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Hollander
Hollander is a surname. "Hollander" is a Dutch language, Dutch term for people from the Netherlands, or specifically Holland, Holland proper. Variants of Germanic origin include Hollaender and Holländer. People * Anthony Hollander (born c. 1960), British academic * Audrey Hollander (born 1979), American pornographic actress * Christian Hollander (c.1510-15 – 1589), Dutch composer * Bernard Hollander (1864–1934), London psychiatrist * David Hollander (born 1968), American television writer, producer, and director * Edith Frank, Edith Holländer (1900–1945), mother of diarist Anne Frank * Friedrich Hollaender (1896–1976), German composer * Gustav Hollaender (1855–1915), German composer * Han Hollander (1886–1943), Dutch journalist * Jacob Hollander (1871–1940), American economist and historian of economic thought * John Hollander (born 1929–2013), poet * Lorin Hollander (born 1944), American classical concert pianist * Neil Hollander (born 1939), American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Hollander
Thomas Anthony Hollander (; born 25 August 1967) is an English actor. As a child Hollander trained with the National Youth Theatre and was later involved in stage productions as a member of the Footlights and was president of the Marlowe Society. He later gained success for his roles on stage and screen winning a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, as well as nominations for a Tony Award and Olivier Award. He began his career in theatre, winning the Ian Charleson Award in 1992 for his performance as Witwoud in ''The Way of the World'' at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. He made his Broadway debut in David Hare's '' The Judas Kiss'' in 1998. He appeared as Henry Carr in a revival of Tom Stoppard's play ''Travesties'' earning nominations for the Olivier Award for Best Actor and Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. Hollander gained attention for portraying Mr. Collins in Joe Wright's '' Pride & Prejudice'' (2005) and as Lord Cutler Beckett in the ''Pirates of the Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Hollander
Nicole Hollander (born April 25, 1939) is an American cartoonist and writer. Her daily comic strip '' Sylvia'' was syndicated to newspapers nationally by Tribune Media Services. Biography Born in Chicago, Illinois, Hollander was the daughter of Shirley Mazur Garrison and Henry Garrison, a labor activist and member of the carpenters union. Growing up in a working-class Chicago neighborhood, she was educated in Chicago public schools. She earned a B.F.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1960 and an M.F.A. from Boston University in 1966. Her marriage to Hungarian sociologist Paul Hollander ended in a 1962 divorce. During the 1970s, she was the graphic designer of a feminist publication, ''The Spokeswoman'', where she had the opportunity to transform the newsletter into a monthly magazine. While designing pages, she occasionally added her own political illustrations. "Around 1978," she created a comic strip, ''The Feminist Funnies'', later introducing the char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorin Hollander
Lorin Hollander (born July 19, 1944) is an American classical concert pianist. He has performed with virtually all of the major symphony orchestras in the United States and many around the world. A ''New York Times'' critic called him in 1964 "the leading pianist of his generation." Early life Lorin Hollander was born in New York City into a Jewish family. His father, Max Hollander, was associate concertmaster of the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini. Lorin Hollander was a child prodigy and gave his first public performance at age five playing excerpts of Bach's ''The Well-Tempered Clavier'', and at age eleven, he made his Carnegie Hall debut with the National Orchestral Association. He studied with Eduard Steuermann from age eight and took courses at what is now the Juilliard Pre-College at age eleven. His subsequent mentors were Max Rudolf and Leon Fleisher and he spent two summers at Marlboro working with Rudolf Serkin. He also worked periodically with Olga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hollander
John Hollander (October 28, 1929 – August 17, 2013) was an American poet and literary critic. At the time of his death, he was Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University, having previously taught at Connecticut College, Hunter College, and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Life Hollander was born in Manhattan, to Muriel (Kornfeld) and Franklin Hollander, Jewish immigrant parents. He was the elder brother of Michael Hollander (1934–2015), a distinguished professor of architecture at Pratt Institute. He attended the Bronx High School of Science and then Columbia College of Columbia University, where he studied under Mark Van Doren and Lionel Trilling, and overlapped with Allen Ginsberg (Hollander's poetic mentor),Yezzi, David, ''The New Criterion'', vol. 32, October 2013. Jason Epstein, Richard Howard, Robert Gottlieb, Roone Arledge, Max Frankel, Louis Simpson and Steven Marcus. At Columbia, he joined the Boar's Head Society. After graduating, he supported himself for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xaviera Hollander
Xaviera Hollander (born 15 June 1943) is a Dutch former call girl, madam, and author. She is best known for her best-selling memoir '' The Happy Hooker: My Own Story''. Early life Hollander was born Xaviera "Vera" de Vries in Surabaya, Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies, which later became part of present-day Indonesia, to a Dutch Jewish physician father and a mother of French and German descent. She spent the first years of her life in a Japanese-run internment camp. In her early 20s, she left Amsterdam for Johannesburg, where her stepsister lived. There she met and became engaged to John Weber, an American economist. When the engagement was broken off, she left South Africa for New York City. Career In 1968 she resigned from her job as a secretary in the Dutch consulate in Manhattan to become a call girl, making $1,000 a night ($ today). A year later, she opened her own brothel, the Vertical Whorehouse, and soon became New York City's leading madam. In 1971, she was arrest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hollander
Robert B. Hollander Jr. (July 31, 1933 – April 20, 2021) was an American academic and translator, most widely known for his work on Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Boccaccio. He was described by a department chair at Princeton University as "a pioneer in the creation of digital resources for the study of literature" for his work on the electronic Princeton and Dartmouth College, Dartmouth Dante projects. In 2008, he and his wife, Jean Hollander, co-received a Gold Florin award from the Florence, City of Florence for their English translation of Dante's ''Divine Comedy''. Early life and education Hollander was born in Manhattan in 1933. His father was a financier and his mother was a nurse. He graduated from Collegiate School (New York City), Collegiate School in 1951. Hollander received a B.A. in French and English from Princeton University in 1955 and a Ph.D from Columbia University's department of English and Comparative Literature in 1962. His dissertation for the latter was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Hollander
Paul Hollander (; 3 October 1932 – 9 April 2019) was a Hungarian-born political sociologist, communist-studies scholar, and non-fiction author. He is known for his criticisms of communism and left-wing politics in general. Background Born in 1932 in Budapest, he lived in Hungary with his Jewish family. When the Nazis persecuted Jews throughout the city, he had to hide from them when he was 12. His family was deported to work, after the communists came to power. He fled to the West during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was bloodily put down by Soviet forces. First he escaped Austria and then to England. Career Hollander earned a Ph.D in Sociology from Princeton University, 1963 and a B.A. from the London School of Economics, 1959. He was Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Center Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. The anti-communist scholar wrote many books and articles. He is best know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zander Hollander
Zander Hollander (March 24, 1923 – April 11, 2014) was an American sportswriter, journalist, editor and archivist. Many years before the internet and unfinished cable television system emerged, Hollander served as a prolific supplier of encyclopedias on every major sport. At this point, he edited, wrote or packaged around 300 books over a professional career that spanned 45 years. Born as Alexander Hollander in Brooklyn, New York, he grew up in Far Rockaway, Queens. At age 14, he found his emerging sports ability writing columns for a neighborhood newspaper, and then in high school, he wrote for the ''Long Island Daily Press'' and the ''New York World-Telegram''. He later attended Queens College but left to serve in the Army Air Forces, assigned to an Army newspaper in Hawaii. After his discharge, he enrolled at City College of New York but did not graduate. The heavy workload never really ended for Hollander. In 1955 he founded ''Associated Features'', a company which prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audrey Hollander
Audrey Hollander (born 1979) is an American pornographic film actress and director. Career Active in the pornography industry since 2003, Hollander has starred in more than 200 films. She co-directed the film ''Otto & Audrey Destroy The World'' (2005) with her husband Otto Bauer, and won the AVN Award for Female Performer of the Year in 2006. Personal life Hollander was married to pornographic film actor Otto Bauer for over ten years. They divorced prior to 2015. A pornographic scene between Hollander and Bauer figured in a 2007 obscenity trial against distributors Five Star Video and JM Productions. Awards *2005 AVN Award for Best All-Girl Sex Scene (Video) – ''The Violation of Audrey Hollander'' (with Gia Paloma, Ashley Blue, Tyla Wynn, Brodi & Kelly Kline) *2005 XRCO Award for Best Girl/Girl – ''The Violation of Audrey Hollander'' *2006 Venus Paris Fair / EuroEline Awards : Best International Actress *2006 AVN Award for Female Performer of the Year *2006 AVN Award for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Hollander
Bernard Hollander (1864 – 6 February 1934) was a London psychiatrist and one of the main proponents of the new interest in phrenology in the early 20th century. (, 316, Feb 17, 1934. Life and work Hollander was born in , and settled in London in 1883, where he attended King's College. After graduation he was appointed to the post of physician at the British Hospital fo ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Hollander
Neil Hollander (born 1939, death 2021, in Paris from lung cancer) is an American writer, film director and producer, journalist and sailor who has sailed across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. He has conducted more than thirty interviews with Nobel Prize winners, and his work has been exhibited in a number of museums, among them the Smithsonian, the Deutsches Museum and the Jim Thompson House in Bangkok. As an author, he is largely collected by libraries worldwide. Biography Hollander was born in 1939 in New York City. His younger sister is the lawyer Nancy Hollander, who represented some Guantanamo Bay prisoners. During his career, Hollander has gone through several professions and has lived in various parts of the world, including Thailand, Costa Rica, and France, where he now stays. His passion for sailing took him on a three-year trip across the sea, visiting sea ports around the world and witnessing the life of people who still make their living from the sea i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Hollander
Jacob Harry Hollander (1871–1940) was an American economist. Biography Hollander was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a BA in 1891, and a PhD in 1894. He became associate professor of finance there. In 1900, he became assistant professor of political economy, becoming full professor in 1904. He was appointed secretary to the Bimetallic Commission of 1897. US President McKinley named him Treasurer of the island of Puerto Rico in 1900. He resigned in 1901 after introducing a tax system. He was special commissioner to investigate financial conditions in San Domingo and until 1908 was financial advisor of the Dominican Republic. He also was an official arbitrator in various labour disputes. Works His contributions to Ricardo scholarship are considerable. He edited the ''Letters of David Ricardo David Ricardo (18 April 1772 – 11 September 1823) was a British political economist. He was one of the most influential of the class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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