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Berliner (surname)
Berliner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Abraham Berliner, German theologian and historian *Alain Berliner, Belgian director *Alan Berliner, American filmmaker *Arnold Berliner *David Berliner, educational psychologist and professor of education at Arizona State University *Emile Berliner (1851–1929), German-American inventor *Hans Berliner (1929–2017), former World Correspondence Chess Champion *Henry Berliner, United States aircraft and helicopter pioneer, son of Emile Berliner *Janet Berliner, Bram Stoker Award-winning author *Max Berliner, Polish-born Jewish Argentine actor *Paul Berliner (ethnomusicologist), professor at Duke University * Paul Berliner (trader), trader who settled charges of market manipulation with the Securities and Exchange Commission *Trude Berliner Trude Berliner (28 February 1903 – 26 February 1977) was a German actress. She was one of many Jewish actors and actresses who were forced to flee Europe when the Nazis came t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Berliner
Abraham (Adolf) Berliner (May 2, 1833 – April 21, 1915) (Hebrew: אברהם ברלינר) was a German theologian and historian, born in Obersitzko, in the Grand Duchy of Posen, Prussia. He received his first education under his father, who was teacher in Obersitzko. He continued his education under various rabbis, preparing himself at the same time for the University of Leipzig, where he received the degree of doctor of philosophy. After serving for some time as preacher and teacher in Arnswalde, Berliner was called (1865) to Berlin as superintendent of the religious school maintained by the society for Talmudic studies (Ḥebrat Shas), and in 1873, when Israel Hildesheimer opened the rabbinical seminary in Berlin, Berliner was elected professor of Jewish history and literature. In this position, as well as in that of author, he displayed an untiring activity. His edition of Rashi's commentary to the Pentateuch (1866) first made him known as a scholar; he added to his reputa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alain Berliner
Alain Berliner (born 21 February 1963) is a Belgian film director best known for the 1997 film ''Ma vie en rose'', which won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Golden Globe Awards in 1998. Born in Brussels, he also directed '' Le Mur'', '' Passion of Mind'', ''La Maison du canal ''La Maison du canal'' (''The House by the Canal'') is a Franco-Belgian telefilm, directed by Alain Berliner, released in 2003. It is based on a novel by Georges Simenon. Its running time is 94 minutes. Technical details * Director: Alain Berli ...'', and '' J'aurais voulu être un danseur''. References External links *Alain Berliner official site(English version) 1963 births Living people Belgian film directors European Film Award for Best Screenwriter winners {{belgium-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Berliner
Alan Berliner (born 1956) is an American independent filmmaker. ''The New York Times'' has described Berliner's work as "powerful, compelling and bittersweet... full of juicy conflict and contradiction, innovative in their cinematic technique, unpredictable in their structures... Alan Berliner illustrates the power of fine art to transform life." Biography Berliner was born in Brooklyn, and raised in Queens. Berliner earned in 1977 a BA with highest honors, from Binghamton University, cinema, and in 1979 MFA (with highest honors) from the University of Oklahoma, School of Art. He is currently a faculty member at the New School for Social Research in New York City, where he teaches a course entitled, "Experiments in Time, Light and Motion." Berliner's experimental documentary films, First Cousin Once Removed (2013), Wide Awake, The Sweetest Sound (2001), Nobody's Business (1996), Intimate Stranger (1991), and The Family Album (1986), have been broadcast all over the world, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Berliner
Arnold Berliner (Gut Mittelneuland bei Neisse, 26 December 1862 – Berlin, 22 March 1942) was a German physicist. Biography Berliner graduated in physics from the University of Breslau in 1886. He worked in the research and development laboratories of the Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG). Around the middle of 1912 he was appointed by the publishing firm Springer Verlag, Berlin as editor of the new scientific magazine ''Naturwissenschaften'', inspired by the prestigious British scientific journal ''Nature'', first published in November 1869. Naturwissenschaften began publication in January 1913. He became a good friend of immunologist Paul Ehrlich and chemist Richard Willstätter. Nazi Germany and suicide Berliner was dismissed on 13 August 1935, from the journal he had founded 22 years earlier because of the racial policies on "non-Aryans" implemented by the Nazi government. The decision was reported in ''Nature'' (See ''Nature'' 136, 506-506; 28 September 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Berliner
David C. Berliner is an educational psychologist. He was professor and dean of the Mary Lou Fulton Institute and Graduate School of Education. Biography After a B.A. in psychology from U.C.L.A. and an M.A. in psychology from California State University at Los Angeles, Berliner received a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He also was awarded Doctorates of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and from Manhattanville College. He is the father of BethAnn Berliner, a senior researcher at WestEd and also the father of Brett A. Berliner, a professor of History at Morgan State University and author of ''Ambivalent Desire: The Exotic Black Other in Jazz Age France''. Berliner has authored more than 400 articles, books and chapters in the fields of educational psychology, teacher education, and educational policy, including the best-seller ''The Manufactured Crisis'' (co-authored with B.J. Biddle) and six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emile Berliner
Emile Berliner (May 20, 1851 – August 3, 1929) originally Emil Berliner, was a German-American inventor. He is best known for inventing the lateral-cut flat disc record (called a "gramophone record" in British and American English) used with a gramophone. He founded the United States Gramophone Company in 1894;Library of Congress"Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry: The Gramophone" Retrieved 2017-01-19. The Gramophone Company in London, England, in 1897; Deutsche Grammophon in Hanover, Germany, in 1898; and Berliner Gram-o-phone Company of Canada in Montreal in 1899 (chartered in 1904). Berliner also invented what was probably the first radial aircraft engine (1908), a helicopter (1919), and acoustical tiles (1920s). Early life Berliner was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1851 into a Jewish merchant family. Though Jewish, his religious persuasion would develop into agnosticism. He completed an apprenticeship to become a merchant, as was family tradition. Whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Berliner
Hans Jack Berliner (January 27, 1929 – January 13, 2017) was a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, and was the World Correspondence Chess Champion, from 1965–1968. He was a Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess. He directed the construction of the chess computer HiTech, and was also a published chess writer. Early life Berliner was born January 27, 1929 in Berlin to a Jewish family. One of his classmates at school was future Estonian President Lennart Meri, whose father was serving as Estonia's ambassador to Germany. In 1937, Berliner's family moved to the United States to escape Nazi persecution, taking up residence in Washington, D.C. He learned chess at age 13, and "it quickly became his main preoccupation." Berliner is mentioned in "How I Started To Write", an essay by Carlos Fuentes, where he is described as "an extremely brilliant boy", with "a brilliant mathematical mind". "I shall always remember his face, dark and trembling, his aquiline ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Berliner
Henry Adler Berliner (December 13, 1895 – May 1, 1970) was a United States aircraft and helicopter pioneer. Sixth son of inventor Emile Berliner, he was born in Washington, D.C. He studied mechanical engineering at Cornell University for two years before attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After a short time as aerial photographer with the Army Air Service, in 1919 Henry moved back to Washington to help his father with the helicopter research that had been underway for many years (since 1903 New International Encyclopedia). Using a Le Rhône engine of 80 hp mounted on a test stand, Henry was able to hover and move forward, but only with assistants holding on to stabilize the contraption. In 1922, he bought a surplus Nieuport 23 fighter's fuselage, added a Bentley 220 hp engine on the front, and connected it by geared shafts to two horizontal rotors mounted on a truss extending sideways from the fuselage. A third horizontal rotor at the rear provided pit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Berliner
Janet Berliner, formerly Janet Gluckman (September 24, 1939 – October 24, 2012), was a Bram Stoker Award-winning author and served as president of the Horror Writers Association from 1997 to 1998. She was also a member of Authors Guild, the International Thriller Writers, and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. She was born in Cape Town, South Africa, but moved to America with her husband in 1960. She became a citizen of the United States in 1966, and lived in Las Vegas. Bibliography Series *''Madagascar Manifesto'' **'' Child of the Light'' (1991) **''Child of the Journey'' (1996) **''Children of the Dusk'' (1997) – Bram Stoker Award winner *''The Madagascar Manifesto'' (omnibus) (2002) (with George Guthridge) Novels *''Rite of the Dragon'' (1981) (writing as Janet Gluckman) *''Artifact'' (2003) (with Kevin J. Anderson, Matthew J. Costello and F. Paul Wilson) Short stories * ''A Case for Justice'' (1998) (collected in Harry Turtledove's anthology ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Berliner
Max Berliner ( yi, מאקס בערלינער, born Mordcha Berliner; Warsaw, 23 October 1919 - Buenos Aires Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ..., 26 August 2019) was a Polish-Argentine actor, author, film director and theater director. Filmography Television References External links * 1919 births 2019 deaths Polish emigrants to Argentina Jewish Argentine male actors Argentine male stage actors Argentine male film actors Argentine male television actors Argentine film directors Argentine theatre directors {{Argentina-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Berliner (ethnomusicologist)
Paul Franklin Berliner (born 1946) is an American ethnomusicologist, best known for specializing in African music as well as jazz and other improvisational systems. He is best known for his popular ethnomusicology book on the Zimbabwean mbira, ''The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe,'' for which he received the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. He also published ''Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation'' for which he received The Society of Ethnomusicology's Alan Merriam Prize for Outstanding Book in Musicology. Berliner received his Ph.D. from Wesleyan University. Paul is the oldest of three and was born in Cambridge, MA to Joe and Ann Berliner. Berliner is Professor of Ethnomusicology at the John Hope Franklin Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University. He formerly taught at the School of Music of Northwestern University. He has recorded and produced albums of Shona mbira music, and has been recorded as a per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Berliner (trader)
Paul S. Berliner is an American who formerly worked as a trader associated with the brokerage firm Schottenfeld Group. In April 2008 he was simultaneously charged by/settled with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly spreading a rumor designed to lower the stock price of Alliance Data Systems Berliner allegedly had sold short borrowed stock of Alliance Data Systems, hoping to profit by repurchasing the stock when the price fell. He settled the charges without admitting or denying any wrongdoing by disgorging profits, paying a fine, and agreeing to a permanent bar from associating with any broker or dealer.https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/24/AR2008042403443.html Ex-Trader Settles SEC Claims That He Spread Lies About Blackstone Deal Washington Post ''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
