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Hirschhorn
Hirschhorn is derived from German composite word "Hirsch" (deer) and "Horn" (horn), part of a deer's antlers. A variation is Hirshhorn. It may refer to: * Hirschhorn (Neckar), a town in Hesse, Germany * Hirschhorn, Rhineland-Palatinate, a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany * Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. * Alternate of Hartshorn It is also a surname. Some people with this name include: * Joel Hirschhorn (1938–2005), American songwriter * Joseph Hirshhorn (1899–1981), Latvian-American entrepreneur, financier and art collector (also see Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden) * Kurt Hirschhorn, researcher of Wolf–Hirschhorn syndrome * Philippe Hirschhorn (1946–1996), Latvian violinist * Samuel Hirszhorn (1876–1942), Polish writer, journalist, and politician * Sheea Herschorn (1893–1969), Chief Rabbi of Montreal * Thomas Hirschhorn Thomas Hirschhorn (born 16 May 1957) is a Swiss artist. He lives and works in Paris.Randy Kennedy (Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hirschhorn (Neckar)
Hirschhorn (Neckar) is a small town in the Bergstraße district of Hesse, Germany, and is known as "The Pearl of the Neckar valley”. Hirschhorn is a climatic health resort situated in the ''Geo-Naturpark Bergstraße-Odenwald''. Geography Location Hirschhorn is situated at a horseshoe bend of the River Neckar, roughly 19 km east of Heidelberg. The Neckar has dug its way through the wooded hills of the Odenwald here. Hirschhorn stretches along the right bank of the Neckar, i.e. north of the river. Ersheim, Hirschhorn's oldest part, has the distinction, however, of being the only bit of Hesse south of the Neckar. In Hirschhorn, two northern tributaries, the Ulfenbach and the Finkenbach, join to become the Laxbach before flowing into the Neckar. Neighbouring communities In the north, Hirschhorn borders on the villages of Heddesbach (Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg) and Brombach (part of Eberbach), and on the parish of Rothenberg (Odenwaldkreis). The town of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hirschhorn
Thomas Hirschhorn (born 16 May 1957) is a Swiss artist. He lives and works in Paris.Randy Kennedy (June 27, 2013)Bringing Art and Change to Bronx''New York Times''. Life and works In the 1980s, Thomas Hirschhorn came to Paris with the will to take part in the 'Grapus'-collective as graphic designer, because he was impressed by the way their graphic work was also politically engaged. Although he and the Grapus people were good friends, working with them wasn't what he wanted to do. He didn't want to work for clients, but wanted to create for his own. During the long years that followed, he developed his own visual research based on the principle of Collage. In the beginning, he claimed these as 'Graphic design from myself,' but was not more successful until he decided to clearly position his Collage-work in the field of art and history of art. He then started to create the hypersaturated works he is known for today, using common materials such as cardboard, foil, duct tape, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Hirschhorn
Kurt Hirschhorn (May 18, 1926) - November 25, 2022 was an Austrian-born American pediatrician, medical geneticist, and cytogeneticist who identified the chromosomal defects that underlie Wolf–Hirschhorn syndrome. Early life Hirschhorn was born in Vienna. Fleeing anti-Semitic persecution, the family relocated to Switzerland, then to the US, briefly in New York City before settling in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Career Hirschhorn was Professor of Pediatrics, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, and Medicine Chairman Emeritus of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. He is a fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution. Honors and awards In 1995, Hirschhorn received the William Allan Award in human medical genetics. Personal life Hirschhorn is married to Rochelle Hirschhorn, who was chief of the Division of Medical Genetics at New York University for 24 years. Their son Joel Hirschhorn is also a human geneticist. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Hirschhorn
Joel Hirschhorn (December 18, 1937 – September 17, 2005) was an American songwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Song on two occasions. He also wrote songs for a number of musicians, including Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison. Hirschhorn was born in the Bronx and attended the High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan. After graduating, Hirschhorn became a regular performer on New York's nightclub circuit, both as a solo singer and as a member of the rock & roll band, The Highlighters. During the mid-1960s, Hirschhorn branched out into writing film soundtracks. The first score he wrote was for ''Who Killed Teddy Bear?'' (1965), which was directed by his friend Joseph Cates. He worked with Cates again the following year in '' The Fat Spy''. However, the film was received so badly that Hirschhorn struggled to find work in Hollywood for years afterwards. Hirschhorn, along with songwriting partner Al Kasha, did not work on another film until 1970's ''The Cheyenne Soci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hirschhorn, Rhineland-Palatinate
Hirschhorn is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe .... References Kaiserslautern (district) {{Kaiserslautern-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Hirschhorn
Philippe Hirschhorn (11 June 1946, Riga – 26 November 1996, Brussels) was a violinist. He won the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in 1967. Born in Riga, Latvia, he first studied at Darsin music school in Riga with Prof. Waldemar Sturestep, later he studied with prof Michael Waiman at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, Conservatoire of St. Petersburg (Then still called Leningrad Conservatory). He played concerts all over the world (Europe, America and Japan) with the most prestigious orchestras conducted by amongst others Herbert von Karajan, Uri Segal, Eugene Ormandy, Yury Temirkanov, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Gary Bertini, Ronald Zollman. He played together with Roger Woodward, Elisabeth Leonskaya, Martha Argerich, James Tocco, Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky, Frederic Meinders, Hans Mannes, Brigitte Engerer etc. The rare recordings that exist of him playing are examples of his technical and musical abilities. He was the teacher of many excellent violinists who dedicated their w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Hirszhorn
Samuel Hirszhorn (1876 – May 28, 1942) was a Jewish Polish writer, journalist, and politician. Life Hirszhorn was born in 1876 in Slonim, the Grodno Governorate, Russia to a well-to-do family. Hirszhorn moved to Warsaw when he was thirteen and received a commercial and religious education. He began his journalistic career with the progressive Polish press, contributing articles and poems that were both originals and translations from French and Russian. In 1903, with the rise of the Jewish national movement, he wrote the first brochure about Zionism in Polish called ''Co to jest syonizm?'' (What is Zionism?). He then became a frequent contributor to the Polish Jewish press, including the weekly ''Głos Żydowski'' and the Kraków monthly ''Moriah''. He explored Jewish-Polish relations and translated Yiddish poetry. During World War I, he contributed to the ''Varshever tageblat'', a Yiddish daily that was sponsored by the German occupation authorities and espoused a Jewish natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hesse
Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major historic cities are Darmstadt and Kassel. With an area of 21,114.73 square kilometers and a population of just over six million, it ranks seventh and fifth, respectively, among the sixteen German states. Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Germany's second-largest metropolitan area (after Rhine-Ruhr), is mainly located in Hesse. As a cultural region, Hesse also includes the area known as Rhenish Hesse (Rheinhessen) in the neighbouring state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Name The German name ''Hessen'', like the names of other German regions (''Schwaben'' "Swabia", ''Franken'' "Franconia", ''Bayern'' "Bavaria", ''Sachsen'' "Saxony"), derives from the dative plural form of the name of the inhabitants or eponymous tribe, the Hessians (''Hessen'', singular ''Hesse''). The geograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hirshhorn Museum And Sculpture Garden
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an art museum beside the National Mall, in Washington, D.C., the United States. The museum was initially endowed during the 1960s with the permanent art collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn. It was designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft and is part of the Smithsonian Institution. It was conceived as the United States' museum of Contemporary art, contemporary and modern art and currently focuses its collection-building and exhibition-planning mainly on the post–World War II period, with particular emphasis on art made during the last 50 years. The Hirshhorn is situated halfway between the Washington Monument and the United States Capitol, US Capitol, anchoring the southernmost end of the so-called L'Enfant axis (perpendicular to the Mall's green carpet). The National Archives/National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden across the Mall, and the National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian American Art building several blocks to the north, also mark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hartshorn
Hartshorn is the antler of male red deer. Derivatives Various nitrogen compounds were made from hartshorn shavings: * Oil of hartshorn is a crude chemical product obtained from the destructive distillation of deer antlers. * Salt of hartshorn refers to ammonium carbonate, an early form of smelling salts obtained by dry distillation of oil of hartshorn. * Spirit of hartshorn (or spirits of hartshorn) is an archaic name for aqueous ammonia. Originally, this term was applied to a solution manufactured from the hooves and antlers of the red deer, as well as those of some other animals. The aqueous solution was colorless and pungent, consisting of about 28.5 percent ammonia. It was used chiefly as a detergent, for removing stains and extracting certain vegetable coloring agents, and in the manufacture of ammonium salts. Later, the term was applied to the partially purified similar products of the action of heat on nitrogenous animal matter generally. Finally, the term was applied to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Hirshhorn
Joseph Herman Hirshhorn (August 11, 1899 – August 31, 1981) was an entrepreneur, financier, and art collector. Biography Born in Mitau, Latvia, the twelfth of thirteen children, Hirshhorn emigrated to the United States with his widowed mother at the age of six. Hirshhorn went to work as an office boy on Wall Street at age 14. Three years later, in 1916, he became a stockbroker and earned $168,000 that year. A shrewd investor, he sold off his Wall Street investments two months before the collapse of 1929, realizing $4 million in cash. Hirshhorn made his fortune in the mining and oil business. In the 1930s, he focused much of his attention on gold and uranium mining prospects in Canada, establishing an office in Toronto in 1933. In the 1950s, he and geologist Franc Joubin were primarily responsible for the "Big Z" uranium discovery in northeastern Ontario and the subsequent founding of the city of Elliot Lake. Hirshhorn Avenue, a residential street in that city, is named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheea Herschorn
Sheea Halevy Herschorn (; 1893, Murovani Kurylivtsi, Krilovitz – 15 May 1969, Montreal) was a Russian Empire, Russian-born Canadian Judaism, Jewish communal leader and ''posek'', who served as Chief Rabbi of Montreal from 1951 until 1961. Biography Sheea Herschorn was born in Murovani Kurylivtsi, Krilovitz, Podolian Governorate, Podolia to a distinguished rabbinic family, the son of Zissel (née Weitman) and Rabbi Sender Herschorn. He received his main rabbinic training from his father, later studying at the Odessa University, University of Odessa and various ''yeshiva, yeshivot'' across Lithuania and Poland. Among his teachers were Rabbis Moshe Nathan Rubinstein (''Av Beit Din, av beit din'' of Vinnytsia, Vinnitsa), Leib Braude (''av beit din'' of Lviv, Lemberg), and . He was Semikhah, ordained at the age of 19, and went on to serve on the Vaad, rabbinical council of his hometown. Herschorn fled to Warsaw in 1919, amid the wave of Pogrom, anti-Jewish massacres that began in Ukr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
