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Gerson Wolf
Gerson may refer to: Given name: * Gerson von Bleichröder (1822–1893), Jewish German banker *Gérson Caçapa (born 1967), Brazilian former footballer *Gerson Goldhaber (1924–2010), German-born American particle physicist and astrophysicist *Gerson Guimarães Júnior, (born 1992), Brazilian footballer * Gérson Magrão (born 1985), Brazilian footballer *Gerson Mayen (born 1989), Salvadoran-American footballer * Gérson or Gérson de Oliveira Nunes (born 1941), Brazilian footballer *Gerson Rosenzweig (1861–1914), writer and poet * Gerson Santos da Silva (born 1997), Brazilian footballer *Gérson da Silva, (1965–1994), Brazilian footballer *Gerson Victalino (born 1959), Brazilian Olympic basketball player Surname: * Dora Gerson (1899–1943), German Jewish actress and cabaret singer killed at Auschwitz *Georg Hartog Gerson Georg Hartog Gerson (25 August 1788 – 3 December 1844) was a medical doctor and surgeon in the King's German Legion during the Napoleonic Wars. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerson Von Bleichröder
Gerson von Bleichröder (22 December 1822 – 18 February 1893) was a Jewish German banker. Bleichröder was born in Berlin. He was the eldest son of Samuel Bleichröder, who founded the banking firm of S. Bleichröder in 1803 in Berlin. Gerson first joined the family business in 1839. In 1855 upon the death of his father, Gerson became the head of the banking firm. The bank maintained close contacts with the Rothschild family; the banking house of Bleichröder acted as a branch office in Berlin of the Rothschilds' bank. Traditionally, the Rothschilds represented the banking interests of the Austrian-controlled German Confederation in Europe. In the conflict between the rapidly rising and expanding nation of Kingdom of Prussia and the "pro-Austrian" German Confederation, the Rothschild Bank was largely caught in an uncomfortable position in the middle of the conflict. Meeting Bismarck Since 1851, Otto von Bismarck had been serving as the Prussian ambassador to the German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Gerson
Jean Charlier de Gerson (13 December 1363 – 12 July 1429) was a French scholar, educator, reformer, and poet, Chancellor of the University of Paris, a guiding light of the conciliar movement and one of the most prominent theologians at the Council of Constance. He was one of the first thinkers to develop what would later come to be called natural rights theory, and was also one of the first individuals to defend Joan of Arc and proclaim her supernatural vocation as authentic.Richard Tuck, ''Philosophy and Government 1572-1651'' (1993), pp. 25-7. Aged fourteen, he left Gerson-lès-Barby to study at the college of Navarre in Paris under Gilles Deschamps, ( Aegidius Campensis) and Pierre d'Ailly (''Petrus de Alliaco''), who became his life-long friend. Early life and education Gerson was born at Gerson-lès-Barby, Gerson (paroisse de Barby) a hamlet in the present municipality of Barby, Ardennes in the bishopric of Reims in Champagne. His parents, Arnulphe Charlier and Éli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gershom (other)
Gershom is the firstborn son of Moses. Gershom may also refer to: * Gershom ben Judah (c. 960 -1040? -1028?), Rabbeinu Gershom * Gershom Browne (1898–2000) * Gershom Bulkeley (1636–1721), Christian minister and physician * Gershom Carmichael (1672–1729), Church of Scotland minister * Gershom Cox (1863–1918), English footballer * Gershom Bassey (born 1962), Nigerian politician and businessman * Gershom Gorenberg, American-born Israeli journalist, and blogger * Gershom Whitfield Guinness (1869–1927), Protestant missionary, doctor, and writer * Gershom Mott (1822–1884), United States Army officer and General in the Union Army * Gershom Powers (1789–1831), American politician * Gershom Schocken (1912–1990), Israeli journalist and politician * Gershom Scholem (1897–1982), German-born Israeli philosopher and historian * Gershom Mendes Seixas (1745–1816) * Gershom Sizomu (born 1972), Ugandan rabbi * Gershom Stewart (1857–1929) * Gershom Bradford Weston (1799–1869 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gershon (other)
Gershon (Hebrew: גֵּרְשׁוֹן) was the oldest son of Levi in the Torah. Gershon may also refer to: * Gersonides (1288–1344), French rabbi also known as Levi ben Gershon * Gershon Review (2004–2005), a review of efficiency in the UK public sector People with the surname * Amit Gershon (born 1995), Israeli basketball player * Pini Gershon (born 1951), Israeli basketball player and coach * Gina Gershon (born 1962), American actress; not to be confused with pornographic actress Gina Gerson (born 1991) * Grant Gershon (born 1960), American pianist, conductor, chorus master * Michael D. Gershon, American neurobiologist and author of ''The Second Brain'' * Nina Gershon (born 1940), American jurist * Peter Gershon (born 1947), British business executive and civil servant * Yitzhak Gershon (born 1958), Israeli general People with the given name * Gershon Agron (1894–1959), mayor of Jerusalem (1955–59) * Gershon Ben-Shakhar (born 1942), Israeli psychologist and former ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wojciech Gerson
Wojciech Gerson (; July 1, 1831 – February 25, 1901) was a leading Polish people, Polish Painting, painter of the mid-19th century, and one of the foremost representatives of the Polish school of Realism (arts), Realism during the foreign Partitions of Poland. He served as long-time professor of the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and taught future luminaries of Polish Young Poland, neo-romanticism including Józef Chełmoński, Leon Wyczółkowski, Władysław Podkowiński, Józef Pankiewicz and Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowiczowa among others. He also wrote art-reviews and published a book of anatomy for the artists. A large number of his paintings were Nazi plunder, stolen by Nazi Germany in World War II, and Lost works, never recovered. Biography Gerson was born in Warsaw during the November Uprising against the Russians. He enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, School of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1844 and graduated with honors in 1850. In 1853 Gerson received a scholarship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Gerson
Haim Victor Gerson DSO, LdH (b. 1898—d. ?), code name Rene, was a Special Operations Executive agent during the Second World War. He organised the Vic escape line in France. Escape lines helped allied soldiers and airmen, SOE agents, and other people in danger to escape from Nazi-occupied Europe, usually by crossing the Pyrenees mountains into neutral Spain. Early years Haim Victor Gerson was born in August 1898 in Southport, Lancashire, the son of a fabric merchant. World War I He joined the British army at the declaration of war and was sent to the Western Front In France and took part in the Battle of the Somme. After the war, he went to Paris where he was a dealer in fine rugs and carpets. He married and had a son, however in the 1930s his wife died and his son was killed in a traffic accident. He then married Giliana Balmaceda, a Chilean-born actress. World War II On 18 June 1940 four days before the signing of the armistice between Germany and a defeated France, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Gerson
Noel Bertram Gerson (1913-1988) was an American author who wrote 325 books, including several best sellers, among them two screenplay novelizations penned under the pseudonym Samuel Edwards, ''The Naked Maja'', and ''55 Days at Peking''. Peacock, Scott, Senior Editor (2000), ''Gales Contemporary Authors, Volume 82'' , pp. 143-146 Aside from "Samuel Edwards", which would seem to have been his dedicated by-line for tie-in work, Gerson used the following nine pseudonyms in addition to his own name: Anne Marie Burgess; Michael Burgess; Nicholas Gorham; Paul Lewis; Leon Phillips; Donald Clayton Porter; Dana Fuller Ross; Philip Vail; and Carter A. Vaughan.Hawk, Pat (1995), ''Hawk's Author's Pseudonyms II'' , p. 225 Life He was the son of Sam Gerson, who directed the Shubert theaters in Chicago. Gerson attended the University of Chicago, and served as the campus correspondent for the ''Chicago Herald-Examiner''. Following graduation, he became a reporter at the paper. He later jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Gerson
Michael John Gerson (May 15, 1964 – November 17, 2022) was an American journalist and speechwriter. He was a neoconservative op-ed columnist for ''The Washington Post'', a Policy Fellow with One Campaign, a visiting fellow with the Center for Public Justice, and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as President George W. Bush's chief speechwriter from 2001 until June 2006, as a senior policy advisor from 2000 through June 2006, and was a member of the White House Iraq Group. Gerson helped write the inaugural address for the second inauguration of George W. Bush, which called for neo-conservative intervention and nation-building around the world to effect the spread of democracy to third world countries. In 2018, Gerson and commentator Amy Holmes co-hosted ''In Principle'', a politically conservative-oriented television talk show that ran for eight episodes on PBS. Early life and education Gerson was born on May 15, 1964, in Belmar, New Jersey, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Gerson
Max Gerson (October 18, 1881 – March 8, 1959) was a German-born American physician who developed the Gerson Therapy, a dietary-based alternative cancer treatment that he claimed could cure cancer and most chronic, degenerative diseases. Gerson described his approach in the book ''A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases'' (1958). The National Cancer Institute evaluated Gerson's claims and concluded that his data showed no benefit from his treatment. The therapy is both ineffective and dangerous. Early life and career Gerson was born to a Jewish family in Wongrowitz, German Empire (Wągrowiec, now in Poland), on October 18, 1881. In 1909, he graduated from the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. He began practicing medicine at age 28 in Breslau (Wrocław, now in Poland), later specializing in internal medicine and nerve diseases in Bielefeld. By 1927, he was specializing in the treatment of tuberculosis, developing the Gerson-Sauerbruch-Hermannsdorfer diet, claiming it wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlene Gerson
Marlene Gerson (born June 1940) is a female former tennis player from South Africa who was active in the late 1950s and the first half of the 1960s. Her best singles result at the Wimbledon Championships was reaching the third round in 1959. Partnering Australian Eva Duldig, she reached the quarterfinal of the doubles event in 1961. At the 1961 Maccabiah Games in Israel, she won gold medals in women's doubles and mixed doubles. Career In 1962 Gerson won the All England Plate, a competition held at the Wimbledon Championships consisting of players who were defeated in the first or second rounds of the singles competition. Gerson had lost in the first round of the singles event against Kaye Dening in straight sets after having qualified for the 1962 Wimbledon Championships at a grass court tournament in Roehampton. At the All England Plate event she won all five rounds in straight sets, including the final against Margaret Hellyer. Her best singles result at Wimbledon was rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Gerson Ramos
José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacular form of Joseph, which is also in current usage as a given name. José is also commonly used as part of masculine name composites, such as José Manuel, José Maria or Antonio José, and also in female name composites like Maria José or Marie-José. The feminine written form is ''Josée'' as in French. In Netherlandic Dutch, however, ''José'' is a feminine given name and is pronounced ; it may occur as part of name composites like Marie-José or as a feminine first name in its own right; it can also be short for the name ''Josina'' and even a Dutch hypocorism of the name ''Johanna''. In England, Jose is originally a Romano-Celtic surname, and people with this family name can usually be found in, or traced to, the English county of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gerson
John Gerson was deputy head of MI6. He studied Art History at the University of Freiburg and then went to King's College, Cambridge. He went to India on the Commonwealth Expedition (COMEX) in 1965. He was HM Consul in Beijing from 1974 to 1977 and interpreted for and advised Margaret Thatcher on China. Later he worked as a consultant in Brazil, Tanzania, and North Korea and was an Associate Member of University College London's Centre for the Study of Socialist Legal Systems. In 1992, he was visiting fellow in East Asian studies at Princeton University. In 2001, he left MI6 and joined BP as a senior political adviser; he became their Head of Government and Public Affairs from 2007 to 2012. He joined the company in 2000. Gerson also chaired BP China Ltd and BP South East Asia Ltd. On 24 April 2012, he has been appointed in the Board of Directors of the Handeni Gold Inc., a mineral exploration company which is mainly active in Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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