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Josepha (1758–1820), Austrian pianist and composer
* Josepha Conti (1825–1881), Bavarian servant and beauty
* Josepha Williams Douglas (1860–1938), also commonly known as Josepha Williams, American physician
* Josepha Duschek (1754–1824), Czech soprano
* Josepha von Heydeck (1748–1771), mistress of Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria
* Josepha Petrick Kemarre (born ca. 1945 or ca. 1953), Indigenous Australian artist
* Josepha Madigan (), Irish politician and solicitor
* Josepha Sherman, American author, winne ...
Josepha is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Josepha Abiertas (1894–1929), Filipino lawyer and feminist, first woman to obtain a degree from the Philippine Law School * Josepha Barbara Auernhammer Josepha Barbara Auernhammer (25 September 1758 – 30 January 1820) was an Austrian pianist and composer. Biography Auernhammer was born in Vienna, the eleventh of fifteen children born to Johann Michael Auernhammer and Elisabeth (nee Timmer, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josepha Newcomb Whitney
Josepha Newcomb Whitney (September 27, 1871 – January 29, 1957) was an American clubwoman, pacifist, suffragist, and politician. Early life Anna Josepha Newcomb was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Nova Scotia-born astronomer Simon Newcomb and Mary Caroline Hassler Newcomb. Physician Anita Newcomb McGee was her older sister. Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, first head of the United States Coast Survey, was their Swiss-born great-grandfather. The Newcomb daughters were mainly educated at home by their father.Keith Kendig''Never a Dull Moment: Hassler Whitney, Mathematics Pioneer''(American Mathematical Society 2018): 11. Josepha Newcomb later joined classes with the Art Students League of New York. Activism Whitney was a prominent suffragist in Connecticut and New York. In 1912, Whitney planned the first suffrage meeting in Cornwall, Connecticut. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josepha Madigan
Josepha Madigan (born 21 May 1970) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as Minister of State for Special Education and Inclusion since July 2020. She has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Rathdown constituency since 2016. She previously served as Minister for Culture, Heritage, and the Gaeltacht from November 2017 to June 2020, and as Chair of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight from July 2017 to November 2017. Early and personal life Madigan was born in Dublin in 1970. She attended Mount Anville Secondary School and Trinity College Dublin. She is married to Finbarr Hayes, and they have two children. Her father, Patrick Madigan, was a Fianna Fáil County Councillor in Dublin, her mother, Patricia Madigan, was a barrister who had a background in Fine Gael. She and her family live in Mount Merrion. Madigan is a survivor of sexual assault. Legal career Madigan is a qualified solicitor, who practised in family law for twenty years, prior to her election to Dà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josepha Petrick Kemarre
Josepha Petrick Kemarre (born ca. 1945 or ca. 1953, date uncertain) is an Anmatyerre-speaking Indigenous Australian artist from Central Australia. Since first taking up painting around 1990, her works of contemporary Indigenous Australian art have been acquired by several major collections including Artbank and the National Gallery of Victoria. Her paintings portray bush plum " dreaming" and women’s ceremonies (known as Awelye). One of her paintings sold at a charity auction for A$22,800. Josepha Petrick's works are strongly coloured and formalist in composition and regularly appear at commercial art auctions in Australia. Her art appears to have survived the huge contraction of the primary art market in Australia since 2008. There is no existing Catalogue raisonné of Josepha Petrick's artworks, to date, no fakes have been cited. Personal background Josepha Petrick Kemarre is an Anmatyerre-speaking Indigenous Australian, born around 1945 or 1953 at the Santa Teresa Missio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josepha Von Heydeck
Josepha von Heydeck (1748–1771), was the royal mistress of Charles Theodore, Elector Palatine, from 1765 until 1771. Biography Josepha Seyffert was the issue of a palatinate govermental secretary Seyffert and Maria Franziska Reichard. In 1765, after the death of Françoise of Parckstein, the previous mistress of the elector, she attracted the attention of elector Charles Theodore at the opera in Mannheim and was made his mistress. Josepha von Heydeck was described as pretty, sensible, merciful and kind. Upon the wish of the elector, she was discreet in her public appearances as Charles Theodore, though separated from his spouse electress Elizabeth Auguste, found it important that his spouse's position as electress should not be undermined. On 19 March 1767, she was given the fief of Heydeck, and at the birth of her daughter in 1768, Charles Theodore legitimized the child, and gave both mother and child the title Countess of Heydeck. On 24 October 1769, their son Karl August ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josepha Duschek
Josepha Duschek (née Hambacher) (1754–1824) was an outstanding soprano of the Classical era. She was a friend of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who wrote a few works for her to sing. Her name is most often given in its German version as above. In Czech her name was JosefÃna DuÅ¡ková or (with Germanized spelling) Josepha Duschkova. Life She was born Josepha Hambacher in Prague, then a provincial capital of the Austrian Empire, on 6 March 1754, and lived in Prague all of her life. Her father was a prosperous apothecary, Anton Adalbert Hambacher (also "Hampacher") and her mother was Maria Domenica Colomba, who came from Salzburg. Her father’s pharmacy was in the house called "Zum weissen Einhorn" ("The White Unicorn"). Built in the Baroque style, it was situated in the Old Town Square where the pharmaceutical business flourished until the 20th century. In her youth Josepha studied music with FrantiÅ¡ek Xaver DuÅ¡ek, whom she married on 21 October 1776. Josefa’s husband alrea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josepha Williams Douglas
Josepha Williams Douglas (1860–1938), also commonly known as Josepha Williams, was a physician and co-operator of the Marquette-Williams Sanitarium in Denver, Colorado. She was one of the first female doctors in the state. She, as well as her mother Mary Neosho Williams, purchased a number of tracts of land in the Evergreen, Colorado area, at least some of which were ultimately donated for the Evergreen Conference District. Douglas was the daughter of Civil War General Thomas Williams and wife of Canon Charles Winfred Douglas, a plainsong musical expert and Episcopalian priest. Early life Douglas was born Mary Josepha Williams in Virginia, the daughter of Civil War General Thomas Williams and Mary Neosho Bailey Williams. Her parents were a wealthy family from Detroit, Michigan. Her brothers were John R. Williams and Gershom Mott Williams, the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Marquette who later published General Williams' personal papers. Douglas was a member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josepha Weber
Maria Josepha Weber (later Josepha Hofer, Josepha Meier; 1758 – 29 December 1819) was a German soprano of the classical era. She was a sister-in-law of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and the first to perform the role of The Queen of the Night in Mozart's opera ''The Magic Flute'' (1791). Life She was born in Zell im Wiesental, in present-day Baden-Württemberg, Germany, the daughter of Fridolin Weber and Cäcilia Weber (née Stamm). She had three younger sisters (in descending order of age): Aloysia, who was an early love interest of Mozart and sang in his later operas; Constanze, who married Mozart in 1782; and Sophie. The composer Carl Maria von Weber was the son of her father's half-brother. Josepha grew up mostly in Mannheim, and moved with her family first to Munich then to Vienna, following the singing career of her sister Aloysia. By 1789 she was the ''prima donna'' in the theatrical troupe run by Johann Friedel at the suburban Theater auf der Wieden. Following Frie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josepha Conti
Josepha Conti née ''Josepha Reh'' (17 February 1825 – 28 November 1881) was a Bavarian servant and beauty of the 19th century.Josepha Conti (1844) at the ''Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte'' website Life Born in as the eldest daughter of the household servant Michael Reh, she was married aged 15 to a 45-year-old painter Anton Conti in 1840. They lived on Briennerstrasse in Munich, near the Royal Residenz, thus becoming known to , who inc ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josepha Sherman
Josepha Sherman (December 12, 1946 – August 23, 2012) was an American author, folklorist, and anthologist. In 1990 she won the Compton Crook Award for the novel ''The Shining Falcon''. Works Series Buffyverse *'' Visitors'' (1999) (with Laura Anne Gilman) *'' Deep Water'' (2000) (with Laura Anne Gilman) Find Your Fate Junior Transformers :9. '' The Invisibility Factor'' (1986) Bardic Choices (with Mercedes Lackey) :1. ''A Cast of Corbies'' (1994) Prince of the Sidhe :1. ''The Shattered Oath'' (1995) :2. ''Forging the Runes'' (1996) Novels *''Golden Girl and the Crystal of Doom ''(1986) *''The Shining Falcon'' (1989) -- based on the Russian fairy tale ''The Feather of Finist the Falcon'' *''The Horse of Flame'' (1990) *''Child of Faerie, Child of Earth'' (1992) *''A Strange and Ancient Name'' (1992) *''Windleaf'' (1993) *''Gleaming Bright'' (1994) *''King's Son, Magic's Son'' (1994) -- based on the Child ballad '' King Estmere'' *''Son of Darkness'' (1998) Series c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josepha Abiertas
Josepha Abiertas (1894–1929) was a Filipino lawyer and feminist. She was the first woman to graduate with a degree from the Philippine Law School. Abiertas was born in Capiz in the Philippines. She was an orphan. She attended the Philippine Law School. She became the first woman to graduate with a law degree from the school. She was involved in advocating for equal rights for women in the Philippines. She wrote a lecture called "The New Age for Women." She was admitted to the bar on September 27, 1920. As a lawyer, she fought for women's rights, workers rights, and farmers rights. She died in 1929 of tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by '' Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections show no symptoms, in .... References External linksAbiertas House of Friendship and Radiance School named after Josepha Abriertas {{DEF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josepha Barbara Auernhammer
Josepha Barbara Auernhammer (25 September 1758 – 30 January 1820) was an Austrian pianist and composer. Biography Auernhammer was born in Vienna, the eleventh of fifteen children born to Johann Michael Auernhammer and Elisabeth (nee Timmer, of the musical Timmer family). Of the fifteen children, only three lived past the age of thirty. Auernhammer studied with Georg Friedrich Richter, Leopold Anton Kozeluch, and Mozart, who dedicated a number of works to her and with whom she performed a number of works that required four hands. On 27 June 1781, Mozart wrote of her: "Almost every day after dinner I am at H: v: Auernhammer's - The Miss is a monster! - plays delightfully though, however, she lacks the genuine fine and lilting quality of cantabile; she plucks too much." That year, Mozart dedicated his Violin Sonatas K. 296 and K. 376–80 to her. Auernhammer became a much-admired concert pianist and teacher throughout Vienna. She corrected the printing of several sonatas by Moz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
