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Josef (given Name)
Josef is a variant of the masculine given name Joseph, notably used in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic, and also in Scandinavia. People so named include: * Josef Abrhám (born 1939), Czech film and stage actor * Josef Albers (1888–1976), German Artist * Josef Ludwig von Armansperg (1787–1853), Bavarian government minister, Regent and Prime Minister of Greece * Josef Bühler (1904–1948), German Nazi government official executed for crimes against humanity * Josef Dobrovský (1753–1829), Czech philologist and historian * Josef Dietrich (1892–1966), German World War II Waffen-SS general and war criminal * Josef Doležal (1920–1999), Czechoslovak race walker * Josef Duchoslav (born 1967), Czech ice hockey player * Josef Ertl (1925–2000), German politician * Josef Frank (architect) (1885–1967), Austrian-born architect, artist, and designer * Josef Fritzl (born 1935), Austrian sex offender * Josef Gočár (1880–1945), Czech architect * Josef Hladký ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries. In Portuguese and Spanish, the name is "José". In Arabic, including in the Quran, the name is spelled ''Yūsuf''. In Persian, the name is "Yousef". The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and ''Joseph'' was one of the two names, along with ''Robert'', to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common male name in the 20th century. In the first century CE, Joseph was the second most popular male name for Palestine Jews. In the Book of Genesis Joseph is Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first son, and kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Gočár
Josef Gočár (13 March 1880 in Semín – 10 September 1945 in Jičín) was a Czech architect. It was one of the founders of modern architecture in Czech Republic. Life Josef Gočár received his early instruction at the State Technical School in Prague. At the age of 23 he went to study under Jan Kotěra at the School of Applied Arts in Prague (UPŠ). For two years afterward, 1906–1908, Gočár was employed by Kotěra's studio. At that time he decided to join the Mánes Union of Fine Arts, but left it in 1911 to join the Cubist Group of Visual Artists. Gočár joined Pavel Janák, Josef Chochol and Odolen Grégr in founding the Prague Art Workshops in 1912. In 1924, following the death of Kotěra, Gočár became a professor at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts. After his involvement in cubism, Gočár turned to "national" Czech Rondocubism style in the early 1920s. Later on he adopted the Functionalist approach to architecture. Among his greatest accomplishments is the Czech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Lontscharitsch
Josef Lontscharitsch (born 11 April 1970 in Madrid, Spain) is a retired Austrian male road cyclist. He won the Austrian National Road Race Championships in 1995 and 1998. Career ;1987 :3rd in World Championships, Road, Juniors, Bergamo (ITA) ;1989 :3rd in National Championships, Road, Amateurs, Austria (AUT) :3rd in National Championships, Road, Elite, Austria (AUT) ;1994 :1st in Bad Radkersberg (GER) :3rd in Linz (AUT) ;1995 :3rd in Memorial Peter Dittrich (AUT) :1st in National Championships, Road, Amateurs, Austria (AUT) :1st in National Championships, Road, Elite, Austria (AUT) :1st in Stage 1 Niederoesterreich Rundfahrt, Wolkendorf (AUT) :3rd in Stage 3 Niederoesterreich Rundfahrt, Gars/Kamp (AUT) :3rd in General Classification Niederoesterreich Rundfahrt (AUT) :2nd in Stage 1 Österreich-Rundfahrt, Linz (AUT) :3rd in Stage 5 Österreich-Rundfahrt, Lienz (AUT) :2nd in Stage 11 Österreich-Rundfahrt, Illmitz (AUT) ;1996 :1st in Altheim (AUT) :1s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Krips
Josef Alois Krips (8 April 1902 – 13 October 1974) was an Austrian conductor and violinist. Life and career Krips was born in Vienna. His father was Josef Jakob Krips, a medical doctor and amateur singer, and his mother was Aloisia, née Seitz. Krips was one of five sons. Krips went on to become a pupil of Felix Weingartner and Eusebius Mandyczewski. From 1921 to 1924, he served as Weingartner's assistant at the Vienna Volksoper, and also as répétiteur and chorus master. He then conducted several orchestras, including in Karlsruhe from 1926 to 1933. In 1933 he returned to Vienna as a resident conductor of the Volksoper and a regular conductor at the Wiener Staatsoper. He was appointed professor at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in 1935, and conducted regularly at the Salzburg Festival between 1935 and 1938. In 1938, the Nazi annexation of Austria (or Anschluss) forced Krips to leave the country. (He was raised a Roman Catholic, but would have been excluded from musical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Kramer
Josef Kramer (10 November 1906 – 13 December 1945) was Hauptsturmführer and the Commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau (from 8 May 1944 to 25 November 1944) and of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (from December 1944 to its liberation on 15 April 1945). Dubbed the Beast of Belsen by camp inmates, he was a German Nazi war criminal, directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people. He was detained by the British Army after the Second World War, convicted of war crimes, and hanged on the gallows in the prison at Hamelin by British executioner Albert Pierrepoint. Early life Josef Kramer, an only child, was born and raised in Munich in a middle-class family. His parents, Theodore and Maria Kramer, brought him up as a "strict Roman Catholic". In 1915, the family moved from Munich to Augsburg, where Josef Kramer attended school. He began an apprenticeship as an electrician in 1920. From 1925 to 1933, except for working in a department store and as an accountant, he was mostl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Košťálek
Josef Košťálek (31 August 1909 in Kladno – 21 November 1971) was a Czech footballer. He played for Sparta Prague and the Czechoslovakia national football team, for whom he played 43 matches, scoring two goals, and appeared in the 1934 and 1938 World Cups. In 1938, he scored in extra time against the Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ... to put Czechoslovakia into the quarterfinals. References 1909 births 1971 deaths Czech footballers Czechoslovak footballers AC Sparta Prague players 1934 FIFA World Cup players 1938 FIFA World Cup players Czechoslovakia international footballers Sportspeople from Kladno Association football midfielders People from the Kingdom of Bohemia {{CzechRepublic-footy-midfielder-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Klaus
Josef Klaus (15 August 1910 – 25 July 2001) was an Austrian politician of the conservative People's Party (ÖVP). He served as State Governor (''Landeshauptmann'') of Salzburg from 1949 to 1961, as Minister of Finance from 1961 to 1963 and as Chancellor of Austria from 1964 to 1970. Biography Born in Kötschach-Mauthen, Carinthia, the son of a master baker, Klaus attended the Catholic junior seminary in Klagenfurt. He studied law at the University of Vienna, where he joined the ''Cartellverband'' of Catholic male student fraternities (''Studentenverbindung''). He obtained his doctorate in 1934 and worked in the legal department of the Chamber of Labour which at that time was integrated into the Austrofascist unitary trade union centres by the government of the Federal State of Austria. When the Chamber organisation finally was liquidated after the 1938 ''Anschluss'' annexation by Nazi Germany, Klaus changed to the private sector. In 1936, Klaus married Ernestine Seywald (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Kjellgren
Josef Kjellgren, (13 November 1907 – 8 April 1948) was a Swedish writer and playwright.Josef Kjellgren, Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon (in swedish) Biography Kjellgren was born and grew up on the island of Mörkö in the Stockholm archipelago. Later, his family moved to a residence near on in[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Kareis
Josef Kareis (14 February 1837 – 12 May 1913) was an Austrian electrical engineer and politician. Biography Kareis was born into a Jewish family in Semice, Bohemia, and studied engineering at the Prague Polytechnical Institute. From 1858 till 1896 he was in the service of the state, first in the department for triangular survey in Tyrol and Croatia until 1863, and thereafter as a telegraph operator in various provinces across Austria. When electrotechnics first became known, Kareis devoted himself to its study, and from 1883 to 1896 edited the ''Zeitschrift für Elektrotechnik''. He also wrote several treatises on the subject, founded the Elektrotechnische Verein in Vienna, and busied himself with many undertakings along this line. He represented his native country in 1883 as secretary of the in Vienna, and in 1889 as vice-president of the International Electrotechnical Congress in Paris. From 1890 to 1896 Kareis represented Leopoldstadt in the city council A municipal cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Jungmann
Josef Jungmann (16 July 1773 in Hudlice, near Beroun – 14 November 1847 in Prague) was a Czech poet and linguist, and a leading figure of the Czech National Revival. Together with Josef Dobrovský, he is considered to be a creator of the modern Czech language. Life Jungmann was the sixth child (out of ten) of a cobbler. His father was of Bohemian German descent and his mother was of Czech descent. The children grew up speaking both languages at home, which contributed heavily to Jungmann's later role as a revivalist of the Czech language. In his youth, he wanted to become a priest. After he completed grammar school in 1788-1792 however, he went on to study Philosophy and Law. Beginning in 1799, he started teaching at the local high school ("Gymnasium") in Litoměřice (''Leitmeritz''), which had a German majority at that time. In 1815, he moved to Prague, where he worked until 1845 in the Old Town Academic Grammar School as a Czech professor. He earned a doctorate in Philoso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Ježek
Josef Ježek (2 August 1884 – 10 May 1969) was a Czech General of Gendarmerie, Politician and the Minister of the Interior in the government of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. Early life and education Josef Ježek was born to František and Josefa Ježek in Žamberk, Austria-Hungary, a town currently located in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. His father, František, was an educator who founded the town school in Senftenberg. He completed his early education and some high school when he enrolled in cadet school in Vienna. After graduation he was assigned to the 22nd Home Guard Infantry Regiment in Chernivtsi. He ended his army service with the rank of lieutenant. Police career In 1909 Ježek joined the government police, where he served on the Provincial Gendarmerie Command No. 13 in Chernivtsi. The following year passed the professional exam and became commander of the gendarme department in Vyžnyjcy. A few ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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