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Duncker
Duncker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alexander Duncker (1813–1879), German publisher and bookseller * Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Duncker (1781–1869), German publisher *Franz Duncker (1822–1888), German publisher, politician, and social reformer. *Georg Duncker (1870–1953), German ichthyologist * Hermann Duncker (1874–1960), German Marxist politician, historian and social scientist *Joachim Zachris Duncker (1774–1809), Swedish soldier *Karl Duncker (1903–1940), German psychologist *Käte Duncker (1871–1953), German activist and politician *Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker (1811–1886), German historian and politician *Patricia Duncker (born 1951), British novelist and academic * Wolfgang Duncker (1909–1942), German journalist and film critic See also *Dunker (other) A Dunker is a breed of dog, also known as the Norwegian Hound. Dunker or Dunkers may also refer to: People * Balthasar Anton Dunker (1746–1807), German landscape painter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Duncker
Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm Duncker (February 18, 1813 – August 23, 1879) was a German publisher and bookseller. Life and family He was descended from a successful Berlin family of booksellers, born in Berlin, the son of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Duncker (1781–1869) and Fanny Duncker (née Wolff). His brothers included historian and politician Maximilian Duncker (1811–1886), and publisher and pundit Franz Duncker (1822–1888), founder of a trade union with labor economist Max Hirsch (1832–1905). Another brother, Hermann Carl Rudolf Duncker (1817–1892) was a member of the Prussian National Assembly and a mayor of Berlin. Duncker's father had founded the publishing firm in 1809, running it alone after business partner Peter Humblot died in 1828. Alexander Duncker started his education in 1829. After apprenticeships with Friedrich Christoph Perthes and Johann Besser in Hamburg, Duncker founded his own firm, "Verlag Alexander Duncker." His firm specialized in Belles lettres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Duncker
Carl Duncker (25 March 1781 – 15 July 1869) was a German publisher. He played an important part in the early creation and growth of the publishing firm which became , more recently the publishers of the ''Neue Deutsche Biographie'', a biographical dictionary. Life Family Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Duncker was born in Berlin, his parents' only recorded child. His father, the merchant Christian Wilhelm Duncker (1749-1783), died while he was still an infant. Curiously, his father and grandfather had also both, similarly, lost their own fathers in infancy. His mother, Charlotte (born Charlotte Adolphie), remarried, which made it possible to preserve his father's business. In 1810 Duncker himself married Fanny Levi (1791–1869), a daughter of the banker and military supplier Wolff Levy (who confusingly changed his name to "Wolff Levy Delmar" in 1810 or 1812). Their children included the historian Maximilian Duncker (1811-1886), the Berlin mayor (1817-1893) and the publisher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Duncker
Franz Duncker (4 June 1822 – 18 June 1888) was a German publisher, left-liberal politicianHans-Ulrich Wehler, Deutsche Gesellschaftsgeschichte: Von der "Deutschen Doppelrevolution" bis zum Beginn des Ersten Weltkrieges, 1849–1914. (= Deutsche Gesellschaftsgeschichte. Vol 3). C. H. Beck, 1995, , p. 162, 259, 438. and social reformer. Life Family provenance and early years Franz Gustav Duncker was one of the sons of the publisher Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Duncker. His brothers included the publisher Alexander Duncker, the historian Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker and the Berlin mayor, . Duncker studied Philosophy and :History at Berlin. During this time he joined the "Alt Berliner" student fraternity and in 1842 another student fraternity, the "Leseverein". After this he returned to the family publishing business. In 1848 he served as a captain (''"Hauptmann"'') in the Berlin Citizen Militia (''"Bürgerwehr"''). The next year, 1849, he married Karoline Wilhelmine "Lina" Ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Duncker
Paul Georg Egmont Duncker (6 May 1870, Hamburg – 28 July 1953, Ahrensburg) was a German ichthyologist. Biography He studied at the universities of Kiel, Freiburg, and Berlin, receiving his doctorate at Kiel in 1895. Following graduation he lived and worked in Karlsruhe, Plymouth, Naples, Cold Spring Harbour (Long Island N.Y.), and Würzburg. From 1901 he worked as a curator for a year at the Selangor State Museum in Kuala Lumpur, afterwards returning to Europe, where he spent another year in Naples.Duncker, (Paul) Georg (Egmont) Nationaal Herbarium Nederland He was a member of the Hamburg ''Südsee-Expedition'' (1908-10) during its first year in , of which, he collected specimens on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Duncker
Hermann Ludwig Rudolph Duncker (24 May 1874 – 22 June 1960) was a German Marxist politician, historian and social scientist. He was a lecturer for the workers' education movement, co-founder of the Communist Party of Germany, professor at the University of Rostock, and rector of East Germany's trade union academy. Biography Duncker was born in Hamburg as a son of a businessman. He studied music at the Leipzig Conservatory, then history, economics and philosophy at the University of Leipzig. He joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1893. In 1898 he married Käte Duncker (née Doell) who was then a teacher, but also became a socialist politician, journalist and feminist. The couple had three children: daughter Hedwig (1899–1996, physician), and sons Karl (1903–1940, Gestalt psychologist) and Wolfgang (1909–1942, journalist and film critic). In 1900, Duncker started teaching at the Leipzig workers' educational association. In 1903 he completed his Ph.D. unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joachim Zachris Duncker
Joachim Zachris Duncker (12 November 1774 – 6 July 1809) was a Swedish soldier born in Ristiina in Savonia. In 1789 Duncker obtained the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in the Savonia ranger regiment. He fought in the 1790 war against Russia and proved his valor at the Battle of Perttimäki 19 May. In 1804 Duncker was promoted to Captain. During the Finnish War of 1808-1809 he distinguished himself as a brave and prominent officer. When Cronstedt's army retreated from Mikkeli to Iisalmi and Oulu through Leppävirta (March 1808), Duncker commanded the army's rearguard. During the Battle of Pulkkila (2 May 1808) he distinguished himself so well that Johan August Sandels gave him the honorary assignment to bring the news of the victory to the Swedish king. Shortly after, he was promoted to Major. In June 1808 he captured a large transport of supplies to the Russians. During the Battle of Koljonvirta (27 October 1808), Duncker together with Colonel Fahlander and Major Malm and only 600 men ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Duncker
Karl may refer to: People * Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne * Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer * Karl of Austria, last Austrian Emperor * Karl (footballer) (born 1993), Karl Cachoeira Della Vedova Júnior, Brazilian footballer In myth * Karl (mythology), in Norse mythology, a son of Rig and considered the progenitor of peasants (churl) * ''Karl'', giant in Icelandic myth, associated with Drangey island Vehicles * Opel Karl, a car * ST ''Karl'', Swedish tugboat requisitioned during the Second World War as ST ''Empire Henchman'' Other uses * Karl, Germany, municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany * ''Karl-Gerät'', AKA Mörser Karl, 600mm German mortar used in the Second World War * KARL project, an open source knowledge management system * Korean Amateur Radio League, a national non-profit organization for amateur radio enthusiasts in South Korea * KARL, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Käte Duncker
Käte Duncker (born Paula Kathinka Döll; 23 May 1871 – 2 May 1953) was a German political and feminist activist who became a politician in the Social Democratic Party of Germany and then the Communist Party of Germany. Life Provenance and early childhood Paula Kathinka Döll was born in Lörrach (Baden), directly across the border to the north of Basel. Her father was a businessman and the family lived reasonably well, but when she was seven her father died and her mother took them to live at Friedrichroda on the edge of the Thuringian Forest, and where her mother ran a small guest house for summer holidaymakers. Politics trumps teaching She attended an all-girls' school in Friedrichroda and the commercial school in Gotha before moving on to the Teacher Training College in Eisenach between 1888 and 1890. Her ambition to become a teacher had encountered initial opposition from her guardian and her mother, but she nevertheless persisted, passing her qualifying exams in 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker
Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker (15 October 1811 – 21 July 1886) was a German historian and politician. Life Duncker was born in Berlin, Province of Brandenburg, as the eldest son of the publisher Karl Duncker. He studied at the universities of Bonn and Berlin till 1834, was then accused of participation in the students' societies, which the government was endeavouring to suppress, and was condemned to six years' imprisonment, afterwards reduced to six months. He had already begun his labours as a historian, but after serving his sentence in 1837, found himself debarred till 1839 from completing his course at Halle, where in 1842 he obtained a professorship. Elected to the Frankfurt Parliament in 1848, he joined the Right Centre Party, and was chosen reporter of the projected constitution. He sat in the Erfurt assembly in 1850, and in the second Prussian chamber from 1849 to 1852. During the crisis in Schleswig and Holstein in 1850 he endeavoured in person to aid the duchies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Duncker
Patricia Marjory Duncker (born 29 June 1951) is a British novelist and academic. Academic career Born in Kingston, Jamaica, the daughter of Noel Aston Duncker (1904–1973), an accountant, and Sheila Joan (née Beer) (1918–2016), a teacher, Her aunt was the poet Patricia Beer, after whom she was named. Duncker attended Bedales School in England and, after a period spent working in Germany, read English at Newnham College, Cambridge. She earned a doctorate from St Hugh's College, Oxford. She has taught at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (1991-2002) and was Professor of Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia, working with the novelists Andrew Cowan and her fellow Professor Michele Roberts. In January 2007, she was appointed Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Manchester, where she teaches in the Department of English and American Studie Duncker has been married four times, including to: Pedro P. D'a Guedes in 1972; David Norbrook in 1981, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Duncker
Wolfgang Duncker (5 February 1909 – 20 November 1942) was a German film critic and journalist. The son of political activist parents, in 1929 he himself joined the Communist Party. After the Hitler government took power at the start of 1933 he emigrated, ending up in Moscow from August 1935. He took Soviet citizenship in August 1937 or January 1938, but was arrested by the security services in March 1938 and accused of spying. Sentencing followed on 8 June 1938. He died "of exhaustion" at the Vorkutlag labour camp 2,500 km / 1,600 miles north-east of Moscow, slightly less than three years after his brother's suicide near New York City. Wolfgang Duncker's Swiss-born widow stayed on, working in a Soviet tank factory, and able to leave the Soviet Union with her two surviving children only at the end of 1945. She returned home to Basel in 1947. Biography Provenance and an eventful childhood Wolfgang Duncker was born in Stuttgart, the youngest of his parents' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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