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Krafft (surname)
Krafft is a surname of Germanic origin. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam Krafft (1493–1558), German stone sculptor * Barbara Krafft (1764–1825), Austrian painter * Charles Wing Krafft (fl. c. 2000), American artist * David von Krafft (1655–1724), German-Swedish painter * Friedrich Krafft (1852–1923), German chemist * Hugues Krafft (1853–1935), French photographer * Johann Peter Krafft (1780–1856), German painter * Karl Ernst Krafft (1900–1945), Swiss astrologer * Katia and Maurice Krafft (1942–1991 and 1946–1991), French volcanologists * Laura Krafft, American comedian writer and actress * Manfred Krafft (1937–2022), German football player and manager * Per Krafft the Elder (1724–1793), Swedish painter * Per Krafft the Younger (1777–1863), Swedish painter * Vic Krafft (1919–1991), American professional basketball player * Wilhelmina Krafft (1778–1828), Swedish painter * Wolfgang Ludwig Krafft (1743–1814), German astronomer and ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germanic Languages
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa. The most widely spoken Germanic language, English, is also the world's most widely spoken language with an estimated 2 billion speakers. All Germanic languages are derived from Proto-Germanic, spoken in Iron Age Scandinavia. The West Germanic languages include the three most widely spoken Germanic languages: English with around 360–400 million native speakers; German language, German, with over 100 million native speakers; and Dutch language, Dutch, with 24 million native speakers. Other West Germanic languages include Afrikaans, an offshoot of Dutch, with over 7.1 million native speakers; Low German, considered a separate collection of Standard language, unstandardized dialects, with roughly 4.35–7.15 million native speakers and probably 6.7–10 million people who can understand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manfred Krafft
Manfred Krafft (11 December 1937 – 29 June 2022) was a German football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ... player and manager. References 1937 births 2022 deaths German footballers Footballers from Düsseldorf Association football defenders Bundesliga players Fortuna Düsseldorf players German football managers Fortuna Düsseldorf managers 1. FC Saarbrücken managers Karlsruher SC managers SV Darmstadt 98 managers 1. FC Kaiserslautern managers SG Union Solingen managers Stuttgarter Kickers managers 1. FC Pforzheim managers People from the Rhine Province West German footballers West German football managers {{Germany-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kraft (other)
Kraft, or Kraft Foods, is an American food processing conglomerate. Kraft may also refer to: Companies * Kraft Foods Inc, a former American manufacturing and processing conglomerate formed in 1923, renamed Mondelez International following the 2012 split ** Kraft Foods Group, the company formed in 2012 when the original Kraft Foods Inc. was split, merged with Heinz to form Kraft Heinz in 2015 ** Kraft Heinz, the company the post-2012 Kraft Foods formed, after merging with Heinz in 2015 ** Kraft Foods Ltd, Australian company from 1935, which began as the Kraft Walker Cheese Co., a partnership between Fred Walker and Kraft Foods Inc. * The Kraft Group, a group of privately held companies in sports, manufacturing, and real estate development * Kraft Systems, a defunct joystick and radio-control transmitter manufacturer People * Kraft (surname) * Kraft Ehricke (1917–1984), German rocket scientist Other uses * Kraft process, a paper pulp production method * Kraft paper, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Von Krafft-Ebing
Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (full name Richard Fridolin Joseph Freiherr Krafft von Festenberg auf Frohnberg, genannt von Ebing; 14 August 1840 – 22 December 1902) was a German psychiatrist and author of the foundational work ''Psychopathia Sexualis'' (1886). Life Krafft-Ebing was born on 14 August 1840 in Mannheim, Germany. He studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg, where he specialized in psychiatry. He later practised in psychiatric asylums. After leaving his work in asylums, he pursued a career in psychiatry, forensics, and hypnosis. He died in Graz on 22 December 1902. He was recognised as an authority on deviant sexual behaviour and its medico-legal aspects. Principal work Krafft-Ebing's principal work is ''Psychopathia Sexualis: eine Klinisch-Forensische Studie'' (''Sexual Psychopathy: A Clinical-Forensic Study''), which was first published in 1886 and expanded in subsequent editions. The last edition from the hand of the author (the twelfth) contained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konrad Krafft Von Dellmensingen
Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen (24 November 1862 – 21 February 1953) was a Bavarian Army general in World War I. He served as Chief of the General Staff of the Royal Bavarian Army before World War I and commanded the elite Alpenkorps, the Imperial German Army's mountain division formed in 1915. Early life Krafft von Dellmensingen was born into a lower-ranking Bavarian noble family in Laufen, Upper Bavaria. His father was a royal notary. Konrad entered the Royal Bavarian Army as an officer candidate in August 1881 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in December 1883. After attending the Bavarian War Academy, he served as a general staff officer in various units. In 1902 he married Helene Zöhrer in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. They had two sons and one daughter. Through the prewar years, Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen proceeded up the ranks, generally alternating command and general staff assignments, until October 1, 1912 when he became Chief of the General Staff of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Ludwig Krafft
Wolfgang Ludwig Krafft (25 August 1743 – 20 November 1814) was a German astronomer and physicist. He is the namesake of the lunar crater Crater may refer to: Landforms *Impact crater, a depression caused by two celestial bodies impacting each other, such as a meteorite hitting a planet *Explosion crater, a hole formed in the ground produced by an explosion near or below the surfac ... Krafft which has a diameter of 51 km. External linksUSGS Astrogeology 1743 births 1814 deaths 18th-century German astronomers 18th-century German physicists {{Germany-physicist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelmina Krafft
Maria ''Wilhelmina'' Krafft (married name ''Noreaus'', 1778–1828) was a Swedish painter and portrait miniaturist. She was the daughter of the painter Per Krafft the Elder and Maria Vilhelmina Ekebom and the sister of the painter Per Krafft the Younger. Life Wilhelmina Krafft was born in Stockholm. She and her brother acted as models for their father's child portraits, a genre for which he was famous. One of these paintings portrays Per drawing and Wilhelmina at his feet in admiration (1783), and another depicts Wilhelmina alone praying (1782). Wilhelmina and her brother studied art at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, where her main teacher was Lorentz Svensson Sparrgren. In 1797, she debuted with her brother in the annual art exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm. Her work and talent impressed and she was decorated with the academy's second medal for her work at her first exhibition for her ''"beautiful prof. works in mignature"''. In the following exhi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vic Krafft
Victor Edmondson Krafft (June 3, 1919 – November 21, 1991) was an American professional basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ... player. He played for the Dayton Rens in the National Basketball League for three games during the 1948–49 season and averaged 2.0 points per game. References 1919 births 1991 deaths African-American basketball players United States Army personnel of World War II American men's basketball players Basketball players from Chicago Dayton Rens players Guards (basketball) Harlem Globetrotters players Junior college men's basketball players in the United States 20th-century African-American sportspeople {{1910s-US-basketball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Per Krafft The Younger
Per Krafft the Younger (1 November 1777 – 12 November 1863) was a Swedish painter of portraits and historical scenes. Biography Krafft was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He was the son of portraitist Per Krafft the Elder (1724–1793) and Maria Vilhelmina Ekebom (1749–1820) and was the brother of portrait miniaturist Wilhelmina Krafft (1778–1828). While still only a child of six, he began his studies at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts (1783–1796). He received his first medal in 1787. He studied there until 1796; notably with Lorens Pasch the Younger. At age 18, he was honored with a commission for a portrait of the powerful French politician, Francois-Emmanuel Guignard de Saint-Priest. Shortly after, under the influence of Louis Masreliez, he went to Paris, where he became a student of Neoclassical painter Jacques-Louis David. In 1801, for a major Academy exhibition in Stockholm, Krafft sent home three works: '' Belisarius'', a smiling Cupid, and Paris as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Per Krafft The Elder
Per Krafft the Elder (16 January 1724 – 7 November 1793) was a Swedish portraitist. He was the father of the artists Per Krafft the Younger and Wilhelmina Krafft. Early life Per Krafft was born in Arboga, and studied in Uppsala, where he in 1736 became interested in the arts. From 1739 he was for several years a student of portrait painter Johan Henrik Scheffel in Stockholm . His self-portrait from 1745 and a portrait of his sister Anna Lisa (married Askblom ) shows clear influences from Scheffel. In 1745 Krafft went to Copenhagen, where he came under Carl Gustaf Pilo's influence, as seen in the 1748 autographed portraits of Anna Bohr and a Miss Leijonhufvud as a shepherdess. In 1749, Per Krafft went to Skåne and painted Governor Wilhelm Lindenstedts portrait in baroque style. Krafft had a patron in Denmark then Finance Minister Otto Thott, to whom he copied several hundred family portraits at various Danish castle, which was collected in Gavnø. In 1752 Krafft painted the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Krafft
Laura Krafft is a comedic writer and actress. An ImprovOlympic and Second City alum, she is a former staff writer for ''The Colbert Report''. Writing assignments *''Call Me Kat'' (2021) *''The Colbert Report'' (2006-2008) Bust Magazine Columnist, "News from a Broad", (2006, present) *'' Crossballs: The Debate Show'' (2004) Vocal work *Bateman 365 *Dante's Inferno (2007 film) * WireTap *Mystery Show Case #1 Video Store Appearances *Curb Your Enthusiasm ''Curb Your Enthusiasm'' is an American television sitcom produced and broadcast by HBO since October 15, 2000, and created by Larry David, who stars as a semi-fictionalized version of himself. It follows David's life as a semi-retired televisio ... * Weekends at the D.L. External links *IO West review American humorists Writers Guild of America Award winners Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-comedian-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Krafft
Adam Kraft (or Krafft) (c. 1460?January 1509) was a German stone sculptor and master builder of the late Gothic period, based in Nuremberg and with a documented career there from 1490. It is not known where Kraft was born and raised; his hand has been claimed to be evident as an assistant in works in Ulm Minster (completed 1471) and the pulpit at Strasbourg Cathedral, completed in 1485. Kraft is believed to have married twice, but is not known to have produced any children. All his known works are in stone, but he may also have carved unidentified pieces in wood. His masterpiece is considered to be the tall tabernacle at St. Lorenz, Nuremberg. The tabernacle, that has the shape of a gothic tower reaching into the church's vault, is made up of tracery interspersed with figural scenes from Christ's Passion and was commissioned in 1493 by Hans Imhoff, a patrician from Nuremberg. The contract for the commission was preserved and stipulates details about the execution and finish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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