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Akerman
Akerman is a surname. People with the name include: *Alexander Akerman (1869–1948), American lawyer and judge *Amos T. Akerman (1821–1880), US Attorney General *Chantal Akerman (1950-2015), Belgian film director, artist and professor *Clive Akerman (died 2013), English philatelist * Damián Akerman (born 1980), Argentine footballer *Jeremy Akerman (born 1942), Canadian politician, writer and actor *John Yonge Akerman (1806–1873), English antiquarian * Lucy Evelina Metcalf Akerman (1816–1874), American Unitarian writer *Mariano Akerman (born 1963), Argentine painter, architect and art historian *Piers Akerman (born 1950), Australian journalist and editor * Rachel Akerman (1522–1544), Austrian poet See also *Lincoln Akerman School, an elementary school and middle school in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, United States * Åkerman * Akkerman (other) *Ackerman (surname) * Ackermann (surname) * Akkerman (surname) *Ackermans (other) Ackermans is a retail store ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Akerman
Chantal Anne Akerman (; 6 June 19505 October 2015) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and Film studies, film professor at the City College of New York. She is best known for films such as ''Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles'' (1975), ''News from Home'' (1977), and ''Les Rendez-vous d'Anna'' (1978); the former was ranked the greatest film of all time in ''Sight & Sound'' magazine's 2022 The Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2022, "Top 100 Greatest Films of All Time" critics poll. According to film scholar Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Akerman's influence on feminist and avant-garde cinema is substantial. Early life and education Akerman was born in Brussels, Belgium, to Holocaust survivors from Poland. She was the older sister of Sylviane Akerman, her only sibling. Her mother, Natalia (Nelly), survived years at Auschwitz concentration camp, Auschwitz, where her own parents were murdered. From a young age, Akerman and her mother were exceptiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariano Akerman
Mariano Akerman (Buenos Aires, 1963) is an Argentinean painter, architect and art historian. Working as a researcher and a lecturer, Akerman also develops educational activities that encourage free expression and communitarian involvement of participants while considering their cultural background. Life and education Akerman studied at the School of Architecture of Universidad de Belgrano (Argentina), completing his formation in 1987. In 1995 he received a British Council Grant to research the artwork of Francis Bacon at Marlborough Fine Art and the Tate Gallery in London. Career In Asia, Mariano Akerman developed the educational series of conferences ''The Belgian Contribution to the Visual Arts'' (2005), ''In the Spirit of Linnaeus'' (2007), ''Discovering Belgian Art'' (2008-9), ''Raisons d’être: Art, Freedom and Modernity'' (2010), ''German Art'' (2010), and ''The Gestalt Educational Program'' (2011). In the American continent, the series of lectures ''Art and Identity'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Akerman
Jeremy Bernard Akerman (born May 28, 1942) is a former Canadian politician, writer and actor and a former leader of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party. __TOC__ Early life Akerman was born in Alvechurch, Worcesteshire, United Kingdom. He was attracted to politics in his teens, being drawn to the Labour Party by the famous miners' leader Anuerin Bevan. He attended Marshfield Primary School in Castelton, Bassaleg Grammar School and Cardiff College of Art, all in South Wales where he studied painting, drawing and sculpture. While he was in high school and college, Akerman became very active in archaeology, having participated in a dozen excavations in different parts of the principality. In 1964 Akerman was invited by the Canadian government to take the position of head of Archaeological Illustration at the Fortress of Louisbourg Restoration Project in Nova Scotia. While in Cape Breton he helped to organize fishermen in the Louisbourg area into an organization that eventually af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piers Akerman
Piers Akerman (born 12 June 1950) is an Australian columnist and conservative commentator for the Sydney newspaper ''The Daily Telegraph''. Biography Akerman was born in Wewak, Papua New Guinea, the third son in a family of four children of John, an Australian Government doctor, and Eve Akerman (d. 2003), a newspaper columnist and reviewer. The family left PNG for India in 1951, before returning to Perth, Western Australia. He attended Guildford Grammar School, where he remained until his expulsion, when he was "asked to leave" following a dispute with the headmaster. He spent the last few months of his schooling at Christ Church Grammar School but did not complete his final exams. Career Akerman worked for a time at British national newspaper, ''The Times'', and spent ten years as a foreign correspondent in the United States. On returning to Australia, he was editor of '' The Advertiser'', Adelaide (1988) and '' The Sunday Herald Sun'', Melbourne (1990). During 1990-92 he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Akerman
Alexander Akerman (October 9, 1869 – August 21, 1948) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Education and career Akerman was born on October 9, 1869, in Elberton, Georgia. His father was the noted lawyer Amos T. Akerman. He read law in 1892 and entered private practice in Cartersville, Georgia the same year. In 1898, Akerman was a Referee in Bankruptcy (a position created by the Bankruptcy Act of 1898, and the predecessor of modern bankruptcy judges) for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. Akerman was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia from 1901 to 1912 and was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia from 1912 to 1914. In 1914, Akerman relocated to Florida. He was in private practice in Kissimmee, Florida from 1914 to 1920. In 1920, Akerman moved to Orlando, Florida and formed, with John Moses Cheney, a new law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lincoln Akerman School
Hampton Falls (formerly the "Third Parish and Hampton Falls") is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 2,403 at the 2020 census. History The land of Hampton Falls was first settled by Europeans in 1638, the same time as Hampton, of which it was then a part. The settlement of Hampton joined Norfolk County, Massachusetts Colony, in 1643, along with Exeter, Dover, Portsmouth, Salisbury and Haverhill. The county existed until 1679, when the modern-day New Hampshire towns separated from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Records indicate a building that became a church may have existed near where the Weare Monument now is in 1665, but when it was first built is unknown. It was not until 1709 that the town was officially established as the Third Parish of Hampton. The Third Parish originally consisted of all land south of the Taylor River and north of the New Hampshire/Massachusetts border, or the modern-day towns of Seabrook, Kensington, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damián Akerman
Damián Emilio Akerman (born March 25, 1980 in Morteros, Córdoba Province) is an Argentine football striker who currently plays for Deportivo Morón in the Primera B Nacional. Nicknamed "El Cabro", Akerman began at the youth sector of club Newell's Old Boys. He made his debut in 2000 with Argentino de Rosario in the Primera B Metropolitana. In 2003, he relocated to Chile to play for first division club Deportes La Serena, but after five months he returned to Argentina and signed with Deportivo Morón, which he eventually would spend most of his career with. After four stints at Morón, Akerman became the all-time leading scorer in the club's history with 141 goals altogether in both, second and third division. He also had a brief spell in the Argentine Primera with Gimnasia de La Plata in 2005. Moreover, he spent some time with Ferro Carril Oeste between 2006 and 2007. In July 2009, Akerman was loaned to Bolivian side Blooming. He made his debut in the Liga de Fútbol Profesio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Akerman
Geoffrey Clive Akerman (28 September 1939 – 24 September 2013) was an English philatelist. In 2001, Akerman and Gavin H. Fryer won the Crawford Medal from The Royal Philatelic Society London for their work "The Reform of the Post Office in the Victorian Era and Its Impact on Economic and Social Activity". He won numerous other awards for displays at stamp exhibitions. In 2009, Akerman won the Revenue Society Research Medal. Akerman was a fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society London and editor of ''The Revenue Journal'', the journal of The Revenue Society. He was an expert on the revenue stamps of Argentina and his multi-volume catalogue on those stamps has become the definitive work on the subject. Akerman produced books and written articles for philatelic journals, including ''The American Revenuer'', ''The Revenue Journal of Great Britain'', ''The Mainsheet'', ''The London Philatelist'', ''Gibbons Stamp Monthly'' and ''The Great Britain Journal''. Selected publications ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Yonge Akerman
John Yonge Akerman (1806–1873) was an English antiquarian specializing mainly in numismatics. He also wrote under the pseudonym Paul Pindar. Life Akerman was born in London on 12 June 1806. In early life he became secretary to William Cobbett; in 1838 to the London and Greenwich Railway Company; and later to Lord Albert Conyngham (afterwards Lord Londesborough). In January 1834, Akerman was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. In the autumn of 1848 he became joint secretary with Sir Henry Ellis, and five years later, sole secretary. He held the post until 1860, when poor health compelled him to resign it and the editorship of the ''Archæologia''. In 1836, at a time when there was no English periodical of the kind, he started, chiefly at his own expense, a publication called the ''Numismatic Journal'', two volumes of which appeared under his editorship. He helped to form the Numismatic Society of London, which held its first regular meeting in December 1836. Akerm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Evelina Metcalf Akerman
Lucy Evelina Metcalf Akerman (February 21, 1816 – February 21, 1874) was an American Unitarian writer. This daughter of Thomas Metcalf was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts and married Charles Akerman of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She also lived in Providence, Rhode Island Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay .... She wrote the hymn "Nothing but Leaves, the Spirit Grieves", (circa 1858) that was chiefly used by the Baptists. References * 1816 births 1874 deaths American Protestant hymnwriters 19th-century American writers 19th-century American musicians 19th-century American women writers American women hymnwriters American women non-fiction writers 19th-century American women musicians {{US-songwriter-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Akerman
Rachel Akerman (1522 – 1544) was an Austrian-Jewish poet. The earliest Jewish woman to write German poetry; born probably at Vienna, 1522; died at Iglau, Moravia, 1544. She appears to have received an excellent education, having studied both Latin and Greek. She soon exhibited poetical powers, and began to exercise them at an early age. On account of her poem, "Geheimniss des Hofes" ("The Mystery of the Courts"), in which she described the intrigues of courtiers, Rachel and her father were expelled from Vienna, where they had lived. She died in Iglau, Moravia Moravia ( , also , ; cs, Morava ; german: link=yes, Mähren ; pl, Morawy ; szl, Morawa; la, Moravia) is a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic and one of three historical Czech lands, with Bohemia and Czech Silesia. The me ..., heartbroken. References 1522 births 1544 deaths 16th-century Austrian writers 16th-century women writers Austrian women writers Austrian women poets Austrian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ã…kerman
Åkerman is a Swedish surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Gustaf Åkerman (1888–1959), Swedish economist *Gustav Åkerman (1901–1988), Swedish Army lieutenant general *Johan Åkerman (born 1972), Swedish ice hockey player *Lisbeth Åkerman (born 1967), Swedish journalist *Malin Åkerman (born 1978), Swedish-Canadian model and actress See also * Akerman * Akkerman (other) *Ackerman (surname) * Ackermann (surname) * Akkerman (surname) *Ackermans (other) Ackermans is a retail store based in South Africa. Ackermans may also refer to: * Stan Ackermans (1936–1995), Dutch mathematician *Ackermans & van Haaren, Belgian holding company See also * Ackerman (other) * Ackermann (other) ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Akerman Swedish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
