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Elizabeth Fisher (other) ...
Elizabeth Fisher may refer to: *Beth Fisher (artist) (born 1944), American artist *Elizabeth Bland, née Fisher, Hebrew scholar *Elizabeth F. Fisher (1873–1941), American geologist *Elizabeth Gault Fisher (1909–2000), American entomologist *Elizabeth Holmes Fisher (1867–1955), American art collector * Elizabeth Fisher (journalist) (1924–1982), American journalist *Elizabeth Fisher (figure skater), Canadian figure skater *Elizabeth Fisher (neuroscientist), British neuroscientist *Elizabeth Fisher, a character in '' Gossip Girl'' *Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011), married name Fisher, actress *Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher, founders of the ''Fisher House Foundation'' See also *Betty Fisher (other) *Fisher (surname) Fisher is an English occupational name for one who obtained a living by fishing. In the United States, it is also a common anglicization of the German "Fischer" as well as various Ashkenazi Jewish surnames. Notable people A *Aaron R. Fisher (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Fisher (artist)
Beth Fisher (; born 1944) is an artist, printmaker and member of the Royal Scottish Academy and the Society of Scottish Artists. She was born in Portland, Maine and studied at the University of Wisconsin and at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford. She moved to the United Kingdom from the United States in the 1960s to study in Oxford for a year, and married her husband Nick Fisher in 1967. After completing postgraduate studies in the United States, they both returned to the United Kingdom in 1970, moving to Glasgow in 1971 and Aberdeen in 1976. Fisher has worked at both Glasgow Print Studio and Peacock Visual Arts (formerly Peacock Printmakers) in Aberdeen, and helped to establish both workshops. She was a founder member of Glasgow Print Studio in 1972, and was responsible for co-running the workshop for the first few years, with Sheena McGregor. She was elected an Associate member of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1989, in the membership category for printmakers, short ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Bland
Elizabeth Bland ( fl. 1681 – 1712) was an Englishwoman celebrated for her knowledge of Hebrew. Bland was the daughter and heiress of Robert Fisher, of Long Acre, and was born about the time of the Restoration. Her Hebrew teacher is said to have been Francis van Helmont, commonly known as Baron van Helmont. She was married on 26 April 1681 at St. Mary-le-Savoy to Mr. Nathaniel Bland, then a merchant of London and freeman of the Glovers' Company, but who in 1692 succeeded his father, Richard Bland, as lord of the manor of Beeston, near Leeds, Yorkshire, where he thenceforward resided. Of their six children all but two, Joseph and Martha, died in infancy. It appears from Ralph Thoresby's ''Ducatus Leodiensis'' that Bland was alive in 1712. She is known only by a phylactery Phylactery () originally referred to tefillin, leather boxes containing Torah verses worn by some Jews when praying. In Mandaeism, some different types of phylacteries are known as ''zrazta'' and ''qmaha'', a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth F
The Fritzl case emerged in 2008, when a woman named Elisabeth Fritzl (born 6 April 1966) told police in the town of Amstetten, Lower Austria, Austria, that she had been held captive for 24 years by her father, Josef Fritzl (born 9 April 1935). J. Fritzl had assaulted, sexually abused, and raped his daughter repeatedly during her imprisonment inside a concealed area in the cellar of the family home. The abuse resulted in the birth of seven children: three of them remained in captivity with their mother; one had died just days after birth at the hands of J. Fritzl, who disposed of his body in an incinerator; and the other three were brought up by J. Fritzl and his wife, Rosemarie, having been reported as foundlings. J. Fritzl was arrested on suspicion of rape, false imprisonment, manslaughter by negligence, and incest. In March 2009, he pleaded guilty to all counts and was sentenced to life imprisonment. History Josef Fritzl was born on 9 April 1935, in Amstetten, Lower Austri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Gault Fisher
Elizabeth Gault Fisher (April 29, 1909 – ) was an American entomologist, bacteriologist, and bryologist. She collected thousands of examples of Maryland mosses, including the first examples of a number of species in Maryland. A moss, '' Desmatodon fisherae'', and an insect, '' Mycetophila fisherae'', were named for her. Early life Elizabeth Gault Fisher was born on April 29, 1909, in Baltimore, Maryland. She was the daughter of Anne (née Baylor) and Dr. William A. Fisher, health commissioner of Baltimore. She attended the Calvert School, St. Timothy's School, graduating in 1927, and Roland Park Country School, graduating in 1930. She studied at Cornell University beginning in 1930, and graduating with a Bachelor of Science in 1934, a master's degree and a Ph.D. in entomology in 1938. Her dissertation was ''A Comparative Study of the Male Terminalia of the Mycetophilidae of Nearctic America.'' Career In 1939, Fisher went to Philadelphia to research moss. Fisher became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Holmes Fisher
Elizabeth Holmes Fisher (September 13, 1867 – November 13, 1955) was an American art collector and the first woman elected to the University of Southern California’s board of trustees. She founded the USC Fisher Museum of Art in 1939. Fisher was born in Illinois, the eldest of eight children. Her husband was businessman Walter Harrison Fisher. She died in Santa Barbara, California and was buried in Glendale, California Glendale is a city in the San Fernando Valley and Verdugo Mountains regions of Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, California, United States. At the 2020 United States Census, 2020 U.S. Census the population was 196,543, up from .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Fisher, Elizabeth Holmes 1867 births 1955 deaths American art collectors University of Southern California people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Fisher (journalist)
Elizabeth Fisher (1924 – 1 January 1982, Sag Harbor, New York) was a US author and editor of the feminist literary magazine ''Aphra''. Fisher's best-known work is ''Women's Creation: Sexual Evolution and the Shaping of Society'', in which she tells the story of human evolution from a feminist point of view Life Fisher attended Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and worked as a cultural columnist for ''The Rome American'' in Rome in the 1950s. She was also one of the founders of the literary magazine ''Aphra'' in 1969. Her articles have appeared in ''The New York Times, New York Times'', in ''The Nation (United States), The Nation'' and in the ''New York Post''. She taught at the Women's Writer's Centre at Cazenovia College as a visiting professor and taught Women's Studies at New York University. She was also a translator of novels and dramas. Fisher was married and had one child. She committed suicide in her Sag Harbor studio on New Year's Day 1982. Work Fisher's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
