Getica'' are entirely fabricated accounts without any foundation in Gothic oral tradition, being instead based upon a dubious synthesis of Greco-Roman so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arne Petersen
Arne Petersen (2 April 1913 – 28 December 1990) was a Danish cycle sport, cyclist. He competed in the Cycling at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race, individual and Cycling at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's team road race, team road race events at the 1936 Summer Olympics. References External links * 1913 births 1990 deaths Danish male cyclists Olympic cyclists of Denmark Cyclists at the 1936 Summer Olympics People from Vejen Municipality Sportspeople from the Region of Southern Denmark {{Denmark-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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