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David (surname)
The surname David or Dávid may refer to: * Dávid family, a Hungarian noble family, based in present-day Slovakia * Albert David (1902–1945), American naval officer * Alki David (born 1968), Greek businessman and actor * Anna David (journalist) (born 1970), American journalist * Anna David (singer) (born 1984), Danish pop and soul music singer * Annie Louise David (1877–1960), American harpist * C. D. David (1860–1920), Indian writer in Malayalam * Colt David (born 1985), American football player * Constantin David (1908–1941), Romanian communist activist * Craig David (born 1981), English musician * Cristian David (born 1967), Romanian politician * Damiano David (born 1999), Italian singer-songwriter, lead singer of Måneskin * Dickie David (1879–1939), Wales national rugby union player * Edgeworth David (1858–1934), Welsh-Australian geologist and explorer * Elizabeth David (1913–1992), British cookery writer * Félicien-César David (1810–1876), French compo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dávid Family
The Dávid family (Slovak: ''Dávidovci z Turčianskeho Petra'', Hungarian: ''Dávid de Túróczszentpéter'') was a Slovak noble family in the Kingdom of Hungary, who owned estates in the Turóc County, Upper Hungary (today Turiec region, present-day Slovakia). History In the 13th century, the Dávids were one of the many Slovak local noble families with title zeman (the lowest-ranking nobility in the Kingdom, placed under the baron). The ancestors of the Dávid family were an older noble family of Záturecký from Záturčie (now part of Martin, Slovakia). Dávids had properties and manor houses in Záturčie, Istebné, Turčiansky Peter, Sasinkovo, Malý Báb and Veľky Báb. In 1772 Karol (Charles) Dávid and his son Anton were promoted to Barons by Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina (german: Maria Theresia; 13 May 1717 – 29 November 1780) was ruler of the Habsburg dominions from 1740 until her death in 1780, and the only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferenc Dávid
Ferenc Dávid (also rendered as ''Francis David'' or ''Francis Davidis''; born as Franz David Hertel, c. 1520 – 15 November 1579) was a Unitarian preacher from Transylvania, the founder of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania, and the leading figure of the Nontrinitarian movements during the Protestant Reformation. Studying Catholic theology in Wittenberg and in Frankfurt an der Oder and first as a Catholic priest, later a Lutheran and then a Calvinist bishop in the Principality of Transylvania, he learnt the teachings and practices of the Roman Catholic and the Protestant churches, but later rejected several of them and came to embrace Unitarianism. He disputed the Christian view on the Holy Trinity, believing God to be one and indivisible. Life Early life Ferenc Dávid was born in Kolozsvár, Hungary (present-day Cluj-Napoca, Romania), to a Transylvanian Saxon father (David Hertel, who worked as a tanner) and to a Hungarian mother. The Hertel/Herthel family was an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janina David
Janina Dawidowicz (born 19 March 1930 in Kalisz, Poland), better known as Janina David, is a Holocaust survivor and a British writer and translator. Biography Janina David was born as the only child to a Jewish Polish family, and moved with them to Warsaw in 1939. After she escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, taking refuge with a Polish family of Henryk Rajski and then in a convent, and her parents had died as victims of the holocaust, she left Poland in 1946 and moved to Paris with an uncle. She then emigrated to Australia where she completed school and studied at the University of Melbourne, gaining a B.A. She then took Australian citizenship. In 1958, she moved to London, where she was a social worker in some hospitals. In 1959 she began to write her three-volume autobiography, ''A Square of Sky'', ''A Touch of Earth'' and ''Light over the Water''. Since 1978, she has been working as an author and translator of children's and young people's books, and of radio plays, for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Burty David
Hon James Burty David GCSK MP was a Mauritian politician. David received his Diploma in Education at the University of London and doctorate at the University of Bordeaux. He joined the Labour Party in 1964, which he served successively as president, secretary general and director of communication. David was minister of education from 1995 to 1997, Minister of Environment and local authorities from 1997 to 2000 and Minister of Local Government, Rodrigues and Outer Islands since 2005. He was a journalist of Freelance, teacher and afterwards rector at Eden College and an author of many school manuals in French. In 2010 he was awarded the Grand Commanders of the Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean The Most Distinguished Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean is the highest distinct order of merit in the honours system of Mauritius established under the National Awards Act 1993. It was founded in 1992 to decorate people who have mad ... (GCSK) for remarkable c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David (; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassicism, Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward classical austerity and severity and heightened feeling, harmonizing with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Régime. David later became an active supporter of the French Revolution and friend of Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794), and was effectively a dictator of the arts under the French First Republic, French Republic. Imprisoned after Robespierre's fall from power, he aligned himself with yet another political regime upon his release: that of Napoleon, the First Consul of France. At this time he developed his Empire style, notable for its use of warm Venetian school (art), Venetian colours. After Napoleon's fall from Imperial power and the Bourbon revival, David exiled himself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques David (bishop)
Jacques Louis Antoine Marie David (22 December 1930 – 19 December 2018) was a French Roman Catholic bishop. He was born in France and was ordained to the priesthood in 1956. He served as titular bishop of ''Girba'' and as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bordeaux, France, from 1981 to 1986. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of La Rochelle and Saintes, France, from 1986 to 1996. David served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Évreux The Roman Catholic Diocese of Évreux (Latin: ''Dioecesis Ebroicensis''; French: ''Diocèse d'Evreux'') is a Roman Catholic diocese in France. The diocese comprises the department of Eure within the Region of Normandy. The diocese is a suffraga ..., France, from 1996 to 2006. Notes 1930 births 2018 deaths Bishops of Évreux 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in France 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in France {{France-RC-bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hérmine David
Hermine Lionette Cartan David (19 April 1886 in Paris – 1 December 1970 in Bry-sur-Marne) was a French painter. Early life and education Hermine David was born in Paris in 1886. She was born out of wedlock; her mother insisted that her biological father was a Habsburg archduke. Career She became one of the Ecole de Paris artists, a group of mostly non-French artists, émigrés particularly from eastern Europe who were working in Paris before World War I. Jules Pascin was another member of that artistic group, whom she met in 1907. By that time, she was already well-established as a successful young painter, miniaturist and printmaker. She followed Pascin to the United States in 1915, where they were married on 25 September 1918. They stayed a total of five years, past the end of World War I. David exhibited in New York City during her residence there. In 1920, after they returned to France, she exhibited in London and in several solo shows at prominent Paris galleries. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hal David
Harold Lane David (May 25, 1921 – September 1, 2012) was an American lyricist. He grew up in New York City. He was best known for his collaborations with composer Burt Bacharach and his association with Dionne Warwick. Early life David was born in New York City, a son of Austrian Jewish immigrants Lina (née Goldberg) and Gedalier David, who owned a delicatessen in New York. He is the younger brother of American lyricist and songwriter Mack David. Career David is credited with popular music lyrics, beginning in the 1940s with material written for bandleader Sammy Kaye and for Guy Lombardo. He worked with Morty Nevins of The Three Suns on four songs for the feature film ''Two Gals and a Guy'' (1951), starring Janis Paige and Robert Alda. In 1957, David met composer Burt Bacharach at Famous Music in the Brill Building in New York. The two teamed up and wrote their first hit " The Story of My Life", recorded by Marty Robbins in 1957. Subsequently, in the 1960s and early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyula Dávid
Gyula Dávid (May 6, 1913 – March 14, 1977) was a Hungarian violist and composer. Dávid studied composition with Zoltán Kodály at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. He played viola with the Municipal Orchestra in Budapest from 1940 to 1943, and was a conductor at the National Theatre from 1945 to 1949. Dávid's music can largely be divided into two periods: his early compositions were influenced by folk song, and those from his second period are more chromatic or 12-tone serial. One of the most famous compositions of his first period is his Viola Concerto (1950). Selected works ;Orchestral * Symphony No. 1 (I. szimfónia) (1947) * ''Tánczene, magyar népdalfeldolgozások'' (Dance Music, Based on Hungarian Folk Songs) (published 1952) * Symphony No. 2 (II. szimfónia) (1957) * Symphony No. 3 (III. szimfónia) (1960) * ''Sinfonietta'' for small orchestra (1961) * ''Színházi zene'' (Theatrical Music; Theatermusik) (published 1963) * Symphony No. 4 (IV. szimfónia) (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy David (mathematician)
Guy David (born 1957) is a French mathematician, specializing in analysis. Biography David studied from 1976 to 1981 at the École normale supérieure, graduating with ''Agrégation'' and ''Diplôme d'études approfondies'' (DEA). At the University of Paris-Sud (Paris XI) he received in 1981 his doctoral degree (''Thèse du 3ème cycle'') and in 1986 his higher doctorate (''Thèse d'État'') with thesis ''Noyau de Cauchy et opérateurs de Caldéron-Zygmund'' supervised by Yves Meyer. David was from 1982 to 1989 an ''attaché de recherches'' (research associate) at the ''Centre de mathématiques Laurent Schwartz'' of the CNRS. At the University of Paris-Sud he was from 1989 to 1991 a professor and from 1991 to 2001 a professor first class, and is since 1991 a professor of the ''Classe exceptionelle''. (with CV) David is known for his research on Hardy spaces and on singular integral equations using the methods of Alberto Calderón. In 1998 David solved a special case of a problem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy David (footballer)
Guy David (25 July 1947 – 30 August 2008) was a French football player and coach. He played for Martigues, Cannes and La Roche Vendée Football. After his playing career, he became a coach with Stade Raphaëlois, Fréjus, Toulon, Beauvais, Le Havre, Caen, Rennes, Nice, Martigues, Sion and Créteil. He died of myocardial infarction A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to the coronary artery of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle. The most common symptom is chest pain or discomfort which may ... after an ES Fréjus match.http://www.varmatin.com/ra/16/144658 External links and references Profile 1947 births 2008 deaths French men's footballers La Roche VF players FC Martigues players AS Cannes players French football managers SC Toulon managers AS Beauvais Oise managers Le Havre AC managers Stade Malherbe Caen managers Stade Rennais F.C. managers OGC Nice managers F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard David
Gerard David (c. 1460 – 13 August 1523) was an Early Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator known for his brilliant use of color. Only a bare outline of his life survives, although some facts are known. He may have been the Meester gheraet van brugghe who became a master of the Antwerp guild in 1515. He was very successful in his lifetime and probably ran two workshops, in Antwerp and Bruges.Campbell, 116 Like many painters of his period, his reputation diminished in the 17th century until he was rediscovered in the 19th century. Life He was born in Oudewater, now located in the province of Utrecht. His year of birth is approximated as c. 1450–1460 on the basis that he looks to be around 50 years in the 1509 self-portrait found in his ''Virgin among the Virgins''.Hand, 63 He is believed to have spent time in Italy from 1470 to 1480, where he was influenced by the Italian Renaissance. He formed his early style under Albert van Oudewater in Haarlem, and moved to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
