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Faber (surname)
Faber is the Latin word for "smith". Like a few other Latin occupational names (e.g. Agricola (other), Agricola for farmer, Nauta (other), Nauta for sailor), it was adopted as a surname in the Low Countries and Germany. It is also common in England, perhaps due to Norman French influence. Notable people with the surname include: *Adele Faber (born 1928), American author on parenting *Andreas Faber-Kaiser (1944–1994), Spanish writer of German descent *Antoine Favre, Antonius Faber (1557–1624), Savoisian nobleman and jurist *Armin Faber (c. 1916 – c. 2000), German World War II pilot *Aschwin Wildeboer Faber (born 1986), Spanish swimmer of Dutch origin *Ate Faber (1894–1962), Dutch fencer *Basil Faber (1520–1576), Lutheran theologian *Brock Faber (born 2002), American ice hockey player *Carla Dik-Faber, Carla Faber (born 1971), Dutch art historian and politician *Lady Caroline Faber, Caroline Faber (1923-2016), English peer, daughter of PM Harold Macmillan *C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agricola (other)
Agricola, the Latin word for farmer, may also refer to: People Cognomen or given name :''In chronological order'' * Gnaeus Julius Agricola (40–93), Roman governor of Britannia (AD 77–85) * Sextus Calpurnius Agricola, Roman governor of the mid–2nd century AD * Agricola (consul 421) (365–?), Western Roman statesman * Agricola (vir inlustris) (), son of the Western Roman Emperor Avitus * Saints Vitalis and Agricola (died 304), martyrs * Agricola of Avignon (c. 630–c. 700), bishop of Avignon and saint * Saint Agricola of Nevers (died 594), bishop of Nevers Surname :''In alphabetical order'' * Adam Christian Agricola (1593–1645), evangelical preacher * Alexander Agricola (1446–1506), Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance * Christoph Ludwig Agricola (1667–1719), German landscape painter * Georg Andreas Agricola (1672–1738), German physician and naturalist * Georg Ludwig Agricola (1643–1676), German composer * Georgius Agricola (1494–1555), German scholar an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Faber (printmaker)
David L. Faber (born 1950) is an American master printer, and is Professor of Art and Head of Printmaking at Wake Forest University Wake Forest University is a private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Founded in 1834, the university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina. The Reynolda Campus, the un .... Some of his most notable works include: ''Aberdeen Headlands'', a monotype print, ''Holstein Poetry-Cantenary Curve'', an intaglio print, ''Three Dances of the Poet'', an intaglio print, ''Prairie Pedigree'', an intaglio print, ''Saint Anna of Silos and Air'', a lithograph, and ''The Red Holstein Factor'', an intaglio plaster cast monoprint. The afore mentioned works are members of his long-lived series: Aberdeen Fence, Holstein Pedigrees, Prairie Music Series, and Piano Sheaves. Faber's practiced printing techniques include intaglio, lithography, and monotype printing, as well as drypoint, etching an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Faber
Felix Fabri (also spelt Faber; 1441 – 1502) was a Swiss Dominican theologian. He left vivid and detailed descriptions of his pilgrimages to Palestine and also in 1489 authored a book on the history of Swabia, entitled ''Historia Suevorum''. He made his early studies under the Dominicans at Basle and Ulm, where he spent most of his life. "Faber" is the Latin nominative singular form of his surname. He is often referred to as "Fabri," the Latin genitive singular, i.e. the possessive form, because his name appears this way in the title of his book, "Fratris Felicis Fabri Evagatorium in Terræ Sanctæ, Arabiæ et Egypti peregrinationem." One of Fabri's companions during his 1483–84 pilgrimage to the Holy Land was Hungarian poet and cleric János Lászai ( la, Johannes de Lazo). In Jerusalem he met Bernhard von Breidenbach.Fabri, 1893, p104/ref> A fictional account of Fabri's journey to and time in the Holy Land is found in the book A Stolen Tongue, by Sheri Holman. Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugeniusz Faber
Eugeniusz Faber (6 April 1939 – 24 September 2021) was a Polish footballer who played as a forward for Ruch Chorzów and Lens A lens is a transmissive optical device which focuses or disperses a light beam by means of refraction. A simple lens consists of a single piece of transparent material, while a compound lens consists of several simple lenses (''elements''), .... References External links * 1939 births 2021 deaths Polish men's footballers Men's association football forwards Poland men's international footballers Ruch Chorzów players RC Lens players Ekstraklasa players Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players Olympic footballers for Poland Footballers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Footballers from Chorzów Polish expatriate men's footballers Polish expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate men's footballers in France {{Poland-footy-forward-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erwin Faber
Erwin Faber (21 July 1891 – 4 May 1989) was a leading actor in Munich and later throughout Germany, beginning after World War I, and through the late-1970s, when he was still performing at the Residenz Theatre (The National Theatre of Bavaria). Born in Innsbruck, Austria, Faber remained in Germany during the Third Reich, emerging afterwards as a prominent actor in the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). He died in Munich in 1989, only two months after his last performance at the Residenztheater (the National Theatre of Bavaria), at age 97. Acting career In addition to performing in dozens of dramas and films in Germany, working with the leading directors in post-World War I Germany, such as Max Reinhardt, Otto Falckenberg, and Erich Engel, Faber also was chosen by Bertolt Brecht to play the leads in the first three staged plays of Brecht in Munich, beginning with ''Drums in the Night'' (''Trommeln in der Nacht'') at the avant-garde theatre, the Munich Kammerspie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Faber
Ernest Anthonius Jacobus Faber (born 27 August 1971) is a Dutch professional football manager and former player. He was most recently head coach of caretaker manager of Eredivisie side PSV Eindhoven. Faber grew up in Eindhoven and played youth football at local club DBS until he joined PSV Eindhoven aged 13. Besides loan spells at NEC, Sparta and Groningen, Faber was part of PSV for 12 seasons and won four Eredivisie titles, a KNVB Cup and four Johan Cruyff Shields. He also played one match for the Netherlands national team in 1998. Injuries plagued Faber throughout his career and forced him to retire at age 32. After his playing career, Faber worked at the PSV youth academy and at FC Eindhoven as assistant coach and manager. From 2011 until UEFA Euro 2012, he also served as assistant manager for the Netherlands national team. From March 2012, Faber worked as assistant manager at PSV. On 4 June 2015, he was appointed manager of Eredivisie side NEC. Faber then moved to fellow top ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Faber
Erik Alfred Faber-Swensson (born May 16, 1977 in Kristiansand) is a popular Norwegian pop/rock singer-songwriter, who has released 3 albums. Life before music As a student in London, Erik Faber was offered a job as a model. He has done photo shoots for magazines like The Face and Arena. He has also taken part in fashion shows for Diesel and Evisu. Music career Erik Faber started his music career with the grunge group Pale. He was first a guitarist and then the lead singer of the group. Pale released an EP in 1996 named "Happy Hollow". He left the band in 1999. In 2001 Sony BMG offered him a contract and in 2002 his debut album ''Between The Lines'' was released. Four singles from this album ("On Top of the World", "Between the Lines", "Waiting", and "Sleep") became huge radio hits and reached the Norwegian Top 20 radio charts. The next year, his second album ''Century'' came out with singles "Century" and "Yesterday's Call" standing out. The album made it to the Top 10 Albums in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuel Faber
Emmanuel Faber (born 22 January 1964) is a French businessman. He was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of Danone, and the Chairman of the Board of directors. He was subsequently appointed Chair of the International Sustainability Standards Board. Biography Education and early career Emmanuel Faber passed his baccalaureat in Gap in the early 1980s. Upon graduation from HEC Paris in 1986, Faber began his career at Bain & Company. He then worked for Barings Bank, before joining Legris Industries in 1993 as Administrative and Financial Director. He became general manager in 1996. Career at Danone Faber joined Danone in 1997 as head of Finance, Strategies and Information Systems. In 2000, he became Chief Financial Officer of Danone and a member of the Executive Committee, appointed as member of the Board of Directors in 2002. In 2005, he was appointed as Vice President, Asia-Pacific region, in charge of operational activities. Following the encounter of Franck Riboud and Muham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elmar Faber
Elmar Faber (1 April 1934 – 3 December 2017) was a German book publisher. Biography Faber was born in Deesbach, Thuringia. He studied German studies at Leipzig University from 1954 to 1959, before becoming a lecturer at the Bibliographisches Institut, also working as a publishing assistant at the latter. He served as head of the now defunct publisher Edition Leipzig from 1975 to 1983. He was later head of Aufbau-Verlag from 1983 to 1992, at a time when it was one of the largest publishing house in East Germany. In 1990, he co-founded the originally Berlin-based publisher Faber & Faber with his son . It was relocated to Leipzig in 1995. He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2007. Faber's autobiography, ''Verloren im Paradies. Ein Verlegerleben'', was published in 2014. Faber died on 3 December 2017 in Leipzig, at the age of 83. References External links Elmar Faber at ''Perlentaucher, Perlentaucher.de'' 1934 births 2017 deaths People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eli Faber
Eli S. Faber (July 30, 1943 – April 2020) was a professor of history at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He was the editor of the ''American Jewish History'' journal. He studied American history from Columbia University, for which he received a Ph.D A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common Academic degree, degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields .... He originally found out about the George Stinney case, in which a 14-year-old African-American boy was sentenced to death via electric chair after being accused of murdering two girls, in an academic conference in 2003. His final book, which recounted the story of this case, was published posthumously, in June 2021. He was married to Lani Faber and died of pancreatic cancer in April 2020, which had been diagnosed in March 2019. Works *''A Time for Planting: The First Migratio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Faber, 1st Baron Faber
Edmund Beckett Faber, 1st Baron Faber (9 February 1847 – 17 September 1920) was a British Conservative politician. Background Faber was the eldest son of Charles Wilson Faber, of Northaw, a Deputy Lieutenant of Hertfordshire and Mary Beckett, daughter of Sir Edmund Beckett, 4th Baronet, and thus sister of the 1st Baron Grimthorpe.FABER', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 His maternal grandfather had been a Conservative Member of Parliament for Yorkshire. Two younger brothers were also in parliament, Denison Faber (1852-1931), who became Lord Wittenham, and Captain Walter Vavasour Faber (1857-1928), who succeeded his eldest brother as member for Andover. It has been claimed that they had a sister, Mary Eliza, who married Edward Kennard and was a sporting novelist as Mrs Edward Kennard. However this is contradicted by official birth and marriage records. Political career Faber was educ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donna Faber
Donna Faber (born July 5, 1971) is a former professional tennis player. She competed in Grand Slam Grand Slam most often refers to: * Grand Slam (tennis), one player or pair winning all four major annual tournaments, or the tournaments themselves Grand Slam or Grand slam may also refer to: Games and sports * Grand slam, winning category te ... tournaments from 1988 to 1993. WTA Tour finals Singles 2 (0–2) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Faber, Donna 1971 births Living people American female tennis players Tennis players at the 1991 Pan American Games Pan American Games medalists in tennis Place of birth missing (living people) Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States Medalists at the 1991 Pan American Games 20th-century American sportswomen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
