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Kafka (surname)
Kafka is a Czech surname, which is an old spelling of the word "kavka", that means ''jackdaw'' in Czech, or occasionally a given name from a Yiddish diminutive for Ya'akov. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexandre Kafka (1917–2007), Czech-Brazilian international economist * Bohumil Kafka (1878–1942), Czech sculptor and pedagogue * Bruno Kafka (1881–1931), Czech politician and academic * Franz Kafka (1883–1924), Czech German-language writer * Gustav Kafka (1883–1953), Austrian philosopher and psychologist * Helene Kafka (1894–1943), Bohemian-Austrian nun, surgical nurse * Jakub Kafka (born 1976), Czech footballer * Maria Restituta Kafka (1894-1943), Czech-Austrian Catholic religious sister and martyr * Martin Kafka (born 1947), American psychiatrist * Mike Kafka (born 1987), American football player * Ottla Kafka (1892–1943), sister of Franz Kafka * Styliani ("Stella") Kafka (born 1974), Greek-American astronomer, former executive director of the Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czech Language
Czech (; Czech ), historically also Bohemian (; ''lingua Bohemica'' in Latin), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script. Spoken by over 10 million people, it serves as the official language of the Czech Republic. Czech is closely related to Slovak, to the point of high mutual intelligibility, as well as to Polish to a lesser degree. Czech is a fusional language with a rich system of morphology and relatively flexible word order. Its vocabulary has been extensively influenced by Latin and German. The Czech–Slovak group developed within West Slavic in the high medieval period, and the standardization of Czech and Slovak within the Czech–Slovak dialect continuum emerged in the early modern period. In the later 18th to mid-19th century, the modern written standard became codified in the context of the Czech National Revival. The main non-standard variety, known as Common Czech, is based on the vernacular of Prague, but is now spoken as an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Restituta Kafka
Maria Restituta Kafka (1 May 1894 – 30 March 1943) was an Austrian nurse of Czech descent and religious sister of the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity (Sorores Franciscanae a Caritate Christiana). Executed by the government in Nazi-run Austria, she is honoured as a virgin and martyr in the Catholic Church. Pope John Paul II beatified her in 1998. Life Early life She was born Helene Kafka in Husovice near Brno on 1 May 1894, the sixth daughter of Anton Kafka, a shoemaker, and his wife, Maria Stehlík. When she was two years old, her family moved to the Brigittenau neighbourhood of Vienna, the imperial capital, and home to a Czech migrant community, where she grew up. As a young girl, she worked first as a housemaid and then as a salesgirl in a tobacco shop. In 1913 she became a nurse at the municipal hospital in the Lainz neighbourhood of the city. While working as a nurse, Kafka met members of the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity (german: Franziskanerinnen von d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Kavka is a Czech, Slovak and Ukrainian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Jerome Kavka (1922–2012), U.S. psychologist * Peter Kavka (born 1990), Slovak footballer The surname is based on jackdaw bird species that has kavka as its name in Czech and Slovak languages. See also * Kavka's toxin puzzle *Kafka (surname) *Kafka (other) Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was a German-language writer from Prague. Kafka may also refer to: * Kafka (surname) * ''Kafka'' (film), a 1991 film by Steven Soderbergh * Franz Kafka Prize, also referred as Kafka Prize * Franz Kafka Society, a non-pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimír Kafka
Vladimír Kafka (23 February 1931 – 19 October 1970) was a Czech literature professor and a noted translator from German to Czech. Life He was born in Prague into the family of Vladimír Kafka, a civil servant. After graduating from gymnasium, he studied Czech and German at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague from 1950 to 1956, where he graduated with his diploma thesis ''F. X. Šalda and German literature''. From 1956 until his death, he worked at the Mladá fronta publishing house, first as a proofreader and from 1957 as editor in charge of German and French literature. He wrote a number of studies of German literature, especially on German literary expressionism ( Gottfried Benn and Georg Trakl), and authored many prefaces and afterwords to editions of works by German writers. His translation work has focused on Franz Kafka and contemporary German literature ( Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass). He also contributed to the journal Světová literatura, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Meteorological Society
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) is the premier scientific and professional organization in the United States promoting and disseminating information about the Atmospheric sciences, atmospheric, Oceanography, oceanic, and Hydrology, hydrologic sciences. Its mission is to advance the atmospheric and related sciences, technologies, applications, and services for the benefit of society. Background Founded on December 29, 1919, by Charles Franklin Brooks at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in St. Louis and incorporated on January 21, 1920, the American Meteorological Society has a membership of more than 13,000 weather, water, and climate scientists, professionals, researchers, educators, students, and enthusiasts. AMS offers numerous programs and services in the sphere of water, weather and climate sciences. It publishes eleven atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic journals (in print and online), sponsors as many as twelve conf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Association Of Variable Star Observers
The American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) is an international nonprofit organization, founded in 1911, focused on coordinating, analyzing, publishing, and archiving variable star observations made largely by amateur astronomers. The AAVSO creates records that establish light curves depicting the variation in brightness of a star over time, and makes them available to professional astronomers, researchers, and educators. Since professional astronomers do not have the time or the resources to monitor every variable star, astronomy is one of the few sciences where amateurs can make genuine contributions to scientific research. During 2011, the 100th year of the AAVSO's existence, the 20-millionth variable star observation was received into the database. The AAVSO International Database (AID) stores over 35 million observations as of 2019. The organization receives nearly 1,000,000 observations annually from around 2,000 professional and amateur observers and is quot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Kafka
Michael John Kafka (born July 25, 1987) is an American football coach and former quarterback who is the offensive coordinator for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). After attending St. Rita of Cascia High School in Chicago, Illinois, he played college football for Northwestern Wildcats football, Northwestern, where he received second-team All-Big Ten Conference honors as a senior. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the fourth round of the 2010 NFL Draft, and spent six seasons in the NFL as a journeyman quarterback. Kafka became the quarterbacks coach for the Chiefs in 2018, and Patrick Mahomes, the starting quarterback for the Chiefs, earned the NFL Most Valuable Player award that season. Kafka helped the team win Super Bowl LIV the following season. Despite being the backup quarterback in 2008 Northwestern Wildcats football team, 2008 for Northwestern, Kafka finished second on the team in rushing yards with 321. Following C. J. Bachér's g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Kafka
Martin Paul Kafka (born 1947) is an American psychiatrist best known for his work on sex offenders, paraphilias and what he calls "paraphilia-related disorders" such as sex addiction and hypersexuality. Career Kafka earned his undergraduate degree at Columbia College of Columbia University in 1968 and his M.D. cum laude in 1973 from the Medical College at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. He completed his psychiatric residency at the University of Michigan Medical Center in 1977. He was Clinical Instructor of Psychiatry at University Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan from 1977 to 1983. He has taught at Harvard Medical School since 1983 and is affiliated with McLean Hospital. In 1999 Kafka was elected a full member of the International Academy of Sex Research. He joined the editorial board of ''Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment'' in 1999 and ''Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention'' in 2001. Kafka was a charter member of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakub Kafka
Jakub Kafka (born 16 October 1976) is a Czech former football player. Kafka played for several Gambrinus liga clubs, including Baník Ostrava, Marila Příbram and Dynamo České Budějovice. In 2007, he moved to Poland to play for GKS Jastrzębie Klub Sportowy GKS Jastrzębie Spółka Akcyjna ( en, Sports Club GKS Jastrzębie Joint Stock Company), commonly known as GKS Jastrzębie (), is a football club based in Jastrzębie-Zdrój Jastrzębie-Zdrój (; german: Bad Königsdorff-Jastrzem .... After two years, he moved back to the Czech Republic to play for MFK Karviná. Kafka also played for youth Czech national football teams since the under-17 level. External links * * * 1976 births Living people Czech men's footballers Czech Republic men's youth international footballers Czech Republic men's under-21 international footballers Czech First League players FC Baník Ostrava players FK Třinec players MFK Vítkovice players FK Příbram players SK Dynam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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