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Glehn
Glehn may refer to: Geography * Glehn (Mechernich), a district of Mechernich, Euskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany * Glehn (Korschenbroich), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany * Glehn Castle, castle of Nikolai von Glehn in Vana-Mustamäe, Nõmme, Tallinn, Estonia Other * De Glehn, a compound steam locomotive system named after Alfred de Glehn * Glehn's spruce, (''Picea glehnii''), a species of conifer named after Peter von Glehn * '' Glehnia'', a monotypic genus in the carrot family Apiaceae named after Peter von Glehn People with the surname * Alfred de Glehn (1848–1936), French railroad engineer; brother of Louise Creighton, uncle of Oswald von Glehn and Wilfred de Glehn * Jane Emmet de Glehn (1873–1961), American figure and portrait painter; wife of Wilfrid de Glehn * Louise von Glehn (1850–1936), maiden name of British historian Louise Creighton * Nikolai von Glehn (1841–1923), Baltic German estate owner, founder of the town of Nõmme * Peter von Glehn (183 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glehn (Mechernich)
Glehn may refer to: Geography * Glehn (Mechernich), a district of Mechernich, Euskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany * Glehn (Korschenbroich), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany * Glehn Castle, castle of Nikolai von Glehn in Vana-Mustamäe, Nõmme, Tallinn, Estonia Other * De Glehn, a compound steam locomotive system named after Alfred de Glehn * Glehn's spruce, (''Picea glehnii''), a species of conifer named after Peter von Glehn * '' Glehnia'', a monotypic genus in the carrot family Apiaceae named after Peter von Glehn People with the surname * Alfred de Glehn (1848–1936), French railroad engineer; brother of Louise Creighton, uncle of Oswald von Glehn and Wilfred de Glehn * Jane Emmet de Glehn (1873–1961), American figure and portrait painter; wife of Wilfrid de Glehn * Louise von Glehn (1850–1936), maiden name of British historian Louise Creighton * Nikolai von Glehn (1841–1923), Baltic German estate owner, founder of the town of Nõmme * Peter von Glehn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glehn (Korschenbroich)
Glehn may refer to: Geography * Glehn (Mechernich), a district of Mechernich, Euskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany * Glehn (Korschenbroich), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany * Glehn Castle, castle of Nikolai von Glehn in Vana-Mustamäe, Nõmme, Tallinn, Estonia Other * De Glehn, a compound steam locomotive system named after Alfred de Glehn * Glehn's spruce, (''Picea glehnii''), a species of conifer named after Peter von Glehn * '' Glehnia'', a monotypic genus in the carrot family Apiaceae named after Peter von Glehn People with the surname * Alfred de Glehn (1848–1936), French railroad engineer; brother of Louise Creighton, uncle of Oswald von Glehn and Wilfred de Glehn * Jane Emmet de Glehn (1873–1961), American figure and portrait painter; wife of Wilfrid de Glehn * Louise von Glehn (1850–1936), maiden name of British historian Louise Creighton * Nikolai von Glehn (1841–1923), Baltic German estate owner, founder of the town of Nõmme * Peter von Glehn (183 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred De Glehn
Alfred George de Glehn (15 September 1848 – 8 June 1936) was a notable English-born French designer of steam locomotives and an engineer with the Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques (SACM). His steam engines of the 1890s combined elegance, high speed, and efficiency. De Glehn's express locomotives were first used on the Nord Railway and on the boat trains from Calais to Paris, where they impressed passengers with their speed. He invented the Glehn system of compounding, and De Glehn types were built in large numbers in France, and were also built in smaller numbers in Belgium, Germany, New Zealand, and Russia, see Compound locomotive. Compounding lost favour from the 1900s, being replaced by superheating. However André Chapelon rebuilt many of the French De Glehn compounds from 1929 onwards. Personal life Alfred De Glehn was one of the twelve children of Robert von Glehn, a Prussian nobleman originally from the Baltic provinces, whose family had estates near Tall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glehn Castle
The Glehn Castle ( et, Glehni loss, also Mustamäe Manor, german: Hohenhaupt) is a castle on the hillside of Nõmme, part of Tallinn, Estonia. History The manor was designed and established by Nikolai von Glehn on the northern part of the lands of his Jälgimäe Manor to become his new residence. The castle was completed in 1886. The castle is surrounded by a park with several buildings like a palm house (1900–1910), observatory tower (1910) and sculptures "Kalevipoeg" (1908), "Crocodile" (1908), all of which were also designed by Glehn himself. After Glehn emigrated to Germany in 1918 the castle was looted and fell into decline. In the 1960s, restoration of the building commenced. The renovated palace was inaugurated on the 24 March 1977. In popular culture The film ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (russian: Приключения Шерлока Холмса и доктора Ватсона: Собака Баскервилей) was shot around the castle in 1981. G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfrid De Glehn
Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn (sometimes 'Wilfried') (1870 – 11 May 1951) was an Impressionist British painter, elected to the Royal Academy in 1932. Biography De Glehn's father was Alexander de Glenn of Sydenham, London, himself the son of Robert von Glehn, a Baltic baron with estates near Tallinn in Estonia, who had become a naturalised British subject following his marriage to a Scottish woman. Wilfrid's mother was French. Louise Creighton, a women's rights activist and author, and Alfred de Glehn, a French steam locomotive designer, were Alexander's sister and brother. Wilfried von Glehn (he changed his name in May 1917) was born in Sydenham, south-east London. After schooling at Brighton College with his brother Louis, he studied art briefly at the Royal Academy Schools in South Kensington before going on to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where for a time he lived with his French cousin, the artist Lucien Monod (1867-1957). In 1891 was hired by Edwin Austin Abbey a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Emmet De Glehn
Jane Erin Emmet de Glehn (born Jane Erin Emmet in 1873; died 20 February 1961) was an American figure and portrait painter. Early life Born in New Rochelle, New York, she was the youngest daughter of ten siblings. Her great-great-uncle Robert Emmet was a notable Irish nationalist who was hanged in 1803 for high treason by the British court for his attempt to implement an Irish rebellion. Lydia Field Emmet's great-grandfather Thomas Addis Emmet, Robert's older brother, emigrated to the United States after Robert's execution. Thomas Addis Emmet would later become the New York State Attorney General. His daughter Elizabeth Emmet (b.1794), Jane's great-aunt, would study portraiture under the direction of a steamboat designer and portrait artist named Thomas Fulton. Both her older sisters Rosina Emmet Sherwood (1854–1948) and Lydia Field Emmet (1866–1952) would also become successful artists, as well as their first cousin Ellen Emmet "Bay" Rand (1876–1941). Emmet de Glehn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Von Glehn
Peter von Glehn (russian: Пётр Петрович Глен, translit=Pëtr Petrovič Glen; in Jelgimeggi Manor – in Saint Petersburg) was a Baltic German botanist. Peter von Glehn was born in the Jelgimeggi manor () in 1835, to a Baltic German landowner, member of the Glehn family, Peter von Glehn (1796–1843) and Auguste Caroline Marie Burchart von Bellavary, member of the Burchardt family who took care of the Town Hall Pharmacy in Reval. He had 2 younger brothers: Nikolai (1841–1923), the founder of Nömme (), and Len von Glehn, (1844-1920), and 3 sisters: Marie Elisabeth (1840–????), Julie Wilhelmine (1842–1867) and Marie (1843–1884). He graduated at the University of Dorpat () with a gold medal. Glehn's Spruce (''Picea glehnii''), a species of conifer in the family Pinaceae The Pinaceae, or pine family, are conifer trees or shrubs, including many of the well-known conifers of commercial importance such as Cedrus, cedars, firs, Tsuga, hemlocks, larche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Von Glehn
Alexander Nikolai von Glehn (16 July 1841 in Jälgimäe Manor, Kreis Harrien, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire – 7 September 1923 in Brazil), was a Baltic German landowner and public figure, most notable for being the founder of the town of Nõmme (now part of Tallinn). He was born into the wealthy Glehn family, and was the brother of Peter von Glehn, a noted botanist. He studied economics, medicine, philosophy and architecture at the University of Tartu and in Germany. Glehn established a new settlement called Nõmme in the northern part of the lands of his Jälgimäe Manor. In 1873 he gave out the first plots near the railway station which was established a year before on the Tallinn–Paldiski railway (part of the Baltic Railway). In 1917 Nõmme gained the borough rights and in 1926 the town rights, but was merged with Tallinn in 1940. Glehn also built himself a new Mustamäe Manor (german: Hohenhaupt), nowadays known as the Glehn Castle into Nõmme. The main buil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compound Locomotive
A compound locomotive is a steam locomotive which is powered by a compound engine, a type of steam engine where steam is expanded in two or more stages. The locomotive was only one application of compounding. Two and three stages were used in ships, for example. Compounding became popular for railway locomotives from the early 1880s and by the 1890s were becoming common. Large numbers were constructed, mostly two- and four-cylinder compounds, in France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, and the United States. It declined in popularity due to maintenance issues and because superheating provided similar efficiencies at lower cost. Nonetheless, compound Mallets were built by the Norfolk and Western Railway right up to 1952. Introduction In the usual arrangement for a compound engine the steam is first expanded in one or two high-pressure ''(HP)'' cylinders, then having given up some heat and lost some pressure, it exhausts into a larger-volume low-pressure ''(LP)'' cylinder, (or two, - or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glehnia
''Glehnia'' is a genus of plants in the carrot family, Apiaceae. It is monotypic, being represented by the single species, ''Glehnia littoralis'', commonly known as beach silvertop and American silvertop. The genus was named after Russian botanist Peter von Glehn. Description It is a long-taprooted plant forming a basal patch of leaves, with each leaf made up of several rounded, lobular segments. It reaches a maximum height exceeding , with the North American subspecies only reported to reach . The plant's erect stem is topped with an umbel of carrotlike white flowers. Chemistry The plant contains naphthisoxazole A. Taxonomy Two subspecies exist, one in Asia and one in North America; the latter is named ''leiocarpa''. Distribution and habitat It is native to eastern Asia, particularly eastern China, Japan, and far-eastern Russia, and western North America from Alaska to northern California. It can be found on sandy beaches and dunes. Uses The plant is perhaps best known a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Von Glehn
Louise Hume Creighton (née von Glehn; 7 July 1850 – 15 April 1936) was a British author of books on historical and sociopolitical topics, and an activist for a greater representation of women in society, including women's suffrage, and in the Church of England. Early life She was born as Louise Hume von Glehn at Peak Hill Lodge in Sydenham, Kent on 7 July 1850. She was one of the younger daughters of Robert von Glehn, a City of London merchant, and his wife, Agnes Duncan. Her older brother was Alfred de Glehn, the designer of the French steam locomotive engine. She was homeschooled before she passed, with honours, the General Examination for Women, the first London University higher examination for women. She was a prolific reader and a keen student of both the writings of John Ruskin and the Whigs historian John Richard Green. Marriage to Mandell Creighton In 1872, Louise married Mandell Creighton, a University of Oxford-educated historian who later became a University o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picea Glehnii
''Picea glehnii'', the Sakhalin spruce or Glehn's spruce, is a species of conifer in the family Pinaceae. It was named after a Russian botanist, taxonomist, Sakhalin and Amur river regions explorer, geographer and hydrographer Peter von Glehn (1835—1876), the person who was the first to describe this conifer. In Japan people call this tree アカエゾマツ, which means “red spruce”. Natural habitat The spruce's natural habitat is situated on Hokkaido Island. It also appears on Mount Hayachine of the Kitakami range in the Northern part of Honshu (Iwate prefecture), as well as in the Southern part of Russian island Sakhalin (along Aniva Bay, in the Mereya river valley, near Bolshoye Vavaiskoye lake and Busse lagoon). The tree also grows on Southern Kuril Islands (Kunashir, Shikotan and Southern Iturup). Glehn's spruce grows within the range of 0 to 1600 meters above sea level in low places and on cold and excessively wet soil on rocky subsoil. Description The tree has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
