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Assman (Lillån)
Assmann, Aßmann or Assman is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Aleida Assmann (born 1947), professor of Egyptology, literary and cultural studies * Arno Assmann (1908–1979), German actor and film director * Charles Assmann (born 1972), Canadian football player * Dick Assman (1934–2016), Canadian petrol station owner * Fabián Assmann (born 1986), Argentine football goalkeeper * Hans Assmann (1923–1998), alleged KGB intelligence officer * Hans Erasmus Aßmann (1646–1699), German poet, statesman and translator * Jan Assmann (born 1938), German Egyptologist *Katja Aßmann (born 1971), German art historian * Peter Assmann (born 1963), Austrian writer and visual artist * Richard Assmann (1845–1918), meteorologist * Sarah M. Assmann, American biologist * William F. Assmann (1862–1920), balloonist See also * "The Assman", a working title of "The Fusilli Jerry", a ''Seinfeld'' episode {{surname, Assmann Surnames from given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleida Assmann
Aleida Assmann (born Aleida Bornkamm, 22 March 1947) is a German professor of English and Literary Studies, who studied Egyptology and whose work has focused on cultural anthropology and Cultural and Communicative Memory. Life Born Aleida Bornkamm in , North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, she is the daughter of the New Testament scholar Günther Bornkamm and his wife, Elisabeth. She studied English and Egyptology at the universities of Heidelberg and Tübingen from 1966 to 1972. In 1977 she wrote her dissertation in Heidelberg about ''The Legitimacy of Fiction'' (''Die Legitimation der Fiktion''). She had to take her minor field examination in Egyptology in Tübingen because her husband Jan Assmann had become a professor of Egyptology in Heidelberg. In 1992 Assmann completed her habilitation in Heidelberg. In 1993 she became a professor of English and Literary Studies at the University of Konstanz, where she remained to 2014. She was a visiting professor at Rice University in Housto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
