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Christof Weil
Christof is a masculine given name. It is a German variant of Christopher. Notable people with the name include: *Christof Babatz (born 1974), German former professional footballer *Christof Duffner (born 1971), German former ski jumper *Christof Ebert (born 1964), German computer scientist and entrepreneur *Christof Heyns, South African academic *Christof Innerhofer (born 1984), Italian alpine ski racer *Christof Koch (born 1956), American neuroscientist *Christof Lauer (born 1953), German saxophonist *Christof Lindenmayer (born 1977), American former soccer player *Christof Marselis, (1670s – 1731), Polish-Dutch architect *Christof Mauch, German historian *Christof Migone, Swiss-born experimental sound artist and writer *Christof Perick (born Christof Prick, 1946), German conductor *Christof Plümacher or Christof Pluemacher (born 1963), German photographer *Christof Putzel, American journalist *Christof Schwaller (born 1966), Swiss curler *Christof Unterberger (born 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Language
German ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and Official language, official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italy, Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and German-speaking Community of Belgium, Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia. Outside Germany, it is also spoken by German communities in France (Bas-Rhin), Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Poland (Upper Silesia), Slovakia (Bratislava Region), and Hungary (Sopron). German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch language, Dutch, English language, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots language, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic languages, North Germanic group, such as Danish lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christof Migone
Christof Migone is a Swiss-born experimental sound artist and writer, formerly based in Montreal, now living in Toronto. He is assistant professor at the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Western Ontario Migone's solo recordings include ''Sound Voice Perform'' (2006), ''South Winds'' (2003), ''Crackers'' (2001), ''Quieting'' (2000), ''The Death of Analogies'' (1999), ''vex'' (1998) and ''Hole in the Head'' (1996). All of which were recorded on various labels: Avatar, ND, Alien 8, Locust, and Oral. His writing on audio art has appeared in ''EAR'' magazine, ''Radiotext(e)'', ''Radio Rethink'', ''Theater Drama Review'', ''Parachute'', ''Site of Sound: of Architecture and the Ear'', ''Experimental Sound and Radio'' edited by Allen S. Weiss, ''Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language'', ''S:ON Sound in Contemporary Canadian Art'' edited by Nicole Gingras, and ''Aural Cultures'' edited by Jim Drobnick. In ''Sonic Somatic: Performances of the Unsound Body'', Migone proposed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoph (other)
Christoph is a male given name and surname. It is a German variant of Christopher. Notable people with the given name Christoph * Christoph Bach (1613–1661), German musician * Christoph Büchel (born 1966), Swiss artist * Christoph Dientzenhofer (1655–1722), German architect * Christoph Harting (born 1990), German athlete specialising in the discus throw * Christoph M. Herbst (born 1966), German actor * Christoph Kramer (born 1991), German football player and winner of the 2014 FIFA World Cup * Christoph M. Kimmich (born 1939), German-American historian and eighth President of Brooklyn College * Christoph Metzelder (born 1980), German football player * Christoph Riegler (born 1992), Austrian football player * Christoph Waltz (born 1956), German-Austrian actor and two times winner of the OSCARS Academy Award * Christoph M. Wieland (1733–1813), German poet and writer * Prince Christoph of Württemberg (1515–1568), German regent and duke of the Duchy of Württemberg * Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christof Wetterich
Christof Wetterich (born in 1952) is a German theoretical physicist. Biography Born in Freiburg, Wetterich studied physics in Paris, Cologne and Freiburg, where he received his PhD in 1979. He worked at CERN in Geneva and DESY in Hamburg. Since 1992 he has a chair for theoretical physics at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. His major research interests are cosmology and particle physics. The development of the theoretical method of functional renormalization by Wetterich has found applications in many areas of physics, e.g. it provides a suitable framework to study quantum gravity (asymptotic safety), Yang-Mills theories and it was also useful in non-relativistic quantum systems like the BCS to BEC crossover where it ''bridges'' the two theories in a unified theoretical language. Wetterich is best known for his proposal of dynamical dark energy or quintessence in 1987. This could explain the observed accelerated expansion of the Universe. He has done fundamental work fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christof Wandratsch
Christof Wandratsch (born 20 December 1966) is a long distance swimmer from Germany. In 1990 he won the Lake Zurich Swim. In August 2005 he set the world record for the fastest ever swim of the English Channel in a time of 7 h 03 mins, beating the previous record set by Chad Hundeby in 1994 of 7 h 17 mins. Christof came extremely close to beating the record in 2003, failing by just 3 mins, finishing in a time of 7 h 20 mins. His record was broken by 6 mins in 2007 by Petar Stoychev Petar Stoychev ( bg, Петър Стойчев; born 24 October 1976 in Momchilgrad) is a Bulgarian swimmer who is one of the most successful long distance marathon swimmers in history. He is one of the greatest marathon swimmers of all time an ... who set at time of 6 h 57 mins. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Wandratsch, Christof 1966 births Living people German male swimmers Male long-distance swimmers English Channel swimmers 20th-century German people 21st-century German people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christof Unterberger
Christof Unterberger (born October 28, 1970) is an Austrian cellist and film composer. Biography Unterberger was born in Bregenz, Austria. He received his first cello training at the Conservatory of Graz and later at the Higher School of Music in Graz with Prof. H. Posch and Prof. R. Leopold. Following that he took his master's courses under Phillipe Muller und Paul Tortelier. From 1991-1995 he studied at the "Conservatoire national superieur de musique" in Paris with Klaus Heitz, and then again with Phillipe Muller, under whose teaching he completed his concert diploma. He was a soloist and in chamber orchestras both in Austria and abroad. He has played Beethoven's Triple Concerto under the direction of Fabio Luisi and has also performed concerts by Haydn, Vivaldi, Georg Matthias Monn (arr. Schoenberg), Saint-Saëns and Tchaikovsky. Christof Unterberger is solo cellist with the Viennese Chamber Philharmonic, with the Viennese Schubert Ensemble, with the Viennese Chamber Opera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christof Schwaller
Christof Schwaller (born 3 October 1966) is a Swiss curler and Olympic medalist. He received a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City."2002 Winter Olympics – Salt Lake City, United States – Curling" – ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on March 20, 2008) He played for the Swiss team at the 1998 (as skip), 2001 (as skip) and 2005 world championships, with the silver medal in 2001 as the best achievement. He also won an Olympic bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics. He was skip for the Swiss team that reached the bronze final at the 1988 World Junior Curling Championships [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christof Putzel
Christof Putzel is an American journalist and correspondent for Travel Channel. He is a former correspondent for Al Jazeera America's news magazine ''America Tonight'' and Current TV's investigative documentary series, ''Vanguard''. Career Christof began his production career while an undergraduate at Connecticut College, where he produced his first documentary, "Left Behind," about AIDS orphans in Kenya. The film won over a dozen awards at film festivals, including a Student Academy Award, the International Documentary Association’s David Wolper Award, and HBO Films Best Student Film Award. Christof joined Current TV in 2005 as one of the network’s first employees. The following year, he was nominated for his first Emmy for his report from Mogadishu, Somalia about the rise and fall of the Islamic Court Union. He trekked in the jungles of the Democratic Republic of Congo to cover the exploitation of child gold miners, made the treacherous journey through the desert to cross t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christof Plümacher
Christof Plümacher (a.k.a. Christof Pluemacher, born 1963 in Essen) is a German fine art photographer. Career After he received a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1986, Pluemacher's attention turned to photography, in which he received formal training from the German fashion photographer Peter Godry. After years of assisting several advertising photographers and a successful career as a commercial producer in Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ... between 1995 and 2007, Pluemacher parted from the commercial world to focus solely on photography as a form of artistic expression. Since 2007, when Pluemacher first went public with his work as an artist, his work has won numerous nominations to prestigious international photography awards. Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christof Perick
Christof Prick (born 1946) is a German orchestra conductor. He uses the name Christof Perick in English-speaking countries. His father was the concertmaster of the Hamburg Philharmonic. Biography Born in Hamburg, Prick studied at the University of Music and Theater in his hometown Hamburg. He was appointed to the Theater Saarbrücken as Germany's youngest general music director in 1974. From 1977 to 1986, he was responsible for the Staatstheater Karlsruhe and the Badische Staatskapelle in the same position. Prick conducted regularly at the Vienna State Opera, as Staatskapellmeister of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and at the Hamburg State Opera. He was permanent guest conductor, conducted numerous evenings and an annual new production at the Saxon State Opera in Dresden for fifteen years. He was ''Generalmusikdirektor'' of the Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester and of the Staatsoper Hannover from 1993 to 1996. His work in contemporary music has included conducting the premier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christof Mauch
Christof Mauch (born 9 February 1960 in Sindelfingen, Germany) is a German historian, presently director of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany, and since 2007 professor of American Cultural History and Transatlantic Relations at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. From 1999 to 2007 Christof Mauch was the director of the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C.. Mauch received his Dr. phil. in Modern German Literature from the University of Tübingen in 1990, and his Dr. phil. in Modern History in 1998 from the University of Cologne. He has published and edited many books in the fields of U.S. and German History and Environmental History. From 2009 to 2011 Christof Mauch was chair of the Board of Directors of the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations (ICEHO) and from 2011 to 2013 President of the European Society for Environmental History. In May 2013 he was appointed Honorary Professor at Renmin University, Bei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher (given Name)
Christopher is the English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or '' Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Christ" or "Anointed", and φέρειν (''phérein''), "to bear"; hence the "Christ-bearer". As a given name, 'Christopher' has been in use since the 10th century. In English, Christopher may be abbreviated as "Chris", "Topher", and sometimes " Kit". It was frequently the most popular male first name in the United Kingdom, having been in the top twenty in England and Wales from the 1940s until 1995, although it has since dropped out of the top 100. The name is most common in England and not so common in Wales, Scotland, or Ireland. People with the given name Antiquity and Middle Ages * Saint Christopher (died 251), saint venerated by Catholics and Orthodox Christians * Christopher (Domestic of the Schools) (fl. 870s), Byzantine general * Christopher Lekapenos (died 931) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
