Birck
Birck is a surname belonging to several prominent people. * Sixt Birck (1501–1554), German scholar * Wenzel Raimund Birck (1718–1763), European composer * Michael Birck (born 1938), American businessman It may also be used as a given name. * Birck Elgaaen (born 1917), Norwegian equestrian See also (homonyms) * Berck * Burck * Berk (other) * Birk (other) * Burk (other) Burk may refer to: Places * Burk, Bavaria, a municipality in the district of Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany * Burk, a city district of Bautzen_(district), Saxony, Germany * Burk, a neighborhood of Forchheim (Oberfranken), Bavaria, Germany People * Bu ...

Michael Birck
Michael J. Birck (January 25, 1938 – July 6, 2015) was a co-founder and chairman of Tellabs Inc. He began his career at Bell Telephone Laboratories, and helped found Tellabs in 1975. He served as the CEO of the company from 2002 to 2004. He was a philanthropist and a member of the Alumni Association at Purdue University. Biography Birck was born January 25, 1938, in Missoula, Montana, and grew up in Clinton, Indiana. He received a BSEE degree at Purdue University in 1960 and an MSEE degree from New York University in 1962. Birck began his career on the technical staff at AT&T’s Bell Telephone Laboratories. He went on to manage the Transmission System Design Department at Continental Telephone Laboratories. He was director of engineering at Wescom Inc. from 1968 to 1975. Birck and five other electrical engineers and salesmen came up with the idea for Tellabs in 1975. He was Chief Executive Officer of Tellabs from 2002 to 2004. Birck died on July 6, 2015 at the age of 77. ...
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Wenzel Raimund Birck
Wenzel Raimund Johann Birck (also spelled "Pirck", "Birk", "Birckh", "Pirckh", "Pürk", and "Pürck") (1718–1763) was one of the early proponents of Symphonic music in Vienna, along with Georg Christoph Wagenseil and Georg Matthias Monn, and an early tutor for Mozart. Birck also, along with Georg Christoph Wagenseil tutored a young Joseph Haydn. He was the court organist for Maria Theresia and the music teacher for emperor Joseph II. See also * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart * Symphony A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often for orchestra. Although the term has had many meanings from its origins in the ancient Greek era, by the late 18th century the word had taken on the meaning com ... References * Biba, Otto. 2001. "Pirck, Wenzel Raimund (Johann)". ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', ed. S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell. London: Macmillan. American Fact Finders: Ludwig van BeethovenThe Mozart Project Notes 18th-century A ...
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Sixt Birck
Sixt (or Sixtus) Birck, as Xystus Betuleius (February 24, 1501 – June 19, 1554) was a German humanist of Augsburg, "a notable German scholar of the New Learning". At the end of his schooling in Augsburg the Protestant Reformation began. He continued his theological studies at Erfurt, Tübingen and Basel before returning to Augsburg as director (''Magister'') of the ''Gymnasium''. Works His theatrical output is in both German and Latin: in Basel he produced a wide variety of German theater pieces with a Reformation subtext; in Augsburg he wrote a notable series of pedological school dramas in Latin, designed for student presentation and intended to improve morality and Latin alike. Among his numerous plays in Latin are ''Susanna'', (Augsburg 1537; Zurich 1538), originally written in German but recast in Latin so as to make an essentially new play; ''De vera nobilitate'', a dramatized version of Buonaccorso da Montemagno's ''Dialogus de nobilitate'' concerning meritocracy and t ...
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Birck Elgaaen
Birck Elgaaen (2 August 1917 – 7 January 2013) was a Norwegian equestrian who competed in the individual show jumping event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. A member of the ''Oslo Rideklubb'', he was unable to complete the competition. He was born in Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ..., Norway and later became a horse riding instructor. References 1917 births 2013 deaths Norwegian male equestrians Equestrians at the 1956 Summer Olympics Olympic equestrians of Norway Sportspeople from Oslo 20th-century Norwegian people {{Norway-equestrian-bio-stub ...
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Burck
Burck is a surname; notable people with this surname include: * Jacob Burck (1907–1982), American political cartoonist * Joachim a Burck (1546–1610; also ''Joachim von Burgk'', sometimes ''Joachim Moller''), German composer * Robert John Burck (born 1970), the Naked Cowboy from Times Square, New York City * William Burck (1848–1910), Dutch botanist See also * Berck * Berk (other) * Birck * Burk (other) * Burke (other) Burke is a surname or given name. Burke may also refer to: People * Burke baronets, two baronetcies created in the Baronetage of Ireland * Edmund Burke, 18th century politician commonly referenced as simply "Burke" * House of Burke or House of ...

Berck
Berck (), sometimes referred to as Berck-sur-Mer (, literally ''Berck on Sea''), is a commune in the northern French department of Pas-de-Calais. It lies within the Marquenterre regional park, an ornithological nature reserve. Geography Situated just to the north of the estuary of the river Authie, Berck has a huge expanse of sandy beach and impressive grassy-topped dunes facing north onto the English Channel. The town comprises two parts – to the east, the old fishing town of Berck-Ville and to the west the seaside area, Berck-sur-Mer. Toponymy Berck is attested through the centuries in various forms: ''datum Bergis'' and ''Berc'' in 1215, ''Bierk'' in 1282.Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing, 72b. Its origin has been conjectured to come either from Germanic ''berg'' "hill", "mount" or ''birkja'' "place of the birch trees", designating the birch tree wood nearby. The Modern Dutch word for "birch" is ''berk''. In Dutch the name is ''Berk-aan-Zee''. History The old town w ...
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Berk (other)
Berk may refer to: * Berk (name), a surname, given name, or any of several people with that name * Berk, Bolu, Turkey, a village * Berk Trade and Business School, New York City * Berk, a fictional island in the ''How to Train Your Dragon'' series of books and films * , a torpedo cruiser of the Ottoman Navy later renamed ''Berk'' * Berk, rhyming slang often used to mean "foolish person" * ''Berk.'', taxonomic author abbreviation of Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803–1889), English cryptogamist and founder of the science of plant pathology See also * Berk–Tabatznik syndrome, a medical condition * De Berk (other) * Berks (other) * Birk (other) Birk may refer to: * Birk (market place), a demarcated area with its own laws and privileges, the Bjarkey laws * Reykjavík Airport's ICAO code "BIRK" * Birk (name), a given name and surname * ''Birk'', the German name for Petelea Commune, Mureș ...

Birk (other)
Birk may refer to: * Birk (market place), a demarcated area with its own laws and privileges, the Bjarkey laws * Reykjavík Airport's ICAO code "BIRK" * Birk (name), a given name and surname * ''Birk'', the German name for Petelea Commune, Mureș County, Romania See also * * * Birks (other) * Berk (other) * Burk (other) Burk may refer to: Places * Burk, Bavaria, a municipality in the district of Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany * Burk, a city district of Bautzen_(district), Saxony, Germany * Burk, a neighborhood of Forchheim (Oberfranken), Bavaria, Germany People * Bu ...