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Krieger (surname)
Krieger (German, 'warrior') is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: People * Adam Krieger (1634–1666), German Baroque composer * Albert Krieger (1923–2020), American attorney * Ali Krieger, American soccer player * Andreas Krieger (born 1966), German athlete * Andreas Frederik Krieger (1817–1893), Danish politician * Byron Krieger (1920–2015), American Olympic fencer * Cornell Krieger, American soccer player * Earl Krieger (1896–1960), American college sports coach * Eduard Krieger (1946–2019), Austrian footballer * Eduardo Krieger (born 1928), Brazilian physician * Gerhard Johannes Krieger, German engineer * Hans Krieger (born 1933), German writer * Harold G. Krieger (1926–1995), American politician and judge * Helmut Krieger (born 1958), Polish shot putter * Henry Krieger (born 1945), American composer * Holly Krieger, American mathematician * Johan Cornelius Krieger (1683–1755), Danish architect * Johann Krieger (1651–1735), German Baroque composer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Krieger
Adam Krieger (7 January 1634 – 30 June 1666) was a German composer. Born in Drezdenko, Driesen, Neumark, he studied organ (instrument), organ with Samuel Scheidt in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Halle. He succeeded Johann Rosenmüller as organist at Leipzig's St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig, Nikolaikirche (1655–57) and founded the city's ''Collegium Musicum'' before settling for the rest of his career in Dresden. Krieger composed and versified numerous songs. His fame rests on his pioneering role in the development of the solo Lieder, Lied. His first collection of songs appeared in 1657; they are marked by simple folk-like melodies. His second collection of ''Arien'' (1667) survives and has been edited in vol. 19 of ''Denkmäler deutscher Tonkunst.'' His most famous song is "''Nun sich der Tag geendet hat''" (English: "Now the day has ended"), which may be found in the hymnal of the Lutheran church. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Krieger
Johann Krieger (28 December 1651 – 18 July 1735) was a German composer and organist, younger brother of Johann Philipp Krieger. Born in Nuremberg, he worked at Bayreuth, Zeitz, and Greiz before settling in Zittau. He was one of the most important keyboard composers of his day, highly esteemed by, among others, George Frideric Handel. A prolific composer of church and secular music, he published several dozen of his works, and others survive in manuscript. However, hundreds more were lost when Zittau was destroyed by fire in 1757, during the Seven Years' War. Krieger's keyboard music places him among the most important German composers of his time.Samuel, Grove. The two published collections, ''Sechs musicalische Partien'' (1697) and ''Anmuthige Clavier-Übung'' (1698), contain harpsichord suites, organ toccatas, fugues, ricercars, and other works. Krieger's contemporaries praised his contrapuntal skill, evident in the extant fugues and ricercars. Johann Mattheson was particular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyler Krieger
Tyler Bram Krieger (born January 16, 1994) is an American former professional switch-hitting baseball second baseman and outfielder."Tyler Krieger Stats, Highlights, Bio", MILB.com. Krieger was an ESPN all-state selection in Georgia in high school. He then attended , where he was 5th in the Atlantic Coast Conference in batting as a sophomore. He was drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the 4th round of the |
Solly Krieger
Solly Krieger (March 28, 1909 – September 24, 1964) was an American middleweight boxer who fought from 1928–1941. He held the NBA World Middleweight Championship in 1938–39. Krieger, who was Jewish, was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Early life Krieger was born on March 28, 1909 in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York. He attended Eastern District High School, and was active in baseball, football, basketball, and soccer, but preferred boxing to his other sports. His father, who was born in Poland and was initially a tailor, was religiously observant, and had strong opposition to his son Solly's youthful desire to pursue boxing as a career.Blady, Ken, ''The Jewish Boxers' Hall of Fame'', (1988). Shapolsky Publishers, Inc, New York, pgs. 237-41 Krieger was a Golden Gloves champion in his amateur career. In 1928, turning professional, he was mentored by the legendary Hymie Caplan, who had also coached Syd Terris, Ruby Goldstein, and Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robby Krieger
Robert Alan Krieger (born January 8, 1946) is an American guitarist and founding member of the rock band the Doors. Krieger wrote or co-wrote many of the Doors' songs, including the hits "Light My Fire", "Love Me Two Times", " Touch Me", and "Love Her Madly". When the Doors disbanded following the death of lead singer Jim Morrison, Krieger continued to perform and record with other musicians including former Doors bandmates John Densmore and Ray Manzarek. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Doors and is listed by ''Rolling Stone'' as one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. Early life and education Krieger was born in Los Angeles, California to a Jewish family. His father, an engineer, was a fan of classical music, while his mother enjoyed "Frank Sinatra and stuff like that". ''Peter and the Wolf'' was the first record that captivated him. When he broke it, he started listening to other records. The radio introduced him to the likes o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascal Krieger
Pascal, Pascal's or PASCAL may refer to: People and fictional characters * Pascal (given name), including a list of people with the name * Pascal (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name ** Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, writer and theologian Places * Pascal (crater), a lunar crater * Pascal Island (Antarctica) * Pascal Island (Western Australia) Science and technology * Pascal (unit), the SI unit of pressure * Pascal (programming language), a programming language developed by Niklaus Wirth * PASCAL (database), a bibliographic database maintained by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information * Pascal (microarchitecture), codename for a microarchitecture developed by Nvidia Other uses * (1895–1911) * (1931–1942) * Pascal and Maximus, fictional characters in ''Tangled'' * Pascal blanc, a French white wine grape * Pascal College, secondary education school in Zaandam, the Netherlands * P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murray Krieger
Murray Krieger (November 27, 1923 – August 5, 2000) was an American literary critic and theorist. He was a professor at the University of Minnesota, the University of Iowa from 1963, and then the University of California, Irvine. In 1999, the University of California, Irvine dedicated a building, ''Murray Krieger Hall'', to Krieger in recognition of his contributions to the school. He was born in Newark, New Jersey. His older brother was historian Leonard Krieger. He served in World War II before studying at the University of Chicago, and Ohio State University as a doctoral student. One of the major New Critics, in 1976, he helped found the School of Criticism and Theory, which became an influential forum for literary criticism and critical theory in the United States. His study of the New Critics introduced a degree of philosophical sophistication and theoretical self-consciousness to formalist criticism that was rare among literary critics in the U.S. during that time. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Krieger
Michel Krieger (born March 4, 1986) is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer who co-founded Instagram along with Kevin Systrom, and served as its CTO. Instagram expanded from a few million users to 1 billion monthly active users while Krieger served as CTO. On September 24, 2018, it was announced that Krieger and Systrom were resigning from Instagram. Life and career Krieger was born in São Paulo, Brazil, and moved to California in 2004 to attend Stanford University. At Stanford, where he studied symbolic systems, he met Kevin Systrom, and the two co-founded Instagram in 2010. Krieger and Systrom had the idea of building a check-in app, before they made it exclusive for pictures. During the early days, most of the engineering and user experience were developed solely by Krieger. One of the stories related to Instagram’s early days that Krieger recalled is:One time I woke up and there was an email saying that the site went down, and I was like, who fixed it? ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Harvey Krieger
Martin Harvey Krieger (born March 10, 1944, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American physicist, author, and emeritus professor with decades of teaching in public policy and urban planning. He is known for his research on mathematical models of urban phenomena, ecological issues of design and planning, notions of uncertainty in policy and planning, environmental policy, defense policy, and aural and visual documentation of urban phenomena in southern California, especially Los Angeles. Education and career Martin H. Krieger was brought up as an Orthodox Jew in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. At Columbia University he graduated in physics with a B.A. ''magna cum laude'' in 1965, an M.A. in 1965, and a Ph.D. in 1969. His Ph.D. thesis is entitled ''Neutron Emission from Muon Capture''. (with lists of exhibits, books, articles in scholarly journals, and book chapters) From 1968 to 1973 Krieger worked at the University of California, Berkeley — from 1968 to 1969 as a physicist at the Lawrence R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Charles Christopher Krieger
Louis Charles Christopher Krieger (11 February 1873 – 31 July 1940) was an American mycology, mycologist and botanical illustrator who was considered the finest painter of North American fungi. Personal life Born in Baltimore, Maryland on February 11, 1873, Krieger received his early education from the Lutheran schools in that city. He showed artistic talents at an early age, and at 13 enrolled in the Maryland Institute College of Art, Maryland Institute School of Art and Design. Krieger continued his studies at the Charcoal Club of Baltimore and the Schuler School of Fine Arts. He married Agnes Checkley Keighler in 1904; she died in 1939. They had one daughter. Career At the age of 18, Krieger started employment as an artist assistant in the Division of Microscopy at the Department of Agriculture, and spent time painting mushrooms found around the District of Columbia area. When the Secretary of Agriculture, Julius Sterling Morton, closed the department in 1895, Krieger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Krieger
Leonard Krieger (28 August 1918 – 12 October 1990) was an American historian who paid particular attention to Modern Europe, especially Germany. He was influential as an intellectual historian, and particularly for his discussion of historicism. He has been called "the most intellectual historian in the United States during the Cold War". He was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Krieger was born in Newark, New Jersey.Staff''A COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS: The Institute for Advanced Study Faculty and Members 1930-1980'' p. 248. Institute for Advanced Study, 1980. Accessed November 22, 2015. "Krieger, Leonard 63s, 69-70 HS, Modern Europe Born 1918 Newark, NJ." His brother was the literary theorist Murray Krieger. He died of progressive supranuclear palsy Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is a late-onset degenerative disease involving the gradual deterioration and death of specific volumes of the brain. The condition lead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Krieger
Kurt Ferdinand Krieger (September 16, 1926 – August 16, 1970), nicknamed "Dutch", was an Austrian-born American professional baseball player and right-handed pitcher who appeared in three Major League Baseball games for the St. Louis Cardinals during the seasons of 1949 and 1951. Born in the town of Traisen, he was the first person born in post-1918 Austria, as of 2022, to play in the major leagues, although other MLB players were natives of the multiethnic 1867–1918 Austro-Hungarian Empire. Krieger was listed as tall and . A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, he entered pro baseball in the low minors at age 17 in 1944, then served in the United States Army during World War II, and missed the 1945 and 1946 seasons. When he resumed his baseball career in 1947, Krieger won 16 games for the Lynchburg Cardinals of the Class B Piedmont League. By 1949, he had worked his way onto the 28-man, early-season roster of the MLB Cardinals. In his debut on April 21, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
