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Harald or Haraldr is the Old Norse form of the given name Harold. It may refer to: Medieval Kings of Denmark * Harald Bluetooth (935–985/986) Kings of Norway * Harald Fairhair (c. 850–c. 933) * Harald Greycloak (died 970) * Harald Hardrada (1015–1066) * Harald Gille (reigned 1130–1136) Grand Dukes of Kiev * Mstislav the Great (1076–1132), known as Harald in Norse sagas King of Mann and the Isles * Haraldr Óláfsson (died 1248) Earls of Orkney * Harald Haakonsson (died 1131) * Harald Maddadsson (–1206) * Harald Eiriksson Others * Hagrold (fl. 944–954), also known as Harald, Scandinavian chieftain in Normandy * Harald Grenske (10th century), petty king in Vestfold in Norway * Harald Klak (–), king in Jutland * Harald Wartooth, legendary king of Sweden, Denmark and Norway * Harald the Younger, 9th-century Viking leader Modern name Royalty * Harald V of Norway (born 1937), present King of Norway * Prince Harald of Denmark (1876–1949) Arts and enterta ...
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Harold (given Name)
Harold is an English personal name. The modern name Harold ultimately derives from the Proto-Germanic *harja-waldaz, meaning 'military-power' or 'army-ruler'. The name entered Modern English via the Old English from Hereweald, which retained the same meaning and was prevalent in Anglo-Saxon England. The name's popularity in Viking Age England would also have been bolstered by the use of the Old Norse form Haraldr among Scandinavian settlers in the Danelaw. Ancient *Chariovalda (d. 16), Batavian chieftain and Roman ally, killed near the River Weser Medieval * Hagrold (fl. 944–954), also known as Harold, Scandinavian chieftain in Normandy * Harold Harefoot, or Harold I (c. 1015–1040), King of England from 1035 to 1040 * Harold Godwinson, or Harold II (c. 1022–1066), the last Anglo-Saxon king of England and Earl of Wessex * Harold, son of Harold Godwinson (fl. 1067–1098) * Harold of Gloucester (died 1168), supposed child martyr and saint, allegedly murdered by Jews * Har ...
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Prince Harald Of Denmark
Prince Harald of Denmark (''Harald Christian Frederik''; 8 October 1876 – 30 March 1949) was a member of the Danish Royal Family. He was the third son and fourth child of Frederick VIII of Denmark and his wife, Lovisa of Sweden, and thus brother to Christian X of Denmark and Haakon VII of Norway. The prince served in the Royal Danish Army for most of his life, and reached the rank of Lieutenant General. Early life Prince Harald was born on 8 October 1876 at his parents' country residence, the Charlottenlund Palace in Gentofte Municipality north of Copenhagen, during the reign of his paternal grandfather, King Christian IX. He was the fourth child and third son of Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark and his wife Louise of Sweden. His father was the eldest son of King Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel, and his mother was the only daughter of King Charles XV of Sweden and Norway and Louise of the Netherlands. He was baptised with the names ''Harald Christian Fred ...
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Harald Cramér
Harald Cramér (; 25 September 1893 – 5 October 1985) was a Swedish mathematician, actuary, and statistician, specializing in mathematical statistics and probabilistic number theory. John Kingman described him as "one of the giants of statistical theory".Kingman 1986, p. 186. Biography Early life Harald Cramér was born in Stockholm, Sweden on 25 September 1893. Cramér remained close to Stockholm for most of his life. He entered the University of Stockholm as an undergraduate in 1912, where he studied mathematics and chemistry. During this period, he was a research assistant under the famous chemist, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, with whom he published his first five articles from 1913 to 1914. Following his lab experience, he began to focus solely on mathematics. He eventually began his work on his doctoral studies in mathematics which were supervised by Marcel Riesz at the University of Stockholm. Also influenced by G. H. Hardy, Cramér's research led to a PhD in 1917 for his th ...
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Harald Bohr
Harald August Bohr (22 April 1887 – 22 January 1951) was a Danish mathematician and footballer. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic functions. His brother was the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr. He was a member of the Danish national football team for the 1908 Summer Olympics, where he won a silver medal. Biography Bohr was born in 1887 to Christian Bohr, a professor of physiology, from a Lutheran background, and Ellen Adler Bohr, a woman from a wealthy Jewish family of local renown. Harald had a close relationship with his elder brother, which ''The Times'' likened to that between Captain Cuttle and Captain Bunsby in Charles Dickens' ''Dombey and Son''. Mathematical career Like his father and brother before him, in 1904 Bohr enrolled at the University of Copenhagen, where he studied mathematics, obtaining his master's degree in 1909 and his doctorate a year later. Among his tutors were Hie ...
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Harald Beyer (literary Historian)
Carl Harald Beyer (15 November 1891 – 26 July 1960) was a Norwegian literary historian and lecturer, literary critic, textbook writer and professor of European literature at the University of Bergen. Early and personal life Beyer was born in Bergen, as a son of bookseller Freydar Dekke Høegh von Krogh Beyer (1864–1933) and his German-born wife Flora Charlotte Müller (1862–1912). He was grandson of bookbinder Fredrik Beyer (1827–1903). He married Eidis Johannessen in 1919, and was the father of literary historian Edvard Beyer. Career Beyer finished his secondary education at Bergen Cathedral School in 1910, and took his final university degree in 1917, in language history. He received ''Hartvig Lassen's gold medal'' for his dissertation ''Henrik Wergeland og Henrich Steffens'' in 1919. He became dr.philos. in 1924, with the thesis ''Søren Kierkegaard og Norge''. He was a teacher in secondary school for 34 years, in Haugesund from 1917 and later at Ber ...
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Harald Zwart
Harald Zwart (born 1 July 1965) is a Dutch-Norwegian film director. Life and career Although born in the Netherlands, Zwart was raised in Fredrikstad, Norway. By age eight, he had started making short films. He attended the Dutch Film Academy in Amsterdam where he received great acclaim for his student film ''Gabriel's Surprise''. The film was later televised. In addition to several award-winning short films, music videos and commercials, he directed the films ''Agent Cody Banks'', '' One Night at McCool's'', ''Hamilton'' and ''Lange Flate Ballær 2''. He is also the co-director and producer of the first ''Long Flat Balls'', a Norwegian film about soccer fans from the city of Fredrikstad, Norway. This movie, often described as "The Full Monty" with more laughs, became a huge hit in Norway. His highest-grossing film to date is ''The Karate Kid''. He also directed music videos for the Norwegian band a-ha, for the songs "Velvet" and " Forever Not Yours". He also directed the music ...
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Harald Szeemann
'' Harald Szeemann (11 June 1933 – 18 February 2005) was a Swiss curator, artist, and art historian. Having curated more than 200 exhibitions, many of which have been characterized as groundbreaking, Szeemann is said to have helped redefine the role of an art curator. It is believed that Szeemann elevated curating to a legitimate art-form itself.Birnbaum, Daniel. WHEN ATTITUDE BECOMES FORM. 43 Vol. New York: Artforum Inc, 2005. Personal life Szeemann was born in Bern, Switzerland on June 11, 1933.Müller, Hans-Joachim. Harald Szeemann: Exhibition Maker. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2006. 10-11 He studied art history, archaeology and journalism in Bern and at the Sorbonne in Paris from 1953–60, and in 1956 to 1958 he began working as an actor, stage designer and painter, and produced many one-man shows. In 1958 he was married to Francoise Bonnefoy and in 1959 their son Jerome Patrice was born. In 1964 his daughter Valerie Claude was born. He was twice married, the second time ...
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Harald Schmidt
Harald Franz Schmidt (born 18 August 1957) is a German actor, comedian, television presenter and writer best known as the host of two popular German late-night shows. Early and private life A son of refugees who fled from Sudetenland (now Czech Republic) in 1945, Schmidt spent his youth in Swabian Nürtingen. Due to his strict Catholic upbringing he devoted time to the Roman Catholic church, serving as choirmaster and playing the organ. At the age of 21, Schmidt went to Stuttgart to attend drama school for three years. After that, he gained on-stage experience at Städtische Bühne (Municipal Stage) in Augsburg. His first role was that of the 2nd Mamaluke in Lessing's ''Nathan the Wise''. In 1984, Schmidt became a lyricist for the cabaret '' Kom(m)ödchen'' in Düsseldorf and in 1986, was honoured as "Best Newcomer cabaret artist" and toured through Germany with his own show. In October 2005, his daughter Amelie was born. Schmidt resides in Cologne with his partner Ellen H ...
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Harald Sæverud
Harald Sigurd Johan Sæverud (17 April 1897 – 27 March 1992) was a Norwegian composer. He is most known for his music to Henrik Ibsen's ''Peer Gynt'', '' Rondo Amoroso'', and the ''Ballad of Revolt'' ( no, Kjempeviseslåtten). Sæverud wrote nine symphonies and a large number of pieces for solo piano. He was a frequent guest conductor of his own works with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Background and early career Harald Sæverud was born in Bergen and received his basic music education at the local conservatory where his teacher was the Leipzig-educated composer Borghild Holmsen. During his conservatory years he began working on what would become his first symphony, outlined as two large symphonic fantasies. The first fantasy was completed in 1919 and was accepted for performance in Kristiania (later Oslo) in 1920. It revealed an extraordinary talent and gained him a scholarship for further studies at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, where Friedrich Koch wa ...
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Harald Rønneberg
Harald Johnstein Rønneberg (born 11 August 1973) is a Norwegian television personality. He was born in Halden, and is an economist by education. He worked in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in the early 2000s before switching to TV 2 in 2002. Together with Thomas Numme he hosted the first season of ''Idol'' in 2003, and then the Friday night show '' Senkveld''. The duo has also hosted the ''Spellemannprisen'' award show. For his work in ''Senkveld'', Rønneberg received Gullruten awards in 2004 and 2006. In both 2006 and 2007 Rønneberg and Numme were awarded the ''Se og Hør'' readers' TV personality of the year award. In 2018, the both of them won the "Honorary Prize" at Gullruten Gullruten ("Golden Screen") is an annual award for the Norwegian TV industry, founded in 1998 by ''Norske Film- og TV-produsenters forening''. The awarding committee has representatives from the major national TV companies, NRK, TV 2, TV3 and TV .... References 1973 births Li ...
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Harald Reinl
Harald Reinl (8 July 1908 in Bad Ischl, Austria – 9 October 1986 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain) was an Austrian film director. He is known for the films he made based on Edgar Wallace and Karl May books (see Karl May movies and Edgar Wallace movies) and also made mountain films, Heimatfilms, German war films and entries in such popular German film series as ''Dr. Mabuse'', ''Jerry Cotton'' and ''Kommissar X''. Reinl began his career as an extra in the mountain films of Arnold Fanck. He worked as screenwriter on the film '' Tiefland'' directed by and starring Leni Riefenstahl. Reinl's first movie as director was the mountain film ''Mountain Crystal'' (1949). He was Oscar nominated for his documentary feature '' Chariots of the Gods'' (1970). By the 1970s, he had semi-retired to the Canary Islands. In 1986, in his Tenerife retirement home, he was stabbed to death by Daniela Maria Delis, his alcoholic wife and a former actress from Czechoslovakia. Filmography Director * '' ...
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Harald Lander
Harald Alfred Bernhardt Stevnsborg Lander (25 February 1905 – 14 September 1971) was a Danish dancer, choreographer and artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet. Lander was born in Copenhagen. He started as a dancer, studying under ballet master Michel Fokine in 1926–27, and danced various principal roles until his retirement in 1945.Harald Lander
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During his tenure as artistic director and ballet master of the from 1932 to 1951, he enriched the company's repertoire with productions of Fokine's iconic masterpieces and Bournonville revivals. Lander was married three times, first to