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Jens (surname)
Jens is a surname which may refer to: * Anna Jens (1766–1815), Dutch East Indies coffee plantation owner * Elizabeth Jens (born 1984), Australian NASA propulsion engineer * Ellen Jens, Dutch television director and producer * João Jens (born 1944), Brazilian volleyball player * Salome Jens (born 1935), American actress * Walter Jens (1923–2013), German philologist, literature historian, critic, university professor and writer See also * Jens (given name) Jens is a male given name and a Danish, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, Faroese and Frisian derivative of Johannes. It was the top given name for boys in Denmark in 2008. People with the name include: * Jens Arnsted, musician *Jens Berg ... Surnames from given names {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Jens
Anna Apollonia Jens (1766–1815), born in Batavia on Java island in the Dutch East Indies, was a Dutch coffee plantation owner, notorious for her cruelty towards her house slaves. Life She and her sister Hendrika Arnolda were the daughters of Arnold Jens, vice president of the aldermen in Batavia and his wife Anna Apollonia de Geus. She was very young when her father died and her mother remarried the widower Andries van Vessem, manager of the ''Batavian Orphanage''. Thus Anna and Hendrika got a half-brother, Hendrik, who died in 1805. In 1782, being fifteen years old, she was married to the ''First Administrator of the Warehouses'' Gose Theodore Vermeer with whom she had six children. Two years after his death in 1791 she married the seven years younger Junior Merchant Gerrit Willem Casimir van Motman in 1793 with whom she had two children, that probably died very young. In 1797, after four years marriage, Gerrit van Motman filed for divorce and left to live in Buitenzorg; he lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Jens
Elizabeth Jens (born 1984) is an Australian propulsion engineer who works at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Early life and education Jens is from Torquay, Victoria. She decided at the age of twelve that she wanted to be an astronaut, after seeing a talk from one of the Apollo astronauts in Geelong. She went to school at Sacred Heart College, Geelong, where she was encouraged to study maths and physics. She studied at the University of Melbourne, graduating with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and bachelor's degree in physics in 2008. She attended an introductory course at the International Space University at Ames Research Center. She completed her graduate studies as a Fulbright scholar (sponsored by BHP) and Rotary International Scholar at Stanford University. After her Masters, Jens joined Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an intern, before beginning a PhD in aeronautics and astronautics. Jens was an Amelia Earhart Fellow in 2012 and 2014. She completed her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Jens
Ellen Jens is a Dutch television director and producer, best known for her collaboration with Wim T. Schippers on VPRO television. She has produced and directed a large number of other television shows, especially on literature and art, and is referred to as a "television legend". Career In the early 1970s Jens was a "scriptgirl" working for the VPRO. Starting in 1972 she began working with Wim T. Schippers, producing his shows from 1972 ('' De Fred Hachéshow'') to 1994 (''We zijn weer thuis''); on many of the shows she is credited as a director and writer as well. She produced and directed ''Hier is Adriaan van Dis'', the talk show hosted by Adriaan van Dis (which ran from 1983 to 1992), and was the producer of the long-running VPRO TV show '' Jiskefet'' and the Schippers series on popular science ''Flogiston''. For presenter Hanneke Groenteman, she produced the talk show on art ''De Plantage'', from 1994 to 2001. Since 2005 she produces the TV show ''VPRO Boeken'', a program on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Jens
João Jens (3 June 1944 – 10 December 2020) was a Brazilian volleyball player. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. .... References External links * 1944 births 2020 deaths Brazilian men's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players of Brazil Volleyball players at the 1968 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from São Paulo Pan American Games medalists in volleyball Pan American Games bronze medalists for Brazil Medalists at the 1971 Pan American Games {{Brazil-volleyball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salome Jens
Salome Jens (born May 8, 1935) is an American dancer and actress of stage, film and television. She is perhaps best known for portraying the Female Changeling on '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' in the 1990s. Early years Jens was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Salomea (née Szujewski) and Arnold John Jens, a farmer and builder. In July 1969, she remarked that "the only time I can imagine contemplating suicide would be if I was told that I had to go back and live in Milwaukee forever" a comment for which she later apologized. Jens majored in drama at Northwestern University, and she became a dance student of Martha Graham. In New York, she studied acting at HB Studio. Career Jens appeared in the role of the thief in the New York premiere production of Jean Genet's ''The Balcony''. She earned excellent reviews playing Josie in ''A Moon for the Misbegotten'' at New York's Circle in the Square Theatre in the late 1960s, and she appeared in ''Antony and Cleopatra'' with the Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Jens
Walter Jens (8 March 1923 – 9 June 2013) was a German philologist, literature historian, critic, university professor and writer. He was born in Hamburg, and attended the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums from 1933 to 1941, when he gained his Abitur, before studying at the University of Hamburg. In the early 1940s, Jens joined the NSDAP. He denied having applied for membership actively and claimed that he had become a member automatically because he was a member of the Hitler Youth and that he never received a membership card. During World War II, he earned a doctorate in Freiburg with a work about Sophocles' tragedy and habilitated at age 26 with the work ''Tacitus und die Freiheit'' (''Tacitus and Freedom'') at the University of Tübingen. From 1950 onward, he was a member of the Group 47. That year, he had his breakthrough with the novel ''Nein. Die Welt der Angeklagten''. From 1965 to 1988, Jens held the chair for General Rhetoric at the University of Tübingen, which was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jens (given Name)
Jens is a male given name and a Danish, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, Faroese and Frisian derivative of Johannes. It was the top given name for boys in Denmark in 2008. People with the name include: * Jens Arnsted, musician *Jens Bergensten, Swedish video game developer. *Jens Blauenfeldt, television actor, screenwriter, and director for Danmarks Radio *Jens Eriksen, Danish Olympic badminton player * Jens Fink-Jensen, Danish author, composer and photographer *Jens Gad, musician and composer * Jens Geier, German politician * Jens Peter Hansen, Danish Olympic footballer *Jens Jensen (landscape architect), Danish-American landscape architect *Jens Jensen (politician), Australian politician and Minister for the Navy *Jens Jensen (trade unionist), Danish trade unionist and politician *Jens Kristian Jensen, Danish gymnast *Jens Jeremies, German footballer *Jens Johansson, keyboardist and pianist *Jens Kidman, Swedish vocalist of the band Meshuggah *Jens Lapidus, Swedish autho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
