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Burchard (name)
Burchard (''Bouchard'', ''Burckhart'', ''Burkhart'', ''Burkard'', ''Burkhard'', ''Burkert'', '' Borchardt'', ''Burckhardt'' and variants, Old English ''Burgheard'') are both Germanic given names and surnames, from ''Burg'' "castle" and ''hart'' "hard". Notable people with the name include: Given name Burchard * Burchard of Würzburg, an 8th-century Anglo-Saxon missionary to the Frankish Empire * Burchard I, Duke of Swabia (c. 855/860–911) * Burchard II, Duke of Swabia (c. 883–926) * Burchard III, Duke of Swabia (c. 915–973) * Burchard, Duke of Thuringia (died 908) * Burchard of Worms (c. 950–1025), theologian * Burchard (archbishop of Vienne) (died 1031) * Burchard (bishop of Aosta) (died 1068), also Archbishop of Lyon (1033–1034), under the name Burchard III * Burchard II, Bishop of Halberstadt, 11th-century German cleric and statesman * Burchard of Basle, 11th-century bishop of Basle * Burchard of Istria (died 1106/1107) * Burchard, Bishop of Utrecht, 11th/12th centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bouchard
Bouchard, a Norman name with German elements means "fort" (bourgh) and "brave," "strong" (heard), see Burkhardt. It is also a French nickname for someone with a big mouth, "bouche" being French for mouth. Notable people with the name include: * Several princes of Vendôme; see List of counts and dukes of Vendôme * Alain Bouchard (born 1949), Canadian businessman *Albert Bouchard, a member of the band Blue Öyster Cult * Anthony Bouchard, American politician *Benoît Bouchard (born 1940), Canadian politician * Camil Bouchard (born 1945), Canadian politician *Charles Bouchard, Royal Canadian Air Force general *Charles Jacques Bouchard, French pathologist * Claude Bouchard (born 1939), Canadian physiologist *Dan Bouchard (born 1950), Canadian hockey player * David Bouchard (born 1986), Professional Smite player *Émile Bouchard (1919–2012), Canadian hockey player *Eugenie Bouchard (born 1994), Canadian tennis player *Gérard Bouchard (born 1943), Canadian historian, sociologist and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burchard Of Mount Sion
Burchard of Mount Sion (, also misnamed ''Brocard'' or ''Bocard''; fl. late 13th century), was a German priest, Dominican friar, pilgrim and author probably from Magdeburg in northern Germany, who travelled to the Middle East at the end of the 13th century. There he wrote his book called: ''Descriptio Terrae Sanctae'' or "Description of the Holy Land" which is considered to be of "extraordinary importance". ''Descriptio Terrae Sanctae'' It is the most detailed account of the Holy Land from the thirteenth century. It is described as having belonged to a class of its own among medieval descriptions of the Holy Land. Approximately 100 medieval and early modern manuscripts are known today, some of which include maps and diagrams. The long version, unlike the short version, contains additional descriptions that illustrate Burchard's journey from Europe to the Holy Land and back. He travelled to Mamluk Egypt and Angevin Sicily, among other places, and in two manuscripts of the long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jochen Borchert
Jochen Borchert (born 25 April 1940 in Nahrstedt, Stendal (district), Stendal) is a German politician and member of the Christian Democratic Union (Germany), CDU. He was Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection in Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic of Germany), Chancellor Helmut Kohl's cabinet from 1993 to 1998. From 1980 to 2009 he has been a member of the Bundestag. References External links Jochen Borchert's website 1940 births Living people Agriculture ministers of Germany Members of the Bundestag for North Rhine-Westphalia People from Stendal German hunters Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Members of the Bundestag 2005–2009 Members of the Bundestag 2002–2005 Members of the Bundestag 1998–2002 Members of the Bundestag 1994–1998 Members of the Bundestag 1990–1994 Members of the Bundestag 1987–1990 Members of the Bundestag 1983–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernhard Borchert
Bernhard Borchert (1 December 1863, Riga – 1945) was a Baltic-German painter who spent the greatest part of his life in Latvia. He entered the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ... in 1883, and was in 1885 awarded a silver medal from the same institute. He produced book and magazine illustrations. He was the author of the "Baltic artists’ painting exhibition" (''Baltijas mākslinieku gleznu izstāde''). See also * List of Baltic German artists Artwork File:Bernhard-Borchert-1.jpg, The Devil and his Grandmother File:Bernhard-Borchert-2.jpg, The Temptation of the Virgin References Latvian artists Baltic-German people from the Russian Empire 1863 births 1945 deaths Painters from the Russian Empire {{e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Borchard
Ruth Borchard (1910–2000) was a British writer who created a collection of self-portraits made by 100 modern British artists, the Ruth Borchard Collection. A notable work of Borchard's was '' John Stuart Mill: the Man''. Early and personal life Borchard was a cousin of Deborah Layton, survivor and author of '' Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple.'' Career She assisted Friedrich Hayek on '' John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor'' and later wrote ''John Stuart Mill: the Man,'' published in 1957, which was considered by R.J. Halliday to be "an amusing and perceptive account of Mill's life and personality." She wrote of his romantic interest, Harriet Taylor, her intellectual influence, and his conversion to Benthamism. Borchard Collection Borchard collected 100 self-portraits of British artists. She started out offering 10–15 guineas and then 21 guineas for artists to provide their self-portraits. Jean Cooke responded to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Borchard
Lew Ljewitsch "Leo" Borchard (31 March 1899 – 23 August 1945) was a German-Russian conductor and briefly musical director of the Berlin Philharmonic. Biography Borchard was born in Moscow to German parents, and grew up in Saint Petersburg where he received a solid musical education, as well being a regular visitor to the Stanislavsky Theatre. In 1920, after the Russian Revolution, he emigrated to Germany. Otto Klemperer engaged him as his assistant at the Kroll Opera in Berlin (Klemperer, lacking confidence in his own abilities, expected Borchard to critique his conducting technique). He conducted the Berlin Philharmonic for the first time in January 1933. In 1935, he was banned by the Nazi regime as politically unreliable. He continued teaching at his apartment and received his friends, including Boris Blacher and Gottfried von Einem.Friedrich, Ruth-Andreas. ''Der Schattenmann – Tagebuch Aufzeichnungen 1938-1945.'' Surhrkamp Verlag, 1947; as quoted in notes by Myriam S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Borchard
Joseph Edward Borchard (born November 25, 1978) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder. Borchard was the 12th pick of the first round in the 2000 Major League Baseball Draft out of Stanford University by the Chicago White Sox. In high school, he won a division III state football championship at Adolfo Camarillo High School as the starting quarterback. He also played quarterback for Stanford and took a $5.3 million signing bonus to play for the White Sox. The signing bonus was the highest ever given to a player for a minor league contract until Justin Upton received $6.1 million to sign with the Arizona Diamondbacks in . College Borchard attended Stanford University where he played baseball as an outfielder and football as a quarterback. Football In 1998 Borchard was the Cardinal backup quarterback behind Todd Husak and played in seven games in which he tallied 317 yards and three touchdowns. In 1999 Borchard completed 42-of-71 passes for 747 yards and seven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Borchard
Ian Alfred Borchard (born 5 August 1957) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1970s. He also played for West Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Playing career VFL Borchard, originally from Swan Hill in Victoria, spent three seasons at Richmond. In the last of those years, 1978, Borchard was cleared to play for South Fremantle in the Western Australian Football League (WAFL) midway through the season, but only lasted one week before he returned to Richmond on 29 June. SANFL He joined West Adelaide in 1979 and the following season won the first of his two Best & Fairest awards, the other coming in 1982. In 1981, Wests coach Neil Kerley appointed Borchard as captain West Adelaide, with the highlight being the 1983 premiership where he won the Jack Oatey Medal as the player of the match in the Grand Final win over Sturt at Football Park in front of 47,129 fans. Borchard remained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Borchard
Edwin Montefiore Borchard (October 17, 1884 – July 22, 1951) was an American international legal scholar, jurist, and Sterling Professor at the Yale Law School. He was a leading advocate of innocence reform and compensation for victims of wrongful conviction as well as the use of declaratory judgments. His work in international law emphasized non-intervention and neutrality. Education Borchard was born in 1884 in New York City to Michaelis Borchard, an import-export businessman, and Malwina Schachne. He attended the College of the City of New York from 1898 to 1902. He graduated with an LL.B. from New York Law School in 1905, a B.A. from Columbia University in 1908, and a PhD, from Columbia in 1913, writing a thesis entitled ''The Diplomatic Protection of Citizens Abroad''. Career Borchard served as the Law Librarian in the Law Library of Congress from 1911 to 1916. After a year working as an attorney for the National City Bank of New York, he accepted a position at the Yal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatrix Borchard
Beatrix Borchard (born 1950) is a German musicologist and author. The focus of her publications is the life and work of female and male musicians, such as Clara and Robert Schumann, Amalie and Joseph Joachim, Pauline Viardot-Garcia, and Adriana Hölszky. Also among her topics are the role of music in the process of Jewish assimilation, the history of musical interpretation, and strategies of . Career Borchard was born and grew up in Lingen, Germany. She studied musicology, German studies, and history in Bonn and Berlin. She wrote her dissertation about Clara Wieck and Robert Schumann. In 2000, she wrote her habilitation about Amalie and Joseph Joachim. She has been the editor of the Viardot-Garcia studies,''Viardot-Garcia-Studien'' Bd. 1–6, Georg Olms Verlag Hildesheim · Zürich · New York 2012ff and of the online ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Borchard
August Borchard (4 July 1864, Lemgo – 19 February 1940, Berlin) was a German physician and surgeon. He studied medicine at the Universities of Freiburg, Munich, Würzburg and Jena, receiving his doctorate at the latter institution in 1888 with a thesis on carcinomas of the antrum of Highmore, ''Ueber Carcinome der Highmorshöhle''. Afterwards, he worked as an assistant in the pathological institute at Marburg and as a physician in the surgical clinic at the University of Königsberg. In 1895, he was a senior physician in the surgical department at the ''Diakonissenhaus'' in Posen. He later moved to Berlin, where he attained a professorship in 1908.Google Books Aachen - Braniß by Walter De Gruyter (biography in German) In 1930, he became a member of the |
Adolphe Borchard
Adolphe Borchard (1882–1967) was a French pianist and composer who worked on a number of film scores during the 1930s and 1940s including large-budget films such as ''Ultimatum (1938 film), Ultimatum'' (1938). He has several music students. The Vietnamese composer Nguyễn Văn Quỳ is one of them and studied through distance education between 1953 and 1954. Selected filmography * ''The Red Robe'' (1933) * ''The Invisible Woman (1933 film), The Invisible Woman'' (1933) * ''Prince Jean (1934 film), Prince Jean'' (1934) * ''Confessions of a Cheat'' (1936) * ''Désiré (1937 film), Désiré'' (1937) * ''Quadrille (1938 film), Quadrille'' (1938) * ''Ultimatum (1938 film), Ultimatum'' (1938) * ''Kreutzer Sonata (1938 film), Kreutzer Sonata'' (1938) * ''Nine Bachelors'' (1939) * ''Tornavara'' (1943) * ''Jeannou'' (1943) References Bibliography * Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. ''Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene''. Berghahn Books, 1999. * Nichols, Roger. ''The Harlequin Ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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