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Johannsen
Johannsen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Anton Johannsen (1872–1929), German-American labor militant * Franz Johannsen (1921–2006), German sprint canoeist * Gunnar Johannsen (born 1940), German cyberneticist, and Professor of Systems Engineering and Human-Machine Systems * Hans Johannsen (1913–1961), German chief engineer on a U-boat in World War II * Helmuth Johannsen (1920–1998), German football coach * Jake Johannsen (born 1960), American comedian * Kristoffer Johannsen (born 1977), Danish former professional football player * Kurt Johannsen (bush mechanic) (1915–2002), Australian mechanic * Kyle Johannsen, Canadian philosopher * Nicholas Johannsen, German-American amateur economist * Oskar Augustus Johannsen (1870–1961), American entomologist, specialist of Diptera * Wilhelm Johannsen (1857–1927), Danish botanist, plant physiologist and geneticist See also *Herman Smith-Johannsen (1875–1987), Norwegian-Canadian supercentenarian, cross-co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herman Smith-Johannsen
Herman Smith-Johannsen, Order of Canada (15 June 1875 – 5 January 1987) was a Norwegian skier, credited for introducing to Canada and North America. In his youth he was rated one of the best all-round Norwegian skiers. He became a and died at 111. Personal life Johannsen was born in , Norway ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Johannsen
Wilhelm Johannsen (3 February 1857 – 11 November 1927) was a Danish pharmacist, botanist, plant physiologist, and geneticist. He is best known for coining the terms gene, phenotype and genotype, and for his 1903 "pure line" experiments in genetics. Biography Johannsen was born in Copenhagen. While very young, he was apprenticed to a pharmacist and worked in Denmark and Germany beginning in 1872 until passing his pharmacist's exam in 1879. In 1881, he became assistant in the chemistry department at the Carlsberg Laboratory under the chemist Johan Kjeldahl. Johannsen studied the metabolism of dormancy and germination in seeds, tubers and buds. He showed that dormancy could be broken by various anesthetic compounds, such as diethyl ether and chloroform. In 1892, he was appointed lecturer at Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University and later became professor of botany and plant physiology. He taught plant physiology. His best-known research concerned so-called ''pure lines' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunnar Johannsen
Gunnar Johannsen (born 1940) is a German cyberneticist, and Emeritus Professor of Systems Engineering and Human-Machine Systems at the University of Kassel, known for his contributions in the field of human-machine systems. Biography Born and raised in Hamburg, Johannsen received his Dipl.-Ing. in communication and information engineering from the Technical University of Berlin in 1967, where in 1971 he also received his Dr.-Ing. in flight guidance and manual control. He studied Sound Engineering at the Berlin University of the Arts for another three years, and received his habilitation in 1980.Gunnar Johannsen, Professor em. Dr.-Ing. Dr.h.c. Systems Engineering and Human-Machine Systems, University of Kassel, Germany biography at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Johannsen (bush Mechanic)
Kurt Gerhardt Johannsen (11 January 1915 – 23 January 2002) was an Australian bush mechanic who developed the world's first commercial road train. He was also an aviator, fencing contractor, inventor, labourer, mailman and miner and known a "true son of the Red Centre", referring to the southern desert region of the Northern Territory in Australia. Early life Johannsen was born at Deep Well Station, 80 km south of Alice Springs, to Gerhardt and Ottilie Johannsen. Gerhardt had emigrated from Denmark and Ottilie was of German descent and the family often experienced discrimination throughout Kurt's childhood, the period in between the two World Wars, and Gerhardt was often referred to as "The German" or "The Hun". In 1922, when Johannsen was 7, the family moved to Hermannsburg Mission Station where Gerhardt worked as the station manager; this was following the sudden death of Pastor Carl Strehlow in October 1922. The family remained there until 1924 before returning to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyle Johannsen
Kyle Johannsen is a Canadian philosopher who is the author of a ''A Conceptual Investigation of Justice'' (2018) and ''Wild Animal Ethics'' (2020). He specialises in animal and environmental ethics, as well as political and social philosophy. He is presently affiliated with Trent University, Wilfrid Laurier University, and Queen's University. Education and career Johannesen read for a BA in philosophy with a minor in history at York University from 2003 to 2007, before reading for an MA in philosophy at the same institution from 2007 to 2009. He read for a PhD in philosophy at Queen's University from 2010 to 2015. He took up visiting assistant professorships at Saint Mary's University, Halifax from 2016 to 2017, and then at Trent University from 2017 to 2018. He remained a course instructor at Trent from 2018, and also became a course instructor at Wilfrid Laurier University in 2019. In 2020, Johannsen became an adjunct assistant professor at Queen's, as well as a fellow in Anim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Johannsen
Jake Johannsen (born July 28, 1960) is an American comedian, writer, and actor. Early life Johannsen attended Iowa State University in the early 1980s, originally majoring in veterinary medicine, and then later changing to chemical engineering. He left after three years in college and relocated to San Francisco, California, in order to pursue a career in comedy. Johannsen made his debut at Cobb's Comedy Club in San Francisco, and by 1986 had won the 11th Annual San Francisco International Comedy Competition. Career During the 1990s, Johannsen starred in his own HBO comedy special, ''This'll Take About an Hour'', which was listed as one of the Ten Best Television Shows by ''People Magazine'' in 1992. In 1994, he was nominated as "Best Male Stand-Up Comedian" for the 1994 American Comedy Awards. According to Jerry Seinfeld, Johannsen was originally wanted for the role of George Costanza in '' Seinfeld'', but he refused the part. In 2010, Johannsen starred in his second Comedy S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmuth Johannsen
Helmuth Johannsen (27 February 1920 – 3 November 1998) was a German professional football player and manager. Johannsen played for St. Pauli, a club which he also served as vice-president for a year from 1987 to 1988, but a war injury forced him to give up his playing career early. After World War II he went on to become a manager, most notably leading Eintracht Braunschweig to a surprising Bundesliga championship in 1966–67. From early May to the end of June 1965 he spent a few weeks on loan from Braunschweig at Holstein Kiel taking the champions of the northern division of the then national second tier Regionalliga, through the matches of the promotion series for the Bundesliga, but finishing only third in a pool of four teams, behind Borussia Mönchengladbach around their young stars Günter Netzer and Jupp Heynckes, and SSV Reutlingen from the state of Baden-Württemberg. He also worked in Switzerland, winning the Swiss championship in 1978 with Grasshopper Club Züri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristoffer Johannsen
Kristoffer H (born 24 February 1977) is a Danish former professional footballer and now manager, who currently is the manager of Næsby BK. He has played 24 games and scored one goal for various Danish national youth teams, including seven games for the Denmark national under-21 football team. In his playing career, Johannsen played for a number of Danish clubs. He played one game in the Danish Superliga for FC Copenhagen in May 1995. In the winter 1995, he moved from FC Copenhagen to Brøndby IF. He did not play any first team games for Brøndby, and moved to AB in the winter 1997. He played for Odense Boldklub in 1998. In 1999, Johannsen moved to Dutch club FC Emmen where he played until the summer 2003. He played in B 1913 in the 2003–04 season. He played in Vejle BK from January 2005 to December 2006, before moving to FC Fredericia. In October 2009, he signed on as an assistant coach at FC Fredericia. In May 2011 he became new manager of Otterup B&IK in the Danish 2nd Divis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oskar Augustus Johannsen
Oskar Augustus Johannsen (14 May 1870, Davenport, Iowa – 7 November 1961, Ithaca, New York), was an American entomologist who specialised in Diptera. Johannsen earned degrees from the University of Illinois and Cornell University. He taught civil engineering at Cornell from 1899 to 1909, entomology at the University of Maine from 1909 to 1912, and entomology at Cornell from 1912 to 1938. His brother Albert Johannsen was a professor of petrology at the University of Chicago and a collector of dime store novels who wrote a book on one of the dime novel publishing houses and another on Charles Dickens illustrator Phiz Hablot Knight Browne (10 July 1815 – 8 July 1882) was an English artist and illustrator. Well-known by his pen name, Phiz, he illustrated books by Charles Dickens, Charles Lever, and Harrison Ainsworth. Early life Of Huguenot ancestry, Hablot .... References *Anonym 1961 ohannsen, O. A.''Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America'', College Park, Md. 7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Johannsen
Franz Johannsen (4 May 1921 – 2006) was a German sprint canoer who in the 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he earned his best finish of fifth twice (1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...: C-1 1000 m, C-1 10000 m). References *Notice of Franz Johannsen's death 1921 births 2006 deaths Canoeists at the 1952 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 1956 Summer Olympics German male canoeists Olympic canoeists of Germany Olympic canoeists of the United Team of Germany {{Germany-canoe-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Johannsen
Anton Johannsen (April 29, 1872 – ?) was a German-born carpenter, anarchist, and labor activist who was indicted for the Los Angeles Times bombing. In 1933, he was appointed by a Democratic governor to the States' Industrial Commission, and in 1935 received his highest status serving as Vice President of the Chicago Federation of Labor The Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL) is an umbrella organization for unions in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It is a subordinate body of the AFL–CIO, and as of 2011 has about 320 affiliated member unions representing half a million union members in C ....Solon De Leon, et al., The American Labor Who's Who (New York: Hanford Press, 1925), p. 116. References 1872 births 1929 deaths American anarchists American carpenters American trade unionists of German descent Chicago Federation of Labor people German anarchists German emigrants to the United States People from Clinton, Iowa Trade unionists from California United Brotherhood of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Johannsen
__NOTOC__ Hans Johannsen (29 January 1913 – 5 March 1961) was a German chief engineer on a U-boat in World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Awards * Wehrmacht Long Service Award 4th Class (1 January 1939)Busch & Röll 2003, p. 514. * Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (20 April 1940) & 1st Class (2 March 1941)Busch & Röll 2003, p. 515. * U-boat War Badge (1939) (3 January 1941) * German Cross in Gold on 17 November 1942 as ''Leutnant'' (Ing.) on ''U-96'' in the 7. Unterseebootflottille * U-Boat Front Clasp in Bronze (13 November 1944) * Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 31 March 1945 as ''Oberleutnant () is the highest lieutenant officer rank in the German-speaking armed forces of Germany (Bundeswehr), the Austrian Armed Forces, and the Swiss Armed Forces. Austria Germany In the German Army, it dates from the early 19th century. Trans ...'' (Ing.) and chief engineer on ''U-802''Scherzer 2007, p. 422. References Citations Bibliography * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
