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Bruun
Bruun is a surname of North Germanic origin. The meaning is ''brown'' (''brun'' in Danish, Swedish and Norwegian). In Denmark, the name is known to have been in use since the 13th century in the form Bruun. Other spelling variants are ''Bruhn'' and ''Brun''. Today, c. 0.1% of the population carries Bruun as their surname or middle name. The name is also in use in Norway (c. 0.02% of the population), the Faroe Islands and the other Nordic countries (even less frequent). In the Danish translation of ''Peanuts'', Charlie Brown is called Søren Brun. Abundance As of 2007, the numbers of bearers of the surnames Bruun, Bruhn and Brun in the Nordic countries are: The infrequent occurrences of Bruun as a surname outside Scandinavia, mainly Germany, Great Britain, Canada and the U.S., is due to immigration from the Nordic countries; in Germany possibly as a variation over the given name ''Bruno''. Notable people Persons with Bruun as their surname * Anders Bruun (born 1979), a Swedish ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertel Bruun
Bertel Bruun (November 13, 1937 – September 21, 2011) was a naturalist, international conservationist and neurologist. Bruun wrote many books and was the co-author of The Golden Field Guide to Birds of North America first published in 1966. He later became very involved in conservation efforts, most especially in the Middle East where he served as a liaison between the Israel and Egypt to promote the preservation of wildlife in the Sinai Peninsula when the region was handed back to Egypt after the 1978 Camp David Peace Treaty. Early life Bruun was born in Skaelskor, Denmark, son to Erik Valdemar Marie Andre Ley Bruun and Ebba Kirstine Poulsen, the youngest of four children. He grew up in the Danish fishing village intending to follow his own father's career as a village doctor. Bruun had grown up in Occupied Denmark during World War II. He took a special pride in the fact that his oldest brother and father were active members of the Danish Resistance. Career He attended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Bruun
Erik Bruun (born 7 April 1926) is a Finnish graphic designer. Biography Bruun was born in Viipuri on 7 April 1926. He spent his childhood in village of Säiniö on the Karelian isthmus. In the Winter War, war years his family was forced to move to Helsinki, where he later enrolled in the Central School of Industrial Design. He graduated as a graphics designer in 1950. After graduation, Bruun worked for three years as an exhibition designer and advertisement artist. In 1953 he founded his own design studio, where he produced the most of his work. Bruun's works are diverse and numerous. They include posters, postcards, stamps, and most notably all of the reverse sides of the last ever series of the Finnish Markka banknote series from year 1986. In the early days of the new banknote series, Bruun and his wife were visiting Stockholm, Sweden. They needed to exchange Finnish Markka notes to Swedish krona, and had some of the new Markka notes with them. The cashier, never having seen th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Frederik Bruun
Anton Frederik Bruun (14 December 1901 – 13 December 1961) was a Danish oceanographer and ichthyologist. Educated at University of Copenhagen (1926) and employed at the Danish Commission for Marine Research (Kommissionen for Danmarks Fiskeri- og Havundersøgelser), where he participated in the third Dana expedition (1928-1930). From 1938 employed at the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen University. In 1945-46 scientific leader of the Atlantide expedition along the coast of West Africa and in 1950-1952 scientific leader of the Galathea deep-sea expedition, which circumnavigated the world. He became the first president of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, under UNESCO and was a leading figure in establishing international organisations for the exploration of the seas. The R/V ''Anton Bruun'' (former US presidential yacht ) was named after him, as was the underwater bioacoustic research facility " Station Oceanographique Anton Bruun", in Strib, Denmark ) , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anders Bruun
Anders Bruun (born 15 May 1979) is a Swedish bandy player who currently plays for Västerås SK as a defender. Career Bruun is a youth product of IFK Motala and has represented their senior team, Västerås, and Volga The Volga (; russian: Во́лга, a=Ru-Волга.ogg, p=ˈvoɫɡə) is the List of rivers of Europe#Rivers of Europe by length, longest river in Europe. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Cas .... References External links * 1979 births Living people Swedish bandy players IFK Motala players Västerås SK Bandy players Volga Ulyanovsk players Expatriate bandy players in Russia {{Sweden-bandy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Henrik Reventlow Bruun
Hans Henrik Eduard Reventlow Bruun (born 1943) is a Danish sociologist and diplomat. He is an MA in political science (cand.scient.pol.) from University of Aarhus. Through nearly thirty years, he served in the Danish diplomatic mission. From 1987 ambassador to Turkey, from 1999 to France. After his retirement from the foreign service, he joined the staff at the University of Copenhagen Institute for Sociology as an adjunct professor. In his academic field, he is an expert on the philosophy of Max Weber Maximilian Karl Emil Weber (; ; 21 April 186414 June 1920) was a German sociologist, historian, jurist and political economist, who is regarded as among the most important theorists of the development of modern Western society. His ideas profo ....Bruun, Hans Henrik (2007Science, values, and politics in Max Weber's methodology Aldershot, Ashgate, 298 pp. Series: Rethinking classical sociology References 1943 births Living people Danish sociologists Academic staff of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antti Bruun
Antti Bruun (born 9 November 1979) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey defenceman. Bruun played in the Liiga for Ilves, SaiPa, Lukko and HPK. He also played in Sweden's Elitserien for Mora IK and HockeyAllsvenskan for the Malmö Redhawks, as well as 22 games in the Slovak Extraliga for HKm Zvolen in 2009 and 22 games for HC Bolzano of Italy's Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa ... in 2011. Career statistics References External links * 1979 births Living people Bolzano HC players Finnish ice hockey defencemen HPK players Ilves players Kokkolan Hermes players KOOVEE players Lempäälän Kisa players Lukko players Malmö Redhawks players Mora IK players People from Savonlinna SaiPa players SaPKo players HKM Zvolen players Sportspeo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Bruun
Geoffrey Bruun (20 October 1898 – 13 July 1988) was a historian and biographer who taught at New York University from 1927 until 1941. He was born in Montreal, Quebec and received a bachelor's degree from the University of British Columbia, and master's and doctoral degrees from Cornell University. After retiring as a professor of history from N.Y.U., he was a visiting professor at Cornell, Mt. Holyoke College, Smith College, the University of Illinois, and Georgetown University. He was the author of several books on European history, including ''Europe and the French Imperium, 1799–1814,'' published in 1938; ''Europe in Evolution,'' (1945) and ''Europe and America Since 1492'' (1954), as well as a biography of Georges Clemenceau, the French statesman, published in 1943. Although he wrote book reviews for the ''Saturday Review of Literature'' and other journals, Bruun is most widely known for his textbooks, including ''A Survey of European Civilization'', which he wrote in col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Bruun
Edgar Bruun (4 August 1905 – 30 October 1985) was a Norway, Norwegian race walking, race walker. Achievements External linksNorwegian international athletes - B 1905 births 1985 deaths Norwegian male racewalkers Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Norway World record setters in athletics (track and field) European Athletics Championships medalists 20th-century Norwegian people {{Norway-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birgitte Bruun
Birgitte Price (earlier known as Birgitte Bruun; 29 April 1934 – 17 July 1997) was a Danish actress of the 1950s and 1960s. Filmography *''Det store løb'' (1952) *''Far til fire'' (1953) *'' Farlig Ungdom'' (1953) *''Father of Four in the Snow'' (1954) *'' En sømand går i land'' (1954) *''Father of Four in the Country'' (1955) *''Taxa K 1640 efterlyses'' (1956) *''Father of Four in the City'' (1956) *''Father of Four and Uncle Sofus'' (1957) *''Bundfald'' (1957) *'' Mariannes bryllup'' (1958) *'' Father of Four and the Wolf Cubs'' (1958) *''Verdens rigeste pige'' (1958) *'' Helle for Helene'' (1959) *''Don Olsen kommer til byen'' (1964) *''The Girl and the Millionaire'' (1965) *''Der var engang ''Der var engang'' is a 1966 Danish family film directed by John Price and starring Birgitte Bruun. Cast * Birgitte Bruun - Prinsessen af Illyrien * Hans W. Petersen - Kongen af Illyrien * Peter Steen - Prinsen af Danmark * Ove Sprogøe - F ...'' (1966) *'' Kys til højre og ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conrad Malte-Brun
Conrad Malte-Brun (12 August 177514 December 1826), born Malthe Conrad Bruun, and sometimes referred to simply as Malte-Brun, was a Dano- French geographer and journalist. His second son, Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun, was also a geographer. Today he is perhaps best remembered for coining the name for the geographic region Oceania (French ''Océanie'') around 1812, he also coined the name Indo-China. Biography Born in Thisted to an administrator of Danish crown lands, Malte-Brun was originally destined for a career as a pastor, but chose instead to attend classes at the University of Copenhagen, and became a supporter of the French Revolution and an activist in favor of freedom of the press. Following the harsh censorship laws instituted by the Danish ruler crown prince Frederick in September 1799, he was indicted because of his many pamphlets which contained outright criticism of the government, which the new censorship laws forbade. A particular cause for offence was a pamphlet he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Bruun
Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength"), and derives from two early biblical figures, primary among them Daniel from the Book of Daniel. It is a common given name for males, and is also used as a surname. It is also the basis for various derived given names and surnames. Background The name evolved into over 100 different spellings in countries around the world. Nicknames (Dan, Danny) are common in both English and Hebrew; "Dan" may also be a complete given name rather than a nickname. The name "Daniil" (Даниил) is common in Russia. Feminine versions (Danielle, Danièle, Daniela, Daniella, Dani, Danitza) are prevalent as well. It has been particularly well-used in Ireland. The Dutch names "Daan" and "Daniël" are also variations of Daniel. A related surname developed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Germanic Languages
The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages—a sub-family of the Indo-European languages—along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages. The language group is also referred to as the Nordic languages, a direct translation of the most common term used among Danish, Faroese, Icelandic,Elfdalian,Norwegian, Gutnish, and Swedish scholars and people. The term ''North Germanic languages'' is used in comparative linguistics, whereas the term Scandinavian languages appears in studies of the modern standard languages and the dialect continuum of Scandinavia. Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are close enough to form a strong mutual intelligibility where cross-border communication in native languages is very common. Approximately 20 million people in the Nordic countries speak a Scandinavian language as their native language,Holmberg, Anders and Christer Platzack (2005). "The Scandinavian languages". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
