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Else (given Name)
Else is a feminine given name, appearing in German, Danish and Norwegian. It is a shortened form of Elisabeth. Notable people with the name include: * Else Alfelt (1910–1974), Danish painter * Else Ackermann, German physician and pharmacologist * Else Winther Andersen (born 1941), Danish politician * Else Berg (1877–1942), Dutch painter * Else Bugge Fougner (born 1944), Norwegian lawyer and politician * Else Christensen (1913–2005), Danish neopagan * Else Feldmann (1884–1942), Austrian writer * Else Frenkel-Brunswik (1908–1958), Polish-Austrian psychologist * Else Hench (20th century), Austrian luger * Else Hirsch (1889–1942/3), German-Jewish teacher * Else Holmelund Minarik (1920–2012), Danish American author * Else Jacobsen (1911–1965), Danish swimmer * Else Krüger (born 1915), German secretary * Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945), Jewish German poet and playwright * Else Mayer (1891–1962), German nun * Else Meidner (1901–1987), Jewish German painter * E ... [...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] |
Else Jacobsen
Else Agnes Ella Jacobsen (later Baade) (31 May 1911 – 3 April 1965) was a Danish swimmer who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics and 1932 Summer Olympics The 1932 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the X Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1932) were an international multi-sport event held from July 30 to August 14, 1932 in Los Angeles, California, United States. The Games were held duri .... In the 1928 Olympics, she was fourth in the 200 metre breaststroke event and fourth in her first round heat of the 100 metre backstroke event and did not advance. Four years later, she won a bronze medal in the 200 metre breaststroke event at the 1932 Olympics. External links Else Jacobsenat databaseOlympics.com (archived) 1911 births 1965 deaths Danish female swimmers Female breaststroke swimmers Danish female backstroke swimmers Olympic swimmers for Denmark Swimmers at the 1928 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1932 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Else-Marthe Sørlie Lybekk
Else-Marthe Sørlie Lybekk (née Sørlie; born 11 September 1978, in Gjøvik) is a retired Norwegian team handball player, world champion from 1999, gold medalist from the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and bronze medalist from the 2000 Olympics."2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Handball" ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on February 3, 2008) She is also a triple European champion with the Norwegian national team, which she previously captained prior to the reign of fellow Gjøvik handballer |
Else-Marie
Else-Marie is a compound given name, composed of Else and Marie. Notable people with the name include: * Else Marie Jakobsen (1927–2012), Norwegian designer and textile artist * Else-Marie Lindgren (born 1949), Swedish politician * Else-Marie Ljungdahl Else-Marie Lindmark-Ljungdahl (born 11 June 1942) is a Swedish sprint canoer Canoe sprint is a water sport in which athletes race canoes or kayaks on calm water. Overview Race categories vary by the number of athletes in the boat, the leng ... (born 1942), Swedish sprint canoer {{given name Compound given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Else Von Richthofen
Else Freiin von Richthofen (October 8, 1874 - December 22, 1973) was among the early female social scientists in Germany. Life and career Elisabeth Helene Amalie Sophie Freiin (Baroness) von Richthofen (also known as Else Jaffé) was born into the German nobility at Château-Salins (France). Her father was Friedrich Ernst Emil Ludwig Freiherr von Richthofen (1844-1915), an engineer in the Imperial German Army, and Anna Elise Lydia Marquier (1852-1930). While Else von Richthofen started her professional career as a teacher, she enrolled at Heidelberg University at a time when this was still very unusual for women; she was one of just four female students at the time. She earned a doctorate in economics in 1901 and started to work as a labour inspector in Karlsruhe. She married (1865-1921), another former student of Max Weber, in 1902, and he was a well-known economist and entrepreneur. It was Jaffé who bought the journal '' Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Else Ury
Else Ury (1 November 1877 – 13 January 1943) was a German-Jewish novelist and children's book author. Her best-known character is the blonde doctor's daughter Annemarie Braun, whose life from childhood to old age is told in the ten volumes of the highly successful ''Nesthäkchen'' series. The books, the six-part TV series '' Nesthäkchen'' (1983), based on the first three volumes, as well as the new DVD edition (2005) caught the attention of millions of readers and viewers. During Ury's lifetime ''Nesthäkchen und der Weltkrieg'' (''Nesthäkchen and the World War''), the fourth volume, was the most popular. Else Ury was a member of the German ''Bürgertum'' (middle class). She was pulled between patriotic German citizenship and Jewish cultural heritage. This situation is reflected in her writings, although the ''Nesthäkchen'' books make no references to Judaism. In 1943, Else Ury was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, where she was murdered upon her arrival. Life Else Ur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Else Seifert
Else Seifert (9 December 1879 – 23 June 1968) was a German architectural photographer and teacher from Dresden. Biography Else Seifert was born in Dresden in 1879 to Karl Robert Seifert, a merchant, and Klara Amalie Juliane (née Schiertz). She was educated at the Fröbelseminar in Kassel and completed a brief training in accounting. She worked as a private tutor in Kassel for three years and then worked in the commercial sector for ten years. In 1909 she returned to Dresden and began teaching at the Städtischen Mädchengewerbe- und Handelsschule (Municipal Girls' Industry and Trade School), where she worked until 1924. She taught classes in penmanship, correspondence, commodity economics, life skills, mathematics and civics. Seifert took up amateur photography in 1909 and joined the Dresden Photographic Society. In her spare time, she studied photography and architecture at the Dresden University of Technology. She left her teaching job in 1924 and travelled to Italy, where s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Else Sehrig-Vehling
Else Sehrig-Vehling (26 May 1897 in Düsseldorf – 12 February 1994 in Bad SalzuflenEntry on the birth certification (civil registration office Düsseldorf-Mitte No. 3194) Microfilm Einwohnermelderegister (MF) Düsseldorf) was a German expressionist. She was the daughter of the Architect Heinrich Vehling (1868 in Düsseldorf – 1944 in Koblenz) and of Eva Hubertine (maiden name Habes) (1874 in Düsseldorf – 1953). She was a member of an artist group called '' Das junge Rheinland'' (The Young Rhinelanders). Her style was influenced by her close friendships to Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Carl Barth, Max Schwimmer, Fritz Winter and other German artists. In 1921, Else Sehrig-Vehling was one of the first female art students of the Arts Academy of the city of Düsseldorf. The City Museum of Düsseldorf honoured her with an exhibition in 1983, showing her early expressionist works. In 1933 she married Hermann Sehrig, a German artist and Member of the Deutsche Werkbund The D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Else Reppen
Else Reppen (14 November 1933 – 28 February 2006) was a Norwegian philanthropist, Pentecostal and a strict advocate of temperance. During her lifetime she was well known of serving others and caring little for herself. In 1984, she founded "Action Poland" which later became known as "Friends of Poland". This is a small group of people that transports food, clothing and other necessities in a bus every September to institutions such as churches and orphan homes in Poland. From 1996 to 2005, she served as President of the Norwegian WWCTU, World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Early years and marriage Else Reppen was born in Flekkefjord, Vest-Agder in southern Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ... on 14 November 1933 to Nils and Sofie Staaby. They were a work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Else Repål
Else Marie Myhren Repål (20 February 1930, in Ringsaker – 19 April 2015) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Hedmark in 1969, and was re-elected on two occasions. She served as a deputy representative during the term 1981–1985. She settled in Rena, Åmot Åmot is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Rena. Other villages in the municipality include Åsta, Osneset, an ... and chaired the municipal party chapter from 1968 to 1969. References * 1930 births 2015 deaths People from Åmot Members of the Storting Labour Party (Norway) politicians Hedmark politicians Women members of the Storting Place of death missing 20th-century Norwegian politicians 20th-century Norwegian women politicians {{Norway-politician-1930s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Else Meidner
Else Meidner (born Else Meyer; 2 September 1901 – 7 May 1987) was a German-Jewish painter. Biography Meidner was born in Berlin and studied there between 1918 and 1925 before spending two years in Cologne. In 1927 she married the painter Ludwig Meidner and they emigrated to England in August 1939. There Else Meidner worked as a domestic. After World War II the couple drifted apart, both emotionally and artistically and Ludwig returned to Germany in 1952 while Else stayed in London. In 1951 the Meidner's son, David (born 1929), emigrated to Israel. Else returned to Germany in 1963 to take care of the ailing Ludwig, but eventually returned to London. She died in London.Anon. (n.d.)"Biography Else Meidner" ''Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt''. Retrieved 7 September 2013. Career Else Meidner exhibited in Berlin before fleeing to London, and after the war she exhibited at the Ben Uri Gallery, London; the Galerie Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt; the Matthiesen Gallery, London; the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Else Mayer
Else Mayer (1891–1962) was a German nun and women's liberation activist during the period of first-wave feminism. She was one of the pioneers of the German Women's Liberation Movement. Together with Alexandra Bischoff she founded the Erlöserbund. Biography Else Mayer was the daughter of the German jeweler Victor Mayer. She spent her childhood and youth in the family business before she became a nun. After she visited several nunneries, she decided to open her own, Erlöserbund, in 1916. With the support of her family, she bought buildings in Bonn and started to support young female students who received housing from her. Erlöserbund was closed in 2005 and reorganized as a charitable foundation. The Else Mayer Foundation presents an annual award, the Else Mayer Award, to applicants who are deemed to qualify as ideological successors to Else Mayer. The award is for 4000 euros. German Education Minister Annette Schavan was the inaugural recipient of this award in 2006. The Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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