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Brill (surname)
Brill is a family name, most seen in the Dutch language. Notable people with the surname include: Artists * John Frederick Brill (died 1942), British World War II soldier and mural artist * Matthijs Brill, and Paul Brill, 16th century Flemish landscape painters * Slavko Brill (1900–1943), Croatian sculptor Athletes * Dean Brill (born 1985), English footballer * Debbie Brill (born 1953), Canadian high-jumper * Frank Brill (1864–1944), American bowler and baseball player * Karl Brill, American football player * Martin Brill (born 1956), New Zealand fencer * Marty Brill (American football) (1906–1973), football coach * Sam Brill (born 1985), American soccer player Businesspeople * E. J. Brill, founder of Brill Publishers (Leiden) * J. G. Brill, founder of J. G. Brill and Company * Ron Brill, American businessman and co-founder of Home Depot Educators * Ann Brill, Dean of the School of Journalism at Kansas University * Ralph Brill (born 1935), Professor of Law at Chicag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic language spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language. It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language, after its close relatives German and English. ''Afrikaans'' is a separate but somewhat mutually intelligible daughter languageAfrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans was historically called Cape Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans is rooted in 17th-century dialects of Dutch; see , , , . Afrikaans is variously described as a creole, a partially creolised language, or a deviant variety of Dutch; see . spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, evolving from the Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa. The dialects used in Belgium (including Flemish) and in Suriname, meanwhile, are all guided by the Dutch Language Union. In Europe, most of the population of the Netherlands (where it is the only official language spoken country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Brill
Shirley Brill ( he, שירלי בריל; born 1982) is an Israeli clarinetist living in Germany. Education and career Born in Petah Tikva, Israel, Brill received her musical education in Israel from Yitzhak Katzap at the Petah Tikva Conservatory. From the year 2000, she continued her studies in Germany with Sabine Meyer at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, as well as in the United States with Richard Stoltzman at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. At the age of 16, she began her solo career with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Zubin Mehta. Since then she has appeared with a large number of international orchestras, such as the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in the Great Hall of the Berlin Philharmonie, and collaborated with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the National Theater of Prague, the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Symphony Orchestra and the New Philharmonic o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Brill
Henry Brill (October 6, 1906 – June 17, 1990) was an American psychiatrist and educator. A native of Bridgeport, Connecticut, he earned both his undergraduate and medical degrees from Yale University. After receiving his M.D. in 1932, he began a career in the New York state psychiatric system, culminating in the directorship of Pilgrim Psychiatric Center in Brentwood, NY from 1958 to 1976. At its height in the mid-1950s, Pilgrim was the largest mental institution in the world, with a census of 13,875 patients. Brill also served as Deputy Commissioner of the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene from 1959 to 1964. Brill was a leader in the early use of the tranquilizer chlorpromazine (Thorazine) in the United States for the treatment of psychosis, having heard of its success in France and Canada in the early 1950s. After being contacted directly by the drug's U.S. distributor, Smith Kline & French, Brill convened a meeting of New York psychiatrists in 1953 to discuss the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Brill
Eric Brill is a computer scientist specializing in natural language processing. He created the Brill tagger, a supervised part of speech tagger. Another research paper of Brill introduced a machine learning technique now known as transformation-based learning. Biography Eric earned a BA in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1987 and a MS in Computer Science from UT Austin in 1989. In 1994, he completed his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. He was an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University from 1994 to 1999. In 1999, he left JHU for Microsoft Research, he developed a system called "Ask MSR" that answered search engine queries written as questions in English, and was quoted in 2004 as predicting only brief success for Google's search engine business. In 2009 he moved to eBay eBay Inc. ( ) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Von Brill
Alexander Wilhelm von Brill (20 September 1842 – 18 June 1935) was a German mathematician. Born in Darmstadt, Hesse, Brill was educated at the University of Giessen, where he earned his doctorate under supervision of Alfred Clebsch. He held a chair at the University of Tübingen, where Max Planck was among his students. In 1933, he joined the National Socialist Teachers League as one of the first members from Tübingen. The London Science Museum contains sliceform objects prepared by Brill and Felix Kleinbr> Selected publications''Vorlesungen über ebene algebraische Kurven und Funktionen.'' 1925.*''Vorlesungen über allgemeine Mechanik.'' 1928. *''Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Mechanik raumerfüllender Massen.'' 1909. *''Graphische Darstellungen aus der reinen und angewandten Mathematik.'' 1894. *with Max Noether''Über algebraische Funktionen und ihre Anwendung in der Geometrie.'' Mitt. Göttinger Akad.1873 and their article with the same name in the Mathematischen Annal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Brill
Abraham Arden Brill (October 12, 1874 – March 2, 1948) was an Austrian-born psychiatrist who spent almost his entire adult life in the United States. He was the first psychoanalyst to practice in the United States and the first translator of Sigmund Freud into English. Education Brill was born in Kańczuga, Austrian Galicia, to Jewish parents. He arrived in the United States alone and penniless at the age of 15. Working continuously to finance his studies,P. Gay, ''Freud'' (1989) p. 209 he eventually graduated from New York University in 1901 and obtained his M.D. from Columbia University in 1903. Ernest Jones commented with admiration: "He might have been called a rough diamond, but there was no doubt about the diamond". Brill spent the next four years working at Central Islip State Hospital on Long Island. Life Brill married Dr. K. Rose Owen, with whom he had two children. He died at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York on March 2, 1948. Career After studying with Eugen Bleule ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Brill
Julie Simone Brill (born March 12, 1959) is an American lawyer who serves as Chief Privacy Officer and Corporate Vice President for Global Privacy and Regulatory Affairs at Microsoft. Prior to this, Brill served as a member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 2010 to 2016. Early life and education Brill was born in Houston, Texas on March 12, 1959."Julie Brill, Commissioner" ''Federal Regulatory Directory''. Thousand Oaks, CA: CQ Press, 16th edition, 2014, p. 241. In 1977, Brill graduated from in |
Hermann Brill
Dr. Hermann Louis Brill (9 February 1895 – 22 June 1959) was a German resistance fighter, doctor of law and politician (SPD). Biography Brill was born in the small town of Gräfenroda, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, on 9 February 1895 as the son of a tailor; after finishing school, he attended the ''Herzog-Ernst-Seminar'' in Gotha to become a teacher. His political career began in 1918, when he entered the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany; less than two years later, he became a member of the Thuringian parliament (Landtag) for the first time, where he stayed until 1933. However, Brill only stayed a member of the USPD for four years; in 1922, he left the party again and found his new political home in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) instead. In 1932, Brill was also a member of the federal German parliament ( Reichstag). The Nazis met with resistance from Brill since he first came in contact with them after they became part of the reigning coalition in Thuri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Brill
Barry Edward Brill (born 22 October 1940) is a New Zealand lawyer and ex-politician. Brill was parliamentary under-secretary for Energy, Science and Technology, Regional Development and National Development in the Third National Government from 1978 to 1981. Early life Brill was born in Te Awamutu on 22 October 1940, the son of Arnold and Clarice Brill, who were dairy farmers at Brills Road, near Kihikihi. He was educated at St Patrick's primary school in Te Awamutu and Sacred Heart College, Auckland. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1964 and graduated LL.M.(Hons) from Victoria University of Wellington in 1967. He later gained an M.ComLaw from University of Auckland and OPM from Harvard Business School (2000). In February 1963, Brill married Pauline Hannon, and the couple would have five children. He later married Robyn Stent and they live in the Bay of Islands. Admitted as a partner in a Wellington law firm in 1964, he subsequently practised as Brill Adlam & Mollard in Parapa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Brill
Arthur Brill (22 January 1883–19 September 1956) was a politician in the Free City of Danzig. Brill was the chairman of the Social Democratic Party of the Free City of Danzig between 1920 and 1936.Kowalski, Werner. Geschichte der sozialistischen arbeiter-internationale: 1923 - 19'. Berlin: Dt. Verl. d. Wissenschaften, 1985. pp. 291-292 Brill represented Danzig in the executive of the Labour and Socialist International between January 1929 and 1936. Between July 1931 and 1934 he shared the seat with Johann Kowoll Johann Kowoll (December 27, 1890 in Laurahütte – 1941) was a German socialist politician. In his young years, Kowoll had several jobs; as stenographer, office assistant, journalist, cottage worker and machine operator. In 1906 he joined th ....Kowalski, Werner. Geschichte der sozialistischen arbeiter-internationale: 1923 - 19'. Berlin: Dt. Verl. d. Wissenschaften, 1985. p. 283 References Free City of Danzig politicians Members of the Executive of the Labour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marty Brill (comedian)
Martin S. Brill (May 6, 1932 – January 23, 2021) was an American comedian, writer, actor and musician who appeared regularly on 1960s and 1970s TV in both variety shows (''The Ed Sullivan Show'', ''The Merv Griffin Show'', ''The Tonight Show'') and sitcoms (''The New Dick Van Dyke Show'', ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show''). In the late 1970s, Marty Brill did some writing in the 1970s for the "New Soupy Sales Show," also occasionally playing characters on the show, especially after Soupy's longtime sidekick (Clyde Adler) took ill during production of the series. He also was the lyricist for the short lived 1964 Broadway musical ''Cafe Crown''. He also voiced King Koo Koo in the 1977 film '' Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure'' and sang one of the film's songs. Brill was born in Chicago, Illinois, on May 6, 1932, and died on January 23, 2021, at the age of 88. Discography *''The Roving Balladeer'' *"Timber" *''James Blonde ("The Man From T.A.N.T.E.")'' He was involved with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindy Brill
Lyndy Brill (also known as Lindy Brill; born 30 July 1963) is a former actress and singer. She was a pupil at the Barbara Speake Stage School. She is best known for playing Cathy Hargreaves in the BBC school drama, ''Grange Hill'' (1979–82), and also made brief appearances in episodes of ''The Sweeney'' (''Nightmare'') in 1978 and ''Minder (TV series), Minder'' (''A Tethered Goat'') in 1979. She also appeared on ''Top of the Pops'' in 1978 as one of the St Winifred's School Choir backing singers on Brian and Michael's number 1 hit "Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs". Brill continued to act after leaving ''Grange Hill'', appearing in the West End theatre, West End and in the BBC miniseries ''Alexa'' and ''Claire'' in 1982, but she decided to end her acting career when she turned 30. She then worked in sales support for an educational book publisher. Personal life Brill lives in Oxford with her partner and son, born in 2003. References 1963 births Living p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
