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Bethke
Bethke is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Andrew-John Bethke, South African composer * Arap Bethke (born 1980), Mexican actor * Bruce Bethke (born 1955), American author * Des Bethke (born 1943), Australian rules footballer * Erik Bethke (born 1972), American computer games developer * Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941–2013), American political philosopher * Katie Bethke (born 1988), American soccer player * Michael Bethke, American murderer * Penny Bethke (1950–2011), Canadian co-operative business leader * Sigfried Bethke Sigfried Bethke (born April 15, 1954 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein) is a German physicist and science manager. Life Scientific career Siegfried Bethke studied at Heidelberg University in Heidelberg, where he received his doctorate in 1983 and his ha ... (born 1954), German physicist {{Surname German-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Jean Paulette Bethke Elshtain (1941–2013) was an American ethicist, political philosopher, and public intellectual. She was the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the University of Chicago Divinity School with a joint appointment in the department of political science. Biography Early life Elshtain was born on January 6, 1941, to Paul Bethke and Hellen Lind in Windsor, Colorado. She grew up in Timnath, Colorado. She was from a Lutheran background. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colorado State University and master's degrees in history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Colorado. She received her Doctor of Philosophy degree from Brandeis University in Massachusetts in 1973, writing her dissertation on ''Women and Politics: A Theoretical Analysis''. Career Elshtain taught from 1973 to 1988 at the University of Massachusetts and then from 1988 to 1995 she taught at Vanderbilt University as the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arap Bethke
Ricardo Arap Bethke Galdames (born 12 March 1980) is a Mexican actor. Early life Bethke was born on 12 March 1980 in Nairobi, Kenya, as Ricardo Arap Bethke Galdames. In the African language "Arap Bethke" means "Bethke's son." His father, Claus Bethke is German and his mother, Patricia Galdames is Chilean. He lived in Nairobi until he was 5 years old. His father worked at the United Nations, so this caused them to move from one country to another. At a very young age, he arrived in Mexico where he lived all his childhood and adolescence. He attended high school at Peterson College. and later studied at the Universidad Iberoamericana, where he graduated with a degree in communication. He has two brothers and a sister, who was born in Washington, United States, and a brother who was born in Ecuador named Beto Bethke. Bethke speaks four languages: Spanish, English, Italian and French. Due to his upbringing, Bethke has called himself a "Mexikenian", due to his Kenyan birth and Mex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Bethke
Bruce Bethke (born 1955) is an American author best known for his 1983 short story ''Cyberpunk'' which led to the widespread use of the term, including for the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. His novel, ''Headcrash'', won the Philip K. Dick Award in 1995 for SF original paperback published in the US. Bethke's collected thoughts on the cyberpunk subculture are available on his website, in an essay entitled "The Etymology of Cyberpunk". Bethke served as a judge on the Philip K. Dick Award in 2013. Life Bethke lives in Minnesota where he works as a developer of supercomputer software. Bibliography * ''Maverick'': Written from an outline by Isaac Asimov in 1990, this novel was one of a series of novels set in Asimov's ''Robot'' universe. * ''Headcrash'': Bethke's first published novel, published in 1995. ''Headcrash'' is the story of Jack Burroughs, a computer nerd in his mid twenties, who lives with his overbearing mother, and works a dead-end job at a software firm. Jack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew-John Bethke
Andrew-John Bethke FBShttps://www.burgon.org.uk/events/online-talk-and-garden-party/ is a South African composer, conductor and organist. Biography Bethke did his first degree at the University of Cape Town, he followed that up with a master's degree in sacred music from the American Southern Methodist University. He later completed a doctoral degree at his ''alma mater'', UCT. Bethke was a trainee conductor at the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra. Bethke was the director of music and precentor at the St. Michael and St. George Cathedral in Grahamstown as well as being the conductor of the Rhodes University Chamber Choir. He was previously a lecturer at the College of the Transfiguration. He currently works at the School of Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal. Bethke does research in Performing Arts, Musicology and History of Religion. Publications * * * * * Compositions His compositions include: * ''In tender contemplation'', premiered at the London Festival of Contempor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penny Bethke
Penny (Penelope Anne) Bethke (1950–2011) was a senior manager in the Ontario co-operative sector, a community leader, and a social activist. Serving in a range of positions on the management and boards of a number of credit union, co-operative and labour organizations between 1975 and 2011, it has been said that Bethke was responsible for tens of thousands of people living in co-operative housing, for numerous initiatives on social responsibility, and for inspiring a generation of young people in the co-operative movement. In addition to acting as a business leader and manager in a number of corporate capacities, Bethke's work frequently concentrated on initiatives related to helping the less fortunate. She was one of the prime instigators and promoters of the practice of social auditing in Canada, and played a driving role in implementing social audits conducted by Metro Credit Union. She instigated and supported a range of projects related to social responsibility including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katie Bethke
Katelyn O'Hern Bethke (born September 3, 1988) is a retired American soccer player who last represented Swedish Damallsvenskan club Eskilstuna United DFF, having previously played for Mallbackens IF. Club career Bethke played for Atlanta Beat in the WPS in 2011. On July 24, 2011, Bethke signed a deal with Norwegian Toppserien club Arna-Bjørnar. On January 19, 2012, Bethke joined German Bundesliga side Bayer 04 Leverkusen where she played 7 of the remaining season matches. Bethke signed a contract with Avaldsnes IL in the Toppserien in January 2013. For the 2015 season she moved to Sweden and played in the Damallsvenskan, firstly for Mallbackens IF and in July she signed with Eskilstuna United DFF. On 1 September 2015, it was announced by Eskilstuna United that Bethke requested the termination of her contract, as she decided to retired from football. International career Bethke was part of the United States U23 squad for the 2011 Four Nations Tournament. Illinois Intr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigfried Bethke
Sigfried Bethke (born April 15, 1954 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein) is a German physicist and science manager. Life Scientific career Siegfried Bethke studied at Heidelberg University in Heidelberg, where he received his doctorate in 1983 and his habilitation in 1987. In 1987/88 he spent a research stay at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a Feodor Lynen fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Subsequently, he did research at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, as a Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Foundation. In 1993 he was appointed professor of experimental physics at the RWTH Aachen University, where he held a chair at the III Physics Institute until 1999. In 1999 he became a "Scientific Member" of the Max Planck Society and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, where he was Managing Director from 2000 to 2005. In 2000, he was appointed honorary professor at the Technical University of Munich. Since January 2013, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Bethke
Erik Bethke is a computer games developer. Bethke worked on UV Spectrometer experiments under Dr. D.E. Shemanksy at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of Southern California, but did not complete his PhD studies in Space Sciences. He began a career in the games industry working on GoPets, GoDance, Star Trek: Starfleet Command, Star Trek: Starfleet Command II: Empires at War and Star Trek: Starfleet Command: Orion Pirates. His first book, ''Game Development and Production'', describing the methodology of creating games; was edited by Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, Co-CEOs of BioWare. A subsequent book, ''Settlers of the New Virtual Worlds'', co-edited with Erin Hoffman, explored human and property rights in virtual worlds, and highlighted current End User License Agreements (EULAs). In 2003 Bethke moved to Seoul, Korea and founded GoPets, Ltd. which was acquired by social gaming company Zynga. Bethke worked at Zynga from 2009 to 2012 as the General Manager of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Des Bethke
Desmond Norman Bethke (born 19 August 1943) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family The son of Eric Otto Bethke (1914-1985), and Phyllis Ada Bethke (1917-), née Love, Desmond Norman Bethke was born at Netherby (near Nhill) on 19 August 1943. He married Janet Ray Boucher (1943-). Football Recruited from the Horsham Football Club, he was granted six match permits in 1963 and, after playing with the South Melbourne First XVIII for the first six matches of the 1963 season, he returned to Horsham. He played all eighteen games for the South Melbourne First XVIII in the 1964 season, nine games in 1965, seven games in 1966, fourteen games in 1967, and two games in 1968. Bethke's last senior game was against Carlton, on 18 May 1968, at the Lake Oval in round 6 of the 1968 season. It was a torrid match, eventually won by Carlton, 12.11 (83) to 10.11 (71) — which withstood a vigorous second half com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Bethke
Michael Bethke is an American murderer from Calumet City, Illinois, who killed and decapitated Joseph Lesinski, his 49-year-old co-worker at the Burnham, Illinois, White Hen Pantry grocery store, on June 6, 1991. Described as having "chronic paranoid schizophrenia", Bethke was found not guilty by reason of insanity and sentenced to up to 49 years in a state mental institution. Press coverage A story regarding Bethke can be found in the May 21, 1993 issue of the ''Chicago Tribune'' at page 3. The story states that Michael Bethke of Calumet City, Illinois was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the slaying of 49 year-old Joseph Lesinski and that a hearing regarding his mental condition and future prognosis would be held on June 3, 1993. The story also states that the slaying occurred on June 6, 1991, while both Bethke and his victim Lesinki were working at the Burnham White Hen Pantry. According to the story, "Bethke admitted to decapitating Lesinski with a knife when the vic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |