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Köhne
The surname Koehne may refer to: History "Koehne" is the North German variant of the name "Kuehne". People * Bernhard Karl von Koehne (1817–1887), Russian heraldist and numismatist * Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne (1848–1918), German botanist * Graeme Koehne Graeme John Koehne (born 3 August 1956), is an Australian composer and music educator. He is best known for his orchestral and ballet scores, which are characterised by direct communicative style and embrace of tertian harmony. His orchestral t ... (born 1956), Australian composer References {{DEFAULTSORT:Koehne German-language surnames de:Köhne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernhard Karl Von Koehne
Baron Bernhard Karl von Köhne (russian: Бернгард (Борис) Васильевич Кёне; ''Boris Vasilievich Kene''; 1817 – 1887), director of the section for arms in the heraldic department of the Russian senate, and well known numismatist in imperial Russia. After falling out of favour with the scholarly circles in St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ..., he applied for Finnish citizenship in 1859, but it was not granted. Academics from the Russian Empire Heraldists from the Russian Empire Numismatists from the Russian Empire 1817 births 1887 deaths Privy Councillor (Russian Empire) {{Russia-academic-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Köhne
The surname Koehne may refer to: History "Koehne" is the North German variant of the name "Kuehne". People * Bernhard Karl von Koehne (1817–1887), Russian heraldist and numismatist * Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne (1848–1918), German botanist * Graeme Koehne Graeme John Koehne (born 3 August 1956), is an Australian composer and music educator. He is best known for his orchestral and ballet scores, which are characterised by direct communicative style and embrace of tertian harmony. His orchestral t ... (born 1956), Australian composer References {{DEFAULTSORT:Koehne German-language surnames de:Köhne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Language
German ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and Official language, official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italy, Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and German-speaking Community of Belgium, Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia. Outside Germany, it is also spoken by German communities in France (Bas-Rhin), Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Poland (Upper Silesia), Slovakia (Bratislava Region), and Hungary (Sopron). German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch language, Dutch, English language, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots language, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic languages, North Germanic group, such as Danish lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne
Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne (12 February 1848 – 12 October 1918) was a German botanist and dendrologist born near Striegau, a town known today as Strzegom, Poland. Koehne was a professor of botany in Berlin and was a leading authority of the plant family Lythraceae. In Adolf Engler's treatise ''Das Pflanzenreich'' ("The Plant Kingdom"), he was author of the chapter on Lythraceae. He also made important contributions involving Lythraceae to Engler and Karl Prantl's ''Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien'' ("The Natural Plant Families"), as well as to Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martius' ''Flora Brasiliensis''. Another noted written effort by Koehne was the 1893 ''Deutsche Dendrologie'' ("German Dendrology"). Two plant genera have been named in his honor; '' Koehneola'' from Cuba, in the (family Asteraceae) was named in 1901, and ''Koehneria ''Koehneria'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Lythraceae. The only species is ''Koehneria madagas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graeme Koehne
Graeme John Koehne (born 3 August 1956), is an Australian composer and music educator. He is best known for his orchestral and ballet scores, which are characterised by direct communicative style and embrace of tertian harmony. His orchestral trilogy ''Unchained Melody'', ''Powerhouse'', and ''Elevator Music'' makes allusions to Hollywood film score traditions, cartoon music, popular Latin music and other dance forms. Life and career Koehne was born in Adelaide. He completed his undergraduate and post-graduate studies at the Elder Conservatorium of Music in that city, studying composition with Richard Meale – a pupil of Winifred Burston, who had been a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni. In 1982 he won the Young Composers Prize at that year's Adelaide Festival, gaining him national attention for his orchestral work ''Rainforest''.Martin Buzacott, "Powerhouse", ''ABC Radio 24 Hours'', April 1999, p. 38 In 1984, Koehne was awarded a Harkness Fellowship to work at the School of Music, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German-language Surnames
German ( ) is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia. Outside Germany, it is also spoken by German communities in France (Bas-Rhin), Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Poland (Upper Silesia), Slovakia (Bratislava Region), and Hungary (Sopron). German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic group, such as Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish. German is the second most widely spoken Germanic language after English, which is also a West Germanic language. German is one of the major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
