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Heintz
Heintz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Anatol Heintz (1898–1975), Norwegian palaeontologist * Bob Heintz (born 1970), American professional golfer * Chris Heintz (baseball) (born 1974), former Major League Baseball catcher * Chris Heintz (aeronautical engineer) (1938–2021), French and Canadian aeronautical engineer * Emile Heintz, colleague of Michel Brunet, French paleontologist * Fred Heintz, former Australian rules footballer * Heintz Kluger (Haim Yavin) (born 1932), Israeli television anchor and documentary filmmaker * Joseph Heintz the Elder (1564–1609), Swiss painter, draftsman and architect * Kurt Heintz (1912–1944), highly decorated Hauptmann in the Luftwaffe during World War II * Susy Heintz (born 1947), American politician from the state of Michigan * Victor Heintz (1876–1968), U.S. Representative from Ohio and, highly decorated veteran of World War I * Wilhelm Heinrich Heintz (1817–1880), German structural chemist * Wulff-Dieter H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Heintz (aeronautical Engineer)
Chris Heintz (21 November 1938 – 30 April 2021) was a French people, French and Canada, Canadian aeronautical engineer, known for his kit aircraft designs. Early life Heintz was born in eastern France on 21 November 1938, near the border with Germany, just two years before the Battle of France, May 1940 German invasion of France. His parents were Erwin Heintz, a scientific researcher, and Magda Heintz, an ophthalmologist. His childhood included a wide exposure to scientific and creative endeavours. Heintz's first language was Alsatian dialect, Alsatian, but he learned French and German when young and English after moving to Canada. Education Heintz attended ETH Zurich in Switzerland and completed their aeronautical engineering program. His family noted that he "helped pay for his studies by performing magic shows on city squares that included daring sword-swallowing feats as well as fire-eating routines." Career After graduation, Heintz served in the Armée de l'Air a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Heintz
Frederick John Heintz (22 July 1913 – 20 February 1942) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He was killed at Ambon in World War II. Family The son of Ernest John Heintz (1889–1920), and Cath Heintz, née Noonan, Frederick John Heintz was born in Carlton on 22 July 1913. He married Annie Mavis McCartney in 1933. They had four children, Mavis Heintz (1933), Frederick Heintz (1934), Coral Heintz (1936) and Lois Heintz (1939). Football Fitzroy Strictly speaking, he made his VFL debut for Fitzroy, against Collingwood, on 18 July 1931, when he was selected as 19th man; however, in those days, the 19th man in a VFL team only took the field to replace an injured player — and, because there were no Fitzroy injuries, Heintz, although selected, never took the field. He was selected, for a second time, in the Fitzroy team, on the half-forward flank, against Footscray, on 22 August 1931; he did play that day, and that's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Heintz (baseball)
Christopher John Heintz (born August 6, 1974) is a former Major League Baseball catcher. He played with the Minnesota Twins from 2005–2007. He is currently a hitting coach for the GCL Philadelphia Phillies. He is the brother of PGA Tour golfer Bob Heintz. College career Heintz attended the University of South Florida, where he played baseball for the Bulls. While at South Florida, he was named to the All-Tournament Team of the 1996 Conference USA baseball tournament, in which South Florida finished second. He is a member of the USF Athletic Hall of Fame. Minor League career Heintz was drafted by the Chicago White Sox as a catcher in the 19th round of the 1996 Major League Baseball Draft. After six seasons in their farm system, the ChiSox released Heintz. He signed with the St. Louis Cardinals in , and spent the season with their Eastern League double A affiliate, the New Haven Ravens. At the end of the season, he became a rule 55 free agent, and signed with the Pittsbur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anatol Heintz
Anatol Heintz (9 February 1898 – 23 February 1975) was a Russo-Norwegian palaeontologist. He was born in Petrograd to the geophysicist Yevgeniy Alfredovich Heintz (1869–1918) and Olga Fyodorovna Hoffmann (1871–1958). He had two older siblings. In 1919 the family fled to Norway. He studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry from 1919 to 1920 and at the Royal Frederick University from 1920, where he graduated in palaeontology in 1928. He was then hired as a curator at the Paleontological Museum of Tøyen. He took the dr.philos. degree in 1932 on the thesis ''The Structure of Dinichthys. A Contribution to our Knowledge of the Arthrodira''. As a researcher he was inspired by Johan Kiær, and specialized in ancient fish, conducting paleontological expeditions to Svalbard. In 1939 he published ''Cephalaspida from Downtonian of Norway'', about cephalaspida excavated at Ringerike. He was appointed professor at the University of Oslo and director of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Heintz The Elder
Joseph Heintz (or Heinz) the Elder (11 June 1564 – 15 October 1609) was a Swiss painter, draftsman and architect. Biography Heintz was born in Basle. He appears to have been a pupil of Hans Bock, and to have educated himself by diligent practice in copying the works of Hans Holbein the younger. Between 1585 and 1587 he lived in Rome, registering himself a pupil to Hans von Aachen. He next settled in Bohemia in 1591, and was at once appointed court painter to Rudolf II, but he remained in Prague for two years only, as in 1593 he was commissioned to make some copies from the antique for the emperor, and for that purpose went to Rome, where he spent some years. In 1604 he was active in Augsburg, and from the time little is known of his history until his death in a village near Prague. He was buried at the graveyard of the church of St John the Baptist in the Lesser Town of Prague. Heintz's paintings included religious images, portraits, and, following the emperor's taste, erot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wulff-Dieter Heintz
Wulff-Dieter Heintz (3 June 1930 – 10 June 2006) was a German astronomer who worked the latter part of his career in the United States. He was Professor Emeritus of Astronomy at Swarthmore College. He specialised in the characterisation of binary stars using astrometry. Life Wulff-Dieter Heintz was born in Würzburg, Germany on 3 June 1930. He earned his doctorate in astronomy from the University of Munich in 1953. He did research at thUniversity Observatory Munich'sSouthern Station on Mount Stromlo in Australia. Peter van de Kamp invited him to the Sproul Observatory to be a visiting professor in 1969. He subsequently joined the staff and became observatory director upon the retirement of van de Kamp in 1972. He remained a German citizen. He was an avid and expert chess player and authored a book on the game in German. The Barnard's Star affair Peter van de Kamp, Wulff's predecessor at Swarthmore, made claims since the 1960s of a planetary system around Barnard's Star. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Heintz
Robert Edward Heintz (born May 1, 1970) is an American professional golfer who plays on the Nationwide Tour. Heintz was born in Syosset, New York. He was a three-time Ivy League champion at Yale University. Heintz turned professional in 1992 and joined the Nike Tour (now Nationwide Tour) in 1994, then took a hiatus and did not return to the Tour until 1999 where he won two events, the Nike Shreveport Open and the Nike Tour Championship, en route to finishing 6th on the money list and earning his PGA Tour card for 2000. After a poor rookie year on Tour, he returned to the Nationwide Tour in 2001 but got back to the PGA Tour in 2002 through qualifying school. He did not earn his PGA Tour card for 2003 and returned to the Nationwide Tour that year where he played for two years before getting back his PGA Tour card in qualifying school for 2005. Again he was not able to retain his card and returned to the Nationwide Tour in 2006. He went through qualifying school for the third time an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Heinrich Heintz
Wilhelm Heinrich Heintz (4 November 1817 – 1 December 1880) was a German structural chemist from Berlin. He initially trained and worked as a pharmacist, from 1841 he studied sciences at the University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o .... He earned his PhD at Berlin in 1844 under Heinrich Rose, and two years later, obtained his habilitation in chemistry. In 1850 he became an associate professor at the University of Halle, where in 1855 he attained a full professorship.Heinrich Wilhelm Heintz Catalogus Professorum Halensis He was one of six founding members of the Deutsche Physik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susy Heintz
Susy (Heintz) Avery (born October 30, 1947) is an American politician from the state of Michigan. She was Chairman of the Michigan Republican Party from 1995 to 1996 and the Party's 1996 nominee to represent Michigan's 10th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. Biography A native of Kalamazoo Susy Heintz graduated from the University of Michigan–Dearborn< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Heintz
Victor Heintz (November 20, 1876 – December 27, 1968) was from 1917 to 1919 a one-term U.S. Representative from Ohio. He was a highly decorated veteran of World War I. Early life and career Born on a farm near Grayville, Illinois to German immigrants, Heintz attended the public schools. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1896 and from its law department in 1899. He was admitted to the bar in 1898 and commenced practice in Cincinnati, Ohio. He served six years in the Cavalry and Infantry of the Ohio National Guard. Congress Heintz was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1917 - March 4, 1919). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1918. During the First World War, he absented himself from the House and was commissioned a captain in the One Hundred and Forty-seventh Regiment, United States Infantry, on August 4, 1917. World War I He went overseas June 22, 1918, and served until the end of the war. Decorated with the Distingui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heintz Peak
Heintz Peak () is the summit at the north end of the west ridge of the Welch Mountains, about north of Mount Acton, in Palmer Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey in 1974, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Commander Harvey L. Heintz, U.S. Navy, Commander of LC-130 aircraft during Operation Deep Freeze, 1969 and 1970. See also *Liston Nunatak Welch Mountains () is a group of Antarctic mountains that dominate the area, the highest peak rising to 3,015 m, located 25 nautical miles (46 km) north of Mount Jackson on the east margin of the Dyer Plateau of Palmer Land. These ... References Mountains of Palmer Land {{PalmerLand-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emile Heintz
Michel Brunet (born April 6, 1940) is a French paleontologist and a professor at the Collège de France. In 2001 Brunet announced the discovery in Central Africa of the skull and jaw remains of a late Miocene hominid nicknamed Toumaï. These remains may predate the earliest previously known hominid remains, Lucy, by over three million years; however, this conclusion is the subject of a significant controversy. Biography Brunet was born in 1940 in Vienne, in the region of Poitou. After having passed his first years in the countryside, at 8 he moved with his family to Versailles. He took a Ph.D. in paleontology at the Sorbonne and then became Professor of Vertebrate paleontology at the University of Poitiers, specializing in hoofed mammals. A turning point in Brunet's career was when he heard that paleoanthropologist David Pilbeam was searching for fossil apes in Pakistan and the ancestors of the hominids. This spurred Brunet to form with his colleague Emile Heint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
