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Lesch , a surname and given name
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Lesch is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Carl Lesch, American Roman Catholic educator * Gabriela Lesch, German runner * George Henry Lesch, American businessman * Harald Lesch, German physicist * John Lesch, American politician * Karin Lesch, Swiss-German actress * Klaus-Peter Lesch, German psychiatrist * Michael Lesch, Jewish American physician and medical educator See also * Lesh Lesh is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: * Fyodor Lesh (1840 - 1903), physician * Pavel Lesh (1887 - 1915), sport shooter * Phil Lesh (born 1940), musician * Richard Lesh, professor * Ulysses Samuel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lesch
John Lesch (born January 15, 1973) is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), he last represented 66B, which included portions of Saint Paul in Ramsey County, in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. He is a prosecuting attorney for Saint Paul. Early life, education, and career Lesch attended St. Louis University, graduating with degrees in philosophy and psychology, and later a Juris Doctor degree from Hamline University School of Law. Through high school and college, he spent three years at the seminary with the Redemptorists Order of Catholic Priests and Brothers. Before running for the Minnesota House of Representatives, Lesch interned for former Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) Representative Andy Dawkins in 1997 and 1998. He worked on several campaigns and chaired the Senate District 66 DFL Party from 2000 to 2002. He was also a legislative aide to former St. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Lesch
Michael Lesch (June 30, 1939 – March 19, 2008) was a Jewish American physician and medical educator who helped identify an important genetic disorder associated with retardation and self-mutilation. This disease is now known as the Lesch–Nyhan syndrome. In the mid-1960s when the syndrome was discovered, Lesch was a research associate working at the Laboratory of General and Comparative Biochemistry at the NIH National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. William Nyhan, a pediatrician and biochemical geneticist, was his mentor. Lesch was 30 years old when he discovered the disease. Lesch completed his medical training at Johns Hopkins in the Osler Medical Service in 1964. While at Hopkins he earned the distinguished honor of President, Alpha Omega Alpha, The Johns Hopkins University Chapter. Biography Michael Lesch was born in 1939 in Queens in New York City. He attended Columbia University, attaining Phi Beta Kappa during his junior year and graduating summ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Lesch
Karin Lesch (born 18 May 1935) is a Swiss-German stage, cinema, and television actress, of Swiss-Austrian extraction; who hails from a multi-generational family of accomplished German-speaking performers of theatre and cinema. Lesch was born in Zürich, the daughter of Swiss director, dramatist, and author Walter Lesch (1892–1958), and the Austrian actress Mathilde Danegger (1903–1988). In addition to both of her parents having professional careers in the German-speaking dramatic arts, Lesch comes from a family of Austrian entertainers of music, stage, and cinema. On her maternal side, her grandfather was the Austrian character-actor and director , Snr (1866-1933), and her maternal grandmother Bertha Müller (1866-1938) was an Austrian actress of both stage and silent-film. Her uncle , Jnr, (1889–1948) was an Austrian actor of stage and cinema, whilst her uncle Theodor Danegger (1891–1959) was both an opera singer and recording artist in addition to being a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harald Lesch
Harald Lesch (born 28 July 1960) is a German physicist, astronomer, natural philosopher, author, television presenter, professor of physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and professor of natural philosophy at the Munich University of Philosophy. Education Lesch was born in Gießen, Hesse. After completing secondary school in 1978 at the Theo-Koch-Schule in Grünberg, Hesse, Lesch studied physics at the University of Giessen, then at the University of Bonn, where he completed his doctoral degree in 1987 and worked at the Max-Planck-Institute for Radio Astronomy. From 1988 to 1991 he was a research assistant at the state observatory at Heidelberg-Königstuhl. In 1992 he was a visiting professor at the University of Toronto. In 1994 he was habilitated at the University of Bonn. Work Since 1995, Lesch has been a professor of theoretical astrophysics at the Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the LMU Munich. Additionally, he teaches natural ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus-Peter Lesch
Klaus-Peter Lesch is a German clinical psychiatrist who has been investigating the neurobiological foundation of personality traits. His 1996 paper on the association between the 5-HTTLPR polymorphism in the serotonin transporter gene and the personality trait neuroticism has been highly cited and was one of the first papers in personality genetics. He is professor at the University of Würzburg The Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (also referred to as the University of Würzburg, in German ''Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg'') is a public research university in Würzburg, Germany. The University of Würzburg is one of .... Among his coauthors has been Peter Riederer. Important Publications * * * * * External links Klaus-Peter Lesch at Würzburg University References {{DEFAULTSORT:Lesch, Klaus-Peter German psychiatrists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Lesch
Carl William Lesch (1924–1983) was an American Catholic educator, director, and musical conductor and instructor associated with many institutions in the New York Metropolitan area. Lesch started his career as a young man in the 1940s when he took over the position of choral director at St. Margaret Mary's Church in Midland Beach, Staten Island. There he organized a new boys choir and eventually led this group, serving as conductor, to the a first-place gold cup victory in a Town Hall music competition. In 1949 he became organist and choirmaster of St. Henry's Church in Bayonne, New Jersey and quickly organized a choir of 60 men and boys who would go on to local fame when their performances began to be broadcast live on ''The Catholic Hour'' in 1954 and 1955, as well as concertized throughout the metropolitan area. For 10 years in this era they put on an annual Easter Sunday Concert at the famous Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan. From his work at St. Henry's the Archdiocese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriela Lesch
Gabriela ("Gabi") Lesch (born 17 August 1964 in Sulzbach, Hesse) is a retired German runner who specialized in the 800 metres. She represented West Germany at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. She represented the sports clubs TSV Kirchhain and Eintracht Frankfurt, and became West German champion in 1988, 1989 and 1990. Her personal best time was 1:59.24 minutes, achieved in June 1991 in Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U .... International competitions References External links * 1964 births Living people People from Main-Taunus-Kreis Sportspeople from Darmstadt (region) German female middle-distance runners West German female middle-distance runners Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olymp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Henry Lesch
George Henry Lesch (1909–1994) was the president and CEO of the Colgate-Palmolive company from 1961 to 1974, and was also the chairman of the board of the company from 1961 to 1974. He was featured on the cover of ''Forbes ''Forbes'' () is an American business magazine owned by Integrated Whale Media Investments and the Forbes family. Published eight times a year, it features articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics. ''Forbes'' also re ...'' magazine in 1966. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Lesch, George Henry 1909 births 1994 deaths American chief executives of manufacturing companies Colgate-Palmolive 20th-century American businesspeople Gies College of Business alumni University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
