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Körner
Körner, also rendered Koerner, or Korner is a German surname which may refer to People * Alexis Korner (1928–1984), born Koerner, musician * Alfred Körner (1926–2020), Austrian footballer * August T. Koerner (1843–1912), American politician * Brendan I. Koerner, contributing editor for ''Wired'' magazine * Christian Gottfried Körner (1756–1831), German writer and lawyer * David Korner (1914–1976), Romanian and French communist militant * Diana Körner (born 1944), German actress * E. F. K. Koerner (born 1939), German and Canadian professor of linguistics * Edith Körner (1921–2000), British magistrate, wife Stephan, mother of Thomas William * Friedrich Körner (1921–1998), German World War II flying ace * Gabriel Köerner (born 1982), visual effects artist * Gustav Koerner (1809–1896), German revolutionary, American politician * Hal Koerner, American ultramarathon runner * Henry Koerner, Austrian-American painter * Hildegard Körner (born 1959), German ath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodor Körner (author)
Carl Theodor Körner (23 September 1791 – 26 August 1813) was a German poet and soldier. After some time in Vienna, where he wrote some light comedies and other works for the Burgtheater, he became a soldier and joined the Lützow Free Corps in the German uprising against Napoleon. During these times, he displayed personal courage in many fights, and encouraged his comrades by fiery patriotic lyrics he composed, among these being the "Schwertlied" (Sword Song), composed during a lull in fighting only a few hours before his death, and "Lützows wilde Jagd" (Lützow's Wild Chase, or Hunt), each set to music by both Carl Maria von Weber and Franz Schubert. He was often called the "German Tyrtaeus." Early life He was born at Dresden, capital of the Saxon electorate, the son of the consistorial councillor Christian Gottfried Körner and his wife Minna Stock Körner. He was raised by his parents and by his aunt, the artist Dora Stock, who lived in the home. He attended the Kreuzsc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Gottfried Körner
Christian Gottfried Körner (2 July 1756 – 13 May 1831) was a German jurist. His home was a literary and musical salon, and he was a friend of Friedrich Schiller. Biography Born in Leipzig, he studied law at the University of Göttingen and at the Leipzig University. He got his degrees at Leipzig. In 1783 he became chief councillor of the Lutheran Upper Consistory at Dresden; he was appointed to the office of judge in the Court of Appeals in 1790; and, in 1811, he returned to the appellate court. His home in Dresden was an important center for culture and the arts. Riggs (1997) writes: The Körner household in Dresden ... became a literary and musical salon. Plays and essays were read; Singspiele and chamber music were performed; and lectures on art were given. Guests and participants included Johann Gottfried von Herder, Goethe, Wilhelm von Humboldt, the Schlegel brothers , Ludwig Tieck, Novalis, and the musicians Johann Naumann, Johann Hiller, Karl Zelter, Mozart, and Weber. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Körner
Edith Körner, CBE (10 July 1921 – 17 August 2000) was a British magistrate and reformer of the National Health Service. She was the wife of the philosopher Stephan Körner and mother of the mathematician Thomas Körner and the biochemist, writer and translator Ann M. Körner. Life Edita Leah Löwy was born in Znojmo, Czechoslovakia, the daughter of a corn miller, on 10 July 1921. She travelled to the United Kingdom as a refugee in 1939, after the Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia. Her family remained behind, with only her brother and several cousins surviving the war. (In 1938/1939, her father changed the family name to Laner in a vain attempt to deceive the Nazis into thinking that he and his family were not Jewish.) She arrived with no money, speaking four languages - Czech, German, Italian and French but little English. Among other jobs, she worked briefly for Reuters. During the war, she met Stephan Körner, a fellow Czech refugee, who was studying for his doctorate in philos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephan Körner
Stephan Körner, FBA (26 September 1913 – 17 August 2000) was a British philosopher, who specialised in the work of Kant, the study of concepts, and in the philosophy of mathematics. Born to a Jewish family in what would soon become Czechoslovakia, Körner left that country to avoid certain death at the hands of the Nazis after the German occupation in 1939, and came to the United Kingdom as a refugee, where he began his study of philosophy; by 1952 he was a professor of philosophy at the University of Bristol, taking up a second professorship at Yale in 1970. He was married to Edith Körner, and was the father of the mathematician Thomas Körner and the biochemist, writer and translator Ann M. Körner. Early life Körner was born in Ostrava, then part of Austria-Hungary, on 26 September 1913. "Jur Dr, PhD; FBA 1967, ''Born'' 26 Sept. 1913; ''os'' of Emil Körner and Erna (''née'' Maier); ''m'' 1944, Edith Laner, CBE, BSc, LLD, JP.." He was the only son of a teacher of cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Körner (Nazi Official)
Paul Körner (2 October 1893 – 29 November 1957) was a German Nazi functionary who served as State Secretary of both the Prussian State Ministry and the Four Year Plan. A close associate of Hermann Göring, he was also an SS-''Obergruppenführer'' and was convicted as a war criminal by the Nuremberg Military Tribunal. Early life Körner was the son of a physician. He attended elementary school and the gymnasium in Zittau, graduating in 1912. He studied law at the University of Berlin until volunteering for the First World War in 1914, in which he initially fought on the Western Front with the 28th (2nd Royal Saxon) Field Artillery Regiment. Commissioned as a Leutnant, he rose to the rank of Hauptmann and was posted as an adjutant to Erich Ludendorff, the Deputy Chief of the German General Staff in December 1917. He was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class, and was discharged as a Major in the reserves. After his discharge from the army, Körner served as a member of the Lützow F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Körner
Friedrich Körner (24 January 1921 – 3 September 1998) was a World War II Luftwaffe Flying ace. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. Körner was credited with 36 victories in over 250 missions. All of his victories were scored whilst flying the Messerschmitt Bf 109. Military career Körner joined the Luftwaffe on 15 November 1939 and after completion of his pilot training joined I. ''Gruppe'' of ''Jagdgeschwader'' 27 (JG 27—27th Fighter Wing) in North Africa on 4 July 1941. Körner claimed his first victory on 12 October 1941 near Sallum. In June 1942 he scored 20 kills, five on the 26 June making him an " ace-in-a-day", Körner's most successful day. On 4 July 1942, a year to the day of his arrival, he was shot down whilst scrambling to intercept a Royal Air Force (RAF) bomber formation over the front line near El Alame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Körner
Alfred Körner (14 February 1926 – 23 January 2020) was an Austrian footballer. He played for Austria at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Club career Körner had a career with SK Rapid Wien and also played for FK Admira Wien (now VfB Admira Wacker Mödling). International career Körner made his debut for Austria in an October 1947 friendly match against Czechoslovakia and played in the 1954 FIFA World Cup where Austria finished third with his older brother Robert, and the 1958 FIFA World Cup. He earned 47 caps, scoring 14 goals. - RSSSF His last international was an October 1958 friendly match against . Ho ...
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Gustav Koerner
Gustav Philipp Koerner, also spelled Gustave or Gustavus Koerner (20 November 1809 – 9 April 1896), was a German-American revolutionary, journalist, lawyer, politician, judge and statesman in Illinois and Germany, and a Colonel of the U.S. Army who was a confessed enemy of slavery. He married on 17 June 1836 in Belleville Sophia Dorothea Engelmann (16 November 1815 – 1 March 1888); they had 9 children. He belonged to the co-founders and was one of the first members of the Grand Old Party, and was a close confidant of Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd, and had an essential role in his nomination and election for president in 1860. Life Early life and education Gustav was the son of the Frankfurt publisher, bookseller and art dealer Bernhard Körner (1776–1829) and his wife Maria Magdalena Kämpfe (1776–1847), daughter of another Frankfurt bookseller. He graduated with Abitur from the Gymnasium Francofurtanum. Then he studied law at the universities in Jena, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas William Körner
Thomas William Körner (born 17 February 1946) is a British pure mathematics, pure mathematician and the author of three books on popular mathematics. He is titular Professor of Fourier Analysis in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Trinity Hall. He is the son of the philosopher Stephan Körner and of Edith Körner. He studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and wrote his PhD thesis ''Some Results on Kronecker, Dirichlet and Helson Sets'' there in 1971, studying under Nicholas Varopoulos. In 1972 he won the Salem Prize. He has written academic mathematics books aimed at undergraduates: *''Fourier Analysis'' *''Exercises for Fourier Analysis'' *''A Companion to Analysis'' *''Vectors, Pure and Applied'' *''Calculus for the Ambitious'' He has also written three books aimed at secondary school students, the popular 1996 title ''The Pleasures of Counting'', ''Naive Decision Making'' (published 2008) on probability, statistics and game theory, and ''Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodor Körner (Austrian President) , a set of annual Austrian awards
* (1863–1933), German merchant and politician
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Theodor Körner may refer to: * Theodor Körner (author) (1791–1813), German poet and soldier ** Theodor Körner (opera), premiered in 1872, based on an episode in the life of the German poet and soldier * Theodor Körner (president) (1873–1957), president of Austria 1951–1957 ** Theodor Körner Prize The Theodor Körner Prize ( German: ''Theodor-Körner-Preis'') is a set of annual Austrian awards bestowed by the Theodor Körner Fund in recognition of cultural and/or scientific advances. The prize is awarded at the University of Vienna. The pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Körner
Robert Körner (21 August 1924 – 22 June 1989) was an Austrian footballer. Club career Körner played for and captained SK Rapid Wien, and later managed SK Rapid Wien (four times), SV Waldhof Mannheim (as coach), and 1. FC Nürnberg (as co-trainer). International career Körner made his debut for Austria in November 1948 against Sweden and was a participant at the 1954 FIFA World Cup where Austria finished third with his younger brother Alfred. He earned 16 caps, scoring one goal. Honours Player * Austrian Football Bundesliga: 1946, 1948, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1957 * Austrian Cup: 1946 * Zentropa Cup: 1951 Managerial * Austrian Football Bundesliga: 1960, 1964 * Austrian Cup The Austrian Cup (german: ÖFB-Cup), known as UNIQA ÖFB Cup for sponsorship purposes, is an annual football competition held by the Austrian Football Association, the ÖFB. During the 2008–09 season, Austria Wien won the tournament for 27th t ...: 1961, 1972, 1976 External linksProfile and sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Körner
Rudolf Körner (8 January 1892, Leipzig – 13 November 1978, Füssen) was a German gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics The 1912 Summer Olympics ( sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1912), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad ( sv, Den V olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Stockholm 1912, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, be .... In 1912 Körner was a member of the German team which finished fourth in the team, free system competition and fifth in the team, European system event. He studied in Leipzig Biology, Chemie, Geologie, History and Sport to become a Teacher. He was member of the Frankfurt-Leipziger Burschenschaft Arminia. In both world wars he fought as an Officer and was appreciated with high medals of honour. References 1892 births 1978 deaths German male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Germany Gymnasts at the 1912 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Leipzig {{Germany-artistic-gymnastics-bio- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
