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Klopfer
Klopfer is a German occupational surname, derived from the Middle High German ''klopfen'', meaning "to pound, bang, or hammer", and thus indicating a person in the clothing trade, mining or metal working.''Dictionary of American Family Names''"Klopfer Family History" Oxford University Press, 2013. Retrieved 20 January 2016. The name may refer to: *Bruno Klopfer (1900–1971), German psychologist * Donald S. Klopfer (1902–1986), American businessman * Eric Klopfer (born 1970), American educator *Eugen Klöpfer (1886–1950), German actor * George Klopfer (c. 1945 – 2019), American physician *Gerhard Klopfer (1905–1987), German Nazi official * Goetz Klopfer (born 1942), American race walker *Heini Klopfer (1918–1968), German architect * Klopfer (writer) (born 1980), pseudonym of German writer Christian Schmidt * Regina Klopfer (1903–1991), Hungarian singer *Sonya Klopfer (born 1934), American figure skater See also * Klöpfer, another name for the Swiss wine grape Räuschlin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Klopfer
Ulrich "George" Klopfer (August 28, 1940 – September 3, 2019) was a German born American osteopathic physician and abortion provider from Indiana and Illinois. Early life Klopfer was born on August 28, 1940, in Dresden, Germany. He told documentary filmmaker Mark Archer that he was staying with his aunt in the Dresden suburbs when the allies firebombed the city in 1945. Klopfer would have been four and a half years old at the time. This event, Archer noted, seemed to have been the defining moment of Klopfer's life. Passenger records indicate that Klopfer came to the United States with his family aboard the ''Italia'' in 1952 at the age of 11. He used both his first name and the American spelling of his middle name, George, when attending Bloomfield High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He was a record-breaking runner on the track team and hoped to represent the United States in the Olympics. Upon graduating in 1959 he planned to become a chemical engineer. He was natur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Klopfer
Bruno Klopfer (1st October, 1900 – 23 October, 1971), was a German psychologist, born in Bavaria. He had a profound impact on the development of psychological personality testing, and was an important pioneer and innovator in the development, scoring and popularization of projective techniques, especially the Rorschach inkblot test. Career He was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Munich in 1923. Klopfer, a Jew, left Germany in 1933; and on his way to the USA, spent a year in Switzerland where he studied with Carl Jung at the Zurich Psychotechnic Institute (this was where he first encountered the Rorschach test). His first job in the USA was at Columbia University where he conducted research with the famous anthropologist Franz Boas. He was founding editor of the ''Rorschach Research Exchange and Journal of Projective Techniques'' in 1936. This Journal became the "Journal of Projective Techniques" in 1950, ''The Journal of Projective Techniques & Personality Assessment'' i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Klopfer
Gerhard Klopfer (18 February 1905 – 29 January 1987) was a senior official of the Nazi Party and assistant to Martin Bormann in the Office of the (Nazi) Party Chancellery. Klopfer was born in Schreibersdorf, Silesia (now in Poland), in 1905. He studied law and economics and in 1931 became a judge in Düsseldorf, Germany. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, he joined the Nazi Party and the SA (Sturmabteilung) along with the Gestapo (Secret State Police) the following year. In 1935, he became a member of Rudolf Hess's staff and the SS (Schutzstaffel) with the honorary SS rank of Oberführer (Senior Colonel). In 1938, he became responsible for the seizing of Jewish businesses, for questions about mixed marriages between Gentile and Jewish Germans, and general questions about occupation of foreign states. As State Secretary of the Parteikanzlei (Party Chancellery), Klopfer represented Martin Bormann, who was head of the Parteikanzlei, at the Wannsee Conference on 20 January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Klopfer
Eric Klopfer (born October 8, 1970) is a professor and Director of thScheller Teacher Education Program and the Education Arcadeat MIT. Klopfer's research explores how educational technology, games, and computer simulations can be tools for teaching complex systems and developing cognitive and computational thinking skills. Klopfer and his research group developed StarLogo and App Inventor for Android and other Visual programming language platforms that build on the work of Seymour Papert and Constructionism (learning theory) Constructionist learning is the creation by learners of mental models to understand the world around them. Constructionism advocates student-centered, discovery learning where students use what they already know, to acquire more knowledge.Alesa ... in education. He is also the principal investigator in the research and development of award-winning games designed for building understanding in science and math, connecting game play with scientific practice, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klopfer (writer)
Christian Schmidt (born 14 February 1980 in Frankfurt (Oder)), known as Klopfer, is a German writer and editor. Biography Schmidt was born in 1980 to a teacher and a technician. Growing up in the German Democratic Republic, he was a Young Pioneer. He adopted the name ''Klopfer'' (English: Thumper) after the ''Bambi'' character, as both ''Christian'' and ''Schmidt'' are among the most common names in Germany. Since 2016, his pseudonym is officially recognised. After completing his Abitur in 1999, Schmidt studied computer science at the University of Potsdam from 1999 until 2004. At the Humboldt University of Berlin, he studied Japanese studies from 2004 until 2005 and German studies from 2005 until 2010. From 2000 until 2016, Schmidt maintained the Manga and Anime online database ''Animestreet''. In 1999, he opened a personal website which he named ''Klopfers Web'' in 2002. Among other texts, he writes columns for ''Klopfers Web'', and has released two volumes of collected co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonya Klopfer
Sonya Klopfer (married name: Dunfield, born December 26, 1934) is an American former competitive figure skater and coach. She is a two-time World medalist ( bronze in 1951, silver in 1952) and the 1951 U.S. national champion. Personal life Klopfer was born in New York City and was named after Sonja Henie. She married Canadian figure skater Peter Dunfield, with whom she had two sons. Career Klopfer won silver on the senior level at the 1950 U.S. Championships. She was then sent to Wembley, England to compete at her first World Championships and finished fifth. In 1951, Klopfer was awarded the gold medal at the U.S. Championships. Having won at age 15, she was the youngest U.S. senior ladies' champion until Tara Lipinski won in 1997 at age 14. Klopfer obtained the bronze medal in Milan at the 1951 World Championships, standing on the podium with Jeannette Altwegg and Jacqueline du Bief. In February 1952, Klopfer competed at the Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway and finished ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heini Klopfer
Heinrich "Heini" Klopfer (3 April 1918 in Oberstdorf – 18 November 1968) was a German ski jumping, ski jumper and architect. At age 17, Klopfer was selected for trials for the 1936 Winter Olympics, but failed to qualify. After World War II Klopfer, Sepp Weiler and Toni Brutscher became known as the Oberstdorf Jumping Trio. He started working with construction of ski jumping hill. Kopfler has designed or been adviser for more than 250 hills. Main designs included all Olympic jumps used between 1960 and 1976, and he even designed one of the reconstructions of Holmenkollbakken in Oslo. He also was the ski jumping technical commissioner for the International Ski Federation. He died of a heart attack at the age of 50. In 1970, Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze in Oberstdorf, one of the world's five ski flying hills, was named for him. References German male ski jumpers People from Oberstdorf Sportspeople from Swabia (Bavaria) 1918 births 1968 deaths 20th-century German architects ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gitta Alpár
Gitta Alpár (born Regina Klopfer; 5 February 1903 – 17 February 1991), was a Hungarian-born opera and operetta soprano. Biography Gitta Alpár was born in Budapest, the daughter of a Jewish cantor. At an early age, she commenced the study of singing and pianoforte at the Academy of Budapest. Her first public appearance as a coloratura soprano under the name of Alpár was in 1923 at the Budapest State Opera House. The debut marked the beginning of a long career, promoted by eminent conductors such as Erich Kleiber, which led her singing at the great opera houses of Vienna, Berlin, and all over the world. An ensemble member of the Berlin State Opera from 1927 to 1930, she excelled in performances of Mozart's ''The Magic Flute'', Rossini's ''The Barber of Seville'', as well as in Verdi's ''Rigoletto'' and '' La Traviata''. In 1931, Alpár married actor Gustav Fröhlich, with whom she had a child, Julika. Her first films were made in Germany. The marriage was dissolved in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goetz Klopfer
Goetz Heinrich Klopfer (born June 25, 1942, in Merseburg, Germany) was a male race walker, who represented the United States at two Summer Olympics, starting in 1968. His best finish was the 10th place in the men's 50 km walk at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. He won the 20 km event at the 1971 Pan American Games * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events Jan .... References * 1942 births Living people American male racewalkers Athletes (track and field) at the 1967 Pan American Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1971 Pan American Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic track and field athletes of the United States German emigrants to the United States Pan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schulklopfer
A schulklopfer (or shulklopfer; (page 587, footnote 8).) is the person who calls a Jewish community to prayer in the local synagogue. In modern times, the custom has more or less died out due to the creation of alarm clocks and technology, but it was historically common. The ''schulklopfer'' was usually a beadle, who would perform the task by wandering around the community, knocking on each household's door early in the morning. In Neustadt, he would knock four times, in the pattern KNOCK…pause…KNOCK, KNOCK…pause…KNOCK. Israel Isserlein, a famous rabbi from Neustadt, argued that this pattern encoded the biblical phrase, ''I shall come to thee and bless thee'' (in gematria, the letters of the first word of this phrase have the values 1, 2, and 1, respectively). In the Rhine, the custom was to strike merely thrice, in the pattern KNOCK…pause…KNOCK, KNOCK. In mediaeval Eastern Europe, the ''schulklopfer'' also had the role of individually inviting people to marriage cere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugen Klöpfer
Eugen Gottlob Klöpfer (10 March 1886 in Talheim, Heilbronn – 3 March 1950 in Wiesbaden) was a German actor. Early life Born to Karl Klöpfer and his wife Karoline, née Hörsch, Eugen attended the Realschule ("secondary school") in Heilbronn. He subsequently attended the Lateinschule (Latin School) in Lauffen and then the Karlsgymnasium in Heilbronn. Career Although he started an apprenticeship with a lumber business in Munich, Klöpfer soon discovered that his passion was the theater. He joined the Theatre Association of Munich and performed at various provincial theaters. In 1905 he was cast in his first role in Landshut, afterwards playing in Ingolstadtand Biel. In 1909 he came to the Volkstheater München ("Munich People's Theater). From 1914 to 1918, he performed in Colmar, Erfurt, Bonn and Frankfurt am Main. After the First World War, Klöpfer relocated to Berlin. There he played from 1920 to 1923 at the Deutsches Theater , then at various stages, starting in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |