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Bernardine
Bernardine is a Latinate diminutive of the given name " Bernard". It can be applied to men, notably Saint Bernadine, but is now much more often a female name. Bernadine and Bernadene are variant spellings of the female name. The nickname '' Bernie'' is unisex. Bernardine is uncommon as a surname. Emily Dickinson uses the word as an adjective: "A more Bernardine Girl...". As a male given name *Saint Bernardino of Siena (1380–1444), Italian Franciscan missionary *Bernardino of Fossa (1420–1503), Italian Fransciscan historian, theologian and writer *Blessed Bernardine of Feltre (1439–1494), Italian Franciscan missionary *Bernardine a Piconio (1633–1709), French Capuchin theologian and exegete *Bernardine Dong Guangqing (1917–2007), Chinese bishop As a female given name * Bernardine of Lippe (1563–1628), German countess *Bernardine Bishop (1939–2013), British author *Bernardine Dohrn (born 1942), American activist and law professor *Bernardine do Ré ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo, (born 28 May 1959) is a British author and academic. Her novel ''Girl, Woman, Other'', jointly won the Booker Prize in 2019 alongside Margaret Atwood's ''The Testaments'', making her the first woman with Black heritage to win the Booker. Evaristo is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London and President of the Royal Society of Literature, the second woman and the first person with Black heritage to hold the role since it was founded in 1820. Evaristo is a longstanding advocate for the inclusion of writers and artists of colour. She founded the Brunel International African Poetry Prize in 2012 and initiated The Complete Works poetry mentoring scheme in 2007. She co-founded Spread the Word writer development agency with Ruth Borthwick (1995–present) and Britain's first black women's theatre company (1982–1988), Theatre of Black Women. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernardine Dohrn
Bernardine Rae Dohrn (née Ohrnstein; born January 12, 1942) is a retired law professor and a former leader of the left-wing radical group Weather Underground in the United States. As a leader of the Weather Underground in the early 1970s, Dohrn was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list for several years. She remained a fugitive, even though she was removed from the list. After coming out of hiding in 1980, Dohrn pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of aggravated battery and bail jumping. Dohrn had graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1967. During the 1980s, she was employed by the Sidley & Austin law firm. From 1991 to 2013, Dohrn was a Clinical Associate Professor of Law at the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University School of Law. She is married to Bill Ayers, a co-founder of the Weather Underground. Early life Bernardine Dohrn was born Bernardine Ohrnstein in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1942, and grew up in Whitefish Bay, an upper-middl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernardine R
Bernardine is a Latinate diminutive of the given name "Bernard". It can be applied to men, notably Bernardino of Siena, Saint Bernadine, but is now much more often a Grammatical gender#Personal names, female name. Bernadine and Bernadene are variant spellings of the female name. The nickname ''Bernie (given name), Bernie'' is unisex. Bernardine is uncommon as a surname. Emily Dickinson uses the word as an adjective: "A more Bernardine Girl...". As a male given name *Saint Bernardino of Siena (1380–1444), Italian Franciscan missionary *Bernardino of Fossa (1420–1503), Italian Fransciscan historian, theologian and writer *Blessed Bernardine of Feltre (1439–1494), Italian Franciscan missionary *Bernardine a Piconio (1633–1709), French Capuchin theologian and exegete *Bernardine Dong Guangqing (1917–2007), Chinese bishop As a female given name *Bernardine of Lippe (1563–1628), German countess *Bernardine Bishop (1939–2013), British author *Bernardine Doh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernardine Of Feltre
Bernardine of Feltre (sometimes Bernardinus of Feltre) was a Friar Minor and missionary, b. at Feltre, Italy, in 1439 and d. at Pavia Pavia (, , , ; la, Ticinum; Medieval Latin: ) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy in northern Italy, south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It has a population of c. 73,086. The city was the ..., 28 September 1494. He is remembered in connection with the monti di pietà of which he was the reorganizer and, in a certain sense, the founder, together with the Michele Carcano. The feast of Blessed Bernardino is kept in the Order of Friars Minor on 28 September. Life Born Martin Tomitani, he belonged to the noble family of Tomitano and was the eldest of nine children. In 1456, while a law student in Padua, he heard James of the Marches preach the Lenten course and was inspired to enter the Franciscan order, taking the name Bernardino, after Bernardino of Siena. In May that year he joined the "O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernardino Of Siena
Bernardino of Siena, OFM (8 September 138020 May 1444), also known as Bernardine, was an Italian priest and Franciscan missionary preacher in Italy. He was a systematizer of Scholastic economics. His preaching, his book burnings, and his " bonfires of the vanities" made him famous/infamous during his own lifetime because they were frequently directed against sorcery, gambling, infanticide, witchcraft, homosexuals, Jews, Romani "Gypsies", usury, etc. Bernardino was later canonised by the Catholic Church as a saint – where he is also referred to as "the Apostle of Italy" – for his efforts to revive the country's Catholicism during the 15th century. Sources Two hagiographies of Bernardino of Siena were written by two of his friends; the one the same year in which he died, by Barnaba of Siena; the other by the humanist Maffeo Vegio. Another important contemporary biographical source is that written by the Sienese diplomat Leonardo Benvoglienti, who was another personal acquaint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernardine Bishop
Bernardine Anna Livia Mary Bishop (née Wall; 16 August 1939 – 4 July 2013) was an English novelist, teacher and psychotherapist.24 July 201"Bernardine Bishop obituary" ''The Telegraph''. Retrieved 10 April 2015 Her first novel, ''Perspectives'', was published by Hutchinson in 1961. During a half-century break between publishing her first two novels and her third, the 2013 Costa prize-nominated ''Unexpected Lessons In Love'', she brought up a family, taught, and practised as a psychotherapist.Tumulty, Desmond (5 July 2013"Bernardine Bishop obituary" ''The Guardian''. Retrieved 10 April 2015 Diagnosed with cancer of the colon in 2008, and subsequently forced to give up her psychotherapy work because of the illness, she reinvigorated her literary career by writing three novels, of which ''Unexpected Lessons In Love'' was the first. The book had only just been published when, having been informed that her condition was terminal, she decided to withdraw from chemotherapy and "turn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernardine Hamaekers
Caroline Frédérique Bernardine Hamaekers (12 June 1836 – 24 October 1912) was a Belgian soprano prominent in the opera houses and ''demimonde'' of Paris from the mid-1850s through 1869. For a time she was the mistress of Napoleon III, but had several other lovers. In 1870 she returned to Belgium where she was a prima donna at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie until her retirement from the stage in 1884. Her last years in Brussels found her almost destitute. In a fit of despair she committed suicide at the age of 76. Life and career Hamaekers was born in Louvain, Belgium, one of the ten daughters of Guillaume and Anne-Catherine (''née'' Vanderwalen) Hamaekers. Her father was an inn-keeper and a veteran of the Battle of Austerlitz. She initially studied singing in Louvain with Mme. Mathieu-Marin and then at the Brussels Conservatory, making her first concert appearance in 1855. On the encouragement of Eugène Scribe, she went to Paris accompanied by one of her sisters for furthe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernadine
Bernadine is a female given name, a variant spelling of Bernardine (other), Bernardine. Notable people with the name include: * Bernadine Bezuidenhout (born 1993), New Zealand cricketer * Bernadine Craft, American politician from Wyoming * Bernadine Custer (1900–1991), American artist * Bernadene Hayes (1912–1987), American actress * Bernadine Hayes (c. 1912–1987, American singer and actress * Bernadine Healy (born 1944), American cardiologist * Bernadine Kent, American politician from Ohio * Bernadine Maxwell (died 1988), American All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player * Bernadine Newsom Denning (1930–2011), American educator and civil rights activist * Bernadine Oliver-Kerby (born 1971), New Zealand broadcaster See also * Bernardine (other) * Bernard * Bernie (given name) * Bernardine (song), ''Bernardine'' (song), a song by Pat Boone from the 1957 film ''Bernardine'', often misspelled Bernadine * Nadine (other) {{given name, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernardines (other)
Bernardines may refer to: *Cistercians, a Roman Catholic religious order, sometimes called the Bernardines *Bernardine Cistercians of Esquermes, a small branch of the Cistercians *Bernardines (Franciscans), the name by which the Order of Friars Minor (Franciscan Observants) is known in the lands of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, after Bernardino of Siena *Bernardine Sisters of St. Francis, a Roman Catholic religious order based in Pennsylvania, United States *The multi-ethnic mercenary army formerly commanded by German Protestant general Bernard of Saxe-Weimar during the Thirty Years' War, inherited by the French after his death See also *Bernardine (other) Bernardine is a given name. Bernardine may also refer to: * ''Bernardine'' (film), a 1957 film version of the play *Bernardine (grape), another name for the Italian wine grape Prié blanc * ''Bernardine'' (play), a 1952 play by Mary Chase * ''Ber ... * Bernadine (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernardine A Piconio
Bernardine a Piconio (Henri Bernardine de Picquigny) (1633 – 8 December 1709) was a French Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, Capuchin theologian and exegete. Biography Bernardine a Piconio was born and educated at Picquigny, Picardy, and joined the Capuchins in 1649. As professor of theology he shed great lustre upon his order; his best-known work is his ''Triplex expositio epistolarum sancti Pauli'' (Paris, 1703 [French], 1706 [English, tr. Prichard], London, 1888), popular among Scriptural scholars. Piconio also wrote ''Triplex expositio in sacrosancta D. N. Jesu Christi Evangelia'' (Paris, 1726), and a book of moral instructions. A complete edition of his works, ''Opera omnia Bernardini a Piconio'', was published at Paris (1870–1872). He died in Paris. Notes References ;Attribution * Cites as a source: **Hugo von Hurter, ''Nomenclator literarius'', II, 788 {{DEFAULTSORT:Piconio 1633 births 1709 deaths Capuchins Roman Catholic biblical scholars 17th-century French Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernardine Portenski
Bernardine Judith Portenski (née Coleman, 26 August 1949 – 1 February 2017), commonly known as Bernie Portenski, was a New Zealand long-distance runner. She set numerous age-group world records, and competed at events ranging from 800 metres to marathon. Athletics Portenski took up running at the age of 30, and discovered a liking for long-distance events. She ran 114 marathons, including competing at the annual Rotorua Marathon on 33 occasions. In 1992 she qualified for the Olympics, but was deemed too old by the New Zealand Olympic selectors and was not added to the team. Personal life Portenski was born in Lower Hutt on 26 August 1949, the daughter of Mary Coleman (née Caroll) and John Coleman, and educated at Sacred Heart College. When not running, Portenski ran a hairdressing salon in the Wellington suburb of Miramar. She was married to Peter Horan, and had one daughter and one stepson. Portenski was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in May 2016. Portenski died in Welli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernardine Do Régo
Bernardine do Régo (born 1937) is a Beninese diplomat. Life Bernardine do Régo was born on 20 August 1937 and educated in Dakar and Paris. She studied at the University of Paris from 1961 to 1963, and at the Institut des hautes études d'Outre-Mer (IHEOM) from 1962 to 1964. dd In 1964 she wasd appointed administrative and consular affairs director at the Republic of Dahomey's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1970 she became technical consultant to the Office of the Presidency. After the 1972 Dahomeyan coup d'état she served as a diplomat in France, the United States, and as ambassador to Nigeria. She is in retirement in Cotonou Cotonou (; fon, Kútɔ̀nú) is a city in Benin. Its official population count was 679,012 inhabitants in 2012; however, over two million people live in the larger urban area. The urban area continues to expand, notably toward the west. The ci .... References 1937 births Living people Beninese women ambassadors Ambassadors of Benin to Nig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
