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Freund (Aachen)
__NOTOC__ Freund (German language, German for ''friend'') is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Family names * August Freund, an Austrian chemist ** Cyclopropane, Freund reaction, discovered in 1881 by August Freund * Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Bernhard II. Erich Freund, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1800–1882) * Carl Walther, Carl (William Freund) Walther (1858–1915), a German gunsmith * Caroline Freund, American economist * David Berkowitz, Christine Freund, a shooting victim * Deborah Freund, Deborah Anne Freund, president of Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California * Don Freund (born 1947, Pittsburgh), an American composer and Professor of Composition * Ðuro Freund, a Yugoslav Olympic fencer * Ernst Freund (1864–1932), American legal scholar * Etelka Freund (1879–1977), a Hungarian pianist * Frank Freund, Lawrence Joseph "Frank" Freund (1875–1933), a Major League Baseball catcher * Gisèle Freund (1912–2000), photographer * Hildeg ... [...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] |
Jim Freund
Jim Freund is a radio personality and a prominent figure in the speculative fiction community as host of the Pacifica Radio shoHour of the Wolfand as curator of the New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series. Biography Freund lives in Brooklyn, New York with his partner, tech editor and author Barbara Krasnoff and "lots of toy penguins."Readercon biography of Jim Freund "The Authors: Barbara Krasnoff" in ''Clockwork Phoenix 4'', Mythic Delirium Books, Roanoke VA, 2013, p. 268."The Authors: Barbara Krasnoff" in ''Clockwork Phoenix 5'', Mythic Delirium Books, Roanoke VA, 2016, p. 259. Career As host and producer of |
Shavei Israel
''Shavei Israel'' ( he, שבי ישראל, ''Returners of Israel'') is an Israel-based Jewish organization that encourages people of Jewish descent to strengthen their connection with Israel and the Jewish people. Founded by Michael Freund in 2002, ''Shavei Israel'' locates lost Jews and hidden Jewish communities and assists them with returning to their roots and, sometimes, with aliyah (immigration to Israel). The organization's team is composed of academics, educators and rabbis. Goals and objectives The Shavei Israel organization was founded to help people whose ancestors had become separated from Judaism (including alleged descendants of the Lost tribes of Israel, crypto-Jews, hidden Jews, and Jewish forcibly assimilated under Communist rule,) reconnect with the Jewish people, and in the second decade of this century also became active in helping individuals and groups of converts become part of the mainstream Jewish and Israeli communities. Shavei Israel sponsors rabbis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Freund (activist)
Michael Freund is an American-born Israeli political activist and non-profit executive who advocates on behalf of individuals and groups who self-identify as Jews or would-be Jews, including self-described descendants of the Lost tribes of Israel, crypto-Jews, hidden Jews, and Jews forcibly assimilated under Communist rule, and converts to Judaism, attempting to regularize their legal status as Jews under Israeli law and secure permission for them to immigrate to Israel under the Law of Return. He founded the organization Shavei Israel. Childhood and education Freund grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and attended the Ramaz School and Princeton. He spent a post-college year in Israel, studying in a yeshiva and working part-time for the concert pianist and journalist David Bar-Illan. He returned to New York as a speechwriter and aide with the Israeli Mission to the United Nations, then went on to earn a graduate degree in business administration from Columbia University. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Freund (historian)
Michael Freund (1902–1972) was a German historian and professor at the University of Kiel. Freund's view was that Louis Napoleon was the only real revolutionist in 1848. Freund wrote, "After the solemn republican respectability of 1848 it seemed that only with the Napoleonic experiment did a great revolutionary élan appear on the stage of history". "The state created by Napoleon was anti-socialist, but it was not the laissez-faire state of capitalism. The social ideals of the disciples of Saint-Simon were given by Napoleon, for the first time, a military and authoritarian aspect."''Liberalism and the Challenge of Fascism, Social Forces in England and France (1815-1870)'', J. Salwyn Schapiro, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., NY, 1949. pg 328. Writings * ''Die Idee der Toleranz im England der großen Revolution.'', PhD Halle 1927. * ''Oliver Cromwell. Biographische Skizze'', Lübeck 1933. * ''Napoleon III. Eine Betrachtung zur Krise der Democratie in Frankreich'', ''Deutsche Zeits ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Freund (other)
Michael Freund may refer to: * Michael Freund (historian) (1902–1972), German historian and professor at the University of Kiel * Michael Freund (activist) Michael Freund is an American-born Israeli political activist and non-profit executive who advocates on behalf of individuals and groups who self-identify as Jews or would-be Jews, including self-described descendants of the Lost tribes of Israel, ..., founder and chairman of the Jewish organization Shavei Israel {{Hndis, Freund, Michael ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marya Freund
Marya Freund (12 December 1876 – 21 May 1966) was a Polish-born French soprano. Career She studied violin with Pablo de Sarasate, then singing with Henri Criticos and Raymond Zur Mühlen. In 1913 she took part in the creation of Arnold Schönberg's ''Gurrelieder'' in Vienna and became the appointed interpreter of the ''Pierrot lunaire''. Her repertoire, especially that of the 20th, included Gustav Mahler, Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Francis Poulenc, Karol Szymanowski. She worked within the circle of Satie, Cocteau and Les Six, appearing in the premiere of Satie's Socrate in 1920. In the 1920s, she began a career as a teacher and gave some advice to Germaine Lubin. Jewish, she was arrested in February 1944 in occupied France. On the intervention of Alfred Cortot, she was released from the Drancy internment camp and transferred to the .''la vie musicale sous Vichy'', Myriam Chimènes, Josette Alviset édition Complexe 2001 p.47 Marya Freund ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leopold Freund
Leopold Freund (April 5, 1868 – January 7, 1943) was an Austrian-Jewish radiologist, considered the founder of medical radiology and radiotherapy. Leopold Freund was born in Miskovice in Central Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, now part of the Czech Republic. He died in Brussels in 1943. Freund was a professor of radiology at the Medical University of Vienna and is considered the founder of medical radiology and radiotherapy. He is the first physician known to have used ionizing radiation for therapeutic purposes. In 1896, a year after the discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Röntgen and in the same year that Antoine Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity, Freund successfully treated a five-year-old patient in Vienna suffering from hairy moles covering her whole back. The case was published by the girl's local physician, Schiff, in 1901. In 1903, he published the first textbook on radiation therapy.''Grundriß der gesamten Radiotherapie für praktische Ärzte'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Freund
Kurt Freund (17 January 1914 – 23 October 1996) was a Czech-Canadian physician and sexologist best known for developing the penile plethysmograph (a measurement of sexual arousal in males), research studies in pedophilia, and for the "courtship disorder" hypothesis as a taxonomy of certain paraphilias (voyeurism, exhibitionism, toucherism, frotteurism, and what he called " preferential rape"). After unsuccessful attempts to change men's sexual orientation, he advocated against conversion therapy and in favor of the decriminalization of homosexuality. Early life Freund was born into a German-speaking Jewish family in Chrudim, then part of Austrian Bohemia, later Czechoslovakia, now in the Czech Republic. He married Anna Hlounová, a non-Jewish Czech pianist and music teacher, on 13 January 1942. In 1943, they divorced in order to protect Anna and their newborn daughter Helen from anti-Jewish and anti-miscegenation legislation implemented by the German Nazi Occupiers. They rema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Freund
Karl W. Freund, A.S.C. (January 16, 1890 – May 3, 1969) was an Austrian cinematography, cinematographer and film director best known for photographing ''Metropolis (1927 film), Metropolis'' (1927), ''Dracula (1931 English-language film), Dracula'' (1931), and television's ''I Love Lucy'' (1951-1957). Freund was an innovator in the field of cinematography and is credited with the invention of the unchained camera technique. Early life Karl Freund was born in Dvůr Králové nad Labem, Dvůr Králové (Königinhof), Bohemia. When he was 11 his family moved to Berlin. His career began in 1905 when, at age 15, he was hired as an apprentice projectionist for Alfred Duskes films. In 1907, he began work at the International Cinematograph and Light Effect Society. Freund was drafted by the Imperial Army to fight in World War I but was released from duty after only three months. Early film career Freund began his film career in 1905. He was a newsreel cameraman in 1907 and a year later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules T
Jules is the French form of the Latin "Julius" (e.g. Jules César, the French name for Julius Caesar). It is the given name of: People with the name *Jules Aarons (1921–2008), American space physicist and photographer *Jules Abadie (1876–1953), French politician and surgeon *Jules Accorsi (born 1937), French football player and manager *Jules Adenis (1823–1900), French playwright and opera librettist *Jules Adler 1865–1952), French painter *Jules Asner (born 1968), American television personality *Jules Aimé Battandier (1848–1922), French botanist *Jules Bernard (born 2000), American basketball player *Jules Bianchi (1989–2015), French Formula One driver *Jules Breton (1827–1906), French Realist painter *Jules-André Brillant (1888–1973), Canadian entrepreneur *Jules Brunet (1838–1911), French Army general *Jules Charles-Roux (1841–1918), French businessman and politician *Jules Dewaquez (1899–1971), French footballer *Jules Marie Alphonse Jacques de Dixmu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonas Charles Hermann Freund
Jonas Charles Hermann Freund (1808 – 29 December 1879) was an Austrian-British physician, known as the co-founder of the German Hospital in London. Career Born to a Jewish family in Bohemia, Freund received a medical degree at the University of Vienna. In London in 1843 he was a co-founder of London's German Hospital, which opened in October 1845. He was Physician in Charge of the hospital until about 1850. The evidence suggests that he was Karl Marx's doctor. Freund was Deputy Inspector-General of Army Hospitals in the Crimean war and an army surgeon. Family In London in 1846 he married Prussian-born Louise Amalie Rüdiger, who became a prominent editor and author under the pseudonym "Amelia Lewis". She was an inventor and a campaigner for women's rights. Their son John Christian Freund John Christian Freund (November 23, 1848 – June 3, 1924) was a British-American magazine publisher, playwright, and music critic. He founded several magazines, including ''The Music Trade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
