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Dreyer
Dreyer is a common German surname originating from Grübe in Holstein Germany. Notable people with the surname include: * Benjamin Dreyer (1958– ), American writer and copy editor * Benedikt Dreyer (1495–1555), German sculptor, carver and painter *Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889–1968), Danish director *Dave Dreyer (1894–1967, US composer & pianist * Dekker Dreyer (1980– ), American director and producer *Edward L. Dreyer (1940–2007), American historian of Ming China *Frederic Charles Dreyer (1878–1956), officer of the Royal Navy *Gordon Dreyer (1914–2003), English footballer * Harry Dreyer (1892–1953), English footballer * Henry Dreyer (1911–1986), American athlete * Jake Dreyer (born 1992), American guitarist for the band Witherfall and Iced Earth * Jim Dreyer (1963— ), marathon swimmer *John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852–1926), Danish-British astronomer *Malu Dreyer (born 1961), German politician (SPD) * Olaf Dreyer, German theoretical physicist *Pam Dreyer (1981— ) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Dreyer
Jake Dreyer (born May 2, 1992) is an American musician who is the lead guitarist and songwriter for the progressive metal band Witherfall and former lead guitarist for Iced Earth. He was also a touring and session guitarist for the bands Demons and Wizards, White Wizzard, and Kobra and the Lotus. Early life At the age of 6, Dreyer started playing guitar after he heard the AC/DC song " Hells Bells". "I instantly knew that I wanted to do that too. I was hooked," says Dreyer during a July 2011 interview with Noisecreep. "Like anyone else, my tastes broadened over the years. So once I started progressing in my playing, I looked for heavier bands like Megadeth and Testament. In high school, I discovered all of the Shrapnel Records guys, but Yngwie Malmsteen was the first guitarist I heard that really changed my life. There was something about his playing that just pulled me in," remembers Dreyer. Dreyer released four EPs and an album before graduating high school. During that tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dreyer's
Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, Inc. ("Dreyer's"), is an American ice cream company, founded in 1928 in Oakland, California, where its present-day headquarters office remains. The company's two signature brands, ''Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream'' and ''Edy's Grand Ice Cream'', are named after its founders, William Dreyer and Joseph Edy. The Dreyer's brand is sold in the Western United States and Texas, while the Edy's brand is sold in the Eastern and Midwestern United States. In 2002, Dreyer's was acquired by Nestlé. In 2020, Froneri, the joint venture between Nestlé and PAI Partners, agreed to take over all of Nestlé's U.S. ice cream businesses, including Dreyer's, Häagen-Dazs, and Drumstick. History The company's two signature brand names, Edy's and Dreyer's, honor the company's founders: Joseph Edy, a candy maker, and William Dreyer, an ice cream maker. Joseph Oliver Edy was born in Missouri and raised in Montana. Edy operated a homemade candy and ice cream parlor at 122 North Broa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederic Charles Dreyer
Admiral Sir Frederic Charles Dreyer, (8 January 1878 – 11 December 1956) was an officer of the Royal Navy. A gunnery expert, he developed a fire control system for British warships, and served as flag captain to Admiral Sir John Jellicoe at the Battle of Jutland. He retired with the rank of admiral in 1943, having served through two world wars and having already retired once. Background and early life Frederic Dreyer was born on 8 January 1878 in the Irish town of Parsonstown (now Birr) in King's County (now County Offaly), the second son of the Danish-born astronomer John Louis Emil Dreyer who was director of the Armagh Observatory. Educated at The Royal School, Armagh, in 1891 Dreyer joined the Royal Navy and entered the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. Royal Navy career Early years At Dartmouth Dreyer performed well in his examinations and was placed fifth in his term. He then served as a midshipman in HMS ''Anson'' (1893–1896) and HMS ''Barfleur'' (1896–1897). In ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Carl Theodor Dreyer (; 3 February 1889 – 20 March 1968), commonly known as Carl Th. Dreyer, was a Danish film director and screenwriter. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, his movies are noted for their emotional austerity and slow, stately pacing, frequent themes of social intolerance, the inseparability of fate and death, and the power of evil in earthly life. His 1928 movie ''The Passion of Joan of Arc'' is considered to be one of the greatest movies of all time, renowned for its cinematography and use of close-ups. It frequently appears on Sight & Sound's lists of the greatest films ever made, and in 2012's poll it was voted the 9th-best film ever made by film critics and 37th by film directors. His other well-known films include ''Michael'' (1924), ''Vampyr'' (1932), ''Day of Wrath'' (1943), ''Ordet'' (''The Word'') (1955), and '' Gertrud'' (1964). Life Dreyer was born illegitimate in Copenhagen, Denmark. His birth mother was an unmarried Sca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dekker Dreyer
Dekker Dreyer (born November 16, 1980) is an American multi-disciplinary artist working in film, visual art, and music also known as Phantom Astronaut. He is a prominent artist in virtual and augmented reality. Artistry Dreyer works in a variety of mediums with themes intersecting around the subconscious, folklore, technology, and criticism of social systems. His work can be broadly categorized as surreal and often Fantastique. Films Dekker's first film ''Closed Circuit'', was commissioned by Miramax to accompany the feature ''Naqoyqatsi'', was shown at the 2002 Slamdance Film Festival. His first feature-length project ''The Arcadian'', depicts a fascist post-apocalyptic world, starring Lance Henriksen with the music of Perturbator which was released on collector's edition VHS alongside international midnight screenings. He is also a music video director, his directorial output includes Mystery Skulls official music video for the single ''Music'' and Snowblood's "I'm R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Dreyer
Benjamin Dreyer (born May 11, 1958) is an American writer and copy editor. He is copy chief at Random House and the author of ''Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style'' (2019)''.'' Early life Dreyer was born May 11, 1958 in a Jewish family. He grew up in Queens, New York and Albertson, Long Island. He attended Northwestern University. Career Early in his career, Dreyer pursued writing and acting. He worked in bars and restaurants before turning to freelance proofreading, then copy editing. In 1993 he joined Random House full time as a production editor. He was promoted from group manager to senior managing editor and copy chief in 2008 and now serves as vice-president, executive managing editor and copy chief, at the Random House division of Penguin Random House. Supervising the publication of hundreds of titles a year—''The New York Times'' describes Dreyer's role as "style-arbiter-of-last-resort"—he works only with novelist Elizabeth Strout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malu Dreyer
Marie-Luise "Malu" Dreyer (born 6 February 1961) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has served as the 8th and current Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate since 13 January 2013. She is the first woman to hold this office. She served a one-year-term as the President of the Bundesrat from 1 November 2016 – 2017, which made her the deputy to the President of Germany while in office. She was the second female President of the Bundesrat and the sixth woman holding one of the five highest federal offices in Germany. Early life and education Dreyer was born the second of three children of a principal and a teacher. Following a year as an exchange student at Claremont High School in California in 1977, and her final Abitur exams at the Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium Neustadt in 1980, Dreyer started her English studies and Roman Catholic theology at the University of Mainz. The following year she switched majors to jurisprudence and graduated in bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Dreyer
Peter Richard Dreyer (born November 15, 1939, at Caledon in the Western Cape) is a South African American writer. He is the author of ''A Beast in View'' (London: André Deutsch), ''The Future of Treason'' (New York: Ballantine), ''A Gardener Touched with Genius: The Life of Luther Burbank'' (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan; rev. ed., Berkeley: University of California Press; new, expanded ed., Santa Rosa, CA: Luther Burbank Home & Gardens), ''Martyrs and Fanatics: South Africa and Human Destiny'' (New York: Simon & Schuster; London: Secker & Warburg), and most recently the novel ''Isacq'' (Charlottesville, VA: Hardware River Press, 2017). For his most recent (2021-23) essays and poetry, sean Dreyer was born and brought up in South Africa, where he was involved in the Internal resistance to South African apartheid, anti-apartheid struggle, serving on the Cape Provincial Committee of the Liberal Party, founded and led by Alan Paton, and as secretary of the Western Province Pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NGC Object
The ''New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars'' (abbreviated NGC) is an astronomical catalogue of deep-sky objects compiled by John Louis Emil Dreyer in 1888. The NGC contains 7,840 objects, including galaxies, star clusters and emission nebulae. Dreyer published two supplements to the NGC in 1895 and 1908, known as the ''Index Catalogues'' (abbreviated IC), describing a further 5,386 astronomical objects. Thousands of these objects are best known by their NGC or IC numbers, which remain in widespread use. The NGC expanded and consolidated the cataloguing work of William and Caroline Herschel, and John Herschel's ''General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars''. Objects south of the celestial equator are catalogued somewhat less thoroughly, but many were included based on observation by John Herschel or James Dunlop. The NGC contained multiple errors, but attempts to eliminate them were made by the ''Revised New General Catalogue'' (RNGC) by Jack W. Sulentic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosalie Dreyer
Rosalie Dreyer (3 September 1895 – 21 May 1987) was a Swiss-born naturalised British nurse and administrator. Immigrating to England at the age of eighteen, she trained as a nurse in London and worked her way through the ranks to become matron, principal matron and chief matron-in-charge of the Nursing Service of the London County Council. At this time, nursing was making a shift from a voluntary service to a profession and Dreyer was involved as a pioneer in the development of Britain's public-funded nursing service. Early life Rosalie Dreyer was born on 3 September 1895 in Bern, Switzerland to Elisabeth (née Neuenschwander) and Johann Dreyer. She was the oldest of four daughters and her father managed a dairy co-operative. Though Lutheran, after receiving her basic education from a school run by Catholic nuns, Dreyer traveled to England in 1914 as a nanny to a Swiss family who had settled abroad. She entered nurses training in 1918 at Guy's Hospital of London and earned her s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Louis Emil Dreyer
John Louis Emil Dreyer (13 February 1852 – 14 September 1926) was a Danish astronomer who spent most of his career working in Ireland. He spent the last decade of his life in Oxford, England. Life Dreyer was born in Copenhagen. His father, Lieutenant General John Christopher Dreyer, was the Danish Minister for War and the Navy. When he was 14 he became interested in astronomy and regularly visited Hans Schjellerup at the Copenhagen observatory. He was educated in Copenhagen, taking an MA in 1872. While the same university later awarded him a PhD, in 1874. But in 1874, at the age of 22, he went to Parsonstown, Ireland. There he worked as the assistant of Lord Rosse (the son and successor of the Lord Rosse who built the Leviathan of Parsonstown telescope). During 1878 he moved to Dunsink, the site of the Trinity College Observatory of Dublin University to work for Robert Stawell Ball. In 1882 he relocated again, this time to Armagh Observatory, where he served as Director u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Dreyer
Henry Francis Dreyer (February 2, 1911 – May 27, 1986) was an American athlete. He competed in the 1936 and 1948 Summer Olympics as a hammer thrower; his other strong event was the non-Olympic weight throw, in which he broke the world best several times. Between the two events and counting both outdoors and indoors, he won twenty United States championships. Sports career Early career and 1936 Olympics Dreyer won his first national title in 1934, winning the 35 lb weight throw at that year's AAU indoor championships with a throw of 53 ft 8 in (16.35 m). Representing the Rhode Island State College, he also won the 1934 indoor IC4A weight throw title, throwing 55 ft in (16.82 m), a world record. At that summer's NCAA championships he won the hammer throw, throwing 169 ft in (51.73 m) and defeating 1932 Olympic bronze medalist Pete Zaremba; only Fred Tootell, the 1924 Olympic champion and Dreyer's own coach, ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
