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Karel (given Name)
Karel is a masculine given name in Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Slovene and Swedish form of Charles, meaning ''Free Man''. Given name The name Karel (and its diminutives, Karlík, Karlíček, and Kája) appears frequently among the Czechs. In 2006, 124,784 Karels lived in the Czech Republic, making the name the thirteenth most popular Czech name. Between 1999 and 2002, the number of Karels in the Czech Republic dropped by 2.7%, and the name dropped out of the twenty most popular newborn child names. Notable people with this given name include the following: *Karel Aalbers (born 1949), Dutch businessman *Karel Abraham (born 1990), Czech motorcycle racer *Karel Ančerl (1908–1973), Czech conductor * Karel Appel (1921–2006), Dutch artist * Karel Brückner (born 1939), Czech football coach *Karel Čapek (1890–1938), Czech writer *Karel Čurda (1911–1947), Czech Nazi collaborator *Karel deLeeuw (1930–1978), American mathematician *Karel Dillen (1925 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Europe
Western Europe is the western region of Europe. The region's countries and territories vary depending on context. The concept of "the West" appeared in Europe in juxtaposition to "the East" and originally applied to the ancient Mediterranean world, the Roman Empire (Western Roman Empire and Eastern Roman Empire), and medieval "Christendom" (Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity). Beginning with the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery, roughly from the 15th century, the concept of ''Europe'' as "the West" slowly became distinguished from and eventually replaced the dominant use of "Christendom" as the preferred endonym within the region. By the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution, the concepts of "Eastern Europe" and "Western Europe" were more regularly used. Historical divisions Classical antiquity and medieval origins Prior to the Roman conquest, a large part of Western Europe had adopted the newly developed La Tène culture. As the Roman domain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Ančerl
Karel Ančerl (11 April 1908 – 3 July 1973) was a Czechoslovak conductor and composer, renowned especially for his performances of contemporary music and for his interpretations of music by Czech composers. Ančerl was born into a prosperous Jewish family in the village of Tučapy in southern Bohemia. After graduating from the Prague Conservatory, he pursued his conducting studies under Hermann Scherchen and Václav Talich. He was the assistant conductor at the Munich premiere of Alois Hába's quarter-tone opera ''Mother'' (1931) and conducted the orchestra of the avant-garde theatre ''Osvobozené divadlo'' in Prague (1931–1933). Conducting work for Czechoslovak radio was interrupted by World War II which resulted in his being imprisoned with his family in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942 and then sent to Auschwitz in 1944. Unlike his wife and young son, Ančerl survived Auschwitz. After the war, Ančerl conducted for Radio Prague until 1950, when he becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Gott
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Karel Eykman
Karel Eykman (1 March 1936 – 30 August 2022) was a Dutch writer of children's literature. Early life Eykman started studying theology in 1956. Career In 1969, Eykman published his first book ''De werksters van half vijf en andere gelijkenissen''. He won the Zilveren Griffel award in 1975 for his book ''De vreselijk verlegen vogelverschrikker''. In 1984, he won the Gouden Griffel award for his book ''Liefdesverdriet''. In the seventies of the twentieth century he was also a member of ''Het Schrijverscollectief'', a group of writers which included Eykman, Willem Wilmink, Hans Dorrestijn, Ries Moonen, Jan Riem and Fetze Pijlman. Together they contributed to television shows such as ''De Stratemakeropzeeshow'' and '' De film van Ome Willem''. In 1986, he published the book ''De zaak Jan Steen'' which was the Kinderboekenweekgeschenk during the Boekenweek that year. Many of his books were published by Uitgeverij De Harmonie. Eykman died in Amsterdam on 30 August 2022, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Jaromír Erben
Karel Jaromír Erben (; 7 November 1811 – 21 November 1870) was a Czech folklorist Folklore studies, less often known as folkloristics, and occasionally tradition studies or folk life studies in the United Kingdom, is the branch of anthropology devoted to the study of folklore. This term, along with its synonyms, gained currenc ... and poet of the mid-19th century, best known for his collection ''Kytice'', which contains poems based on traditional and folklore, folkloric themes. He also wrote ''Písně národní v Čechách'' ("Folk Songs of Bohemia") which contains 500 songs and ''Prostonárodní české písně a říkadla'' ("Czech Folk Songs and Nursery Rhymes"), a five-part book that brings together most of Czech folklore. Biography He was born on 7 November 1811 in Miletín near Jičín. He went to college in Hradec Králové. Then, in 1831, he went to Prague where he studied philosophy and later law. He started working in the National Museum (Prague), National Museu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Espino
Karel Aldair Espino Contreras (born 27 October 2001) is a Cuban professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liga Nacional club Comunicaciones and the Cuba national team. International career He made his Cuba national football team debut on 27 February 2019 in a friendly against Bermuda, as a 79th-minute substitute for Yasmany López. He was selected for the country's 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup squad. Honours ;Comunicaciones *CONCACAF League: 2021 *Liga Nacional de Guatemala Liga or LIGA may refer to: People * Līga (name), a Latvian female given name * Luciano Ligabue, more commonly known as Ligabue or ''Liga'', Italian rock singer-songwriter Sports * Liga ACB, men's professional basketball league in Spain * Lig ...: Clausura 2022 References External links * * 2001 births Living people Cuban men's footballers Cuba men's international footballers Cuba men's youth international footballers Men's association football midfielders FC Artemisa players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Effa
Karel Effa (born Karel Effenberger; 23 May 1922 – 11 June 1993) was a Czechoslovak character actor who appeared in some 65 films. Selected filmography * ''Uloupená hranice'' (1947) - Závodcí * ''Poslední mohykán'' (1947) * ''Parohy'' (1947) * ''Znamení kotvy'' (1947) * ''Ves v pohranicí'' (1948) - Jarda * ''Muzikant'' (1948) - Musician * ''Zelezný dedek'' (1948) - Seller * ''Cervená jesterka'' (1949) * ''Pan Novák'' (1949) - Vasek Kunc * ''Rodinné trampoty oficiála Trísky'' (1949) * '' Distant Journey'' (1950) - Prisoner building a gas chamber #2 * '' The Proud Princess'' (1952) - Guard of King's Treasure * ''Únos'' (1953) - American Journalist * ''Nad námi svítá'' (1953) - Kuba * ''Haskovy povidky ze stareho mocnarstvi'' (1954) - Porotce * ''Cirkus bude!'' (1954) - Taxikár Karel * '' Music from Mars'' (1955) - Kulhánek, hrác na cello a kytaru * '' Muž v povětří'' (1956) - Postman * ''Vzorný kinematograf Haska Jaroslava'' (1956) * ''Synove hor'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Doorman
Karel Willem Frederik Marie Doorman (23 April 1889 – 28 February 1942) was a Dutch naval officer who during World War II commanded remnants of the short-lived American-British-Dutch-Australian Command naval strike forces in the Battle of the Java Sea. He was killed in action when his flagship was torpedoed during the battle, having chosen to go down with the ship. Biography Early career Doorman was born 1889 in Utrecht, Netherlands, and raised as a Roman Catholic from a military family. In 1906, he and his brother Lou ACM Doorman were commissioned as midshipmen. In 1910, he was promoted to officer and moved to the Dutch East Indies aboard the cruiser ''Tromp''. During his first three years of duty from January 1912 to December 1913, he was placed aboard the survey vessels and and was mainly tasked with mapping the coastal waters of New Guinea. Early in 1914, he returned to the Netherlands on board the cruiser . In March 1914, he requested a transfer to the Avia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Dobrý
Karel Dobrý (born 2 May 1969) is a Czech film, television and stage actor. He is known for playing Liet-Kynes in the ''Dune'' 2000 miniseries, and Korba in the 2003 sequel ''Children of Dune'', and as Matthias in '' Mission: Impossible''. He also appeared in the award-winning film ''The Girl of Your Dreams'' by Fernando Trueba. Biography He was born 2 May 1969 in Karlovy Vary. He was raised in Prague and spent part of his childhood living in Syria. He speaks Czech, Russian, German, and English. Selected filmography *'' Elektro, má lásko'' (1991, TV Movie) – Orestes *'' La patience de Maigret'' (1993, TV Series) – Serveur Tropical *''The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen'' (1995, TV Movie) – Göring *''Sacred Cargo'' (1995) – Barishvili *''Jak si zasloužit princeznu'' (1995) – The Strongest *'' UŽ'' (1995) – Butch *'' Mission: Impossible'' (1996) – Matthias *''Let's Make an Opera'' (1996) – Burglar *''L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Dillen
Karel Cornelia Constantijn Dillen (16 October 1925 – 27 April 2007) was a far-right Belgian politician and Flemish nationalist. Life According to Paul Beliën, editor of the Brussels Journal, "Dillen came from a non-political background. His father, an Antwerp labourer, abandoned his wife and their two sons when Dillen was still a baby. He was raised by his mother. Neither he, nor his brother nor his mother were involved in any political activities at all during the war,..." In 1977 he established the Vlaams Nationale Partij (''Flemish National Party''), which became Vlaams Blok at the elections of 1978. He was president of the Vlaams Blok (later reformed as ''Vlaams Belang'') until he appointed Frank Vanhecke as his successor in 1996. Karel Dillen was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) between 1994 and 2004, and vice-chairman of the Technical Fraction of the European Right, together with among others Jean-Marie Le Pen and Franz Schönhuber. Holocaust denial Kare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel DeLeeuw
Karel deLeeuw, or de Leeuw ( – ), was a mathematics professor at Stanford University, specializing in harmonic analysis and functional analysis. Life and career Born in Chicago, Illinois, he attended the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago, earning a B.S. degree in 1950. He stayed at Chicago to earn an M.S. degree in mathematics in 1951, then went to Princeton University, where he obtained a Ph.D. degree in 1954. His thesis, titled "The relative cohomology structure of formations", was written under the direction of Emil Artin. After first teaching mathematics at Dartmouth College and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he joined the Stanford University faculty in 1957, becoming a full professor in 1966. During sabbaticals and leaves he also spent time at the Institute for Advanced Study and at Churchill College, Cambridge (where he was a Fulbright Fellow). He was also a Member-at-Large of the Council of the American Mathematical Society. Death a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Čurda
Karel Čurda (10 October 1911 in Stará Hlína, today part of Třeboň – 29 April 1947 in Prague) was a Czech Nazi collaborator during World War II. Wartime activities A soldier of the Czechoslovak army in exile, Čurda was parachuted into the protectorate in 1942 as a member of the sabotage group '' Out Distance''. Later that year, he betrayed the Czechoslovak army agents responsible for the assassination of top Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich in Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate .... His reward was 10,000,000 Kronen or 1 million Reichsmarks and a new identity, "Karl Jerhot". He married a German woman and spent the rest of the war as a Gestapo collaborator. Execution After the war, Čurda was tracked down and arrested. When asked in court how he could betra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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